/u/chacham2's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Everyone is born with a power, but they can be bought and sold. Being poor, you purchase only the cheapest ones, gaining you ridicule and the title "Mr. Useless". Recently, however, you realized how you can use all these "useless" powers together, and set out to make a better name for yourself.
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[WP] Scientists revive a dead god through prayer, and worship him just enough to be alive but not powerful, so they can keep him in the lab to study how mana works.
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[WP] After a short dizziness you pick up your head to find yourself in seventh grade. The teacher looks at you and asks derisively, "Are you having one of your 'I'm somebody else' incidents again?" Behind you, someone begs you not to answer. The teacher continues, "then answer the question already!"
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[WP] "For my first wish, i want all genies and their lamps brought here right away, or right after they finish granting wishes to their current master, if they have one. For my second wish, i free all genies after they grant my wishes to my satisfaction."
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[WP] The monster now in place, you activate the magic circle, but instead find yourself sinking into the ground. "This is the only way," your friend said, "I'll take care of your wife and children." Decades later you finally awake and find him heralded as hero, and you, listed as a casualty of war.
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[WP] The mountain will grant any wish if it has the mana to do so. If not, the wisher becomes mana for the next wish. Wishing small is usually safe, especially after a failed wish. Wishing large is always a gamble. A community has formed around the mountain, giving advice and selling memorabilia.
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[WP] A demon marrying an angel is not so rare, but having a child is. With neither wings nor tail, both Heaven and Hell refuse them entry, leaving them to be raised amongst the humans they look like. "Abandoned" in the middle of nowhere, you can't help but take pity, and decide to adopt the child.
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[WP] You are a doctor that works with seriously ill patients. Having seen it enough times, you actually recognize Death, and can use that to your patient's advantage.
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[WP] After discovering time travel, you start to "fix" history. This creates a new timeline, and in that timeline, someone else discovers time travel and decides to fix the problems too. After much confusion, a bunch of time travelers from different timelines all end up in the same room.
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[WP] Ages ago you discovered immortality and then had the time to learn the strongest magics. But the gods were jealous and banded together to smite you. To escape their wrath, you hid in another dimension, coming back for only short, safe periods of time, to help people in their time of need.
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