Power You Most Wished You Had

[Ash]

Ever since I was a young lad I have fantasized about having powers.

I was always intrigued about controlling electricity.
You know, like Raiden from the Mortal Kombat games or like that guy in "Big Trouble In Little China"

I envision myself lying on my couch, my head on a comfortable pillow with the TV to my right sitting across the room, not paying attention to it and holding my hands up in front of me looking at them....electrical arcs shooting from one finger or hand to the next.  
With a slight flick of my hand I would send those arcs from my fingers to my bare toes at the other end of the couch across the distance of my body and then back again.

Ultimately they would come back and strike my face, enveloping it.  
Tendrils of electricity would swirl around my face making my eyes glow electric blue and I would smile.
Small electric bolts would run furiously across the saliva slicked suface of my teeth from left to right under my command as I grinned.
It would not hurt.
I can smell it.  
That ozone smell.
It smells sweet and I like it

Then...

I later imagine myself at a strip club or a bar and some punk/bouncer gets it into his head to start s**t with me.
This guy is twice my size and shoves me HARD onto my ass outside in the parking lot after he kicks me out.
I hit the pavement and it hurts....a stinging sensation rises up my spine.  
It smarts alright but not as bad as he is going to hurt in a minute or so once I regain my composure.
I get up.
He walks up to me, I stand up to him and I can smell his foul breath in my face, his nose inches from mine.
It only angers me further.
I say, "You shouldn't have done that." as I raise my both of my hands and let loose with POWERFUL electrical bolts from each of my ten fingers!

He, the man who could've been my friend but decided not to is launched backwards nearly 20 feet into the driver's side door of another customer's car....BLAM!...denting the hell out of it with his body, small electrical arcs swirl about him as he inevitably hits the cold pavement.

He has left a rather large, human sized imprint in a customer's Ford pickup.
As he lies twitching on his side, he looks up to see me walking toward him.
He sees me coming and tries to move but cannot.
He is literally paralyzed by my electricity that still continues to circle about his frame.
He twitches some more and looks up at me into my glowing electric blue eyes.
And my grin.
That almost unholy grin.


As you can see, I've had a fascination with controlling electricity since I was young.

If you had a choice, what power would you have?



Post Edited (01-20-04 18:35)

[Eirik]

"If you had a choice, what power would you have?"

Omnipotence.

[Conrad]

Mind control, definitely!

"Hello Mister Investment Bank Manager, give me a million pounds, right now.  Mister Gates?  Send me a couple of billion by end of business.  Jennifer? Renee?  Linda?  Get yourselves round to my mansion soonest.  Hey, Car Dealer Guy, I like that one-off Italian sports model, gimme."

[Ash]

I figured that a few of you would go for Omnipotence or a Professor X type of power.
I am focusing on a SPECIFIC NON-OMNIPOTENT power that you would like to have.  
Omnipotence is TOO easy!

Time to exercise your brain!
Think of a singular power....maybe based on another superhero or element from your boyhood...one you always wished you had and go with it.

It would be even better if you could draw up a short scenario like I did about your power.

Any takers?



Post Edited (01-20-04 18:36)

[Neville]

Mmmm... that's a tough one. I am a big fan of the comics "Preacher" and "Hellblazer". In the first one the hero is Jesse, a former priest that has the power of "the word". Basicaly, everybody listening to his words will obbey his commands, no matter if he says "Leave me alone" or "f**k you". Constantine, the main character of "Hellblazer", has limited telepatic abilities, minor "word" powers and knows lots of practical magic, but usually this tricks end up in disasters or have great cons.

These two powers would be really handy.

[Eirik]

"Omnipotence is TOO easy!  I see omnipotence here as a sort of cop-out without really having to go into detail."

Careful, ASHTHECAT.  You're THIS close to getting sent to the corn field!  This is your last warning.

[AndyC]

I'd like to be nigh invulnerable. Sort of a combination of immunity to diseases and toxins, extremely high resistance to injury, regenerative abilities and very slow aging.

Other powers might be more flashy, but if nothing can seriously hurt you, you're pretty tough to beat. The longevity is also a nice perk. Why not have a super power you could potentially have centuries to enjoy?

Lots of peace of mind with this power.

[Chopper]

LoL, you always come up with the most zaniest post Ash.
as for my power i wish i could read women's minds, my life would be SO much easier.

[raj]

Even if we could read women's minds, it wouldn't help us.  I can read a calculus book, but couldn't explain it to anyone, including myself.

For my power, I'd like to be able to fly (and carry stuff with me, and not get cold in the upper atmosphere).  It would just be so neat to go zooming around.

[Velvet Brotha]

I just wish I had the power to control all women. ; )

Maybe my name would be Velvet Romeo or something stupid like that.

[Chopper]

lol, i don't think women are as foreign as we think they are. the differences are more biological than psychological.

[Grumpy Guy]

I've wondered about this myself.  I've decided I already have a super power.  

Faster to anger than a baboon with a stomach condition!  More irritable than a wounded rhino!!!  Able to be surly and sarchastic in a single sentence!!!

I am...

GRUMPY MAN!!!

Actually, I'd like to be super-intelligent.  Not like an engineer or anything - I would like to have the ability to learn and retain information at an astonishing rate.  I'd like to have a more-perfect-than-perfect memeory.  I'd like to be able to fully evaluate and come up with  a plan of action for a situation in less than a second.

Ever read Ender's Shadow?  Like Bean, only without the nasty side-effects.

[Susan]

I used to always want to be invisible.

Then I got a job and realized, it wasn't an impossibility after all

[Genetic Mishap]

When I was younger I daydreamed about turning into any animal I wished. And not just real animals, either- I could turn into a dragon, a bird that could fly at the speed of sound, etc.

Recently, however, I've been wishing I could manipulate time. I could go to Hastings, *pause*, load choice items into my car, go back to the place where I was standing in the store, and *unpause*. Whalala, nothing happened, I'll just mosey on out to my car...
But then I'd guess I'd grow really old faster than normal people, so I guess it wouldn't be all that...

(Yeah, I'd be a supervillian. So sue me.)

[FearlessFreep]

the differences are more biological than psychological.


must not be married...