Urban Fantasy Writing Prompts

A master vampire owns the building, the alpha werewolf owns the restaurant. The Hunters Guildmaster is here, sword out. Other guests have fled. But your pasta had a distinct tang of gluten and were those peppers? Are they trying to kill you? You are Karen and you want to see some managers.

Humans can't see spirits, but the same goes vise versa. There's currently chaos in the spirit plane, hulking towers of metal and concrete are appearing at an even faster pace than before, and the spirits must investigate why.

As a modern-day necromancer, you offer a service where you will kill people for a little while, then bring them back in order to get out from under crushing debt. The banks aren't happy about this, so they've hired a paladin.

Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human.

After several thousand years, the Greek gods awaken in the in the mid 1940’s. When the gods meet up to discuss what they had learned of the modern world, Ares walks into the room with a hollow and horrified look in his eyes, the day is August 6th, 1945.(Hiroshima)

Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist”

Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms.

Spells are a thing, but mana isn't. How many you can cast is limited only by how fast you can say them. Thus, rappers have become the world's best rapid-firing spellslingers.

Unbeknown to most, the Norse gods are still among us. Thor is a grumpy personal trainer, Freya is a successful influencer. Quite a few of the dwarves are top level sysadmins. But what about Loki?

The Fae had faded into near obscurity, until they discovered humans will readily give their name to a barista.

The fey sneered and laughed, "You declare threshold? What are you on about?" The grimy woman in tattered clothes stood defiantly, "I am not homeless, the street is my home, it is *our* home, and you have crossed the threshold. This domain belongs to us."

Not only did your best friend find out you're a vampire, but he/she wants you to turn them. You try your best to explain the less obvious downsides to this curse.

While magic exists, it’s impossible for it to affect "normies", nor can they witness it. You can cast a huge explosion, but only those magically gifted will be hurt. Buildings & objects constructed by normies are unaffected too. You’ve been waging a secret war with Jerry from HR for years now.

Since your phone number is one digit off from the Wizard Tech Support hotline, you get the occasional call. You know nothing of magic, but your computer skills and common sense translate real well.

Everyone knows that the stange person at the end of the block is not human, but no one cares. The reason why is that they are the kind of thing that gives out king sized candy bars on Halloween, cleans of the snow covered sidewalks of the whole block, and are willing to help with anything.

Your father is a demon, and your mother is a human. You were raised by her, and only saw your father a handful of times as a kid. Your mom raised you right. You're by all accounts a pretty good person, which is why it was a shock when demon hunters showed up at your door.

The Monster Hunter Association specializes in the eradication and containment of monsters. They’ve been doing this for centuries all the way back to King Arthur. You work as the secretary to this fine organization. Oddly enough, you’re also a vampire.

You run a Bakery, just a normal bakery, the only problem is that your customers at midnight to 6AM are mythical creatures who pay with gemstones and ancient gold and silver coins

For the longest, you could see faeries, vampires, gods, ghosts, and other entities of the hidden world. However, you pretended not to see them because you just wanted to live a normal life. That was until they began noticing you.

You run a bar for all kinds of supernatural creatures. You're pretty sure this latest Patron is a regular human though. But given that they just beat a Crimson Were-Dragon in a drinking contest without breaking a sweat? This is up for debate.

There's a 10PM curfew in your city. Past that time is when members of the magical community come out: Wizards, monsters, fae, etc. It's not a strictly enforced curfew, more like an advised time for regular humans to not be out.

Your family was killed in the chaos of magical girl combat. "Collateral damage", the government said, "Acceptable losses". Well, now you have the tools to get your revenge.

"Why is it that you can never spell my name correctly?! It's not even difficult. Are you stupid?!" The customer berated the cashier. "Our barista is a fairy. I'm making sure she doesn't get your name. Don't worry I'll make sure I get it perfect next time. Have a nice day"

When you learned that you were teaming up with a magical girl, you expected a tiny preteen in a dress with sparkles. Not a 6’4 behemoth wearing bright pink body armor wielding a machine gun.

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Heavenly Virtues are all college students who are in the same philosophy class. Lust has a huge crush on Chastity, but he does not return her feelings.

Whenever people learn that you are both a werewolf and a policeman they expect you to work in an "appropriate" department, be it forensics, SWAT or supernatural crime, and you always have to explain that you work in traffic enforcement.

Good news, demi-humans have been allowed into your university with open arms. Bad news, you sit next to a succubus and every second is a struggle to pay attention.

Our Male Protagonist has the power of ‘The Gamer’ and the world becomes like a video game. Being hormonal and trying to be funny, he decides to dump stat points into sex, seduction, charisma and charm. It was time to get laid and see how far he could take it...

That quirky roommate, who plays video games and eats pizza pretty much all day, you just let move in with you? She's actually a shapeshifting succubus, and you just found out on accident. You swear that you thought she was just a Twitch streamer or something.

A slime-girl trying to smuggle herself through an airport in a water bottle is thrown away by the TSA. She encounters another traveler who missed their flight and had to stay overnight in the quiet concourse.