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Winter_wrath t1_it7oul8 wrote

Ah, the floating numbers are back. Haven't seen these in days on my front page.

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Go_easy_on_me_folks t1_it8bhin wrote

I actually see a number above the heads of everyone in real life. It represents the amount of number above the head writing prompts they've seen. I've yet to see one under a thousand.

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ani3D t1_it8o8rq wrote

I don't have the energy or knowledge about children to write this myself, but someone should do a twist where the count goes to -1 because the child saved a life. All the prompt says is "not 0."

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KingOfGimmicks t1_itb9zf1 wrote

Was just thinking that myself. How to discover your child has some kind of magical necromancy powers.

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Halftone_Hare t1_it8o3cq wrote

And so that’s how you find out that the “kill count” on most people’s heads has to do with ANY action that could’ve even accidentally caused someone’s death. But is it like butterfly effect? Skip a damn rock on a pond and kill twelve people? Or is it more like let a dog get food aggressive and it mauls a persons face off..

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linktothenow t1_it7auyq wrote

Plot twist, the baby killed the mother in childbirth

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Tepigg4444 t1_it8hv8o wrote

but they're 5

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Halftone_Hare t1_it8o9kr wrote

Yeah, the fact that they’re already much older suggests the kill count was 0 up until a recent point.

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archpawn t1_it9vsdp wrote

When I first read the title I thought it just said a five-year-old kid.

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MortLightstone t1_itanybh wrote

I once saw a movie with this exact same premise. Although the meaning of the numbers was a twist, so spoilers, I guess.

It was called Zero Man and the Half Virgin

Basically the premise was a shy cop wakes up seeing numbers on everyone's forehead. He has a zero and he notices everytime his philandering partner tells him about a new girl he went out with, his number goes up by one, so he assumes the numbers are the number of sexual partners you've had, since he's a virgin.

Then he meets a girl in need of assistance with 1/2 on her forehead and also a troubled kid with a ridiculously high number that goes up every time he sees him. He then decides he needs to solve both of these mysteries, especially the one of the girl he now calls the half virgin.

This movie was weird and freaking hilarious. The director was there and was hilarious too. And yeah, it's obviously Japanese.

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