Reddit Writing Prompts

For reasons unknown, an immortal beast has been dropping off random trinkets at your ancestral home for generations. They're all kept in storage; nobody dares throw them away. Today instead of a trinket, the beast leaves a note with instructions on it.

You, a supervillain, answer a knock at your door, only to find your superhero nemesis shivering, bleeding, scared, and slightly dazed (as if drugged). They appear to have been assaulted. The hero mumbles “...didn’t know where else to go…” before collapsing into your arms.

You are a lawyer assigned to defend a serial killer, who was arrested because his house was filled with mounted human corpses. He claims he is actually from a lineage of Dragonslayers, and those are the human forms of dragons he'd slain in modern times. You are a dragon in human form.

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

As part of a newly established student exchange program between the realms, a dwarf student arrives at a human STEM college. He's about to attend his first computer science class. "This should be easy," he thinks, "how complicated can human technology possibly be?"

You just learned that the eldritch monstrosity haunting your dream has in fact "just" mistaken you for its young, and is trying to parent you in its own inscrutable ways.

As one of the astronaut on the ISS you and your colleagues watched in horror as the Earth descended into nuclear chaos. You were certain that you were going to die up there, but even though there is no one left on Earth to answer your radio calls you still receive regular supply shipments.

After the war, everyone in the world was granted a wish by forces beyond. Some wished for money, some wished for love. Others used their wish to be given the strength of superman or the speed of the flash. I was the only one that wished to have the power to grant other people’s wishes.

Everyone talks about horrible people being reincarnated into animals, no one talks about amazing animals being reincarnated into people

Years ago you made a wish with a genie that any living Arthropods would be incapable of being within ten feet of you. You've been loving your bug free life but your starting to notice more any more people refusing to get close to you.

The Monster Hunter Association specializes in the eradication and containment of monsters. They’ve been doing this for centuries all the way back to King Arthur. You work as the secretary to this fine organization. Oddly enough, you’re also a vampire.

Both Sherlock Holmes und Dracula are set around the 1890s. So, technically, it would be possible that Sherlock was hired to investigate the deaths caused by Dracula.

The first thing aliens translated were the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Now all the aliens are freaking out.

Your daughter has always been weird, but lately it's gotten worse. She keeps going on about not having a smartphone or bored because there's no internet. It's 1685 AD.

In an exclusive global televised sit-down interview with Superman, he corrects Cooper Anderson's referencing Superman's Christianity; "Actually, Anderson, I'm not Christian, I worship the Sun, the source of my super powers."

"Foul Creature, I cast you from this poor soul!" Screamed the priest, holding the crucifix foreward. "Yes father, I would love to leave! That's why i called you! He. Won't. Let. Me. Out!" This exorcism was most unorthodox indeed.

The abductors looked at their young captive, astonished at their calm, almost pitying, expression. "I have 15 siblings. I am the youngest, and the only boy/girl. You have absolutely no concept of how fucked you are."

You're secretly a werewolf, with so much control over your were-form you're basically just yourself. You've grown so close to your roommate that you decide it's safe to transform in front of them. You expect shock, horror. Instead, they whip out a fursuit.

Feeling adventurous, you decided to try crossbreeding two specific vegetables to see what would happen. Now, sitting in an interrogation room at an undisclosed location staring at very concerned men in black, you are about to learn why it's never been done before.

Centuries into a generation ship's journey, the ship has a constant plethora of tiny issues and malfunctions overlooked by most of the crew's mechanics in favour of the larger issues. In your off-time, you decide to start fixing some of these minor issues and discover some interesting functions.

As the first Mars-born human draws his final breath, the Martian God of Death prepares to argue his case for ownership over his soul.

After your interrogators used a truth serum to get you to talk, you discover you can answer questions you never knew you had the answers to. (No one responded to it originally 5y’s ago)

After a series of mutual misunderstandings during First Contact, a young human military officer has found themself accidentally married to an alien princess.

You are a werewolf and you are an expert at living among humans undetected. You are so good, that a vampire thought you were an ordinary human and bit you.

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.

You married a fairy and experienced drastic physical changes. Enduring intense hunger, constant salivation, and even the strange sensation of your body dissolving inside a cocoon. But you hate the color of your wings. You are sorrowful and disappointed, despite your partner consoling you.

You're supposed to be the god of death, so naturally, it's a bit awkward when the rest of the gods find out you're expecting a child.

“9/10 dentists approve” is worse than you may think. With 200 million dentists in the US, it means 20 million fully qualified individuals want you to stop using the product branded with this phrase-20 million people who know the truth.

You’re a shopkeeper who sells liquid dreams. People come to your shop for many reasons; self revelation, escapism, to see a gone loved one or for a precious good night sleep. Your shop is located between dimensions so no visitor can come twice. However, recently you’ve seemed to gain a regular.

As your spouse lays dying in the hospital, they ask if you'd choose them all over again. You say that you always will. Once they pass away, you rewind time to the day you met each other for the hundredth time.