/u/Xcmd's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your boss is a well-known super villain, and one of your co-workers has a running joke that you're secretly the boss's arch-nemesis. The boss overheard them and is giving you an very unsettling look. Thing is, you really *are* secretly the boss's arch-nemesis! Everyone has a day job, right?
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[WP] Magic use is heavily outlawed. Magic comes with age, and at 23 all must submit to a test that either leaves mages without their magic, or kills them. Today is your 23rd birthday, and you've just learned that your family is from a long line of powerful mages.
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[WP] After a long-spanning war in which some mages committed major atrocities, anyone using magic is viewed as dangerous. Magic use is outright banned, and now mages can only go into the royal military, or join a hidden monastic order of outcasts. You've just discovered you're a mage.
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[WP] Your best friend vanished a week ago, and today you got a note slipped under your door. It reads: find me in the usual place, at an unusual hour.
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[WP] You've long been told that at some point in life, you'll make a monumental decision that will set the fate of the world. You'll plunge all into chaos, or bring it into a new bright era. When it came, the decision wasn't so easy. But not making it at all has an unforetold outcome of its own...
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[WP] You're a direct descendant of the last human born on Earth, a fact nobody lets you forget. Today, the ship has at long last arrived at the new planet humans will colonize and call home. You've decided that, no matter what, you're going to be the first human to set foot on this new world.
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[WP] Your best friend is considered the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and you're their dim-witted tag-along who stumbles onto the clues. Thing is, what you actually are is their greatest nemesis, and it's come time to reveal the ruse.
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[WP] You've just been told the incredible truth about your father. You'd always assumed it was the man who raised you, but you've been given undeniable proof that you true father is Santa. And you've been summoned North.
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[WP] Turns out global warming is due to Santa trying to grant all those wishes for a white Christmas.
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