"Curse" of immortality

[Reisinling]

One of the most common tropes in fiction- the "curse" of immortality. Or "curse" of amazing strength, or "curse" of being great, and living fulfilling life while practicing your passion (usually killing)

Why the hell do any authors even pretend its a curse? I mean okay, there were instances of immortality being a curse - if its not paired with not-aging, but usually its a hunk/hunkess that says that, with pretty much no drawbacks, maybe some ocasionall innocent blood, but listen- 90% of people would not mind killing innocent child if it didn't lead to any consequences and let them have a new iPhone.

So, any opinions? I'm asking, as I was talking with my other cursed friends, as I was complaining about my huge pp curse, and how terrible it is, they claimed their immortality was worse. Posers.

Also, TV tropes for similar:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoWantsToLiveForever https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CursedWithAwesome

 

[Agentt]

Curse is used as an excuse to explain why no one else has tried it yet.

Curse of Strength? Remember Brave, the Disney movie? You get immence Strength but you turn into a bear.

If there is a book in public library saying that eating a cockroach will make you invisible, you need to explain why anyone else doesn't has it. Easy, create many legends that mothers tell their children at night about how bad invisibility is.

 

[gaylolis]

I think immortality is a curse for millennials, since many of them wanted to die :D

 

[LesserSarcasm]

Hmm there is a youtuber kyle something that goes into depth why you wouldnt want xxxx

 

[Aoi_Sora]

Immortality - Imagine living for centuries, bonking several mates along the wait who is capable of making you emotional and one day, you'll see them die. You might think you want to follow them but can't because you.just.cannot.die!
Amazing Strength - Imagine bonking somebody but your sperm shoots like an AK-47 wielded by a child... Or maybe munching down his/her breast but accidentally biting it because you can't control your strength...
Curse" of being great, and living fulfilling life while practicing your passion - Living is already a curse lol.

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

No one wants to live forever, No one wants to have the strength to easily crush your lover with a hug and no one wants to have money to which you can't even spend it on something.

Basically, Blessing and Curse are different prospect to those who think of ways of how it is applied.

Do you want to live forever? Its a blessing. Do you want to die? Its a curse.

Its basically just how people applied it to their senses an the application it is provided in a certain event. Excuse me for not being educated enough to explain this further as my brain is basically running on a potato.

 

[Reisinling]

Immortality - Imagine living for centuries, bonking several mates along the wait who is capable of making you emotional and one day, you'll see them die. You might think you want to follow them but can't because you.just.cannot.die!
Amazing Strength - Imagine bonking somebody but your sperm shoots like an AK-47 wielded by a child... Or maybe munching down his/her breast but accidentally biting it because you can't control your strength...
Curse" of being great, and living fulfilling life while practicing your passion - Living is already a curse lol.

Man, thing for a moment about all the people that marry someone and then divorce, all the friends you meet and then, one day you just never meet again. Everyone lives that, and if you asked most people if they want to live longer (assuming young age) they would pay any money they can to do that.
It sounds to me as if people were just jelly

 

[OneSixSeven]

I had this weird idea.


What 'bout "Being horni"?

 

[morhamza]

Ah, I don't know about the others, but in my story I'm writing the MC is an immortal so I'm a bit familiar with the topic. Everyone thinks they want to live for eternity, but most humans become incredibly jaded later in life. And most of us don't even go past 80.

The issue with immortality I think is ultimately loneliness. If you live too long, you'll be forced to see everyone you care about grow old and die, this cycle will repeat itself until ultimately you'll stop caring.

I'm not even 30 yet and already life has lost a lot of its glow for me. Life is incredibly repetitive, there is only so much you can do, there is only so many places you can go. People? They're all the same. You think everyone is unique, but that isn't completely true, there are templates, and everyone is a variation of those templates. Eventually, everyone will look the same.

If lived too long, I'd be bored out of my mind. Combine that with having to witness people repeat the same mind numbingly stupid mistakes over and over again, whew... no thank you.

 

[Echimera]

Immortality: All your loved ones will age and die around you and there is nothing you can do. You will be left behind to grief forever and either abstain from any deeper human bond or pile up the number of people you will grief for. If there is an afterlife, you'll never go there to reunite with these loved ones.
Or you're simping for the personification of death and she rejects you so hard she makes you immortal. And then you curse the guy she likes with immortality and they still manage to sneak in dates whenever he dies for a while.

Strength: A bit more tricky, but if inhuman strength comes with little to no control you'll have to walk on eggshells around everything and everyone, if you even can do that. Breaking your phone every other day may be one thing, but seriously hurting your family members whenever you let your attention slip for a second doesn't sound like a good time to me.

'Being great': Even without magic, many geniuses in the real world have a really hard time to find fulfilling human bonds. At a certain level, it gets really hard to bond over common interests or talents, when one of the partners outperforms the other by too much.
Sure, some people might not mind, but personally, I'd want friendships to be on an equal level, not with an inherent power dynamic. The same goes even more for romantic relationships.

 

[Agentt]

I had this weird idea.


What 'bout "Being horni"?

You mean real life?

Man, thing for a moment about all the people that marry someone and then divorce, all the friends you meet and then, one day you just never meet again. Everyone lives that, and if you asked most people if they want to live longer (assuming young age) they would pay any money they can to do that.
It sounds to me as if people were just jelly

There are many people who say that considering the amount of games and movies released each year, it is impossible for an immortal person to get bored.
But there is the question of why is he earning money? We have our retirement to think about, we have goals like going for a hike before my knees start to hurt, but he has no problems.
If he wants something, he can get it anytime he wants, if he has enemies, he can wait to outlive them all.
So, he will be bored, that's it.

 

[ChocolateLover030]

I had this weird idea.


What 'bout "Being horni"?

The curse of being constantly horny, huh?

Well if you're a girl, you'll probably do alright after much fingering and a wet bed.

But if you're a boy, you'd better start learning how to tactically pee into a toilet bowl.

 

[Agentt]

The curse of being constantly horny, huh?

Well if you're a girl, you'll probably do alright after much fingering and a wet bed.

But if you're a boy, you'd better start learning how to tactically pee into a toilet bowl.

Atleast you can be the alpha male during the public showers

 

[Lord_Drakonus]

Am I the only one who wants all humans to be able to live up to 200 years old? You get to experience many things, live a lot longer, and most importantly, people around you get to live longer too, diminishing the pain of living longer than everyone else.

I had this weird idea.


What 'bout "Being horni"?

Oh yeah, this is my curse. I am literally horny 24/7.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

One of the most common tropes in fiction- the "curse" of immortality. Or "curse" of amazing strength, or "curse" of being great, and living fulfilling life while practicing your passion (usually killing)

Why the hell do any authors even pretend its a curse? I mean okay, there were instances of immortality being a curse - if its not paired with not-aging, but usually its a hunk/hunkess that says that, with pretty much no drawbacks, maybe some ocasionall innocent blood, but listen- 90% of people would not mind killing innocent child if it didn't lead to any consequences and let them have a new iPhone.

So, any opinions? I'm asking, as I was talking with my other cursed friends, as I was complaining about my huge pp curse, and how terrible it is, they claimed their immortality was worse. Posers.

Also, TV tropes for similar:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoWantsToLiveForever https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CursedWithAwesome

The fact you have to ask means you havent thought of the subject very deeply. Like oooh young forever yay! But every single person you will ever love will die and you will literally outlive the world itself. Like do you have ANY IDEA what will happen if you simply cant die, but can still feel pain and be effect by shit like radiation? Even if you can heal from that stuff, you will live in absolute agony. You could have your body changed forever. Congratulations, a nuclear war went down and now you became a giant flesh monster.

Or the world was destroyed somehow and you're floating around in space stuck in a loop of, at the very least, suffocation.

You ram into a sun and your flesh burns but you cant die so even as you burn you have to suffer through it. Hell, what happens when you outlive the universe? Do you even COMPREHEND how apathetic you would be after just the first couple billion years? You would want to die. But sucks for you, you cant.

Think, Reisnling, think! Do you honestly believe immortality would be anything but a fucking nightmare 90% of the time?

You mean real life?

There are many people who say that considering the amount of games and movies released each year, it is impossible for an immortal person to get bored.
But there is the question of why is he earning money? We have our retirement to think about, we have goals like going for a hike before my knees start to hurt, but he has no problems.
If he wants something, he can get it anytime he wants, if he has enemies, he can wait to outlive them all.
So, he will be bored, that's it.

Yeah those people are dumbfucks who just havent thought of it very well. Like itd be fun for a while but eventually nothing new is really new. We have that going on now, even.

You seriously have no idea how shitty boredom is. It's not just boredom. It's what it would make you do. How it would effect your mind. Once you've done everything for a couple hundred years, a thousand, we'll see how sane you are. Smh yall really got no imagination if any of ya think immortality is fun past the first millennium or so. And even then, I'm being generous.

 

[Motsu]

The curse of having the greatest raging cock in the world.

 

[SootShade]

I only recall having immortality as a major theme in one of my stories. In this case the downsides are pretty obvious from the outset: It's one of the main characters that is cursed with immortality, through essentially vampirism. Whilst that theoretically means having to sustain himself through blood, in practice the curse is strong enough to keep him alive no matter what. And so the story starts when he's freed from centuries of imprisonment and total deprivation, which would be nasty enough even without all the suffering resulting from the curse not being sated.

 

[Agentt]

The curse of having the greatest raging cock in the world.

Its so big it can't fit anywhere

 

[Motsu]

Its so big it can't fit anywhere

You can use it as a sword too to defeat the demon lord.

 

[Agentt]

You can use it as a sword too to defeat the demon lord.

You wanna clash your meat against an actual sword?