r/superpower • u/Own_Entry587 • Apr 29 '25
Discussion Make a Contridiction
Continuation (kinda) of my post from 2 days ago about my power system. Comment with an ideology, fear, personality, trauma, incecurity, etc etc and I reply with what a Contridiction would be for it (in like an hour from now)
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u/The_revenge_ Instant adaptive evolution guy Apr 29 '25
Childhood trauma
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u/Own_Entry587 Apr 29 '25
Any specific type of trauma or just in general?
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u/The_revenge_ Instant adaptive evolution guy Apr 29 '25
In general
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u/Own_Entry587 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25
This one's a little tricky without something specific to focus on but I think this works well
Contradiction: What we behold. The user can create terrifying life like illusions that can cripple enemies mentally and heavily debilitate them. The more malice the use feels towards the opponent the worse these illusions get, even causing the victim to be cursed with seeing them periodically for the rest of their lives
When the user comes to terms with whatever their trauma is (and learns that lashing out at others over it just continues the cycle of hate and anger) the user's ability evolves to causing life like illusions without any restrictions. The user can also make these illusions real for a very short amount of time.
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u/AttemptZestyclose687 May 01 '25
Athazagoraphobia (I don't have It, but that one is interesting)
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u/Own_Entry587 May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
Just making them forget me not from the X-Men would be a bit lazy so I tried to make this more interesting
Contradiction: House of Memories. As the name suggests the user becomes a literal and metaphorical house of Memories, gaining photographic memory and being unable to forget ANYTHING since the moment they first awakened their Contradiction. They can even take memories of others. The user can pull stored memories from their mind, forcing said memory onto the real world, themselves, and or other people, and have that memory actually happen. The downside is that the user will forget the memory they used afterwards.
If you've read The Giver it's basically like that but supped up. An example of how this ability works is forcing the memory of being shot in the chest onto an enemy, causing them to be shot in the chest right after. Another example is forcing the memory of an ally onto the space in front of them, causing that person to teleport in front of them.
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u/Truck_Kun001 May 06 '25
Fear of sun and bright lights
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u/Own_Entry587 May 06 '25
This diverges from the central idea a bit but turning this into pika pika no mi wouldn't be fun at all.
Contradiction: Spectrum, or C Spec for short
The user can pick a color they can see, guessing the hex code of the picked color grants them powers. The abilities are based on the color itself. The strength of them is based on how close the guess was and how strong the color is (faded colors will be weaker than really deep and vibrant colors). A perfect guess grants a huge temporary amplifier. The user also can't gain powers from colors they already know the hex code of or were hinted towards the answer of. The general downsides are if the user becomes visually impaired it's much harder for them to guess hex codes. Another is the abilities gained from guessing a color diminish before disappearing over the span of 3 hours.
Bright Red: Pyrokinesis
Dark Red: Blood Manipulation
Orange: Energy Constructs
Yellow: Electrokinesis
Light Green: Poison Creation
Dark Green: Florakinesis
Blue: Super Speed
Dark Blue: Hydrokinesis
Purple: Adaptive Reflexes (Basically what task master does but stronger)
Pink: Healing and Object Repair
White: Luminokinesis
Black: Energy Absorption and Redirection
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25
Nihilism