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RE: My Eleventh Birthday - Constrained Writing Contest #24 hosted by @svashta
I'll be damned! So wait... This mysterious man "created" Ronaldo, who was one of his muppets, and the man himself was also capable of shapeshifting, or at least capable of "possessing" the body of a child, or at least shapeshifting into a child?
But JESUS! The little kid knew ONLY Ronaldo. THAT's creepy! How long has this inanimte "doll" been around already!? :D
Thank you very much for your entry!
To be perfectly honest, the details of the workings of this man.. I didn't really come up with a solution for that. This was a more trickle-from-the-keys type story, without really any deeper meaning haha.
It doesn't mean that I don't like the way it turned out, though. Just an experiment with my brain. As for the man and Ronaldo, I guess where I was going with that was the was not human(shapeshifting is good input!), and is somehow surviving on the youth of children that he steals from these parties, and has an affect on the surrounding community that he infiltrates :)
Thanks for reading!
It's a really cool story that bugs me for what I.. well.. stated above :P
It could also be that the mysterious man goes to these birthday parties to "steal" kids and turn them into his inanimate dolls, to then reincarnate into as he wishes... or something? :P
A part 2 would be interesting. :P
I guess that was my ambiguous point. If I had to explain my brain, I guess it would go as such; Ronaldo very much is a real child, and that very real child was taken by this mysterious man. It is also inferred that the previous dummy he brought with him, was, at one point, a very real child. The "man" contains his youth by harvesting the youth of children he abducts in various ways; in this case, he dresses up as a human magician to do so. In the end, it was only the protagonist that remembered Ronaldo, as the supernatural being/"man" has the ability to alter people's memories; which would be the only way he could get away with this under the radar.
I guess I need to work on making my ambiguous inferences more clear. Maybe I will do a part 2 :)
So many possible explanations we came up with.... and I love every single one of them!
I want more! ;P
Interesting, I read it as if Ronaldo was taken in a manner that made everyone forget he existed...
Heeeeey! That's a neat idea too! And only the boy's memory wasn't wiped. That's a splendid explanation also! :D
Right. How that actually works; I left open to interpretation :) The point was that this was not a stand alone event; that it had been occurring, and the "man" is harvesting youth of children, getting away with it by his memory-altering abilities :)