Meta Fiction Writing Prompts

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."

A stranger introduced themselves as you biggest fan. You thought they were crazy. Then they showed you a book with a picture that looks eerily like you. You read the first chapter and it follows your morning perfectly from your perspective. Your heart nearly stops when you notice the genre.

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

"But before we start this video, only 99.99% of people watching right now are subscribed, so please consider subscribing. Bob, please just Sub. You are literally the only one who isn't."

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?"

A lesser God has bestowed you the power to erase your memory but only of works of fiction. It's a mediocre gift, but you get to enjoy your favorite movies and books anew. Settling down to enjoy your favorite fantasy book/movie, you once again invoke your gift. The memory does not fade.

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.

You have a strange power: When you yell ’Cut!’ from the top if your lungs, everyone presents turns into ’actors’, ’crew’ with ’equipment’ pops into existence and the area you are in turns into a set. Usually you do this when you’re bored but this time you do it to avoid an unwanted marriage.

"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 are the proprietor of "The Wandering Inn", a tavern and guest house that appears sporadically to travellers in different worlds across the multiverse. You keep a journal on all of the weird, wonderful and disturbing visitors you've fed and lodged.

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 find a course on YouTube titled : "How to master reality bending in 100 simple steps". The first video has a million views, and they gradually go down until the hundredth one, with zero views.

"Sir, you just came back from the real world!", the reporter said. "What do you have to say to us simulated folks?"

After seeing the movies, you started "breaking" fourth wall, Deadpool style, usually only when you were alone and private... And now you stand before the gods, "developers" as they call themselves, and you have to explain how random NPC character got sentient.

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.

A story where every meaning of "I never said we should kill him" based on italicization is used.

She has the power to enter and interact with the worlds within fictional movies/animated films. One day during a movie night with friends, one accidentally brings a Hentai/Porno. After the initial awkwardness, as she moves to take out the disc, she accidentally trips into the TV.

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.

[META] A world where uncreative "In a world where (SEX THING) is considered normal and acceptable behavior whatsoever with absolutely no other indicated or suggested plot direction tee-hee" Prompts aren't a thing in this subreddit.

You just died and instead of seeing the pearly gates of heaven or the fires of hell, you see that easy mode and new game plus are now available

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?”