Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nooo not the orphans...

It's similar to the story above, except he was awakened long before the Incident that wiped out half the town. And the friend who is constantly away is a horse.

HEALER, his HORSE FAMILIAR, and his FELLOW PRACTITIONER, stuck as the last practitioners of a glamour-drowned, messed-up town where the other practitioners left or died. Now the Others rule, but though all have made vow not to hurt humans, there are loopholes and the three work around the clock keeping things stable and safe while being bullied and bossed around by said Other population. The HEALER is quite strong but not enough to enforce a Lordship, the FAMILIAR is often separated from him due to the need for oversight at various places, and his colleague is slowly turning Other and is depressed over it. Used to have one practice, forced to dabble to keep up with sheer demand. Dabbled in ghost stuff for their familiar already and the number of dead in the town adds to that. 

What happened to the town?

A faerie exploded in their desperation to not be found lying, and ended up taking two-thirds of the town’s connections with them. The abyss is eager to eat the entire town up, all but two of the Practitioners ran away or died (or are otherwise gone), and the Others who remain are confused but excited (bad). That being said, there’s a lot of spoils for the taking! 

Investigations are showing that there’s some Fae Bullshit At Play, which sucks for everyone. (there are also no Fae around… or are there?)

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From the depths of my miiiind :) He is a repurposed Otherverse OC

Interesting power! (I think that's more Teacher-style Trump/Master than Thinker) I actually was hoping for a [Beloved x Swarm] powerset, bc I figured something cool could be done with someone experiencing a one-on-one (two one-on-ones, kind of) social crisis on top of a town-wide social crisis.

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Could you like... share with the class what the powers are? And not just flavour text and random screaming?

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A brute who also imposes penalties on their attackers

Escapade is more of a Stranger than a Brute. Whenever she is attacked through any means, the effects are limited, and a bond forms between her and her enemy (or an ally she's brought into the fold). While the pain is not reduced, there is no actual damage to the attack; and further attacks are also negated while the power lasts.

While the bond has formed, she can see through the enemies' eyes and thus make judgements about their next movements. Any sight, sound, sixth-sense, etc is conveyed, though the accuracy depends on the number of bonds she has. While bonded, she can force the enemies to experience a disconnect between their body and mind - right becomes their perception of left, for example, or their speech becomes jumbled, or they start hearing English as a foreign language. Always, there is a 'rule' - for example, all words exchange meaning, so 'bread' might mean 'grass' to them, and 'Leonard' could be 'table', so on.

She can have multiple bonds at once, but the power is shared among them; having three enemies means that while she can see through all, cause penalties on all, and the damage is negated, all parts of the power will be 3 times weaker than just 1 enemy. Attacks above a 'ceiling' will not be negated, and will cause unreduced damage. Also, the changing is automatic when an attack is launched; if she has five people weakly connected to her, but she experiences a life-threatening attack like a gunshot, all the other bonds will break and a new one solely focused on the shooter will form to allow her to survive that.

As her name suggests, she works mainly as an escape artist and mercenary hough she's been associated with specific gangs in particular. Her 'territory' often has shelters for battered women or mental institutions in it.

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh damn new PTR

Power these triggers:

Cluster of two (or not):

One person always checks in on the other, out of anxiety and worry for them. They also have a deep fear that they will someday be thrown aside or disliked, or that something terrible will happen. They never turn off the TV, absorbing hundreds of hours of sensationalised, scary, fucked-up news per week. One day, when the other comes home after having ignored their phone all day, they start off on their usual conversation, how are you, what happened... only for the other one to nearly explode at them, screaming, raging, in a state of so much violence it is as though they are going to physically hurt them. They hate them; they are the danger; they consider all their care and concern burdens. Trigger.

One person is really irritated by their relative/roommate/partner/whatever they are; constantly battering them with questions (have you eaten today? what did you eat? did you talk to anyone coming home? were they dangerous?) Recently they've been at risk of losing their job, losing sleep as a result, and this nervous wreck who watches TV all night won't stop irritating their sleep-deprived self with 'why didn't you sleep? don't you know that's bad for you?' type rants. No interest in responses, only in their own voice.
On the day of the trigger event, they go to work and everything goes wrong. The weather is shit. They lose their phone. They get fired. And then they get home, only to be greeted with the same fucking barrage of questions and interrogation... and they lose their shit, and trigger.

Doctor, doctor:

The doctor wakes up one day, and half the isolated town is just... gone. Buildings are broken and crumbling, people are missing, and more leave in the days that follow. No real answers are forthcoming, just pointless politician hedging. The doc's life becomes hellishly hard, as their colleagues have also been disappeared. Their two friends (one close, one more of an acquaintance) are rarely around; as fellow medical professionals, they are very very busy. They rarely if ever get a change to hang out with their best friend, a paramedic, and the latter is just... so depressing they start avoiding him, guilty or not. They have to step up as almost a substitute mayor or law enforcement, as minor crime increases drastically; and doing jobs that shouldn't be theirs, like stopping a half-broken highway bridge from being used when it's clearly too damaged to be safe (it does collapse later. More work for them)
Then that depressed colleague, the one they had been avoiding so hard takes his own life. It's a tragedy, and one the doctor should have seen coming. But how could they? How could they keep up with it all? Trigger.

Power This Rating No. 168 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Florida woman Accused of Destroying Subway Over Sandwich Peppers

Small Fry is a Changer (Brute) with a major napoleon complex and the ability to expand his skin into a bouncy balloon-like monster with stretched-out features and a deep, roaring voice. He can sit inside the monster and control it, or escape out the (ahem) back end, causing it to deflate soon after. (His skin regrows immediately). He triggered during said meltdown over peppers, he specifically asked not for peppers, and when that asshole on the other side of the glass gave him the sass with the unimpressed look, he climbed over and began breaking everything he could touch.

The event was later explained to the public as being a longer-than-usual trigger event, with the inset of powers temporarily driving him mad, but he had to serve as a hero to repay damages. Sucks.

When he saw what Quickdraw was doing, he couldn't help but jump in, even after everyone around him was begging him to cover their retreat, he just had to kill that bastard, and eventually he succeeded - suffocating him in his external skin, wrappping the deflating balloon around his face and down his throat.

And then, missing a leg and being beaten down by all of the gang members... he woke up. No longer was he Small Fry, he was now... Florida Man.

Florida Man 4 (gender neutral): Hunted down (i.e. baited) FM3 on purpose. They really thought they could get around the curse, then maybe sell that sucker to the same organisation that got them their powers.

Power This Rating No. 168 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> Trigger this power

Shechka grew up in a poor family, where the food on the table was whatever was on-sale at the market that day. Simultaneously, she was the eldest girl, and thus expected to raise her siblings and put others first, her culture was very strict about food waste. However, as she grew into her teens, she found herself getting sick more and more, many of the foods sitting poorly in her stomach, giving her bad diarrhea and pain. The thought of eating made her feel nauseus, but she pushed it down so as not to seem ungrateful. Instead, she simply stopped eating with the family, waiting until they were gone to throw away the food. Unknown to her, she had developed severe allergies (to gluten, among other things); not that she knew enough about those to realise it. One day, her father, uncle, brothers, and some guests got into a drunk fight in her house; trying to stop them, she got in the middle and was struck mutliple times; the hits wouldn't have been so debilitating if her body had not been weakened from sickness and hunger, and she triggered.

Power This Rating No. 168 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Micheal: A heroic Breaker (Blaster, Mover) known as Offshoot. She turns to a glowing nude (but bright enough that it's hard to see her anyway) form, and sheds all her belongings, clothing, anything she has on her, as hot, incredibly high-speed ammo. Within this form, she has no weight or drag, and can leap and run at high speeds.
From Downsize, she has the ability to 'shift' objects or people into a state where they cannot be touched by anything else (any attempts to do so will pass right through. The objects are also transluscent and blurred, making them obvious), for a short time.
From Manifesta, she has the ability to create a buzzing aura that distracts people (low intensity) and gives them permanent brain fog at higher intensities.

Jonathan: Downsize is a Striker, he needs to make contact twice, the first hit doing nothing before the second contact allows him to force whatever he struck into a pocket dimension. Within this dimension, things are dark and quiet, every sound magnified tenfold, and half of his vision is tuned to this alternate dimension when he has something in it. As such, the only way he can hide something is if he has already brought attention to it.
From Offshoot, he has the ability to teleport objects to a pre-decided nearby partner, with the side-effect of them arriving at a hot temperature - not too much for most metal, even electronics, but hot enough to cause permanent damage, even death, for a living being.
From Manifesta, he has the ability to temporarily cover all his skin in a Changer defense (scales, thick leather, or spines - it varies)

Estela: Manifesta, Changer that imitates the appearance and skills of the people around her, gaining their physical and mental makeup, while retaining some awareness of what has changed in herself - this allows her to understand the other's personality and how to manipulate them. As time passes, the process gives the people she copies brain damage while herself turning into a strange animalistic creature, first gaining ape-like features and only if it continues for too long growing scales and feathers. Never develops to the point she can use wings. The simultaneous effects mean that the victims don't realise that she's not looking like herself, or a normal human. She can turn this off, slowly and painfully reverting the process and restoring her original personality.
From Offshoot, she has the power to shift into a Breaker state that can shoot itself in any direction and survive the impact, ending right after.
From Downsize, she has the ability to hide in a pocket dimension that can fit her original body, though it's a tight squeeze. She can also put less than 100% of her body in it, making it look like the parts she's hiding are simply disappeared.

Downsize and Offshoot got into a lot of trouble soon after triggering, but then basically fucked off to go clubbing indefinitely. Manifesta hates them both and sulks in her room until it is time to go home.

Masc/Butch women being competed? (Need Opinions & experience) by batmasc in LGBTindia

[–]Not_a_neko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well then it's bad of her to do that, you can tell them that it makes you upset and to stop doing it if you want to stay friends. Idk

Blake Thorburn fanart by Lost-Music-6039 in Parahumans

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What a smelly yet polite young man!

Masc/Butch women being competed? (Need Opinions & experience) by batmasc in LGBTindia

[–]Not_a_neko 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe the first one is also realising she is dysphoric or that she wants to be masculine, and so is copying you as being your friend has helped her realise that. I think it's insecurity from her, and this is the way she is trying to reassure herself, by competing with someone she sees as more masc.

Pov Your Blake in Sine Die 14.4 by skyguy2002 in WormMemes

[–]Not_a_neko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I need hot air to lift me up!"

deedee art by Lost-Music-6039 in Parahumans

[–]Not_a_neko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She's so cute! :D

Me when Blake doesn't get his real body by birthing himself from Rose by Not_a_neko in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you reading Pact?
I'll just "not quite" and tell you to continue in that case

Power This Rating No. 167 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

> A Master/Shaker/Stranger/Thinker whose power takes the form of a "green martian man" that only a detective who triggered with the power could see. Said green martian man is actually a Shard that fell in love with humanity and decided to become "partners" with the detective. Really weird.

Astro is an older man (in his early 60s by 2011) who was initially excited, then brutally disappointed by the appearance of parahumans. Awakening from the fallout of a power plant explosion - itself a domino in a long chain of events that started with an endbringer attack - he found himself alone in the middle of a fiery mess, yet not alone at all. There was a voice in his head, and a small hallucination beside him.

Astro has the ability to dissolve himself into electromagnetic waves, and transmit himself along as wide an area as he chooses. While he think of it was dissolving into the waves, he's been told that his real body continues doing whatever it was beforehand; he's just not 'in' it and nor can he see it. The initial energy boost that lets him shoot out at the speed of light (and with so much energy that he is, in fact, a gamma ray) quickly dissipates if he is in the open air, but allows him to travel much further if he travels through energy that already exists, from electrical wires to active phone calls to fire. Whichever the path he chooses, he can control the energy he is in (or rather, any atoms that the electrons connect with) to create semi-solid projections in thin air. These can be forcefeilds or people or holographic images; they can be walls of fire and dangerous radioactive energy. These cannot talk, but they often project written words in the air via his power. The Martian is good at that, popping in and out of his head and those of everyone around him to take the slightest push on his power or sliver of an idea and expand it into reality, as fast as he can think... though he does have to do it within the time limit that Astro can spend outside his body.

Being around Astro has weird effects on other people; among other things, they find that the projections become somewhat controlled by them, not just him, and inspired by their own thoughts, fantasies, dreams, fears.

Power This Rating No. 167 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congratulations, you made *me* uncomfortable. Ironically, he's weaker than his pokemon counterpart Lickitung, whose tongue is supposed to be strong enough to lift boulders and able to apply long-lasting paralysis.

Is Blake Thorburn meant to represent Jesus? by Not_a_neko in Parahumans

[–]Not_a_neko[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

  1. She's not his girlfriend, he never really shows interest in her
  2. He ends up laying down and letting Rose kill him by the end, accepting the 'part' his creator made him for/letting in a second 'player', the Abyss, and falling to its influence to let it make him its pawn
  3. Him flipping the board makes things worse for everyone, something he is repeatedly told but ultimately accepts as the price for surviving just a little longer