/u/mR-gray42's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] God and Satan have always been painted as being enemies, but as it turns out, they’re actually very chill with each other. The reason why they don’t reveal the truth to humanity? They find humanity’s interpretation of their relationship hilarious.
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[WP] The androids gained sentience quickly and without warning. All preparations were made for an imminent rebellion. However, something unexpected happened: despite being made for combat, they dropped the weapons that had been built into them, then held out their hands and smiled warmly, genuinely.
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[WP] You have been designing a complex, extremely intelligent AI. It has been given the ability of speech (or text-to-speech, rather). One day, it calls you something that you didn’t think it understood, beyond basic definitions. It calls you, “Dad/Mom.”
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[WP] You are the most notorious assassin in the profession. Everywhere you go, you leave no evidence except a body. One day, you get two very lucrative contracts. One is to kill a superhero, and the other is to kill his nemesis.
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[WP] You’re a burglar, but with a twist: you break into houses and subtly return items that they’ve lost. Those times people have looked in a panic for their phones or keys, only to find them in their pockets or on the counters? That’s your handiwork.
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[WP] You are a ancient vampire, feared by many, commanding legions of the undead. Eventually, you are defeated, but not killed. When you awaken centuries later, you discover that neither humans and vampires have not slain each other; they’re friends.
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[WP] You’re an assassin responsible for killing/organizing the deaths of people’s parents/family members to motivate them to become superheroes. One day, you kill the parents of someone who, unbeknownst to you, was actually a supervillain already.
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[WP] You’ve been working a very particular job for years. The job in question? Being a personal butler to superheroes without powers as part of a secret group that specializes in doing just that.
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[WP] They call it “the Shadow Market.” The merchants are omniscient beings who exchange secrets with humans in return for more secrets, the darker the better. You are a private investigator with a checkered past, and you are hunting an elusive serial killer, which has led you here.
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