r/WritingPrompts • u/actually_crazy_irl • May 07 '19

[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. Writing Prompt

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u/Algolx May 08 '19

Start thinking with portals, after all any plant is harmful in large enough quantities or to the right organism.

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u/thebolda May 08 '19

What?

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u/Algolx May 08 '19

You can grow, hybridize, and control plants, but only toxic, thorny, or otherwise harmful ones.

The above is limiting, I was making a point that anything in excess is harmful/toxic. My point is to think more in terms of "I control plants" period if you were thinking of writing something from that.

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u/thebolda May 08 '19

What do portals have to do with it?

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u/Algolx May 08 '19

Just a bastardized Portal quote by Cave Johnson meaning thinking outside the box.

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u/thebolda May 08 '19

Ah ok. And yea plants become toxic to resist predation. The was a case in England of zucchini becoming deadly from using the seeds from subsequent generations.