/u/Vaperius's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Humans died a long time ago. But our AI live on as caretakers for the planet; becoming spirit-like constructs integrated into the planet; today, alien colonizers arrived to what they thought was a garden world. The Fey Machines are having none of that.
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[WP] Humanity is dead; you were asleep in a cryogenic facility for super-human soldiers. Aliens have woke you centuries later to fight for their survival from the aliens that ended humanity. The problem? You're actually a janitor that fell into a pod and all of the soldiers died in the previous war.
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[WP] You are the last human alive. You traveled the stars guiding pre-FTL species away from the path that led to the downfall of mankind; through your wisdom, a dozen peoples have made it past "The Great Filter". Now, you are on your deathbed and your "children" have come to mourn you.
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[WP] You were once the demon king. "Defeated" by the hero, you went into hiding to pursue a simpler life. Today the "hero" has appeared, threatening you family to pay tribute, not realizing who you actually are. Today you show them what happens when you have something worth fighting to protect.
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[WP] You, a ghost, end up "haunting" the main character of the story, who out of kindness let you join their party. It been decades since then, and now you are the guardian spirit of the hero's descendants. Today the descendants of the villain have come for revenge... they weren't expecting you.
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[WP] You are a spirit trapped in a gun from WWI. Anyone that picks you up cannot be hit by anything other than one of your own bullets; this ironically means someone holding you can survive a nuclear explosion. This is how you and your host survived the apocalypse.
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[WP] An unassuming school janitor, is in fact an incredibly powerful but reformed dark magic user who chose a humbler life after the Hero defeated and spared them; except today is different: today the magic academy is undersiege by the BBEG, their former boss.
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[WP] You were the "big bad"; after being "killed" by the hero, you decided to change your life. You opened a hospital and dedicated your life to healing the sick; but today the hero just walked in with their very ill child. You are one hell of a doctor though.
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[WP] A military engineer from the 25th century finds himself transported to an alternate version of 20th century London where Vampires and the supernatural are real. With nothing but a cutting edge toolkit, he becomes the (in)famous "Mechanical Man", a hunter of the most fearsome monsters of Europe.
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[WP] You are a former evil genius who almost ended the world before going into hiding. You gave up on villainy, married your head henchmen and started a family. Today a new villain is threatening to destroy your city and none of the local heroes can stop them. You have to protect your family.
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