forum The best powers for everyday use.

Started August 06, 2020 by @Leshierian

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What would be the best superpowers for casual life?

Super strength isn't creative or useful, only if you need to carry something, Which, yeah, moving furniture. Or if you have a job that require physical activity.
Mind reading if you want to know what they think of you, or if you wanna know how to get what you want from anyone, Pretty useful.
Healing Sure, you could fix a bump or a bruise, a smashed finger, it might be useful for a mother of small kids that always come crying with a scraped knee or bumped head. Or.. I guess for a doctor, they could excel at fixing wounds. Though if it was let's say a sheltered kid, someone who doesn't get to do much, they wouldn't have all that many times to use their power. So maybe useful.
Invisibility This would depend on if they could control if they go invisible or not, if they can't, well it's useless and a hindrance on life, if they could control it then it'd be useful if they had someone in their life they needed to hide from, like their dad or partner or something along those lines. Or it could be useful for playing hide and seek, they'd always win.
Shape-shifting So, it depends on if they can imitate other's appearances, or if it's just them as a different species. If they can imitate other's appearance, well, than, consider a life of crime… or they could pretend to be their friend while the friend sneaks out, which would kinda suck, though I guess they could have kids pay them to pretend to be the kids so no parents would find out or something. or maybe they could slightly alter their appearance because they feel self conscious about how they look. If it's only other species, then well…. uh… they could explore the oceans…. or if they got kidnapped they could just turn into some creature and bam they're out of their, if they were short for money and couldn't buy food, they could just buy bird seed or cat food and turn.

These are just a few, add a power or two and reasonings for why it's great, why it's not and how it could be used and stuff.

A lot of my stories involve some kind of superpower type of thing so I think about this a lot.

Telekinesis Turns out that being able to move and manipulate objects with your mind has a lot of uses and I've kind of concluded that it's the best one for everyday use. Have you ever locked your keys inside your car? Wanted to change the tv channel but you were too cozy and didn't want to move? Have you ever played a board game and really needed the dice to land on a certain number? Telekinesis would solve all those things. There's so many small but practical ways you can use it.
Teleporting: Just think about how convenient life would be if you could just teleport places instead of driving. No more paying for gas or transit fares. No more getting stuck in traffic. Depending how far you could teleport you could literally just spend the day abroad like how cool would that be?
Self duplication: If you're like me and procrastinate a lot you could use this power to get stuff done while simultaneously playing Animal Crossing for like three hours straight. If you're not like me, you could use this power to be extra productive. Or extra lazy, I guess. For real though, being able to sit around and get nothing done while somehow also getting a lot of stuff done is honestly the dream.