/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The greatest threat to our world can respawn fully healed in a safe location whenever they suffer a fatal injury. Which is why room 44 contains an individual with their arms, legs, eyes and tongue surgically removed kept on permanent life support. Cruel, perhaps - but we have no other option.
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[WP] Memories can't be copied but can be transferred between individuals; the sender will lose said memory while the recipient gains it. This has led to a black market in extreme memories with individuals engaging is risky and dangerous acts in the hope of creating a memory they can sell for profit.
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[WP] In the future Renaissance Fairs are made more authentic by bringing actual people from the past into the present. While this helps avoid those pesky "butterfly effects" of travelling into the past it's important that displaced individuals don't discover they are merely actors on a modern stage.
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[WP] An ageless immortal has lived thousands of years but human limits of their memory means they only ever recall the last several decades of their existence. Modern medicine offers a chance to remember their lost origins and history but are some things better left forgotten?
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[WP] "The tide of battle has turned against us, we have no option left but to use our weapon of last resort. Unleash the humans."
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[WP] As a person approaches maturity they recall more and more memories of previous lives. But Earth's population has grown faster than the universe could naturally generate extra human souls, as the latest generation comes of age it is apparent they recall memories of alien lives not of this world.
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[WP] A genie is found by a person who isn't interested in making wishes, they just want the genie to be their friend. The genie spends their time constantly trying to tempt or trick their master into using up their wishes to no avail.
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[WP] You are a supervillain! However you spent your entire career fighting your arch-enemy who just so happens to also be a villain as well. But years of wrecking their plans just to piss them off also meant saving countless lives along the way. So the world now wrongly assumes you are a super-hero.
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[WP] A mysterious virus spreads through humanity with the bizarre effect of changing DNA so only two individuals of the same gender are capable of conceiving a child. With male and female effectively different species to each other now the future of the human races together is uncertain.
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[WP] Do not judge Vampires by their mere appearance. The truth is their kind may sustain themselves on the blood of any living creature but their form will shift to resemble that which the consume the most. Beware the seductive and beautiful ones that appear human for they are the true enemy!
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