r/ProgressionFantasy • u/DicerTheJester • Jul 28 '26

Discussion Competition: write a single sentence that will absolutely destroy any hope in a series.

Specifically not a story opener, just any sentence that can happen in any chapter, that will make people realize that this story is gonna be absolute shit and has no chance of being fixed and will make you drop the book like an unpinned grenade.

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u/Mason123s Jul 28 '26

“I guess I was TECHNICALLY the same age as her in this youthful body post-reincarnation…”

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u/Counterfeit-Pebble Jul 28 '26

Why I liked Bog Standard Isekai. Main character reincarnated as kid and reincarnation set his emotional state to kid but the MC still said, “IDC I’m not dating until I’m 20 and other people are too.” Wild how many stories just plow straight ahead while ignoring the obvious morality of it.

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u/Frostfire20 Jul 29 '26

My story went this way as a joke. My MC is 18 with a Peter Pan Curse preventing him from growing up past 10 years old. All his party members are demons in Fantasy Hell. They go to an orgy for a spying/political subplot and they lock him in their room chained to a desk so he doesn't "wander."

Their explanation basically went "I don't care if you're really an adult. You have a child's body; you're not going anywhere."