December Meme Day 4: Favorite type of superpowers
It's stillll the fourrrrrth...
Requester yifu asked "Favorite type of superpowers?"
The question here being favorite type of superpowers to have, or favorite type of superpowers general? It's cool, I'll answer both.
My favorite type of superpowers in general is the ability to see the future. I mean, think of the stories! Imagine being able to see the future but not being able to change it in any way. If you know what's going to happen, you're never going to be surprised, but also helpless. How would you come to believe you couldn't change the future? What would make you try anyway?
And what if you see only snippets of the future? Or only a possible future? How would you live your life knowing that? Would you try to avert the bits you saw? Would you try to bring them about? Would you do nothing, believing you can't affect it? SO MANY STORIES YOU GUYS OMG. I love future-seeing powers.
THAT SAID I would legitimately never want those powers ever. They're frustrating and painful and very likely to drag you into an upsetting story where lots of people die and you know about it and can't stop it. I do not want to live that. I'd much rather be able to teleport, because then I could see all you lovely people and move painlessly and work anywhere in the world and still sleep in my own bed at night.
Plus I could go all the places in the world that I want to go without having to take planes. I hate flying so much for someone who actually likes to go to new places.
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Requester yifu asked "Favorite type of superpowers?"
The question here being favorite type of superpowers to have, or favorite type of superpowers general? It's cool, I'll answer both.
My favorite type of superpowers in general is the ability to see the future. I mean, think of the stories! Imagine being able to see the future but not being able to change it in any way. If you know what's going to happen, you're never going to be surprised, but also helpless. How would you come to believe you couldn't change the future? What would make you try anyway?
And what if you see only snippets of the future? Or only a possible future? How would you live your life knowing that? Would you try to avert the bits you saw? Would you try to bring them about? Would you do nothing, believing you can't affect it? SO MANY STORIES YOU GUYS OMG. I love future-seeing powers.
THAT SAID I would legitimately never want those powers ever. They're frustrating and painful and very likely to drag you into an upsetting story where lots of people die and you know about it and can't stop it. I do not want to live that. I'd much rather be able to teleport, because then I could see all you lovely people and move painlessly and work anywhere in the world and still sleep in my own bed at night.
Plus I could go all the places in the world that I want to go without having to take planes. I hate flying so much for someone who actually likes to go to new places.
This entry is crossposted at http://bookblather.dreamwidth.org/227656.html. Please comment over there if possible.