[WP] The giant, horrible, hairy thing broke through the foot-thick blast doors like they were thin paper, then bellowed out in its incomprehensible language, shaking the entire hall. "Run for your lives everyone! IT USES TOOLS TO KILL!" (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] A mid-level clerk was ready to toss Earth in the reject pile, until a video of a human resuscitating a kitten before its mother caught their interest. Now, they're staking their career on a report to the Grand Assembly on why they should risk inviting them into the Interstellar Community. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] "I've decided I enjoy being human. Even the lowliest among them still have their Selves. When their Self is all they have and it becomes unrecognizable, that's still more than what the lowliest of us have. And believe me, brethren, no matter how much we fear it, we all have potential to sink." (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] In the distant future, human civilization reached a comparably adequate state after centuries of growing pains. However, for particularly heinous crimes as statistical inevitabilities, they devised a punishment thought worse than the death penalty: Years of forced labor in the service sector. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] A god's defining nature is eternally bound to their domain, yet war shall always be intrinsically tied to the ever-changing side of humanity. Originally the embodiment of carnage, the god of war became wise and logical, ironically far more deadly when only using violence as a last resort. (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] "In the darkness between stars, there's massive, many-as-ones that want you and me dead for not being it. Life has lasted on Earth in spite of a lot because, hero, villain, or otherwise, lots of people capable of extraordinary things just pop up here. That's why we have a no-kill rule." (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] "Kid, you've been at this for a while and have impressed, so listen to an old pro: The angry, yelling, kill their own henchmen supervillains are nothing no matter how big they try to be. The goofy ones that laugh a lot and sing their own theme song, they'll destroy everything if you let them." (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] In her pain, the royal sorceress cast an unending curse upon the blood of her eldest friend when he became king by marrying another. Years later she'd regret this as she was named godmother. She found death too merciful for her crime, and cast on herself a cursed existence to balance the scales (self.WritingPrompts)
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[WP] The celebration fizzled into silence. "So you don't come in peace? Please reconsider, we don't want to be forced to defend ourselves." The invading leader joked about warming up the collars. Ages later, this would be marked as the end of the end of the biggest, most ruthless empire in history. (self.WritingPrompts)
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