/u/young_fire's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You aren't a superhero, exactly. Your powers depend on whatever powers your target thinks you have. They call you Placebo Man.
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[WP] "No, Santa, I'm not going to guide your sleigh tonight after enduring years of verbal abuse and exclusion, that you could have well stopped. You know what? Fuck this, and fuck your Christmas, I'm outta here."
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[WP] God has had his fun with the universe, and is about to delete it. However, when he's about to hit the button, he discovers something unnerving: sentience.
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[WP] You have the power to heighten one of your senses, at the cost of another. For example, you can track the faintest of scents, but while doing so, you are blind.
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[WP] You are a ruthless assassin who is ordered to hunt down all those that take up too much space or use more than their fair share. You don't get paid, but you know that if you tried to quit, you would be hunted down as ruthlessly as your targets- Task Manager is terrifying.
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[WP] During your time at the Academy, you found a notebook in your room with lots of useful info about the Academy. It had a ten-digit code written on several of its pages. Five years later, on a field mission, the screen of computer you're using goes black and then displays the same ten-digit code.
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[WP] A video game addict in his youth is taken to a boot camp for internet addicts. He then realizes he's being trained as a soldier due to his reflexes that were honed by the video games he played.
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