/u/GlanceIntervention's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're the prince who started a revolution to depose your tyrannical father who was subsequently murdered by his own bodyguard. 20 years of ruling the realm have filled you with a deep sense of regret, because your father was right. You wish for a chance to apologize and ask for advice.
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[WP] You're an alien entity that has just been "liberated" from your hive mind by Humans after the war. The Humans feel like heroes with their arrogant individualism while you reel from the isolation you feel, being separated from the hive, the mother, the One.
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[WP] You're a well-respected general, tasked with saving what's left of the army after the invasion turned sour. You need to choose who will stay as the rear guard. You have fought along side these men for 20 years and you just can't bring yourself to give the order, knowing they will be destroyed.
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[WP] You're the lone survivor of a multinational astronaut team sent to find a new habitable planet for a humanity in dire conditions. You were ecstatic when you found one and landed on it. You finally came back to Earth in your beat up starship, only to see ruins and no one left, not even animals.
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[WP] You learned that your pet dog was sent to Hell because of a clerical error. You're at Hell's front desk speaking to an uninterested demon intern and demanding to see the manager.
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[WP] A disappointed God, weeping as he watches his creation undo itself, locks them into the day they decided to destroy the world with nuclear fire. Sentenced to experience it again and again, their conscious memory wiped every time, but not the accumulating weight on their soul.
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[WP] "If you look to your left, you'll see planet AX8-97, locally called Earth by the sentient beings inhabiting it" "Is there any intelligent life there?" "Nope."
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[WP] In the last war your father died shielding a baby boy from an artillery strike. You hated both of them, you father for putting him first and the baby for taking your father away. Today, the same set of eyes look at you, handing you your own baby boy which he saved from kidnappers.
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[WP] "Hey sweetie, I'm off to get groceries, but what ever you do, don't make eye contact with the penguin downstairs. Bye!"
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