/u/Avalon_88's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The criminals see you as the devil. The feds think you're a crazy psychopath vigilante. The people think you're a hero. Honestly, you're just bored and blowing off steam after your day job.
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[WP] "I have a confession to make." "We're getting married tomorrow. I don't think anything can surprise me at this point in our relationship." "I'm a lich and I gave you my phylactery as your engagement ring."
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[WP] Life's pretty convenient when you have elemental spouses. Free water, free electricity, no gas bills, and you even get a nice cross breeze wherever you go. What's inconvenient is that they have no clue about social norms and their idea of marriage is "You're it." and they just hang around you.
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[WP] "We swore an oath." "No, you swore an oath! I made a pinky promise!" "What's the difference?" "You made yours to the goddess. I made mine to the little girl she's wearing."
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[WP] You are one in a long line of shamans that mediate the dead and the living. Problem is your other parent's bloodline traces back to powerful criminal and military organizations whose souls gather to you as their new leader, scaring other souls off.
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[WP] You tell your friends you are a librarian, the most boring job in the world. Except your job is to police spell books that have come alive from all the magic formulas written in them, and to retrieve any wayward tomes causing mayhem in the wild.
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[WP] The captain didn't think much of letting the girl become part of the crew as a cook. Cooks were dime a dozen, but cooks who cared about the people eating were rare. And now, she was the only reason ship morale hadn't devolved to mutiny, or surrender.
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[WP] The world is flat. It stretches across the universe like an unfurled scroll. They say that one direction leads to paradise, the other to perdition. No one truly knows what lies at either end. No one ever got that far, and this piques your curiosity as you take your first steps.
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[WP]An immortal dragon likes to collect people as their hoard. The first thing they do when they add someone to their collection is to preserve the person, which means sharing their immortality with the people in their hoard.
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