Idk I just think it would be neat. Nice Ace love story. I just think the parallel of him working hard and studying to be able to solve her riddles in his youth, While she struggles to think up riddles he couldn’t possibly lose in his final years, is romantic.

Sad ending. I think he would die in his sleep beside her and she would eat him in a very Where The Wild Things Are “I’ll eat you up I love you so” Way. Keep his bones, bleached white in the sun. Wear them maybe. The only man who mattered.

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Anyway, back to sphynx.

There has to be a night, where he finally gets one wrong. Where he’s already made his bed and lay his grey head down, eyes closed. After he answers, her lion ears prick up and she thinks “Ah. This is the beginning of the end.” And thinks hard all night until his answer is right

I also kind of like the idea that other people still come and challenge her riddles and fail and she eats them while he just stands there, petting her shoulder, while they beg for their lives. Monster (literal)/ Monster (figurative) Romance.

@KaylaAncrum I need this written or I need to write this 🤩

@BrendonZatirka If you write it, I’d love to see it when you’re finished!

@KaylaAncrum Much better than the original! Is it gradual? At first he's just figuring out the answers to her riddles to save passers-by from being killed. And she's resentful that he's doing it. She's trying to figure out to trick him. And he's trying to guess the next riddle?

@BarbettiJames I like the idea that he sees her and monsterfucker that he is, is like “This is about to be worth it.” And when he solves her first riddle correctly, for the first time he sleeps beside her she studies him the whole night, stomach growling and decides he’s too curious to eat.

@KaylaAncrum Could do a kind of tragic parallel with real world dementia patients as the last and hardest riddles are "Do you remember what day it is?" "What is your name?" "Are you awake?"

@CyberpunkPlato Yeah :(((

@KaylaAncrum I love this so much, would you be ok if I incorporated it into my DND campaign? I think it would make a cool bards song/folktale with a possible future encounter with the sphynx.

@kitth3kid Sure!

@KaylaAncrum Do you play dungeons and dragons?

@dyomaag I don’t, but I’m about to learn. My friends are making me and we start next week. I made a human character and this is what he’s gonna be like:

@KaylaAncrum @Zamuel42 They are called "Monster Girls"

@BlackPopeVice @Zamuel42 Hell yeah, brother

@KaylaAncrum @moorehn Um holy Shit