Letter Bee

Power Corrupts

<Snipped quote by Letter Bee>

"I'm not sure if we're going into an xmen senario or not. After that kid and I used our powers we got looks from several people in the crowd. The ref even had to step in and say that because powers weren't forbidden in the rules and because we hadn't cheated the kid could continue. Lost to you in the last round, but I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't allowed to use our powers, or even participate next year. It took decades before things really went down hill for the xmen." He paused for a moment. "We need a professor X."

"As for my powers, I fell down some stairs." He was going to stop there, but realized it sounded like he was trying to cover up abuse. "Really, broke my neck. I was in the hospital unable to move and it got ridiculous. the nurse had to bathe me, feed me, carry away my shit, wipe my ass, everything. I just wanted to be able to do something by myself. That's when the tv remote came to me. After that I got the healing, for obvious reasons, and when my cousin with super strength started to train me I got durability, again for obvious reasons. You?"

@TheUnknowable

"Again," spoke Alexander, "I lost friends to the virus." Deciding to elaborate, he continued:

"I always wanted to be a hero, wanted to be the light in the grim darkness of our world. But, what I ended up becoming was a self-righteous asshole; I myself don't know if I've changed. I had a habit of making friends, then alienating them, and then the Martian Virus struck my hometown; I remember hearing about my family fearing for my life, or my friends dying. Just before my powers manifested, remember...wanting to go back to those times, as well as wanting to...pierce my delirium and reveal the truth behind things..."

"You're also right on how the situation may not have deteriorated yet. But, I didn't use my powers, so that might...I'm just being optimistic."

"As for a 'Professor X', that'd be convenient, but for now, we should assume we're thrown on our own resources."

Power Corrupts

Posting from phone after voting in Philippine Elections. Can't post right now.

Academy of Noble Arms

Pablo was walking to the campus, a smile on his face as the night's cold hadn't faded yet. The past five months had been hectic, academics, weapons training, and other forms of physical exercise. He loved it.

Not that he was blind to the academy's darker side now, though; the frequent fights, the attempts of the Director to restore order, and the sheer chaos that came from having so many students who were partly convinced that they were the dregs of the worldwide network of Noble Arms. It also didn't help that after this, after all this training is done, there was a high chance that Pablo would have to do a military career if he can't find a way to fund his' being a wandering hero.

His train of thought was interrupted by his' witnessing the fight; apparently, two of the students were manifesting Noble Arms during a classroom scuffle! Well, not on his watch. Fast-walking over to where the two were about to fight, Pablo drew his own Noble Arm and manifested, from seeds planted on his back, wings of leaves:

"No trying to kill each other!" And with that, two rainbow-colored wings manifested from the 16-year old's back alongside the shield.

"And don't tell me to buzz off, either, this campus doesn't need any dead bodies." If both combatants turned against him, he'd just block their attacks; he had hope today, they did not.

Power Corrupts

Alexander Sky

Are we really sure about that? thought Alexander, before saying:

"It appears that powers are being openly used here. Guess we're not having that cliched X-Men scenario...yet." God must be personally interfering to make sure that fears and predjudices didn't matter.

"Well, at least we still have some coin," Alexander changed the subject. "Anyway, Kyle," he began to ask, "what's your life like? How'd you get those powers? For me, well...my powers came from survivor's guilt." Many people had died from the Martian Virus, after all.

Academy of Noble Arms

@TheHangedMan, Hey, talk on the link I gave you in the PM?

Academy of Noble Arms

@Letter Bee Considering its strength, I think it'd be best to make it a later development.

@TheHangedMan

All right; later development, cool.

Academy of Noble Arms

@Letter Bee Didn't you say that would be a development for later?

@TheHangedMan

Yeah, but that was because I wasn't sure that would be allowed as a 'starting power'.

Would it, or would it be not?

Academy of Noble Arms

@TheHangedMan, Yes, if nothing unexpected comes up.

Also, would like this addition to Pablo:

Azkaban Contingency - Pablo, when pushed to despair or desperation, can emit a field from his Kalis that siphons hope from all individual beings capable of feeling it (including animals), up to the distance of one square kilometer. The hope used can be channeled into A+-ranked arts, making Pablo someone to watch.

Scattered Shades: Arcadia Chronicles

@tex, Two days from now, I'll vote in Philippine Elections, so I won't be able to post.

Academy of Noble Arms

@TheHangedMan, Two days from now, I'll vote in Philippine Elections, so I won't be able to post.