/u/djseifer's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Years ago, you and your twin sibling flipped a coin to decide who would rule the kingdom and who would leave. However, you cheated and used a two-headed coin – not to win the throne, but to win your freedom. Years later, your sibling finds out what you did and is furious.
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[WP] As the eldest child of a wealthy family, it wasn't a surprise that you'd get kidnapped. The surprise was that your parents didn't pay or even acknowledge that you're missing. Taking pity on you, the bandit gang decides to take you in and raise you as one of their own.
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[WP] When elves reach what they consider to be "old age," they go on The Long Journey - travelling to a distant land untainted by mortals, never to be seen again. When your time comes to go on the Journey, you discover that it is nothing more than a glorified retirement community for elves.
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[WP] Due to new diversity measures to ensure that students are exposed to new, different cultures, your middle school classmates now include a dark elf from the underground caverns, a high elf from the Feywild, an orc from the northern tribes, and curiously of all, a human from Des Moines, Iowa.
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[WP] Years after the apocalypse, there are few survivors left. You've been going to your old work to have some semblance of normalcy. One day, you find a letter on what's left of your desk asking you to come to the head office.
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[WP] You and your twin were born with the same superpowers. You became a hero, while your twin became a villain. Every now and then, the two of you switch places for a few days just for fun.
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[WP] The demon appeared in a puff of sulfurous smoke. "Why have you summoned me?" it snorted. "Because it's the only we can get you to visit your parents more than once a year. And would it kill you to not do the smoke thing? You know how your father feels about smoking inside the house."
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[WP] After a grueling battle with a new supervillain, you emerge victorious, but pass out from your injuries. You awaken in a hospital room to find your wounds cleaned and bandaged. Suddenly, your arch-nemesis enters the room, clearly unhappy. "Good, you're awake. We need to talk."
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[WP] As humanity expands into the solar system and begin mining resources, they start discovering ancient alien ruins. More troubling is that they greatly resemble th ruins of various human civilizations of the past.
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