/u/aescolanus's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The prophecy says that the Dark Lord will not fall until he faces the Destined Hero alone. As the Dark Lord, you have a clever plan to avoid this fate: become a harem protagonist and surround yourself with obsessed stalkers
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[WP] "You humans are so careless of your lives. You travel in fragile metal boxes at incredible speeds. You routinely use tools that could slice your flesh and crush your limbs. You bring *fire* and *electricity* into your *homes*. Are you all insane?"
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[WP] You're seen as one of the "practical" superheroes - you'll kill villains, but only those too evil or dangerous to let live. But that reputation's a lie. The only villains you kill are the ones who, deep in their hearts, are beginning to repent
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[WP] In a cynical, fleece-the-masses, let's-fake-religion-for-tax benefits cult, one person in the inner circle is an honest, true believer. That person was just accidentally elected Supreme Cult Master
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[WP] "So what's your role on this team?" "I'm sexually irresistible to divinities." [beat] "No, really." NSFW
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[WP] Following the Supreme Court's lead, the Pope has decreed that corporations have human rights - and human souls. Satan has tasked you with creating an appropriate Hell for sinning corporations
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[WP] Every species has an equal amount of magical power to divide, and each living individual gets an equal share. Magic no longer seems to work for humans - Homo sapiens sapiens - because there are now seven billion of them. You are the last Neanderthal.
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[WP] Terminally ill people are wired into a 'happiness machine' which stimulates pleasure centers to let people die pleasantly and without pain. The pleasure is so great that no one who plugs in can ever function normally again. Or so they say. When you tried it, you learned the real reason.
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[WP] Humanity's God made a star go nova in order to guide the Wise Men to Bethlehem. Two thousand years later, the last warfleet of that star's people has arrived at Sol. *Their* God has come to bring ours to justice for His crime.
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