Incidental Bits Thread #3

[Dartz]

Early October, 2-16:


I am a demon, I am a devil. I take the shape of a man humans are gonna trust, so I can judge them by the content of the hearts. I can damn them and take my due, or they can defeat me and take their reward. I am neither evil nor good, simply a factotum of the universe, performing my function in the name of creation.

But you are not human

I've trapped myself. I cannot win against you, because you've already lost before you stepped through my door.

When a human comes through my door I give 'em a choice. They can have talent, without fame. Or fame without talent. Most will choose the fame, and they get just enough talent to make it happen, to hit it big just once. And when they can't hit that again, when they can't evolve and become more than what they were in the first place and realise in their soul what fraud they are, that's when I claim my dues. The ones I give the talent to, they have enough talent to achieve that fame.

Only one man ever took the talent. And he became famous after he died. More famous than he ever was alive.

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