/u/ShadowDurza's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You never really wanted to be a superhero, you're just part of the 1 in 20 people with a supernatural trait that happened to someone's life on reflex and it all just snowballed from there. Now as a veteran, your other heroes are letting you have the say on eliminating all evil and free will.
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[WP]There is a pocket dimension where lost people from the multiverse gain powers based on figures in the most prominent religion in their lives, whether they believe or not. Most find the idea of an omnipotent figure laughable, then someone from Earth that had a christian family appears.
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[WP] Humans figured out how to transcend realms. Learning that magic was real and was latent in every living creature, humanity began to undergo the training to harness it en masse. Most species leaned towards one particular magic type, but it turns out that every human has a unique evolvable magic.
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[WP] Originally, dragon eggs could only hatch in the ancestral homeland of the dragons. After a cataclysmic disaster destroyed it, all remaining dragon eggs went dormant. However, man figured out a new method of hatching them, and these new dragons care much more for their human parents.
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[WP] Your friends dead and at the mercy of a lovecraftian entity, you try one last trick to survive: diplomacy. Turns out, human thought is contagious and all it takes is a conversation to make otherworldly forces sympathetic, explaining why they're always trying to strike first.
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[WP] Every animal in the world spontaneously evolved into a higher form of life capable of logical reasoning, complex communication, and self-awareness. They plotted to overthrow humanity but didn't expect them to evolve into an even higher form of life by the same phenomena.
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[WP] As the first person to die at since beginning of a new decade, you have to become Death for the next ten years before moving on. Technically, nobody can stop you from neglecting this new duty, but you were given a warning: "For life to keep living, the dead must keep dying."
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[CW] Write about a superhero/villain with the power of of Memetic Enhancement: Gaining a boost to all of their natural abilities relative to the number of people in their current local that knows who they are and what they can do.
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[WP] Satan Steel: A supernatural alloy favored by assassins and professional killers all over human history for its inexplicable ability to inflict wounds that never heal. You are about to discover its true purpose the hard way: to kill immortal beasts that emerge en masse every few centuries.
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