Writing Prompt #413: I'm Not Who I Was

A person enters an environment where they are known for behavior and characteristics that no longer define them.

A high-school reunion? A family reunion? The dusty cowboy coming back to the small town he saved from werewolves ten years ago in a blood-bath that will be retold for centuries till he's only a legend?

How do you fit in when people know you as someone you're not?

Writing Prompt #412: Public Displays

Someone expresses their affection in public.

Is this a place and a culture where that's accepted? Is the other person chill with this? Has this ever happened between them before? What are the results?

Writing Prompt #411: Plans for the Future

People make plans for the future. Not the two-weeks-from-now future; the far-off, if-we-live-that-long future.

Writing Prompt #410: Short Date

Two people have only a short time to see each other. Friends, betrothed, business partners, whoever they are- how do they make the most of it?

And how do they face the impending separation?

Writing Prompt #409: Catching Up from Wonderland

Here's a situation I was in recently:

Communication with someone (or a group of someones) has been cut off for a span of time, and in that span, LOTS has happened. Lots that is big and life-changing and self-changing and world-shaping has happened. And now your character has to catch up these people that are important to her.

"Hi, mom. Remember that friend? I'm engaged."

"Hi, Grandpa. I'm a supervillain now."

How do you say this? You're going to rock their worlds too.

You're not the same person you were the last time you talked. These relationships are going to change. How do you face that, and reassure them?

If you figure this out, let me know. I have a lot of explaining to do.

Writing Prompt #408: Extenuating Circumstances

Someone is unable to keep a promise due to circumstances that were unexpected. What are the consequences?

(Sorry for the unintentional hiatus, guys- laptop and back-up system both went AWOL.)

(...I will not be reliable until it's fixed. I'm typing on borrowed time right now. Sorry about that.)

Writing Prompt #407: Facing Armageddon

Two people openly discuss something difficult that is going to happen.

How do they comfort each other? How can they be cheery in the face of probable pain? How do each of them cope differently?

Additional challenge: find a strange venue for the conversation.