Reddit Writing Prompts

Humans have always been endurance hunters. We can endure untold physical, psychological, and emotional trauma. Being so unexceptional, we are mocked by the intergalactic community until war shows how terrifying it is to simply... endure.

"But, we summoned you. You *HAVE* to fight for us!" "I don't have to do shit until you present me with a satisfactory contract of employment!"

"Having seen how well humans treat their defeated enemies we wish to formally declare our surrender." "But we're not at war.", "Of course not we were hoping to skip that bit"

You make a deal with a demon, expecting to give up your soul or pay some other great price. You are surprised when the demon's demands amount to a mild inconvenience at worst. But the demon still thinks it's a terrible price for mortals to pay.

While touring the Greek Islands on a sailboat with your friends, you pull into a grotto. As you leave, a beautiful siren appears, and seductively asks to come aboard you boat. You kindly refuse. In a fury, she demands to know why.

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 a 'Life force' magic practitioner. You gain magical power by magically pulling the LF from other living things. Usually your kind is feared, but you are well liked. You take the the LF from invasive plants and insects. No one realises how powerful you are until another LFMP arrives.

The fourth little pig built his house out of wolf skulls. It wasn't very sturdy, but it sent a message.

All Magic users are gifted a seed, that grows in step with their power. For the average mage it becomes a trusty wand no longer than their forearm. For some it grows into a great staff. These mages can move mountains and part seas. Yours has grown so much that you've decided to live inside it.

Alice Liddell became famous after returning from her trip down the rabbit hole. Now an adult, she aids in the British Empire's colonisation of Wonderland.

While magic exists, it’s impossible for it to affect "normies", nor can they witness it. You can cast a huge explosion, but only those magically gifted will be hurt. Buildings & objects constructed by normies are unaffected too. You’ve been waging a secret war with Jerry from HR for years now.

You are an alien assassin tasked with killing the human ambassador. Only to find out all your poisons like caffeine, chocolate, capsaicin, tabacco mint etc. Don't work

Most magical mascots would usually choose a group of teenage girls to be chosen as magical guardians, however one mascot, for the sake of efficiency, decides to choose a group of marines to become magical girls instead.

A Superhero who doesn't wear a mask is the scariest. If you can see their face or know their identity, it probably means someone has already got to their loved ones and taken them from the hero. What do they have left to lose at that point?

They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven't had your "third" death. You decide to find out why.

"No, no. Trust me; it works. Humans love to take care of pregnant and baby things. I've even seen them adopt things they eat!" "What about things that eat them?" "Oh, humans like those best of all! So just go up and act weak, they'll take care of the rest."

You are a superhero known for wearing a signature ring. While everyone believes it to be the source of your powers in reality it actually dampens them, allowing you to safely use your powers. Today you woke up and could not find your ring.

You're an immortal who got tired of living and decided to take a nice thousand-year nap in a coffin 6ft underground. 500 years later, your sleep is interrupted by some inexperienced grave robbers.

“Alexa, cancel the timer,” you say. “You have two timers: a nine-minute pasta timer with two minutes left, and a 4.5-billion year Earth timer with three months left. Which did you want to cancel?” You don’t remember setting the second one.

Healing Magic has a limit. If the body has been healed too deeply at once it will die. This is why healing magic is only done with minor injuries and stabilizing patients. As a nutritionalist you discover that it’s because healing magic needs calories and nutrients to repair injuries.

"They only ever use a single spell in combat" "Yea but theyre REALLY good at that one spell"

Your sibling can rewind time and you're the only one that remembers. usually they use it sparingly but today has been repeating a suspicious number of times.

You are an old dragon slayer who, in their old age, retired to an isolated farm. Recently a dragon has moved into a nearby cave and has been demanding tribute from you. Time to see whether you still got it.

Since your phone number is one digit off from the Wizard Tech Support hotline, you get the occasional call. You know nothing of magic, but your computer skills and common sense translate real well.

After Earth was declared a galactic safe haven, anti-xenoterrestrial sentiment began to rise. You, a second generation immigrant from another planet, calmly walk down the street when a voice yells at you "Go back to Mars!" You snap back "I was born in Chicago!"

"Chess? I've been around since before humans invented the concept of games, so a game as old as chess would be be in my favour without a doubt. I would advice you to choose again, and pick something you're familiar with." Death said as they presented every board and video game ever created.

You go to hell, but Satan tells you he’ll send you to heaven if you can beat him in one game of your choice

An alien race destroyed half of one continent, in in response the Humans destroyed half of the alien homeworld. When called to the Galactic Council for trial the humans response was "It's a proportional response!"

You're an orc woman. Your human fiancee,somehow, survived the pre-marriage trial of beating three of your brothers in bare handed combat to prove himself as husband and is now being treated by the healers. Now, according to tradition, you're going to his clan to prove yourself as wife to him.

Super powers have started to appear in the general population. However, unlike comics, there are no secondary powers to make one immune to the actual physics of one’s power. This has led to some interesting case studies.