Self-Aware Characters Writing Prompts

You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego.

You reach max level in a game and lose interest for a while. Logging in months later, you find that years have past in game and chaos has spread, everyone wonders where your avatar, lauded as a savior, has gone.

The universe has ended and nothing is left. Nothing except all the damn immortals created by the many Writing Prompts all standing around wondering what to do.

You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run.

You have all the advantages, and disadvantages, of a video game hero. You can punch out elemental gods, but you cannot open a locked box. You can suplex a battleship, but a child can block you from walking down a hallway. You backflip-dodge bullets, but you can't jump over knee-high fences.

You used to play a fantasy MMORPG that wasn't very popular, so you were able to take the simple name of 'Dave'. When you return to the game (now massively popular), you discover that there is now a Church of 'Dave'.

You; the game's hero, reach the end of your journey. The evil has been slain, the entire nation celebrates in the streets and now, the beautiful Princess you saved very publicly confesses her love and offers you her hand in marriage, thing is; you married the cute NPC who sold you potions.

You're mindlessly scrolling through random subreddits when you find a subreddit filled with photos of you at different hours of the day, explanations of all your activities, people discussing what life decisions you'll take. Confused, you notice a new post titled: "We've been found!"

You are a parent in an anime. Your child is born with epic anime hair, and you are certain they will become the protagonist. You are determined to not become a tragic back story like so many other anime parents.

You spend your days sneaking past mutants and raiders in a post apocalypse world. No one knows who you are, and you doubt anyone would care to know. You have spent your whole life roaming the wastes of the Fallout universe filling empty Nuka Cola vending machines with Nuka Cola.

You are an NPC. One day, you see the player character do some weird steps and duplicate his items. You decide to try it for yourself.

You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out.

You are an unimportant background character in Hogwarts. It's Harry Potter's third year and while he is off dealing with dementors and the imminent threat of Sirius Black, noone else seems to notice that Dumbledore has been replaced by a completely different old man except for you.

You've been a controversial figure on Reddit since the beginning. Responsible for all kinds of posts deemed too embarrassing or inappropriate to stay posted very long. You are u/[deleted] and this is your story.

You are a guard in a video game. The main character thinks that they are always able to successfully sneak past you. They don't, you notice every time but would prefer not to have you and your friends be mercilessly slaughtered.

Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave."

Everyone in town dismisses you as mad, but you're not. You're just the NPC that remembers every single time a player has quick-saved and killed everyone in town.

The horror story where the victims are genre-savvy, and avoid doing things that would clearly lead to their death. Problem is, that the killer is genre-savvy too, and does not play by the usual rules.

Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do.

In a world where everyone has at least one minor superpower, you were thought to be powerless... until you nearly died. It seems that you have plot armor, no matter how ridiculous the situation, you survive unscathed due to an even more ridiculous coincidence.

The summoned hero is effective if not a little... eccentric. He claims that he is a "dark souls player" and keeps saying "why should I wear armor if I don't intend on getting hit". Nevertheless, the great foe is no match for him, and the people love him.

Due to a clerical error, a fantasy author gets isekai'd into a fantasy world meant for gamer otakus. The author can't spend a minute without criticising the world's "shitty worldbuilding," which is making everyone around him confused and driving the gods insane.

A kid losing a video game, and getting their big brother to beat it for them, as seen from an npc's perspective

After dying you appear in a white room with a computer. On the computer you see, "Welcome to Isekai Corp, please select a type of world to be reborn with memories in, if desired. You have a vast 10,000 Karma to spend on cheats.”

You, a side character, watch in horror as the MC forgives and doesn't kill the main villain, who murdered your friends and family, saying, "If I killed them, then I'd be just like them."

Everyone has a number above their head showing the number of writing prompts they've read about numbers above people's heads.

As a last resort, the wizard summoned heroes from another world. The first happily embarked on their "RPG adventure". The next said something about "darkness" or "souls", then rolled away alone. The third mumbled "factorio" and constructed supply lines. Every new hero is weirder than the last.

In the world of cartoons, everyone lives according to the status quo. Injuries are healed the next day, environmental damage is restored, and changes to the world is reverted. One day, the world stopped resetting, introducing "Continuity" to the cartoon world.

You are the villain of an anime. Not because you’re evil, or extremely annoying, but because you wouldn’t let a 6’8 12 year old boy with a voice deeper than the ocean and that looks to be 30 with battle scars, into your school.

After the Villain finished their Monolouge stating their True Motivations, the Hero asked a very unexpected question, "Wait, why are we fighting then?"