Akas said:
Sigh, most people inevitably choose the Big 8 (Super Strength, Speed, Telepathy, Telekinesis, Time Stop, Flight, Invisibility, and elemental abilities), but few think of the consequences.
Strength = can't do anything with others otherwise you'd kill them (subsequently, mating is REALLY hard)
Speed = The thought of normal speed is agonizing, and you'd tear yourself apart with your speed (the human body isn't able to handle certain speeds)
Telepathy = if you can't turn it off, you go insane. When it's on, it's incredibly stressful if you're in public.
Telekinesis = You need to be able to focus on something. If you can't focus, whatever your lifting becomes a liability. Even if you do focus, constant use is going to burn you out.
Time Stop = Too broken. Naw, you'll become apathetic to the world. Think of it as cheating in a video game. Ever wonder why immortals in comics/anime/etc. are always neutral and bored?
Flight = wings SUCK. Too visible, too bulky, and the genetic shift would cause you to starve to death. Wingless flight isn't any better: too high, you'll freeze/body will stop functioning, too low, you'll be seen and be shot down/sucked into a turbine/etc.
Invisibility = If you can't control (which you probably won't be able to), people will forget you/be afraid of you. Including friends and family. You'll always be alone
Elemental abilities = Beware of weakness. A bucket of water will hurt fire and lightning, water can be defeated too many ways (sun, cold, etc.), earth is useless once you're off it.
My power? I'd be able to siphon off fatigue (of all kinds) to anyone or anything around with maybe a 100m radius. I'd never need to sleep, basically, can run forever, and can heal myself (to a certain degree). Who wouldn't want that?
Well, since you're talkin about all the bad things that could happen without perfect control over one's powers, what about yours? No one would want to hang out with you. You said you siphon off fatigue? Doesn't that mean you make others tired in order to make yourself more energetic and vice-versa? No one would want to hang out with you; you'd be a party-pooper. Also, your power is contingent on having some kind of life near you.
Also why would anyone want to fly so high anyways? It would be cold. What's wrong with not needing a car?
My power: the ability to create illusions of all 5 senses and alter people's perceptions. I would always enter a house and it would be as if rose petals fell before me as I enter the house. Also, when I would wake up, as far as my power could stretch, I would make people smell cinnamon buns or other freshly baked goods. I would also numb cuts or scrapes or bruises but only to the point where they'd still hurt if something was applying great pressure on it because pain is an important feeling.
If anyone was being uncool to me, I would make them feel like spiders and centipedes were crawling inside of them for a few seconds to watch them wriggle around.
Also, every time I exit a bathroom, an illusion of 3-4 doves would fly out before me.
I could also make money with this power by selling people's dreams to them. Whether it's sex, or coming out to their parents and having them accept them, or even having somewhere to go on Christmas.
I could even make everyone not notice me (free invisibility power!) or just make everyone around me blind so they don't see me anyways.
