I just wish other people would mix up their ethnic characters a bit more. There's a really heavy trend toward linking superpowers with ethnicity. Sure, do that, roots matter. But do some other stuff too. African-descended characters often have primal powers such as animal traits. I have Lakia, who has a tail and Neural Blast. I even have a soup who actually IS an African elephant, Hercules. But I've also got Boss White (Telepathy), Danso (Superpower Manipulation), Dazzlecat (Shapeshifting: Ocelot Form), Jolt (Control Electricity), Fiddlesticks (Super-Speed), Gallium Gal (Liquid Metal Form), the Gingerbread Man (Teleportation), Lieutenant Brown (Regeneration), the Muffler (Power Nullification & Empathy), and Saraphina Dreux (Soul Powers).
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I just wish other people would mix up their ethnic characters a bit more. There's a really heavy trend toward linking superpowers with ethnicity. Sure, do that, roots matter. But do some other stuff too. African-descended characters often have primal powers such as animal traits. I have Lakia, who has a tail and Neural Blast. I even have a soup who actually IS an African elephant, Hercules. But I've also got Boss White (Telepathy), Danso (Superpower Manipulation), Dazzlecat (Shapeshifting: Ocelot Form), Jolt (Control Electricity), Fiddlesticks (Super-Speed), Gallium Gal (Liquid Metal Form), the Gingerbread Man (Teleportation), Lieutenant Brown (Regeneration), the Muffler (Power Nullification & Empathy), and Saraphina Dreux (Soul Powers).
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July 12 2015, 07:37:06 UTC 5 years ago
Tell me about Superpower Manipulation please?
Thoughts
July 12 2015, 07:48:09 UTC 5 years ago
Yeah, that's a favorite.
>>And then there's my Lyria character, who is a super genius. That manifests a little differently on a world with technology that operates on magic, than it would here. Here, she'd probably be richer than Bill Gates and Steve Jobs combined.<<
:D
Over in Terramagne, a driving factor behind the technological differences comes from gizmologists, super-gizmologists, and super-intellects. They have amassed a lot of wealth and power, and they put it into their fields of passion. (The big names are running about 60% male and 40% female; although the gift manifestation is gender-equal, they still have a leaky pipeline problem.) Due to this concentration of wealth, the actual amount of money feeding into those industries is even bigger because they aren't just supported by government funds. The world's three richest people are all gizmologists (Bill Gates in America, Carlos Slim Helu in Mexico, and Annunciata Ortega in Spain); the fourth is a super-gizmologist (Aaron Buffer in America); the fifth (Lars Wilson in America) and sixth (Cheryl Kocinski in America) are super-intellects. Ordinary people bitch about this all the time, but the plain fact is, talent pays off sometimes.
>> Tell me about Superpower Manipulation please? <<
It allows someone to bestow, remove, or otherwise modify superpowers. Danso can do it with ordinary qualities too. Superpower Manipulation is the macro talent. Things like Power Bestowal and Power Nullification are sub-talents. It's rare.
Re: Thoughts
July 12 2015, 08:10:39 UTC 5 years ago