Anyone can assign anyone else, including themselves, a superpower.
All superpowers are sovereign.
You can change the superpower you assigned someone else if you like.
RECIPIENT
- POWER [ASSIGNER]
Aikta Wahi
- Self-induced sleep [Brett]
Alex Henderson
- Can travel back in time five seconds (five seconds to recharge) [Brett]
- Powers of lightning (fury) [Alex]
- Can make bread rise or resurrect fallen bread (one in every 1,000 attempts will misfire and give Brett an approximately 30 minute erection) [Cameron]
- Can hover four inches above the ground [Megan]
- Can generate shockwaves with ~5KJ of energy twice per day [Daniel]
- May memorize one extra spell per day per caster level [Sean]
Alicia Gurley
- Perfect balance [Brett]
- Always has one cigarette left [Daniel]
- Personal opinion determines critical reviews/general esteem of any pop culture medium (books, film, TV shows, etc.) [Megan]
Amanda Hurley
- Has the only proper title to a djinn that will grant her seven wishes; the djinn is located in a lamp at the bottom of the sea in an unknown location; she is unable to give any indication to anyone that she is looking for something in the ocean [Brett]
- Can replicate calico cats under 6 weeks of age [Daniel]
- For one day per month, can make a person of her choice see themselves completely accurately & objectively [Megan]
Amy Olson
- An incredibly extensive arsenal [Brett]
Anna B-R
- Sex is always amazing [Brett]
- Can summon a horned helmet and whale-bone javelin at will [Daniel]
- War cry resounding for miles [Megan]
Anna DeWitt
- Astigmatism [Brett]
Annie Blakeney-Glazer
- Dances better than anyone else in the room [Brett]
- Can dehyphenate surnames [Daniel]
- Excellent intuition for midwifery [Megan]
Bobo Deng
- When talking to people in person, knows what they least want her to [Brett]
Breniecia Reuben
- Can pinpoint the location of any post-pubescent female within 50 miles [Brett]
- Can make any marinade perfectly [Megan]
- Can survive tornadoes, hurricanes and any other rotating meteorological phenomenon [Daniel]
Brent Williams
- Excellent gaydar [Brett]
Brett A. Bumgarner
- Social capital [Brett]
- Anything made eventually turns out just as wanted [Kate]
- Powers of amber (preservation) [Alex]
- Knowledge of all components of all songs [Cameron]
- Truly probing questions elicit honest answers [Megan]
- Can carry on as many conversations at once as needed [Tim]
- Can deliver messages via cats that paint [Jankers]
- Can turn anything into psilocybin mushrooms when sober [Daniel]
- Never encounters pot holes [Alicia]
- Has visionary prescience of clothing about to enter his life [Jared]
- Can wink at someone and control their mind for 10 minutes [Jen]
- May throw urticating hairs at attackers if disturbed [Sean]
Brice McGowan
- Can't get bored [Brett]
Cameron Hartofelis
- Has no necessity for many bodily functions (eating, breathing, sleeping, drinking, sweating, burping, sneezing, coughing, vomiting, urinating, defecating, menstruating and ovulating) [Brett]
- Perfect first impression of what someone is really like upon meeting them [Kate]
- Powers of vegetation (entanglement) [Alex]
- Queen of the cats [Cameron]
- For one hour a week, can make anyone else see things from her perspective [Megan]
- Can create artificial sunlight at any time of day or night for 30-35 seconds [Daniel]
Catherine Kronk
- Can allow one animated character at a time to become real [Brett]
- Always remembers to turn off the lights [Alex]
Chelsea Flowers
- Can draw a perfect circle [Brett]
- Can turn strawberry jam into raspberry jam [Megan]
- Can sell anything to anyone for any price, given that the buyer is a crackhead and/or Batley from Eureka's Castle [Daniel]
Chris Erb
- At the moment of most import in his life, a mysterious and wise old crone will approach him with an omen he would be wise to take heed of [Brett]
- Can create and destroy Stalin doppelgangers when struck [Daniel]
Chris Lauderdale (Dr. Feathers)
- Can guess anyone's astrological signs [Brett]
Cole Goins
- Smells like what is most inviting to each individual [Brett]
- Can surf the internet with 56k dialup speed on any computer connected to the internet [Daniel]
Colin Fleisher
- Can bear children yet retain the same physical body [Brett]
- Can see the past [Daniel]
- Hates cockroaches [Megan]
Daniel Fleisher
- Can communicate with the dead if in the place they were put to rest [Brett]
- Has bat wings that attach under his arms and allow him to fly [Kate]
- Powers of fog (occlusion) [Alex]
- Can see in any light [Megan]
- Can enthrall people with anything he's writing and it's meaning and intent is always lucid [Tim]
- Can warm the heart of a recalcitrant child [Jankers]
- Can make yogurt factories go under [Daniel]
Dave Moore
- Skilled metalworker [Brett]
David Brown
- Can like anything if he wants to [Brett]
- Irresistible to kickdogs [Daniel]
- Prescient knowledge of approaching people whenever in an embarrassing/compromising situation [Megan]
David Hardee Watkins
- Wolf animagus [Brett]
- Speaks every variation of British dialect immaculately [Alex]
- Can make bats listen [Daniel]
Dustin Baugham
- Is friends with Lea Thompson [Brett]
Emily McKendry-Smith
- Levity [Brett]
Emily Morton
- Once a year, can apprehend America's most wanted fugitive without experiencing serious harm [Brett]
- Elicits fear in predators [Megan]
Emily Withers
- Can grow and un-grow a mustache in any styling [Brett]
- Can emit a warm and balmy glow from her hands [Megan]
- Can understand all orbits (e.g. Kepler's laws) [Daniel]
Eric Foss
- Rapport modulation [Brett]
Erin Watson
- A small vole lives inside her abdomen which she can regurgitate and swallow back (neither unpleasant); it can do her bidding and report back to her; if it dies, she gets another [Brett]
- Opposable toes [Megan]
- When in the presence of solar-powered machines, can occasionally see through them [Daniel]
Esther
- Expanding throat - can swallow eggs whole! [Brett]
Eugene Yacobson
- Has knowledge of what all people honestly think about him, even if they don't know themselves [Brett]
- Ultimate empathy [Megan]
- Can inflict Delhibelly on invertebrates [Daniel]
- Always comes when beckoned [Alex]
Forrest Oliphant
- Controlled somnambulism [Brett]
Frank Gallaugher
- Knows all institutional rules that apply in his spatial and temporal existence [Brett]
- Will die with honor [Megan]
- Has the power to make sense. Ever. [Daniel]
Garrett Davis
- Loved by all children [Brett]
Heather Livengood
- With her thoughts, can (1) kill people, and (2) resurrect and summon the dead directly to her (resurrections will be as they were a month before they died) [Brett]
- Affinity for Jews [Daniel]
Helen Kearns
- Can brew coffee that gives people extremely vivid and memorable dreams determined by how she brews and serves the coffee [Brett]
- Sonar [Megan]
- A green thumb [Alicia]
- Can inflict mild myopia on Brett A. Bumgarner for several minutes once per day or when stressed [Daniel]
Hunter Simpson
- Can assign truancy penalty immunity [Brett]
Isaac Sandlin
- Hears envy [Brett]
Jacob McLean
- A daily, novel, humorous anecdote [Brett]
Jadrian Miles
- Musk [Brett]
- Tusks [Daniel]
Jankers
- Punctuality [Brett]
- Eternally clean socks and underwear [Kate]
- Infinite arithmetic abilities [Megan]
- Can get to the logical root of any problem [Tim]
- Can generate and restore light in literal and metaphorical senses [Daniel]
Jared Brothers
- Two lives but no save point [Brett]
- Can transport himself through stone [Jared]
- Can switch back and forth between male and female genitalia at will [Megan]
- Is stone [Daniel]
Jason Maxwell
- Can pass as a statuesque, thirty-something female [Brett]
- Can temporarily deactivate a single power of an acquaintance if angered [Daniel]
- Can seduce 5 people of his choice in his lifetime [Megan]
Jen Choi
- Birds pick up spare change for her [Brett]
Jen Toledo
- Can live the life of a 17th century British sea captain when she so pleases [Brett]
- Can use any musical instrument as a flying device [Jen]
Jenny Cigmalia
- Origami takes on the properties of the folded animal [Brett]
Jesse Anderson
- Propriety [Brett]
- Lives in the Bog of Eternal Stench [Daniel]
Jonah Garson
- 25% improved odds at games of chance [Brett]
Jonathan Page
- Bird's-eye view [Brett]
Jordy
- Has a safety place in the outskirts of southern Sydney he can teleport himself to (takes several minutes to manifest) [Brett]
- Can make his hands look like anyone's hands [Megan]
- Can regrow own teeth [Daniel]
Jose Boyer
- Can control how sober he is [Brett]
- Can grow roots 3-5 feet into soft earth [Daniel]
- Can transmute kale into the same mass of any other type of food of his choosing [Megan]
Josh Dull
- No scent or taste is too cloying, and is instead too peppery [Brett]
- Satyr legs [Megan]
- Public transportation runs on his time [Alicia]
- Wings too small to actually carry him to the heavens [Daniel]
Kareen Boncales
- Gets every joke [Brett]
- Power to be known to Daniel Fleisher [Daniel]
- Disarming [Megan]
Kareena Jasso
- Can elude security guards with ease [Brett]
Kate Wheeler
- Can remember everything, effective retroactively [Brett]
- Powers of sunlight (restorative radiation) [Alex]
- Shoes that always endure, always protect and are always perfectly worn in [Cameron]
- Power over one ungulate at a time (can communicate with it and it will do her bidding) [Megan]
- Can make any prescriptivism obsolete [Jankers]
- Once per week, can view and store the entire genetic code for any species [Daniel]
- May perform reverse osmosis as if it were regular, forward osmosis [Sean]
Katie Almirall
- Can't be embarrassed [Brett]
Katie O'Neil
- A large dowry [Brett]
Keith Hodson
- Has a Pegasus [Brett]
Kenton deAngeli
- Always gets to be the designated driver [Brett]
- Can survive syphilis [Megan]
- Can survive [Daniel]
Kevin Clark
- Coldblooded [Brett]
Kevin Michael Clair
- Can change anything’s color [Brett]
- Can only immolate oneself in libraries all of whose books are composed entirely of blank pages [Daniel]
- Control over all water (position, grouping [e.g. can condense all water out of the air, create tsunamis, etc.]). Basically the Magneto of water. [Megan]
Kevin Wood
- Can always find closure [Brett]
Kristen Orr
- "The Rachel" [Brett]
Kristen Pallotta
- Can identify future stroke victims [Brett]
- Everyday, can make any two books disappear forever (only that copy) [Daniel]
- All clothes are flattering on her [Megan]
Larsy
- Can make bubbles come out of her mouth that last up to a day [Brett]
- Extra vagina on roof of mouth [Daniel]
- Paws instead of feet [Megan]
Lauren Brenner
- Divining rod [Brett]
Laurin Gioglio
- Expert scrimshander with infinite whalebone supply [Brett]
- Can detect all masons within 50 meters [Daniel]
- Can communicate with the person on the exact opposite side of the world from her, if there is a person at that spot at the moment of attempted contact [Megan]
Leilani Trowell
- Can temporarily relieve herself of all stress [Brett]
- Can't fly [Daniel]
- Can slightly change the appearance of one body part (of hers) at a time (when changing another, the first body part returns to original appearance) [Megan]
Libby
- Dignified composure in times of grief [Brett]
Lillian Morris
- Commands respect [Brett]
Liz Yockey
- Can forget anything she wants to [Brett]
- Can spit pure RNA [Daniel]
- Can levitate all vegetables at will [Megan]
Llael Maffitt
- Can survive intense cold [Brett]
Lockamy
- Will always be generously tipped when working in the service industry [Brett]
- Poisonous [Daniel]
- Excellent at all Vaudevillian performances [Megan]
Matt March
- Always knows the exact time [Brett]
- Can be distinguished from Will Moore [Daniel]
- Welcomes people with warmth and cheer [Megan]
Matt Thomas
- Can summon rainbows [Brett]
Meg Lyon
- On every new moon, experiences the life of an elderly invalid for a day, and shall return to her life without any actual time having passed [Brett]
- The biting strength of a man [Daniel]
- Can emit sparks [Megan]
Megan Somerday
- One and only one established being of mythology must be in play at all times as summoned by Megan (e.g., a mermaid, Santa Claus, Yahweh or a vampire) — beings that exist only in the plural may be summoned as such [Brett]
- Can end any argument/discussion with one irrefutable statement [Kate]
- Powers of clouds (neutralization) [Alex]
- Can immediately summon any one person (known personally to her) at any time [Tim]
- Can evoke whimsy with a pointed look [Jankers]
- Can speak and understand all human languages [Daniel]
- Infinite disarming charisma [Megan]
- Prescience of spills [Liz]
- Can control electricity [Jen]
- May measure position and momentum simultaneously [Sean]
Melanie Singer
- Lays eggs – a random variety every time! (nothing with an exoskeleton) [Brett]
Michael Harwood
- Can fit into smaller spaces than one would expect [Brett]
Michael O'Shea
- Fortune cookies always come true [Brett]
Mike Lebov
- Debonairness [Brett]
Montgomery Morris
- Speaks Esperanto [Brett]
Nate
- Appliqué [Brett]
Nebula Li
- Stilts [Brett]
Nicole Bittner
- Excellent instinct for the stock market [Brett]
nickd
- Knows the extent of his abilities [Brett]
- Banished from Chicago [Daniel]
Nick Snyder
- Loves Gallagher [Brett]
Niky Ring
- Alacrity [Brett]
- Werewolf blood (detectable by sorcerers and clerics) [Daniel]
- Reasonable knowledge of aquatic creatures [Megan]
Nureena Faruqi
- Can make blood come out of any orifice [Brett]
- Venomous fangs [Megan]
- Bulldozer-proof (though I know she's not a Palestinian :D) [Daniel]
Owen Fitzgerald
- Red-green colorblind [Brett]
Palmer
- Can survive off mosses and lichen [Brett]
Parks
- An uncommonly mordant wit [Brett]
- Can pave flat areas at will [Daniel]
- Glows in the dark [Megan]
Patrick Reynolds
- Irrefutable evidence for all things he is wrongfully accused of [Brett]
Paul Smith
- Wins every award he is nominated for (up to 25 nominees) [Brett]
- Intimate knowledge of all buggery [Daniel]
- Can survive in space with no protective gear [Megan]
Princess Ojiaku
- Friends with Ghostwriter [Brett]
- Can temporarily acquire the characteristics of another and a concomitant indicator of that person (think Kirby) [Megan]
Rayven Plaza
- Can control how much physical pain she feels [Brett]
Reece McGowen
- Every month, gets to pick a day where it goes as it would have, yet is only for practice [Brett]
- Can swim and dive through the earth, as a dolphin can through water [Reece]
Robin Sinhababu
- Speed-reading [Brett]
Ronnie Johnson
- Can approach and pet herbivores without intimidating them [Brett]
- Perfect navigational skills (perfect internal compass and map) [Megan]
- Total immunity to contagion [Daniel]
Ros Schwartz
- Frightens people [Brett]
- Has 'It' [Megan]
Sarah Wilson
- Can accurately assay her ability to seduce others [Brett]
- Has the most pleasantly soft skin and hair of all time [Megan]
- Metal fingertips (perfect for shredding! (on a guitar!)) [Daniel]
Seamus
- Stealth [Brett]
Sean Hill
- Revolutionary cellist virtuoso who will always be regarded as the cellist of most import should he choose to capitalize on his skill [Brett]
- Can temporarily legally change name to Hean Sill [Daniel]
- Uncommonly flexible [Megan]
- Can jump any height as long as doing so is in response to an explicit challenge [Sean]
Stanton Kidd
- Never gets nauseous [Brett]
Stefan Mlot
- Can restrict people's bodily movements with his mind [Brett]
Steph Russ
- Tastes like each person's favorite ice cream flavor [Brett]
- Can smell fear [Megan]
Susannah Tysor
- Immunity to headaches [Brett]
- Sterility stare [Susannah]
- Can make locking joints unlock if needed [Daniel]
Susie Simpson
- Parseltongue [Brett]
- Can shed skin all at once (think: snakes) [Daniel]
- Vertical, transparent eyelids (never has to blink!) [Megan]
Tess Pendergast
- Hibernates [Brett]
Tessa Lee
- Can always find a safe ride when hitchhiking [Brett]
- Can perceive all objects as if they were coated in Vaseline [Daniel]
- An unquenchable thirst for knowledge [Megan]
Tim Stallmann
- All things that belong to him will automatically be neat, clean and organized [Brett]
- Has knowledge of interesting secret places nearby [Kate]
- Can recast any situation in a positive light to himself and others [Megan]
- Can convince anyone of anything about himself if speaking to him/her in person [Tim]
- Can restore English longbowmen's fingers that have been cut off [Jankers]
- Can fold space and time three times in his life and create a separate copy of himself that will live its own life, but he will know what it is doing [Daniel]
Tony Shaff
- Can conjure craved foods [Brett]
Travis Smith
- Excellent rhythm [Brett]
Tyler Boyd
- Whatever he wears is automatically the most stylish [Brett]
- Can jump slightly higher than he currently can [Daniel]
- Can change minute details of already-recorded songs at his pleasure [Megan]
Tyler Thomas
- Perfect knowledge of everything's location outside the Earth's atmosphere [Brett]
- Color coordination [Alicia]
- Knows the full life-story of every character in Harry Potter but doesn't care [Alex]
- Platemail [Daniel]
Will Moore
- Sings with a beautifully plaintive voice [Brett]
Zachariah Cox
- A noble bloodline [Brett]
Zane Beckwith
- Hospitality [Brett]
- Can cartwheel for miles without stopping [Daniel]
- Subtlety [Megan]
6 comments:
I did not assign myself ulitmate emapthy. I haven't decided yet. Excuse me.
I'm pretty sure Daniel's power for me is actually a Borges story. Can someone get a guy at Carnegie Mellon to do some text mining to prove me right
weird, i didn't re-post this. oh well, it's a classic!
i particularly like the one you gave tessa, megan
*I* re-posted it!
well i figured that out...i love the one you gave matt march!
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