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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2008-02-14 11:48 am

Another random question...

...answers to which may or may not be put to any use whatsoever.

So, if you had, say, a seekrit institute filled with psychic kids, what sort of talents/powers/whatever d'ya think might be in there? Aside from the normal telepathy, teleportation, etc., and aside from anything that's an exact copy of a well-known superhero. Or what about interesting twists or limitations on standard powers?*

("Psychic" isn't really accurate, "powered" is better: it involves not only things that are traditionally purely mental, like telepathy, but physical augmentations as well. Not like adamantium bones or cyber-stuff, but like super-speed or bat-like hearing.)


* Like, I always figured that telepathy would only work on words and images currently in someone's mind, and that people have thought processes just different enough from each other that interpretation would be a problem. A friend of mine put it this way, when I explained it to him: "So you'd be thinking [3.14159] and I'd be thinking [*purple*]?" Yeah. Kinda like that.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe something like that occurs in one of the Kurosagi manga. XD

[identity profile] tammylee.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! Yes! That life insurance guy story? But was he using acturial skills to predict their deaths or was he subtly manipulating probability?

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Good Question. :D I like how things are left slightly ambiguous every so often in Kurosagi. XD
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[personal profile] chomiji 2008-02-14 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)


IIRC, he did both. He was mostly just using his observations to cash in, but when he found that the Kurosagi guys were on his trail, he started manipulating the situations to try to get rid of them.