An attempt at creating a meme of sorts.

[flewellyn]

Okay, here's the deal: it's a simple three-question memey-type thingy.

Question the First: If you could have any one super power, what would it be, and why? What would be the origin of this super power? Would it be natural, learned, or have a contrived and convoluted origin, ala "radioactive spider"?

Question the Second: Given that you had the above super power, what would you do with it? Would you fight crime, evil, and injustice? Perform public services? Do superpowered performance art? Become a supervillain and try to take over the world? Or just be a lazy schmoe who used the power to coast through life?

And, Question the Third: What would your superhero/villain/whatever name be? Or would you use your own name? And would you wear a costume? What kind? Would you have a sidekick, or henchmen/women/robots/mutants?

Answer in comments!

limpingpigeon, you still have to answer, even though I know what you'd say. :-)

Comments

[momily.livejournal.com]

The first: That's so easy, because I actually spend a fair amount of time wishing HARD that I had this superpower, so here goes: I would be able to project, convincingly, for any length of time, and to affect any number of people, a completely believable visual/auditory/tactile hallucination.

Applications I've lusted after so far: In traffic, I could suddenly appear to be a cop driving a cop car. I could invoke a hallucinatory air horn blast to scare the shit outta someone who is driving badly.
In a dangerous street situation, I could appear to be a large, heavily armed and armored male warrior, along with some spectacular effects such as thunder, rain, lightning, etc.

You get the idea, I'm sure.

The Second: I guess I've already answered that question - what I would do with my superpower is protect myself and others from the Forces of Stupidity.

The Third: No need to change my name, or my clothing, because I could appear to be wearing anything I wanted. Heck, I could spend a day looking like a really hot chick with a hard body and blonde hair, wearing almost nothing!!!

The runner-up to my superpower preference would be the ability to instantly acquire any knowledge/skills/talents from anyone I come in contact with. You can play piano at the professional level? So can I, now. You know how to speak fluent Chinese? Me too, now. You have spent your life unravelling the secrets of the cosmos? Thanks for the info, dude.