/u/MidKnightshade's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You’re a retired sidekick to a top notch superhero. You’ve been hired by the government to train low level supervillains with high level abilities to be the next generation of superheroes because many of the top notch heroes have gone missing and the mid level heroes are picking up the slack.
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[WP] Your mother has a bad reputation around town and you finally ask to meet your Father. She explains your Father is a spirit that goes from body to body every 24 hours never repeating a body. The social toll got to be too much so they broke up but she tells she how to find him.
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[WP] You pray to God for help with a problem and for the first time in your life you receive a reply. You hear the message “I’m sorry the deity you’re trying to reach is no longer available or is disconnected. If you would like to try your prayer again please try you back at a later time.”
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[WP] Throughout the millennia people have called you angels or guardian spirits. The truth is you were fixing glitches in reality. Those so called miracles were bugs in the system initiated by “broken” humans. The bugs happen less frequently now. But again a new “prophet” has arisen you have to fix.
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[WP] An orphaned organic living planet wanders into the solar system and takes up a geosynchronous orbit. It’s presence is wreaking gravitational havoc. A wandering star is seen to be searching for it. The people of Earth must convince the orphan to leave before the star arrives.
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[WP] You’re a young scribe, the only son of a poor family who’s parents are cripple. All they earned went to your education. You’ve been hired by a blindman named Abdul Alhazred to transcribe his words to complete his book Kitab al-Azif documenting all he saw in his travels. Previous scribes quit.
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[WP] A bully sends his gangster older brother and his goons to teach the kid that stood up to him a real lesson. His brother never comes home nor any of the goons. His victim says they never spoke with his brother. The bully searches for his phone and finds it near where the victim lives.
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[WP] An NGO is sent into an area to negotiate a truce between warring tribes so that the foreign companies extracting resources can return. The diplomatic envoy arrives to find the tribes have allied with one another to fight off whatever keeps coming from the extraction site killing their people.
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[WP] Space explorers unbeknownst to them land on a manufactured world with biomechanical components. It was meant as an amusement park/haunted house therapeutic experience. The planet reads the minds of visitors and then reshape itself to exhibit their fears.
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