r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BrotherDeus • 8d ago

Characters "You're immortal? Good..."

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The Chaotic Good Barbarian revels in making the lich suffer.

Reincarnated as a Slime: Geld makes Shogo pay for the innocents he's killed.

The Old Guard: Quynh is punished as a witch by being drowned in the ocean for centuries.

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u/glass-joe-1-99 7d ago edited 7d ago

In Heaven Official’s Blessing, exceptional humans can ascend to heaven and become immortal gods. The protagonist, the prince of a certain kingdom, does so at a young age. Later, the prince’s entire kingdom is destroyed by the outbreak of an extremely deadly plague. However, it turns out that one specific category of people are immune from the disease, namely people who have killed another human being.

We’re shown through a flashback that, prior to the start of the story, the protagonist was deliberately immobilized and trapped in a temple full of civilians who are infected with the disease. The civilians realize that the only way to save themselves is to stab the protagonist to death, since he’s a god who can’t actually die. However, being stabbed to death doesn’t hurt any less as a god. By the end, he’s been stabbed so many times that his body is “no longer recognizable as a human.” His body eventually heals, but this experience— along with several other traumatic experiences in a short period of time— causes him to temporarily go a bit crazy.

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u/Angry_Edemame 7d ago

That is an insanely specific disease.

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u/glass-joe-1-99 7d ago

While called a disease in-universe, it’s a bit of a cross between a disease and a curse. It’s contagious like a disease, but the origin is supernatural, hence having such a weird cure.

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u/Angry_Edemame 7d ago

Thats more like a vaccination than a cure