Question The Bad Ideas thread

This is directly related to my daughter.

Little Helper
A big guy, manifests a tiny five year old little girl 'helper', who is always ready to help.
This little girl will defend the big guy from all dangers, using all the skill and strength of a five year old. Generally getting in the way, tugging at someone, and telling them to stop being bad. This danger could be teasing from a friend, an angry boss yelling at him, or a crazy raging mutant.
She will also do whatever she thinks is helpful. This can be relaying messages, "You have to um... uh... go to the kitchen... and... um, one minute I'll be right back!" Taking care of a sick relative, "Come on lets go to bed. You need to go to sleep now. Come on," and tugging on their arm until they give in. Or simply giving a hug.
Unfortunately as a five year old the helper is easily distracted, often demanding of things, especially legos, juice, and stories, has all the capabilities of a five year old, and is never more than a fifty meters away, usually closer.
If she does get in over her head, she'll reappear ten minutes later as good as new.

"Child Porn officer? There is no child here, just a manifestation...."

A Hair-kinetic, capable of manipulating the hair of anyone within a few yards of them. As a hero, this quickly leads to a city of bald criminals.

Cryptic wrote: "Child Porn officer? There is no child here, just a manifestation...."

Well that got disturbing very quickly.

Domoviye wrote:

Cryptic wrote: "Child Porn officer? There is no child here, just a manifestation...."

Well that got disturbing very quickly.

I was watching Law and Order SVU today, so yeah.

If the manifested child looks realistic enough that they have to explain that it is not real, then pornography involving that manifestation would probably still be illegal under the PROTECT Act of 2003 (technically that particular rule only applies to computer-generated images, but it probably wouldn't take long in the WU for it to be extended to cover illusions, manifestations, and other such methods).

If the manifestation is not photo-realistic, then it is not automatically illegal, but it still has to pass the Miller test for obscenity.

Domoviye wrote: This is directly related to my daughter.

Can we please leave the pornography discussion well behind us please. It's creepy.

Let's talk about my hair-kinetic instead!

I actually think it would be kind of interesting if a specific hero's power required all the villains in the area to dress or act a certain way, how it would then cast suspicion on everyone in the area who naturally looked like that (in this case, bald).

Yup, that tangent was an actual bad idea. Moving on....

I don't post many of my own ideas in this thread. Mainly because all of my ideas are good ideas. But I have a file full of corny bit characters I've come up with for future stories, and I'd like to post some of their names since I probably won't get around to using them for a while, and they may lighten the mood.

Beodawg
The High Fructose
Ramen Shamen
Ventrillocricket
Super Yooper
Menaced Meat
Monagoose

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Let's talk about my hair-kinetic instead!

I actually think it would be kind of interesting if a specific hero's power required all the villains in the area to dress or act a certain way, how it would then cast suspicion on everyone in the area who naturally looked like that (in this case, bald).

I'm actually planning out a non-Whateley story right now, and one of the street gangs is named "The Cueballs" because they all shave their heads. It hadn't yet occurred to me that I should consider the impact that has on other bald folks in the neighborhood. Thanks for mentioning that.

Ventrillocricket-Normal crickets chirping drives people crazy, trying to locate them due to a natural echo effect, at least from what I can tell from all the times I've tried finding them based on sound. Imagine someone with the superhuman power to do that with any sound they generate. Bad name, but not a bad idea if you think about it.
I bet you can come up with power concepts for the other names which would make them dangerous or annoying foes to deal with.

Mongoose,
An unapproved genetic experiment where a female mongoose was mutated into a cute half human mongoose with human intelligence. She ran away from the strange furry scientist who wanted to make her his bride and took to the street.
She learned how to fight from the Marital Artist, who took Monagoose in as an apprentice after seeing her move.
Now she is a a model for adult magazines and artists by day and a crime fighter by night. However there has been a huge upswing in nonviolent crimes, where criminals seem to wait for her and even call her out, so she can deliver her intimate brand of justice.

Note: she once did a pilot for a reality tv show called Mutant Justice. But it was heavily censored and ultimately banned from tv. However it's a smash hit amongst adult video stores, and there's talk of making a sequel.

Name: Tekhe (working name)
Description: Sidhe Mech-devisor, has to use natural and mystical matterials for the primary or coating materials of most devises on account of Sidhe allergies, only dabbles into biologics for base materials, and then only after some nasty reactions, and trips to Doyle. Freshman year was hell, being Sidhe she has the Wizard trait, and has to take the magic track, however as a mech-devisor, its hard to get her out of the mech-lab, which is filled with synthetic materials, and having, albeit a relatively minor case of Diedrick's, well stuff happens, usually when she attempts to integrate magic with devises, eventually of course, instead of trying for direct integration, by the time of her freshman spring combat final, she figured out that using trigger mechanisms to interface magic and devise can be effective, thus now when she dricks out, it takes both the magic and tech types to counter- safely, fortunately this is a rare occurrence.


notes, early creations used a good amount of wood, and cloth so the issue was more getting Tekhe out before she burned herself, now its more of an enchanted devisor wood, enchanted to be fireproof and devised for the strength, a lot of Mystic types don't trust her because she's a devisor, a lot of Tech types don't trust her because of the Wiz trait, after she started with the trigger interface though, many wished they were more friendly to her, funny how that works...

Feel free to use any of my bad ideas, I'm not much of a writer, but I do read Fanfiction

A Devisor/Gadgeteer, that can't test their tech 'cause they project a field against it. Like a Teleporter Gadgeteer that constantly projects an Anti-Teleport Field

Or a Bio-Dev... Well, can be any kind of Dev/Gadg, but some fields are more deadly, like an Anti-Electric or Anti-Combustion field.

An MtF transformation that actually does come with an instruction manual! They have words printed on their body that explain things like how to use tampons and put on make-up, and what sorts of social cues they'll have to expect now.

Of course, some of these instructions may appear in embarrassing or hard to reach places. Or in public places (like arms and face) where you really wouldn't want explanations of personal female hygiene appearing, no matter how useful the advice might be.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: An MtF transformation that actually does come with an instruction manual! They have words printed on their body that explain things like how to use tampons and put on make-up, and what sorts of social cues they'll have to expect now.

OH! Like Domoviye's Page, but Paragon/Scry/Precog/Whatever text on her skin instead of transcribing Telepathy!

Malady wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: An MtF transformation that actually does come with an instruction manual! They have words printed on their body that explain things like how to use tampons and put on make-up, and what sorts of social cues they'll have to expect now.

OH! Like Domoviye's Page, but Paragon/Scry/Precog/Whatever text on her skin instead of transcribing Telepathy!

Similar, but much more embarrassing.

It is important to note, Tekhe can fight both with and without the power armor, and most of her creations are for the explicit purpose of conserving essence, so when fully equipped, she can outlast fighters that are technically more powerful than herself, if you get through her armor and her devise and prepared magic weapons and charms are expended, she will still have a large portion of her essence left, and at that point if she doesn't drick out and monolog, you could be in trouble, and unlike many Diedrick's sufferers, it takes a lot to trigger an episode, which many students are thankful for, as the monologging doesn't last as long for her as it does for others, and well when an episode DOES happen, and she has all her gear, well lets just say many people wish she hadn't deconstructed and reverse engineered that explosive arrow spell to say the least, and the devise weapons throw a curve ball too, sometimes its hard to discern if something of hers is devise based or magic based, so defending against it can be a trick and a half....

mhalpern wrote: Name: Tekhe (working name)
Description: Sidhe Mech-devisor, has to use natural and mystical matterials for the primary or coating materials of most devises on account of Sidhe allergies, only dabbles into biologics for base materials, and then only after some nasty reactions, and trips to Doyle. Freshman year was hell, being Sidhe she has the Wizard trait, and has to take the magic track, however as a mech-devisor, its hard to get her out of the mech-lab, which is filled with synthetic materials, and having, albeit a relatively minor case of Diedrick's, well stuff happens, usually when she attempts to integrate magic with devises, eventually of course, instead of trying for direct integration, by the time of her freshman spring combat final, she figured out that using trigger mechanisms to interface magic and devise can be effective, thus now when she dricks out, it takes both the magic and tech types to counter- safely, fortunately this is a rare occurrence.


notes, early creations used a good amount of wood, and cloth so the issue was more getting Tekhe out before she burned herself, now its more of an enchanted devisor wood, enchanted to be fireproof and devised for the strength, a lot of Mystic types don't trust her because she's a devisor, a lot of Tech types don't trust her because of the Wiz trait, after she started with the trigger interface though, many wished they were more friendly to her, funny how that works...

-rubs chin- Hmm, some aspects of this concept will blend nicely with the character I've dubbed Iron Kissed who I will admit is inspired by Zee from the Mercy Thompson books. Had been thinking of making her a Norse Dwarf and having her petrify in the sun light to balance out being able to tolerate the touch of iron and synthetics.

Here's a possibly bad idea: The Power to make duplicates (doppelgangers) of people, but not yourself.

The duplicates can themselves be duplicated and duplicates have variable lifetimes. An Original can't be duplicated more than once until the first dupe disappears. The power also has a variable cooldown on working on the same person the dupe disappears, and a variable cooldown for being cast in succession.

Dupes of Dupes have to expire first before their 'parent' dupe, and the death of Originals result in expiry of dupes.

Dupes that burnout may receive a permanent hold on the new universe. Special Powers may also do so.

Dupes are randomized on each use. Getting what seems like the same duplicate, usually means that there's at least a subtle difference. They have variable dispositions/personalities, and powers, and other stuff. However, they're similar enough to the Original to be called "Doppelganger". But subsequent duping of the dupe usually gets it further and further from the Original Original with differences just stacking up. Assumption is that they originate from alternate realities.

They might help you, or your enemy. This is a power of last resort, most likely.

The dupes also have an adjustment period, meaning to understand the fact that they're in a new reality, and appear anywhere in a [Unknown Radius] sphere around the Original. If there is no free space, the power fails, or you get telefragging or something? It works on line of sight, or just the assumption that someone's there is enough for the power to get a target. ... Humans/mutants only? Or basically anything?

Do the Dupes perfectly mimic the powers, or does that vary slightly like personality does?



And now, two bad ideas of my own:

1) Inspired by Iolanthe , this mutant is a high level exemplar and TK brick - but only down to the waist. Everything below the waist is normal human, and unprotected by their TK forcefield. For bonus hilarity, give them a changeling BIT.

2) A shapeshifter who cycles between two forms, one male and one female. But different parts of their body cycle at different speeds - Their lower body (waist downwards shifts from male to female and back once a month, while their upper body shifts cycles about once a week, and their head's cycle varies from just a few days to several months at random.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Do the Dupes perfectly mimic the powers, or does that vary slightly like personality does?

Somehow, possibly everything varies, but dupes still look like dupes, or act like dupes, whatever. ... I edited the post.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: And now, two bad ideas of my own:

1) Inspired by Iolanthe , this mutant is a high level exemplar and TK brick - but only down to the waist. Everything below the waist is normal human, and unprotected by their TK forcefield. For bonus hilarity, give them a changeling BIT.

2) A shapeshifter who cycles between two forms, one male and one female. But different parts of their body cycle at different speeds - Their lower body (waist downwards shifts from male to female and back once a month, while their upper body shifts cycles about once a week, and their head's cycle varies from just a few days to several months at random.

Interesting!

Another bad idea (since ideas inspired by angler fish are rarely good ones).

Conjoiner

When this mutant comes into skin to skin contact with another person, that contact fuses the two of them, joining them into a single body sort of like conjoined twins. He has a weird mutant blood type that can handle joining circulatory systems with other people without killing either of them. The bodies will slowly fuse together from the initial contact, with the end result being a single normal human. That process would take several years to complete unless it was helped along by a full body embrace between the two bodies.(which would speed up the fusion by way of increased surface area). So far all connections have been surgically separated before they progressed more than a month. It's unclear what would happen once their brains start to fuse, but nobody is in a hurry to find out.

Fairly early on in the process, the shared circulatory system shares powers between the two (or more. Being joined to a person doesn't prevent them from fusing with others). The other person starts to gain the ability to fuse, and if that person was a mutant, then Conjoiner will start to gain the powers of the mutant. Conjoiner seems to gain powers much faster than the other way around. The gained powers on both sides fade after separation, with Conjoiner's powers usually gone from the other party within a day or two, and Conjoiner keeping his borrowed powers much longer, although how long depends on the power and the length of time joined. Nobody is quite sure what would happen if he joined with someone with regen, but everyone is pretty sure that they don't want to find out.


And because thinking of deep ocean fish inspired mutations inspires more:

Hagfish
Hagfish has GSD that is reminiscent of the (you guessed it!) hagfish. Although she still looks mostly human, she no longer has a skeleton beyond her skull, is capable of tying herself into knots, and excretes a mucus that is very similar to hagfish slime. She is capable of living in and out of water.

Bad Ideas 'cause they're sorta unoriginal in a sorta bad way... But then again, these are/could be general Fairy Ideas...:

Tink Fusions X Stuff

1. With Bauble, or whatever her codename is: See-though fairy that glows and shimmers... So more like an actual bauble than Bauble. Perhaps visual effects are due to being a Absinthe Hallucination Power Copy. Or due to being like Light Girl from the Pattern Theory lectures.
   
   
2. With Circuit Breaker. Circuit Breaker, Not Cyberkitty!: Electric Fairy that gets Tink's Sugar Rushes from Processor Proximity.
   
   
3. With Absinthe: One of Absinthe's Hallucinogenic Pixies
   
   
4. Mix Fairy with something else: Cyborg Fairy, Fire Fairy, Frost Fairy, Zombie Fairy, etc
   
   
5. Two personalities, 1 body. Guy and Girl, Girl is Cyber Fairy Companion, like Glitch's Cyberform. But, the girl could get a robot body.

A bad idea (I think it would work as a one-time joke, but not as a recurring character):

An avatar with the Spirit of the Tardigrade.

I saw a great article a while back that showed pictures of what various disney princesses would look like if they were tardigrades.

Some ideas that I can't use 'cause they're too disruptive.

Resurrectors, Yuki-Onna (Snow Women), kills already dying girls via hypothermia in order to reincarnate them in Yuki-onna bodies. ... Could also use as a zombie force.

Ice Clones/Golems/Yuki-onna, that can be given full human form, stemming from the ability of Yuki-onna to be fully functional human women.

Or 'eats' men's souls and stores them in ice golem bodies to reincarnate. If ice golems can experience 'MATD', then reincarnate in female bodies with the ice golem as a sort of chrysalis stage.

Can explain more if wanted.

Resurrectors would have too much utility and stuff to not be utterly disruptive to society?

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Nanite Colonies / Magical Creations that form a theft ring, and can make more of themselves with time/the right materials, and can disguise themselves.

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Emotion Field Projectors / Eye-Contact-based emotion powers: Depression/Sadness, can/will evoke suicidal depression. ... I think this is even worse than Best-Friend on Eye-Contact and I-am-an-object-of-ultimate-hate-on-Eye-Contact... Well, there could be Induce-Insanity-on-Eye-Contact...

Regarding yuki-onna in general...

oglaf.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_Queen_%28character%29

(The actual comics where she appears are two links away)

Obligatory warning: 99% of Oglaf comics are really, really NSFW.

Yeah, I was gonna call her Snow Queen, but it's too European/Western, so her codename's just gonna be Yuki.

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Other bad ideas/afflictions:

Needs to eat/bathe in X, X being something like Virgin's Blood. Thankfully, if the person's a virgin, they count as constantly bathing in V-blood. But, once they aren't, however V is measured, then bad things happen.

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Oh! Unicorn GSD! With Attracted to Virgins quality! Embarassing, I guess?

Well, as long as Misty stays a virgin, they would be the best of friends...

Malady wrote: Yeah, I was gonna call her Snow Queen, but it's too European/Western, so her codename's just gonna be Yuki.

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Other bad ideas/afflictions:

Needs to eat/bathe in X, X being something like Virgin's Blood. Thankfully, if the person's a virgin, they count as constantly bathing in V-blood. But, once they aren't, however V is measured, then bad things happen.

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Oh! Unicorn GSD! With Attracted to Virgins quality! Embarassing, I guess?

Galavant?

mhalpern wrote:

Malady wrote: Yeah, I was gonna call her Snow Queen, but it's too European/Western, so her codename's just gonna be Yuki.

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Other bad ideas/afflictions:

Needs to eat/bathe in X, X being something like Virgin's Blood. Thankfully, if the person's a virgin, they count as constantly bathing in V-blood. But, once they aren't, however V is measured, then bad things happen.

...

Oh! Unicorn GSD! With Attracted to Virgins quality! Embarassing, I guess?

Galavant?

I don't get it... Which of the three sections are you responding to?

Poor Peeper to have that unicorn following him everywhere.

Valentine wrote: Poor Peeper to have that unicorn following him everywhere.

Note that we have actually have a Unicorn ... Although, the reasoning for that codename isn't known?

Malady wrote:

mhalpern wrote:

Malady wrote: Yeah, I was gonna call her Snow Queen, but it's too European/Western, so her codename's just gonna be Yuki.

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Other bad ideas/afflictions:

Needs to eat/bathe in X, X being something like Virgin's Blood. Thankfully, if the person's a virgin, they count as constantly bathing in V-blood. But, once they aren't, however V is measured, then bad things happen.

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Oh! Unicorn GSD! With Attracted to Virgins quality! Embarassing, I guess?

Galavant?

I don't get it... Which of the three sections are you responding to?

the unicorn.

mhalpern wrote:

Malady wrote:

mhalpern wrote:

Malady wrote: Yeah, I was gonna call her Snow Queen, but it's too European/Western, so her codename's just gonna be Yuki.

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Other bad ideas/afflictions:

Needs to eat/bathe in X, X being something like Virgin's Blood. Thankfully, if the person's a virgin, they count as constantly bathing in V-blood. But, once they aren't, however V is measured, then bad things happen.

...

Oh! Unicorn GSD! With Attracted to Virgins quality! Embarassing, I guess?

Galavant?

I don't get it... Which of the three sections are you responding to?

the unicorn.

Ah, I see. I'd guess any story that's got unicorns that react to both male and female virgins would do that bit of humor, like in the Tales of the 500 Kingdoms ...

My muse has gone insane.

A person gets the power that anything the comes out of his or her body gains sentience and can talk and do some basic movement and gestures for up to an hour after leaving the body.
It has to be the size of a thumb nail or larger, and it can join with similar fluids or stuff from the person to become larger and more capable of ding things, sweat to sweat, spit to spit, vomit to vomit, feces to feces.
This would make going to the bathroom hellish, and sweating would suck.

Domoviye wrote: My muse has gone insaner.

I fixed that for you.

I thought of an odd one.
An Energizer constantly charges up power, but only when they are flexing/clenching a muscle. However, they can only release the energy when it is fully charged, which makes for a nuke-type OHKO battle strategy. It takes about 2 full minutes of intense clenching to fully fill a charge, but because of general movement and activity, they are usually close to 50% at any given moment. They draw the energy from the heat in the air around them, which is dangerous on days that are already cold, because cold makes muscles freeze up (also frostbite, for anyone too close). Shiver, etc. When they gain a full charge, they can only hold it back for about 30 seconds before they must release it, as a powerful PK=field around their body that amplifies all motion to insane levels for about 2 seconds. They can do things such as - punch straight through most PK shields and armor, close long distances in less than a second (to follow up with said punch), and even leap into the air to catch a flying foe (but that would be a dumb idea, seriously). Other than this they have average strength and speed, and a helpful resistance to fairly intense cold and heat.
Idea based off of Boku no Hero Academia.

Domoviye wrote: My muse has gone insane.

A person gets the power that anything the comes out of his or her body gains sentience and can talk and do some basic movement and gestures for up to an hour after leaving the body.
It has to be the size of a thumb nail or larger, and it can join with similar fluids or stuff from the person to become larger and more capable of ding things, sweat to sweat, spit to spit, vomit to vomit, feces to feces.
This would make going to the bathroom hellish, and sweating would suck.

What.... Well, I was going to ask what brought this together, but now I see that it's Oglafian Cumsprites (NSFW), mixed with pustule-fluid-boy, from the Tink series. ... Perhaps mixed with my Ice Golem-things... And/or Erfworld Crap Golems... And anything else with Anthrommorphization.

What determines substance-type? 'Cause most fluid is water... So, do all the water-based substances merge together. or something?

Someone like Miasma, except that his flatulence has various undesirable effects - it can be a powerful sleep-gas, or a sweet-perfumed aphrodisiac gas, or smells like candy or enticing food aromas - thus making people quite hungry. He can't predict what effect it will have, and every time he thinks he knows all about his power, a new effect turns up - like laughing gas.

elrodw wrote: Someone like Miasma, except that his flatulence has various undesirable effects - it can be a powerful sleep-gas, or a sweet-perfumed aphrodisiac gas, or smells like candy or enticing food aromas - thus making people quite hungry. He can't predict what effect it will have, and every time he thinks he knows all about his power, a new effect turns up - like laughing gas.

Wait. So do the effects have to be undesirable at the moment, or just usually undesirable? ... Also, there's more utility in bottling them up, instead of just Miasma's Corrosion...

Malady wrote:

Domoviye wrote: My muse has gone insane.

A person gets the power that anything the comes out of his or her body gains sentience and can talk and do some basic movement and gestures for up to an hour after leaving the body.
It has to be the size of a thumb nail or larger, and it can join with similar fluids or stuff from the person to become larger and more capable of ding things, sweat to sweat, spit to spit, vomit to vomit, feces to feces.
This would make going to the bathroom hellish, and sweating would suck.

What.... Well, I was going to ask what brought this together, but now I see that it's Oglafian Cumsprites (NSFW), mixed with pustule-fluid-boy, from the Tink series. ... Perhaps mixed with my Ice Golem-things... And/or Erfworld Crap Golems... And anything else with Anthrommorphization.

What determines substance-type? 'Cause most fluid is water... So, do all the water-based substances merge together. or something?

I was actually only thinking of Erfworld, and a toilet ghost I read about a while ago. But the cumsprites would be a pretty close match.
And don't know why it only works with specific things from specific parts, maybe how it comes out matters.


Elrod, can I borrow that characer? I have a cool idea for a story I was just telling you about.

Domoviye wrote: a toilet ghost I read about a while ago.

Oh, are you talking about the one in Sister Claire ?

Nvm. No toilet ghosts there.

Malady wrote:

elrodw wrote: Someone like Miasma, except that his flatulence has various undesirable effects - it can be a powerful sleep-gas, or a sweet-perfumed aphrodisiac gas, or smells like candy or enticing food aromas - thus making people quite hungry. He can't predict what effect it will have, and every time he thinks he knows all about his power, a new effect turns up - like laughing gas.

Wait. So do the effects have to be undesirable at the moment, or just usually undesirable? ... Also, there's more utility in bottling them up, instead of just Miasma's Corrosion...

Totally random. He's sitting in class one day and he lets out a cloud of aphrodisiac gas - highly undesirabe. The next day, it's a gas that makes people settle down and get very attentive. He's at dinner, and he vents a gas that's a low-grade neuro-paralysis gas. A week later and the gas is a hyper-enticing food aroma.

Quorry wrote: I thought of an odd one.
An Energizer constantly charges up power, but only when they are flexing/clenching a muscle. However, they can only release the energy when it is fully charged, which makes for a nuke-type OHKO battle strategy. It takes about 2 full minutes of intense clenching to fully fill a charge, but because of general movement and activity, they are usually close to 50% at any given moment. They draw the energy from the heat in the air around them, which is dangerous on days that are already cold, because cold makes muscles freeze up (also frostbite, for anyone too close). Shiver, etc. When they gain a full charge, they can only hold it back for about 30 seconds before they must release it, as a powerful PK=field around their body that amplifies all motion to insane levels for about 2 seconds. They can do things such as - punch straight through most PK shields and armor, close long distances in less than a second (to follow up with said punch), and even leap into the air to catch a flying foe (but that would be a dumb idea, seriously). Other than this they have average strength and speed, and a helpful resistance to fairly intense cold and heat.
Idea based off of Boku no Hero Academia.

Actually, that reminds me of Flex Mentallo .

Flex Mentallo sounds like the kind of meta-comic I would enjoy. The plot summary is ridiculous.
If Flex had an expy, it would be some kind of crazy omni-warper/esper, as far as I can tell. With many muscles, of course.

Hmmm, is it ok for me to copy over an idea of mine from the Musical Character Creation thread?

Yuki-Onna Zombifier-thing - Set up in the Arctic and slowly expand attack distances with women/women's corpses she used to make more Yuki-Onna. ... Hard part is getting the Yuki-Onna there in the first place? ... It's not like the Avatar/Whatever has to be Japanese to become a Yuki-Onna, right?

Thinking of re-doing my 'TLW try to summon familiars' story... And decided to post this very bad idea that I re-thought of:

TLW manage to summon something bad, 'cause of Clover's bad luck.

Something like Nimbus. In all his Nimbus-ness.

Or Puppet. Or The Bastard. ... I think you get what I mean, something that would basically be their deaths...

Malady wrote: Thinking of re-doing my 'TLW try to summon familiars' story... And decided to post this very bad idea that I re-thought of:

TLW manage to summon something bad, 'cause of Clover's bad luck.

Something like Nimbus. In all his Nimbus-ness.

Or Puppet. Or The Bastard. ... I think you get what I mean, something that would basically be their deaths...

hmm Why not Ayla's dear old friend BKCRMWDJVG? Or Sara, who would think they are still after essence?

I recently saw a series of illustrations about Amelia Bedelia portraying her as some kind of eldritch reality warper (on dorkly). I don't know about you, but an overly literal/punny worshipper of chaos sounds like a great bad idea.

Something different: a Reincarnator who transfers their mind to the nearest unborn child every time they die. This creates an very odd situation for the family, because the child is abnormally skilled and intelligent, even from a young age. However, this doesn't mean they don't have the experience of having a 'real' child. See, when the reincarnator transfers, only a very small chunk of memories is passed on, and the chance of mutation in the child is increased (including GSD, the mutant gene, and more ... detrimental mutations), but the child does not behave in a way that screams "I have a past life and know it". Instead, the child will mature quickly, most likely manifest, and live their life from there. Possibly something will happen that triggers the realization of the ability. At that point the reincarnator will seek out the records kept by their past selves and gain a full understanding of their abilities. Or not. They might just die and start over, unawares, but slightly more intelligent and experienced without knowing why.

That is a cool idea.
Please can I use it for some non-Whately story!

Oh, that was a question. Haha, yeah, go ahead!

Thanks.

New Idea!

I don't know if there's a medical term for the condition, but in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Dr. Sacks describes a patient who became convinced that his left leg was not his - that it was an cadaver leg that had been attached to his body where his left leg should have been. So my idea is a psychic mutant whose talent is to give other people this condition - the mutant touches your arm or your leg, and you become convinced that they swapped it out for a foreign arm or leg.


Inspired by the (entirely unrelated) quote, "I want my legs back"

That book/case has a Wikipedia page, but Alien Hand Syndrome, perhaps?

A shapeshifter that can only change the shape of other people and for a limited time.

What limits? Could make into slimes, de-flesh, mold flesh into psuedopod weaponry...

Google Marian Slingeneyer and others, like Bonesaw of Worm ...

Or someone who can shapeshift a part of themselves and attach it to someone else.
"I need a weapon!"
"Take my hand!"
"What?"
*Transforms hand into a sword and tosses it over*
"Oh. Okay..."

Malady wrote: That book/case has a Wikipedia page, but Alien Hand Syndrome, perhaps?

That's similar, maybe, but I think it's distinct. Alien Hand Syndrome is about the limb moving without the owner's conscious control but they still consider the limb to be their own (At least according to Wikipedia). In this case, I don't know whether or not they could control the limb, but they didn't recognize that it was theirs.

mhalpern wrote:

Malady wrote: Thinking of re-doing my 'TLW try to summon familiars' story... And decided to post this very bad idea that I re-thought of:

TLW manage to summon something bad, 'cause of Clover's bad luck.

Something like Nimbus. In all his Nimbus-ness.

Or Puppet. Or The Bastard. ... I think you get what I mean, something that would basically be their deaths...

hmm Why not Ayla's dear old friend BKCRMWDJVG? Or Sara, who would think they are still after essence?

Oh, yeah, I'm giving this for you guys to possibly adopt, 'cause I don't want to kill the TLW, or think of/write about the aftermath of Whateley having something like that inside their wards... Nasty, and too much thought for me...

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Malady wrote: That book/case has a Wikipedia page, but Alien Hand Syndrome, perhaps?

That's similar, maybe, but I think it's distinct. Alien Hand Syndrome is about the limb moving without the owner's conscious control but they still consider the limb to be their own (At least according to Wikipedia). In this case, I don't know whether or not they could control the limb, but they didn't recognize that it was theirs.

Googling "Possessed Limb" got me: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilHand

And in the Real Life section, they've got:

" somatoparaphrenia , or the delusion that someone's limb is not his own."

Which given the Wikipedia Article, might be what you're looking for? Perhaps coupled with a Dysmorphia?

I think that you're probably right. That looks very similar to what was described in the book.

-tries to bribe my Muse with candy- Grah, I don't want Parker (working name) to be a mutant, I wanna do an Origin hero. I've got several ideas that I just can't get to jell into a whole origin story.

Idea 1: Animan girl; jaguar/lion hybrid. Dr DNA likely wasn't thrilled by a first gen who's a hybrid, but... he had no say.
Idea 2: Wrecked Nazi sub
Idea 3: Dives on wreck
Idea 4: ???

Muse is stumped between Parker ending up using one of her Nine Lives and attracting Bastet's attention, something on the sub "wakes up" and takes a liking to her, the sub's power source a Die Glocke Power plant does things, or Fourth Reicher's show up to loot the wreck and they end up doing something to her and giving her powers.

-sighs- thanks for 'listening' to me whine, I needed to 'verbalize' my problem.

Cryptic wrote: -tries to bribe my Muse with candy- Grah, I don't want Parker (working name) to be a mutant, I wanna do an Origin hero. I've got several ideas that I just can't get to jell into a whole origin story.

Why don't they gel?

... Got any powers you want? Do you have an end point? ... PM me about this? 'Cause I'm bored? ... Tomorrow, I mean? ... ... Well, I could respond with my mobile...

I have a new idea:
It's a mimic/shifter who can 'imprint' a compressed copy of someone's physical and mental state into an object. Later, they can touch the object to take on the person's form. When they do this, they temporarily store their own state in the object and take on the personality that matches the form. This also lets them copy abilities, but they can only be used in the way the original person would behave, which severely limits their scope. The way they have found to circumvent this obstacle is to communicate with their other personalities to work towards a common goal. More often than not there is a lack of clear communication and things go wrong.
They also have to deal with a lot of ethical implications, like whether their copies count as real people or not when they are stored in the object.

Malady wrote:

Cryptic wrote: -tries to bribe my Muse with candy- Grah, I don't want Parker (working name) to be a mutant, I wanna do an Origin hero. I've got several ideas that I just can't get to jell into a whole origin story.

Why don't they gel?

... Got any powers you want? Do you have an end point? ... PM me about this? 'Cause I'm bored? ... Tomorrow, I mean? ... ... Well, I could respond with my mobile...

No idea why they're not jelling.

No, no end point at the moment.
No powers I really want her to have, though the Nemean Lion's invulnerability and maybe flight and electrical powers have been popping into my head.

Cryptic wrote:

Malady wrote:

Cryptic wrote: -tries to bribe my Muse with candy- Grah, I don't want Parker (working name) to be a mutant, I wanna do an Origin hero. I've got several ideas that I just can't get to jell into a whole origin story.

Why don't they gel?

... Got any powers you want? Do you have an end point? ... PM me about this? 'Cause I'm bored? ... Tomorrow, I mean? ... ... Well, I could respond with my mobile...

No idea why they're not jelling.

No, no end point at the moment.
No powers I really want her to have, though the Nemean Lion's invulnerability and maybe flight and electrical powers have been popping into my head.

Figure out some other things first, like their family, their sexual orientation, other stuff, siblings... And then get back to forming an origin? ... Or just flip some coins / roll some dice?

... Too many varied powers don't work with Origins well, 'cause their end state usually relates to their trigger? ... I think? ... Kristin talked about Origins when I asked about the MGC... *Looking... Refresh in 10 min for post link?* Okay, so I was the one who brought in the MGC...

Link.

Codename: Snow Pollen:

Drug people on touch with flower growths or hands or something, drug is like, or is, Crystal Meth.

Instant Addiction. ... So much like Lollipop...

Speedster who can go extremely fast like 300mph in a straight line, no turning. When he's about to hit something other than the ground with his feet he slows down to a normal running speed.

Malady wrote:

Cryptic wrote:

Malady wrote:

Cryptic wrote: -tries to bribe my Muse with candy- Grah, I don't want Parker (working name) to be a mutant, I wanna do an Origin hero. I've got several ideas that I just can't get to jell into a whole origin story.

Why don't they gel?

... Got any powers you want? Do you have an end point? ... PM me about this? 'Cause I'm bored? ... Tomorrow, I mean? ... ... Well, I could respond with my mobile...

No idea why they're not jelling.

No, no end point at the moment.
No powers I really want her to have, though the Nemean Lion's invulnerability and maybe flight and electrical powers have been popping into my head.

Figure out some other things first, like their family, their sexual orientation, other stuff, siblings... And then get back to forming an origin? ... Or just flip some coins / roll some dice?

... Too many varied powers don't work with Origins well, 'cause their end state usually relates to their trigger? ... I think? ... Kristin talked about Origins when I asked about the MGC...

Sibs; two younger ones who are twins. Mom's very... Katelyn Jenner about getting them discovered and is part of the Witch Queen's Pyramid of magical dupes. Sees Parker as the uninteresting one of the fam. Dad is on the police force I think.
Parker's feeling Bi to me in regards to other Animen, not sure if she sees other beings as sexually interesting.

Cryptic wrote: Snip.

So, did you see me link to Kristin on Origins?

Domoviye wrote: Speedster who can go extremely fast like 300mph in a straight line, no turning. When he's about to hit something other than the ground with his feet he slows down to a normal running speed.

How quickly can the power be re-activated, so they might be able to turn sorta rapidly? Like stop and immediately pick a new direction... Or go back the way they came.

Can they go up walls and stuff? Can they jump in mid-run? Auto-activate on moving in any direction, or voluntary activations?

Codename... Right In Front Of You?

He could theoretically start going at 60mph within a second or two of slowing down. But he's going at a very fast normal run, and he's not so good at turning, so he usually ends up crashing or falling.
It's better for him to slow down to a quick jog, or stop completely by grabbing something, reorient himself and go, about five to ten seconds.
He can jump, he can go in any direction it's possible to run on. Wall running has him hitting the wall face first, he's tried.

I was just thinking about the 'powers from lightning' scenario, and thought... what if that was someone's power? To be struck by lightning. In even the slightest of storms, sometimes even on a clear day, lighting will strike this person. Sometimes it passes right by a lightning rod to do so. It is a very irritating power that forces other people to wear protective gear or stay away, but it makes this person a significant threat as an Energizer. After being hit by lightning, they are temporarily 'charged up', and can release large amounts of electricity at will (sorta). Or, they could just let the lightning drain into the ground. It really helps if they are standing on the ground.
They are not allowed on planes.
They have the required secondary powers of EXTREME immunity to electricity, heat, and loud noises. They work for a devisor who likes the classic lightning power source.

Quorry wrote: I was just thinking about the 'powers from lightning' scenario, and thought... what if that was someone's power? To be struck by lightning. In even the slightest of storms, sometimes even on a clear day, lighting will strike this person. Sometimes it passes right by a lightning rod to do so. It is a very irritating power that forces other people to wear protective gear or stay away, but it makes this person a significant threat as an Energizer. After being hit by lightning, they are temporarily 'charged up', and can release large amounts of electricity at will (sorta). Or, they could just let the lightning drain into the ground. It really helps if they are standing on the ground.
They are not allowed on planes.
They have the required secondary powers of EXTREME immunity to electricity, heat, and loud noises. They work for a devisor who likes the classic lightning power source.

... Storm/Lightning Jumper! Use Lightning to power super-jumps that are high enough to get more lightning and channel lightning downwards for propulsion.

Ultimate Aerial Artillery. ... Can they go into LEO+? Space Lightning Man!

Become The Lightning. Like Negi of Negima. Or the UQ Holder Lightning God-thing, IIRC.

Cole MacGrath~! ... Shoot Lightning! Lightning Claws + Plasma Claws... Though, the latter two need more fine lightning control than just blasting...

Quorry wrote: I was just thinking about the 'powers from lightning' scenario, and thought... what if that was someone's power? To be struck by lightning. In even the slightest of storms, sometimes even on a clear day, lighting will strike this person. Sometimes it passes right by a lightning rod to do so. It is a very irritating power that forces other people to wear protective gear or stay away, but it makes this person a significant threat as an Energizer. After being hit by lightning, they are temporarily 'charged up', and can release large amounts of electricity at will (sorta). Or, they could just let the lightning drain into the ground. It really helps if they are standing on the ground.
They are not allowed on planes.
They have the required secondary powers of EXTREME immunity to electricity, heat, and loud noises. They work for a devisor who likes the classic lightning power source.

This reminds me of Brandon Sanderson's vignette I Hate Dragons . The main character has two supernatural powers - he can hear spelling, and he tastes good to dragons.

Malady wrote:

Quorry wrote: I was just thinking about the 'powers from lightning' scenario, and thought... what if that was someone's power? To be struck by lightning. In even the slightest of storms, sometimes even on a clear day, lighting will strike this person. Sometimes it passes right by a lightning rod to do so. It is a very irritating power that forces other people to wear protective gear or stay away, but it makes this person a significant threat as an Energizer. After being hit by lightning, they are temporarily 'charged up', and can release large amounts of electricity at will (sorta). Or, they could just let the lightning drain into the ground. It really helps if they are standing on the ground.
They are not allowed on planes.
They have the required secondary powers of EXTREME immunity to electricity, heat, and loud noises. They work for a devisor who likes the classic lightning power source.

... Storm/Lightning Jumper! Use Lightning to power super-jumps that are high enough to get more lightning and channel lightning downwards for propulsion.

Ultimate Aerial Artillery. ... Can they go into LEO+? Space Lightning Man!

Become The Lightning. Like Negi of Negima. Or the UQ Holder Lightning God-thing, IIRC.

Cole MacGrath~! ... Shoot Lightning! Lightning Claws + Plasma Claws... Though, the latter two need more fine lightning control than just blasting...

I'm no rocket scientist, but I did some looking around, and the 5 billion Joules of energy from a single lightning bolt would probably be enough to get a single person into LEO if they have a way to convert it into thrust. Probably a bit more than enough, actually. However, they would want to have some left over once they get there, so they don't accidentally crash into the ocean from space. That would not be the funnest thing ever.
Also I don't think they would get much lightning once they passed most of the atmosphere.
However I bet they could totally pull a Railgun off.
Yeah, I don't think they have the fine control for claws so much as they can open the floodgates and hope their opponent doesn't die too much. Unless that was the intention. I guess that counts as 'shooting' lightning.
Yay plasma. It doesn't actually take fine control it just takes a huge amount of energy which they can do. Mostly they'll just be setting themselves and everything else on fire.

Quorry wrote: However I bet they could totally pull a Railgun off.
Yeah, I don't think they have the fine control for claws so much as they can open the floodgates and hope their opponent doesn't die too much. Unless that was the intention. I guess that counts as 'shooting' lightning.

So, they can make straight EM 'rails' using their lightning powers, but not contain lightning into a claw-shape? ... Well, I was imagining claws that are like, some feet long... So I guess if they're super-confined, like only a few inches long, then they're impossible?

Well, when I said Railgun I was referencing A Certain Scientific Railgun, in which the electromaster protagonist's signature move involves propelling a coin using a large amount of electromagnetic force. However, it isn't like how a real railgun works (with like, actual rails), so it is a bit of a misnomer.
There's a clip demonstrating her railgun on youtube.... but I don't know how to make a link soooo...
The name of the video is
A Certain Scientific Railgun S - Official Clip - The Railgun of Tokiwadai

Character - Firey Girl:

Fusion of: Larisa of Sandra and Woo + Cinderella Fire Elemental , + GUMI Wildfire + Pyromania Song and other Fire songs + characters + etc. Like Annie from Gunnerkrieg Court. ... And anything that talks about burning things down. ... Like houses.:

Have we had a pyromanic yet? ... Well, Ayla's got Fire-bitches... But, I don't remember any actual pyromanics... ... Why is it all girl pyromanics?

Mutation-thing is also a Cure, if I, or whoever chooses to use this and, has Larisa-base and keeps her Ill Girl status.

Codename: Pyromanic? Wildfire? Cinderella?

Quorry wrote: Well, when I said Railgun I was referencing A Certain Scientific Railgun, in which the electromaster protagonist's signature move involves propelling a coin using a large amount of electromagnetic force. However, it isn't like how a real railgun works (with like, actual rails), so it is a bit of a misnomer.
There's a clip demonstrating her railgun on youtube.... but I don't know how to make a link soooo...
The name of the video is
A Certain Scientific Railgun S - Official Clip - The Railgun of Tokiwadai

Yeah. I know.

I'm the one trying a ToAru Fusion after all.

To link to Youtube, just copy the URL in. Best to surround with spoiler code, as Youtube boxes are pretty big?

I think she still uses rails of some kind however, not powering things by exploding the air and propelling that way... Like WORST does when she falls to fight Accel in Russia, to not need parachutes...

From the ToAru Wiki

Railgun (超電磁砲 Chō-Denjihō (Rērugan)?, lit. "Super Electromagnetic Cannon"): Mikoto can fire metal objects at three times the speed of sound by forming parallel currents on both sides of her arm with her electricity.

Also, Mikoto did 'become lightning' with her LV6 Shift .

I see. I got pretty far in the series but never actually finished it...
Anyways, the only way Lightning person can propel things is by blasting them, so accuracy is a bit difficult. In fact, they don't even have that much control over where the electricity goes.
Basically, their powerset doesn't include any containment or control once the energy leaves their body. They can influence what direction they 'throw' it in, and that's about it.
Because someone with the ability to jump into orbit needs limitations.

Quorry wrote: . but I don't know how to make a link soooo...

[ur l=http s://you tu.be/pYW2Gm HB5xs]This is a link[/ url] = This is a link

Arcanist, I just wanted to point out that I love your choice of video link. I personally prefer the Yellow trailer, but any RWBY plug gets bonus points from me.

It was either that or This . My plan was to go through all the trailers in order, but I ran out of examples.

Sticking with the brief RWBY rabbit trail, I still think THIS would be an awesome bad idea for Whateley.

All you'd need to make it happen is a few PK/TK exemplars for the most part, though obviously a multitude of other powers would just make it all the more interesting.

Well, food fights are not uncommon at Whateley. Although I suspect that they are rarely quite as ambitious as that one.

Yeah I saw and read it, I was just showing I had been working on back ground and what not besides working out her cool powers and how she got them.

Cryptic wrote: Yeah I saw and read it, I was just showing I had been working on back ground and what not besides working out her cool powers and how she got them.

*nods*

So, I guess you still don't have a powerset? 'Cause you didn't mention it, but that doesn't mean much?

Malady wrote:

Cryptic wrote: Yeah I saw and read it, I was just showing I had been working on back ground and what not besides working out her cool powers and how she got them.

*nods*

So, I guess you still don't have a powerset? 'Cause you didn't mention it, but that doesn't mean much?

I have the Mutates from Gargoyles in my head, so flight/gliding/wings, enhanced durability, lighting blasts, or powers based on mythical big cats like the Nemean Lion, a winged Sphinx, or what ever.

This isn't really a bad idea, but it is a bit mean to the characters.

A team of mutants with "failed" GSD. And by that I mean mutations that give people certain expectations which are then not at all fulfilled.

Here's who I have so far:
a mutant with giant wings which aren't strong enough to fly with
a mutant with fins and scales who lacks gills and can't swim any better than a normal person (and maybe oddly placed fins make even that harder than normal?)
a centaur who isn't coordinated enough to move faster than a walk
an elephant-like mutant who is barely strong enough to support her enormous body



And the fish-mutant has inspired an actually bad idea - a mutant who's lungs are replaced by gills - but the change is gradual, and the lungs atrophy signficantly before the gills open.

When I thought about 'failed' GSD, I thought of physical changes that contradicted the concepts behind their other abilities. For example, a person with 'don't notice me' aura who is around 9 feet tall and built like a truck. hehehehhe the mental image I have just cracks me up. "Sorry, didn't notice you there." heheheheheh
Ahem.

I'm not certain of the level of originality of this one, but here goes: A devisor/mage/gadgeteer who takes old-timey machines and devices and 'updates' them by cramming them full of tech. They take one of those funny looking bicycles and add a motor and full gear system to make it faster than a conventional bike. Then they go the extra mile and add hydraulics and a force field generator, and a flamethrower for extra flair (flare). Because of the way they work, the bike retains its original appearance despite the additions, and can still function normally.
Limitation: They can only work on old things, or old designs. Otherwise they have a mental block and can create nothing.
They like shopping at antique stores and dressing in old-timey clothes from varying eras.

Quorry wrote: When I thought about 'failed' GSD, I thought of physical changes that contradicted the concepts behind their other abilities. For example, a person with 'don't notice me' aura who is around 9 feet tall and built like a truck. hehehehhe the mental image I have just cracks me up. "Sorry, didn't notice you there." heheheheheh
Ahem.

I'm not certain of the level of originality of this one, but here goes: A devisor/mage/gadgeteer who takes old-timey machines and devices and 'updates' them by cramming them full of tech. They take one of those funny looking bicycles and add a motor and full gear system to make it faster than a conventional bike. Then they go the extra mile and add hydraulics and a force field generator, and a flamethrower for extra flair (flare). Because of the way they work, the bike retains its original appearance despite the additions, and can still function normally.
Limitation: They can only work on old things, or old designs. Otherwise they have a mental block and can create nothing.
They like shopping at antique stores and dressing in old-timey clothes from varying eras.

Greatest character EVER!!!!
May I use him?

Yes!
but maybe consider as a funny twist that he is into all the old wearables
all of them
including those crazy giant dresses. just think of what he could fit in one of those
just a thought

Thanks.
I'll consider that, but no promises.

Quorry wrote: When I thought about 'failed' GSD, I thought of physical changes that contradicted the concepts behind their other abilities. For example, a person with 'don't notice me' aura who is around 9 feet tall and built like a truck. hehehehhe the mental image I have just cracks me up. "Sorry, didn't notice you there." heheheheheh
Ahem.

Oddly enough, that's already been done. I say oddly, because there is no indication that this is a supernatural ability - he's just very forgettable.

Bad Idea... Quite sure...: Naked Or Else Badness.

Inspiration led to a Cernunnos Girl. 'Cause of her Tree Horn Things.

If she'd required to be naked, it might be due to nature spirit/fertility spirit-ness.

Inspiration: GUMI - Love Doll (NSFW)

Malady wrote: Bad Idea... Quite sure...: Naked Or Else Badness.

Inspiration led to a Cernunnos Girl. 'Cause of her Tree Horn Things.

If she'd required to be naked, it might be due to nature spirit/fertility spirit-ness.

Inspiration: GUMI - Love Doll (NSFW)

Interesting.... I like the idea of a 'has to be naked' student/hero as well as a horned hunter character.... OH.... Parker wishes to say a sarcastic 'Thanks Malady' cause the horned hunter idea just fused with Kraven the Hunter and The most Dangerous Game; Some nut job is going GSD/Animan/Super hunting to get interesting trophies..

Define "naked". If the student walks around in a one-way mirrored giant hamster ball, so nobody can (easily) see her... does it still count as "clothed"? What about a cylindrical framework of wire and some opaque material, with only her head protruding out? What about a sheet with a hole for the head, poncho-style? How close her coverings have to be to trigger the prohibition? Does the material matter?

What about body paint? What about *really thick* body paint?

Sir Lee wrote: Define "naked". If the student walks around in a one-way mirrored giant hamster ball, so nobody can (easily) see her... does it still count as "clothed"? What about a cylindrical framework of wire and some opaque material, with only her head protruding out? What about a sheet with a hole for the head, poncho-style? How close her coverings have to be to trigger the prohibition? Does the material matter?

What about body paint? What about *really thick* body paint?

I like the hamster ball idea 'cause it's funny-cruel?

Body paint reminds me of Girl One from Top 10.

But, it's adopter/author's choice.

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Other bad ideas, in the vein of the naked-ness idea.

Can only pure X clothes, at least on the skin-touching side. Soles of feet count, or not... X being something expensive, like gold or titanium... Similar to the naked-ness idea, as these materials are hard to acquire in the volumes needed for typical coverage?

Or Tennyo-ref: instead of gold, have adamantium.

Perhaps they can't touch the ground... There was this Micro-scene with this girl having to be the virgin footrest of this guy 'cause he'd die if his feet ever touched the ground or something. Was based on some them being reincarnations of people in the Mabinogion.

***
Terrible Requirements:

Must constantly experience emotion X. Where X isn't joy, but something like fear.

Ala Procedure 110-Montauk . Ughh. Well, at least Whateley-verse has curse-breakers and stuff, so SCP-231 might not need Procedure 110-Montauk. Perhaps it can end on a happier note than in SCP Canon.

Constantly experiencing emotions would less terrible with basically any other emotion.

Anything under Fate Worse Than Death , and most of fates/circumstances of the humanoids at the SCP Foundation ... ... Gonna repost with something more original next time...

I had another idea.
'Crusher'
Has an extremely powerful PK field localized entirely around his hands. It is capable of nullifying almost any attack striking said hands. Said hands are capable of crushing any material sans adamantium. Hence the name 'Crusher'. This is also the reason he wears adamantium wrist braces. His braces are connected to each other with cable to prevent over extension of his arms in cases where he must support weight with his grip.
Said hands are also capable of clinging to any surface, allowing for the scaling of buildings or cliff faces without the need for gear (unless there are signs of weak rock). He enjoys climbing as a pastime.
'Crusher' has also been seen flinging projectiles at supersonic velocities using the movement of his fingertips. He throws a wicked curve ball.
The most important thing to know about him is that his notion of 'force' is distorted and he often uses far too much of it.
Advice when dealing with 'Crusher':
1. Do not shake his hand
2. Do not let him touch you
3. Do not touch him, in case he subsequently touches you
4. Do not get within arms reach of him, in case he tries to greet you by slapping you on the back
5. If you must fight him, just aim anywhere but his hands. He is normal everywhere else. This may prove difficult, because he has excellent hand-eye coordination and reflexes

Actually, Quorry, this doesn't sound like a bad idea at all to me, except that the actual force he can apply with his hands might be a bit high for Whateley power scales. Barring that though, the concept itself actually sounds like a pretty good Thornie.

Ah, yeah, I was thinking maybe it was a bit high. What if I turned it down so he can crush most things, but with metals he can only bend them?

You have to consider the classic Steve Austin Problem, too. If only his *hands* are superstrong, and he stops, say, a wrecking ball with his hand... what happens to his *shoulder*?

Yeah, being a PK field instead of straightforward superstrength does help to get around the issue. But you should still think about how that works, exactly. Where the field ends? Wrist? Mid-forearm? Elbow? Shoulder? Does it end abruptly, like a glove, or fade out, becoming weaker along the arm? What happens if he accidentally slaps his thigh when walking? Is he able to dress himself without tearing his pants apart?

There is a natural line between the palm and the wrist. I see this as the edge of his PK field.
Actually, I was trying to consider the implications of localized superstrength when I was writing the idea, which is why I included the bit about the bracers (to keep his wrists from breaking when catching bullets or something) and cable, but that is mostly because I imagine him as the kind of guy who would grab onto something and not let go even if it was about to tear his arm off.
His control over the field is subconscious. It activates whenever he goes to use his hand for anything UNLESS he concentrates, but it will not activate while he is just walking. Luckily he isn't the type to slap his knee when laughing, or he'd have a really broken leg.
He does have to be careful dressing himself, because if he grips a fabric the wrong way or something it will mess up his clothes. I'd say he doesn't actually wear a proper uniform because it is too complex for him to put on without destroying something.

The thing I was thinking about with the strength was this webcomic called Dice. Early on this one guy thinks he finds a loophole in the system they are all using to get stronger and just makes his arm stronger, but it puts a large strain on the rest of his body.

I would imagine that Crusher would also have trouble with his climbing where he manages to destroy his handholds by squeezing too tightly, although I suppose that could be averted if he's able to just curl his hands into the material rather than squeeze around it.

Dragon mutant (turning into actual dragon) that is slowly forming their egg around themselves as they shrink...

So it's like dragon Benjamin Button. Is the egg forming on their skin or do they have to stand very still?
Edit: Bendragon Button

Quorry wrote: So it's like dragon Benjamin Button. Is the egg forming on their skin or do they have to stand very still?
Edit: Bendragon Button

Nope pieces of it form around the outer parts of the head, feet and hands, extra limbs don't come until the egg is fully formed, making clothing and balance difficult
Edit pants and underwear impossible, add MtF changeling to the mix, and the clothing options are limited to "kilts" and coverings...

Depending on how long this takes they might just stay home until it is finished. And wear kilts at home.
"And when you emerge from your shell... you will be a girl! But not like Venus, more like... a baby chicken, but more lizardlike."

Quorry wrote: Depending on how long this takes they might just stay home until it is finished. And wear kilts at home.
"And when you emerge from your shell... you will be a girl! But not like Venus, more like... a baby chicken, but more lizardlike."

Months, finishes shortly after spring combat finals, missing out on summer waiting to be hatched

Sounds like quite a hassle. Literally walking on eggshells for months.

Quorry wrote: Sounds like quite a hassle. Literally walking on eggshells for months.

No, BEING a walking eggshell for months..

edit, the only 2 reprieves before the egg seals up are powerful magic and telepathy that can go cross campus unlike Fubar, the range doesn't extend far past the campus. barely reaching the local weres from Hawthorn. stubborn as hell though, insisting on combat finals, while barely mobile, having been forced to take survival the spring term, as opposed to one of the martial arts courses, on account of it being easier to hop and roll than it is to do anything that resembles a walk at that point...

I could have sworn that I had posted this.

Name: Nanashi Kusanagi
Codename: Millions
Eye Color: Unknown (see below)
Powers: Can manifest "razors" from her fingertips, Takes REALLY well to cybernetics. Has mirrored lenses over her eyes, spits to cry.
Hair color: sometimes blue, sometimes purple
Why she is a bad idea: Blatant lovechild of two well known characters (Molly Millions and Major Motoko Kusanagi), Awesome McCoolname syndrome ( To put it another way, her name is roughly equivalent to "Nameless Excalibur") fairly flat character (Has no memory from before her manifestation), contradictory name attainment (No memory, yet knows enough Japanese to give herself an obviously fake name), shows creators obvious love of cyberpunk

Here's another one that I only have the bare-bones for

Codename: Mime Games
Power: Can manifest invisible objects that last as long as he doesn't speak. T-1000 limitations on item creation (ie: Nothing with complex moving parts or chemical reactions)
Why are they a bad idea: Silly.

Mime games sounds useful, they could manifest anvils above people's heads

A Mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Actually, when you think about it... Mime Games' fights would look somewhat like old cartoons in that they would be dialogue-less. All it's missing is to pull wooden signs from hammerspace to express stuff to the Fourth Wall...

Programming Gadgeteer who's mutant power is that the only programming language that is intuitive for them to code in is Brainfuck

Sir Lee wrote: Actually, when you think about it... Mime Games' fights would look somewhat like old cartoons in that they would be dialogue-less. All it's missing is to pull wooden signs from hammerspace to express stuff to the Fourth Wall...

Hmm, a mutant who's power is that he cant speak, but what he 'says' comes out in word balloons above his head...

Astrodragon wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: Actually, when you think about it... Mime Games' fights would look somewhat like old cartoons in that they would be dialogue-less. All it's missing is to pull wooden signs from hammerspace to express stuff to the Fourth Wall...

Hmm, a mutant who's power is that he cant speak, but what he 'says' comes out in word balloons above his head...

Something close to that concept is Marvel's Artie Maddicks. Young mutant with GSD who manifested at 11, mute and projected his thoughts as psychic illusions, mainly in the form of pictographs that represent the words he would otherwise speak.

Asatil from Wapsi Square seems like an interesting character to sick on Whateley: wapsisquare.com/character/atsali/

Dreamer wrote:

Astrodragon wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: Actually, when you think about it... Mime Games' fights would look somewhat like old cartoons in that they would be dialogue-less. All it's missing is to pull wooden signs from hammerspace to express stuff to the Fourth Wall...

Hmm, a mutant who's power is that he cant speak, but what he 'says' comes out in word balloons above his head...

Something close to that concept is Marvel's Artie Maddicks. Young mutant with GSD who manifested at 11, mute and projected his thoughts as psychic illusions, mainly in the form of pictographs that represent the words he would otherwise speak.

I remember him. That was an interesting concept. He had a friend who could stop all mutant powers simply by being there, so they couldn't talk together, didn't he?

Domoviye wrote:

Dreamer wrote:

Astrodragon wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: Actually, when you think about it... Mime Games' fights would look somewhat like old cartoons in that they would be dialogue-less. All it's missing is to pull wooden signs from hammerspace to express stuff to the Fourth Wall...

Hmm, a mutant who's power is that he cant speak, but what he 'says' comes out in word balloons above his head...

Something close to that concept is Marvel's Artie Maddicks. Young mutant with GSD who manifested at 11, mute and projected his thoughts as psychic illusions, mainly in the form of pictographs that represent the words he would otherwise speak.

I remember him. That was an interesting concept. He had a friend who could stop all mutant powers simply by being there, so they couldn't talk together, didn't he?

Well, yes and no. Leech could control his power to suppress mutant powers by that point, requiring physical touch much like Rogue. And yes, he and Artie were best friends and got into a lot of trouble together.

Witch Mabel

Not a mutant, but a baseline wizard who specializes in cooking. She can't cast a regular spell to save her life, instead she does it with her cooking. Need a fireball spell, she adds extra jalapeno peppers to the chili. Want a healing spell, try her chicken soup. Want to put someone to sleep, she has a delicious hot chocolate with just a hint of mint and rum.
She likes to can her potions for later use.

Domoviye wrote: Witch Mabel

Not a mutant, but a baseline wizard who specializes in cooking. She can't cast a regular spell to save her life, instead she does it with her cooking. Need a fireball spell, she adds extra jalapeno peppers to the chili. Want a healing spell, try her chicken soup. Want to put someone to sleep, she has a delicious hot chocolate with just a hint of mint and rum.
She likes to can her potions for later use.

sounds like she'd be effective against density changing foodies....

Domoviye wrote: Witch Mabel

Not a mutant, but a baseline wizard who specializes in cooking. She can't cast a regular spell to save her life, instead she does it with her cooking. Need a fireball spell, she adds extra jalapeno peppers to the chili. Want a healing spell, try her chicken soup. Want to put someone to sleep, she has a delicious hot chocolate with just a hint of mint and rum.
She likes to can her potions for later use.

This so reminds me of a background character for the Dresden Files RPG; a Brewmancer [or something like that. I don't have the books in front of me at the moment, and googleing isn't working)]. In the story setting included in the game book she's a low level witch who is very good with the coffee and what not.

Cryptic wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Witch Mabel

Not a mutant, but a baseline wizard who specializes in cooking. She can't cast a regular spell to save her life, instead she does it with her cooking. Need a fireball spell, she adds extra jalapeno peppers to the chili. Want a healing spell, try her chicken soup. Want to put someone to sleep, she has a delicious hot chocolate with just a hint of mint and rum.
She likes to can her potions for later use.

This so reminds me of a background character for the Dresden Files RPG; a Brewmancer [or something like that. I don't have the books in front of me at the moment, and googleing isn't working)]. In the story setting included in the game book she's a low level witch who is very good with the coffee and what not.

Similar ideas can be found in lots of things, including Warhammer. It seemed funny to me, especially the name.

New idea.

Sarcastic Man
This person is the most sarcastic person in existence. And it's not just that he's sarcastic, anyone can be, it's a top level ability that can bring people to their knees in embarrassment, or incite riots.
At any time Sarcastic Man chooses, he can unleash withering sarcasm in any language, even ones he's never heard before and should not be able to speak. In New Orleans, where he was visiting for Mardi Gras, an evil wizard summoned a shoggoth that started to eat the crowd. Sarcastic Man walked over to it and after a ten minute conversation that no one can remember clearly, the monstrosity threw up the lightly digested but still living party goers and slunk off back to its own dimension.
Finally Sarcastic Man is totally unflappable until well after something has occurred, if he panicked or freaked out, he wouldn't be able to be sarcastic.

-rubs chin-

Hmm, can anyone think of a good excuse to get Jade, Misty, and/or Tink down to Paradise Island to meet a baby Nick Brennen Jr?

Win a lottery or something for Paradise Island tickets?

Jade is fully trained super babysitter.

And Teri could accidentally fall asleep in her bag without being noticed.

and what - be mistaken for a toy doll by airport security?

(then again, it IS the TSA)

I've watched videos and seen reports of them in action, I don't expect too much trouble from them.

Siamese cat avatar...

An (In)finite Improbability Drive, most likely a Devise, and possibly its probability powers are due to having a Mage, or a Probability Warper, or a Reality Warper, or something as a power source. Or all of those and more... Most likely stuck inside the device...

Malady wrote: An (In)finite Improbability Drive, most likely a Devise, and possibly its probability powers are due to having a Mage, or a Probability Warper, or a Reality Warper, or something as a power source. Or all of those and more... Most likely stuck inside the device...

Destination: Vegas

Why settle for second-place? Go straight to Macau.

You do realise an Infinite Improbability Drive cant be made at Whateley due to the inability of Americans to make a proper cup of tea...?

Astrodragon wrote: You do realise an Infinite Improbability Drive cant be made at Whateley due to the inability of Americans to make a proper cup of tea...?

Hey I am an American tea drinker, so I refute that reasoning, I let my tea steep for a while, like my roibus dark red, admittedly I don't know how to make it from scratch but that's more due to lack of access to my preferred tea ingredient...

Rooibos is not tea. Not proper tea, anyway.

Oh, and teabags don't count as proper tea. Neither does ready-made iced tea, tea concentrate or instant tea.

Why, yes, I am a tea snob. What gave you the hint?

Sir Lee wrote: Rooibos is not tea. Not proper tea, anyway.

Oh, and teabags don't count as proper tea. Neither does ready-made iced tea, tea concentrate or instant tea.

Why, yes, I am a tea snob. What gave you the hint?

A proper tea snob has notes of how long and what temp to brew the types of loose-leaf teas he or she has.
A proper tea snob has a thermostatically controlled water heater to get optimal brewing temperature, like maybe this
A proper tea snob has a proper tea warmer to maintain proper brewing conditions, like this :
A proper tea snob has a good infuser, like perhaps this
A proper tea snob has tea cups that help keep the tea at good drinking temp, like maybe this

On the other hand, uncouth tea drinkers use a kettle on the stove, tea bags or a cheap infuser, don't time squat, and brew tea in a souvenir Sea World coffee cup

My dad has half of those things for his tea, no infuser, and no tea warmer.
He goes all out for coffee instead.

Me, I've had proper tea. I'll settle for a tea ball or tea bag, a cup of hot water and honey.

Sir Lee wrote: Rooibos is not tea. Not proper tea, anyway.

Oh, and teabags don't count as proper tea. Neither does ready-made iced tea, tea concentrate or instant tea.

Why, yes, I am a tea snob. What gave you the hint?

I use a rather nice infuser, and I don't care for iced tea. So what if Rooibos isn't proper, its damn good.

I'm such a tea snob that I don't drink tea at all, because none is good enough for my refined tastes.




That's not true at all. I don't drink tea, but not because I'm a tea snob. I just prefer my water without bits of plant in it. (Yes, I'm still kidding. Mostly)

I became a tea snob after my colonial days when we all decided it would be a good idea to help others fill their cups outside the bay.

My those were the days. Such a riot as we took to filling our cups straight from the banks as we used crates to sit upon as we waved to the others outside of their ship.

Of course those individuals cared not for the flavor given that fish swim and corrupted their sense of humor.

We of course opened a tea cafe next to the harbor named Boston Tea Service.

Of course we were run out and told never to return.

Tracking Tennyo in an anime convention without a Geiger Counter

A devisor psychologist - their patients start behaving as if Freudian psychology actually works.

Literally seeing the inventions of the future, and possibly knowing how it works in dreams, and having to see it work, or else you won't have any restful sleep.

And each invention-dream completed gets you only a small reprieve. Or, possibly a progressively shorter one.

Weirder would be that it's something that's sort of similar to a Dwarf Fortress Dwarven Insanity... Or perhaps not similar at all, where if restrained, the body changes to break free of those restraints and forces the body to sleep-build.

Only two states. Awake (possibly with building...), or asleep and building...?

Edit: OH! Right! Sleep-building is like Polyplastic Girl of Verina DeArden's The Program... Among other things...

Malady wrote: Literally seeing the inventions of the future, and possibly knowing how it works in dreams, and having to see it work, or else you won't have any restful sleep.

And each invention-dream completed gets you only a small reprieve. Or, possibly a progressively shorter one.

Weirder would be that it's something that's sort of similar to a Dwarf Fortress Dwarven Insanity... Or perhaps not similar at all, where if restrained, the body changes to break free of those restraints and forces the body to sleep-build.

Only two states. Awake (possibly with building...), or asleep and building...?

Edit: OH! Right! Sleep-building is like Polyplastic Girl of Verina DeArden's The Program... Among other things...

Orrr.... you're dreaming-up fantastic inventions in the future but when you try to build them in real-life they never work... cuz you're not a devisor... and they aren't based on real technology like a gadgeteer. In other words... you keep getting "The Big Idea" but it NEVER works.

DanZilla wrote:

Malady wrote: Literally seeing the inventions of the future, and possibly knowing how it works in dreams, and having to see it work, or else you won't have any restful sleep.

And each invention-dream completed gets you only a small reprieve. Or, possibly a progressively shorter one.

Weirder would be that it's something that's sort of similar to a Dwarf Fortress Dwarven Insanity... Or perhaps not similar at all, where if restrained, the body changes to break free of those restraints and forces the body to sleep-build.

Only two states. Awake (possibly with building...), or asleep and building...?

Edit: OH! Right! Sleep-building is like Polyplastic Girl of Verina DeArden's The Program... Among other things...

Orrr.... you're dreaming-up fantastic inventions in the future but when you try to build them in real-life they never work... cuz you're not a devisor... and they aren't based on real technology like a gadgeteer. In other words... you keep getting "The Big Idea" but it NEVER works.

Only to have that nerd next door invent it getting all the credit.

A serial killer who kills by setting up elaborate situations where random passersby will try and help the victim, only to inadvertently cause their death. The killer then digs up the body and uses the bones to make paving stones, which they use to mark the path to their lair.

(Formerly Identical) Orphaned twins, born male, the devisor of the two still is, while his sister is a gadgeteer and exemplar 2, both are low level telepaths, except when it comes to eachother, they have a strong telepathic link. They were working on a nanite (gadget) based suit with a neural interface (devise) that would reduce the wearer's motor response time and allow the muscles to exert more force than normal if need be via electrical impulses, albiet not by much, nothing that a major adrenaline rush can't achieve (which is quite a lot), when the sister's heart break of finding out her boyfriend was cheating on her, made her brother drick out and put on the new power suit, which didn't work as intended, instead of the neural interface acting as a control system, it transfered his mind to the suit, leaving the body effectively braindead, though all he noticed was that he stopped feeling his sister, panicked and fearing something happened to her, he ran to Doyle (suit runs by sending electrical impulses to the muscles) he was surprised to find he couldn't talk, he was even more surprised when he collapsed, his body no longer functioning, his sister came in 2 minutes later, needless to say, they were lucky it was Sam that came to file the security report, no one else would have noticed the boy's mind inside the suit, leading to his first and only experience in the wash (they quickly added self cleaning functionality) and being reunited with his twin, who now wears him almost constantly as the neural interface was soon altered to match what the Sims use being much safer and giving them back their constant communication, unfortunately for the brother, his sister found a way to make his nanites take the form of any outfit she wants, even adding more for additional material, now he gets to watch his sister date his best friend, as her dress and evening wear...


Ohh and the suit effectively makes her a low exemplar 3, but they are far more effective against speedsters now

mhalpern wrote: it transfered his mind to the suit, leaving the body effectively braindead, though all he noticed was that he stopped feeling his sister, panicked and fearing something happened to her, he ran to Doyle (suit runs by sending electrical impulses to the muscles) he was surprised to find he couldn't talk, he was even more surprised when he collapsed, his body no longer functioning,

No plans to migrate the mind back out of the suit? ... What happened to the body?

Malady wrote:

mhalpern wrote: it transfered his mind to the suit, leaving the body effectively braindead, though all he noticed was that he stopped feeling his sister, panicked and fearing something happened to her, he ran to Doyle (suit runs by sending electrical impulses to the muscles) he was surprised to find he couldn't talk, he was even more surprised when he collapsed, his body no longer functioning,

No plans to migrate the mind back out of the suit? ... What happened to the body?

Donated to science for spare parts.

Domoviye wrote:

Malady wrote:

mhalpern wrote: it transfered his mind to the suit, leaving the body effectively braindead, though all he noticed was that he stopped feeling his sister, panicked and fearing something happened to her, he ran to Doyle (suit runs by sending electrical impulses to the muscles) he was surprised to find he couldn't talk, he was even more surprised when he collapsed, his body no longer functioning,

No plans to migrate the mind back out of the suit? ... What happened to the body?

Donated to science for spare parts.

No no, that would be wasteful.
After all, the Crystal Hall has to get all that meat from SOMEWHERE cheap...

Domoviye wrote:

Malady wrote:

mhalpern wrote: it transfered his mind to the suit, leaving the body effectively braindead, though all he noticed was that he stopped feeling his sister, panicked and fearing something happened to her, he ran to Doyle (suit runs by sending electrical impulses to the muscles) he was surprised to find he couldn't talk, he was even more surprised when he collapsed, his body no longer functioning,

No plans to migrate the mind back out of the suit? ... What happened to the body?

Donated to science for spare parts.

Nope not much anyways, organ shutdown already started basically by the time he was admitted to Doyle, the body was beyond repair, brain deterioration had started as he hadn't actually been breathing enough shortly after his mind entered the suit, it was all electrical impulses from the suit controlling the muscles, and hijacking the body's sensory imputs, he was dead before he got there (medically speaking) the collapse was due to the body having run out of oxygen and deteriorating much more quickly then they would if he was like most cases of someone going brain dead were the body isn't in use, all the maintance functions that the brain takes care of (even though most are muscle memory) stopped running, and the body was being used as it would be if it was on an adrenaline surge, but the organs weren't told to quicken the pace to match, basically the panicked run to Doyle killed the body, they added something similar to one of those implants that controls someone's heart rate before they re-enabled that ability for when his sister was wearing him, as well as the ability to handle the added juice required for that (She's an Exemplar 2, he had baseline strength, the suit was to basically match their abilities physically, logically slightly more power may be needed to reach the simulated adrenaline strength boost, particularly when she's knocked out and he has to take the wheel) after that the first thing they added to him was a conductive outer coating that is insulated from the rest of their systems (I am having trouble with pronouns talking about them, imagine the pronoun trouble the CHARACTERS will have-- need to work out proper nouns first though) to act as a Faraday cage and protect the brother from EMP, after that they worked on a variety of external batteries, though body heat and the power supplies for the nanites are enough to keep the suit running and a little bit extra, having a consciousness in there doing it's own thing and the added power demand for boosting an Exemplar 2, is a bit much for the low power alternative to a true power suit, so in "civilian form" there's a sizable battery in their purse with a short-range wireless power transmitter, similar to the ones some phone chargers use but better, and for combat its in the form of modular armor pieces that can act like reactive armor if need be (basically its a be mindful that these batteries explode thing, so its in case the PFG fails or they don't have the power to keep it running or (more likely) the projectile is too powerful for the PFG to handle) Normally the brother uses his sped up processing time to give his sister ques on where to move for a tactical edge, however he can interface with his sister's gadgets (as a suit his Devising is gone) and as mentioned before, take the wheel if his twin is unconscious, or lets him, it's her body after all, she may be wearing him but it was his fault for being in that situation, and her choice as to what he is the next day outside of the connection at the base of the neck, which eventually gains a wireless connection to the rest of the outfit (late in their freshman year it ends up disguised as a choker) there is nothing stopping her from wearing him as particular kinds of underwear, and cutting putting him in "airport mode" so that he has plenty of power to last the day. not to mention thanks to the neural link, which Bellows has basically determined that they are not to break for extended periods of time, he can only go into sleep mode when she does, she can even make him very nearly into silk, and as he can feel both what the suit comes in contact with, and what she feels, and she has the mute button for his speakers, he is very mindful of the line, doesn't stop the snark, but like something as little as his sister having full motor control between the two of them and literal buttons to press would stop him from pressing her buttons?

Remake body and re-insert mind, like with Shelly, or sorta like Belphoebe.

Or give a nanite body, as the nanites are Gadgets, and only the Neural Control is a devise, so just get someone else to make a neural control devise for a new version of the suit. There should be enough Devisors to find one that can do that?

Or magic. Magic solves everything. (Okay, not really, but I wanted to say that... ... Wait, I already mentioned magic...)

Sam's a Nanite Colony, she could help out... ... Yes, this is breaking your idea... I think. Sorry?

I guess they couldn't get info on Dr. DNA's Soul Transfer experiments to figure out more about Soul Transfer if needed... ... At Whateley, very few things are unsolvable with enough ingenuity.

Malady wrote: Remake body and re-insert mind, like with Shelly, or sorta like Belphoebe?

The neural interface that put him in the suit was an incomplete device, making his mind in itself a devise in a sense, kinda like Hive and Sam, even if there was a way to give him a new body, it's just as likely that the attempt would erase his mind entirely, or do nothing at all, as it is to work, if there was a way to reverse the process, it would require a devise from the devisor that made it to do so, and as the suit, he's no longer a devisor.

Edit: You didn't break my Idea, the Hive stories are EXACTLY the basis of why it wouldn't work, also as suit and wearer the twins are actually more effective then they ever were separate, they mostly agree anyways and their link is more important to them than what they look like, and even if they could ensure a successful transfer, there is no guarantee their telepathic link would be reestablished, any way you slice it, the risk was to great for them, or the school to take.

mhalpern wrote: Edit: You didn't break my Idea, the Hive stories are EXACTLY the basis of why it wouldn't work, also as suit and wearer the twins are actually more effective then they ever were separate, they mostly agree anyways and their link is more important to them than what they look like, and even if they could ensure a successful transfer, there is no guarantee their telepathic link would be reestablished, any way you slice it, the risk was to great for them, or the school to take.

Could make it into Magical Personality Infused Armor, like Al from Full Metal Alchemist, or instead of nanoclothing, have it be a nano-infusion with its own personality, but somehow having to be bonded with a person? Sorta like Compiler?

Although, why you'd give a nano-infusion a personality... Probability Warping + Complier walking in + Delta Spike, or something, leads to the kind of Crazy Coincidences that form the basis of the Daniel Archwood series?

Also important to note, Unlike Sam and Hive, he is not a nanite cloud, he's more like a nanite weave, with the exception of wireless peripherals, he has to be connected to what he interacts with, making him not quite as flexible as Hive, none of the nanites were given their own motor control, at least not any that can be used without assistance from external hardware, enough to link together, bond and disengage, but the nanites themselves cant identify where they are individually (doesn't stop him from feeling them in their respective locations but its like knowing where your touch sensory nerve endings are you feel the response and know where they are but you cant visualize their exact location underneath your skin individually), the devise qualities of his mind (I need names for him and his sister) mean that not a hole lot of weave is required (a t-shirt basically), but if there isn't enough or if the sister just wants him to be able to talk to her while he (naturally) feels everything that she does, then he will be in the box of additional nanite weave material and the clothes will be a wireless peripheral and his only sensory input outside of the neural link. he can deaden the sensory input from the weave itself, depending on the situation, and he can also be the largest article of clothing and have smaller ones nearby as peripherals but he can only actually be at one place at a time, even if he can "feel" someplace else, and outside the box if his sister goes too far from where he is, they will lose connection and in the box he can only connect with so much weave due to bandwidth limitations.

This is relevant because while the brother prefers girls (he wasn't in Poe), both twins are switch hitters and they shared experiences even before he became an article of clothing, via their telepathic link, not like they could help it.



They wouldn't do magic stuff, even though the brother is no longer a devisor, the sister IS a gadgeteer, and as her brother is essentially an AI now, that gives her options that both find too attractive to throw away, with gadgets that he can use without distracting her, while he can't be in two places at once, his "awareness" can, to them this isn't a bad thing, a little awkward yes, but they're too excited for the potential options the situation opens them up to, to really think about fixing it, I mean if they wanted to, they could build a synthetic body for him, using the nanite weave but they are having fun as they are, and individually they can do so much more as suit and wearer, than they could before the accident, the brother can operate several robots at once with his mind, and provide superb situational awareness, while the sister is faster, stronger and can react to speedsters effectively without being one, not to mention her options for holdouts her brother can control, why would they want to change that?

Malady wrote:

mhalpern wrote: Edit: You didn't break my Idea, the Hive stories are EXACTLY the basis of why it wouldn't work, also as suit and wearer the twins are actually more effective then they ever were separate, they mostly agree anyways and their link is more important to them than what they look like, and even if they could ensure a successful transfer, there is no guarantee their telepathic link would be reestablished, any way you slice it, the risk was to great for them, or the school to take.

Could make it into Magical Personality Infused Armor, like Al from Full Metal Alchemist, or instead of nanoclothing, have it be a nano-infusion with its own personality, but somehow having to be bonded with a person? Sorta like Compiler?

Although, why you'd give a nano-infusion a personality... Probability Warping + Complier walking in + Delta Spike, or something, leads to the kind of Crazy Coincidences that form the basis of the Daniel Archwood series?

the Delta Spike risk is part of why they added a faraday cage to the weave, and why they would be using peripherals during the weapons fair, keeping him in the dorm