word game: reward

[museaway]

This week's word is...
REWARD

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off, and please pop back around later!)

A note about interacting: Writers supporting each other is important to me. If you object to leaving comments for another writer, then we are not for you. If you repeatedly ignore this rule, you will lose community membership.

Comments

[belovedstill]

Perhaps he finds rewards humiliating, and giving him points for failing a quest is a sufficient punishment...?

[blackiceboba]

Ooooh. I don't know what's going on but I love the idea of like. . .just rewarding someone is enough to punish them. Very good.

[belovedstill]

Haha thank you :D I love having no context for these, I feel like that's the fun of this game on dreamwidth: it makes for fun guesses, space for imagination to run wild, a start of a conversation, and then--when you (maybe) learn the answer--cause for laughter or a self-pat on the back.

It would be very interesting to write a character/story where rewards are seen as punishments, that's such a great idea 👀

[nicky_gabriel]

Okay, this was unexpected :)
But giving food for thoughts! Thank you!

[belovedstill]

Haha, no worries, the "talking" character is also very confused by this :D Thank you!

[wandering_fox]

I like this sentence. There's a lot going on, so it begs a lot of questions. Is this devious or is the speaker genuinely looking for a loophole? Why would one believe the person being spoken of wouldn't want to be rewarded? Lots of room for speculation.

[belovedstill]

Thank you! It is a rather "...eh? What's going on?" sentence, isn't it? The "speaking" character is also confused and doesn't know what to make of an earlier part in that WIP, so conclusions are being made.

The context is this: you as the reader have the power of controlling the story of a character you're about to read (choose your own adventure style), and you also get to reward or punish the character for how they do within the story. This sentence comes from a tutorial of sorts where you - the reader - are presented with a scenario where the character fails a task and you're supposed to punish or reward him. The obvious choice is to punish him, but if the you are cheeky and choose the "reward" option, the tutorial-giver is a little bit confused but doesn't want to discourage, so it praises you anyway c:

[bens_writingjournal]

Wow. Didn't expect that coming for sure.

[belovedstill]

That's wonderful, I'm glad it is surprising, exactly the tone I was going for 💪 Thanks!

[anakiddwrites]

even without context i can see why an 'underserving' reward could be humiliating, like coddling or hurting someone's pride.... now the intentions of the person who is debating this decision is also curious to me :3 do they really want to punish or not...

[belovedstill]

Oooh, yes, you're very right about that, I see the point about it being a case of pride. Hehe, about the intentions :3c The speaking character simply wants the story to be satisfying. "What's satisfying in wrong choices not being punished? To each their own, I guess..." Thank you 💕

[anakiddwrites]

Oooh so they are looking for the most interesting story that's cool :3 and relatable as a writer hehe sometimes what is most satisfying isnt so obvious... very intriguing!!

[belovedstill]

It really isn't always obvious, isn't it? Sometimes it only comes to you, against your outline, when you're already two-thirds into your story :D thank you 💕