Ironic Overpower

If you don't want it to happen, if you've prayed out loud for it not to happen, if, in fact, there's something you Do Not Want and you've mentioned it, well, sorry buddy, but straight from your lips to the ears of the Ironic Overpower, the overriding force of discomfort, unpleasantness and comedy in the PPCverse.

When the toast falls butter side down, that's the IO. When that slash pairing you prayed would never happen gets sent to your console, that's the IO. When that thing that you told everyone was infallible breaks spectacularly and incidentally manages to take off your leg as it does so, that's the IO.

Tempting, taunting or in other ways attracting the attention of the IO is a Bad Idea. It listens out for phrases beginning with:


 * 'At least it isn't ...'
 * 'It could be worse, for example...'
 * 'Yay, I'm free of ...'
 * 'There's no way X can happen ...'
 * 'Well, that's the last of ...'

When you think the worst has come and gone, for Eru's sake shut up about it, or worse will soon be on its way.