/u/HonestAbe1809's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a member of a brand-new minor superhero team and you can’t help but feel frustrated about how the news coverage of your team mostly consists of editorializing for and against how “diverse” your team is rather than reporting on its effectiveness at fighting crime.
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[WP] You were a beloved school teacher until you were killed in a house fire. You vowed to protect your students in their dreams. They tell stories about how Miss Clara would chase their nightmares away. And now one of your students has been kidnapped and you need to find a way to save them.
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[WP] There’s a local legend that a certain ritual were to be performed in an abandoned mansion a ghost would be summoned. The catch is that while the mansion is haunted the “ritual” is fake. You and the rest of the ghosts occasionally make up fake rituals to prank naive mortals. This time it worked.
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[WP] You never knew what the bard meant when he said he “maxed-out his charisma” until he not only managed to convince the young dragon to not seek fiery vengeance for her father’s death, but got her to join the party as well.
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[WP] You are a superhero and your arch-nemesis had quietly retired years ago and had a robot doppelgänger take their place. You only found this out after the robot recently got sick of fighting you and decided to spill the beans.
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[WP] You had no idea what you were getting yourself into when you joined the secret society. You expected secret handshakes and all sorts of perks. What you got instead were ulcers from being one of the few people keeping the world from falling into total chaos.
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[WP] You are one of the city’s greatest supervillains. One night your superhero nemesis stumbles into your lair severely injured. You are naturally incensed. Some upstart villain dared to touch your nemesis! The only thing stopping you from immediately seeking vengeance is the injured hero’s pleas.
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[WP] After being a castaway for so long you set foot on the first ship that approached you. Turned out that it was a haunted derelict. What really surprised you was the hospitality.
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[WP] You bought the large old house on the hill. You soon found out that it was haunted. It’s just that the ghosts were so excited to finally have mortal “guests” that their attempts at haunting you were so botched that they were more funny than scary.
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