#and the superpower wiki

[turtleblogatlast]

One of my favorite things about Leo’s portals is the fact that they’re tangible.

He can throw those like frisbees and hit people with them like?? The boys’ abilities are so fun and magical and even sci-fi-esque but this aspect of Leo’s portals are so distinctly a Looney Tunes flavor of cartoon-y that I absolutely adore.

And sure this aspect of the portals can be used for fighting, but moreover the sheer amount of visual gags this does and can create is infinite.

[hc-artz]

I think, for me, the hardest part about making Jojo OCs is creating their Stands. Naming them is pretty simple, but thinking up unique designs and abilities is a different story. How do you guys do it? ;_;

[sistersorrow]

Back in my day, we didn't call it isekai or portal fantasy, I called it "human in Equestria" because my main exposure to the trope was MLP fanfiction because I simply did not read fanfics that weren't for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

[ghostinthegallery]

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Also if you ever want to do this unprompted please go nuts, I love reading behind the scenes thoughts!

Ooh, free space! Hmmm, which fic to talk about?

I'd actually love to talk a little bit about Memories in Wisps of Smoke, which I think kind of went under the radar! Since it was for a holiday exchange, I don't think it ever posted to the main AO3 40K page.

This was an interesting one for me. I am shockingly rough on space marine lore, so this was an "open every tab on the wiki" type of fic. The process of training/making a marine, specifics of Salamanders and Nocturne, if there was any info about Sa'kan, the main character for this fic (there is very little and some of it is contradictory in true 40K fashion).

I knew I wanted a follow up to the animated Pariah Nexus show because I loved the characters. I just didn’t know exactly what to write. Barging in and punching Szeras in the robot kidney would have been fun, but didn’t feel right given the prompts and also how much time I had. I knew it had to be smaller and more character focused.

Then I remembered a moment early in the show where as the Salamanders’ transport is being shot down, a guy falls when the hull is ripped open. I genuinely thought this was going to be our protag, sole survivor as everyone else died in the crash. But no, we just never see that guy again. That unlocked the story for me. “Find an ally” was a much more manageable story goal than “defeat one of the worst people in this galaxy.” I gave that rando a name, and it was off to the races.

It was fun getting to write with a focus on a different faction. Although there were similarities. I based a lot of the developing friendship between Sa’kan and the Deathmark around their shared roles as tools of war. Shaped by masters who don’t care if they live or die. Then added in an OC to act as a foil to Sa’kan. Giving him two arcs (present with the Deathmark and flashbacks with Kal’en) challenging his initial impressions of both those people, so on and so on boom character development! (With some kissing because I have no impulse control)

Gotta say though my favorite scene was the one with Sa’kan and his family. The fact that Salamanders maintain those relationships is one of my favorite things about them. And tossing a crying baby at an Astartes is hilarious to me. “Brother! The codex has not prepared me for this. Why is it so small?” D:

Thanks to @two-reflections for the prompt that gave me an excuse to write this!

[lurkingismypastime]

Superpower wiki my beloved because i get to dig and find a bunch of abilities that can be used so broadly and creatively it’s awesome

For example, light manipulation! You can make things glow, maybe you have a sun powered laser beam if you’re luck, right?

WRONG. Do you know how much you can do with the manipulation of LIGHT itself? EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS THE RESULT OF LIGHT. You cause illusions!! Obscure things or change colors!! Hell, you can probably negate light if that fits your world’s rules! There’s so much you can do

And if we go even broader, there’s thing like electromagnetic manipulation (which also controls light!) which can do SO MUCH besides just being a magnet, it’s fucking overpowered.

Or energy manipulation! Basically everything has energy, heat is energy, movement is energy!

And that’s not even touching things like literary manipulation, or extrasensory stuff!

Idk, I just LOVE versatile superpowers, they’re super cool and I can spend Hours looking through the superpower wiki because that’s my SHIT.

[businesscasualart]

A problem I always run into when thinking about Psimon x Devastation for too long is the fact that I always fall into a rabbit hole thinking about how they would have the most Banger kids, some straight up powerhouses, the most interesting freaks you’ve ever seen. If they had more than one child together, they’d have to make a whole other show for ‘em because I know whatever would come of that combination of powerful but janky DNA would be akin to a Greek pantheon

[mask131]

There is something I deeply HATE when it comes to Wikis and how they describe things.

More precisely: the "power description" system everybody has been using. It drives me INSANE.

If you don't know, it is a system that originally comes from websites such as super-heroes related Wikis and a specific Wiki about super-powers themselves. In these contexts, the powers are each broken down and classified depending on their very, VERY specific nature. For example you have "Ice Manipulation", "Cold Control", "Snow Repelling", "Frost Shaping" and other VERY precise qualifications. They literaly have a term and name for everything.

Problem is... it is a system that the Wikis brought OUTSIDE of the world of super-heroes and super-power theories. Why is this a problem? Because this idea of putting a list of very specific abilities is inherited from the super-hero world where powers are precisely biological, scientific and technical matters, "rigid" structures you have to be clear-cut about. But with other fictional worlds... it is useless or even counter-productive.

And don't start coming at me with your "hard magic system" bullshit. Let me give you an example of... I don't know, a Wiki article about gods and deities. Let's take I don't know, the example of a love goddess. Now you can write "She is the goddess and personification of love, with absolute control over this emotion". But this idiotic Wiki power-system will rather go "Actually she has Love Manipulation, and Love Destruction, and Love Embodiment, and Love Influencing". Or take in a fictional series, I don't know... a spell which manifests as some sort of wave of dark energy but leaves everybody touched by it living a nightmare despite not being asleep? You can go "The spell X does Z things and looks like Y". But with the Wikis' obsession with making pullet-point lists they don't even MENTION the spell they just go "X character has Energy Manipulation, because in the Y spell we see this. X character has Nightmare Control, because in the Y spell we see this. X character has Nightmare Manifestation, because in the Y spell we see this."

It is so... so frustatingly broken and dumb. Especially since I have seen this system applied to fantasy works or magic-involved fictional works where precisely we don't know exactly what the characters can or cannot do, or what are the limits of their powers. It is just a manifestation of the Wikis obsessions with categorizing and listing and classifying everything, which is sometimes good when the fictional work was designed for it. You can list your bending arts in Avatar or your covens in Owl House. But if you try to apply this system to a more oniric or poetic work of fiction - like, I don't know, a Neil Gaiman work - then you are basically forced to completely miss the point of the characters and/or the story.

[miniaturecatmentality]

I was trying to remember the word hemokinesis and found this wiki article that references the actual Christian Bible as an example of the superpower

this is so fucking funny to me stop. Right after this was a quote from Jujutsu Kaisen

[disruptedlogic]

drew starkey. 33. cis man. he/him. ┊┊ cerberus corp has been watching NOAH RASK. some of the public has dubbed them ARES because of PAIN MANIPULATION gifted by A CAR ACCIDENT. having been an extra ordinary since 2019, they’re doing a good job at hiding THAT HIS OWN PAIN TOLERANCE LESSENS WITH THE MORE PAIN HE INFLICTS. when they aren’t working their day job as a TRAINER, they are fond of PHOTOGRAPHY and are never seen without A POCKET KNIFE FROM HIS DAD. at first glance they seem ADVENTUROUS & CONFIDENT, though their close friends know them to also be SHORT TEMPERED & BLUNT. they consider themself a VILLIAN.

tw car accident

001.  GENERAL.

name  noah james rask nicknames  no age  33 date of birth  november 4th, 1990 zodiac  scorpio place of birth  answer current residence  nyc gender  cis man pronouns  he/him sexuality  idk he likes pretty people occupation trainer

faceclaim  drew starkey height  6’2 tattoos  some small ones piercings none distinguishing features  those blue eyes positive traits  athletic, adventurous, confident negative traits  short tempered, blunt, labels / tropes  answer likes  being an ass, causing trouble, working out, coffee, dislikes  trusting people (you can thank his big brother for that), getting close with others fears  answer hobbies  photography habits  clenching his jaw

002.  EXTRA ORDINARY.

near death experience… (lemme make this better later)

 car accident on christmas and his brother was driving and he was thrown from the car

he somehow survived the incident but it was only because he unknowingly stopped himself from feeling any pain

but eventually he was found (when? idk) and woke up in a hospital a couple of days later but they had him down as john doe and he gave them a fake name to be released

power… 

can sense and manipulate mental, physical and emotional pain

can also sense and manipulate pain and suffering

can manifest emotional pain into physical

can increase, decrease or inflict pain

drawbacks / vulnerabilities… 

the more he uses his power the more his own pain tolerance lessens

he can only take away his own pain so much

codename…  he chose the name himself at some point bc he’s lame and thinks he’s super cool

003.  EXTRA.

come back later

[a-gastly-trio]

Hey Raven, how does it feel to turn into a shadow. Does your body morph into a 2 plane or goopify and overlay a dark spot. How does a Gengar take charge of a person's shadow exactly?

So I'm not good at science jargon and shit, but basically, it's a technique called "Umbrakinesis".

It's a mix of the 2d-plane thing as well as phasing into the shadow to become it. Then, we use umbrakinesis to manipulate it to our will. Gengars can also manipulate shadows around them! It works by bending light to make the shadows look like they're moving around and shit.

There might be more to it, but again, I ain't a scientist.

[jontheketeld]

indeed we can

[lesser-mook]

One of my favorite sites on the internet.

[fearthefuzzybear]

guys im tired of spinning wheels are there any different ways to get diagnosed as an isekai species. like maybe a unique questionnaire that asks your favorite color or perhaps what you want most in the world. what if it had song lyrics

[amaryllisbia]

If you’re ever having troubles finding a good superpower for your superhero or villain, try your luck with the below wiki.

[dingusships]

if you were a ppg what would your color be. and if u want your special power that the others don't have (like Blossoms ice breath)

OHHH.....GOOD QUESTION i've never thought about it.

hmmm......my favorite color is blue but bubbles is The Blue One.... purble is second favorite but bliss and/or bunny are The Purple Ones....

wait i'm dumb i draw my s/i in teal a lot so i suppose i'd be the teal one LMAO

As for the special power...I cannot think of anything cool & unique that isn't what already comes w being a ppg lemme get back with you on that

[merchantziro]

May I also add for consideration. Tim either later or alternatively discovers the Superpower Wiki and has memorized dozens upon different abilities across the wiki's 20,000+ pages and both their applications and drawbacks.

Like he knows Conner/Superboy has Tactile Telekinetic abilities for example, and uses it to help him find new applications he might not have considered yet. Such as Telekinetic Surgery to help others to help with recovery, Telekinetic Teleportation for additional movement options beyond standard flight, and Psionic Invisibility for... Well it's in the name, among other potential uses of his unique touch based Psionic powers. Slowly working their way to stuff to see if he could do it and helping him grow with knowledge of what he could be capable of... And that's just Superboy, imagine what he could do with his entire regarding the Teen Titans or Young Justice.

And if you wanna give him both Tropes and Power Wiki, combine how genre savvy he is with the knowledge of all types of powers and how they could potentially be applied or countered and while he may not be technically a superpowered menace, he might as well be considered one with his pre-existing intelligence.

Oh sure, he may not become completely overpowered and there's a chance he'd fall into Wrong Genre Savvy or Genre Blindness where his trope knowledge backfires on him because he can't tell if a trope is being subverted or not among other factors, but despite that, in the wise words of the Jim Carrey Riddler...

"For if knowledge is power, then a god am... I!"

Tim finds tv tropes, Tim starts to notice some patterns popping up in his life, Tim gets genre savvy

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, Tim is now constantly comparing his life events to genres?

When he's undercover in a female persona and, during a fight scene, his dress rips, does he mutter curses under his breath about tropes?

When he notices the only way out is via air vents, does he roll his eyes?

When Red Hood continues to dance on the periphery of the Bats, does Tim mutter about "aloof allies"?

Is the TV Tropes wiki website his holy text that he scours nightly?