/u/champ00n's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your parents never let you study magic. They said you were born without the ability. But after a friend jokingly dares you to apply to the top wizardry schools in the state, the denial letters read "We regret to inform you that someone of your potential is simply too dangerous to be taught."
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[WP] The knights are slackers, the heirs are idiots, the King is never not drunk, and the Royal Advisors have honestly just given up at this point. But as the Royal Scribe, it's your job to write a story that makes them all sound like the stuff of legend.
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[WP] Three college kids got high one night and were running around campus, convinced they were superheroes. You, a good-natured professor, started to play along as the villain, not realizing you really did have powers of your own.
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[WP] You, with the strange power to hear the thoughts of plants, are a covert assassin killing every vegan you come across in the name of your fruit and vegetable brethren. Unfortunately, you've just met your match - the assassin who can understand animals.
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[WP] You're the first human with multiple souls. How it happened isn't exactly clear, but now you have powers, and telepathy, and all that cool stuff. Nice, right? Well, no. Because you still have to put up with the incessant chatter of the other souls sharing your body.
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[WP] In a dystopia of overpopulation, instead of finding jobs, most married couples give away each of their children to the government in exchange for housing and food - no questions asked. Write a story set in this world, from anyone's point of view.
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[WP] You are a police sketch artist. It's your job to sketch up profiles of suspects based on witness reports. Recently, several witnesses have come forth claiming to have seen the culprit behind a string of gruesome murders, but you begin to realize that each witness is describing you.
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[WP] You just learned something terrible, something horrible, something you were never meant to know - that you're a character in a writing prompt response.
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[WP] You were adopted, and your family always joked that you weren't 'one of their kind'. It was weird, but you dismissed it - until the night you found out they weren't as human as they seemed.
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