/u/Paper_Shotgun's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Due to a teleportation accident, you end up lost in the void between worlds, much to the confusion and horror of the Lovecraftian beings that live there.
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[WP] You have spent over a decade practicing the magical arts, and your arcane skills and mana reserves are some of the best in the entire kingdom; so you are understandably exasperated to discover the summoned hero was bestowed with magical powers that make your hard-earned abilities insignificant.
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[WP] You were hired by the government to be a supervillain to aid the country; you hired the homeless to do manual labour to help them off the streets, hired criminals so that you could control them and reduce the overall crime rate, and distracted the hero from enforcing their morals on others.
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[WP] You are a Slime who has watched humanity for many years, and have decided to investigate them further by molding yourself into their shape, covering yourself in many cloths to hide your transparent body, and wandered straight into a one of their cities.
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[WP] Working at a cloning and genetics manipulations lab can be bizarre at times, especially when someone' "personal project" escapes containment.
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[WP] As captain of the city-sized space shuttle, you get a notification that a ship has just entered your landing bay, but when you go to check, all you find are 9 reindeer attached to a sleigh
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[WP] The villain and superhero of the town set up some "rules of engagement" for the town', and their own, safety, but other heroes and villains think of the pair as weak until they go to the town and cause trouble, as they quickly realise how dangerous they actually are when they ignore the rules.
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[WP] One in every hundred humans must be sacrificed to appease their gods, their creators. You, a humble biotechnologist, approach the gods and ask a simple yet dangerous question; "Do clones count?"
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[WP] You are a supervillain who specialises in building robots to fight the heroes for you, but what you've never told anyone is that you've had to install limiters into your robots to avoid killing the heroes in a single punch. But during one such robbery, one of the limiters stops working.
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[WP] As a time travelling hero, you've spent your life stopping masked figures from changing the timeline. One day however, you ended up ripping the mask of their faces to reveal that every person you've stopped was a different version of you that was trying to manipulate time for selfish reasons.
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