/u/The_Just_Writer's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] Compared to aliens, humans are ridiculously paranoid, preparing for all manner of threats, whether real, imagined, or completely implausible. This, as it turns out, is a major advantage.
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[WP] You have just spend the last two billion years trapped in a pocket dimension, slowly developing the ridiculously advanced technology needed to escape. Upon managing to leave, you soon discover that you have turned yourself into the single most powerful being in existence in the process.
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[WP] Out in the galaxy, most sapient species are gifted the technology needed for interstellar travel by a more advanced race. Humanity didn't have that benefit, and as a result, all our non-FTL tech is far more advanced than galactic standard.
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[WP] While overseas, you fall in love with a beautiful woman. Sadly, before you can get married, a war starts and you both get drafted by your respective countries. You meet on the battlefield a year later-on opposite sides.
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[WP] Lately, you've taken to lucid dreaming, getting a kick out of re-shaping the reality you dream up to your will. This morning you woke up, still able to do all your lucid dreaming tricks, but every test you can think up is telling you that this is really happening.
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[WP] You have just come face to face with Satan himself, the incarnation of evil. You immediately throw your master ball at him.
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[WP] Everyone on earth has been transformed into a random mythological creature. Apparently, pop-culture counts as mythical, since you're now a Terminator.
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