Very quick and late-night impulse questions (because apparently I prefer that over sleep /j)
SO, for Saviour, the worldbuilsing for the heroes and their powers and stuff is that it’s a closely guarded secret and all that, right? And that powers are activated in the stress way like Mistbrom magic or something, right?
With that said, are there any cases of someone manifesting powers outside of the agency “training” program and just randomly discovering they have powers? Maybe the traumatic event was witnessed by one of the cities heroes causing something catastrophic to happen, say accidentally collapsing a building on someone or something?
Wait, who are the “villains” the Saviour agency fights? Because sending superpowered individuals to wipe the floor with regular ‘ol’ civilians doesn’t seem very, uh, heroic.
WAIT DAMN IT MY BRAIN IS COMING UP WITH NON-CANON LORE FUUU— are the villains given a choice once they’re captured to change and become “heroes” via training? Does that mean some of them could break free and escape and start a rebel secret agency? Does that actually happen? Are the “villains” just escaped heroes who banded together to try and bring them down?
Because, and sorry for even more words that aren’t necessarily related, I have a character/OC who essentially gained their powers by the very powered people abusing them (I am not explaining that well. I somewhat based it off how Odin learned magic from Norse Mythology. Really interesting and also hardcore, hanged himself on the world tree with a spear in his side for 9 days until the magic revealed itself to him. Excuse the infodumping lol) so maybe there’s that?
Do they share how heroes are made? I NEED ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS KEEP FORMING HELP—
Very curious to know your thoughts! If you want to share them that is. Also sorry for the wall of text lol. Also, do let me know if the ask goes through, because I am unsure if my asks are getting eaten or if I hallucinated them at night if it’s not too much trouble
Before this gets astronomically long, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day/night and are taking care of yourself and staying hydrated and all that jazz :]
-idk
I’m embarrassed that it took me so long to respond. I’m so sorry 😭😭
So yeah, in Savior, activation of powers is a close guarded secret. The public is just told “These people have always had abilities and we helped them on their path” and that kind of soft bullshit. And also yeah, activation is a stress thing where their body goes into overdrive like in a fight or flight response and when there’s no escape, some last ditch response is triggered— abilities
So for the villains >:) ok well, I’d say yeah people have activated powers under catastrophic circumstances but they’d have to be very specific to their dormant abilities. If a building falls on someone, their dormant power would have to be regeneration or super strength. Otherwise it won’t click, if that makes sense? Like Teddy, a pianist, was only able to activate his visions until his fingers were broken. A crucial part of his identity was attached to his piano skills and when that was taken— anxiety overload— he can now see worst case scenario situations all the time. Am I making sense here idk let me know if I’m not
Oh and yeah, the “villains” are heroes who’ve deflected and they attack funding plants and such. But they’d superpowered individuals also patrol for high tech theives and fight against organized crime. They don’t do zero good. It’s just all messed up and intertwined. Like they’ve definitely saved the lives of civilians— as long as it’s being filmed or acknowledged. It’s a huge publicity stunt after all.
Your character sounds sick as hell I hope you post more abt them!!
Lemme know if this helped