My Creator (A Rough Writing Prompt Response)

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This thought-provoking and super meta story was written by dub_transmissions, one of the first beta users on our rough writing platform. The prompt below comes from reddit’s awesome writing prompts community www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts.

Writing Prompt: Hello! I am the main character, but I can’t figure out/decide if I’m a hero or a villain…

Have to keep cool, calm and collected. BUt most of all, I’ve just got to keep cool. Gotta keep up this facade. It’s my only way out of this cycle of self doubt and mental slavery. Worse than slavery, this is torture in it’s purest form.

Like lulling a prisoner to sleep only to then blast music from all possible angles at his poor might-as-well-be-a-corpse-of-a-lifeless-body, my creator continually pushes me towards the edge of violence, petty-ness, hatred, jealousy and self-loathing, only to bring me back from the precipice to the warm bosom of compassion, friendliness and love towards my “family” that he or she (my creator) has conjured up for me.

And like a prisoner, I feel like just giving up and accepting what this sometimes sadistic, oftentimes compassionate, once-in-a-while sociopathic creator of mine has deigned me to become. I’ll plead guilty if that what it takes! Make me the worst criminal known to man, fill me with the hatred of a thousand scorned lovers and abandoned children who’ve grown to resent their absentee fathers and drug addicted mothers. Make me stomp, rampage, destroy those that others (themselves creations) have built. I accept it all!

Just show me the path…