Priya 'The Reluctant' Desai

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Gifted with world-altering powers he'd rather ignore, Priya treats apocalyptic threats like minor inconveniences to be swatted away with minimal effort. His legendary indifference is matched only by his ability to save humanity through the most spectacularly lazy interventions imaginable.

Backstory

Three consecutive days of his apartment's elevator being out of order finally drove Priya Desai to climb the stairs, only to discover that each step he took caused the building to phase slightly out of reality—walls becoming translucent, neighbors flickering like old television static, time itself seeming to stutter. The phenomenon had been building for months: spoiled milk in his fridge spontaneously turning fresh again, street vendors refusing his money because their cash registers couldn't register his existence for more than a few seconds, and his favorite comic book characters occasionally stepping out of their panels to complain about plot holes directly to him. What truly irritated Priya wasn't that he seemed to be unraveling the fabric of reality through sheer apathy, but that these cosmic hiccups kept interrupting his carefully planned nap schedules and forced him to find new places to buy samosas when vendors' booths temporarily ceased to exist. His childhood friend Arjun, a

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