/u/partiallycylon's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] After getting backstage at concerts, meeting stars on film sets, and chatting with world leaders, you realize your superpower: People just assume you belong. You marvel this revelation as you are led, unquestioned, into the boardroom of the Justice League as the other heros file in behind...
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[WP] "You FOOL! This isn't even my final form!" The outmatched villain shouted, acutely aware that this was indeed his final form, and would now be forced to improvise...
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[WP] "Only you can prevent forest fires", said the bear to me. "Yeah, that's a common phrase" I respond. "You misunderstand," he says back, his tone rising as his frame starts to distort, "Only you. Do you get it? It has to be you!" He fades painfully as the temporal warp collapses. "Only you..."
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[WP] You are taken into custody and relentlessly pressed for classified information you swear you don't have. Later, the cell's doors blow open, and you hear a voice speaking into a radio, "Copy, we've saved (him/her)."
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[WP] You accidentally discover "luck" is a tangible commodity, like money, that is similarly hoarded by the societal elite and ultrawealthy. You become convinced that if you could just steal enough of it, you'll get away with your crime- and maybe save your life. So you start assembling your team...
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[WP] You may have been called selfish (and worse!) but you've lived every day convinced you were the main character. AND YOU WERE RIGHT! But after a particularly insufferable encounter with a pushy fortuneteller, you were advised "audiences couldn't really connect with you, and the show might end."
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[WP] A devil unknowingly swindled your soul from you, but he was caught by the gods. Now, you've been informed your whole life has been entered as evidence in the court case. At least that explains the omnipresent diegetic narration...
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[WP] You've managed to hide your superpower from everyone for your whole life. Today your infant daughter started behaving strangely.
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[WP] You stumbled upon the biggest conspiracy of modern civilization: "Luck" is actually a black market commodity which the ultra-wealthy have been buying and trading for generations. Convinced that if you steal enough of it you will get away clean, you assemble your team and and start planning...
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