/u/ianfort's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Everyone gets a doppelganger at the age of 24. Society expects that the two must try to kill one-another, and the survivor will be accepted as the original, whoever wins. You, however, have befriended your doppelganger instead. A lot of people are not happy about this.
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[WP] You are capable of shape-shifting into nearly any form, but then you're stuck with that form, because after every transformation, you must wait one year before you're able to transform again.
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[WP] As a joke, two juvenile wizards cast a spell on a tree frog, causing muggles to believe it's an ordinary, sane human, regardless of appearance or behavior. This comes back to haunt them when it somehow becomes a CEO.
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[WP] A clone of Mozart has been made. Everyone's expecting him and pressuring him into composing classical music, but he finds that he much prefers a different genre of music, that didn't exist back in the original Mozart's time.
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[WP] You are the chosen one, destined to save the world, but you just want to live your life and have no interest in going on a quest. It turns out, however, that whether you're trying to or not, everything you do seems to contribute to saving the world through contrived coincidences.
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[WP] You are a psychologist who specializes in treating those who have gone insane from witnessing eldritch abominations.
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[WP] The body-swapper machine swaps only memories; not personalities. The villain underestimated the consequences of this fact.
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[WP] A record containing modern music is sent back in time by over a century. The music on it is not to the taste of most people of that era, but one prominent music enthusiast becomes obsessed with it.
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