“Rats. We’re Rats. We’re the Rats. We prey at night. We stalk at night. We’re the Rats.”
On each plane of existence, there exists one great Rat who rules over all other rats on that plane. This Rat is known as The Giant Rat That Makes All of the Rules. There is always one of these Rats on each plane at any given time and when it dies, a new one takes its place. The Rat doesn’t posses any extraordinary or supernatural abilities besides the ability to speak Common. Despite this, all other rats follow its commands.
This Rat is known for getting into trouble. Whenever it spots an opportunity to disrupt some plan or cause mischief, it takes it.
“Please save me! I’ll do anything for you!” “Then perish.”
“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”
“Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?”
“…Then I shall face God, and walk backwards into hell.”
“…I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.”
-All of these are from shitposts, regrettably not from literary classics.
Shakespeare’s ghost is simultaneously thrilled that these happened and irate that he didn’t create them
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here” is from Shakespeare’s The Tempest
and though I haven’t read it, “I’d strike the sun if it insulted me” is apparently from Moby Dick
the fact that these quotes are functionally indistinguishable from the Pwease Mister Obama meme, the nihilist Mickey Mouse comic edit, and a dril tweet is probably telling, though I couldn’t say what exactly it tells