Good Intentions
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Last published Sun, May 6, 2018
This originally was going to be my submission for the Super co-writing contest, but I've grown rather attached to it, so I'm making it a regular short story, and shall submit something else for the contest. Enjoy.
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Jakob has the worst possible luck.
All his life, up until the age of thirteen, he believed he could grow to be a powerful superhero, helping people in need. But, after he gets his powers, his life goes into a downward spiral. He is told by his father that he should be a supervillain, due to the powers Jakob gets being more villainous. His mother is put into a coma by presumably Jakob, and because of that, Jakob takes his father's advice in being a cold-hearted supervillain.
Now, on his own, Jakob must survive in a world full of heroes as a villain, one of the few villains that never wanted to be a villain. One if the few villains that aren't truly villainous.
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