/u/turnaround0101's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[PI] You're a Mechromancer. It's a bit like being a Necromancer, except that instead of working with dead flesh and departed souls you work with defunct machinery and deleted computer programs.
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[PI] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics.
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[PI] For most of college everyone thought you were deaf when in reality you just don't like talking and learned sign language at a young age. You never corrected anyone until someone confessed their love for you, thinking you couldn't hear them.
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[PI] You can transfer health from one to another, replacing one's sickness with health and the other's health with sickness. This makes it easier on the body to heal. Sometimes multiple people offer to help the really sick, each taking a little of the sickness to save even the gravest cases.
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[PM] I want to turn your lives into stories. Prompt me with formative events and moments that mattered, gifts you loved getting or were proud to give someone else. Things you wish you would have done differently. Context optional.
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[PI] Angels are thought to be beautiful, while demons are thought to be vile and disgusting. However the truth is Angels are extremely scary, while demons are beautiful and elegant creatures.
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[PI] A little known cosmic fact is that there were only ever 10 billion human souls produced. As the population slowly creeps upwards, the department of reincarnation struggles to find a workaround.
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[PI] Everything you heard about magical and mythical beings is wrong. Witches are actually taking children away from irresponsible parents. Cerberus is a big, three-headed hell puppy, and dragons are just trying to protect their life savings from thieves.
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[PI] As opposed to getting rid of the creepy dolls in the attic, you decide to clean them and fix them up. This made the little ghost girl very happy.
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[PI] You bought a book online "Spells for the modern druid", it was all in fun. You and your friends sit in the park, drinking and listening to music. Until you whip out the book and read the spells. As you finish one, a tree uproots itself and walks over to you....
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