/u/takaperoinen-miete's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch.
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[WP]: You die in a hospital bed after a long, rich, fulfilling life, surrounded by your family, grandchildren and loved ones. You get startled back into consciousness, back in Berlin, on that weird night when you were 26. "Like I said", the stranger says, pocketing your money. "Save point."
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[WP]: Two warlords agree that their newfound peace contract between their peoples would be best sealed with a marriage. With no available daughters, sisters, nieces or female cousins on either side, the two conclude they must marry each other.
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[WP]: You were hired by the cartel as an "emotional support dog". Your job - your only job - is to reassure the boss that he's not a bad person. Your job keeps getting harder every day.
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[WP]: As a side-effect, a new healing spell heals wounds of the mind as well as the body. The amount of wandering adventurers nosedives, as people with the means to properly process their traumas don’t tend to go around risking their lives killing dragons.
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[WP]: Due to rules of courtesy, the king himself cannot insult or offend his political allies or enemies in any way. However, nothing can stop him from bringing YOU along to roast the hell out of everyone.
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[WP]: You told your brother to write his own damn book if it's so easy. So he did. Sat down to type 8 hours per day, churned out a 400-page novel in a week, sent the first draft to a publisher un-edited, and for some goddamn reason everyone loves it.
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[WP]: There's no actual education in this school, merely tests and exams that get increasingly more impossible - the only way to remain is to find ways to cheat without getting caught. Teachers help out their favourites, but nobody knows how one guy nobody likes keeps passing.
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[WP]: Dog Heaven actually has a pretty large human population. That’s just where you go when you weren’t really good enough to get to human Heaven, but good enough to your dog that they wish you were there too.
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[WP]: You've suffered from sleep paralysis all your life. The figure you see always appears in some specific corner of whatever room you are in, and does not move or disappear before it's over. On your first night at your girlfriend's place, her cat starts chasing it around the room.
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