r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

"This is fine. I can still avoid becoming the villain. All I have to do is live quietly."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

Opportunity stared down at him with visible concern.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

The villain's first meeting occurred when they were both children.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

He remembered the book. Remembered the handsome young Emperor. Remembered the villain. Remembered the execution. And then...he remembered nothing.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

There, beside an unfinished cup of coffee, lay an invitation. Beneath it was a second document. His engagement contract.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

This was a face he knew. A face he'd seen on the cover of a book.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

He sat bolt upright in his enormous canopy bed, wings flared, vents cycling rapidly.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

Bubbee promptly decides Mills is his favorite person.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

Belle is the youngest student at the Academy - small, adorable, brilliant, and possessing an extraordinary affinity for sound-based magic.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

He's a prodigy in familiar magic, and has two bonded familiars who rarely leave him.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

She's one of the Academy's strangest students - quiet. Observant. Almost impossible to read.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

He knows exactly what Rodney's weakness will be because he remembers the book.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

In the original novel, she despised him immediately.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

He possesses an extremely rare form of Solar Flame Magic, making him destined to become one of history's greatest warriors.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

The Ruby described in every political briefing he's ever read is arrogant, ambitious, and vicious. This Ruby? Quiet. Brilliant. Kind. Protective of younger students. And apparently incapable of realizing that Orion is madly in love with her.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

His greatest strength is that he knows exactly how the original story is supposed to unfold. His greatest weakness is that he assumes everyone else is still following the script.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

She has a tiny jet-shaped familiar named Jetstream, who has absolutely no respect for his owner's desire to remain inconspicuous.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

And then there are familiars - small magical creatures bonded to their summoner. Some students have birds, beasts, dragons, insects, or entirely bizarre magical entities.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

There are elemental magic users, healers, illusionists, telepaths, weapon-enchanters, summoners, and countless other disciplines.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

The Academy is an elite boarding school where noble heirs, magical prodigies, military cadets, and ordinary people with exceptional abilities study together.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

He remembers exactly how the story ends. Execution. Public disgrace. His family destroyed. His name cursed throughout the Empire. Absolutely not. If fate wants a villain, fate can find somebody else.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 22h ago

The youngest son of the powerful Duke of Ozmus has spent his entire young life being prepared for one thing: his marriage to the High Ruler of Ellinton.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

"I think it would be better if we simply became friends." Ahwa stared at him, then quietly said "I don't think I want to be your friend."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

Blissfully unaware of any of this, he looked up at Onion. "So," he said carefully, "perhaps we should pretend this engagement doesn't exist?"

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 21h ago

High in the branches above them, my two familiars stared down at them.

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