Human Nature Exploration Writing Prompts

You are a superhero, except you don’t save anyone. You help people save themselves.

Your friend complains about never being able to find love. "Have you met everybody in the world?" Your friend has met everybody in the world.

The last man on earth is the reason why he's the last man on earth.

A woman gains the ability to detect and change the penis size of any man around her. While initially try to be a robin hood like figure, growing good guys and shrinking jerks, she slowly become a size queen as she begins growing the cock's of every man she meets.

Your grandmother is a psychotic Empress and a bloody conqueror who kills for fun, but she also bakes you cookies and sings you bedtime stories, so she's not all bad, right?

"We are superior to them, but they are our masters?"

In an alternate reality, humans live significantly longer than 100 years. But their bodies keep ageing in unpredictable ways, and their minds evolve too. But what's after late adulthood? And what's after that? Behaviors of humans who have lived for longer become increasingly irrational.

You may have seen my previous experiment where we put a single, ordinary person in a room to see how long it takes him to push the electric shock button out of boredom. Now, we are putting two random, ordinary people in a room to see how long it takes them to fuck.

For ages, there has been a divide between the "evolved" species and the "designed" species. New evidence has been unearthed that humanity are an artificial race, designed for companionship. Yet no one in the galactic community have ever seen humanity's "creators", and of them there are no sign.

"You know, people say the first time is the hardest. Well, they're wrong. The second time is the hardest as the first is cushioned by ignorance. to do it again is to do knowing what it feels like."

A knock on your door reveals a person who you absolutely despise. They appear terrified of you, and ask you to sign a paper saying you have forgiven them.

Hope can be more cruel than despair. It makes a person desperate, preventing them from making peace with their end and robbing them of a calm and organized end to life.

You're the one humans call Death. Except you aren't some god. You're just a human who was cursed with an immortal life and being sent anywhere someone dies.

“I have some advice for you. Never, ever take the advice at face value, given to you by someone desperately eager to give you guidance.”

"You've been giving people advice this whole time and you have nobody?"

We are not peaceful because we are bad at war. We are peaceful because we are very, very good at it.

Every human is given the chance to watch their own funeral after they die. They are allowed to choose one thing said about them to take into their next life, where it will be placed in their subconcious. It will shape who they are in that life.

“Why did you name me No One?”

You're sitting across the table from your final target. You know you're going to fight and attempt to kill them, and they know this, too. Right now, though, you're just old friends, trying to patch up old wounds and enjoy each other's company.

"They might as well be dead."

Take a character you've already established as a protagonist, hero, or good person and give them a believable(and in character) villain arc.

For the longest time you were a slave to fate, but now you command it

"Deafening silence, is mark of true professionalism, with many tales of how they achieved it and scars of failures to prove them. I am interested to hear one of those tales of yours."

Feeling threatened by a new coworker thats now on track to get the promotion you’ve been working for, you decide to spread some malicious rumors about them. Unfortunately for you somehow these rumors actually make them more popular.

There’s a monk in Tibet, famous for his unshakeable calm. Tourists pay for a 20-second challenge: get him to react in any way, and they win. No one has ever succeeded. Until one day, a small boy walks up, whispers something in the monk's ear... and the monk completely loses it.

Many think Death appears as a person you'd be most comfortable to see at the end of the your life. But they actually appear as someone you MOST need to see.

A woman gains the ability to detect and change the penis size of any man around her. While initially try to be a robin hood like figure, growing good guys and shrinking jerks, she slowly become a size queen as she begins growing the cock's of every man she meets.

After being defeated and utterly broken by the villain, the hero turned to villainy themselves. They are much more savage and brutal than the villain ever was, prompting the villain to fight the former hero once more.

“You killed my father and I wanted to thank you for that…”

The main character is from a very conservative, religious family and has just lost their faith. They ask one of the friends they've met during their de-conversion to introduce them to what it means to be depraved and hedonistic.