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[Derpy Dev]

It's an internet fiction series ( see here ) by a person going by Wildbow that is probably one of the most imaginative takes on superpowered people I've ever seen. Give the first arc a read and see if you're not hooked. I myself have only gotten to arc 14. There's 30 overall.

If you do get hooked, I apologise in advance for murdering your free time.

If you don't feel like clicking the link, the protagonist is a girl who can control bugs. Not an interesting power you might think. It's the creative uses of said power that really make this series, along with the plethora of other genuinely unique reality bending powers, special.

Just overall great writing.

Just read the first chapter and I have to say it is pretty good! I never have been a fan of public school drama as a genre, so I didn't think it would catch me. But it did.

So. If you are like me, then I have two things to say to you.

1. Get a life.

Sigged.

Thanks.

[Jerick]

In a superpower RP forum, I'm playing a character who has instant and total knowledge of any action taken with the intent to harm someone else and any such action that has ever been performed. There are some limitations such as every part of a big overarching plan counting as one action and only registering when the plan is finished.
This power while nightmarishly terrible has a number of benefits;

• The character understands and can speak most languages that have ever been used to lie
• They have complete first-hand understanding of every fist-fight, military battle and full-scale war that has ever been fought
• They can know how to hack, hotwire or bypass pretty much any device or vehicle that isn't a brand new prototype
• They know exactly how to drive or fly any vehicle that has been used to cause harm
• They know most people they come across by name without needing to ask

So it's pretty useful or it would be if said character hasn't understandably barricaded themselves in their home in order to protect themselves from the now terrifing outside world.

[Derpy Dev]

In a superpower RP forum, I'm playing a character who has instant and total knowledge of any action taken with the intent to harm someone else and any such action that has ever been performed. There are some limitations such as every part of a big overarching plan counting as one action and only registering when the plan is finished.
This power while nightmarishly terrible has a number of benefits;

• The character understands and can speak most languages that have ever been used to lie
• They have complete first-hand understanding of every fist-fight, military battle and full-scale war that has ever been fought
• They can know how to hack, hotwire or bypass pretty much any device or vehicle that isn't a brand new prototype
• They know exactly how to drive or fly any vehicle that has been used to cause harm
• They know most people they come across by name without needing to ask

So it's pretty useful or it would be if said character hasn't understandably barricaded themselves in their home in order to protect themselves from the now terrifing outside world.

Huh. So if I were to play chess maliciously (don't ask) would you become an instant chess master, or would you just know how I played that game of chess?

[Jerick]

They'd know that one game. Of course, they'd know every single detail about that one game and if more people were to play chess maliciously (or do perform a malicious act in which a chess game features) it possible they could learn everything there is to know about chess.

[Derpy Dev]

They'd know that one game. Of course, they'd know every single detail about that one game and if more people were to play chess maliciously (or do perform a malicious act in which a chess game features) it possible they could learn everything there is to know about chess.

So it really requires the malicious chess game to be played in many different ways to master how to play chess in general. That's cool.

[hops]

Wait, is there a range? Like, would they pick up aliens?

[Jerick]

It has limitless range but for my own sanity only the malicious acts of thinking beings born on the planet earth count.

[Derpy Dev]

It has limitless range but for my own sanity only the malicious acts of thinking beings born on the planet earth count.

That makes sense. After all, knowing about every gladiatorial blood sport made by every alien race ever is pretty nauseating.

[Derpy Dev]

So on another forum I'm on, I found a thread where you could fill in a form and the OP would tell you what your super power would be based on your answer. He gave me this:

Your power is "Lock-maker". It is an ability that lets you create up to ten locker-shaped booby traps. They can shapeshift into any household object up to the size of a cat though. When someone steps on this booby trap or tries to pick it up (unless it's you), the booby trap immediately turns into a large set of chains that envelop the person that triggered it. The chains last for a whole hour before vanishing, and would require all the force of a moving truck to break.

I asked if it specifically only worked when stepped on or picked up and he said yes. How do you think this one could be used?

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Sounds like the kind of answer one would expect from a Vorlon. Great tool for a supervillan for preventing the good guys from fleeing or rescuing someone.

[MrRoboto75]

I asked if it specifically only worked when stepped on or picked up and he said yes. How do you think this one could be used?

Sounds like one of the stands in Jojo part three.  Essentially, it'd take the form of a electrical socket that the user can just place wherever.  When someone touches the socket, they would become magnetized, with their magnetic pull slowly becoming more powerful over time.  Eventually the victim would either get trapped or squished by all the metal around them.  The user had to stay close enough to 'maintain' the effect, but there wasn't any other limits.  She could effect multiple targets as well.

She fooled one of the characters into triggering the magnetics just by putting the socket in like the dumbest place ever ("Why does this rock have a socket?").  The second time had to do with some escalator-related shenanigans, but she placed it near the emergency stop button on the escalator.

[Bumber]

Space-time powers.
Wormholes, FTL (Alcubierre drive,) objects bigger on the inside, shrinking, disintegration (via increased empty space between atoms,) gravity negation, time dilation.
Probably doesn't allow going back in time (in a desirable way.)

[FallacyofUrist]

Freaking Stands.

[NRDL]

Freaking Stands.

If Jojo weren't such a dense manga I'd be blitzing all the online chapters just to get to the chapters where Stands start appearing. Seriously, I have never heard of a powerset more unique-sounding and ultra-hyped than Stands. It's like the powers themselves are separate characters.

[hops]

Freaking Stands.

If Jojo weren't such a dense manga I'd be blitzing all the online chapters just to get to the chapters where Stands start appearing. Seriously, I have never heard of a powerset more unique-sounding and ultra-hyped than Stands. It's like the powers themselves are separate characters.

Honestly just read the wiki.