/u/BrainstormsBriefcase's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Super-speed can power a city without polluting. Super-healing can provide an endless supply of donor blood. Weather manipulation ends droughts. Your job is to convince superheroes to use their powers for practical purposes instead of fighting crime, and you’re very good at it.
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[WP] Humanity has merged into a single immortal consciousness. Everyone who has ever lived has become as one, a being of pure energy and infinite love, that shall last to the death of the universe and beyond. And they’re here to explain why they left you out.
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[WP] You die and are inducted into the afterlife. Unfortunately the religion that “got it right” wasn’t yours, but a long-dead ancient tribe of nomads whose language and culture are lost to time. You have to figure out what’s going on and how you’ll be spending eternity through gestures and mime.
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[WP] As a child you promised the Elf Prince your hand in marriage in a dream. You’re now 28, working an office job and planning a wedding to your high school boyfriend. Things are going well until the Elf Prince appears.
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[WP] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse arrive on Earth early. Not having much else to do until “the big day” they rent an apartment and try to find jobs.
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[WP] A genie gets hold of a magical lamp containing another genie. He thought this would entitle him to three-squared wishes, i.e. 9 wishes. It actually entitles him to three wishes-squared, a substantially more powerful phenomenon...
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[WP] Bad jokes result in actual physical pain for the listener. You have put this power to use for good, stalking the night as the terror of the criminal class and defender of the innocent; Dadman
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[WP] While browsing dating apps you come across “Synder”, a dating app for the demons of hell. You decide to make an account.
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[WP] Humans evolved a “sixth sense” as a defence against an ancient super-predator; now extinct and long-forgotten. Or so we thought. One day you experience a sensation you’ve never felt before and a single impulse flashes through your mind: Run.
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