Should My Character Gain Powers?

[AniStaciaArt]

@Reign Cool! If he can absorb sound can he control that part too. Like turn himself into a sound blackhole, pulling all the sounds into him and rendering everyone else deaf and mute?

[DiegoPalacios]

really cool power!, here are some ideas for creative ways to use it:

-he could absorb his own sound for stealth situations.

-he could absorb another person`s sound to silence them, or to avoid a lot of alarms

-if he can manipulate the sound absorved, he could use it to mimic voices or other sounds. or maybe mimic the sound he absorved.

[Reign]

@prodigiumcomic @DiegoPalacios

I was thinking of him being able to absorb sounds for stealth reasons. I haven’t thought of mimicking. That’s a really cool idea! The only other thing I’ve really thought of was him using the sound waves to push off of the ground to jump higher, run faster, and fly. It’s a good idea to use the powers to make others mute or deaf. I was thinking of the villain having the same power, and he would make good opposition if he made the main character deaf during a fight, rendering the main character’s power useless. I figure, if he can’t hear the sound, he can’t absorb it.

[RiidDisBuk]

Those are some familiar abilities. Not a fan of the drawback, though. I just happen to notice that my character's abilities have like no flaws on them just because I like to write compelling fights.

[Reign]

@RiidDisBuk

What do you mean by compelling fights?

[RiidDisBuk]

Epic dymanic fights like OPM's manga.

[DiegoPalacios]

I think both, powers with drawbacks and powers without drawbacks can make compelling fights. Is up to execution of said fight.

A clever user could even use their own drawback in their favor. Ex: if someone overheats their body if they use their fire power too much, they may benefit if they are fighting in really cold climates.

Or someone who realized the drawbacks of their enemy`s power could exploit them in unique ways.

What keep fights dynamic when characters with powers fight is how they use them and how they use their enviroment.

ex: the guy with super strenght can have more tricks up his sleve if he uses the enviroment in his fights. Ex: when fighting against an army, he could use his strenght to hit key pillar of a building so it falls over them, and then exploiting the chaos he generated to attack the enemy survivors.

[Zaboem]

@Reign, let me ask you this. If it were not your decision but your character's decision to develop powers, world he go for it? If so, how much of a price would he be willing to pay for them?

P.S. Just don't give him obvious and overused superpowers. A redundant power can make a character even less interesting in my opinion. Steelheart was a great novel in that it explored tge price of superpowers, the lengths to which some good to avoid paying the price, and what happens to society when the price is paid by others. It's a dark deconstruction of the superhero concept but in a practical sense instead of the way that Alan Moore deconstructs superhero stories by making it all about emotions and ethics.