autocrats-in-love

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Prompt (553)

“Tell the truth, your singing voice is an enchantment spell!” The hero said. “I’ve felt heart palpitations around you ever since I first heard it!”

The villain raised an eyebrow. Their voice, in fact, had no magical properties. “Look, I don’t know how to tell you this. . .”

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Prompt (552)

"Can I help you?" The villain asked.

The hero appeared to be following them, and it was getting annoying.

"Yeah. Can you die already?" The hero said. "I can't get a vacation until you do."

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Prompt (551)

“Who. . .who are you?” The hero asked.

They used to be so innocent, so naïve. The villain was staring at a younger version of the person they had eventually fallen in love with.

It all too much. The villain reached out and took the hero’s hand.

“I’m someone future you is trying very hard to make you forget ever happened to you.”

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Prompt (550)

The hero stared at the wand the villain held in their hand.

“Where did you get that?” The hero asked. “You can’t do magic.”

“Yes I can!” The villain protested. “Nobody ever lets me try.”

“Okay. Turn me into a pebble.”

“Huh- what?” The villain said.

“Prove you can do magic. Turn me into a pebble.”

The villain shakily raised their wand. And anger flashed in their eyes and they flicked their wrist. The hero flinched, but nothing happened. They looked at the villain with a smug grin.

“I’m. . .I’m just feeling pressured, okay?” The villain snapped.

“Sure you are.”

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Prompt (549)

“Admit it, you like me,” the villain said.

The hero rolled their eyes. “I don’t.”

“Liar.” The villain grinned.

“I should have killed you the moment I saw you,” the hero said.

The villain’s smile widened. “Too late, now you’re attached to me.”

The hero shot the villain a deadly glare.

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Prompt (548)

“Have you heard of me?” The hero said. “Because I’m the one that’s going to finally take you down.”

The villain laughed. They reached out and touched the hero’s cheek, as if in comfort.

“I fight so many of you,” the villain said. “Knowing who you are would be like naming a dog you’re giving away. I’ll only get unnecessarily attached.”

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Prompt (547)

The hero finally turned around and spotted the figure that had been tailing them. “Hey, have you been following me?”

The villain jumped out from their hiding spot. “Uh. . .when do you notice?”

“Like, immediately,” the hero said, annoyed.

“Aw, really? Sorry, I’m just trying to work on my surveillance skills. Just keep going, and let me know if you hear my footsteps.”

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Prompt (546)

The villain knew their world was going to die unless they intervened.

However, they also knew the world ending would mean the hero had failed.

The villain sat back and waited. Some inconveniences were worth the satisfaction.

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Prompt (545)

“Since when do you like me?” The villain asked.

“Since I first saw you!” The hero responded, exasperated. “You’re literally the most oblivious person I’ve ever met.”

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Prompt (544)

“Look, if you’re going to get your reputation back, we have to work together,” the villain said.

The hero still looked doubtful. “And what do you get out all this, may I ask?”

The villain didn’t say Getting to spend time with you, because I think about you all the time, which would have been the most truthful answer. Instead, they just winked. “Trust me, there’s some things you don’t want to know.”

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Prompt (543)

“I see myself in you,” the villain said, tracing their index finger down the hero’s cheek and moving to their shoulder.

The hero tamped down their shiver. They shook the villain off and crossed their arms. “Really? Then what went wrong?”

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Prompt (542)

“I’m. . .dead,” the hero said, staring around like they couldn’t believe it.

They were standing in an rocky cavern with no end in sight. It was incomprehensible, the whole thing.

“Uh, first of all, we’re dead,” the villain replied, standing up and dusting themselves off after the long plummet down. “Second of all, I’m not trying to get out on my own, so snap out of it and help me.”

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Prompt (541)

“Do you need any help?” The hero asked.

The villain, in their civilian disguise, couldn’t help but be awestruck by the hero, reaching down to help the villain to their feet.

“Uh. . .yeah, sure.”

What was that? The villain was supposed to staunchly refuse. They could help but blush as the hero gracefully pulled the villain up. What was wrong with them?

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Prompt (540)

“Are you a vampire?” The hero asked, very confused and somewhat entertained.

The villain frowned and continued slathering sunscreen on their face. This was in addition to their long sleeved clothes and the umbrella they sported. “No, I just don’t want to get skin cancer!”

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Prompt (539)

“You were never the bad guy, not to me,” the hero said, grasping the villain’s hands.

The villain looked away and willed tears not to fall down their cheeks. “I destroy everything I touch.”

“You didn’t destroy me. You made me whole. I don’t know who I am without you anymore.” The hero wiped a tear from the villain’s face. “Even when I hated you, I couldn’t get enough of you. My love, I saw you everywhere. You were the breeze at my neck. You were every constellation in the sky.”

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Prompt (538)

The villain gave the hero a slip of paper.

“What’s this?” The hero lasked.

“My two weeks’ notice,” the villain responded. “This is too hard! I thought being a supervillain would be so much easier.”

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Prompt (537)

"Have you been following me?" The villain asked.

"Yeah," the hero said. "And it was the most boring stakeout I've ever had!"

They had followed the villain all day, convinced they were up to something evil. Instead, all they did was grocery shop, go to the post, and visit their parents. It had been the longest afternoon of the hero's life.