I've always approached prompts as more than just stimuli for new stories.  I've seen them as practice, play, more like working out the kinks without worrying about perfection.  Prompts can help us build setting, time, place, mood, and characters.  But, prompts can also help us fine-tune and flesh out things as well. 

Sometimes we build a character and they are too perfect, or too evil.  As a result, the reader begins to lose that all important "suspension of disbelief" so inherent in good storytelling.  It can be hard to give your lovable main character flaws that humanize him.  It can even be harder to give your antagonist character traits that are positive, relatable, and make him more rounded. 

Let's practice making a couple of despicable characters a bit more real.  

#169 - Spike is a senior in high school with your main character, who is a sophomore.  Spike's a big bully who has repeatedly tormented your protagonist by stealing his car, outing him to his parents, and even assaulting him after a football game.  Write a short vignette about Spike and how he cares about his disabled sister.  How he reads to his great grandmother in a nursing home for dementia?  Or some other way he cares for someone other than himself.

#170 - Rachel has repeatedly cheated on her new girlfriend, Emily.  She continues to lie to her, gaslight Emily about her infidelities.  Rachel even convinced Emily's friends that she is the cheater, and not Rachel.  Write a short sketch about Rachel losing her brother to cancer and how she still goes and visits his roommate from when he was getting chemotherapy.  Tell us about Rachel's love of birds and how she took one to a veterinary clinic and begged for them to help with a broken wing.  Or think of something else about Rachel that makes us feel good about her.  

Let's try some sympathy for the devil!!!!