/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Everyone gets a doppelganger at the age of 24. Society expects that the two must try to kill one-another, and the survivor will be accepted as the original, whoever wins. You, however, have befriended your doppelganger instead. A lot of people are not happy about this.
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[WP] You work at a retirement home for superheroes who've gotten too infirm and senile to continue their work. The hardest part of the job is keeping them here, instead of gallivanting off on a foolhardy quest to relive their glory days.
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[WP] You are a young con artist who has convinced a family you are their lost son/daughter. After living with the family for 2 years you learn that the parents killed their child and have pretended you are theirs to dissuade any police suspicion.
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[WP] Your parent is a doctor and lets you play with their stethoscope sometimes. One day, when no one's around, you jokingly hold it to a statue at your house only to hear, shocked, a faint heartbeat coming from it.
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[WP] Your kidnappers take the bag off of your head, and you find yourself in an interrogation room. They play a video you've never seen before of you speaking nonsense. Your captor says, "We're running out of time. Now tell us what it means."
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[WP] Billions of years into the future humans have explored every star and every Galaxy. Until they finally reach the edge of the universe. It isn't expanding... It's breathing... It's alive, and humans are just the first of it's cells to become self-aware.
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[WP] In this universe all tattoos are magical but difficult to ink, powerful mages have 3 or sometimes 4. Fireballs and lightning are common choices. You’ve been transported here from Earth, with a full sleeve and more, for your taste in music, movies, ideals, etc. Your magic is…different.
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[WP] The prophecy says the one to pull the sword from the giant statue will save the world. Many have failed, and now in front of the Assembly you grasp the greatsword firmly and pull - and fall backward when it snaps off cleanly at the hilt
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[WP] You’ve been bitten by a Zombie. You’ve already said tearful goodbyes to your loved ones as they leave you behind. The bite should make you turn in twenty minutes, so you sit down on a bench and wait… two hours later you’re still sitting there.
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