/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The Earth is flat, and NASA is guarding a giant ice wall in Antarctica. Beyond that wall is more continents and oceans that only the elite inhabit. A group of explorers sneak past the wall and discover the rest of the world.
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[WP] You are a professor who assigns his students an essay on what it means to be a dictator. 30 years later one of your students actually becomes one and you find a 20 page thesis written by him on your desk.
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[WP] You're a time traveler sent back to kill Hitler, but he's also a time traveler who killed Hitler, but that Hitler was also not the actual Hitler, as real Hitler learned painting from a time traveling Bob Ross, and everyone's starting to get confused
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[WP] Deep within the Dark King’s vaults you find it. The Chronicle. A complete transcript of the last five years of war carefully edited to make you and the other heroes appear as immoral monsters. It’s portrayal of you is... surprisingly accurate.
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[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid.
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[WP] 'There is motion at your front door' - You groggily awake to the notification on your smart watch. You check the video on your phone and see yourself frantically trying to open the door. The timestamp reads 2:48 AM. You look at your watch. It's 2:37 AM.
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[WP] A young woman lies suspended within a powerful circle of runes. The cloaked figure approaches you. "She is asleep and must always stay that way, for this world is her dream. Should she awake, all will end."
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[WP] You wake up in a strange room with a teenager working at a computer “Look. I’m breaking every rule in the book but I have a school project on the early 21st century. Please help me, it’s due tomorrow.” They say.
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[WP] When you save someone's life, it becomes forfeit, and they're forever in your debt. Effectively, this means super heroes are some of the largest slave owners on the planet.
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[WP] You are constantly on the run from heroes, careful to erase any traces of your presence. Not, mind you, because you are a villain, but because your “deaths” were an important formative for several of the greatest heroes, and you feel too guilty to let them find out you’re immortal.
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