/u/djseifer's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The good news is, you're immortal. The bad news is, you're about 50 years into serving your life sentence when you find out.
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[WP] Your cat sneezes. You say, "Bless you." Your cat says, "Thank you." A moment passes before you both turn to stare at each other in disbelief, jaw agape, and say "You can talk!?"
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[WP] Heroes and villains have one rule that both sides agreed on: Never go after someone's family. Someone has broken that rule, and they must now deal with the culprit responsible. To everyone's surprise, it's one of the heroes.
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[WP] A god's power and existence is entirely dependent on the amount of faith they get from their followers. As a long-forgotten god, your power has dwindled greatly over time as the number of your followers decreased. Only a single believer remains now, an elderly person nearing death.
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[WP] The great hero of legend will be reborn when their presence is needed to save the world. As the reborn hero, you are quite confused. People are well-fed and well-off, rulers are rather fair and just, and the monsters pretty much keep to themselves.
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[WP] Just as the car is about to hit you, you wake up back in the fourth grade. As you look around the classroom in confusion, you see a student that you don't remember going to school with. They simply mouth, "Don't screw this up" before disappearing.
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[WP] When you die, your subconscious goes through and compiles your memories, generating final thoughts that will become your afterlife. Good people end up in their version of Heaven, bad people end up in their version of Hell. Your brain glitched while computing and you ended up in Purgatory.
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[WP] You are the great hero of legend, forever bound to the dark villain in a never-ending cycle of death and rebirth, of war and bloodshed. It's the twelfth cycle now, and frankly, you're both starting to get tired of it.
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[WP] The dragon stared at the princess incredulously and sighed. "Your highness, there has got to be a better way of getting the hero's attention than having me 'kidnap' you every other week."
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[WP] You stand before a pantheon of assorted gods and goddesses, all eying you questionably. "I don't understand why I'm here," you say. "I'm not a god." "No, but then someone went and turned THIS into some sort of holy scripture," says Zeus as he hands you a paperback copy of your childhood diary.
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