/u/VetProf's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You have an interesting ability; when you are murdered, your soul immediately possesses the person who killed you. You go to sleep one night, but find yourself in the body of a child you don't recognize when you wake up.
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[WP] Much to the guardian angel's surprise, the child already has their own guardian protecting them: a teddy bear.
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[WP] A person's job/expertise is carried on into the afterlife, and they can't change it. This causes each half of the afterlife to have more "jobs" than the other (e.g. Heaven has more doctors, Hell has more lawyers). You're the only person in your field of expertise, and God/Satan needs your help.
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[WP] Humanity has evolved into an advanced interplanetary/intergalactic civilization, but we never stopped using trebuchets as siege weapons and kept improving on them. Many aliens are baffled as to how/why we still use them, but they're clearly very effective in combat.
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[WP] You have the ability to see a special mark over people that will die in the next five minutes. One day, for some reason, you see the mark appear over a grave. And it belongs to someone you knew.
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[WP] Aliens don't fully grasp the concept of pranking and think it's part of our nature to intimidate each other on a daily basis. To make a great first impression, the aliens try to pull a huge prank on us.
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