January Writing Prompt Challenge: Day 23
Jan. 24th, 2021 12:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerOof, almost forgot today - but I got myself back up out of bed to get it done, because it would bug me to have finally missed a day! Quick though - need to spend some time winding down.
DAY TWENTY-THREE PROMPT:
A holy person wants to gain the power of a rejuvenating sacrifice, but it will turn them into someone they never wanted to be.
I like the idea that the sacrifice is meant to bring back youth in some way. Maybe they have been led to believe that the sacrifice will literally make them younger. Do they feel that they've missed the best years of their life in service of this higher power, which they always pretended to be able to hear in hopes that belief would make it true. But it never did. They tried so hard to believe, but it was always silence. And so this ritual might give them a second chance, to go live the life they feel they are due. But it involves taking a life; they have to slowly justify becoming a monster in order to carry out the ritual. But when they do it, they learn that the rejuvination isn't meant for them; it's meant for the power of this god. How it can be heard loud and clear, and the sacrifice becomes a martyr; meanwhile, he attempts to repent, but is put down by the order he once served.
That got all religious-y but it's all good. Bed!
DAY TWENTY-THREE PROMPT:
A holy person wants to gain the power of a rejuvenating sacrifice, but it will turn them into someone they never wanted to be.
I like the idea that the sacrifice is meant to bring back youth in some way. Maybe they have been led to believe that the sacrifice will literally make them younger. Do they feel that they've missed the best years of their life in service of this higher power, which they always pretended to be able to hear in hopes that belief would make it true. But it never did. They tried so hard to believe, but it was always silence. And so this ritual might give them a second chance, to go live the life they feel they are due. But it involves taking a life; they have to slowly justify becoming a monster in order to carry out the ritual. But when they do it, they learn that the rejuvination isn't meant for them; it's meant for the power of this god. How it can be heard loud and clear, and the sacrifice becomes a martyr; meanwhile, he attempts to repent, but is put down by the order he once served.
That got all religious-y but it's all good. Bed!
