/u/Wun_Weg_Wun_Dar__Wun's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] After a near drowning incident, you have spontaneously developed the ability to breath underwater. You still can't swim worth a damn (hell you can barely float), but you are trying to make the best of it.
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[EU] Hitchcock and Scully never get to eat that one chicken wing, and stay their ripped, muscular selves their entire police career.
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[EU] A muggle-born returns home after a year at school, sure that their equally 'special' childhood friend must have just been sent to a different Wizarding school. Only it turns out their friend doesn't have magic. Their friend has the Shining.
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[WP] Heroes save the day every once in the while, but the real reason the world hasn't fallen is because there are so many evil masterminds/secret organisations/satanic cults/alien body snatchers/etc... that all their machinations and carefully laid plans just end cancelling each other out.
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[WP] You go to the same school as many of the teen heroes/sidekicks in your city. You know this, because you are a telepath and, over the years, you have accidentally discovered almost everyone's secret identity. It is getting harder and harder to hide the fact that you know.
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[WP] You are a genie. A young genie, with only the best of intentions; you really do want everybody to get what they want in the end. Only you haven't been doing this for very long, and you don't understand humans very well, and granting wishes is actually pretty damn hard.
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[WP] In this world, some people are born knowing they're in a story. Unfortunately, nobody realises they're in a horror story, until the horror starts.
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[WP] Metahumans with healing factors tend to drop out of the superhero/villain business after a few months, citing PTSD. It turns out some things weren't meant to be survived.
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[WP] In the modern day biologists often use 'spy animals' - robotic versions of animals, obviously fake to us but authentic enough to fool their 'peers' - to collect data on particularly shy or elusive species. Write a story about Spy Human, and the alien scientists using it to study humanity.
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[WP] In the modern day biologists often use 'spy animals' - robotic versions of animals, obviously fake to us but authentic enough to fool their 'peers' - to collect data on particularly shy or elusive species. Write a story about Spy Human, and the alien scientists using it to study humanity.
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