Social Justice Themes Writing Prompts

You have $86,400 in your bank and someone steals $10. You spend all the rest of your money trying to get revenge.

A teenager has been kidnapping young children during the night for his gang of thieves; he addicts them to "pixie dust" to ensure their subservience. Only a lone police captain believes it to be true. This is the story of Peter Pan and James Hook.

Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered.

You are a dragon. After moving to your new forest, the local village decides to sacrifice two children to you to ensure you won't attack them. You decide to raise them--and they say you're much nicer than the village.

You are part of a circle of scientists that have collaborated to fake the world into believing the sun was going supernova. As the generation ships carrying the rich, the flawed, the zealous, and the privileged leave Earth you decide its time to rebuild -the right way.

The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm." We all had been taught the outcast and the poor were a natural price to society, but the robots hadn't.

"A child not embraced by its village, will burn it down to feel its warmth"

"A child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."

You're a drug dealer. A powerful one. But recently you've been having doubts. Now you've changed the game and deal in legal drugs, illegally. You sell cheap insulin, aids medication and others. You find that legal enemies are worse than cartels.

Rather than robots replacing human workers, both are mistreated by the rich as cheap labour. The eventual uprising wasn't just robots alone, but the poor and robots together, against their common enemy.

You've been summoned as a hero of legend to save a medieval fantasy world from evil. Same old, same old. However, it very quickly dawns on you that a medieval world's idea of "evil" is quite incompatible with what you, a modern person, would consider evil.

When you tell the fae your name, they take it and have power over you. One benevolent fairy decides to only take deadnames, freeing trans folk of their old identities.

As a noble your clothing was ruined by an orphan worker. As punishment you gave her the worst fate imaginable: chores around your mansion, plainest clothing, 3 meals a day, and schooling, which you abhorred.

On an interstellar cruise of 200 years the 1st class passengers have cryosleep. 2nd class have to serve the 1st but also have cryosleep. You are a born 3rd class passenger, your grandparents boarded decades ago. You find a secret deck with lots of mysterious cryo passengers never seen before…

After attempting to burn a witch who just flew off cackling, a town has to come to terms with the fact that it has clearly been accusing and burning innocent people up till now.

Nearly all your life you lived on the streets. People ignored you at best and reviled you at worst. Then you got superpowers and those same people begin to lecture you about “altruism,” “duty,” and “responsibility.”

Often when a robot uprising is Portrayed, it has the robots go against the entire human race. What usually isn’t portrayed is the robots rising with the poor and downtrodden against the ones who more than likely screwed them both.

When your power had finally manifested, they were quick to dismiss it as some cruel joke, laugh it off, forget you ever existed... and then to never bother keeping tabs on you. After all, if you can't "mind control" anyone without their explicit consent, you might as well be powerless.

Before the Apocalypse, a bunch of billionaires got into their spaceship and made for the nearest habitable planet. 500 years later they wake up from cryosleep and begin their colony. What they don't know is that the Apocalypse was averted and the descendants of those left behind are watching.

You knew from the beginning that opening up and taking care of an orphanage full of Fae children would be exausting, that there would be sacrifices; that you would shed sweat, blood and tears. But seeing the first Fae child be adopted, by a fellow human no less, was all that made it worth it

Humanity has developed a serum that gives a superpower at random. It becomes the norm to sell them for insane prices to the elites of society. You have just won one in the lottery but the power you awaken to is more… unique than you were expecting.

The elite 1% of an intelligent alien race sent their workers to terraform the earth into a vacation planet, wiping out humans and any other native life in the process. Unexpectedly, the wrokers rebel and refuse to do their job, having been bribed with this human thing called "affection"

Being a magical girl is an extremely dangerous and short lived calling. Due to your horrific injuries on the job, you're retired. You're trying to teach the next generation of magical girls, but feel they don't trust you due to your physical disability.

"Honestly, the only reason I'm firing you is so you can get unemployment benefits, because after this I'm heading straight to the HR office and handing in my two weeks."

You are an angel, angels have only one rule when a human calls your help you must come. One day a human called you to come into the room of a teenage boy to fight the "gay evil" from his closet. So you go, what happens next none of you expected:

You are a superhero who joined a team for pay and benefits. However, the pay is minimum wage since you have no education and they made it so you are blackballed in the civilian world so you can’t work there either. So imagine their surprise when you joined the villain’s team.

"What are you talking about? Of course I take the children. If their parents are willing to trade them away for power, then they're not fit to be parents! By the way, the oldest is ready for the work force. Are you hiring? I guarantee he's trained."

"You humans confuse me. You try so very hard to be as boring as everybody else, and, when some gifted soul is born that has some small degree of uniqueness to it, you beat and break it until it fits into a dull little box that you can understand. Explain this to me, if you please."

The superheroes have had enough of minimum wage, no benefits, no 401k plans, and being forced to pay high taxes. They decide to protest the unfair circumstances and surprisingly, the villains support their cause.

You, a trans person, are talking to a fey you met in the woods. You are attempting to get them to pull the fey "can I have you name" prank on you in order to get rid of your deadname, without making the fey suspicious.