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The Ending. Now the Demon has franchised itself? (spoilers)

posted 3 months ago by mitzibishi (1968)
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So at the end, the protagonist kills herself in an arena full of people. So, by the lore established, everybody witnessing is infected. Locked into a contract with the Demon to have their souls tortured and kill themselves on day 5.

Does he collect all of their details, compile a to-do list, then work through the list one by one?

Or is he going to franchise himself, McDonald's style?

Now he has to hold interviews with prospective demon employees to cover the thousands of new soul hauntings within the next week.

Hold training sessions with the new starters to get them up to speed on how he runs the business, hand out workflow guides, and step by step instructions so they can meet their quota of one death per 5 days.

Then he gets to kick back as manager and oversee each employee, then watch all the deaths roll in.

Maybe he could pop in for a couple of hours on each to see how they are doing, make sure the possessions are up to his standards, give them pointers and make sure they are on the right track for that one death in 5 days.

[–] fzane (1156) 2 months ago

originally i thought the same thing. but, i think the "entity" can only jump into one soul at a time. so, even though she was in a crowd, smile 3 will start off with just one infected again. i could be wrong, but i don't think there's a path forward if all those people are infected. it will grow exponentially and the whole world would be infected in a matter of years.

[–] warrior-poet (1369) 2 months ago

ROFL! Smile Monsters, Inc.
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[–] mitzibishi (1968) 2 months ago

The Demon is holding interviews and Beetlejuice walks in.

Demon rolls its eyes. Not this guy again.

He's not a good worker, lazy, unorganised, will spend more time trying to get laid instead of torturing the soul.

Doesn't take instruction and always makes it about himself.

Demon says, "Mr. Betelgeuse. What are your qualifications?"

Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT... NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY... NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I'm qualified?

[–] grhqofb5 (352) 9 days ago

I don't think that's technically legal under prevailing franchise law. The demon, as the "franchisor," has a right to set certain guidelines for its products/services, etc., but cannot control the day to day business operations of the franchisee. I think what is ideal here is for the demon to do an Undercover Boss episode, and visit maybe 25% of the franchisees. Maybe go into the lunch/coffee room and listen to the employee/minions chatter. The one fat minion starts talking **** about the parent franchisor, and how he can projectile vomit further than the old man. Then the demon does a reveal and tries to de-bone him, but the host stops it and asks the demon to consider the types of pressures that are imposed on the individual franchisee's minions. Also a lawyer comes in an explains to the demon why he may be setting himself up for a hostile workplace claim (even though he's not the boss, but instead just the franchisor). The demon then sits down at the lunch table does get emotional, all the minions gather round, and he starts telling stories about when he first started possessing innocent victims in 7523 B.C., and that its easy to forget how difficult it was at that stage of his career. The demon says that he'd like to get back to his roots, and signs amended franchise agreements with all of the franchisees that no longer require unique deaths, and also authorizes them to simply use the "cast them down to burn in the eternal flames of hell" remedy under most circumstances.

[–] Faridah (1369) a month ago

I’m hoping the next one will be a prequel. I want to know the orgin of this entity

[–] mitzibishi (1968) a month ago

Sometimes origin stories are a bad thing. Less is more on the origins. A solution or a win for the protagonist would be good, though.

The origin would probably go like this. The Demon was a nice, naive young disabled boy at the Demon academy, when the other evil demon bullies stuck his head in a toilet with poo and the bullies made him SMILE while he was being dunked.

Now he wants to get at everybody thats bullied in the world, and teach people the error of their ways, kinda like in SAW.

He has a motive with good intentions, and he's not really all that bad. Just misunderstood.