case_whenYou can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?
violetravenDo they still not tangle when you hand said cables to someone?
Miku Luna \ she/itThey can, but they get untangled once OP has them again.
I’m invisible if no one sees me
this is secretly very op, you go to a private place and can stay invisible forever cause nobody sees you after you turn invisivle
How do you define B-tier superpower?
Superpower, but not that great or useful.
The ability to run very fast, but only when you don’t have a destination.
My toes are unstubbable
Wow now this is the superpower I want. I’d walk through my house in the dark with WILD ABANDON!
1stqThen good luck to your shin.
Eh, I played soccer and work as a maintenance man in the hospitality industry so my shins are long since destroyed.
Ah, the shins of a hockey player…
And step on the cat
SickPandaBe careful what you wish for, your superpower could just remove your toes.
No-one said anything about a monkey’s paw!
The trade-off is you now have a 1d4 chance of stepping on LEGO bricks in the dark. Even if you don’t own any LEGO.
MothraConsidering how expensive those bricks are getting, I think that’s a pretty good tradeoff
every time I look for something I know right where it is
InfynisYou’d make a great crime scene investigator
Imagine how rich you could get as a private investigator.
Definitely a rabbit. Dude with Let Me Take Your Luggage is doing some pretty cool stuff ngl
Nothing gets stuck in my teeth man.
Or, doesn’t get acid reflux man.
I fucking know a guy who claims he’s got no idea what heartburn is, and that he’s never had a headache. He’s about 70 years old and is probably the happiest most joyful person I’ve ever met.
Never had a headache? God fucking god what a lucky bastard.
OtterFlying, but very slowly. Enough that it isn’t any more useful than walking to the destination.
I’d use it to float around and enjoy the beauty. Imagine floating around above the water and just watching the city lights, or getting up high enough to watch the sunsets.
I’d prefer to go faster so I can get to the viewpoints quickly, so maybe the limitation should just be that I can’t use it for anything but sight seeing?
massive_bereavementUntil drones were a thing that would be extremely useful for land usage planning.
Swedneckand sniping, good lord what an OP power for a sniper.
RiskableThat’s basically a mind flayer.
Every-time-I-go-to-sit-there-is-a-seat-man
Will you be able to get a seat at Dorsia’s?
Is Paul Allen in town?
You would always win, or break, musical chairs.
learn to squat, your legs become your own seat.
BallShapedManMy knees and elbows don’t hurt man.
I'll then be your sidekick: backpain-away.
I’d want the ability to swap consciousness with other people, with their consent, for a short time.
It would be interesting to see what it’s like to be colour blind, or to experience what things taste like to people who dislike food I enjoy.
I don’t know if this qualifies as “b-tier”, but I’d really would like a superpower where when hearing a sound I knew exactly what made it.
I live in an old house, in the middle of a forest. Lots of weird noises both inside and outside. Being able to know if a sound I just heard requires my attention (i.e. “is that some animal messing around in my walls, or just the old wood squeaking”) would be gold. The amount of times I’ve gotten out of bed in the middle of the night to investigate something is too damn high. After countless mice, vasps nests, birds, and various mammals deciding to move in with us, my paranoia levels have skyrocketed.
Would also sort out the “is that my kid crying, or just the draft through the vents”-question, as well as “is that normal wood settling noises, or is there more rot I’ve yet to find and the whole house is collapsing”.
Your house sounds awesome to look at, but my ADHD wouldn’t allow me to live there. Nothing would get done, and my family would die when the house collapsed.
This sounds like a good premise for a horror story. You get your hearing superpower and everything is finally great, no need to get up and investigate benign noises. And then one day, you hear a sound that no matter what you do, you can’t tell what and where it’s coming from.
Poplar?That would make a great writing prompt imo [email protected]
EliseI’m happy I’m not alone. Last night something was going through my kitchen. It sounded larger than a mouse and it didn’t care about making noise. You know that moment when you’re asleep and your body wakes you up slightly cuz something is off. And you’re in that low power state thinking about whether you should think or not because it’ll wake you up?
Anyway I was so exhausted I thought let it have some fun I just can’t care.
There are dozens of us!
I’ve had the exact same reaction - “whatever it is, as long as it stays out of the bedroom I’ll deal with it tomorrow”.
My favorite incident here, as a tangent, is when my wife came to me for help while I was doing something in the garden. A large crow was sitting on the kitchen counter. My initial thought was “well there goes my day” as birds tend to be the worst to get out. However, everyone keep saying how smart those birds are so I figured I’d do what I do when half-ferral cats stumble in.
So I walked in, see the crow, the crow sees me, and we kind of just stare at each other. I slowly backed up, went around the house and entered again through the backdoor. I grabbed his attention again before going out once more, and in again through the main door. We stared at each other some more, and then he just lightly jumped across the floor and went out the back door. No frantical flying and crapping everywhere. 10/10 experience as far as birds stuck in the house goes.
It’s probably in my imagination, but we shared a moment there. What’s not in my imagination though is that afterwards a bunch of crows started hanging around the house. So I started giving them some snacks every once in a while, because why not. Long story long, we have a small murder of crows watching over the property.
The crow whisperer.
A while back my shed suddenly was demolished spontaneously. So I’m running around in full makeup trying to get all the gardening stuff out to put it in my place.
There were some shockingly large spiders there. I’m talking the largest that I’ve ever seen irl outside a zoo.
Doesn’t matter, eggs and all are going inside.
So the other day I woke up and I saw one of those babies right above my head on the wall. I’m like I better get rid of this thing before I give it a name. Scurries off under my bed.
I imagine it’s still there but I’ve made my peace with it.
And as for mice. Honestly I’d build them a little home and give them little sandwiches. In fact I have made little sandwiches for them. The issue is just that they make my kitchen dirty.
I actually seem to have this one: Appropriately sized container man. I can find the best sized container when we have leftovers from cooking. Extra pasta sauce? This container fits it all in perfectly.
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍IDK man, that’s toeing the line of an A-tier power.
My wife has a version of this; it’s perfect liquid measurement estimation woman. She never has to use measuring cups for liquids. I’ve actually bothered to test this power, and it’s uncanny.
All I got was hysterical kitchen blindness man. I can’t see things I’m looking for in the fridge or pantry, even when they’re right in front of me.
Sorry man, yours isn’t even a power. It comes default with the Y chromosome. I can be staring directly at something I’m looking for and not register that it’s right there.
I swear it’s gotten worse with age.
I was looking for something that was literally between my two hands on the counter, straight where I was looking, this morning.
haulyardI kinda have something like this. I’m pretty good at estimating distances. From inches to feet and miles (don’t metric me it will get all fucked up.)
A residence floormate I knew back in university also worked as a bartender at a hotel.
His one story relevant to this thread is he once poured a drink for a customer over ice without measuring it. Think scotch or whiskey. Customer said there’s no way that’s an ounce. They argued for a bit; my friend poured everything from the glass into a shot glass minus the ice, and it was exactly on the line. End of argument.
He admitted to me that some of that may have been water from the melted ice.
I might have this one too. Probably from that microwave accident I was involved in.
JWBananasMe: Owns a variety of sizes of containers
Also me: Only uses 2 of the sizes, and never has a clean one when I need it
Being able to fall asleep and wake up exactly when I want to without an alarm man.
Fully rested.
No no, the title says b-tier superpower
UntouchedWagonsThat’d be an S+ tier power for me.
You guys have alarm mans? That sounds cool
runeko“Sir? Sir! It is well past time for you to begin your day. Yes, sir, I am well aware work, as you put it ‘sucks ass’, but never the less, it is time to rise and shine. I will be back tomorrow at the same time.”
“very good sir, I shall remind you in 9 minutes”
Before alarm clocks were easily available there used to be ‘knocker uppers’. They’d come tap on your window with a long stick to wake you up.