If you could have one super power what would it be?

[mrsmarit]

Always has and always will be teleportation.

[Teefies2]

Some days, invisibility.


Some days, I'd love to have the power to make people realize how stupid they are.

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

[Seshat]

Even better: the ability to hand out common sense, sufficient intellect to be competent in the world, and social conscience.

By social conscience, I mean that thing that means that I don't cheat on my taxes, shoplift, etc. That I try to make the world a better place because I was in it. That I try to figure out the consequences of my actions and inactions. All that stuff.

.... and then I'd go to Canberra and start passing these traits out willy nilly.


(Note for those who don't know their Australian geography: Canberra is our federal capital. Equivalent to Washington DC.)

[fireheart]

I'm torn between flight and healing.

Flight because commuting to work would be SO. DAMN. EASY.

Healing would be more on a selfless layer as well and not only be physical, but psychological too. Things like helping those who are majorly depressed or majorly anxious.

Part of the latter was prompted today by watching Pokemon and watching what Meloetta could do with her song.

[Jester]

When it comes to that Jester, there is a much more useful power then invisibility. Mind Control. Not only could you have people not notice you, by controlling their minds so they don't... do almost everything on your list.. but instead of chancing getting wanted by the cops when you rob somebody..just have them give it to you instead

I see your point, but somehow that doesn't seem like as much fun. It seems like cheating almost. I dunno...maybe I just like the danger aspect to the things you could do with invisibility that would just be boringly easy with mind control.

Of course, there are certain times when mind control would be a good thing. Especially when some fuckwit is dating one of my nieces, and I just want him to go away. And by away, I may or may not mean "walking into waters that are known for having sharks."

[Sapphire Silk]

Super speed no question. Get my work done and out of the way quickly, so I can nap the rest of the day

[Kittish]

I'm torn. On the one hand, I've always wanted to be able to teleport. On the other hand, I'm possibly just a touch overly analytical and have this long laundry list of just how teleporting can go spectacularly wrong. Explosively, even. But then, there are also a ton of applications, depending on just how the ability works. For example, if you swap places with whatever mass is located in the spot you're teleporting to (and you really want to, even teleporting in open air. Bends anyone?), it has tremendous potential application for mining. Find a seam or pocket of whatever material, teleport right into the middle of it. Pop! And a you shaped chunk appears on the surface. Bamf! And you're right there right beside it to catch it before it can topple over and now there's a you shaped air pocket underground. If you can take more than just you with you when you teleport, it possibly makes inter-system and interstellar travel trivially easy. If you can't move the mass of a whole ship, you can use the trick to fuel and re-fuel your ship (just put a pressure suit on first, and make sure you keep it with you while you're popping back and forth between fuel tanks). You can easily simulate flight with teleporting. Just teleport a couple of miles up, free fall for a bit (a wing suit would probably be fun here), and when you're within a few hundred feet of the ground teleport back up again. Wheeeee! Though I think if you were moving at terminal velocity, it'd probably be a bad idea to try to teleport back to the ground. SPLORCH.

Invisibility I can already do. Learned that one way back when I was a kid and haven't forgotten the trick to it.

Telepathy is right out for what should be obvious reasons. It's dark and icky inside people's heads.

[Jester]

Invisibility I can already do. Learned that one way back when I was a kid and haven't forgotten the trick to it.

And the trick is.....???

Telepathy is right out for what should be obvious reasons. It's dark and icky inside people's heads.

Yes it is, but it is still oh so interesting!

[Kittish]

And the trick is.....???

Hmm, I think probably the best way to describe it is fading into the foreground. I just... do this thing where other people don't become aware of me, even if there's only me and one other person in a room. Now if I start acting silly, bouncing around and stuff, or actually touch someone, the invisibility fails. It's a lot harder to do with people that know me well or when I'm in a social situation I'm comfortable in (not many, that is).

[Kit-Ginevra]

I was going with the ability to make anyone do anything just by saying it.
girls take your tops off now
Or even thinking it...
girls take your tops off now
Subliminal messages would be cool
girls take your tops off now
But I think I'll go for the ability to swap into anyone else's body a la Quantum Jump.Endless fun.I want to be a millionaire with a mansion-just swap into them.I want to be a celebrity with hundreds of cheering fans screaming my name-just swap into them.I want to be a hot teenage blonde-just swap into....ooh look boobs!

[Akasa]

If you've been wondering about mine...
Portals.
They could be used like teleportation, or you could open a portal from point a to point b and place or take something. Also get in a fight, make a portal, shove their head through, close the portal.
Also, did you see Kitty making portals in the new X-men movie?

That just reinforced it in my mind.

[MoonCat]

Teleportation, so I could travel without having to put up with the sucky parts.

The ability to stop other people's incredibly annoying noise: Pounding music from passing cars, my idiot neighbors constantly slamming their doors and screaming, little kids that sound like they're being flayed with a dull knife when there's actually nothing wrong....etc.

I'd like to have more of a math-oriented brain, sometimes. To me, that's a super power!

[Ellain]

My top three:
3) teleportation
2) panlingual- I can communicate with any living being, by any method said being uses.
1) healing touch- I can heal by touch, similar to how Seshat described


Hey... Why am I topless?

[Kit-Ginevra]

Ah excellent.My work here is coming along nicely.Nice rack too *scampers off giggling*

[Mytical]

Another cool ability would be Time Manipulation. Here is just a sample how this could be used.

You could use it to slow/Stop time for everybody and everything around you. While you would not have superspeed/teleportation/etc it would appear to everybody that you have. Car swerves, is a split second from hitting you (or that baby in that baby carriage) you stop everything and get out of the way (or get the carriage out of the way). To the casual observer, it would seem that the vehicle just missed you.. when they were sure it was going to hit you.

Make your physical self older or younger at will. Stop your body from aging until you get bored, then let all that time catch up to you at once. Make others younger/older at will. That crook that has a gun pointed at you? Becomes a helpless infant. Would theoretically be able to heal a lot of things also, by simply reverting the body to the moment(s) before whatever happened happened.

Travel in time to observe things for yourself, while interfering would be a BAD THING.. observing should cause no troubles.

You could solve world hunger by accelerating the growth of food. Keep food fresh forever also. Help the oceans, forests, animals, etc repopulate rapidly so that no animals would ever need go extinct and the forests of the world would supply all the wood needed without shrinking.

Solve the worlds energy problems (though this I would advise against) by reverting the world to a point in time before man had started drilling for oil/ect. Solve the carbon polution problem by causing plants to more rapidly convert carbon to oxygen.

Never worry about trash heaps or such again. Pile things up, revert them to their previous state before being used, and send them back out again.

It would solve so many issues if used right, but if used wrong.. well could be disastrous.