/u/[deleted]'s posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Idioms and sayings get translated poorly, leading most aliens to refrain from using them around other species. Humans however delight in using them far too frequently, and even making them up as the need arises.
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[WP] People freely travel across realities. It's totally natural to be in some SciFi world in some weird alien body with extra senses and superpowers, and then switch to another one because you have mood for it. Only very few know what is so special about a world where you are just a brain in a jar.
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[WP] You are a Plague Doctor that instantly becomes hostile upon hearing the sounds of coughing, be they real or fake, and will aggressively attempt to "cure" the subject by any means necessary.
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[WP] "You have knelt before my throne unaware that it was made of lies." These are the last words your king spoke to you before he died, and now you have made it your mission to find out what he meant.
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[WP] You met an old friend today...except she disappeared into a wormhole 30 years ago and was presumed dead and you never thought you'd see her ever again, let alone discover that she's been living here all this time, in the exact same random dimension that you happened to travel to.
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[WP] A fog cut the village from the rest of the world, communications are down and the dead have risen from their graves. But after the initial fear, people realized that apart from looking bad and smelling rotten, the dead just wander around aimlessly and wouldn't harm a fly.
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[WP] You are an author who creates unique characters. One day while writing in the park, you see a man who resembles your novel's main character to a tee. Wanting to make your character more unique, you change his hair colour and to your shock the man follows."So you finally wrote one about me huh?"
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[WP] After running several successful blood drives you are approached by a blood god, turns out you got more blood than he did and are the new blood god.
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[EU] You are a billionaire living in Gotham city, you want to make the city a better place, so you use your immense wealth to make villains hunt each other down. Tonight Deadshot and Deathstroke are hired to end each other. Tomorrow? Who knows.
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