Generating a list of 100 specific, unique, and powerful command prompts for creating tragic narratives with Gemini requires structuring them to target different aspects of a tragic story: the emotional core, the character's flaw, the impossible choice, the inevitable loss, and the setting's grim atmosphere.
Here are 100 command prompts for creating tragic narratives, categorized for better use.
I. Prompts Focused on the Tragic Character Flaw (Hubris/Fatal Error)
These prompts focus on a character whose own actions, beliefs, or failings lead to their downfall.
Write a scene where a character's relentless ambition destroys their only honest relationship.
Detail the final, fatal mistake made by a brilliant but arrogant scientist who ignored a single warning.
Describe a king/leader whose pride prevents them from accepting the single piece of advice that could have saved their people.
Write a story where a character's deep-seated distrust ruins a chance for true happiness just as it appears.
Show a character's downfall that begins with a small lie told years ago, the consequences of which finally arrive.
Narrate the moment a protective parent's obsessive need to control their child's life drives the child to a desperate, tragic end.
Write a story of a hero whose addiction to danger and violence isolates them until they face their final battle completely alone.
Draft a monologue from a character who realizes their lifelong quest for revenge has cost them everything they valued.
Create a protagonist whose biggest flaw is their inability to say "no," leading to an overwhelming, destructive commitment.
Write a narrative about a poet who chases perfect beauty and, in doing so, sacrifices a simple, loving life.
II. Prompts Focused on Inevitable Loss and Grief
These prompts center on a story where loss is certain, focusing on the character's reaction and the atmosphere of grief.
Write a story about the last conversation between two lifelong partners, one of whom is about to undergo a memory-wipe procedure.
Detail the final day of a small, isolated village before an unstoppable natural disaster wipes it from the map.
Create a narrative set in a post-war world, following a character who receives their deceased loved one's final, heartbreaking letter.
Write a story about a guardian angel who must watch their charge die, knowing they are forbidden to intervene.
Describe a character who attends their own funeral (secretly, while presumed dead) and witnesses the devastation they caused.
Write a tragic historical vignette about a forgotten soldier who dies defending a location that history will deem insignificant.
Detail the slow, agonizing realization that a lost loved one is never coming home, told through a series of mundane, empty rooms.
Write a story centered on the first time a widow/widower removes their wedding ring after decades of marriage.
Narrate the grief of an astronaut who watches Earth fade to silence after a galactic disaster.
Write a scene where a character realizes they have forgotten the sound of their lost child's laughter.
III. Prompts Focused on the Impossible Choice (Tragic Dilemma)
These prompts require the character to make a choice between two equally devastating outcomes, where no victory is possible.
The main character must choose which of two loved ones will receive the only life-saving antidote, knowing the other will certainly perish.
Write a story where a revolutionary must sacrifice the life of their own child to save the future of an entire nation.
A firefighter must choose to save either an irreplaceable work of art or a hostile, but living, stranger from a burning building.
A star-crossed lover is given the choice: be with their beloved for one day before both die, or live a long, lonely life knowing they saved the other.
The protagonist is forced to betray their oldest friend to prevent a global catastrophe that only they know is coming.
Write a story about a powerful wizard who must permanently sever their connection to magic to save a non-magical, dying world.
A character must choose between giving up their lifelong dream or watching their family fall into ruin and poverty.
The protagonist finds a time-travel device and must decide whether to stop a personal tragedy that resulted in their current success, or leave the past alone.
Write a scene where a judge must pass a guilty verdict on an innocent person to maintain societal peace and order.
A doctor in a siege must choose whether to use the last of the pain medication on a dying soldier or a screaming child.
IV. Prompts Focused on Betrayal and Broken Pacts
These prompts revolve around a crushing act of betrayal, either by a loved one or by a societal system.
Write a story about two spies who, after years of a loving, secret marriage, receive simultaneous orders to kill one another.
Detail the moment a knight/guard realizes the royal family they pledged their life to protect is secretly responsible for all the kingdom's suffering.
Write a narrative about a dying character who, in their final breath, reveals a long-held, devastating secret about a loved one.
A character receives an anonymous journal that details their seemingly perfect partner's years of manipulative lies.
Write a story set in a dystopian future where the AI built to guide humanity decides the best path forward is humanity's complete extinction.
Narrate the final fight between two siblings over an inheritance, where the true tragedy is the irrevocable loss of their bond.
Write a story about a religious person whose faith is shattered by a devastating event that makes their previous life meaningless.
Detail the aftermath of a political activist's life being destroyed by a government they once served.
Write a tale of a mentor who, out of crippling jealousy, sabotages their prodigious student's masterpiece.
The protagonist discovers the person they hate most in the world is the only one capable of saving their life.
V. Prompts Focused on Environmental and Societal Tragedy
These prompts use a vast, cold, or crushing setting to amplify the personal tragedy.
Write a scene in a near-future city perpetually shrouded in smog, where a child sees a natural star for the first and last time.
Detail the last radio message sent from a colony on a dying planet, knowing no rescue is coming.
Write a story about the sole survivor of a deep-sea exploration who has to live with the knowledge of what was found beneath the surface.
Narrate a character's struggle to maintain hope in a sterile, joyless utopia where all genuine emotion is chemically suppressed.
Write a story about a small group of people trapped in a bunker, realizing that the 'outside world' they are hiding from is simply the rest of humanity who chose not to hide.
Detail the life of a character born into a world where resources are so scarce that every human must work until they collapse.
Write a tragic love story set in a world where physical contact spreads a lethal plague.
A character is the last person on Earth who remembers the color blue, and their attempt to describe it to a blind society.
Write a story from the perspective of an antique robot watching the slow decay of the grand city it was built to maintain.
Detail a society that has successfully eliminated death, only to discover that they have also eliminated meaning.
VI. Mixed & Experimental Tragic Prompts
These prompts combine elements of setting, style, and unique premises.
Write a short story in the style of Edgar Allan Poe about a character who is haunted by the ghost of a future they will never have.
The dialogue of a couple who have fallen out of love, told only through the notes they leave for each other.
Write a story where the protagonist wins the highest honor or greatest prize in the world, only to realize the one person who would have cared has just died.
Detail the final moments of a legendary villain, focusing on the small, human regret they hold onto.
Write a story where the narrator is a clock that tracks the slow destruction of a loving family over a century.
Create a tragic fairy tale about a beautiful curse that grants eternal life but steals one memory each dawn.
Write a scene of a character standing on a bridge, arguing with the echo of their younger, optimistic self.
Detail a character's memory loss, where they keep reliving the same perfect day that ends with the death of their child.
Write a story where an act of genuine kindness leads to an unforeseen, terrible consequence for the giver.
The protagonist discovers a hidden diary from their deceased parent that rewrites everything they thought they knew about their own past.
VII. One-Sentence Command Prompts for Immediate Immersion (x40)
These are concise commands for quick, emotionally charged writing sprints.
Start a story with: "The silence after the scream was the longest sound I had ever heard."
Write a scene set on a bench where two people meet to admit they both failed a mutual friend.
Describe a character carefully setting a final, empty place at a dinner table.
Narrate a funeral where no one cries, only stares at the ground with a shared, crushing guilt.
Write a story about a child's toy that is discovered years later, caked in mud and holding a forgotten secret.
Detail a character destroying a precious memory because keeping it hurts more than letting it go.
Write a conversation where one character is forced to tell the other that their entire life has been a lie.
Describe the feeling of rain washing away a hopeful message written in chalk.
Write a character's desperate attempt to apologize to someone who can no longer hear them.
Detail the quiet destruction of a dream, not with a bang, but with a form being signed.
Write a final goodbye at a departure gate with no promised return.
Narrate the realization that a happy memory was actually the beginning of the end.
Describe a feast where everyone is smiling, but the true tragedy is hidden in the empty chair.
Write a story where a character uses their one magical wish to undo a single, vital truth.
Detail the moment a protective secret becomes a toxic burden.
Write a hero's retirement party where they can't look anyone in the eye.
Narrate a character burning a box of photographs one by one.
Describe the feeling of being trapped in a beautiful cage.
Write a story about a letter that arrives decades too late.
Detail the tragedy of a love that was always perfectly timed for failure.
Write a scene where a ghost begs to be forgotten.
Narrate the moment a character admits their biggest fear has come true.
Describe a child waiting for a promise that will never be kept.
Write a story where the protagonist survives the disaster, but wishes they hadn't.
Detail a character burying a symbol of hope.
Write a final confession to a priest who has lost his faith.
Narrate a character returning to a destroyed childhood home.
Describe the sound of glass breaking, signifying an irreparable rift.
Write a story about a character running out of time for a crucial task.
Detail the emptiness of a victory won at an unforgivable cost.
Write a scene where a perfect plan collapses due to pure, random chance.
Narrate a character throwing away a lottery ticket that later turns out to be a winner.
Describe the tragedy of being loved only for what you can give.
Write a story of a farewell spoken in a whisper during a crowded celebration.
Detail a character's attempt to erase their own existence from a digital record.
Write a story where a miracle cures the patient but kills the doctor.
Narrate the moment a character understands they are the villain of someone else's story.
Describe a wedding where the groom/bride knows a tragedy awaits the other.
Write a story of a friendship that dies from a slow, mutual silence.
Detail the final, heartbreaking attempt to hold onto a person who is already mentally gone.
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