/u/Paper_Shotgun's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]As a villain, you rarely get the time to do the thing you enjoy, such as going to your favourite cafe; so when some heroes decide to try arresting you when you've not even ordered your drink yet, you know that you need to make them an example of why people shouldn't mess with you on your day off
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[WP] "Look, I am a shadow entity; I have to eat human souls or else I will starve." "You can't just go around killing people, shadow being or not." "Oh, so it's fine for all other animals to follow the natural food chain, but when you humans discover you have a predator, you're suddenly against it?"
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[WP] "People think magic is so easy, that you just say a few words or wave a stick in the air and you can just lift a car or regenerate a lost limb or something, but that's not the case at all. Magic is a lot more complex to cast than you think, and failing to cast a spell properly can be fatal."
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[WP] Magic has just been discovered to be actually real, which is great for everyone except you, a scientist, as the entirety of humanity' scientific research has to be discarded and started again from scratch to account for the "magic variable".
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[WP] The zombie apocalypse started a few weeks ago, but you and your group have managed to survive the undead hordes so far. However, you've begun to notice that a specific zombie seems to be following you wherever you go.
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[WP] Notice: No children live in this building. If you see or hear a child within 100 yards of this building, leave the area and notify a staff member immediately.
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[WP] This is the strangest case you've had since you became a PI as you've just stumbled across a weeks-old dead body,,, of the person who hired you two days ago.
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[WP] "Being a 4th-wall breaking character isn't as fun as most of you readers think it is. The worst part, though, is the fact that I only exist whenever someone is reading this story."
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