Out of character: closed roleplay with @roleplaywme; roleplay starters chosen from my blog: "Where d'ya learn how to jump like that? Ninja Turtles?" and "Bismillah bismillah bismillah!"
Plot: A mutant and an agent have an interesting first-meeting.
Sarab tied her hair up as she arrived at the edge of town to practice her powers near an abanonded area. The place where she usually always went.
She promised her parents that she would only be taking a short stroll around the neighborhood. They thought that she just wanted to get out of the house, when in reality she wanted to practice using her mutant abilities in a place where they could not catch her doing so.
Her powers had surfaced when she was very young and she had been hiding them from her family for years. Only her best friend Kamala Khan, who was also a mutant, knew about them.
Kamala's powers were a recent development, and only furthered Sarab's fear of her powers being found out. She wanted to be able to protect her friends and family, and believed that practicing her powers was the best way to do so.
Of course, she always wore a mask while doing so. It was a rinky dink homemade mask that she wore just in case someone ever caught her using her powers and she needed to conceal her identity.
She looked around, paranoid of being caught, and then put on her mask. "Okay," she sighed. "Let's do this." She centered herself and closed her eyes. Illusions were what she really needed to focus on. They were the most powerful aspect of her abilities, but the one that she had the least control over. She found it difficult to control which illusions came up and how she manipulated them, partly because her mind wandered and she panicked easily. She also had the ability to control who saw her illusions, which was what she found difficult to navigate as well.
She started with something simple: a blanket of stars that only she could see. Closing her eyes, she stretched out her hand, took a deep breath, and pictured a set of twinkling stars. She felt a rush of warmth flow through her, as if she had been wrapped in a blanket, and smiled as she opened her eyes and found a blanket of stars in front of her.
She had made one mistake, however: the illusion was visible to anyone who was around her.