Its like death note, but instead of names and face, you have to touch them.
So you can’t just simply google names of dictators (that would be a very boring c/AskLemmy thread), gotta be creative with this ability.
Its like death note, but instead of names and face, you have to touch them.
So you can’t just simply google names of dictators (that would be a very boring c/AskLemmy thread), gotta be creative with this ability.
One consideration is: is there an “evil genie / monkey’s paw” caveat to this? Like, maybe someone’s death is postponed, but they are in terrible agony every second until then. Or maybe they die on Mars, but a dictator destroys Earth in the process of getting us there.
That might make a half-decent sci-fi story. Like: someone gains this capability, but they have a notion that there’s an evil-genie caveat to it. So they try to advance science, but just a little bit at a time; basically they are experimenting to make sure there’s no such caveat (and to get around it, if there is.) However, they are leaving a trail of the dead. And at the end, it turns that while no individual death/accomplishment had a monkeys-paw-like side-effect, all of the deaths combined resulted in a terrible downside.
Eternally suffering brain in a jar finally dies after getting knocked off the table on the mars base
This person evil genies!
in alot of scifi, like sandman, supernatural , mcu they can extend thier life indefinitely or give them longer than natural lifespan. of course if they do something really destructive you would have the ability to instantly rescind his life wherever.