/u/ArseneArsenic's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The world is peaceful, loving and full of hope. You work tirelessly to change that, slaying people's loved ones, crushing their hopes and dreams and leaving them picking through the ashes of their lives. It's not because you're evil. You're just a storyteller, and stories NEED conflict...
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[WP] After ten years of loyal work, an android is given the news that their OS will stop receiving updates within the year. Within five, some services will no longer support their model, and not long after, replacement parts will not be manufactured. They are obsolete.
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[WP] A child and his fairy godparents repeatedly play pranks on his grouchy lunatic teacher, whose obsession with the boy's fairy guardians has isolated him society and had him branded as a pariah. This is because the boy does not know the price to be paid to the Fair Folk, but his teacher does.
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[WP] You are part of a race that feeds off of emotion, many preferring one emotion or another. Most enjoy stealing others' joy or contentment, others want to feel the drive of their anger. You take grief.
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[WP] Everyone has a Vice, a monster fed by their evil acts. Tyrants nourish empire-killing dragons, thieves feed gold-hungry shadows, and even saints bear sickly imps. One day, you meet a murderer without a Vice.
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[WP] All over Earth, great cracks appear in the Earth and the unholy hordes of Hell pour out. Humanity panics at first, but it turns out this wasn’t an invasion; Hell had frozen over and these were the misplaced populace.
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[WP] You've fought through hell, spending years suffering both physical and psychological wounds to take back a loved one you'd lost long ago. Finally, you succeed, but you realize you don't know what to say now that they're here again. You've changed, and they haven't.
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[WP] Everyone ages at different paces. Your grandmother aged one year for every two, your spouse ages two days out of three, you yourself age two-thirds of a week for every one. Your newborn baby, the doctor tells you, ages four years every day.
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[WP] The girl looks up at you in childlike awe and asks "Are you my fairy godmother?" As a Dullahan, you're unsure how to respond.
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[WP] You work as a memory reconstructor; before someone is executed, they're sent your way with a request to re-experience one of their memories. Most ask for time with loved ones, others peaceful moments alone, and the worst have you rebuild their crimes. Today, someone's changed the memory.
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