/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a scientist who experiments with creating sentient, living things, and you love each of them like your own children. People keep trying to "rescue" them from what "must be an abusive situation", and you're furious. These "rescuers" keep traumatizing them!
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[WP] Ever since you were a child, you’ve been able to see ghosts. It’s gotten to a point where ghosts are more familiar to you than humans. Your only friends are them. You decide to open a detective agency to solve crimes with the help of your supernatural friends.
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[WP] Every time you get onto the bus to go to school, you scream in your head to try and catch a mindreader. After 3 months of this, you get onto the bus and immediately hear someone screaming directly into your ears. Then you hear a disembodied voice tell you “That’s what it feels like, you prick!”
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[WP] You are a lucid dreamer, but despite the lack of consequences you have always tried to use your powers to do nice things for people. One night, someone comes up to you, "I know this world doesn't really exist, but please, I just want you to know that..."
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[WP] Someone managed to upload a genuine book of occult lore and eldritch magic to the internet years ago, something that became a significantly bigger problem when an AI came across it and mad algorithms which channeled dark magic far more efficiently than any human could
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[WP] Wizards have the same trust in magic that software designers have in software, which is to say, almost none at all.
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[WP] You decide to pray to the greek gods for help with love. But not to aphrodite, no. You decide to pray for help from the two gods with the most stable marriage in the myths. You call upon Hades and Phersephone.
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[WP] Magic is an art of recall. The sharper your memory, the more spells you can do. Lesser wizards can master 1 or 2 spells in their lifetime, but it’s not uncommon for others to memorize more. You have a memory of a doorknob, and so you use your imagination instead. It’s weird, but it still works.
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