/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You were the person chosen to save the princess if she were ever captured by dragons. But instead of being inducted into the Knight's Order, you're trained in a less conventional profession for the element of surprise.
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[WP] As a shapeshifter, you always looked forward to showing off your realistic monster "costumes" on Halloween. But this year, your office party's theme is Superheroes, and you won't stand for it.
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[WP] An entire city suddenly sunk into a massive underground cavern system without a trace, and the earth above them closed. To the outside, the city just vanished, but to the inhabitants, they must now adapt to the underground environment to sustain themselves, while trying to contact the outside.
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[WP] A prodigy has a hard time accepting the fact all of their uncanny abilities came from working harder than anyone else, not because they were simply born better than everyone else.
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[WP] Aeons ago, you achieved immortality but it must be sustained through exotic means. As technology marches on, those exotic means have become a very common part of everyday life, and you've forgotten precisely what is keeping you alive.
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[WP] On your first day working for NASA, you learn from your superiors that Humanity has started space exploration billions of years ago, and Earth had been Test Colony 5102.
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[WP] You ordered a cheap knockoff sword off the internet. They sent you a real legendary weapon instead. Time to leave a review to give them a piece of your mind!
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[WP] You gloat: "I've done my research. None of the curse's conditions apply to me." The old man who gave you the artifact looked at you with pity. "The frightening part about the curse is how it changes you to fit those conditions, the suffering afterwards is but a cruel joke."
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[WP] In this town, people fear heroes more than the villains. Not because the villains are really good people, but because some people are even more evil when justice is on their side.
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