/r/WritingPrompts
[PI] You have a special type of clairvoyance: you can see the outcomes of all possible choices. You use this power to become a superhero that fights crime by making the smallest possible changes ahead of time. You are The Butterfly.
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[WP] There exists a planet known as "The Grinder." The entire planet is a landfill, with swarms of ships constantly dumping trash on its surface. Acid rain, toxic air, falling sheet metal, unstable structures... this is life on the grinder. Against all odds, you will survive and escape this heap.
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[WP] You are allowed to 'downvote' a government candidate instead of voting normally, reducing their votes by one. Turns out people have little love for politicians, and the majority end with negative votes. In these democracies, anonymity is the key to winning.
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[WP] You live in a society where at the end of each day, you can choose to relive it, but without retaining any knowledge of what happened previously. A number in your peripheral vision shows how many previous times you lived through the current day. Almost always that number is 0. Today it is 7212.
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[WP] Death is not some all powerful being. Rather, she's a socially awkward outcast. Somehow, you've managed to befriend her and things have started getting weird...
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[WP] "Boss, it's been 15 minutes since he started having a flashback about his "challenges" and how much he loves his friends. Can't we just attack him already?" said the henchman. "No, no. We have standards." said the supervillain.
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[WP] A corrupt king and his court execute adversaries by feeding them to a hungry slime. What they didn't realize was that the slime absorbs all the knowledge of the creatures that it eats. They learned this the hard way after feeding it one of the most powerful wizards that ever lived.
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[WP] "I have met a woman with more riches than kings. She dresses like a peasant but listens to great composers with a 'Spotify' anywhere and puts on private theater plays on her home every night, 'Netflix,' she calls it. I've seen her pantry full of spices and her wardrobe filled with purple."
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[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands.
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