Magical Creatures Writing Prompts
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Most immortals become the angsty “everyone I have ever loved is gone” kind of immortal. You, on the other hand, instead took it upon yourself to be a loving presence to entire generations of your chosen family, because they are descended from someone you once loved long ago.
You're an ageless being that has been alive for millennia, however your eternal youth has never been a secret. You're known around the world for it. You're not rich, a ruler, hunted by the government, or special in any other way. You're just a worldly curiosity, a minor celebrity at best.
You kidnapped a princess, because your dragon daughter wanted a princess. You are not sure why exactly she wanted one but you got her one.
As prophesied, after ages, the walls crumbled, shackels rusted, guardians forgot and the immortal nemesis broke free again... Only to find out that humanity is no longer just a bunch of cave people with sticks.
A failed author accidentally summons a demon into their house. Instead of wanting their soul, the demon shyly requests a signed copy of the only book they've ever written. As it turns out, this demon is a huge fan of their work- and he's not the only one.
In an attempt to modernize, Hell remakes the 9 circles. You are in charge of the circle dedicated to people needlessly cruel to service industry workers.
You are an "immortal creature", you've lived for centuries. You're not like the stories, and you've had time to read them all. You're more like a tortoise, slow and steady. You've had plenty of hobbies, degrees, and jobs. Currently you're working in the museum archives.
You're a deity of something small and seemingly unimportant. You're the first one the people stop praying and sacrificing to when things get dire. Oh, what fools they are.
A Star Eater must eat magic or else they'll die, so the best course of action was to taunt witches all around the land into hexing him with curses. Spiteful magic tastes great after all.
You don't know what happened, but one day people started being oddly impressed by your hunting skills, you would take down a regular animal, and they would act like you did something special, nobody else wants to enter the forest, but there are nothing there to fear. They refuse to eat the meat
The empress sentences you to be thrown to "The Beast", a giant doglike monster. She recently got a new Beast when her old one died. The Beast turns the corner and turns out to be a puppy. You're not food. You're a babysitter.
For 10+ years a child goes to a forest to play/talk with the fairies there despite local legends of their sadism/cruelty, and afflicting fates worse than death. So when the now 16 y/o child is abducted, the traffickers find out not all local legends are BS when the fairies come for their "pet".
As soon as the titan materialized, it pointed down to single person and declared in its booming, dreadful voice, "THIS ONE IS CORRECT." Then, without elaboration, vanished without a trace.
You have developed a reputation for being an expert matchmaker. Whenever you're around, people who meet each other end up falling in love. But what no one else sees is that Cupid has been trying to shoot you with an arrow for a long time now, and all you've been doing is dodging them.
When the truly ancient gods were rediscovered, they didn't seek vengeance on a world that had forgotten them - rather, they were happy that the humans they were so fond of remembered them once again after untold millenia of loneliness.
“The fae are not evil. No more so than the tide or the wind. They are not good or evil, they simply are.” “They killed my son!”
To a normal woman, the idea of getting caught and fucked by a monster is mortifying. To an adventure, just an embarrassing memory to keep to yourself. You reached a new level of embarrassment: your party is here to rescue you, but found you getting fucked by a monster and absolutely loving it.
An immortal keeps a list of all his descendants, dropping in and visiting them whenever possible.
Your father was a dragon and your mother was a princess that didn’t particularly want to be rescued. As a dragonborn princess, you’ve inherited some bad habits, like sleeping on a pile of gold in the treasury and ‘capturing’ the castle maids.
You adopted a cat named “Dave the Magical Cheese Wizard” from the shelter. After weeks you just started to realize that wasn’t just a goofy cat name.
Dragons don't actually have such a long lifetime. Instead, they have a spell that allows them to sleep for decades or even centuries without aging a day. Your dragon friend wants to take a "nap" and asks if you want to join in.
You, a trans person, are talking to a fey you met in the woods. You are attempting to get them to pull the fey "can I have you name" prank on you in order to get rid of your deadname, without making the fey suspicious.
The dragon didn't realize it misheard the definition of "hoard" until it had already amassed an army of nomadic steppe warriors.
A kind and generous Fae is desperately trying to convince a starving guest to eat. The Guest, well aware of the rules of the Fae, is paranoid and constantly worried about falling victim to said Fae.
Medusa finally leaves her cave after thousands of years. She finds out her power to turn people into stone no longer works as it relies on people perceiving her to be ugly and beauty standards have drastically changed. Now she is wondering if she prefers isolation over the catcalls.
When in human form touching a dragon's tail is incredibly sexual, much like sticking your hands down someone's pants in public and nearly as pleasurable. Despite your public setting, your dragon GF doesn't have the heart to tell you all this when you ask to feel her tail.
At first you just took it as humility but hearing "I'm just a normal person" after they killed a dragon the size of a mountain range, it's starting to piss you off.
You've contracted a horrible illness after having a little too much contact with a god for a little too long. It's weird no one ever mentions that divinity is infectious.
A poor, innocent tentacle monster is taken advantage of by a horny adventurer girl.
You are an elder god. Your followers have just summoned you to the mortal realm... to celebrate your birthday.
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