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[X] Enchanter: One of your parents can use their abilities to make the guidelines of physics cry in a corner. They insist their abilities follow specific rules, but since their creations can't be replicated, who can tell?
-[X] Mother
-[X] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
--[X] Serious: They get in, complete their objective, and get out. No fuss, no shenanigans.

-[X] Abomination of Nature and Humanity: One of your parents is living monstrosity who is fully capable of causing mass chaos,destruction,and death upon the unsuspecting world.
-[X] Father
-[X] Hero: This parent uses their abilitiesto fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
--[X] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

[X] Twin Sister
-[X] Cooperative

Background: You

[X] Name:Lothar
[X] Age :16
[X] Male
 
Background: Parents
[X] Teleporter: One of your parents can instantly move from point A to point B with no restrictions on distance, only number of uses. You have to admit, being able to instantly get take-out from the other side of the planet is pretty nice.
-[X] Father
-[X] Hero: This parent uses their abilities to fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
--[X] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"


[X] Spark: One of your parents can use SCIENCE! to create inventions vastly above the current technological standard. It's often difficult, but not impossible, to replicate them. They've never been good at understanding you, but they've done their best. You don't mind; the toys they've made to keep you occupied have usually been pretty awesome.
-[X] Mother
-[X] Anomaly: This parent gained their abilities past the age where they should normally be able to get them naturally, yet they still seem to have done so. Mutually exclusive with Artificial.
-[X] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
--[X] Silly: "Prepare to meet your DOOM, heroes! For today, you face THE-" *KRAKATHOOM*

For some reason this option made me think of a cross between Agatha Hetrodyne and the THE TECHNO QUEEN!!!*KRAKATHOOM*

Background: Siblings

[X] Twin Sister
-[X] Cooperative
Background: You
Gender:
[X] Male
Name:
[X] Alexander
Age:
[X]17
 
[X] Enchanter: One of your parents can use their abilities to make the guidelines of physics cry in a corner. They insist their abilities follow specific rules, but since their creations can't be replicated, who can tell?
-[X] Mother
-[X] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
--[X] Serious: They get in, complete their objective, and get out. No fuss, no shenanigans.

[x] Spark: One of your parents can use SCIENCE! to create inventions vastly above the current technological standard. It's often difficult, but not impossible, to replicate them. They've never been good at understanding you, but they've done their best. You don't mind; the toys they've made to keep you occupied have usually been pretty awesome.
-[x] Father
-[x] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
--[x] Serious: They get in, complete their objective, and get out. No fuss, no shenanigans.
-[x] Host: This parent possesses sentient and self-aware powers. Watching them occasionally take over can be rather unnerving, especially since they seem more concerned with efficiency than morality. Fortunately, you don't think they've ever actually killed anyone.

[x] Twin Sister
-[x] Cooperative

Background: You

Gender:
[x] Female

Name:
[x] Gabriel

Age:
[x]15

[x] appearance - Shinobu
http://orig07.deviantart.net/4d77/f/2015/224/e/c/ec83996ef8071b74c5261a431433a9d0-d95cha4.png

I really like the Enchanter+Spark combination
 
[X] Enchanter: One of your parents can use their abilities to make the guidelines of physics cry in a corner. They insist their abilities follow specific rules, but since their creations can't be replicated, who can tell?
-[X] Mother
-[X] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
--[X] Serious: They get in, complete their objective, and get out. No fuss, no shenanigans.

-[X] Abomination of Nature and Humanity: One of your parents is living monstrosity who is fully capable of causing mass chaos,destruction,and death upon the unsuspecting world.
-[X] Father
-[X] Hero: This parent uses their abilitiesto fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
--[X] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

[X] Twin Sister
-[X] Cooperative

Gender:
[X] Female
Name:
[X] Evelyn
Age:
[X] 16

Edited because I like this much better.
 
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[X] Enchanter: One of your parents can use their abilities to make the guidelines of physics cry in a corner. They insist their abilities follow specific rules, but since their creations can't be replicated, who can tell?
-[X] Mother
-[X] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
--[X] Serious: They get in, complete their objective, and get out. No fuss, no shenanigans.

-[X] Abomination of Nature and Humanity: One of your parents is living monstrosity who is fully capable of causing mass chaos,destruction,and death upon the unsuspecting world.
-[X] Father
-[X] Hero: This parent uses their abilitiesto fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
--[X] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

[X] Twin Sister
-[X] Cooperative

Gender:
[X] Female
Name:
[X] Evelyn
Age:
[X] 16
 
[X] Enchanter: One of your parents can use their abilities to make the guidelines of physics cry in a corner. They insist their abilities follow specific rules, but since their creations can't be replicated, who can tell?
-[X] Mother

[X] Spark: One of your parents can use SCIENCE! to create inventions vastly above the current technological standard. It's often difficult, but not impossible, to replicate them. They've never been good at understanding you, but they've done their best. You don't mind; the toys they've made to keep you occupied have usually been pretty awesome.
-[X] Father

Family drama!

[X] Twin Brother
-[X] Cooperative

Background: You

[X] Name:Lothar
[X] Age :16
[X] Male


[X]
 
[X] Spark: One of your parents can use SCIENCE! to create inventions vastly above the current technological standard. It's often difficult, but not impossible, to replicate them. They've never been good at understanding you, but they've done their best. You don't mind; the toys they've made to keep you occupied have usually been pretty awesome.
-[X] Mother
-[X] Host: This parent possesses sentient and self-aware powers. Watching them occasionally take over can be rather unnerving, especially since they seem more concerned with efficiency than morality. Fortunately, you don't think they've ever actually killed anyone.
-[X] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
--[X] Silly: "Prepare to meet your DOOM, heroes! For today, you face THE-" *KRAKATHOOM*

[X] Enchanter: One of your parents can use their abilities to make the guidelines of physics cry in a corner. They insist their abilities follow specific rules, but since their creations can't be replicated, who can tell?
-[X] Father
-[X] Hero: This parent uses their abilities to fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
--[X] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"[/QUOTE]

[X] Twin Sister
-[X] Rivalry

Gender:
[X] Male

Name:
[X] Gabriel

Age:
[X]15

Okay, so I'm going for maximum ham here. A villain and a hero of the Hammiest Silver Age style who are constantly trying to outham each other in public, lots of banter and bad puns etc. But in private are the most adorably, diabetic ally cute couple. Sibling rivalry is encouraged as good practice for cape life since both parents are sure kids will be capes. (In case you couldn't tell I reread techno queen recently).
 
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0.2: Playing with Potential
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    • If you're arriving later, you can safely skip this and the rest of "Playing with Potential" without missing anything.
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    ==> Create a 100000 by 100000 grid of 1 mm square pixels, each assigned a random color from a 24 bit RBG color space.

    A two-dimensional grid is formed. The nearby shapes don't change any.


    ==> Show me the largest concentration of adjacent pixels of the same color.

    A section of the grid in front of you detaches to float in front of where your eyes would be, if you had a body. The color is red.

    However, when you randomize the grid several more times and subsequently order it to show you the largest concentration of each color, you learn that it seems to be completely random. It doesn't prefer one color.


    ==> Arrange all possible powers into a grid.

    You have to dodge several of the shapes as they start forming up all around you. Additionally, it's somewhat difficult to make sense of things while you're surrounded, so...

    "Arrange all possible powers into a two-dimensional grid in front of me."

    ...Much better. Instead of being spread out randomly, you now have a massive number of colored shapes in front of you. Counting the number of rows, you estimate that there are approximately 603,729 different shapes. Most of them are rather bright, in some cases even hiding powers nearby them.


    ==> Replace this mindscape with a featureless white room, softly illuminated, large enough to comfortably accommodate all its contents.

    You're able to successfully change the area around you, although several of the dimmer, brightly-colored shapes are hidden in the artificial light. You quickly change it back.

    You note that there were no walls, ceiling, or floor. The "room" just went on for what seems like forever.


    ==> Arrange all entities in this mindscape other than myself into a grid.

    Several of the shapes detach from the existing grid in order to form a new one nearby. A quick count reveals that 113 shapes left.

    You notice the lights that left the grid are mostly rather bright, but small. There are six exceptions, but they're exactly that: exceptions. If you hadn't specifically done something to separate these shapes from the rest, you would probably have missed the dimmer ones. Additionally, all of them, even the dim ones, appear to be perfect spheres. You think. Thanks to their small size, it's tough to tell.


    =>Create another me and connect our brains.

    "Create a copy of myself and form a perfect telepathic link between us."

    ...Failure. You're somewhat glad that didn't work, given the many horror stories you've heard about capes able to make hive-minds.


    => Try creating an AI to halp us.

    "Create a mechanical or robotic artificial intelligence designed to help me."

    ...Failure.


    =>See if we can get our own body in the space.

    "Bring my body here."

    ...Failure.

    "Let me occupy my body without leaving this space."

    ...Failure.

    "...Make it so my body is no longer transparent."

    That works. You're able to see your current form, now, which seems to be identical to what your body looks like in reality.


    => See if we can modify ourselves (add thing to our brain for eg.)

    Trying brain surgery right off seems like a terrible idea, so you discard that. Instead...

    "Modify my body to incorporate an extra finger."

    Failure.

    "Add an extra finger to my current form.

    Failure.


    ==> Separate the two dimensional grid of possible powers into a three dimensional stack of grids, with depth in the stack corresponding to an increasing wavelength of reflected light.

    You think this worked, but it's tough to tell. Light is acting strangely in this place and ordering it to go back to normal didn't work.

    The shapes did rearrange themselves, but it's difficult to notice a pattern. Some of the dimmer shapes are bunched in with the brightest ones.


    ==> Separate pure shades of grey into a three dimensional stack of grids and order them by albedo.

    Success? Maybe? They moved around, but you run into the same problems as the last experiment.


    ==> Separate each grid into regular and irregular polygons.

    You don't notice any particular rhyme or reason to this; they appear to be divided evenly into irregular and regular, both in terms of numbers and properties.


    ==> Order the shapes within each grid by increasing number of sides.

    This worked magnificently. It would appear the more sides a shape has, the less light it's likely to output and the smaller it'll likely be. In the process, you learn that the shapes you identified earlier as "entities" aren't spheres at all, just have so many sides that they can imitate them.

    You also find a few empty spots where there should be a shape, but there doesn't appear to be anything. You avoid touching those areas anyway.

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    • I'm kinda curious on how abomination and enchanter interact with each other.
     
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    Fascinating.
    I want a test subject, now.

    => Write small explanation of the powers near them
    => Take out the power able to do telekinesis, super science,... with a grid for each.
     
    ==> Push some shapes into each other.

    ==> Try to combine shapes.

    ==> Overlap shapes in four-dimensional space.

    ==> Increase or decrease the number of sides on a shape.

    ==> Make new shapes.
     
    [X] Enchanter: One of your parents can use their abilities to make the guidelines of physics cry in a corner. They insist their abilities follow specific rules, but since their creations can't be replicated, who can tell?
    -[X] Mother
    -[X] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
    --[X] Serious: They get in, complete their objective, and get out. No fuss, no shenanigans.

    -[X] Abomination of Nature and Humanity: One of your parents is living monstrosity who is fully capable of causing mass chaos,destruction,and death upon the unsuspecting world.
    -[X] Father
    -[X] Hero: This parent uses their abilitiesto fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
    --[X] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"
    [X] Twin Brother
    -[X] Cooperative

    Background: You

    [X] Name:Lothar
    [X] Age :16
    [X] Male
     
    [x] Spark: One of your parents can use SCIENCE! to create inventions vastly above the current technological standard. It's often difficult, but not impossible, to replicate them. They've never been good at understanding you, but they've done their best. You don't mind; the toys they've made to keep you occupied have usually been pretty awesome.
    -[x] Mother
    -[x] Hero: This parent uses their abilities to fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
    --[x] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

    [x] Railgun
    -[x] Father
    -[x] Hero: This parent uses their abilities to fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
    --[x] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"


    [x] Twin Sister
    -[x] The Gary Oak to your Ash

    [x] Female

    Name:
    [x] Nephri

    Age:
    [x]16
     
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    wootius said:
    [] Plan Fun

    [] Spark: One of your parents can use SCIENCE! to create inventions vastly above the current technological standard. It's often difficult, but not impossible, to replicate them. They've never been good at understanding you, but they've done their best. You don't mind; the toys they've made to keep you occupied have usually been pretty awesome.
    -[] Mother
    -[] Hero: This parent uses their abilities to fight crime or otherwise has helping humanity as their primary goal.
    --[] Silly: They enjoy their job waaaay too much. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

    [] Railgun
    -[] Father
    -[] Villain: This parent uses their abilities to commit actions frowned upon by the law.
    --[] Silly: "Prepare to meet your DOOM, heroes! For today, you face THE-" *KRAKATHOOM*

    [] Twin Sister
    -[] The Gary Oak to your Ash

    [] Female

    Name:
    [] Nephri

    Age:
    []16
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    Ah, I'd prefer if you put Xs in there. We're not voting by-plan right now; for example, votes for the PC gender have 12 for male and 10 for female (including yours). Most categories are being counted separately.

    Interestingly enough, there are 12 votes for a cooperative twin sister, but only 5 votes for any kind of twin brother.

    Be aware that you're going to be able to manage a Twin Switch if the gender of the PC and their sibling is the same. Could be useful for trolling people via swapped costumes or to fulfill a lot of other Twin Tropes.

    EDIT: Much better, thank you.
     
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    0.21: Playing with Potential, cont.
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    • Pretty much all of the 0.2x section may be safely skipped without missing any story; it's just more SCIENCE!



    => Write small explanations of the powers near them

    "Write a small explanation of each power in the space just in front of it, where the 'front' of each power refers to the side closest to me."

    ...This... might have worked? Glowing, tiny white writing appeared in front of each power. Key word: tiny. It's much too small to read and trying again without the "small" doesn't make it any bigger. Additionally, the next time you shift around the powers, the writing stays exactly where it was originally.

    You suspect this mindscape might be trolling you.


    => Take out the power able to do telekinesis, super science,... with a grid for each.

    "Bring any telekinetic powers within this space to just in front of me."

    Failure.

    "Rearrange the grid of powers so that similar powers are clustered together, where 'similar' refers to abilities with similar effects.

    Success. More than 90% of the shapes are now clustered by color; the exceptions tend toward having an above-average number of sides.


    ==> Push some shapes into each other.

    "I want that shape and that shape to go to the same spot."

    ...It works, but they still appear to be separate. They're just kinda overlapping.


    ==> Try to combine shapes.

    "I want the last two shapes I manipulated to be combined."

    The two forms, a tetrahedron and a cylinder, appear to force themselves into the same space... and then promptly explode. Maybe that's not such a good idea.


    ==> Overlap shapes in four-dimensional space.

    You'd rather not make even more things explode.


    ==> Increase or decrease the number of sides on a shape.

    This sorta works? The shape you tested it on collapsed upon itself before vanishing completely.


    ==> Make new shapes.

    Failure.
     
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    • =>Invoke microscope.
    We are going to read everything !

    It seem that multifacet are grab bag power. Would be interesting to know wether that make them less powerfull or not.
     
    ==> give me a book that is filled with any understanding i could obtain of the different powers there are in a language i can understand.
     
    0.22: Playing with Potential, cont. x2
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    • =>Invoke microscope.

    This works for the purposes of viewing the words, but it gets you what appears to be a lot of overlapping writing occupying the same space.


    ==> Find the shape with the most amount of sides

    "Bring the shape with the highest number of sides out of all shapes assembled within this space to the area just in front of me."

    You wait impatiently for several seconds, then blink, pause, and lean forward. Apparently, that actually worked.

    There's a tiny, dim blue not-quite-a-sphere in the space just in front of you. Had you not completely isolated it from all other powers, it would have remained hidden indefinitely.

    The writing in front of it doesn't even look like writing at all, just a solid block of white.


    ==> Find the brightest shape

    "Bring the brightest of all shapes assembled within this space to the area just in front of me.

    A veritable supernova drifts down from one corner of the grid; fortunately, it doesn't seem to be hurting you any to look at it. It's a boring, brown line. Summoning writing and a microscope just in front of it nets you the following:

    "Minimal enhanced vision."

    ...Well. That was anticlimactic.


    ==> Give me a book that is filled with any understanding I could obtain of the different powers there are in a language I can understand.

    You're genuinely surprised when a tome materializes into existence in front of you. Opening to the first page, you read the following:

    "Nice try."

    The entire rest of the book is blank.
     
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    • ==> sort shapes internally by "similar" powers within "similar" powers
    ==> dimmest shape
    ==> shape with fewest sides

    ==> individual brown shapes

    I want to know if it was the brightness or the brownness that was associated with such a lacklustre power.
     
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    ==> bring me a power than can consume other powers.
    ==> if it works feed it all the powers.
     
    => Invoke stick. Poke everything with stick
    => Write in a way that is readable the information.
    =>Select ten other power from the second to the eleventh more bright power. Read their information
    =>Select power similar to god hood.
    => Select power giving immortality.
    =>Select power that is able to self upgrade.
     
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