Reddit Writing Prompts

There is a forbidden type of magic out there. It isn’t forbidden because it’s inherently evil, or forces you to lose your humanity, or requires human sacrifices - it’s just forbidden because it’s annoying as heck to fight against.

"We shall defeat you villain! With the power of friendship!" "I have friends too you dick"

You sell cursed weapons and market them as enchanted. Most people who visit more than once do so in an attempt to return their weapon, but today a rather chipper adventurer has come back to ask for an offhand weapon to go with the cursed blade they purchased yesterday.

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.

Your superpower can completely nullify the powers of any other superheroes in your vicinity. You expected the government or supervillains to be after you, but you never would have thought that some heroes would voluntarily seek you out.

You are an eldritch god living in a mortal body. However, you and a friend got mugged, and now they want to know why your blood is black and how you could just walk off being stabbed in the throat.

In an age where gaming is widespread, militaries all over the world swiftly (and successfully) adapt by drafting gamers and assigning them into units and roles based on mandatory tracking of their most played genre and overall gametime. You just got your draft letter.

After battling your way to the final boss, you see… the merchant that bought your extra items? Anything you sold them can and will be used against you…

As we gazed across the fields, he remarked: "I remember when this was all skyscrapers..."

You've always had the gift; touching the dead you live their last moments through their eyes. As a paleontologist, it helped you recreate scenes from by-gone eras in astonishing detail. However, this time, you wish you hadn't touched the fossil.

They say you should never give the fae your real name. You were introduced to a large group of creatures from the fae realm, and immediately told them all your real name. You couldn't be happier with your decision.

Ten years ago everyone else on Earth disappeared. Now they are all back. Everyone says the same thing. Ten years ago, everyone else but them disappeared.

"so you are telling me, that you, a super genius super villain, is just here to rob the bank, no deep plot or philosophical metaphor about society, you just want the money?"the hero asks, "thank god"

A Necromancer resurrects you (a Skeleton) but dies before giving you a command. Unbound by their control, you decide to leave their lair.

You wake up with several messages on your phone, all of them from your friends and family telling you some variation of "TURN ON YOUR TV NOW". On your way to your living room to turn on the TV, you see something out of the window: dozens of camera crews standing outside your home.

"What do you mean the humans REJECTED our declaration of war?! That's not how that works!"

"So, there's living, dead, and undead. Doesn't that imply that there are 'unliving' things as well?" Your master looks at you, with horror in their eyes.

As you tuck your daughter into bed, she tells you that there's a monster in her closet. Thinking she's just being a kid, you open the closet to show her there's nothing there, but you instead find your daughter who tells you that there's someone in her bed.

Ever since joining the galactic society, humanity has been in a golden age of peace, restoration, and learning. We just learned that we are, in truth, the newest slave world of an evil empire, most people just had it so bad that it's still a step up.

After finally achieving space travel, humans quickly discovered evidence of alien life in the forms of ruins. MANY ruins. Entire planets devastated, massive fields of debris floating in space and no sign of living beings anywhere. Until we picked up a distress call from an unknown source.

You have a single superpower, and you're not even aware of it. You're a Jinx. Specifically, you're a consequences based Jinx. If something someone will do is going to negatively affect you, bad luck afflicts them in such a way that they can't perform that action. The supers community all know.

You were supposed to get hydrokinesis. However, due to a typo, you got hydrakinesis instead.

The summoning was a success, a demon emergies from the ritual circle. The cursed creature addresses the child who summoned it "What would such a young kid desire?". The kid replies "There are strangers here and I'm home alone. Please help me, I'm scared".

You are badly injured and the only way to keep you alive is to inject experimental new nanobots into your body. While healing, you begin to sense an intelligence emerging from the nanobots, and then, one day, the intelligence speaks to you "Hello, what am I?"

Your exploration vessel has worked well with its new human crew members, since humans are eager to see all sorts of different worlds. However when your ship comes across it’s first Oceanic planet, the humans absolutely refuse to leave the ship

A mob boss is making veiled threats, but the person on the receiving end of the threats can't read between the lines leading to increasing exasperation on the end of the mob boss

You used to be the scourge of kingdoms, the reaper of heroes and the mere mention of your name scared even the toughest of them. But today no one remembers you and you are fine with that. You have lived in peace ever since until one day a stranger approaches you and calls you by your true name.

As a child, people believed your ability to talk to animals would make you a fine veterinarian. Funny how you got into the extermination business instead.

You angered a witch, and in retaliation, she transformed you into an unmovable tree in a public park. Months later, she returns with the sinister hope of reveling in your suffering, only to find that you are not only surviving but thriving and happier than ever before.

Humans are often abducted as exotic pets for aliens. One day, your owner enters with a book and starts trying to speak your language.