/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Years ago you agreed to be the physical model for the appearance of a new humanlike android intended as a domestic assistant. When the Android becomes a massively popular product you find yourself treated as a second class citizen with everyone assuming you are just another android.
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[WP] You die, and find yourself in a grey, formless void. You soon realize your very thoughts and will shape reality around you. Presently an Angel and Demon appear and explain a new afterlife realm has been created for those not good enough for Heaven nor bad enough for Hell. And you are in charge.
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[WP] An angel and a demon arguing over whether their abilities is what makes them good or evil agree to exchange powers for a day to prove their respective cases. The outcome for each of them is completely unexpected.
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[WP] Humans may be primitive but evolution gifted them an immune system even the most advanced civilizations haven't been able to replicate. For centuries we regularly infected them with the galaxy's worst plagues to create cures never realizing we were slowly sowing the seeds of our own destruction
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[WP] You are a Genie but not a malicious one. Though you are bound by the Genie Code to grant wishes with some horrible or ironic twist you make a real effort to leave an obvious loophole and strongly hint how to avoid that fate. Unfortunately the Genie Council has found out and they aren't happy.
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[WP] The law requires citizens to make regular backups of their mind in the event that they go missing or die unexpectedly. In this situation law enforcement will spin up the most recent copy in a synthetic body to assist them with their investigations.
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[WP] In a world of magic you are a powerful Technomancer but had the misfortune of being born in centuries before the invention of any kind of technology and thought to be merely a mundane, powerless human. Everything changed the day the alien Kzan'tin Empire set their sights on conquering Earth.
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[WP] When a person dies their greatest skill or ability is inherited by their eldest offspring. You were adopted at an early age and while you never found out who your parents were, on one fateful day you suddenly came to realize exactly what they truly were.
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[WP] For the first time since the Fall, God and Satan sit at the same discussion table to figure out how to deal with an unexpected development from humanity: Artificial Intelligence
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