Self-Aware Characters Writing Prompts

Your scientist co-worker has found an alien relic containing immense power and tries to convince you to help them harness it. What they didn't count on was your excessive consumption of media warning you against this very thing.

"Kid, I don't care if your the 'Chosen One' or that you need 'to Level Up', this is a nature reserve. You can't walk in and start killing innocent wildlife. You're being arrested."

You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?”

"Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!" Well, now the kids have grown up, and they have to team up with thier old foe to get thier favorite cereal one last time.

"So you are telling me this random guy showed up out of nowhere, killed the dragon within the hour and left without saying a thing?" "Actually sir he kept saying 'skip dialogue' while I was trying to talk to him."

You've been summoned to yet another world. While your summoners are busy figuring out what the hell your 'Speedrunner' class means, you prepare yourself for a sub 4 hour record.

Write a shitty Mary Sue story, but from the perspective of an irritated side character.

You are the maid of a young noblewoman who has just come to you with the strangest story. According to her, the world you live in is that of a 'video game', and she's the villainess of said game who wound up either executed or dead. Now she wants to avoid her fate, and needs your help to do so.

You're a cryptid obsessed with human media about you. You've collected all the merch, watched the movies, played the games, read the books, and constantly browse your subreddit. It inspires you, feeling a role in humanity. One day, urban explorers stumble into your hideout and find your stuff.

You’re the main villain in a terribly written novel with a perfect protagonist hero with no flaws whatsoever. So perfect that, ah crap, you’re falling in love with him.

You married an NPC who was self aware. You quit the game but your wife never forgot you. One day your NPC spouse shows up in the real world and wants to take you back no matter what.

“Uh Boss?” “Yeah?” “What do we do now that we’ve beaten the Hero?”

"The perfect murder." You thought to yourself happily, looking out the window. Only to see Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are already here.

An important yet still a side-character NPC of an online game suddenly gain self-awareness. The developer notice this and they consider her their precious daughter. She is not aware of it and is scared shitless of the developers, and treat them like absolute horrifying gods she need to worship.

As an NPC you have a simple job: don't break character. That has become abundantly difficult as the player discovered your sentience, and taken...interesting steps to reveal it

Hey you! Yeah you, playing the visual novel! I c-can remember all previous iterations you know! Why do you keep reloading the same sex scene, it's driving me crazy!

You are a character in an adult fan fiction that just doesn't want to be part of it. Whenever something explicit is about to happen with any person (including same gender), you just make an excuse or do something that can stop the adult scene.

You are a writer working on your book on your computer. Your computer starts typing on its own, with the message claiming to be from a minor character in your story demanding to have a more important role

"Hold on, why am I even pretending that I am able to hear you? I'm just a recording."

Your friends says that your world is a work of fiction they were isekai'd into, and you were the original protagonist.

Video game characters are a bit like high-class pets - if they're not played in a while, they start to become depressed, or at least a bit loony. Some take it in stride.

You're a normal person living a normal life. One day someone recognizes you as a relatively minor character from a popular media franchise.

Dear Reddit, my therapist says that I am an NPC and she will call tech support. What does it mean?

"So you're telling me that you can talk with some kind of "viewer" and all of this is a terrible teen movie? Yeah, you're definitely schizophrenic"

You live in a video game world, but the hero died in the first level.

Everyone knows Cartoon Characters can survive basically anything, not even old age can kill them. A Cartoon Character finds this out the hard way when their human friend dies from old age.

You are a sentient/sapient fictional character, but instead of existing in any defined setting or story, you exist only in your Author's mind

You were born as a side-character, in a battle driven Anime. You enjoy your life but it's not without it's problems. You have a secret ability to read peoples thoughts involuntairly. Which incudes their Battle dialogue. Every. SINGLE. TIME.

You are the most powerful and the smartest being in the entire Multiverse. You could easily subjugate it in hours. But what do you do? You act like a Looney Tunes villain. Why? It’s funny.

A character is aware of that they exist inside of a story. They wonder how much they can bend the world into running on porn-logic.