WritingPrompts

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[WP] The orb grants everyone the ability to use their special skill. Your family fears your orb day, because your skill was assessed to be "summoning a being that destroys things threatening your life no matter what", and you have an anxiety disorder that makes you feel threatened by everything.	309
[WP] You are the first documented case of someone being legitimately allergic to specific traits people can have. The police hire you - after all, you're allergic to people that enjoy killing real people. How wouldn't you be useful?	272
[WP] You are summoned to an alternate universe, but when you get there you take on your father's name to conceal your identity. It isn't until you've gained a wife and son that you realize you've actually gone back in time, not traveled across universes.	271
[WP] An angry god makes all name meanings literal. For example: If your name means "fifth daughter", suddenly you have five older sisters that hadn't existed before.	261
[WP] You are an alien raised on Earth and have never met another of your kind. Despite being very visibly non-human, everyone you've ever met thinks you're 100% human. One day, someone reaches out to you. "Why aren't you disguised?"	258
[WP] In a world of magic and fantasy, a young woman with no memory discovers she cannot use magic. No one can explain why, but one day a monster rips her arm off...revealing advanced machinery and circuitry.	245
[WP] You can interact with a parallel world by showing your reflection a note, and they can do the same for you. Today, your reflection shows you a note that says "You will die if you don't keep your sister's gun with you at all times." You have never had a sister.	217
[WP] The holy scrying orb, used to find the hero when the demon king is revived, only shows a skeleton on the ground. Humanity believes themselves doomed. But one day, a reanimated skeleton shows up wielding the holy sword.	210
[WP] Once it's detected you have magic, your parents send you to the top magic academy in the land. Once there, you find out you can't cast any spells - that isn't what the magic inside of you is used for. Not that anyone else knows how to activate your magic.	202
[WP] When magicless children are born in the Magician's City, they are exiled to magicless villages. One magician child falls through the cracks and ends up there, and finds that the native villagers aren't as magicless as the city believes...	202

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