Creative Powers

[Random_Guy]

It’s always fun to see unique powers, but it’s more fun to see simple powers used in creative ways.

For example, I have a character in my short story collection TftR who has a power that basically just amplifies aspects of other people, whether that’s their speed, strength or own unique power.
One of their big moves is boosting a targets senses to cripple them by allowing them to hear and feel everything, to feel every muscle in their body, the flow of their blood, to hear every voice for miles, the movement of every blade of grass, etc.

What about you? I always have a fun time seeing the unique uses for powers people can come up with.

[xstarx07]

It'll take some while till I get there, but the coolest powers I have in my project are the manipulation of time and space. One character can create portals and shoots beams by overlapping them or even storing things in a pocket dimension. The other can stop time, predict enemies' movements and even travels back through time at one point for character development.
But those powers also come with great risk, since overusing them too much can result in death. And for the time travelling one, it will cause massive paradoxes.

Another insane thing a character of mine can do is pretty much comparable to Itachi's genjutsu, but he can only do it by using his seperate energy source, which has a will of its own. The perfect recipe for chaos! xP

And of course, power-ups, can't miss that with shonen fights and I got quite a handful of cool ones that I wanna surprise people with!

[DualDragons]

While Seth here is absolutely not experienced with it and he is not a fighter, he has a power called a surge. And his grants him the ability to produce any type of liquid from the pores of his body. Think water, certain types of acid, poison, salt water, metallic liquids etc.

He can even produce liquid gold. Which unfortunately has lead people to abuse Seth and make a slave of him at the start of the story to make money.

[AwesomeSoFar]

One character can create portals and shoots beams by overlapping them

bro? is that a motherfucking wakfu reference?

[xstarx07]

That show is so underrated, but I'm glad you noticed!
It'll go a bit more extreme though, since my character is going to train controlling the output at one point, making it able for them to open up either multiple small ones or a giant (overkill) one and the attack is gonna be called "Cosmos Flare" with a changing name theme with every variant - as I'm still figuring out the name, since it's gonna be a long while (3 arcs/parts), like I said qwq

[fleurravenbooks]

Matter manipulation, Density control, anything time related, etc.

[VibrantFox]

this thread made me think of a very old set of essentially abandoned characters who had a mix of some of the usual mundane elemental abilities but also a few who had more interesting ones.

One of my personal faves was a hemokinetic or blood manipulator whose abilities were both used for combat (halting blood flow, stopping the heart, causing little migraines but also mainly as a medic (slowing or stopping blood flow for severe wounds to make treatment easier for example)

There was another who rather than having the ability to read minds had something akin to mental persuasion not in the form of hypnotism but like thought projection. The function would likely be similar to that of how a hive mind operates but rather than large groups it's limited to anyone the host comes into contact with so basically they had the power of intrusive thoughts i guess.

[FafasMcMelt]

not really a creative power in any way, but I gave healing magic a rather commonplace downside, which is to be very taxing on the target (they just get exhausted from healing so fast). Since the party healer really doesn't have the guts to kill people, he usually beats them up and heals them, so they are both knocked out and in no life threatening condition

[VibrantFox]

but I gave healing magic a rather commonplace downside, which is to be very taxing on the target (they just get exhausted from healing so fast). Since the party healer really doesn't have the guts to kill people, he usually beats them up and heals them, so they are both knocked out and in no life threatening condition

idk why but i notice i've always been a fan of this given in most fantasy settings (or at least games with magic) certain amounts of magic or ability use causes wear on either the magic user or the one who magic is used on

so the concept of the person being healed becoming work down as the healing magic uses the body's natural healing ability but faster and then on the opposite end of the spectrum a healer can have limits to how much they can do depending on their connection to whatever is the source of their ability or how much access they have to that power based on whatever circumstances

like i know mha does the whole limits or downsides to powers so a lotta folks seem to associate that as a concept with the show but it's been around even before them

[FafasMcMelt]

Yeah, I like my magic costly, but healing moreso than most other stuff. The ammount of energy it would take to actually heal instantly is just nuts, and I really dislike using magic as an excuse for inconsistency, so I have both the caster and the target of healing to get particularly spent.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I do have my character Loki who can teleport both himself and others.
He doesn't just move around the battlefield like a instant transmission Goku either. No. He weaponizes objects on the battlefield. Like this barn.
(You'll have to click on the drawing to see the whole image.)

[Shanny8]

One of my characters has the ability of absorbing ambient and kinetic energy- making them faster, stronger, and even releasing bursts of that stored energy. Everyday movements- walking, blinking, gestures- even breathing, can allow this character to build the necessary [extra] energy to perform extraordinary feats...and even if the character is rendered immobile, they can still absorb ambient energy from their surroundings. The only way to defeat this character would be A) someone who is better than them or B) freeze them where all molecular activity is inactive.

Also: this character is a villain.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Oh that's dope. I love kinetic energy based powers.