#oh wait. even worse for stan: powers that evoke leeches. able to temporarily steal or drain powers from others or something

[godsfavoritescientist]

So there's this webserial called 'worm' about a world where superpowers started suddenly showing up in the 70's, and I'm trying so hard to think of a way to merge it with the stans-and-fidds 70s-and-80s plot events. The thing is, powers are caused by going through a traumatic event, and the powers are tied to both that event and to the person's various issues in ways that sometimes seems cruelly ironic. So you see my dilemma here, with there being so many options for events that could've given these guys powers

#godsrambles #fidds is easy: within worm's power classification system he'd be a tinker #which is where you get a superpowered understanding of how to create things that would otherwise be impossible #e.g. making killer robots far more advanced than current science is capable of #if working on the portal was what gave him powers though...... he could either get tinker powers specifically related to making portals #or if it was the greloblin then somethjng related to memory erasing #for stan. idk what would be the most upsetting. shapeshifting restricted to looking like other humans probably. #great for evading the law and for pretending to be ford for 30 years though #oh maybe ford would get precognition. ability to see hundreds of potential futures #maybe in combination with no longer needing to sleep. able to trap himself in literally endless rumination as he tries to figure out- #-how to stop bill #none of these are the Fun Flashy kind of powers though. stan would have fun with fire powers #oh wait. even worse for stan: powers that evoke leeches. able to temporarily steal or drain powers from others or something #or able to copy others' powers permanently in a weaker form than the original power. and he can have multiple weak powers at a time #in this world the mob would have powered folks in it of course so maybe a situation involving them could cause that power #OR. if his powers happened in the aftermath of the portal incident. #ability to teleport anything and anyone within his line of sight directly to him. #he'd be mad for 30 years straight about not getting that power before ford fell through the portal #that or the ability to summon common tools out of nowhere. such as a long rope #idk the powers are always very specific. pretty sure no one following me knows what worm is. #but you can at least appreciate the exercise of thinking up what powers would deal the most psychic damage to these guys