DE: Friday Edition

[bjornwilde]

As suggested by yinyangwizard :

What characteristics do we have that some of our pups might wish they had?

Alternately, since I may not be the only one not getting many answers, click here to get your pup's new random super power and tell us what it is. One click per pup and no rerolls.

Comments

[hangingoutwithcrows]

It's a really interesting question!

This seems like a bit of a cheap shot, but I'm sure Feuilly wonders what it would be like to have the sense of family that I do. He's long since made his peace with being a foundling and with not really wanting to have children of his own, but yes of course he wonders what it's like to be able to say for better or worse "welp, I guess I kind of do have that angry streak from my mom's side of the family" or "if my grandmother could get through the things she did, I can manage it too," or "now I get it more about how my brother is, seeing how my children are."

Hal thinks he envies people the whole not-being-a-king thing, but shut up Hal, you're full of crap, you know you love it.

...I gotta think about the rest.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka doesn't want anything, she is a good jedi. Okay, actually she is hinting that having siblings and actual parents might be nice. I keep telling her my family is cra cra, but she's not buying it.

Rollo wouldn't mind my skills with reading and writing, as well as my bare bones bits of remembered high school French.

Sabine is somewhat jealous of my time studying art at a college.

Best I've got and I'm surprised I found that much. = ]

[bjornwilde]

And for my others who don't seem to covent any of my characteristics:
Eliot - Gets omnomalevolnce. Umm. Okay, things take a turn for the South for him in his canon but they don't go this badly.

Izana - Watch out Gozer, Izana is a key creator</>! Okay, that kind of works for them.

Hank - Ectoplasm generation. Why does Hank keep getting the short end of the mutation stick? Fur + Ectoplasm = Ick.

Selina - Copper manipulation. At first I didn't think this was that big, then I remember how much copper is used in construction and that she lives in Gotham. She's good.

Sam - I'm sorry, Sam. You get Bandersnatch physiology.

[genarti]

It really is an interesting question!

Enjolras... probably doesn't really wish he had any characteristics of mine. I don't mean that in a particularly self-deprecating way, but Enjolras is very secure in who and what he is. Even things that he admires in his friends and is fully aware he lacks -- some of which I do have, like a sense of whimsy -- I don't think he particularly wishes he were a different person who had that.

I mean, okay, he probably envies my access to things like Google and Wikipedia, but that's not really personal to me.

Cosette would quietly envy a lot of my freedom as a 21st century woman. Also, something similar to what Jane was saying about family: I know a lot of family history and family stories, not just of my parents' past but of my grandparents and further back, and I have a solid sense of where I came from, and I can talk to my parents as equals and ask them questions. She would be very envious of that, in a quiet semi-repressed way.

Thor is envious of my good relationship with my brothers. :D

...And okay, in terms of characteristics as is actually the question, I'm pretty level-headed and not prone to temper. He'd sort of half want more of that, and half be like BUT WHY NOT TEMPER THOUGH.

I have no idea for Kazul.

[genarti]

And for the superpower thing:

Enjolras now has Charisma Bestowal. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH WOW. Ability to bestow charisma and good reputation on other people, which cannot be used on himself! I'm sorry, I can't stop cracking up. He would want to either never use it ever or to use it on ALL HUMANITY SIMULTANEOUSLY FOREVER, no middle ground. (Edit: but only if it weren't something he had to personally keep sustaining, or anything him-centric like that. Otherwise, it's the world's most useless superpower because he wouldn't use it ever.)

And Kazul has Water Wave Emission. Cool! Good counterpart to the flame breath.

[i_am_your_host]

Hahaha I got nothin', so I just did the random super power for Emcee and got Dark Light Manipulation, which is kind of perfect for him on a symbolic level. He'd have to work hard at keeping it under control because it's a destructive force and doesn't want to use it for evil purposes. (Plus it would seriously screw up his relationship with Eric, lol.)

Pam got Galaxy Manipulation, which is also pretty powerful stuff. She could control how long nighttime lasts. Want to stave off sunrise for a while? You got it. Mwahaha. Daddy's proud.

Floki got Visual Linking, which would allow him to share his visual point of view with others, and vice versa I think. This is also perfect given the circumstances of season 4.

[onceaviking]

Daddy is so proud.

[maid_of_tarth]

Ooohhh, this one's tough.

For Brienne, I don't think she'd envy me anything, honestly. ETA: no, that's not true! She'd want to be friends with women in her own culture and not treated like a freak by them.

Fantine would want a steady job (while she was living, anyway) and, uh, better taste in men, probably. Jehan Prouvaire would want the ability to overcome shyness more regularly, and Combeferre might want less internal conflictedness (though not so much less that he would be doing less moral reflection than he thinks is required).

[clayforthedevil]

I mean Bahorel and Joly would both kill for the sort of voting rights I've got, so that's something.:P

But really aside from modern rights/comforts, none of my pups is really the sort to much wish they were someone else. But the super powers thing is cool!

Gringoire gets, uh, Crystalline Spike Protrusion? Which will definitely go wrong for him. Wow.

Joly gets Oxygen Creation, which is excellent for Science and Medicine! Pretty sweet.

hahaha, and Bahorel gets Enigma Force, which will totally amount to him having someone around to argue with all the time. He'd enjoy that.

[varadia]

HAH. X actually HAS Enigma Force. She could help Bahorel get used to it!!!! *solemn*

Also you get to turn blue. But the costume is all white, which . . . . not many people can wear that much white ALL THE TIME.

[genarti]

What do you mean, nothing ever goes wrong for Gringoire

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato has ended up with Demonic Wind Manipulation, which to be honest is an ability that would fit pretty well with the Garurumon line of evolutions anyway, so it works quite well for him.

Gabumon gets Food Entity Creation. This - this could go very wrong for a lot of people.

Hawke gets Alcohol Creation. Again, there's really no universe in which this ends well for him or anyone around him, but it'd at least be entertaining while it lasted.

Sherral gets Severing, which is apparently a conceptual attack with the ability to sever anything up to and including abstract concepts? That fits him pretty well, to be honest, in a slightly terrifying way.

Yugo gets Rainbow Fire Breath, which he might actually already have anyway. Well, apart from the rainbow-yness, at least.

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee wants to be bffs with Hawke with that power.

[mightbeagoodone]

Steve got Geo-thermokinetic Creature Creation, the ability to create creatures from volcanic magma. Because of course.

Furiosa got Recoil Manipulation, the ability to manipulate a recoiling gun. Given her shooting ability, it feels redundant.

Sherlock got Order Empowerment, the ability to be powered by order/weakened by chaos. That kind of seems the opposite of how he is. Maybe that's a good thing?

[crazyfurries]

>.> That Recoil Manipulation...does it only apply to her own hands or can she screw with other people's shots?

[ceitfianna]

I'm back and the holiday day traffic and people are starting to arrive. Its like that the weather's decided to be nice, but oh, there are going to be so many people down here. I can't think of anything of mine most of mine would want but I like the superhero one.

Will gets Crystallokinetic Constructs which he would be baffled by and not find helpful.

Charles gets Oneiric Immunity, being immune to dream based powers and he would appreciate that a lot as his control of his telepathy in terms of dreams isn't as strong as he'd like it to be.

Quentin gets Subatomic Manipulation, which would actually fit in well with his blood magic and illusion powers. Though its an incredibly scientific power, which would be weird in his world.

Sameth gets Memory World Creation which is a really creepy and hugely absurd power. I don't think he'd want it or know what to do with it. Charles probably has a small bit of that ability, not an entire world but a lot of memories.

William got Bimorphing which he wouldn't find useful, if he would make more of himself, that would help get more done.

Moist gets Pure Stellar Manipulation and he's not allowed to have it, that's far too much power for him but at least its not human manipulation. Though he'd probably use it to become a very sneaky god.

Jane gets Sky Lordship which is one that's interesting but I think she'd find it less helpful than control on the ground.

Demeter actually gets a power that she already has Symbiotic Transformation.

Ivan gets Energy Spike Protrusion and he's not interested, that's the kind of thing that causes attention. It could be helpful in a fight but still weird.

Tumnus gets Omni-Empowerment and he finds the idea of it too powerful and scary, not a good idea.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

I suppose it's cruel to say 'being in a pre-nuclear non-resource-exhausted world' for Ellen and Fawkes?

... on the superpower front Ellen gets Figurative Vocifery, and Fawkes gets Photosynthetic Blood, which must've made his time in Vault 87 miserable.

[andinfluencepeople]

Clint is only really jealous of having skills that aren't war related, but he's a dummy who doesn't realize he's already got them.

Chuck wishes he could transfer better between small and big picture, but not if it would sacrifice any of his small picture talent.

Darcy wishes she could math without Excel (though Excel is a gift from G-d, trufax).

Melinda wishes she didn't have people's lives relying on her -- I could up and run, and for the most part everyone would be okay.

That's all I got right now.

[harryhotspur]

Hotspur got Obsession Embodiment, which, uh. Is sort of already canon.

(i have to consider the rest more!)

[bjornwilde]

I am highly amused at the appropriateness of most of the powers people have been getting.

[hangingoutwithcrows]

hal got bubble manipulation

dammit

[hangingoutwithcrows]

...random super powers would be a pretty fun barwide plot, now that I think about it.

[i_am_your_host]

I agree! Just not the really dangerous ones that could could, like, accidentally implode the universe or maybe someone's head.

I'm just really dyyyying at Hal and bubbles.

[hecu_marine]

Um.

Shephard got Divine Slayer.

HIS LIFE IS WEIRD MYTHIC SHIT EVEN IN PURELY HYPOTHETICAL DE SITUATIONS.

[hangingoutwithcrows]

...Djehuty is not a fan of this.

[chanter1944]

Sariel might occasionally envy my more outgoing nature, but only occasionally. She's quite secure in her own personality. To late late laaaaate answer the reverse DE, I envy the heck out of her patois.

I clicked that superpower link, and Sariel got variable manipulation, as in manipulation of any and all variables in existence, and... wow. That is a metapower to end all metapowers, and not anything Sariel would ever want. Way too darn much potentially universe-wrecking influence, and way too much power period. Sentient being =/= deity-level power wielder, yeesh. If she were to use it, it'd only ever be on a smaller scale, thanks.

[student_of_impossibility]

Eriond doesn't need to.

Henry probably wishes he had my mathematics skills.

Evelyn probably wishes she had my relatively-uneventful life.

Lois... huh. I don't know. Maybe enough of my singing ability not to have her karaoke sound terrible? Or my spelling skills. Or my patience, which is slightly more than hers. But not much, Lois is pretty set.

R2-D2 might wish he had my ability to be understood by everyone so Threepio wouldn't be the only one to understand his swearing.

Anakin, uh, is a dumbass who wouldn't wish for anything of mine until after he's dead, and then maybe for my ability not to make only Terrible Life Choices.

Tavi, like Lois, probably doesn't really wish for much of mine. Also like Lois, potentially my musical and admittedly limited dancing abilities, since Kitai likes singing and dancing and my headcanon is that he has no understanding of music etc. Maybe my capacity for creating fictional stories? Maybe like Evelyn he envies my relatively uneventful life. But he's getting that now, too, so... I don't know? It is something of a plot point that he has come to terms with who and what he is, in basically every way, so.

EDIT: When I clicked the link to figure out what Tavi or Lois would get as they are the ones who legitimately wouldn't necessarily wish anything from me, I got Interrogation Intuition for Lois, which is arguably canonical because Lois, and Precognition for Tavi, which is literally canon. When I tried again, as that was useless, I got Hope Empowerment for Lois, which is again somewhat canonical (see conversation in Man of Steel about the shield meaning 'hope' and her schtick in general), and Spatial Manipulation for Tavi, at which point I ran away in terror before it gave me anything else because seriously no one wants that to happen.