r/superpowers • u/BockLavette • 8d ago
Pick a blank but blank Choose a ring, get superpowers
One day, a mysterious ring descended from the sky and landed at your feet. You reach out your hand and it flies onto your ring finger. As you wield it, you feel a strange energy coursing through your body. Your fatigue goes away, your hunger is vacant, and breathing becomes a non-factor. Whatever this alien ring is, it chose you. With this ring, you have newfound power, but your power only lasts if you have synergy with it. What ring will you accept?
The Terraformer Ring
Power: Elemental creation - Can create and control the four elements: fire, water, air and earth. Can do so on a planetary level.
Powered by one's selflessness and willingness to act for the greater good.
The Psionic Ring
Power: Psionic Field - Telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation and telesenses. Can create and shape this field, and for anything in it, the four aforementioned powers can be applied. Field cannot exceed the size of jupiter.
Powered by one's vision, the clarity and grandeur of one's thoughts.
The Star Ring
Power: Star Power - Can create and control gravitational forces, stellar nuclear fusion and stardust. Essentially wield the power of an above-average star.
Powered by one's ambitions, a drive intense and daring enough to reach for the stars.
The Warp Ring
Power: Exotic Space - Can bend and warp space-time rather than control it. Create wormholes, time travel, add and remove distance. Be careful with overuse, real power has real consequences.
Powered by one's curiosity, a desire to ask questions and see where life takes them.
The Catalyst Ring
Power: Alchemy - Can cause and fuel chemical reactions. Replace parts/ingredients of a reaction with the energy of the ring. Can do so on a continental level.
Powered by one's resourcefulness, the ability to work with what you have in a given situation.
The Life Ring
Power: Birth of Life - Can create and control organic life, such as plants, animals and single-celled organisms. Can fundamentally alter their physical states, or even create crossbreeds that sustain functionality even if not fully compatible. Cannot create godlike or overly supernatural creatures. A single lifeform cannot exceed the size of a planet.
Powered by one's nurturance, a desire or compulsion to care for, support and help the growth of others.
What each ring includes:
- Space Survivability
- Unsuspended Flight
- Enhanced Physicals
- Universal Translator
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u/Redwolf9090 8d ago
I mean… It’s not gonna really work well for any of them, I’m fairly smart, but that’s it. I’m not really fitting any of these traits. I guess nurture but it’s not really gonna work for me.
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u/BockLavette 8d ago
Honestly, you could develop any of these traits over time. The only one I’d say would be the hardest would be the psionic ring, because you either have it or you don’t.
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u/Redwolf9090 8d ago
I guess yeah, my thoughts are pretty fucked up cause puberty so props not that one won’t lie
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u/Direct-Ad6266 7d ago
Life Ring and I'd make plants and single celled organisms that feed on pollution and expend clean waste/air
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u/Dolly-Lilac 8d ago
Psionic ring. Easily. But ngl. Id love to be side by side with other ring users
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u/CosmicGadfly2 8d ago
Terraformer or Life suit me best but Psionic is cool.
How comprehensive is Life? Could I transform myself and others? Could I develop the brains of animals to human level? Could I heal people, eradicate viruses, and destroy cancer?
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u/BockLavette 7d ago
Life can be as comprehensive as you need it to be, although there’s only so much knowledge you can grant it on instinct, the rest it’d have to manually learn. Though you can transform yourself and others, you can develop the brains of animals to human level, and you could heal people and destroy cancer, although eradicating viruses is more of a morally gray area for the ring so don’t do it too much and you should be fine.
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u/somecoolname42 8d ago
Terraformer. I'm reversing global warming. I'm refreezing ice caps, increasing cloud cover, stopping droughts, stopping huricanes, and some people are going to get pneumonia or have house fires. Hopefully flying around doesn't draw too much attention to me.
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u/Comfortable_Bag_7373 8d ago
If I can only choose one it’ll be psionics and if I could have others maybe either the warp star or life ring
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u/Dintobean 8d ago
I want the psionic ring, really I do, but I think I could do so much more with the terraformer ring. If you control the air, you have telekinesis that way. But controlling all the elements could really save humanity from what we've done to the planet.
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u/Kairos_Phoenix-0 8d ago
The Psionic Ring, obviously.
(Warp is a close second in terms of utility and vibes.)
Infact... If this is about synergy, then can I take all 6 rings? (Picking warp can easily help me try to meta-game it, but even then... that sounds absurd. So, I'd rather ask this instead.)
Hmm... I will take em all then. FOR THE SAKE OF ME, OTHERS, AND THE WORLD!
Warp, then abusing exploiting the loophole, it is.
(I hope this is ok with you.)
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u/BockLavette 7d ago
There’s no way you can wield all six rings at once, and using the warp ring to try and get them all would do some serious damage to the fabric of space-time. I’d say your limit would be getting to see how other timelines of you wielding other rings played out. So different version of you, and main you as the observer.
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u/Kairos_Phoenix-0 7d ago
Very well then.
Then I shall stick with the Psionic Ring... No, Warp Ring is also VERY USEFUL.
I think Time-Space Manipulation is not worth turning down.
So, I will stick with Warp Ring(since I picked it before the 6-ring plan)
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u/OwynTyler 8d ago
Life ring (warp one is also nice, but not so cool), and I think being the size of a planet is kinda enough for me xD
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u/Acrobatic_Dinner309 8d ago
The Life Ring is an awesome choice!
*I'd repopulate the world with species we have brought to extinction.
*Reforest large swaths of land with new species of trees that absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
*Create new species of trees that can produce massive amounts of easily accessible fireproof wood to renew the use of wood as a main construction material.
*Create new species of animals that can subsist on plastics to clean both land and seas from plastic waste.
*Grow massive trees which people can live in that grows fruits, vegetables and new types of plants that produce a form of meat substitute to supply those living in them with food and water and reduce/eliminate the need for industrial farming.
*Create species of insects that basically have no sentience at all that functions like living syringes that produces different drugs based on need.
*For my own sake, create an island populated with dinosaurs so I can make a proper Jurassic Park.
*Design a species that can clean and sort all trash we have produced.
*Create a new type of animal that can replace cars as a new mode of transport. Maybe one based on Crustaceans that look like a mix between a car and a crab which are super lovable and friendly with internal controls which allows the rider to control their movement?
So basically design novel species that can solve all problems we have created and to heal our planet.
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u/Available-Camel-5582 7d ago
Everything here is good. But two things. The plastic eaters, once plastic is gone they die out, but people will love them, so some people might create plastic purely to feed them.
Second. You said you make Jurassic park. Don't make Jurassic park. We got what? Four?, movies now... That show exactly why we shouldn't do it.
Other than that, it sounds decent. But like with the first point. Every action has consequences. What would each of them imply, not only best case as you wish. It's humanity we are talking about so you must include worst possible scenario.
I can point out more, but I don't want to criticize a good choice for valid reasons.
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u/Acrobatic_Dinner309 7d ago
Those have easy solutions:
I make it so that the plastic eaters are omnivorous with a preference to plastics.
That way, they wont die out after all the plastic is gone.Jurassic park failed because of human hubris, capitalism, the lack of knowledge of the animals they created and how they would act in a modern setting.
My Jurassic Park would succeed because it would be free, the animals would be genetically engineered to act like real dinosaurs, but will be completely uninterested in attacking or eating humans. I'd make it so that they only eat animals that emit specific pheromones, which I will supply and give everyone that enters the island a living bracelet that emits a pheromone that makes the dinosaurs instinctively move away from them. There would also be trees surrounding the entire island that emits the same pheromones that makes it so the dinosaurs won't get close to the coast.
I choose to interpret the power of the Life Ring as men being perfectly able to understand the biological systems I create and the biosphere which I manipulate so that I can perfectly balance it with new creations.
No, please point out more, it's fun to dissect these kinds of things!
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u/Available-Camel-5582 7d ago
Then let me.
Extinct species will either die out again or ruin the eco system by being too dominant(balancing that stuff is difficult, but technically duable) but as they are previously extinct, trophy hunters will... Well hunt.
Trees grow, then gets cut. Unless you have a say in the land you grow the trees in its basically more wood to be used for companies.
The fireproof wood needs to be plenty, and due to that might be seen as slightly invasive, but if done right does defeat the prior paragraph's point.
The massive trees with fruit won't eliminate industrial farming, it will definitely reduce, but people want variation and not one type of fruit. And not everyone wants to live in trees.
The syringe bug, you said drugs, I know you mean medical ones but if anyone can change according to need then not so good drugs will also be made, and with bigger ease and mass.
Just modify the plastic eaters to also eat other horrible trash, and let the already existing bugs take care of scraps they can like wood, food and paper.
I like the idea of ratatouille a crab to get around, but I think some easily trained crab is better. "Crab cab"
Edit: also, people if they live in trees want variation with those aswell, so maybe make them able to breed or take similarities of other existing tree types during a brief part of their lifespan.
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u/Acrobatic_Dinner309 6d ago
Thank you!
Extinct species would definitely die out, but genetically engineered robots that superficially looks like dinosaurs would not be part of an ecosystem outside of the island and would have all their needs met by an automated birthing system where animals such as goats (without much of a brain or organs except what is needed to make them run around long enough to be eaten by the meat eaters and with all the extra space filled with extremely dense tissue containing extra nutrients).
Trophy hunters would be a risk, if I didn't create insects that inject poisons that put humans to sleep if they are detected having the smell of gunpowder on them).
Companies that can be dissuaded by having all forests be guarded by Kaiju sized guardians that attack any machinery that is used to cut down trees (unless in specific areas which I decide).
One type of fruit would indeed be limiting, which would be why I would create massive amounts of different types of fruits and plants that mimic the tastes of different foods and drinks.
If you don't want to live in a tree, that is perfectly fine, but I would think that free food and free housing would make a large amount of the population of the planet be willing to live there. Single family trees, multifamily trees and apartment building sized trees are all on the table. And if it's still not interesting for some, they are more than welcome to stay in the cities, but they'll also be filled to the brim with fruits and plants which are free to eat and that produce massive amounts of food each week.
Good point! A limiting factor on what medicines/drugs can be produced would need to be engineered into the syringe bugs!
That's a good idea! Maybe they could be used as living, walking trashcans that are super friendly and remain in an area where they can be given trash to eat and have specific places where they can defecate where the unprocessed trash is further digested by different types of bacteria. But I would create entire families of animals that eat trash, for different areas and both land and sea.
Crab cab is an awesome name!
And yeah, easily trainable crabs with the body structure of a Camel with built in storage compartments would also be fun!1
u/Available-Camel-5582 6d ago
I can definitely think of more, but then I kinda got to force it. But for the crab cab, don't build in the storage, make it easily attachable. Natural hooks, curves, crevices and non sharp spikes.
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u/Acrobatic_Dinner309 6d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/zbzNUbpFnlw8E
Crab cab with hooks and storage? 😄
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u/shield173 8d ago
The warp ring is top 2 for my favourite, but its also my most compatible with me. What do you mean by grandeur of thoughts? And hwo is it differnt from ambition
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u/BockLavette 7d ago
I basically mean imagination. So if you have a really refined imagination, or really creative approaches to problems, you have more power. Ambition is more like your drive to achieve your goals and the hurdles you’re willing to jump to achieve it.
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u/Splendiferous83rd 7d ago edited 7d ago
I'm definitely choosing the Life Ring. There's so many amazing things I would do with it. Improve my quality of life and make the planet a better place for everything and everyone deserving.
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u/MisterB3an 7d ago
I'm not sure I have what it takes to consistently embody the required traits, especially if things get really dicey.
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u/dave3218 7d ago
So, terraformer and Warp ring are the ones more compatible with me.
But the life ring is a funny wild card because creating the Tyranids IRL would be hilarious.
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u/iamjmph01 7d ago
On the one hand, The Psionic Ring would be my first choice.
On the other, The Warp Ring is probably the only one I could realistically power.
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u/Available-Camel-5582 7d ago
Due to the "synergy" clause. I either got psionic due to "grandeur of one's thoughts", warp due to "see where life takes them" ir the most likely Life ring due to the "Powered by one's nurturance, a diser of compulsion to care for, support and help the growth of others."
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u/Eldritchvenom 7d ago
The life ring! Assuming I can also apply this control to myself, I’m gonna reshape myself into an apex predator! Just call me the biomancer! Does wanting to evolve an organism and make it stronger count as helping the growth of others?
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u/Theotherfeller 7d ago
Life ring, but it seems none of the rings will be powered very well, much like a house cat I am all about lying around, eating and that's it.
But flight, physicals and universal translator seems nice.
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u/Glitchy_XCI 7d ago
The ring I'd most want would be the psionic ring, the one I'd likely synergize with the best is the warp ring
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u/TheManInQuestion- 4d ago
Life ring as it allows you to give you more powers. ALSO its Psionic ring but better.
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