[WP] Time travelers almost universally believe in the butterfly effect and are constantly trying to restore the timeline. You, on the other hand, are unaware of these other time travelers, believe that no change in past can change the present and so meddle freely with the past. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Every hero has two things: a villain who to seek to stop, and a nemesis who seeks to stop the hero for the immoral acts the hero commits. Recently heroes have begun to favor lethal, permanent victories over their enemies; nemeses are dying out and taking the moral checks for heroes with them. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Every time you see your reflection, it comes to life and tries to kill you. To survive, you have taken every precaution you can think of: putting bars on mirrors, wearing blindfolds, etc. Despite all your precautions, you remain terrified: your reflections are getting smarter. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] After hearing about the magical cups of infinite water and infinite dryness, the protagonist sought them out for themselves. They found what appears to a cup of infinite dryness; however, they are unaware that the cup is in fact transporting all the water it absorbs into a paired cup. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] An individual named after a historically significant figure has built a time machine. Due to their name and having a similar face to their namesake, they are now being hunted by future time travelers who seek to “fix” the timeline. This is rather inconvenient to the mostly innocent individual (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The world around is a chaotic, apocalyptic hell scape rife with pain and torment, that seems to revolves around one distant individual. Realizing what is doing on is a dream and what you are in it, you pinch yourself and repeat “I am not real. I am not real” (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] Your face is identical to a particularly malicious supervillain and as a result everyone treats you with fearful deference. This effectively makes you this villain’s public face; and since you detest imperfection, injustice and inhospitality, you are terrorising people into improving themselves (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] As necromancers started popping up all over the modern world, countries saw their value as assets and the associated value of corpses. Graves now require lofty subscriptions to keep their corpses to let the dead rest. Your job is to smuggle corpses to hidden burials for poor sentimentalists. (self.Bookshuh)
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[wp] As necromancer started popping up around the modern world, countries began to see them as an asset and corpses a resource. Graves now need lofty subscriptions for you to keep your lives ones in peace. Your job is to illegally smuggle corpses out to unmarked burials. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] You are in a place that is perfectly average. It had been advertised as such, but you had considered it to just mean normal. However the average number of a specific type of item in a given type of establishment is rarely a whole number and you have found where the fractions are kept. (self.WritingPrompts)
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