/u/ArseneArsenic's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] "This isn't possible," you told your old student, leafing through their compiled field report. "We have definitive proof that it never existed." They shake their head wildly, manic energy in their eyes. "But I was there, professor! I've found Earth!"
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[WP] People cannot die without hearing one of your lullabies. They can age and weaken yes, but they cannot pass on or leave their bodies until you sing for them. Now, you've come across a man eons old, body too brittle to even sit up to look at you. You sing, but he still breathes. He is deaf.
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[WP] Some superheroes have super strength, while others have flight or heat vision. A couple of villains you know have super-intelligence or hyper-advanced engineering. No one has anything as powerful as you; Looney Tunes Physics.
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[WP] As a demigod, you have the opportunity of ascending to Heaven as an equal of your Godly ancestor, perhaps even rule a Pantheon of your own. To do that, however, you need Divinity, and there is only so much of it around. Luckily, other demigods are full of it.
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[WP] Earth is invaded, cities are leveled, all human resistance is crushed and any who surrender hoping for mercy find none from the enemy. So much destruction is bound to disrupt the normal patterns of our planet, however, and something old stirs beneath the waves...
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[WP] God looks over the world and sees the Tower of Babel reconstructed. What he does not realize is that it is no longer a tower built to reach God, but a gun barrel.
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[WP] It's your wedding day, and it's been perfect. It's being held where you dreamed it would be, your dress is a beautiful snowy-white, and there's your fiancé, who you've known and loved since you were kids. However, as you finish saying "I do," there's a buzz, and the world fades to static.
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[WP] The reason there is no magic in the world is because humanity murdered every god it could find long, long ago. Now, they're back. They aren't happy with us.
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[WP] The king is dying, the crown prince is missing, and revolution is flaring up across the kingdom, threatening its destruction. You're no one very important, a child of some lowly retainer, but the prince's helmet would hide your face, and you don't doubt the army would obey if he came back...
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