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[hottakehoulihan]

@simurghed said (I tried to reblog but something's not working)

"Please oh please gush at me randomly about Wormpowers!" Okay! Hope you didn't mean concisely! Heck, this could be a good tournament of sorts; comparing not the folk who HAD the powers but how great the powers themselves are.

"Please oh please gush at me randomly about Wormpowers!"

Okay! Hope you didn't mean concisely!

Heck, this could be a good tournament of sorts; comparing not the folk who HAD the powers but how great the powers themselves are.

You'd have to specify whether the tournament was about 1: Cool. 2: Desirable. 3: Scary. 4: Would win in a fight (boring)

A: Grey Boy is depressingly(?) close to a childhood OC of mine, though far more OP since I didn't have that "invincible and also eternally young and clean" aspect to it.

B: Circus is a great magical girl that only needs a mascot and I'd love to know what they're like when in civilian form.

C: Mouse Protector is a lot of enthusiastic cringe about much of my childhood and the childhoods of some of my contemporaries, and also Droopy Dog--a cartoon character I hate.

D: Night. I love the synergy between Night and Fog/Purity, and just the way Night fights in general.

E: There's a member of maybe the fallen--can't remember who or whether it came up in PRT Quest or in Ward--that when they speak people listen. That's it; the words compel attention above and beyond all else. I feel like this would be a nightmare power for me to have and would both "solve" my problems and also do so in the worst possible way and so it's probably the one I'd get.

F: I think about Coil a lot. Remember that crappy-but-fun Nicholas Cage movie "Next"? It's kind of Coil.

G: I should bring up Taylor but…do you like the color of the sky? Which Taylor? Her powerset evolves and grows so much. At the start? It takes her seven or more arcs to realize she can disguise herself with bugs, and she STILL isn't using them to track where the bullies are (or who is around her) on a 24/7 basis and this is silly of her. Side note: If I ever write a Taylor/Sophia it'll be called "Nosee'um" probably. Not sure I'd do that, but I know how it starts. (And ends.) Anyway, it's really the administration and surveyal part of her power I particularly envy. I can't chase two rabbits at once and sometimes not even one, but she could herd billions.

H: (heh) Grue is actually amazing and especially after his second trigger. There's a fanfic out there where he goes solo and grimdark and he captures evil capes and saps their power, slowly making himself a very strong grab-bag cape. He had Viktor chained up in his basement to facilitate this. Speaking of H.

I: Screamer is amazing. Imitating voices perfectly and making them seem to come from anywhere? A whole nonviolent origin story just for her would be fun.

J: Accord. I want more Cenotaph, and it's half because I want more Accord.

K: Edict. Edict has a mystery power where if you don't do what she says you get a minor temporary curse? Someone with a weak unremarkable power having to make it work and maybe figuring out how to make it super good actually? Sounds familiar in a good way. I want more.

L: Mama Mathers is a nightmare villain; one of those things that make you wonder how they could ever lose even more than Coil does.

M: Roulette's power is great for something I might give someone in a TTRPG. Useful, game-directing, but not gamebreaking. …super frustrating, though.

N: Alexandria's memory, tho…

O: Weld. Weld's powers, with someone else at the helm? Could be so gender. SO gender.

P: Golem. But only in a lewd way. Or home decoration. Or both at the same time.

Q: Sanguine could apparently look great in red, dish out damage to Behemoth, and just walk around and cure people of bloodborne illnesses, sort of like Panacea could do, if she'd just cut loose a bit (there's no reason she couldn't make a steady stream of non-self-replicating cancerphage/virii emitters with finite lifespans. She could walk into a hospital, focus for a bit, then relax and read a book while her creations did all the work.

R: Myrrdin because it really feels like he had to study and scheme to build his "spells" and maybe in a way indistinguishable from

S: Big Picture can stop and think about someone as long as they want.

T: Semiramis. With that power someone could keep a car, house, or a rare book in good condition. Not to mention people.

U: Engel? I mean, supernaturally pretty and compelling?

V: Flor is hilarious.

W: Horizon's power includes Xray vision? And the rest is just some punchy-boom? That's the kind of weak powerset I'd love to see get explored.

X: Blindside (Even more fun than Nice Guy!)

Y: I love Regent. Hijack is fun too, but Regent's power was great and he used it so effectively!

Z: Tattletale, of course.

But my favorite is like I said at the top before I got started.