/u/Lolrly123's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people.
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[WP] You wake up in a destroyed underground lab after 5,000 years of cryogenic stasis. When you reach the surface, you find that the race that replaced humans views you as a hyperintelligent and highly dangerous Eldritch Abomination.
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[WP] Theoretically, you can not surpass the speed of light. Humans find out why when we manage to break this rule, as our ships begin to outpace the rendering speed of the universe, and the illusion of all reality is broken as everything around us vanishes the faster we go.
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[WP] European society collapses after the Black Death. Hundreds of years later, Native Americans sail over to the old world to find a haunting and dead civilization populated by European nomadic groups.
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[WP] You are Death, slaughterer of billions. Unfortunately, God’s PR department worries that people have become too afraid of you lately and haven’t been enjoying heaven as much as a result, so now it’s up to you to make the process of dying more entertaining for humanity.
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[WP] You’re locked in conflict with your greatest enemy. Unfortunately, they’re equipped with dangerous plot armor, so you work tirelessly to make yourself morally interesting enough to give yourself the same protection by the writer.
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[WP] It took 500 years of eternal youth to find true love once again. A year later, you reveal your immortality to her. She smiles sadly, admitting that, before you met, she sacrificed most of her lifespan for a sure chance of true love, showing you grey hairs that hadn’t been there the day before.
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[WP] A strange-looking man arrives at court with a strange device and challenges the king and his entire guard simultaneously to a duel for control of the kingdom. Scoffing, the king accepts, telling his guards to charge at him. The strange man simply laughs and raises his AK-47.
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[WP] One night, you peek into the closet your parents warned you held monsters, and inside are people that look more like you. They say they’re your real parents and the tentacled eldritch abominations you call your parents are the actual monsters.
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