Thread:EchoDraws/@comment-39654582-20200125175225/@comment-33229352-20200127042738

I find that, when given a prompt, a lot of people tend to take it in the darkest direction possible. I don't know why, but I've seen that exact scenario play out many times.

I'm actually a part of that group lol. We had to write a narrative in 8th grade. People were writing stuff like "Oh no! My character forgot to tune her clarinet because she was so nervous about her music competition finals, and now she has to perform with an out of tune instrument!" or "He got bullied, and now he has severe depression but he's unreasonably happy in the end because I don't know how mental illness works"

Mine was "the personification of Life and Death engage in a friendly competition with the fate of the human race to see which one will win. Life fosters medical breakthroughs, crops, etc., and Death fosters war, disease, and anger. Each one tries to influence humans to follow their respective paths, culminating in the destruction of mankind when Death inspires the humans to use their medical breakthroughs as biological weapons of mass destruction."

I don't quite remember if that's how the plot went, but that's the gist. I've been meaning to look for it. I think it's in my google drive somewhere.