Got any Edgy Stories ideas? Grimdark to the max, hopeless and bleak, and even misanthropic.

To annoy everyone. Even ourselves. A story that mocks the human race as a whole. A story that would make a true Egdelord proud. The guy who hates everyone, himself, and everything.

Because everyone takes horse stories way too seriously these days.

Who would write it?

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A single person... or a group. Depends.

As edgy as possible? The worst piece of literature ever written? Everyone should hate it? Sounds like it should be a long story. Epic length, perhaps? Maybe even an anthology? Probably not an anthology. But if a group of people was to write it, it could possibly be released chapter by chapter. Maybe each chapter could be written by a different person?

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Maybe even with different perspectives per author, each character being annoyingly far away from each other and having generically heroic or evil ambitions?

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Sounds like it should be a long story.

I don't think it needs to be lengthy.

Take this story for example:

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It's short and sweet. Well, it's not sweet, but it is short.

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You are a true hero of sarcasm, my friend. You should change that. Or not. To be honest, I couldn't tell how much you were joking just now.

It's true, the best kind of grimdark stories are short. But if we are talking about making the ultimate edge-fest that gets deep in everyone's skin, it's kind of hard to imagine it as being short and simple. The problem is that it seems like everything has already been done. I like grimdark fiction, but if you want to stand out and make a unique impression, it isn't easy. Grimdark fiction works best under one specific but simple format. But if you just copy that format, you're simply ripping off every single grimdark fic ever written. It's practically impossible. But maybe that's just how I see it.

Now that I've thought it over, a grimdark anthology written by different authors sounds like a fun idea. Has anyone tried that before? Not to say that the idea is particularly original.

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Like, one shared universe or time frame?

I like the idea of a concept as a base to be expanded upon by others, and then those ideas can be expanded on, and so on.

I agree. I think that would help with the originality problem. None of the authors know where anything is going. Any potential idea an author might have would be completely knocked out of the way for the next author.

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Here is some real edgy stories. Enjoy.

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It looks promising.

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A future pony secretly frees the villain trio from stone. Instead of being grateful, they scold him for breaking the law and releasing potentially dangerous monsters. Maybe he's convinced that they've been brainwashed by Discord (like Twilight thought in What About Discord), and goes on a quest to reverse it; but in the end he understands that they've attained enlightenment through suffering, and gains the same understanding that punishment is a vital part of friendship, and that Discord never did anything that wasn't ultimately for good.

Aryanne and Veronika gain access to clones of each other. They end up killing/torturing/mutilating each other's clones in an escalating war.

Ponies develop a spell to identify universes that contain an image of their own. They discover ours, and are horrified by the hate and sexual depravity displayed by their "fans". (Telepathy may or may not be involved.) They launch a crusade (maybe personally; maybe through human proxies) to purge the fandom's undesirables; reeducating some, but not hesitating to kill the many who are irredeemable. Soon they discover that the fandom Nazis are only one part of a global conspiracy by white men to oppress women and POC. Eventually the ponies and their allies eliminate them all, and Earth becomes an anarcho-socialist free-love paradise.