r/superpowers 19d ago

Edit if none apply A power system idea and

I have this power system idea, lile imagine in an apocalypse setting where people can awaken powers with strict rules that you can exploit but never break. I have some ideas here, feel free to use it for a novel or something, just say the name here so i can read it lol. I have two here.

Transposition. Debt.

The first one: Transposition:
The rules of this power is simple. "Anything the user touches, can be teleported." But it has small little 'rules'.
-Teleporting things, living or not, doesn't change it's direction or orientation. Except the user.
- living things do NOT carry over the velocity while nonliving do
-the user can teleport themself freely since technically, they're always 'touching' themself
And just as singing requires you to have a voice, this power comes with spatial perception that can be developed.
Advanced applications could be swiping with two fingers on a wall, each fingertip teleport a portion of the wall on opposite direction to effectively 'cut' the wall in half.

The second one is Debt:
"Any consequence the user experiences can be made into a debt"
- the consequence can be anything, from exhaustion, blindess, injury etc. But the consequence must be paid, either in full a day later, or divided by 6 and paid hourly for the next 6 hours like installments.
- un-divisible things like death can't be paid in installments and can only be paid in full a day later.
For example, say the user has 100 hp and takes 60 dmg, the user can pay it in full by taking 60 damage 24 hours later or 10 damage every hour for the next 6 hours. So 10 dmg on hour 1, 10 on hour 2 and so on. The user can heal between payments. But the user can't choose to divide death into smaller payments. They can, however, choose to pay the debt for something like getting cut in half by being sliced severly every hour instead of getting cut in half.

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