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Post by Lady Ten on Dec 20, 2012 17:49:25 GMT -6
Yeah, okay, it's a cliche question, but I got to thinking about it. If you could have any superpower, what would you pick? Go ahead and assume this is an otherwise regular real-world, where suiting up in tights and fighting supervillains is not an option. Your life is just like it is now, except that you've got a spontaneous power of your choice. What would you use it for? What would it help you with? What possible problems might you encounter with its usage?
Everybody likes flying so just skip that one; we already know it's most people's first choice.
Mind-reading, even if that made any kind of logical sense ("The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter...") -- anyway, mind-reading has struck me as a terrible idea for a long time now, since, just going off the sort of junky stupid thoughts that spring up in my own mind, I'd in no way want an unfiltered look in somebody else's psyche. Not even if you had the ability to turn it off. A lie-detector ability, on the other hand, might be handy, though it wouldn't be any use for deception of omission.
Invisibility is another popular choice, from what I've seen, but that doesn't appeal to me as much as intangibility especially since I keep walking into walls.
Seriously, there are a lot of situations that I'd love to get out of by just walking out, regardless of where the door is. It'd be great for self-defense, too, and I'm more about powers you can use to fend off problems than to get revenge on other people. Can't assault someone you can't touch. Problem is, we rely on friction and contact for movement, not to mention how intangibility might affect breathing or the interaction of light and eyeballs. Oh, and you'd probably sink through the surface of the Earth -- supposing gravity even worked on you anymore. So there are a lot of things you'd have to work around with a power like that. Doesn't make me want it any less.
Telekinesis is awesome as well, though I wonder if you would experience some kind of strain with heavy or too many objects the same way you do with lifting weight physically.
The sister brought up the idea of breathing underwater, which sounds cool, if you do a lot of business underwater, which I don't. On that thought, though, I'd love to be able to tunnel everywhere like Bugs Bunny. But that would be to about the same ends as intangibility -- hiding, escaping, and getting where I want to go.
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Post by mistytail on Dec 21, 2012 11:44:43 GMT -6
Flying or shapeshifting would be my choices. Or super-vision. Since, y'know, legally blind and all that.
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Post by cloudbat on Dec 22, 2012 15:02:44 GMT -6
Controlling other people's emotions. Which I'm decently good at in some circumstances anyway, but I think that would be an awesome power. Call me sadistic.
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Post by vbfdoee on Dec 22, 2012 17:13:33 GMT -6
Time travel. It is basically the best superpower. (argh the cruelest aspect of the human mind is being able to travel through time within it but not outside of it)
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Post by Lady Ten on Dec 23, 2012 23:20:46 GMT -6
Flying or shapeshifting would be my choices. Or super-vision. Since, y'know, legally blind and all that. agh, forgot all about shapeshifting! How did that happen? Shapeshifting's awesome and is basically a catch-all for everything else. Load of freebies. Probably the best answer to this question. Supervision as in seeing like a hawk, or does that include X-ray vision and/or laser eyes? Controlling other people's emotions. Which I'm decently good at in some circumstances anyway, but I think that would be an awesome power. Call me sadistic. Well that sounds dangerous. Any plans for how you would avoid forming your own cult, or would you prefer it that way? Time travel. It is basically the best superpower. (argh the cruelest aspect of the human mind is being able to travel through time within it but not outside of it) Time travel is complicated. I always thought it would solve a lot of problems if you could visit the past but not interact with it, like some sort of virtual reality/3D movie. The interference version might be more useful though. How would that one work?
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Post by mistytail on Dec 24, 2012 8:59:43 GMT -6
Flying or shapeshifting would be my choices. Or super-vision. Since, y'know, legally blind and all that. agh, forgot all about shapeshifting! How did that happen? Shapeshifting's awesome and is basically a catch-all for everything else. Load of freebies. Probably the best answer to this question. Supervision as in seeing like a hawk, or does that include X-ray vision and/or laser eyes? Seeing like a hawk. Or Dovewing, who can apparently see and hear from miles away. WTH, Erins? I just want to read the sign at McDonald's for once, lol.
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Post by cloudbat on Dec 26, 2012 0:32:27 GMT -6
Forming my own cult...? I don't see that happening. Anyone who wanted to know how I did it (if they found out) would get a giant trollface and then be left nicely befuddled and apathetic.
Really I just like messing with people for funsies.
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Post by Grey on Dec 26, 2012 6:31:25 GMT -6
My ghosts, this was almost exactly what I was going to put as one of my preferred options. If any of you have ever heard of Wallflower (fairly unpopular super-heroine, from what I can gather), her power is ambient manipulation through pheromones and whatnot, and that really appeals to me. There's something very reassuring being able to diffuse a situation with a suggestion alone.
I have a few other favourites (not including the thought of flying, ehehe) - I've always thought it would be excellent to be able to control innumerable numbers of bees or wasps (depending on which species we are talking about, I suppose). That would definitely be something I would like.
Or the ability to see in the dark, or as Ten said, passing through walls like a ghost. I wouldn't mind being able to hear the heart beats of things at will, just so that nothing could ever sneak up on me either. That would go well with seeing in the dark, I think.
There's so many cool powers in the world, though. It's hard to choose one.
My goodness, Cloud, you're perfect.
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Post by mistytail on Dec 26, 2012 9:31:15 GMT -6
I have a few other favourites (not including the thought of flying, ehehe) - I've always thought it would be excellent to be able to control innumerable numbers of bees or wasps (depending on which species we are talking about, I suppose). That would definitely be something I would like. Woah, slow down there, Satan.
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Post by cloudbat on Dec 26, 2012 22:33:04 GMT -6
Or inciting one and stepping back to watch the carnage.
Oops. I think my sociopath is showing.
Along with speaking/understanding languages, I'd also enjoy absorbing and dispensing knowledge and comprehension at will - so I could learn anything I want, and so I wouldn't have to be surrounded by idiots.
You have a strange ideal of perfection, Greyling. But I admit I appreciate the compliment. There's only one person I know who can match me in head-screwing conversations, and in one of those we reached howardth level paradoxes. You could say it's a favorite pastime of mine right up there with swearing at my DS.
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Post by Grey on Dec 27, 2012 5:40:05 GMT -6
So you noticed, ehehehe. I thought I was being subtle. Actually, I just find bees and wasps fascinating, and very cool. I also think nothing says, "Let's everyone be reasonable about this" better than a swarm of angry bees.
They would be endlessly useful. Security work. Honey. Navigation. Masses of them could probably keep you warm like a suit of living, devoted armour.
Ghosts, that is an excellent idea. I really like that so much. Honestly, that would be even better than the bees thing (although, I do like the bees thing, because it looks cool, ehehehe).
I've always found the concept of extra abilities to be interesting. I don't role play (owing mostly to nerves, I think) but I do like considering the possibilities of characters. One of the ones I made a while ago had the ability to mimic any sound, including voices, if he'd heard a certain amount of said sound, which is great if you're learning a language (although you still have to do all the hard work).
You have no idea, ehehe.
I know only about two people like that. We ought to talk more.
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Post by mistytail on Dec 27, 2012 9:39:55 GMT -6
So you noticed, ehehehe. I thought I was being subtle. Actually, I just find bees and wasps fascinating, and very cool. I also think nothing says, "Let's everyone be reasonable about this" better than a swarm of angry bees. They would be endlessly useful. Security work. Honey. Navigation. Masses of them could probably keep you warm like a suit of living, devoted armour. Dear god, why. Bees are scary and wasps might as well be Satan's carbon dioxide. Staying on topic, after seeing The Avengers I designed a superhero named Nine Lives - her thing was that she had depression but when her hormone levels changed to be more balanced, she got cat ears, a tail (still teetering on if it should be an ordinary, shorthair tail or a bobtail), cat vision (meaning that acuity was raised but she was partiallly colorblind), super hearing (owing to the furry ears), super smell, and strength for climbing and agility. The claws were an add-on she put on her suit. Admittedly the whole thing was wish fulfillment but I put effort into that wish fulmillment.
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Post by cloudbat on Dec 28, 2012 9:49:31 GMT -6
Two swarms of angry bees and a screaming zebra.
/bricked
That being said if I controlled a bunch of some kind of insect it'd be the midge that pollinates the flowers that become the beans chocolate is made into. Oh the money to be made. And the deliciousness.
Pfff the bees thing is awesome. But I'm glad you like it.
You're a silly noodle and I'd love to roleplay with you using cats, dragons, robots, aliens, etc. (I'm not choosy about the type of character I use.)
Mimicing is generally always useful. I'm currently working on a species who can each manipulate one element. And I mean periodic table elements - carbon, oxygen, etc.
I have a slight idea, considering you just confirmed that messing with people is part of it. |D
My admittedly embarrassing skype username is cloudiewolf. My excuse is that I was in eighth grade when I made it. I was never quite a wolfaboo, but I went through a phase. A phase that is mercifully over. /unnecessary information
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Post by Osprey on Dec 29, 2012 21:45:23 GMT -6
I always wanted Invisibility, because I could mess with people and act like a Poltergeist, you know flipping over tables, throwing cups, scream loudly, pick up pets, and take covers off of beds. Plus I sneak around a lot and take food from people.
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