/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a highschool student with the ability to "connect" to someone else's mind, seeing their memories and knowledge. You successfully use this ability to cheat on tests, until one day you connect and see an exact copy of your own memories.
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[WP] You work a self-sufficient desk job in an office. Every single day, the co-workers in your neighboring cubicles are completely different people. Even though you never recognize them, they always recognize you. After years you've just accepted this, but lately the strangers are getting weirder.
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[WP] You are a normal average person but you happen to have many supervillain friends. This is awkward when heroes keep trying to rescue you.
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[WP] It’s 2016. A soldier on patrol in Afghanistan stops to rest. He is joined by six soldiers, from 1416, 1516, 1616, 1716, 1816, and 1916.
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[WP] Humanity ended centuries ago but no one realized. The Earth is now populated with vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, and other creatures still pretending to be human so as not to blow their cover.
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[WP] In your world, magic is wielded by astrologists who form pacts with distant stars. Every star grants a unique power. Upon forming a pact with a star, you gain a glimpse of its worlds and your soul will be pulled to one when your pact ends. You are the first to form a pact with a black hole.
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[WP] You're just a chicken farmer. An ordinary chicken farmer. You're not a warlord. Definitely not, and you also don't command your chickens to do your bidding. Preposterous. Insane. Rumors.
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[WP] Your job is to take away the powers of supervillains as they're admitted to jail. For a few years, you've been reselling these powers to interested bidders on the side - no questions asked. Today, a prisoner showed up with a power so unusual, you've decided to take it for yourself.
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[WP] “Remember this above all else when you leave the Cave. It is much better to run across a demon than angel. A demon can be bargained with. An angel, on the other hand, will kill you on sight.”
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[WP] You obtained the ability to experience life as it is for others. After trying out a few people you realize that the general "living feeling" differs enormously to each person. You decide to try it on your super cheerful friend... you have never felt such emptiness before.
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