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urka511 t1_itk0zpx wrote

Reply to comment by Obtuse_Mongoose in [WP] You are suddenly transported to the oldest time of your country's history, and you discover that you are immortal, indestructible, infinitely patient and strong, have access to all of humanity's future knowledge, and can summon any object from your timeline. You set out to change the world. by socron_gaelith

That.... that was very powerful. You didn't have much time and length to work with but you made it work for your writing. It brought very visceral feelings forward in me as I read. It was so beautiful and tragic. You are a very talented writer. Thank you for sharing this. Thank you.

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Obtuse_Mongoose t1_itk1yvc wrote

Thank you.

Part of this was inspired by South Sudan as the most recent country to gain international recognition but with a twist about who is backing who in a conflict escalation and the consequences of a belligerent country doubling down on their threat for actual use of nuclear weapons.

I tried to think what would be the best way to do it, originally thinking to put a Harry Turtledove spin on it.

But given the original premise of the WP, I compressing the time span, aborting any future development of human technology (via immediate mutually assured destruction), and cocooning the story into a neater, more shorter tale would make it more tragic, for the protagonist only has what a third world nation could produce to do anything realistically, even if the protagonist himself is nigh unstoppable. That gave it the oomph I wanted to see where even if you had every power you could conceive, there would still be no "winner" in this tale.

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