/u/dont-mention-it's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You’ve gone back in time and killed many of the worst people in history as children, making a better world. When you returned to your original time however, you see that you are now seen as “a time traveling lunatic who murdered a lot of innocent children” and are now wanted by the law.
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[WP] In the far future, after Disney bought out everything on Earth, you’ve been executed for not watching a scheduled marathon of Disney films. As you rise to Heaven, glad to have finally escaped that dystopia, you see a sign on the Pearly gates that reads “Heaven: brought to you by Walt Disney”
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[WP] There’s an alien race who has declared themselves ‘conquerors of the Milky Way’, but the reality is that every Milky Way species finds them so cute and practically harmless that they just let them believe they rule the galaxy.
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[WP] The alien asked the human representative what humanity had to offer, and they said “we may not have telekinesis or hyper-intelligence, but we have heart and determination to succeed.” The alien simply sighed and said “so you’re one of those planets.”
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[WP] As the world began to collapse, the man responsible for it all lied in his death bed, grateful that he wouldn’t be around to see any consequences. As he closed his eyes, one of his scientists bursted in and injected him with a syringe, cheering that he had discovered the secret to immortality.
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[WP] You’ve spent your whole adult life helping make the world a better place, even giving your life to save a kid from bandits. Despite this, you end up getting sent to Hell. When asking a demon why this happened, he explains that you may be a good man, but the child you saved is anything but.
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[WP] Your kid has a really creepy doll that you’re pretty sure is possessed, and you are trying to find a way to replace it without upsetting your kid. The truth is that the doll IS possessed, but it loves the kid with all its heart and will do anything to stay by their side.
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[WP] You had the dark lord dead to rights, but one of your allies said that if you killed him you would be no different from him, so you reluctantly spared him. A few months later the dark lord was broken out of his prison by the very same “ally” who told you not to kill him.
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[WP] You’re a ghost who does the usual ‘haunt someone until they flee the house’. One of your victims gets the bright idea to bring a priest to exorcise the house, and the priest they bring ends up being the one who killed you all those years ago.
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