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Concept #1 – Role reversal

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Prompts & Concepts

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Context: adventure story, most likely (during) a Manichean type of conflict. Good guys versus bad guys. Single characters or groups, doesn’t matter for either side.

During one of the fights between the protagonists and the antagonists, one of the antagonists, a particularly antagonistic character is captured/taken in by the protagonists.

At first he tries to free himself/leave and go back to his own companions. He doesn’t succeed and is stuck with the protagonists for some time.

Over the course of said time he tries to destroy them or convert them to his point of view to get them to come to his side but he doesn’t seem to succeed.

Slowly, however, and without completely realizing it, he starts to turn to the protagonists side and to befriend them.

At one point in the story he even begins to help them towards their cause. Overtime he changes to their side.

A possible twist to that would be that one of the protagonists, at one point in the story (possibly around the moment the antagonist who has been captured starts becoming a protagonist), betrays the other protagonists and decides to join the antagonists’ side.

Why not make this happen during a great battle (meaning a major conflict in the story). The antagonist who has been captured finally starts helping the protagonists and as they are about to overcome (or even things out with) the other antagonists (who feel betrayed by the captured antagonist’s desertion) they are betrayed by one of them and that betraying protagonist leaves with the antagonists and joins their cause but not before badly wounding the captured antagonist.

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This could be either about the point of view of the good side or the bad side: a dark/evil character becoming good (with all the struggle it implies), or a good character becoming evil. Or something else entirely.

Also, I say ‘he’ when talking about the character(s) but that doesn’t mean I mean them to be male (nor human), anything goes.

This may seem common (it uses some common tropes/plot devices) but the whole psychological aspect of the betrayal of the antagonist towards his companions and then the betrayal of the protagonist to join the other side could be very interesting to exploit.

Also, why not mix in a few love interests here and there to make things more complicated? Like between a protagonist and the antagonist they captured or between a protagonist and the other one who will betray them? The person the antagonist who starts to become good likes is killed (or gravely wounded) by the protagonist traitor?

Yep. There you go.

This is a short and simple one to begin with, but quite interesting and efficient nonetheless.

I hope you enjoy!

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En attendant l’aurore

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À lueur du matin,

Alors que fond la nuit,

S’actionnent les pantins

De mon profond ennui,

Ces ombres éphémères

Qui me guettent et qui rôdent,

Menaçantes chimères

Qui, mon sommeil, taraudent.

Ne laisserez vous point

Ma vieille âme éprouver,

La condamnez vous donc

À cet étroit recoin ?

À ne jamais trouver

Bonheur parmi quiconque ?

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War of the apple

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The drums echo deep in the night

The ships are going off to war

Nothing can stop them anymore

As great warriors prepare to fight,

Let come the dawn red and bloody

As body falls after body;

The mighty fleet is on its way,

Heroes will soon enter the fray,

To avenge their king’s lost honor

They shall turn the mighty city

Into no more than a fawner,

For love they will give no pity.

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Bittersweet

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Today I somehow feel elated,

Though a shadow looms over my heart,

I don’t know what has me excited

Nor what appears to tear me apart,

A passion in me has been lighted,

My heart has woken up with a start.

How can I feel sad but delighted?

How can I feel such pleasure and smart?

Emotions which came uninvited,

Heart sailing seas outside any chart,

Spirit seeking answers long blighted;

The magic of it all feels like art

And science have at once united

Into something more than their compart.

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Win in the end

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As I enter the scene the engines start to rev,

The race takes place in the harbor, on the paved quai,

Three laps around the dock, and now starts the tic toc;

Oh this is dangerous though more often than not

I am crowned champion, to me belongs the kudo,

Witness the racing god, here’s my opus dei,

Tires upon asphalt, engines ready to roar,

Do not even bother for today’s race is mine.

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A small attempt at an exercise in style while writing a poem.

I’m not a poet

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Oh many have wondered yet some only have asked

How I write poetry with such facility,

I would reply to them that my fertility

Is but an illusion, but a bleak talent masked

In a myriad of words carefully handcrafted

From other geniuses and lines I have drafted

Through short passing moments of intense clarity,

A simple will to write suffices to create

– Without the need to keep artistic purity –

What will, through my readers, emotions permeate.

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Lullaby at dusk

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In your strong, loving arms, against your weeping chest,

Let me calmly lie so I can finally rest,

I feel so very tired and exhausted and beat,

Let me lie, let me surrender to sleep my sweet,

Please lull me on my way with your beautiful voice

Let me have for my leave this one last selfish choice;

I sought to bring some warmth to people all around

I thought if I looked far an answer might be found,

I tried my very best, oh that to you I swear,

I tried all I could try, I bore all I could bear,

I fought against the world with my body and soul,

You might not see light yet nor comprehend the point

But fear not my dear, your hope you must not aroint

For as I lie here, curled, I can see you are whole.

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Aroint or a way to say begone in the olden tongue.

Also, involuntary sonnet…