WritingPrompts

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[WP] Turns out that the character development in the original plot was actually a far better outcome than the inciting tragedies not happening. You, as the time traveller who caused this mess, must now fix things - by causing the events in the story that you were trying to stop in the first place.	15
[WP] Killing a primordial being is really hard, because you have to find and utterly destroy every single fragment of them in existence, or else they'll come back eventually. On the bright side, this does mean that villains find it just as hard to get rid of the good ones. Like yourself.	15
[WP] "The problem with you creating a religion with me as the guy in charge of cleaning things up is that, eventually, I will actually have to step in and clean things up."	13
[WP] Multiple characters all attempt to heroically sacrifice themselves to save another, but their attempts end up cancelling each other out - and the original target gets out unharmed anyway.	13
[WP] You do not care if your liege does or does not believe that the end justifies the means; they receive the ends, while you shoulder the means. The only loser in this situation, you believe, is you.	12
[WP] "Well, that sure is an interesting prophecy. If you'll excuse, me I'm going to go and erase my memory of you telling it to me so that it doesn't cloud my judgement for the rest of my life."	12
[WP] Having died in combat, you wake up in front of the God of Death themself - only to be very quickly rejected with a comment saying something about you needing to survive for someone you've never heard of to get the ending they deserve.	12
[WP] The dividing line between subverting a prophecy by not idly accepting it as a foregone conclusion and bringing said prophecy about by actively trying to avoid it is a lot thicker than most people seem to think.	11
[WP] When it was decided that the Fae would be weak to steel, it wasn't imagined that there would be so many distinct types that would have to be independently added in. The case over whether the then-new "Stainless" variety counts as steel or not has been in the Divine Courts for decades now.	10
[WP] Time Travel exists, but can't be used to change the past - only to observe it. Your job is to go back in time and record the unrecorded parts of history. It's the night before an infamous historical decision is made... and the person responsible looks straight at you and starts monologuing.	10

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