/u/Avalon_88's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] He was hailed a hero. He didn't really know why, everyone just started calling him that. He was the weakest, he didn't deal the finishing blow, in fact he was stuck holding the front gate with three others. But everyone said the same thing, "He's the reason I could keep on fighting."
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[WP] You are the most successful super hero of the era but no superhero team wants you. Mostly because you don't have superpowers, and you only use equipment from enemies you defeat, and you just added "captain" in front of your name for your superhero name.
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[WP] As long as you remember you can see people with no faces. No one else seems to notice. They scare you but they act no different from normal people. It's been twenty years since you started noticing them and actively avoiding them. One day you are forced to interact with one.
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[WP] There's a supervillain who tries to take over or destroy the world on a weekly basis. However he hates petty unimaginative crimes with no presentation to them so you can usually find him stopping ground level crimes. On the one hand superheroes hate him, on the other the civilians love him.
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[WP] "So you're immortal?" "Yes." "But you wear armor." "It gets tiring pulling out everything that gets shot and stabbed into me."
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[WP] "My lord, the hero has arrived." "A hero? Another one?" "Not a hero sir, the hero. They've pulled out every sacred sword you planted on this continent."
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[WP] "You think you can kill the gods that turned everything into this barren wasteland?", laughed one of the bar regulars. The stranger with the stetson hat reached down and pulled up the familiar disembodied head of a god angrily screaming inside a jar. "Well they haven't managed to kill me yet."
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[WP] You met a woman in a bar and things got a little hazy after a few drinks. You wake up the morning after with a ring on your finger matching the one on the woman who is now calling herself mother earth. Congratulations. You are now the stepfather of all creation.
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[WP]"Your swordplay is sloppy. Try using both hands." "I'm an executioner. I only use both hands when I kill."
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