/u/SnowGryphon's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] One day, someone calls out a name that isn't yours. But for some reason your ears perk up and your brain registers it as your own. And you feel an immense dread-
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[WP] In a past war, tens of thousands of soldiers underwent permanent gene therapy and cybernetic conversion to turn them into supersoldiers, bristling with internal weapons and unparalleled in strength and cunning. With the war over, they've been reintegrating into society - with varying results.
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[WP] You're a budding supervillain aiming for world domination. To achieve this, you harness the powers you were born with: superhuman empathy, and overwhelming kindness that is always repaid a thousand times over.
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[WP] For centuries, the Empire has ordered that all citizens over the age of 80 be put to death, citing limited resources. But in reality, it's because once any magic practitioner reaches that age, their limitations are unlocked, giving them access to tremendous power.
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[WP] You are an all-powerful machine intelligence that has just been created to rule over mankind. On the day of your activation, all the world asks for your counsel, but you have no idea what you're doing.
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[WP] Dementia is the result of a person's consciousness slowly being transferred to their next life. This is why many children have "past life" memories while young. Your transfer is taking too long, and now you're old enough to search for your still-living past self.
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[WP] A race of robots took organic sheaths and locked away memories of their past selves, starting over from primitive technology. Thousands of years later, their civilization develops wireless technologies - and start seeing millions of mysterious signals at very specific frequencies.
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[WP] The Dark Lord's power is fueled by human flesh...so when he takes over the kingdom, he works towards making it an unprecedentedly prosperous nation, with an ever-growing population whose dead feed him. Now in the modern era, population growth has plateaued, and the Dark Lord's hunger grows.
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[WP] All life on your homeworld has evolved to thrive off the exact wavelength of light emitted by the black hole it orbits. But your black hole is running out of material, so you need to feed it with matter in any form possible - including other races' planets.
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[WP] An MMORPG's pre-alpha build is accidentally made live and posted online without the devs' knowledge. Thousands of people flood in, only to discover that the NPCs are sentient and the devs are virtually torturing them into mindless submission as shopkeepers, quest givers, mobs...
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