/u/Paper_Shotgun's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are an assistant scientist at the experimental DNA modification and Cloning facility, and your boss has just told you that the facility was originally founded to create a race of... a race of... *sigh* catgirls. You ask your boss if they're serious, and they nod with a shameful expression.
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[WP] Most people are concerned about the heroes and villains that can be found across the globe, but you've always been more curious about where the seemingly endless supply of obedient, trained henchmen come from. After years of investigation, all evidence points to an old facility in Antarctica.
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[WP] During a bank heist gone wrong, you ended up taking a stray shotgun slug through your heart. That was 20 minutes ago, and the fact that you haven’t died yet is as concerning to you as it is to everyone else around you.
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[WP] Many people believe that the royal family and their court of lords run the kingdom, but in actuality it is their messengers who do as every time their masters give them an order to be carried out, the messenger dispose of it and deliver their own orders with no-one being the wiser
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[WP] You're a new security guard at a prison for supervillains, when the senior officers approaches you and says, "I don't know what they told you to do in case of a breakout, so I'm going to make it simple for you. If you see one of these villains escaping, do not engage them. Just let them leave."
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[WP] While waiting for the superhero to arrive to capture them, the supervillain decides to have a chat with the mayor they took hostage about several grivances they have.
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[WP] As a lich, you have survived for millennia by not drawing anyone' attention as you life a quiet, peaceful life in your very remote manor. Then one day a deity appears before you and says, "Look, we've run out of villains for the heroes to fight, so stop lazing about and do something evil NOW!"
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[WP] You are considered by the government to be a person of mass destruction, under heavy guard in one of the best prisons they have. The reason for this? You're so clumsy that you've managed to kill everyone around you, and you know living in a glass cell 24/7 won't stop people around you dying.
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[WP] You have spent the last several thousand years trapped in a cell at the bottom of an old temple built by a long forgotten city-state, alone; so it's a surprise when a team of explorers accidentally dig into the chamber.
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[WP] "Why aren't you stopping the supervillain? You're a cop, your whole job is to stopping people like him!" "Well, there is a difference between a supervillain and a criminal. Simply put, that guy may be a supervillain, but he technically hasn't commited any crimes so we can't arrest him."
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