As they searched through the post history, they discovered that what they thought were fictional writing prompts were, in fact, actual headlines taken from 5 years in the future.

Everyone must make a pledge to God at 16 declaring what they live their lives for. Any contradiction to their pledge results in immediate death. Most pick simple pledges, like happiness or an occupation. On your 16th birthday, you made a pledge to usurp God. A voice echoed in you. “Interesting”

You have the power to erase anyone from existence and restore time as if they had never been born. The government is trying to hunt you down before you can cause any serious damage. You can’t help but find this foolish — you’ve used your power hundreds of times already.

Tired of the supervillain life, you engage in a final battle with your arch-nemesis and manage to fake your death. After living in solitude for several years, your nemesis reappears on your doorstep with one question: “Why?”

After a demon king successfully takes over the world, he soon becomes bored and erases his memories and changes his appearance. 16 years later a young warrior sets off to take back the kingdom, unaware that he’s the one who took it in the first place.

Priests came to your home and performed an exorcism on your mother. After it was over you learned the terrible truth. The demon is the one who raised and loved you. And the possessed woman cared nothing for you. You now search for your true Mother.

You are seen as a weakling. To prove yourself to your tribe, you enter the dragon’s lair that even the hardiest warriors avoid. Amused by your challenge, the dragon takes a human form and duels you with a sword. After disarming you three times it says “come tomorrow and try again.”

As you are preparing for your wedding, a frantic sage barges into your room. “This is not what I meant about taking the heart of the demon queen! You were supposed to physically extract it from her body and send her back to the nether realm!”

You were mocked as “One Mana Man” because of your single mana point compared to their hundreds, even though your vastly more efficient spells are comparable to theirs. They forget that a single mana point regenerates much quicker than hundreds, and that fractional mana points are still useful.

You are a son of Jewish carpenter, living peacefully in Nazareth, but you always wanted to be a writer. Just for fun you wrote a fanfiction to The Holy Book of your faith. Unfortunately, it seems that these twelve guys from your literature club are waaaaay too much into it.