Origin Stories Writing Prompts

A friend you haven’t talked with in years has recently undergone a strange, inexplicable transformation, and gained a new set of abilities. For whatever reason, you’re the first person they think to tell.

She huffed and heaved, sweating heavily. "I am... the most powerful... magical girl on this cotinent, and..." "You have no idea how to throw a punch. Now, back at it. Ten more minutes."

You had just found out that your mom is a former magical girl, and your dad is a powerful monster she had faced in the past in the most embarrassing way possible.

You've Been One Of The Most Powerful Superheroes Since You Were A Teenager. Recently You've Lost Your Powers So Now You're Training With One Of The Best Non-Powered Superheroes, Because You Refuse To Stop Helping People.

You failed to stop the world from being taken over and died in the process. Now, 40 years later, you've been brought back to life and given a second chance.

A magical girl/boy's transformation matches their unconscious desires. If they want to look cool, they'll look cool. If they want to look sexy, they'll look sexy. If they have a fetish...

Manifesting superpowers can be confusing and chaotic. Sometimes they involve involuntary deaths. You find yourself in a courtroom the day after you manifested your powers.

In a world with super powers your family is tasked with disabling the powers of criminals, well you were born with a rare variation of your family's power.

"Every hero has a backstory. Every villain has one too. But nothing significant ever happened in my life. And yet, here I am shattered, just like the rest of them."

An accident in the lab has given a horny college student telekinesis. The student body soon finds itself beset by sexy shenanigans and earth shattering orgasms.

You sign up for an experimental gene therapy to cure a chronic, terminal illness. Upon waking up, the doctor says "The treatment was a success, and we've taken the liberty to add a few things".

Despite being a guy, you were happy to transform into the magical heroine to help protect your city. At least, you were until you discovered what it took to change back...

While we appreciate your passion for the protection of Earth, the Terran Defense Force doesn't recruit 60 year olds. But if you want to help, there is a program looking for volunteers... it's experimental.

On your eighteenth birthday you learn that despite you having been born on Earth your parents are aliens sent here to pave the way for an invasion.

Today, you are working with the new trainee magical girls, the ones who can't quite control their powers. They're still apologizing for the last time.

You saved the world together and now you’ve met again, all these years later.

As it turns out you were blessed by the goddess of fertility with the “Hero’s seed”. Meaning every single one of your offspring was destined for greatness. You however…are having to fend off women by the dozens who all want to bear the next hero.

Within a few years of the end of the war many of the super soldiers created during it ended up living in communes apart from normal humans. You were born in one of those communes, as part of the first generation of Enhanced to be born, not made.

Her superpowers came from a symbiont that also sought to ensure her mating success and reproduction...

After a hundred or so tries, you've finally saved the world. Unfortunately, you still have to go back and save the hundred or so timelines where you died.