Reddit Writing Prompts

One day the most popular (and meanest) girl in the school has a complete attitude change and becomes extremely wholesome and friendly. Then you learn she is possessed by a demon. “Is”. Not “was”.

"dude... give her space. For you it's been 30 years. You've had time to grieve and accept you lost your sister. For her though.... she just learned she's be gone for three decades and hasn't aged a day. You've got your teenage sister back but to her.... to her your a 45 year old stranger"

"Before I ask why you were doing 675 million in a 40, I'd first like to ask how in the world that's even possible."

“You know what, no. Fuck you.” You tell your murderer as they stab you through the chest. “I refuse to die.”

Like how Prometheus gave fire to man, you too have followed in his footsteps and gave fire to the corvids.

You are The Evil King, and you are looking down at the body of your most fearsome and deadly fighter; all you can see is the orphaned baby girl you found all those years ago in the remains of a destroyed village.

You turn from the limp, still-warm body that used to be yours. The black-hooded figure beside you breaks into tears. "I'm not sure how much longer I can keep doing this.", they say.

The mountain will grant any wish if it has the mana to do so. If not, the wisher becomes mana for the next wish. Wishing small is usually safe, especially after a failed wish. Wishing large is always a gamble. A community has formed around the mountain, giving advice and selling memorabilia.

Doctor Evil is a campy Saturday morning supervillain and usually defeated by pre-teen heroes. Lesson included. He also once took down an entire alien armada by himself because they were ruining his fight with one of his pre-teen foes

You are the child of a sea god, and a gang of pirates has just kidnapped you in order to bargain with your father and secure a safe voyage. Little do they know that your father has perished and passed his powers on to you - and the pirates have just angered the only one in charge of their fate.

In a terrible accident, you kill someone in public. You frantically ask those around you for help but no one seems to even notice the body. You only then realize you have a horrible power. The people you kill are forgotten.

You accidentally saved a princess from a tower. Now she won't stop following you, blabbing about "true love."

You're a supervillain, but you work on your secret identity as a childcare worker. Today, you plan to confront the absent father of a child you've grown quite attached to

“Why should I?” Says the disgraced inheritor of the kingdom. “Why should I go back in royalty? When I can go to an adventure and to meet and save people!” “Why should I inherit the mistakes of my father?” “After all, you people shunned me.” “And no, I’m not coming back and thats final!”

You're standing at the altar, about to get married to your beautiful fiancée. When suddenly the king of demons bursts through the door of the room, which naturally causes panic. You tried to warn everyone that inviting your sibling to the wedding would mean trouble, but they kept insisting.

You are a superhero and you are sick of it. So you decide to fake your death in the next fight with your nemesis. Unfortunately they have the same plan.

"Daddy, what if monsters come out of the closet?" "Don't worry sweetie, your Teddy Bear fights them all off when you sleep" "Daddy you're so silly". When she finally goes to sleep, he turns to the bear and salutes it, "Keep up the good fight soldier". The bear salutes back, "Yes Sir!"

You never had kids. So you're not entirely sure how you wound up with 20+ kids who all consider you their grandparent.

You are human, you have always been human, and you will always be a human. As long as you can keep convincing yourself you are. Something that is ģ̸̰̱̎̇̾͘̕͝͝e̶̛̠̪̗̻̜̱̤̲͖̗͔͊ṫ̸̢̛̗̦̲̯̥͍̲͍̈͜ţ̵͚̠̩͈̏̈́̏̍̑ḯ̸̛̬̰̫̮͇̰̥̦̜̠̞̤̫̜̅͑̀̐͒̃̿̾͑͊͗̕ṋ̶̹̞͔̩̥̖̦̙̻̼̠͇̭̈̑g̶̛̪̳͆̋̔́̉̀͠͝ͅͅ ̷͎̄͋͑̇̀̾͊͊̉̕̚͝ḧ̸͖̤͕̩̰̮̞̞͖̺́́͐a̷

“I’ve seen what your secret identity has done. The charities, the scholarships, the women shelters. In fact you may have may done more good in this world than I ever could, even as their hero. So why do you still dress up as the villain?”

You are a 512 year immortal in a bar, angry because you can’t order a beer. It’s not your fault you took the immortality potion at 12 and have looked the same ever since!

You were shamed for having a weak power called Fabric Manipulation. However it didn't exactly specify which fabrics you can manipulate.

You suddenly gain the uncontrollable ability to "jump" randomly through time. It was difficult to adjust to the changing time periods until you encounter an elderly version of yourself, who hands you a worn out journal, detailing every date and destination of your jumps in the future.

There is a 50/50 chance that leaving the Arch Mage and Head Scientist alone in a room together will result in either a marriage proposal or a doomsday device. More likely both.

Your job is to guard a button that no one may push. Things get complex when both legendary heroes and villains arrive to attempt to push the mysterious button. Everyone seems to have a different idea about what the button does, but they all want to push it.

As the newly summoned entity turned towards you it grinned malevolently and reminded you that you should never summon anything you can’t put down yourself. You demonstrate that you can, in fact, put the entity down yourself.

The young heir to the throne gets kidnapped. They're gagged, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a basement. They're not even nervous, on the contrary they're curious and intrigued by the situation.

Humans are the only species that isn't a hive mind, telepathic, or otherwise linked. Humans are the only species that can lie.

You and your friend have been “Hero” and “Villain” solely to entertain your town for a long time. Until, that is, an actual hero decides to take your “villain” friend down.

Brain chips have arrived, making the whole world an augmented reality! It is really *THOUGHT REDACTED*. That's weird, I forgot what I was about to say.