Tell me what superpowers you'd have and why, based on your inner life.

[Gilo000]

I have back problems, causing a sharp pain whenever I stand up for a few moments. Considering the fact that my favorite hobby involves getting a good viewpoint on an object for hours, this tends to be a problem for me. I think maybe my superpower would be unnatural amounts of endurance. This would be useful, too, considering the fact that I'm being sent to military school in a few weeks.

Or, instead, the ability to manipulate metal without direct contact. Kinda like Magneto. I've always loved working with metals and wires and such, but I often find myself without tools to use on whatever metals I get my hands on. I would absolutely LOVE to be able to just stare at a pile of scrap in a junkyard, only for it to turn into perfect metal tracks and sprockets for a 1/16 scale Panzer III or KV. Or a nice gearbox. I can tell that would be useful for taking out stripped screws, but I'm not really sure how I would be able to use it for the good of all humanity.

[tiresiasArchivist]

Probably the blessing (curse?) of never needing sleep. I'm known among my friends as being "nocturnal".

[Tirgo]

invisibility/ability to make things go through me/be a fucking ghost

so i could go anywhere and do anything i like

and nobody would know i was there

not like voyeur but i think it would be nicer

to be ignored than hated

[Doofaeus]

Some kind of wolverine combo thing - regeneration and extreme rage.

I always end up damaging myself due to clumsiness/being an idiot etc. but I never hurt myself too bad and i'm just an overall glutton for punishment. As for the rage I don't handle stress well at all and tend to be pretty ragey/wound up really tight ready to explode a lot.

*doof*

[crash826]

Possibly the ability to visit and generate "Dark Worlds"? That is to say, inverses, abandoned wastelands populated with shadows, etc., etc.

Partly because I love the idea of the inverse, partly because I'd be able to get some goddamn PEACE AND QUIET in the abandoned shadow world, along w/ exploration. Maybe I can bring things back too.

[Izzus]

Probably the blessing (curse?) of never needing sleep. I'm known among my friends as being "nocturnal".

There was an X Files episode about some 'Nam vets who didn't sleep. One of them was able to turn dreams into a perceived reality.

[ZeroTron]

Either atomic telekinesis or some other power that transmutes things to what you want based on how much kinetic energy you hit it with. aka your fists/charging it etc. I love building things and have always been interested in atomic and molecular structures since I was five so being able to design new ones at will would pretty much be amazing and also an extremely powerful and flexible ability. Not sure which one suits me better, since the first one I'd be more aware and I'm usually pretty aware of things around me already or the second one since I'm also fairly strong and rely on my strength for lots of stuff.

[felinoel]

Manipulation of molecules and atoms and possibly even quarks.

Mostly because with this super power there is potentially no other super power that you can't replicate. More or less...

[Avi]

Inaudibility? I find textual and visual communication much easier than verbal. I struggle with public speaking and even in regular conversation my voice goes all wobbly and quiet.

[trueBug]

I have an enormously overactive imagination and have been referred to as an idea factory by many friends, so I think I would either be able to project illusions or make wacky pocket dimensions. :I

[a totally real doctor]

There was an X Files episode about some 'Nam vets who didn't sleep. One of them was able to turn dreams into a perceived reality.

Oh, I've seen that one! I think it's in the first or the second season, not sure though.

And for the superpowers, hmmm. Well, when getting to know people, I tend to see some depth to their character that doesn't necessarily exist. I always think the person has some deeper emotional or traumatic reason for acting the way they act. So I guess clearly seeing the full personality of a person would be a good superpower. Or maybe just being able to control it. Plant memories and such xD

[Draco18s]

Five leaf ones show up on a frequent basis, I find one of those every month or so.

Reminded of this. And this. :P
"If that happened, everyone who had the slightest bit of good luck would suddenly have all the luck, and anyone who had the slightest bit of bad luck would be miserable forever."

Also, holy shit dude, what a life!

Anyway, super powers.
...Flight? Wings gotta be good for somethin' yah?
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[Izzus]

Oh, I've seen that one! I think it's in the first or the second season, not sure though.

Season two
Krycek was introduced and I was all like "Augh, this guy's just a stand in and he's going to die."
So he shot the vet and lived and I had to deal with it.
Until they killed him off and decided to bring him back in the form of deus ex machina.
"We can remake him. We have the underpaid writers. We have the capability to build another plot device. Alex Krycek will be that plot device. Emptier than he was before. Emptier, forced, convenient."

Just a lot of luck.

See, this is a typical sight for me:

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I remember when I was a primary schooler, the daycare I was sent to grew seven and even eight leaf clovers, haha. Every year they'd grow and we'd pick them, then the next day there'd be more. It was in Ledyard Connecticut, if I recall correctly. I wonder if it's still around.

[lambentLogic]

Hmm.

I am notably shy, and definitely introverted. Typically I make an effort to be polite and inoffensive unless inflamed with passion, which happens quite easily with the right triggers - I am easy bait for the muses, whether for my own vision or those I can get behind. I am easily caught up in the energies around me synergistic with my own leanings - half of my username, in fact, came to me by the roundabout means of a revolution poem. (Song of the Storm Finch, Maxim Gorky.) My tendency to alternate between an apathetic calm and a fierce aggression might have some worrisome parallel in the comic, but reflection is my inner moirail and is quite vigilant to ensure such passions are positively (and safely) directed.

Worrisomely and in apparent, but not actual contrast to mentioned calm, I am very prone to anxiety, and often deal with apparently causeless depression - distressed and listless even when in a state of life I am rather satisfied with. This can be attributed to some extent to lack of a sufficiently active lifestyle, but the result feeds the cause. I have some difficulty with caring for myself, finding work for others more engaging, though I prefer to be left alone for the majority - not all - of the time I am working on it. Sometimes I am struck with Vision, and a Project begun - it always seems that while I am skilled at convincing my targets to rally around a vision, my commitment leaves something to be desired and insufficient structure often leads it to fade. However, I am rarely the one to take the lead in a preexisting group, instead forming the group around the Vision. I am artistic / creative but unreliable, and I enjoy logical puzzles, but not social, outside of games.

In my dreams, I am quite capable of flight, and control of the winds, though I often need work out the flight mechanism anew each time - whether it is falling and missing the ground or summoning the winds to lift me up. Regardless, I must be confident rather than anxious, as fear will lead me to scrape or even crash into things and may take away the power of flight for a good time. When I am aware I am in a dream, I can control who I encounter next by imagining they are within the next area I seek to enter, and bring rain by raising my arms to the sky to call it down. I need to maintain calm regardless of what occurs, elation rather than excitement, affection rather than love, concern rather than fear, or I will wake and lose the dream. Given the freedom of lucidity, my mind organizes itself into careful ritual to enact and maintain the magic of the situation.

My superpowers would be...

One type of magic controlled by 'flow' and ritual, much akin to coding, with the same requisite arbitrary actions in a grammatically perfect structure, that is active and centered on myself.
Another type of power controlled by passionate emotion and drive, centered around inspiring or mitigating others (via enthusiasm or anxiety, respectively). It would technically be passive in the Homestuck sense.

Going with the 'sylph of void' concept one of those quizzes gave me, I'd interpret the second for that, being 'heals through obscurity or of obscurity'. By utilizing this power I can both prevent our thoughts from going off on bold, misguided tangents, or remove the block of apathy that so often holds us back. In combat this might entail an Inspire Courage effect, protective wardings like mist and sanctuary, and reputation/honor control.

The first, ritual magic, would have broader effect but take much longer to implement, though macros would help. It seems more likely to align with Wind, given so far most imagined instances are control over that element. Edit: Figured out how to tie it in with Void - control of vacuum / reducing pressure.

[SpanishMonkey]

I guess my superpower would be to have an extra strong skin. Throughout my life I have received many blows, fallen many times, cut off many others. And I'm still alive.

obviously it does hurt me, I'm still human

[Varkarrus]

invisibility, and also it's direct opposite, hypervisibility

[a totally real doctor]

Season two
Krycek was introduced and I was all like "Augh, this guy's just a stand in and he's going to die."
So he shot the vet and lived and I had to deal with it.
Until they killed him off and decided to bring him back in the form of deus ex machina.
"We can remake him. We have the underpaid writers. We have the capability to build another plot device. Alex Krycek will be that plot device. Emptier than he was before. Emptier, forced, convenient."

I was close xD
Ah, Krycek. He started reappearing just when I thought the X-Files story arc couldn't get any more complicated

[Izzus]

I was close xD
Ah, Krycek. He started reappearing just when I thought the X-Files story arc couldn't get any more complicated

Close enough
Yeah, they kept retconning a whole bunch of shit and turned the entire thing into a clusterfuck by the time they introduced Doggett.

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Cancer man died like, three or four times before they finally did him in (And on that note, how could getting blown up by missiles possibly be that unexciting?). He even came back from being shot through the head, haha.

Yeah, they tried to please the fans too much, I'd say. The end result was some amalgamation of Hollywood screenwriting, confused plot points, "Oh hey I remember the episode that's from", and OMG IT'S MULDER!
Really it's worth watching just to see how it ends (or doesn't ).

What I really liked about the show is as the episodes go on, the technology gets better. So when they start the show, they have these big bulky cellular phones and boxy cars, then by the end all the cellular phones and cars are sleek and more modern looking. It's almost like watching the 90s in fast forward, except that it has the Fox filter so there's all sorts of subliminal republicanism. Not exactly a bad thing for a show about a federal agency, so it works well most of the time.

[Emerald Navigator]

So, uh, superpowers?
I've wanted a lot of powers throughout my oh so short life, but the one which I think I would want most and/or fit me most would be protection and healing.
I have to admit, I have a nice life. I feel kind of bad saying this because it's like I'm rubbing in the fact that other people don't. It isn't really all that though, but it iss definitely nice. The problem with my mind is that since there isn't really muh to worry about in my life, I automatically have to FIND something to worry about. This usually happens at night when I'm in bed. I watch things and look at random stuff my Dad is looking at and from this I grow some sort of thought (bad example :P). Well, it's more like a worry. I can get them from other stuff too just so you know.
Now, my Dad is good at reassuring me by just stating plain facts, that helps but it doesn't completely get rid of the worry. From one I can draw out another and I spend a few weeks or months just worrying about this at night. I also worry whenever something reminds me of what I'm worrying at night, whether it's daytime or evening. I just want to know for sure thtat I, and everybody else I care about, will be OK. (Note: Yes I am sort of similar to the cliched 'loyal to my [good] friends' Remember GOOD friends. I could walk out on a bad friend more times than good one)
So that's why I want protection.

I would like healing just so if anything bad does happen, and people get hurt, I can heal them and we'll all be peachy keen...once we get over the trauma. This is limited to healing, not bringing people back to life as that's just plain creepy.

[Snow22]

Super speed, due to my tendency to arrive to locations early and I seem to constantly be in a hurry for no reason.
Either that the ability to produce sonic waves from my vocal cords. I am often a quiet person but when I speak I want to be heard.

[tantalusUnchaste]

I'd want the ability to not be noticed. I like to be able to spend some time alone every now and then, or be able to do something without having to hear about it from people who have nothing to do with it.

[Varkarrus]

the ability to summon 2 clones of me and control all 3 of our bodies just as easily as a person would do 1.

[hircineDandelion]

I've been told I'm a quiet and observational person and that fits me pretty well I think, though most of the time I'm just kind of daydreaming.
My power would probably be to consciously turn to stone, and in a statue-like state, go unnoticed by passers-by. Much like the stone mask from LOZ: Majoras Mask, but without being able to move. This is also tied in with a bad habit I used to have of clamming up under stress.

Lame power I know, but I could effectively be immortal in a stone-like state.

[Professor Science]

I've been told I'm a quiet and observational person and that fits me pretty well I think, though most of the time I'm just kind of daydreaming.
My power would probably be to consciously turn to stone, and in a statue-like state, go unnoticed by passers-by. Much like the stone mask from LOZ: Majoras Mask, but without being able to move. This is also tied in with a bad habit I used to have of clamming up under stress.

Lame power I know, but I could effectively be immortal in a stone-like state.

YOU ARE A WEEPING ANGEL

[RowdyJester]

I would want to be able to shrink as small as possible, dumb i know.. nothing much can be achieved with such powers.
I just have always had a certain obsession over the smallest details and being small just seems like the best way to fix any errors. especially in my art.