Another random question...

[telophase]

...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.

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[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I listened to that show too!

That guy who lost all his memory and ability to form memories... except for his memories of his wife and of music... is showing up in "Gundam West." Sort of.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Did you ever catch any shows or read about the guy in England who was born without the ability to form most memories? Turns out he can do so if it's attached to something emotional for him - he can remember his girlfriend's birthday, for instance - or if it somehow makes it into long-term memory, because he can do things like read and write, but he can't ever live alone because he can't do something like walk down the street and get a carton of milk unless he or someone else has written notes and left them all over the house and put a note in his day planner to do so, and given him a map and instructions on what to do.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

No, that's really interesting though; my person can recall emotions but not events, ie, her feelings are shaped by what's happened to her, so she knows who she loves and who she hates, but not why.