/u/Kitty_Fuchs's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The narrator may be omniscient, but they are also really easy to distract, so they still get surprised by plottwists and surprise reveals.
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[WP] Your parents are a superhero and a supervillain. You inherited their superpowers and they both have always tried to pull you to their side, while you never wanted anything to do with anything super-related and so you picked the most mundane and normal job you could think of.
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[WP] You are a witch and you fulfill most stereotypes about witches. You are old, live in a hut in the woods, you brew potions, work both charms and curses and so on. There is only one stereotype you do not fulfill: You are a man.
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[WP] When humanity finally set foot on the first habitable planet outside of the solar system we were surprised, and saddened, to find the ruins of an advanced civilization. We were even more surprised, and confused, when we determined these ruins to be of human origin.
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[WP] Ever since you took over your parents little mom and pop shop time travellers have been trying to kill you. Apparently you will turn this little shop into a ruthless and exploitative megacorporation. The only problem is that you have no intentions of expanding your business.
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[WP] They said that you could never save the kingdom, that you would fail and die miserably, because you were not the prophesized hero. And when you returned after saving the realm on your own, instead of welcoming you as a hero the king banished you, as it was not your place to save them.
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[WP] All throughout your life you've saved the life of the same person again and again. You eventually began joking that you are their guardian angel. When you died and entered heaven you were surprised to see them being berated by an angel. Apparently they were supposed to be *your* guardian angel.
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[WP] The witch demanded the customary price for helping the royal family, the first born son of the queen, as payment. Little did she know that the realm's society is matriarchal in nature and so controlling the first born son of the queen is of no use to the witch at all.
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[WP] You bullshitted your way into being admitted to a magic school. You have no idea what you are doing, but somehow you have become one of the best students in your year.
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[WP] After finally achieving space travel, humans quickly discovered evidence of alien life in the forms of ruins. MANY ruins. Entire planets devastated, massive fields of debris floating in space and no sign of living beings anywhere. Until we picked up a distress call from an unknown source.
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