• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    11 hours ago

    I think so, yes, that feels right. OK, this is powerful… I think I’ve got the hook for my second book

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      11 hours ago

      Maybe you can do that they will get a “bad power” that is more a problem than something useful because the children had that power and so that would explain why no one ever wanted to adopt him

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        11 hours ago

        Ooo yeah like a curse and at first you think it’s the children’s fault, but then at the halfway point you find out they’re the victims. Would also provide some good tension since it’s the only way for the protag to get more power after the pepper shot removed their ability to make more poffspring.

        I mean I was joking in my original comment, but you could tweak it a bit and maybe obscure some of the details to make the story halfway evocative.