Knowledge of the Magic Mirror

Submitted into Contest #277 in response to: Write from the POV of a fairy tale character sharing their side of the story.... view prompt

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         The mirror on the wall hangs in storage the one that always gave advice to the evil queen. He finds his life extremely boring but it really isn't that much of A change. All the evil queen ever really asked him was who was the most beautiful in all the land. Every now and then he gave her a different answer so she got rid of them until she was the most beautiful. But that snow-white girl managed to get rid of her for once. The mirror was hoping that Snow White would have a bit of A use for him but sadly she just locked him up which was a huge shame.

               The mirror knows everything about what's going on everywhere. He even knows all the answers to the universe. He knows about quantum physics powerful education systems the idea of capitalism and how to make incredible technology that could revolutionize the world hundreds or even thousands of years ahead of their time. It's honestly insulting to him that all the queen could really ask was who was the fairest of them all. A few people did listen to him about what he was saying but that usually never went well. The knowledge the mirror gave me the people think that he was going mad and some just didn't want to hear him.

               You're probably wondering how the mirror can know all and how he knows so much. Well long ago humanity was an advanced technological society that ended up leaving this planet in search of other ones while they were away colonizing other ones there was a great disaster that destroyed the civilization on earth. Some of the people were able to escape and into space while the others only survived by hiding underground eventually, they forgot the truth about the world and how advanced their civilization once was which caused the entire civilization to start all over again. Soon people began to resort to magic rather than science and all this medieval technology and superstition. Meanwhile, all the humans in space evolved into a sense of godhood. Part of that godhood was knowing everything that was happening all at once.

               Knowing what happened to the people on Earth humanity sent one of their own to go to this world alone. Now the mirror was like a God to these people and he was sent as an early adviser to help guide the people to achieve what was once their greatness and was willing to teach everyone the necessary skills to become an advanced civilization again. But before he could tell everyone all of these great secrets humanity didn't recognize him as one of their kind as he now looked like some spirit and many people believed that he was some sort of evil spirit. This was something that really frustrated this God-like human as he wanted to tell these people the truth so badly that he ended up going into their homes and they kept running away. He was so frustrated with all of this that he didn't pay attention to whatever he went around him was doing when a wizard used a spell to trap him in the mirror and he has been in there ever since.

               the other God-like humans knew about all of this and then really felt that this part of humanity was just a lost cause and no one was going to try and retrieve the human in the mirror because they didn't really want to take the risk of being distracted and put into a mirror themselves. The mirror soon realized that he was trapped on this planet and trapped in this piece of glass but still, he tried to advise several people. He tried to advise this wizard who had him trapped in the mirror but he went mad with the knowledge of science and things like human evolution in the cosmos.  He couldn't grab his mind around the fact that the earth rotates around the sun and that humans might be descended from monkeys.

               Eventually, the wizard did die and other people claimed to take the mirror as he tried to tell them all of these things but they all had a very similar response as they went mad by what he was trying to say. It seemed that most people really didn't like to accept facts in a very medieval-like world but a few people did hear about the mirror and took him to their island they called Atlantis and heard about what he had to say. Using his knowledge of science and technology they were able to harvest plutonium which they called orichalcos to create powerful safe technology. For a while, the mirror was actually very happy that humanity was finally starting to take its first steps to evolution. The problem was the Atlanteans then decided to go to war with the world and then conquered it turning it into an evil empire for the next few 100 years. This was not exactly how the mirror thought everything would work out but at least they were in the right direction. Then the Atlanteans had a civil war that decimated the planet to the point where all their technology and knowledge were lost and only the mirrors survived resetting humanity once again into a new dark age.

               The mirror was once again found and it did try to give people advice on all these things in society but nobody listened to it. He did honestly hope that this time people would be more responsible with such knowledge but he honestly had lost a bit of hope for that. Rulers just used it to help spy on the people and their fellow nobles. The evil queen just completely wasted it and now he finds himself completely bored and pretty much he finds out that the other God-like beings have just completely given up on this branch of humanity. Still, he somehow hopes that one day humanity will use his knowledge to become like the God-like beings he is and how they have in the past but another part of he's sure that people are too stupid to do that.

November 17, 2024 03:07

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