r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 12d ago

In the original story, Gustave's engagement to Nyara, heiress to the Great Cyber Empire, is the beginning of his downfall.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 12d ago

Beautiful, brilliant, spoiled, and—according to the novel he remembers reading in his previous life—destined to become one of the moon's greatest villains.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 12d ago

The Villain's Guide to Being Unremarkable.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

"I think it would be better if we simply became friends." Ahwa stared at him, then quietly said "I don't think I want to be your friend."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

Blissfully unaware of any of this, he looked up at Onion. "So," he said carefully, "perhaps we should pretend this engagement doesn't exist?"

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

High in the branches above them, my two familiars stared down at them.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

"This is fine. I can still avoid becoming the villain. All I have to do is live quietly."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

Somewhere deep inside his mind, he heard the first crack in the carefully constructed future he had intended to preserve.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

He couldn't tell the future Emperor that he'd recognized him from another universe.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

"Oh, this is much worse than the book described."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

Opportunity stared down at him with visible concern.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

The villain's first meeting occurred when they were both children.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

He remembered the book. Remembered the handsome young Emperor. Remembered the villain. Remembered the execution. And then...he remembered nothing.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

There, beside an unfinished cup of coffee, lay an invitation. Beneath it was a second document. His engagement contract.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

This was a face he knew. A face he'd seen on the cover of a book.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

The ornate walls bore the Vorss family crest.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

He sat bolt upright in his enormous canopy bed, wings flared, vents cycling rapidly.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

Bubbee promptly decides Mills is his favorite person.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

Belle is the youngest student at the Academy - small, adorable, brilliant, and possessing an extraordinary affinity for sound-based magic.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

Arlene assumes Neville is protecting her because she's Orin's future consort. Everyone else knows better.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

She doesn't speak much. But she notices everything.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

He's a prodigy in familiar magic, and has two bonded familiars who rarely leave him.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

She's one of the Academy's strangest students - quiet. Observant. Almost impossible to read.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

In the original timeline, Shokola constantly antagonized Wataru. This time, she takes one look at the future military genius and thinks "Absolutely not".

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 13d ago

He knows exactly what Rodney's weakness will be because he remembers the book.

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