/u/OfAshes's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You've always been able to sense death. Not in a bad way — just a simple "ping" in your ear when someone near you dies. However, you live in constant fear of your power expanding and showing you all deaths, everywhere. One day, you start to hear constant pings, but your power feels the same.
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[WP] You are not the mighty dragon, nor the knight in shining armor sent to slay it. No, you're that one unlucky gold piece in the dragon's hoard that some idiot wizard enchanted to be sentient.
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[PI] In a fantasy realm, no one has ever returned from the Crimson Forest. Your best friend has been poisoned and the cure is a rare plant found only behind that foliage line. You know it's there because a lifetime ago, you helped your mother cultivate it.
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[WP] The set of powers people call magic were actually the result of a parasite that slowly took control of hosts' bodies and minds. The ancients found a way to kill these parasites, resulting in the lack of magic today. People all over the world have begun to develop magic powers.
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[PI] You live in a world where everyone has a twin. Everyone has a friend, a confidante, sometimes a rival, but everyone has someone. Everyone except you. You are alone.
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[PI] A Seer told the Dark Lord of the chosen one who will kill him and put an end to his evil empire. Word spreads about a child with qualities of the prophesized hero, and instead of killing them, the Dark Lord insists on taking care of the child.
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[PI] You are a princess just freed from her tower and your best friend, the dragon, is dead. You are expected to marry the knight who murdered her and you go along with the preparations, all the while planning your revenge.
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[WP] Everyone in the village calls you a witch, but that's ridiculous. Sure, you live in a small hut and deal in magic, but you are a Leprechaun, god dang it.
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