/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] To demons earth is as terrifying and painful as hell is to humans, colder than anything they have ever known at its warmest, full of unfamiliar sounds interspaced by eerie dead silence and completely lacking in anything somewhat resembling familiar
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[WP] A sapient species of spacefaring organisms look very much like human spaceships by sheer coincidence, and as far as they can tell we are horrific parasites puppeting corpses
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[WP] Every time you fall asleep time stops, you thought this was a neat, albeit niche, power at first because it let you effectively utilise the entire day. One day however you realised all forms of unconsciousness leads to time stopping, which immediately had terrifying implications
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[WP] You ran out of milk today so decided to grab some more, meanwhile your roommate is staring in horror as you casually tear open a hole in spacetime to grab a bottle of fresh milk
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[WP] As an immortal people flock to you to hear your words of wisdom, the problem is you haven't been immortal for too long and yet everyone still assumes you have centuries of life experience behind every word
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[WP] Every time you die you get reincarnated in a slightly different yet usually very generic and rather cliche fantasy world, you have sacrificed yourself maybe 17 times, died of old age perhaps 5 times, died to poor medieval hygiene one time and really you are just tired of all this at this point
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[WP] You developed some strange symptoms a few months ago, mood swings, acne, an increase in appetite and most unusual of all a slight increase in height. When you told your parents about this they looked at each other awkwardly and sat you down to explain the family curse of a second puberty.
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[WP] The king promises a great sum of gold to the one who can slay the local dragon. The dragon, hearing this and noting that the gold promised was greater than his hoard, dons a human disguise and prepares to fake his own slaying
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[WP] The hero of legend is brave, noble and occasionally creates complex contraptions using barrels to clip out of reality in order to shave off a few seconds off their time
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