POWER RE/GAIN MEME

[phaseshifter]

hey it's been like a million years since we did the


POWER RE/GAIN MEME

Oh shit son your character has some/all of their canon powers back

Time to show off for their new friends/balls things up completely, as is snowhell tradition

"But Louise my character has no cool powers boohoo"

SHH FRIEND IT'S OK

This is a meme and Norfinbury is weird so maybe they accidentally somehow got some rando's powers instead or something

Steal a powerset from someone else's canon for maximum wtf with your cr, perhaps

Or maybe they got an item/animal/idefk from home instead? Look just do whatever is most fun, IT'S A MEME GO NUTS

BONUS HORRIBLE: haha wouldn't it be terrible if your character got their powers while also re/experiencing the effects of a previous event like noisy black or no light? Haha yeah that'd be the worst huh

Have fun/horrid times friendos

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Angel

[phaseshifter]

1 - Come fly with me

[ Angel has never made it a secret that she's been missing her wings since arriving in Norfinbury. What's not to miss, right? Flying! Awesome.


Except she's never flown freely before. Not even back home. The ceiling of the bunker wasn't very high, and while hovering around in little circles was fun now and then, it wasn't like this. Soaring through the sky above Norfinbury might be the most freedom Angel has experienced in her life, which naturally means she's busy enjoying it to the fullest. She performs a series of loops and pirouettes in the air until she makes herself nauseous, then lets out an exhilerated little laugh as she swoops down towards whatever poor sap is trudging through the snow below. ]

Hey! Hey!! Wings!

[ THEY SURE ARE SOME WINGS. They flap lazily as she bobs around in the air, clearly thrilled. SHE'S! FLYING!! LOOK!!!!! ]

D'you wanna-- Would you like to go for a ride? I'm pretty sure I can carry one person! Unless you're way heavier than you look.

 

2 - Daddy issues (CW: No Light body horror, possible torture, abusive parents, possibly more I'm sorry)

[ You might be expecting Angel to be celebrating, what with people getting their powers back and all. She's been talking her own abilities up forever, right? Time to see if she really is capable of opening all those locked doors with her mind. Or you could just get a look at how pretty her wings are. That's also an option.

It doesn't really matter why anyone might be seeking her out - no matter what, she can be found in one of the guard rooms in the bunker, her back to the door as she stares at the monitors. They've flared to life and are now displaying reams of text that flash by too quickly to read - but whatever's happening with them must be pretty interesting, since Angel seems pretty absorbed in it. She hasn't even turned around to greet whoever's entered the room! How uncharacteristically rude.

Of course, people who saw what happened to her a few months ago might notice a few disturbing signs. Angel's body language is strange - she's standing with her legs shoulder-width apart and her hands on her hips, giving her a much more arrogant demeanour than usual. Even from the back, the silhouette of her face is ever so slightly off, and although her arms are obscured by her translucent wings it's possible to make out that her tattoos are glowing purple.

But whatever. It's probably fine. What are the odds that she'd be turning into a Jack-inspired monster now, of all times? HAHA THAT'S SILLY TALK HAHAH GO SAY HI. ]


((NOTE: Angel's canon powerset is bullshit technopathy and it allows her/Jack to seize control of the town's robospiders. And the nanomachines inside characters' bodies. Which is obscenely OP, especially if Jack has reason to dislike your character and is therefore more than willing to abuse the hell out of it. I have the squicks page open to try and avoid springing anything triggery on anyone, BUT: if you don't want your character to be potentially helpless while horrible things happen to them, you might want to skip this option! 8V))

2

[cahooted]

[Okay, this is new. Flynn is bad at social interaction but he's good at reading people and this screams bad at him in approximately 27 different languages. Not even starting to count the different hieroglyphs and pictographs...

Also, really not what he expected to find when he finally came around to check out the bunker. Maybe he should have listened to his MN poisoning and stayed away.]

Angel...?

2

[zunesareawesome]

[Look, he really does want to get a look at how pretty your wings are. He might've grown up around aliens and seen all the beauty the universe had to offer but man, wings are just super cool?

Except that he's really here to get a battery recharge, your wings are cool, but so is music.

He knocks on the door of the guard room, looking at the monitors--huh, that's weird. But whatever, you do your thing, Angel?]

Hey! Oh cool, your tattoos are doin' a thing!

Anyway, you got a minute? My Zune's outta battery.

piles on the 2 train

[headjacked]

...An... gel.

[ The thing is, Rhys is incredibly, intimiately familiar with that stance. It's a stance he's taken before, as an imitation, very much meant as the greatest form of flattery and a physical expression of his personal goals.

But. It's gotta be a conincidence, just. Angel, feeling especially confident today. For obvious reasons?

And she's got a purple sheen to her be... ...cause...

... he's staying near the door and leaning back. ]

Hey, hi, hello?? You okay?

2 tear into me i guess

[sharktrash]

[ TIME TO SEE IF SHE CAN KILL THINGS WITH HER MIND. ]

[ Except she seems rather preoccupied, and for a moment Squalo stares at the fucking Matrix lines, trying to make anything out. He can't naturally, which means he needs the attention on him, like, now. ]

What're you doing?

[ All casual, maybe even a bit interested. Look, just because he's no code monkey doesn't mean he can't appreciate when someone goes all HACKERMAN. ]

1

[warriorscribe]

[So Enoch just jumped like three times his height onto this window ledge? He's probably lighter than he looks. Also his boots are actually boot-sized now that he's left the rainboots somewhere safe so he's not tripping over his own feet. Look at his perfect balance.]

Of course! I won't be as heavy as when I first summoned this.

[Flying sounds fun, which he's more up to having now.]

I am Captain Planet! (cw body horror, just all the body horror, blood and injuries, death talk)

[zunesareawesome]

A. Matterbender

[So, uh, Peter's making weird statues.

Right there, in the middle of a snow-covered field, because why not, there's lots of rubble he can use for stuff? Look at all this rubble making up Skeletor? Isn't that the coolest thing? There's PAC-Man, there's a troll, there's the Death Star--it glows too, he can do that!

It also shoots lasers.

You know, he could use the ability to reshape-matter to, like, y'know, build them a spaceship to get out of here, make more food, grow a few palm trees?

Right now he's trying to build an Optimus Prime. It's pretty big, like at least two stories tall.

It's probably good he didn't go for an 800 foot statue.

What are priorities even?

Also he's flying as he builds it. Why? Because he can.]

B. Hasselhoff

[Everyone's got all these powers back and it's great, and Peter's not exactly sure what to expect because he kind of lost them when Ego died but maybe he didn't lose them completely he doesn't even know, but he wakes up and apparently has powers like Mystique now so that's great.

So he's just gonna go around being Your Favorite 80's Stars™ because look, it's kind of cool.

And Darth Vader. You see Darth Vader walking through the snow? That's him.]

C. Planetbabby (cw No Light)

[So, uh, they have an anomaly situation again, and Peter's a planet again, except somehow powers come with it?

So you got a sphere that looks like an exact replica of a planet with an atmosphere and everything and a face, except now it's got tendrils of light and uh, he can affect matter around him? Which is cool and all but it's not the light he needs, he needs your light, and he's coming to get it.

See that sphere rolling towards you in the distance?

Good luck.]

D. The Gauntlet (RIP)

[Somehow he wakes up with it on his arm. He knows exactly what it is, he can feel its impossible power flowing through him, not unlike when he was hooked up to Ego's light but--it's different, too. Somehow more? The closest thing he could come up with was when he held the raw Power Stone in his hands--he can feel it now, but it mixes with the other stones like some kind of symphony--

...cool.

He hates this thing so much, but there's so much power and he could just fix...fix everything, maybe, fix all of this.

Or accidentally snap Norfinbury in half.]

D, all the rip

[cahooted]

[Flynn spent all of his life--

-- okay, well, the past three years of his life --

-- his recent, pre-Norfinbury-life tracking down magical artifacts which usually ended up being extremely deadly or apocalyptic or both or somehow, inexplicably, worse. So when he sees Peter of all people with something that looks very much like a magical artifact on his hand, it's not just an alarm bell that goes off in his head, it's more or less the head-splitting ringing torture the town put on them not too long ago.

Only this time it's more personal because this time Flynn knows the reason for it.]

Peter? Hi.

[He approaches slowly, carefully, tilting his head.]

Uhh, whatcha got there?

[cahooted]

1. NO SHIT, LIBRARIAN

[@librarian; video]

[Flynn had long suspected that the city has somehow... taken away some of his knowledge but how did you even bring that up without looking like the worst jerk (hubirs, Graham calls it, hubris), especially when all your knowledge about literature and languages and ancient cultures seemed to still be intact? It just feels very awkward to bring it up, so he never does but then one day he wakes up and it just seems to be... back.

It's weird, he can't pinpoint it, it's like he just knows. And it's the best feeling in the world.]

Hey, hey, are you there? Please, I need to talk to you! I need to look at you!

[He sounds genuinely, boyishly excited, beaming at the camera. Please talk to him!]


2. M A G I C

[Man, he's always dreamed of being able to do what Judson does – just showing up in mirror reflections or projecting himself onto other people's bodies. This is so cool?

Flynn doesn't remember when he learned to do that but it doesn't matter, because it makes sense to him that at some point he did and using magic in a horrible town like Norfinbury is the best!?]

Alright, just... just stand over there! I wanna try something! It's perfectly safe! ... I think!


3. WHEYBRARIAN (cw: body horror)

[Something is wrong.

Or is it? He really feels like something's going on with his physique but he can't quite put his finger on it, only that it's so much more difficult to walk through a door these days? His layers seem to be a much tighter fit, too, which is why at some point he just gets rid of them. It's not like the cold bothers him anyway! The ice tunnels are a pain sometimes, it's like every other day he gets stuck in a particularly narrow passageway. It's fine, though, he usually just punches himself free. As you do.

Do you need saving? He's really all about kicking in doors and wrestling anomalies these days.

Or... just kicking in doors to come and chill at your place for the night. You don't happen to have a spare protein bar for him, do you?]

Did you know that the YMCA first organized in Boston in 1851 and a smaller branch opened in Rangasville in 1852? Ten years later there were some two hundred YMCAs across the country, most of which provided gymnasia for exercise, games, and social interaction!


[OOC note: SO, Flynn is a horrible, horrible Gary Stu in terms of what he knows and the movies/tv series are very inconsistent about where his specialties lie depending on what the script needs him to do. What is consistent, however, are ridiculous Psych/Sherlock-esuqe abilities of reading other people. He looks at you, he knows how many siblings you have, what your favorite color is, where you're from, where your parents are from, what you're afraid of, what you don't want people to know. Does it make sense? No. Should he know this? No. BUT if there's something your character would never ever ever ever let on to the dear people of Norfinbury, here's your chance because he has a tendency of just... blurting this knowledge out once he obtains it. He means no harm. He just gets excited.

If I don't know your canon and you wanna go for this please let me know what he might be able to read off you. 8D He's gonna be nice about it. Probably.]

GLORIOUS #3 THE MOST WHEYBRARIAN

[zunesareawesome]

[Peter's not gonna lie.

This is about 1/2 utterly and incomprehensibly horrifying.

It's also about 1/2 freakin' awesome.

He mighta screamed a little when you burst in the door.]

...Flynn, what the hell!?

[And y'know, not that he's jealous of your sudden macho physique but he's just gonna stand up and stand as tall as he can.]

1

[sharktrash]

[ Okay, that's... excitable even for Flynn. Squalo has to admit he's curious, especially after all the tales he's heard about a magic sword. ]

Of course you do, I'm awesome and beautiful. What's up?

1

[termineur]

[ Gabriel responds with video, of course. He smiles into the camera. Nothing's different about him, really, but....even a regular person might feel unsettled. ]

Hey, Flynn. What's up? Something happen to you, too?

[ He's staring right back at you, Flynn, watching for whatever special ability you might display.
He's eager for it. ]

Rhys

[headjacked]

1: wishful thinking aka make it canon gearbox you cowards

[ Powers, what powers? Rhys has no powers, unless you count something along the lines of technopathy, and even that is a laughable imitation of the things fully repowered Angel can do.

That might put him in a Mood, as happy as he is for Angel, but he's kind of preoccupied with the way his entire left side started itching and tingling out of goddamn nowhere as a white-hot current explodes in his brain, far hotter than anything Jack could ever do to him.

And then said side lights up like a single-color Mercenary Day tree, gold and shiny through his clothes, and a pair of wings sprout from his back.

He looks.

He YELLS.

He leaps away from them, except. They're. They're on his back, so that goes about as well as you can imagine. In fact, he takes off, arms flailing, rocketing in the air.

FLYING TYPES PLEASE ASSIST

NON-FLYING TYPES ALSO ASSIST? OR THROW SNOWBALLS AT HIM?? ]

2: for once we can't blame beckett; cw mental illness, vampirism, HE THORSTY

[ It didn't it doesn't it keeps not making any sense, his head feels like a balloon and he's floating away but above all he is ravenously, painfully hungry. Hungry enough to chew his lips, single-minded enough to barely care about what he's thrown on as he stumbles outside.

The buttons on his cardigan have been torn off, and he's angrily threaded his tie through the holes, using it to keep the sweater from flapping in the breeze. A move that, at the time, seemed sensible and actually STILL seems sensible, because who needs buttons after all? ]

I can't. I can't see anyone. Can you?? Where are they? Dumpy?

[ When his robot-companion doesn't respond, he turns to screaming, and Dumpy screams back. With Rhys nodding, like he understands ever metallic shriek. ]

ok 2 first

[phaseshifter]

[ Angel might be busy doing her swoopy happy flying thing, but Rhysish screams are something that are guaranteed to bring her back down to earth. Literally and figuratively. Do you see what I did there.

It doesn't take her long to discover the source of the cacophony, at which point she screeches to a halt in mid-air. Well, this is. Something. ]

What are you doing?? You almost scared me to death, for frick's sake! And you look half-dead with cold, ugh, let's get you back inside...

[ SERIOUSLY, RHYS. WOW. She holds out a hand - maybe she'll fly them to the nearest house? It certainly seems faster than trudging through the snow, and Rhys really does look terrible. Poor thing. ]

1

[cahooted]

[OKAY THIS IS NOT HOW HE EXPECTED HIS DAY TO GO, LIKE EVEN FOR NORFINBURY THIS IS A LOT!!?

There are anomalies, okay, fine, he can deal with that. The existential, physical AND psychological horror, too, yeah, you kind of get used to it after a while, it sucks, but what can you do? Die, probably. Or not. Whatever.

What Flynn cannot deal with is a CYBORG (with admittedly really cool futuristic implants, gosh, they are just so cool, oh man!?) flying at him with what are, at least from his point of view, NOT VERY CYBORG-Y WINGS (but admittedly also really cool, come on?!) and somehow bumping into him, which leads to him somehow getting dragged along because somehow all of his ridiculous layers of clothing get entangled with Rhys' ridiculous everything and how does this even happen?!]

OhmygodwhatareyoudoingletgoofmeohgodarethoseROOFS...

2 cw for maybe Noisy Black references in here idk

[warriorscribe]

[Oh no, Rhys is screaming.

Suddenly, memories flood to the fore of his mind, memories of that awful brainwashed version of him. The thing that hurts him most. The only thing in this town so far that came close to truly destroying him, maybe destroying them both. His hands were ice cold, but he could swear now they're warm with fresh blood...

And he's mid-leap in trying to climb up the side of the bunker. He was supposed to pull his midair jumping trick here. He doesn't.

Down he goes, straight into a snowdrift a few feet away from Rhys.]

2 SURE IS A THING

[bookofnope]

[The screaming is not entirely unhelpful, because it lets Beckett find him in the swirling snow after a good hour of being separated. There is a lot going on. Some of it is nice, for some people. Not for Beckett. Beckett gets no nice things like the return of his undead resilience or wolfaboo powers. All he gets is the trickle of his self-taught magic. There'd be considerable human-all-along anxiety there if he didn't have bigger immediate problems.

Namely, the screaming.

He rushes up to Rhys, ready to grab him if flailing appears in addition to the screaming. Starts with hand on his shoulder to make his presence and closeness known even if Rhys can't see him. He speaks loudly over the screaming and the Norfinbury wind.]

Rhys! I'm here! Look at me.

[Rhys feels... very cold under his cardigan.]

[warriorscribe]

1: Who needs a shirt anyway?

[Hey. Hey Norfinbury. Guess what he's got.

His armor.

Everything he's wearing above the waist vanishes when he summons it in a swell of white light, all holy and mystical. Except while it resizes to fit his new malnourished body, his jeans were still made for a larger man, and the bottom parts cause them to bunch up all weird, and the boots now form to fit around rainboots so they're like big clunky Mega Man feet.

Also, its weight is tied to his will to continue and he is currently very depressed, so the second it forms he faceplants into the snow. Some superpower...]


2: Acrobatics!

[Of course, once he's gotten himself inside in order to take his boots off so he doesn't trip over his own suddenly oversized shoes when he summons his armor, and really processed that it's back and so is his agelessness...

Well, a good deal of that literal weight of doubt is lifted then. He can be found doing flips, jumps higher than he is tall, and maybe even more than twice that that after he winds up in a crouch first. He's cold but you know what? It can't hurt him yet! He has his armor!

Can he scale this house? He can totally scale this house. Watch him!]

1.

[cahooted]

[Hey. Hey Enoch. Guess what he's seeing.

Your armor.]

Is this authentic Akkadian battle gear!?

[He just rushes over to inspect it. This is amazing, it's so unique, and if this truly is Akkadian (yeah, okay, it's clearly magical, too, but details), he might very well be the first and only human of his world to ever see it in this untarnished state--

Wait, are you suffocating in the snow? Let him try to roll you around.

Only that armor is kind of heavy, so he's pulling and straining quite a lot.]

1 because I GOTTA

[phaseshifter]

Dude.

[ Angel has an exceedingly strange look on her face. Is she about to cry? Laugh? Barf? WHO KNOWS. ]

Why are you wearing boobplate.

[ RIP ENOCH ]

Harley Quinn

[clowngirl]

1. I'm strongerrrr than yesterdayyy

[Harley wouldn't call what she has powers, they're more like enhancements. And it's not gone without notice that these enhancements have significantly been rolled back since she's been in Norfinbury. She's been weaker, slower, and she suspects a lot more susceptible to dying horribly from toxins. But now? Now, suddenly, she feels great. Like she could do anything. Or at least, anything she could before. She starts out by lifting whatever heavy things she can around the bunker and slowly works her way up to... hey, you're not doin' anything are you?

She calls out:] Hey, c'mere a second!

[And she doesn't waste an instant on a greeting or further explanation-- when you step within reach she suddenly rushes forward and swoops you up in her arms bridal-style. Hmm, too easy. She'll have to find someting heavier!]


2. Stop, Hammer Time

[There's a loud SMASHING and CRASHING sound coming from the next room. When you enter to investigate, there Harley is-- swinging a mallet roughly the size of God. Where did it come from? She doesn't know. Back home, she supposes. What's she doing with it? Apparently trying to take out the nearest interior wall in maniacally gleeful fashion. Are you going to tell her not to? Good luck!]

2.

[cahooted]

[So, in his life the women usually display feats of incredible physical strength, so he's not that much in shock but that hammer? It still stands out.]

You... look, maybe it's just me, but you think you could try that on the city walls or the locked doors instead...?

Squalo

[sharktrash]

-- 1.

[ It's back. He's whole again, his Rain Flames surging through his body as his long-unused ring flares to life with a light blue glow. Perfect. ]

[ ...the moment he touches someone, however, it gets a bit more ominous. In a couple of seconds, said person gradually relaxes and falls unconscious unless the contact is disrupted. It's good for pain relief, however, he's also more than capable of stopping all bodily functions just like this. There's probably no need to explain what happens when all energy gets sapped from a muscle like the heart, right? ]

[ But hey, maybe he's not knocking you or your friend out. Maybe you asked him for just the right amount to relieve pain (or get high). ]

[ He might also be trying to deactivate the nanobots. ]

[ Or a forcefield. Any of those electric walls still around? Because with a blue woosh, a hole's going to open in it that allows for safe passage. ]


-- 2.

[ Say hello to the FLYING SHARK. Does it just whoosh past you as you're walking around? Maybe it has a Squalo on its back. Maybe it's just having fun. ]

[ Maybe it's ramming into one of those used-to-be-locked doors, leaving a shark-shaped hole in the wall. ]

[ Or maybe you were trying to enjoy a rare shower, and something's trying to nudge you out from under the water. Something with teeth. ]


-- 3.

[ It's also possible that Squalo has changed, however. You might remember this from the time someone became a goddamn planet. Squalo's skin has turned gray and rough, and his teeth are definitely pointier than earlier. That's looking... rather shark-like, actually. ]


-- 4.

[ Wildcard! ]



[ ooc: Squalo's main ability is Rain Flames which is basically CHAKRA!! with the effect called "Tranquility". Its effect is essentially nullification; it works on other Flames, and various kinds of magical or electric energies. Depending on the intensity, Rain Flames can take away pain, paralyze locally or completely, or actually kill organic beings by stopping all activity inside the body. It is possible that it also works on electric barriers and shutting down machinery or devices that run on most kinds of energy. He can transmit it via touch, weapon, or actually exert it in a small area. ]

[ IT ALSO LETS HIM SUMMON A FLYING SHARK THAT cAN CHANGE SIZE and is covered in Rain Flames head to tail in addition to SUPER sharp (think lacerations on touch) skin. ]

3!!

[phaseshifter]

[ SQUALO SHARK DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO~♪

Angel somehow resists the urge to sing that. Or do the dance. She does not resist the urge to gawk as she floats closer. Look SHE'S ONLY HUMAN, ]

Dude. You look like one of those troll kids who used to be here. You know, like - Karkat and the others?

[ Because grey and teeth and LOOK DON'T JUDGE HER ]

Sylar

[termineur]

(cw: violence possible for all options)

1 - Bad Signs

[ Hey, you woke up with a power today! That's great! You're eager to mess around with it, whether it be new or old.

...unfortunately, you're also in the same building as Gabriel today. But that's fine, right? He's always been pretty nice. Even if he has a weird look in his eye right now- something about his gaze is a little too sharp. ]

Something's different today. How are you feeling?


2- Fun with Floating

[ Oh boy, someone has his telekinesis back. Which means everything in the room is now floating. Furniture is fixed and set back in place. Complex objects pull apart and refit themselves together as Gabriel twitches his fingers lightly in the objects' general direction. He has quite a lot of control, it seems.

He's also clearly very happy. Blissful, even. Things are back to the way they should be. ]

Should be easy to find our way out of here now, huh?


3 - Make your own!

1 RIP Peter hope you enjoy his powers Sylar

[zunesareawesome]

[Oh look, it's Peter with the ability to reshape and control matter itself. That's not...interesting to you at all, is it, Sylar ol' buddy?]

Dude, I'm feeling amazing! Look at this!

[He's just gonna make a floating rock about 2 feet in diameter that looks like PAC-Man appear between his hands with a flash of white light.]

Okay, I can actually make cooler stuff than this, but look! It's PAC-Man! Ha!