/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[EU] Superhero teams swap players like sports teams swap players with complete disregard for plot or universe, and the next major player trading season is about to start.
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[WP] A loving couple were forced to separate and hide their identities, abandoning their baby to fate. A dozen years later, the now grown orphan child is playing matchmaker for the two "kind benefactors" that keeps providing them aid from time to time.
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[WP] Supposedly dead heroes, MIA agents, defeated villains... The popular but unassuming tavern is run by all sorts of people hiding their world-renowned identities, and each time a new hire is made, the patrons begin discussing who the new staff member could secretly be.
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[WP] The warlord points a gun at your head. "Is this a joke, arms dealer? Where are my guns?" You sigh and begin fitting one of the grotesque arms in your open briefcase into your shoulder. "Listen, I told you I sell weapon grade arms, now get that gun out of my face before we both regret this."
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[WP] You, a carpenter, make scratch marks inside coffins as a joke. This has attracted the attention of a cabal of undead hunters who think you’re a necromancer.
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[WP] One day everyone is forced into a Character Creation screen. "I give you all the chance to freely choose your own appearance from henceforth!" Just as you are about to make yourself beautiful, it follows: "The earth is empty right now, but you will return to Earth immediately when you're done."
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[WP] Every full moon, your local strip mall is transported to a world of sword and magic, and a wondrous night market begins.
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[WP] You've never believed in that chosen hero crap. Any dark lords want to take over your world? You crush them like an ant with your divine power. But now you're starting to see the wisdom in that hero system.
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[WP] A great hero is about to be unjustly executed, but you're the headsman and you know someone will show up to rescue them, you just gotta stall for time on the stage.
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[WP] After 30 years wandering a post-apocalyptic world, you close your eyes one last time... Before you wake up 31 years into the past, before the world changed. Knowing the future, you do all you can to prepare for the end of the world. On that cataclysmic day, the cataclysm did not come.
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