Reddit Writing Prompts

You are the only human employee at a company staffed by a multitude of alien species. Your colleagues seem to be having a difficult time properly understanding who, or what, your guide dog is.

"What are you talking about? Of course I take the children. If their parents are willing to trade them away for power, then they're not fit to be parents! By the way, the oldest is ready for the work force. Are you hiring? I guarantee he's trained."

While fighting, the villain notices somethings off with the hero. When they ask, the hero breaks down and tells the villain everything leaving them enraged.

A Star Eater must eat magic or else they'll die, so the best course of action was to taunt witches all around the land into hexing him with curses. Spiteful magic tastes great after all.

"Your blood pressure is so high!" "I've been feeling very stressed lately." "What have you been so stressed about?" "My blood pressure."

You’re a non-Human hiding among Humans. One of them has been covering your tracks, but gives plausible alibis and acts as though they are unaware of your true nature. You confront them.

"Why are we bringing weapons? Isn't it a diplomatic meeting?", asked one crewmember. The sole alien member of the crew explained, "In my culture, it would be highly offensive to be unarmed. We think you guys are crazy not being armed all the time. Haven't you seen what's out there in space?"

You’re one of the worst supervillains of the century, and everyone fears you. Everyone except a certain Make-A-Wish child who has just requested to meet you.

Every year, Earth has to send 10 tributes to participate in the intergalactic battle royale. Everytime, the tributes are massacred and solely entertainment for other races. Except for this year.

You, a warrior mage, lost your sight in battle. You’re able to use magic to see, but doing so drains your powers. You’re always having to choose whether to save your powers to see, or to cast spells. One day, caught in an attack, your combat skills alone aren’t enough. You close your eyes.

In a world of super heroes and villains, you are a historian. You are convinced that something is altering time, changing history so that super powered events only happened “a few years ago” when they should be far older.

You soon learn why the aliens have asked for you specifically. They aren't aliens, they're your dumb friends and their prank has gotten REALLY out of hand.

You don't know what happened, but one day people started being oddly impressed by your hunting skills, you would take down a regular animal, and they would act like you did something special, nobody else wants to enter the forest, but there are nothing there to fear. They refuse to eat the meat

The public's hate for super heroes has grown. The reason: They don't kill villains, which gives them a chance to escape. You are the leader of the biggest anti-super hero groups. You are going from a rally you get stopped by some of the greatest heroes. They say they're here to kill you.

You fell out of a plane. You survived, but you landed in the middle of a cult's summoning circle. Now you've got this super-crazy group of followers with ties in practically everything who keep calling you their god.

The empress sentences you to be thrown to "The Beast", a giant doglike monster. She recently got a new Beast when her old one died. The Beast turns the corner and turns out to be a puppy. You're not food. You're a babysitter.

Aliens first observed our planet long before the Industrial Revolution, a perfectly habitable world ripe for conquest. However, it takes hundreds of years for the invasion fleet to arrive and they are in for one hell of a suprise.

Your name, your face are everywhere! From massive global celebrations, to tons of fan mail, everyone is treating you like the biggest hero-celebrity in the history of the world. There's just one tiny issue- you haven't the foggiest idea why.

You find a course on YouTube titled : "How to master reality bending in 100 simple steps". The first video has a million views, and they gradually go down until the hundredth one, with zero views.

The Galactic Federation makes first contact with Earth just to inform us that the planet has been divided up between several advanced civilizations, with no regard for our established national borders

You are a student at a magic school where every year students have to publicly demonstrate the progress they made in the last year. After your demonstration you return to your classroom, only to find multiple teachers and the principal waiting for you.

As President of the Universe you often have wannabe Overlords and Dictators break into your house and demand your title. Your policy is to just give it to them. None have lasted longer than a week before returning it.

There's a 10PM curfew in your city. Past that time is when members of the magical community come out: Wizards, monsters, fae, etc. It's not a strictly enforced curfew, more like an advised time for regular humans to not be out.

The genie says, "There are 3 restrictions. No wishing for more wishes, resurrections, or love." You make your wish. The genie says, "There are now four restrictions."

For 10+ years a child goes to a forest to play/talk with the fairies there despite local legends of their sadism/cruelty, and afflicting fates worse than death. So when the now 16 y/o child is abducted, the traffickers find out not all local legends are BS when the fairies come for their "pet".

You are a fay, but were raised human and have no idea of your true nature. You simply believed people were naturally honest about their deals with you - until a ridiculous 'joke' deal opens your eyes to the fact something's wrong.

As soon as the titan materialized, it pointed down to single person and declared in its booming, dreadful voice, "THIS ONE IS CORRECT." Then, without elaboration, vanished without a trace.

"But fire isn't- its for burning and killing!" The professor spluttered, struggling to comprehend the magic spell you showed him. A golden flame that heals and protects with it's warmth. "Why not? Normal fire is used it to keep our homes warm and to cook food, even to boil potions and medicine"

You have developed a reputation for being an expert matchmaker. Whenever you're around, people who meet each other end up falling in love. But what no one else sees is that Cupid has been trying to shoot you with an arrow for a long time now, and all you've been doing is dodging them.

"I cannot give you riches, fame, bring back the dead, nor give you a blessing. But should you give shelter for the night to a poor, old woman such as me, I can promise that I will serve you in a great time of need."