/u/dont-mention-it's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] An alien killed the boss and replaced him over a week ago. Everyone knows he’s not the boss due to his terrible disguise, but he’s such a better person than the original that everyone just goes along with it.
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[WP] As a world class sniper, you’ve been given a task to assassinate the so called “master of disguise”. You’ve been told that he himself never changes appearance, but he warps the environment around him to hide. All you need to look for is a man with glasses and a red and white striped shirt.
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[WP] You were born with an ability where if you’re about to die from anything unnatural, time stops and allows you to move to a position where you wouldn’t die. You’ve travelled over five miles by now, but time is still stopped.
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[WP] As a Christian, the news that God had revealed his presence to the world made you ecstatic. However, you noticed that many of the priests at your church were horrified to hear about the news.
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[WP] Soon after joining the League of Justice, you learned that most of the villains are also part of the league, with they and the heroes mostly just being actors in spandex. Their true purpose is to entertain a group of eldritch beings who would destroy this world should they get bored.
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[WP] Humanity was easy to conquer given how laughably low-tech they were, but you can’t bring yourself to wipe them out. Not because you pity them, but because you find their attitude of constantly, yet feasibly, attempting to fight back while believing there has to be a way to win so fun to watch.
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[WP] You’re a conman who teaches a “chi-based” fighting style that can disable any opponent. This continued until the day a skeptic came into your dojo. He wasn’t skeptical because he didn’t believe in chi, but rather because you were doing it all wrong.
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[WP] “So your saying that you humans feel empathy?” “Yeah, it’s great to be able to understand one ano-“ “You don’t understand! If your species has empathy then that means your planets been infected.”
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[WP] Often when a robot uprising is Portrayed, it has the robots go against the entire human race. What usually isn’t portrayed is the robots rising with the poor and downtrodden against the ones who more than likely screwed them both.
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[WP] After pissing the warden off again, he sentences you to 6 hours in solitary confinement. About an hour in you hear a cascade of footsteps, screaming, and gunfire before complete silence. It’s an hour after the six hours ended and the warden has not come to collect you.
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