Lightning/Storm power origin story
Character has a loud, slightly abrasive personality
They move to a small town with an abandoned nuclear plant a few miles away
They are not pleased at the move, but are slightly appeased by the nuclear plant. That becomes their go-to I wanna be alone spot. One day they smash through a door that was stuck closed earlier. They go inside the large room and look around. In one corner, there's a pile of green glowing goop, yup, radioactive waste. They go a bit closer to get a better look, and they trip over their own shoelace and fall in. Their right arm, leg, right side of their neck, and right cheek. Stings a bit but otherwise they think that they're okay. Haha hmm no. Radiactivity, child. They wipe all the stuff off, and go home and shower.
next week, after they've mostly put the incident to the back of their mind,
Idk they go outside after a fight with their parents or something, teenage hormone stuff
It happens to be dark and cloudy outside, and they go sit under a tree
Bam. Struck by lightning.
Ooh, haha, lightning powers go brr.
You can do whatever you want from here, but some other things:
•Whenever they touch metal they charge it with static electricity, meaning the next person to touch that piece of metal will be shocked, regardless of the time of year.
•Whenever they touch a living being, it will get shocked. Barely there to painful depending on how much Character likes the being.
•Whenever they use their powers, the side of their body that was covered in radioactive goop turns a dark, stormy grey, with the veins lit up and glowing a pale yellow or blue or pale purple (up to your preference), like lightning
•After their lightning strike, they are no longer able to take showers or baths. Their body will do the same thing that happens when you drop a hair dryer in a full bathtub, but with less death. They way they clean themself will be they either summon a lightning strike, and that fries all the dirt and gunk off of them, or they just buzz a bunch of tiny electric shocks across their akin to do the same thing.
