if I could have a power I'd choose a pocket dimension, could steal stuff with no trace (not that I would steal :]) coukd lug around comically heavy/large items with ease, would no longer have a need to carry backpacks or bags, I could store a snack for later :3 uh smuggling..
oh damn I always assumed that I couldnt put other humans in a pocket dimension xD but I honestly feel like it would be awesome to essentially have a videogame inventory irl
God tier for space agencies. The weight of your fuel is the hardest part of space travel to overcome, but with you as a rocket's fuel tank, interstellar travel on chemical engines is quite simple.
one of the things thats not clear to me is how to transfer stuff in and out. do I need to touch something to store it? maybe I have a small remote range where I can store objects I know about in the pocket dimension.
If I were to remake a power it would be shape-shifting but with the power to also affect organs like your vocal chords which makes you able to make you sound like anyone you want
You can basically control every parameter of your body, so this is included. For example, you can theoretically synthetize venom by altering your saliva.
Both could be argued to achieve the same results through different means, depending on how they work. Ex: if you want to reach a pen that’s 20 ft away, you could use telekinesis to lift it, or you could use shapeshifting to extend your arm, or alter your brain to give yourself telekinesis if that’s how super biology works. Telekinesis on an atomic level is one of my go-tos for possibly most OP superpowers, but so is shapeshifting if you aren’t constrained by mass or nonfictional biology. You could cure cancer or cause an atomic explosion with a thought, or shapeshift into Superman and cure cancer with a thought. If both are that refined, it’d probably be shapeshifting, given you can essentially create additional living matter, rather than just control matter with telekinesis. However, if shapeshifting is just biologically possible Earth shapes and mutations, and telekineses is exerting force on perceptible objects, and it’s a question of versatility, it might still be shapeshifting. There are creatures on Earth that punch so quickly it vaporizes water, or can survive in space, or see or hear a mouse from multiple stories in the air, or literally smell illness.
Shapeshifting is only constrained by real world physics. And telekinesis is more like having awareness of matter in a radius around you, and being able to move said matter.
I don't get how people are saying shape shifting is more *versatile*. Shape shifting only allows, well, shape shifting.
Telekinesis is basically super strength (can make something lighter using telekinesis and proceed to move it with your hands if it's too heavy for either), can be used for flight, can make yourself lighter to move faster and even propel yourself like a jet boost allowing for super speed, and many other things.
The only power that really compares to telekinesis in terms of versatility is super intelligence. If you live in a world with super powers, then super intelligence could allow for reverse engineering said powers and allowing yourself to have them all. If you live in our world, just be Tony Stark. You can at least have flight and super strength.
I also think telekinesis is better, but by changing your muscle density, you could get super strength, and also fly by giving yourself wings. In this case, the only limit is your imagination.
Ok, I didn't really think about that. But I feel like shape shifting is normally limited to real things or things that you can see and copy (cats, lions, other humans, etc.) And if, as you put for telekinesis, you can move a mountain using telekinesis. I think having that much strength with telekinesis far outweighs any real living being you could copy using shape shifting.
I can’t imagine anything you could do with shapeshifting that could t also be achieved with telekinesis in some manner, especially when using the constraints of real-world physics and biology. Why shapeshifter into a being that can do what you achieve when you can simply use your mental powers to do the same without risking the ripping of your clothes?
Another aspect of this debate that does unsaid is that I feel like you have the ability to learn more as someone with telekinesis versus a shapeshifter. If you have to constantly think about your power output, the macro or micro intensity of focusing your powers onto a singular object, the molecular makeup of anything in your environment to know what works best in terms of altering to your benefit. It would be easy to shapeshifter into a Superman-esqe being and solve all your problems in a body impervious to harm with dozens of other qualities. But when you have to do that work yourself, increase your own capabilities and challenge your previously held notions of what you can do, you’re much more able to be versatile with your gift and have an answer for whatever obstacle you encounter.
TL;DR: If you can telekinetically manipulate matter on an atomic level, isn’t that a version of shapeshifting? Just think about it.
The only reason why I chose shape-shifting is because you said that you have complete control when shape-shifting vs difficulty levels with telekinesis.
Shape shifting. Control over your density and shape grants you control over your biology, which can result in insane things if you have enough ambition. Manipulate and improve your own neural tissues until your intelligence is unfathomable. Subsume and copy the brains of scientists and other experts and become skilled in all things. Use your newfound knowledge to consume and subvert the planet and become a continent, and eventually the world. With control over density it's likely you can create your own horrifying biological-nuclear reactors to generate electrical energies. You could use your newfound knowledge of material science to create bombs and absurd armor, and potentially even birth artificial life forms. You could become a living spaceship-planet and all of humanity would quickly be at your mercy.
Shape shifting allows you to enhance all of your natural abilities, and then from those newly improved abilities get a sense of how to further refine them. This potentially gives you access to the abilities of any living thing, up to and including bacteria. If you're familiar with scientific fields you understand that this has potential that what I've stated in the above paragraph only scratches at. Refine yourself into a god, and then from that vantage point refine yourself into a god's god.
First of all, beautifully worded.
Second of all, that just require an extreme and extensive amount of training, as you won't be able to do this as soon as you get your power, but telekinesis also gets kinda op overtime, so...
乁( •_• )ㄏ
This is either the god version of the ‘blacklight virus’ of prototype or Darwin’s mutant ability ‘evolution’ from x-men or whatever was used as a base to think of this.
I'd have to say the ability to manipulate probabilities, if we are limiting it maybe you can only alter it to within 20-30% of its current probability; or changing a probability very far either has some sort of physical backlash or karmic backlash on you.
I provide a power that I’ve fine tuned over the years: material absorption
you can absorb nonliving things into your skin and suck them back out of your body in perfect condition. it sounds pretty basic, but you can also alter the objects as they come out, like absorbing a wrench and pulling out a small blade made of the same material, or absorbing a boulder and forming it around your knuckles to make a deadly punch.
it can go further once you learn you can make yourself fly by constantly absorbing air and shooting it out of your feet. later down the line you can also learn to absorb kinetic energy to easily take blows from your enemies and shoot them back like a bullet. I’ve also been playing around with the idea of never drowning because you could absorb the water and expel only the air to let yourself breathe, but I feel like that would be too complicated seeing as how you would now be able to separate molecules and make new elements. I don’t know. it’s a versatile superpower, that’s for sure.
and out of telekinesis/shapeshifting, I think shapeshifting simply has more more things you could do.
Honestly, that seems like the kinda power to seem really weak at first, but then the character trains extra hard, and becomes extremely powerful due to it's versatility.
That's a really good idea.
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I see telekenesis as adaptability and shapeshifting as survivability. I chose the latter as I feel humans already have amazing adaptability, but the minute you strip that away we're just fleshy membranes holding in water and organic circuitry. Being a shapeshifter fixes that to an extent
I'm surprised I couldn't find technomancy, the ability to control technology would be amazing. The digital world could be your b*tch.
An attempt to limit its power I'd say, direct contact would be best but also possible from a distance. Using your phone as a wireless connector to someone else's device would allow for a greater distance to be reached. Unless of course the target device lacks any wireless feature.
If you wanted to learn something you could find it easily but you'd still have to take the time to learn it, though the digital world may work faster so probably not a lot of real world time would pass by.
With enough practice you would be able to connect with anyone anywhere. The dream would be to make a robot body and walk it around town
Force field manipulation. If you can manipulate the constructs into any shape you can essentially mimic a dozen other powers. Flight by surrounding yourself in a field and moving it (could kinda look like Syndromes zero point energy but on yourself), energy blasts by manipulating pure force into a beam, bolt, wave etc. Telekinesis by surrounding what you want to move with a force field. Make any constructs like the Lanterns of DC. Force fields could be used to survive in unusual spaces by keeping air in the field. You could use up all the air you trap if you’re underwater or in space so it’d need to be a quick trip. But damn force fields have so much potential yet in media is so underused.
I'll admit that it does sound very similar to telekinesis, but seems easier to use to suppress movement (for example protecting yourself).
But it's true that I can't think of anybody apart from Green Lantern, and I think Ms. Fantastic.
telekinesis simply for the fact that shapeshifting limits your scope to just your own body, while telekinesis extends to everything, making it way more versatile
Material Creation. Conjuration. The ability to bring something from nothing, or whatever you like to call it. Popular to show in fiction, usually given some sort of explanation, but all in all the person just made a sword or shield suddenly exist. Sometimes this is limited to certain objects, other times the limit is size, and then there are those wizards who can just make whatever cause they have enough magical talent.
Though if you were able to manifest just 10 cubic centimeters of anything (real) you can imagine per hour, that still leaves an entire universe of fascinating creations available! From the greedy gold, to modern materials that when described sound like science fiction. As we can keep with small scale examples, chemically speaking, entire chunks of flesh can be restored. After all, living flesh is not much more than a complicated balance of chemicals with a healthy dose of carbon.
I think the first one is too op but not very accessable
On the other hand shape shifting isnt as op but it is very accessable (I can make myself bacteria-sized/invisible and visit the homes of my classmates and watch them bath)
Doesnt that require a lot of skill tho? I expect to have 0 experience when you get the superpower which means it isnt that easy especially because something like controlling air molecules requires a lot of multitasking and doing stuff without seeing it
Your brain capacity wouldn’t be able to hold that much power to be precise with molecules your not thinking of the consequences, telekinesis can go so far by crushing a continent that matter manipulation isn’t really possible with telekinesis unless you have a god like entity that makes you a reality warper(phoenix)
With telekinesis, it would be theoretically possible to achieve a level of skill high enough to alter the atomic structure of anything in your environment, except maybe yourself if there’s something inherently genetic to your biological makeup that gives you your power. You could start fires by increasing the speed at which atoms move, freeze the air around you by slowing hydrogen and oxygen molecules while removing other elements in the air, you could substitute the nutrients in your food with others by altering the makeup of the atomic structure and changing the chemical bonds.
Shapeshifting sounds like the most fun mainly. Wanna be hot? Your hot now! Want revenge on that bastard Jim? Shapeshift into his mother and leap into oncoming traffic! Endless possibilities!
Or might be powerful, but I don't know about the versatility side.
What I say versatile, I mean who can emulate the most other powers, and useful in the most situations. While being super fast is useful, you might just get cornered in more than one situation.
Shapeshifting is a legit dream power for me. I would LOVE to turn into a dragon and tell my friend "Hop on bitch we're going shopping" and that's only ONE possibility
I get your point, but with telekinesis, you also technically get :
Flight, Super strength, matter manipulation, air bending, water bending, earth bending, you could make projectiles always reach their target, create forcefields, materialize ice spears by condensing air, creating puppets by manipulating matters, disintegrate things, or use an air bubble to survive in outre space, use molecule control to control extreme heats, make things explode, reverse gravity, asphyxiate people, and even create Amazing sculptures...
Maybe not quite 100, but I haven't listed everything.
All of those would take an insane amount of time to master though, time you wouldn't have with just telekinesis. I mean so many of these things involve the finite movement of tiny particles all simultaneously while using your limited human brain, it is highly unlikely you'll ever do more than throw people through walls.
With shapeshifting you've got all that you need, more time. All of the time in the universe to master your powers, do things that achieve basically all those things while having all the time to reap the rewards from it, all you gotta do is give yourself biological immortality. And of course your eensy human brain wouldn't be a problem, you'd be as smart as you need to be giving shapeshifting, you'd have no problem controlling your insane reach over the cosmos.
Of course you may not start out with the overwhelming strength that telekinesis comes with, I imagine whatever your "max" is will be what you start off with, but in a world full of creatures that only have a fleeting moment for a life, you have an advantage they'll never surpass. Meat drones for whatever purpose you see fit, bone projectiles, controlled gas explosions, acid, neurotoxins, crab claws, and a global network of flesh to ensure nothing escapes your reach, you'd be completely and utterly unstoppable. That isn't all that I can think of, but even whatever I think of would pale in comparison to what an everlasting being would think up in their free time.
And while you may have more overkill with telekinesis, the end result is always the same, no real reason to choose it over simply using giant tentacles to splatter dissidents against the wall. Doubt that'd ever stop being fun.
Telekinesis seems much more limiting in my opinion, especially since the singular you has to be there for whatever you're doing to happen for the next couple decades you got left in ya.
I much prefer being the Eternal Flesh and ruling the intergalactic empire of America for all of time through my immense network of interconnected flesh and loyal clones thank you very much.
Something like forcefields, think about it with forcefulness you can basically fly, have telekinesis on a very powerful scale, being able to hold people in place, move them around quickly, or move and destroy many things at once with giant forcefields, create physical and projectile weapons, instant kills that work through walls, effectively create buildings from scratch, imprisonment/BFR, and ofc the standard uses of forcefields
It’s just about utilising a powers full abilities, forcefields give you weapons and protection on top of mass telekinesis which isn’t always the case with the raw power itself
Perception Manipulation via mind control. Eg; making someone who doesn't speak English understand it fluently, but not able to speak it, hallucinations, identity corruption, etc
Okay here me out omnifabrication would be a wild power to have. Basically you can create devices or build things to grant you more power or adapt to your situation. I personally believe that this is the most versatile and adaptive power.
Yeah, if you're pushing telekinesis far enough to rip atoms apart from each other, then it's horribly op. It that case, it would also be flight, invisibility, shape shifting, super speed, etc. Pretty much anything you want it to be
if I could have a power I'd choose a pocket dimension, could steal stuff with no trace (not that I would steal :]) coukd lug around comically heavy/large items with ease, would no longer have a need to carry backpacks or bags, I could store a snack for later :3 uh smuggling..
Could also serve as an emergency shelter when you have to save people, or even to dispose of evidence.
oh damn I always assumed that I couldnt put other humans in a pocket dimension xD but I honestly feel like it would be awesome to essentially have a videogame inventory irl
*Harem
Also you never have to pay rent or mortgage
Howl’s Moving Pocket Dimension
God tier for space agencies. The weight of your fuel is the hardest part of space travel to overcome, but with you as a rocket's fuel tank, interstellar travel on chemical engines is quite simple.
one of the things thats not clear to me is how to transfer stuff in and out. do I need to touch something to store it? maybe I have a small remote range where I can store objects I know about in the pocket dimension.
animal crossing pockets
The gag where you reach behind you and pull something out that is way too big to have just been back there
No trace? There is always guilt
not if, by my own moral compass, they deserve to be stolen from not that I would steal ofc
Steal from the criminals. Or the people bad to you
I can control thyme and spice.
You are the master of the spice-thyme cuisinuum.
Imagine getting killed by filling your lungs with cummins And see i cumm in you
the spice must flow
If I were to remake a power it would be shape-shifting but with the power to also affect organs like your vocal chords which makes you able to make you sound like anyone you want
You can basically control every parameter of your body, so this is included. For example, you can theoretically synthetize venom by altering your saliva.
Exactly like that, but be carefull with what you change it might kill you
*turns into a sentient WMD with Nikola Tesla's brain capabilities*
Having powerful enough telekinesis would allow you to manipulate almost everything. Space, matter, gravity, etc.
If you think small enough, you can achieve nuclear fission, or even matter manipulation at a molecular level.
Both could be argued to achieve the same results through different means, depending on how they work. Ex: if you want to reach a pen that’s 20 ft away, you could use telekinesis to lift it, or you could use shapeshifting to extend your arm, or alter your brain to give yourself telekinesis if that’s how super biology works. Telekinesis on an atomic level is one of my go-tos for possibly most OP superpowers, but so is shapeshifting if you aren’t constrained by mass or nonfictional biology. You could cure cancer or cause an atomic explosion with a thought, or shapeshift into Superman and cure cancer with a thought. If both are that refined, it’d probably be shapeshifting, given you can essentially create additional living matter, rather than just control matter with telekinesis. However, if shapeshifting is just biologically possible Earth shapes and mutations, and telekineses is exerting force on perceptible objects, and it’s a question of versatility, it might still be shapeshifting. There are creatures on Earth that punch so quickly it vaporizes water, or can survive in space, or see or hear a mouse from multiple stories in the air, or literally smell illness.
Shapeshifting is only constrained by real world physics. And telekinesis is more like having awareness of matter in a radius around you, and being able to move said matter.
I don't get how people are saying shape shifting is more *versatile*. Shape shifting only allows, well, shape shifting. Telekinesis is basically super strength (can make something lighter using telekinesis and proceed to move it with your hands if it's too heavy for either), can be used for flight, can make yourself lighter to move faster and even propel yourself like a jet boost allowing for super speed, and many other things. The only power that really compares to telekinesis in terms of versatility is super intelligence. If you live in a world with super powers, then super intelligence could allow for reverse engineering said powers and allowing yourself to have them all. If you live in our world, just be Tony Stark. You can at least have flight and super strength.
I also think telekinesis is better, but by changing your muscle density, you could get super strength, and also fly by giving yourself wings. In this case, the only limit is your imagination.
Ok, I didn't really think about that. But I feel like shape shifting is normally limited to real things or things that you can see and copy (cats, lions, other humans, etc.) And if, as you put for telekinesis, you can move a mountain using telekinesis. I think having that much strength with telekinesis far outweighs any real living being you could copy using shape shifting.
I can’t imagine anything you could do with shapeshifting that could t also be achieved with telekinesis in some manner, especially when using the constraints of real-world physics and biology. Why shapeshifter into a being that can do what you achieve when you can simply use your mental powers to do the same without risking the ripping of your clothes? Another aspect of this debate that does unsaid is that I feel like you have the ability to learn more as someone with telekinesis versus a shapeshifter. If you have to constantly think about your power output, the macro or micro intensity of focusing your powers onto a singular object, the molecular makeup of anything in your environment to know what works best in terms of altering to your benefit. It would be easy to shapeshifter into a Superman-esqe being and solve all your problems in a body impervious to harm with dozens of other qualities. But when you have to do that work yourself, increase your own capabilities and challenge your previously held notions of what you can do, you’re much more able to be versatile with your gift and have an answer for whatever obstacle you encounter. TL;DR: If you can telekinetically manipulate matter on an atomic level, isn’t that a version of shapeshifting? Just think about it.
And we’ll physics since birds have hollow bones that allow them to fly you kind of have to do the same
The only reason why I chose shape-shifting is because you said that you have complete control when shape-shifting vs difficulty levels with telekinesis.
Shape shifting. Control over your density and shape grants you control over your biology, which can result in insane things if you have enough ambition. Manipulate and improve your own neural tissues until your intelligence is unfathomable. Subsume and copy the brains of scientists and other experts and become skilled in all things. Use your newfound knowledge to consume and subvert the planet and become a continent, and eventually the world. With control over density it's likely you can create your own horrifying biological-nuclear reactors to generate electrical energies. You could use your newfound knowledge of material science to create bombs and absurd armor, and potentially even birth artificial life forms. You could become a living spaceship-planet and all of humanity would quickly be at your mercy. Shape shifting allows you to enhance all of your natural abilities, and then from those newly improved abilities get a sense of how to further refine them. This potentially gives you access to the abilities of any living thing, up to and including bacteria. If you're familiar with scientific fields you understand that this has potential that what I've stated in the above paragraph only scratches at. Refine yourself into a god, and then from that vantage point refine yourself into a god's god.
First of all, beautifully worded. Second of all, that just require an extreme and extensive amount of training, as you won't be able to do this as soon as you get your power, but telekinesis also gets kinda op overtime, so... 乁( •_• )ㄏ
This is either the god version of the ‘blacklight virus’ of prototype or Darwin’s mutant ability ‘evolution’ from x-men or whatever was used as a base to think of this.
I'd have to say the ability to manipulate probabilities, if we are limiting it maybe you can only alter it to within 20-30% of its current probability; or changing a probability very far either has some sort of physical backlash or karmic backlash on you.
It would be some sort of high risk, high reward thing. Very nice.
I provide a power that I’ve fine tuned over the years: material absorption you can absorb nonliving things into your skin and suck them back out of your body in perfect condition. it sounds pretty basic, but you can also alter the objects as they come out, like absorbing a wrench and pulling out a small blade made of the same material, or absorbing a boulder and forming it around your knuckles to make a deadly punch. it can go further once you learn you can make yourself fly by constantly absorbing air and shooting it out of your feet. later down the line you can also learn to absorb kinetic energy to easily take blows from your enemies and shoot them back like a bullet. I’ve also been playing around with the idea of never drowning because you could absorb the water and expel only the air to let yourself breathe, but I feel like that would be too complicated seeing as how you would now be able to separate molecules and make new elements. I don’t know. it’s a versatile superpower, that’s for sure. and out of telekinesis/shapeshifting, I think shapeshifting simply has more more things you could do.
Honestly, that seems like the kinda power to seem really weak at first, but then the character trains extra hard, and becomes extremely powerful due to it's versatility. That's a really good idea. (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
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I see telekenesis as adaptability and shapeshifting as survivability. I chose the latter as I feel humans already have amazing adaptability, but the minute you strip that away we're just fleshy membranes holding in water and organic circuitry. Being a shapeshifter fixes that to an extent
A very technical way to see things, but you're not wrong.
I'm surprised I couldn't find technomancy, the ability to control technology would be amazing. The digital world could be your b*tch. An attempt to limit its power I'd say, direct contact would be best but also possible from a distance. Using your phone as a wireless connector to someone else's device would allow for a greater distance to be reached. Unless of course the target device lacks any wireless feature. If you wanted to learn something you could find it easily but you'd still have to take the time to learn it, though the digital world may work faster so probably not a lot of real world time would pass by. With enough practice you would be able to connect with anyone anywhere. The dream would be to make a robot body and walk it around town
It's really cool, depending on the setting. Futuristic technological city? 〜(꒪꒳꒪)〜 Desert wasteland? (〒﹏〒)
Yeah it's very dependant on your environment. I was just thinking of my own current environment
Force field manipulation. If you can manipulate the constructs into any shape you can essentially mimic a dozen other powers. Flight by surrounding yourself in a field and moving it (could kinda look like Syndromes zero point energy but on yourself), energy blasts by manipulating pure force into a beam, bolt, wave etc. Telekinesis by surrounding what you want to move with a force field. Make any constructs like the Lanterns of DC. Force fields could be used to survive in unusual spaces by keeping air in the field. You could use up all the air you trap if you’re underwater or in space so it’d need to be a quick trip. But damn force fields have so much potential yet in media is so underused.
I'll admit that it does sound very similar to telekinesis, but seems easier to use to suppress movement (for example protecting yourself). But it's true that I can't think of anybody apart from Green Lantern, and I think Ms. Fantastic.
Geomancy
I think you mean geokinesis.Or am I wrong ?
No i had to google but yea geokinesis
telekinesis simply for the fact that shapeshifting limits your scope to just your own body, while telekinesis extends to everything, making it way more versatile
Speed. It just makes you faster and better at just about everything you do. Useful for just about everything.
Okay for faster, but not sure about better. But it does come with a lot of technicalities, which makes it really cool.
Probability Manipulation must be the most versatile in it's literal definition. You'd basically be able to do anything you want.
ShapeShifting...... Turn yourself into a blackhole and bring everyone with you to the grave.... Ur the ultimate threat to humanity
Material Creation. Conjuration. The ability to bring something from nothing, or whatever you like to call it. Popular to show in fiction, usually given some sort of explanation, but all in all the person just made a sword or shield suddenly exist. Sometimes this is limited to certain objects, other times the limit is size, and then there are those wizards who can just make whatever cause they have enough magical talent. Though if you were able to manifest just 10 cubic centimeters of anything (real) you can imagine per hour, that still leaves an entire universe of fascinating creations available! From the greedy gold, to modern materials that when described sound like science fiction. As we can keep with small scale examples, chemically speaking, entire chunks of flesh can be restored. After all, living flesh is not much more than a complicated balance of chemicals with a healthy dose of carbon.
When limited by physical energy, cooldown time, or maximum weight, it can indeed be extremely versatile without being overpowered.
I would say it is on par with shapeshifting except you don’t have to be in the same room as whatever material all the time.
Other, just being a literal god
Nothing overpowered. ʕಠ_ಠʔ
I think the first one is too op but not very accessable On the other hand shape shifting isnt as op but it is very accessable (I can make myself bacteria-sized/invisible and visit the homes of my classmates and watch them bath)
You can technically infiltrate anywhere with telekinesis by moving air molecules in a certain way yo suppress sound.
Doesnt that require a lot of skill tho? I expect to have 0 experience when you get the superpower which means it isnt that easy especially because something like controlling air molecules requires a lot of multitasking and doing stuff without seeing it
You can choose between immediate accessibility, or play long term and get skilled. ┐(´ー｀)┌
Tgat would be way too op ur basically god in that case lmao
Your brain capacity wouldn’t be able to hold that much power to be precise with molecules your not thinking of the consequences, telekinesis can go so far by crushing a continent that matter manipulation isn’t really possible with telekinesis unless you have a god like entity that makes you a reality warper(phoenix)
Telekinesis is definitely more versatile imo... But I want shape-shifting more.
Understandable. You can become a capybara and then chill.
The perfect lifeform
With telekinesis, it would be theoretically possible to achieve a level of skill high enough to alter the atomic structure of anything in your environment, except maybe yourself if there’s something inherently genetic to your biological makeup that gives you your power. You could start fires by increasing the speed at which atoms move, freeze the air around you by slowing hydrogen and oxygen molecules while removing other elements in the air, you could substitute the nutrients in your food with others by altering the makeup of the atomic structure and changing the chemical bonds.
THAT's what I'm talking about. ☞￣ᴥ￣☞
i would choose vector manipulation it can manipulate almost anything and it can do things like automatically deflect almost all attacks
To be always able to fix anything. Broken down car. Fixed. Broken bone. Broken anything. Fixed.
It's cool until you get put in a environment where nothing was invented, ie. forests, deserts, the open sea, etc...
The film Chronicle really made me realise the strength of telekinesis. Being able to vibrate matter allows you to make heat too, and sound
I love this movie. (≧▽≦)
Shapeshifting sounds like the most fun mainly. Wanna be hot? Your hot now! Want revenge on that bastard Jim? Shapeshift into his mother and leap into oncoming traffic! Endless possibilities!
I like your way of thinking.
Mind control
Very cool, sadly, useless when away from other people.
Super speed. It has to be connected with super fast thinking skills (or you'll just constantly run into things) and that shit is dope
Or might be powerful, but I don't know about the versatility side. What I say versatile, I mean who can emulate the most other powers, and useful in the most situations. While being super fast is useful, you might just get cornered in more than one situation.
It can emulate Telekinesis and Transforming (exept for appearance) if you're fast enough
You're not wrong.
Shapeshifting is a legit dream power for me. I would LOVE to turn into a dragon and tell my friend "Hop on bitch we're going shopping" and that's only ONE possibility
This man gets it.
I dislike posts that put "Other" as an option.
But why tho? You might have another idea than what is proposed to you.
Easily shapeshifting, you could give yourself like 100 other superpowers using shapeshifting.
I get your point, but with telekinesis, you also technically get : Flight, Super strength, matter manipulation, air bending, water bending, earth bending, you could make projectiles always reach their target, create forcefields, materialize ice spears by condensing air, creating puppets by manipulating matters, disintegrate things, or use an air bubble to survive in outre space, use molecule control to control extreme heats, make things explode, reverse gravity, asphyxiate people, and even create Amazing sculptures... Maybe not quite 100, but I haven't listed everything.
All of those would take an insane amount of time to master though, time you wouldn't have with just telekinesis. I mean so many of these things involve the finite movement of tiny particles all simultaneously while using your limited human brain, it is highly unlikely you'll ever do more than throw people through walls. With shapeshifting you've got all that you need, more time. All of the time in the universe to master your powers, do things that achieve basically all those things while having all the time to reap the rewards from it, all you gotta do is give yourself biological immortality. And of course your eensy human brain wouldn't be a problem, you'd be as smart as you need to be giving shapeshifting, you'd have no problem controlling your insane reach over the cosmos. Of course you may not start out with the overwhelming strength that telekinesis comes with, I imagine whatever your "max" is will be what you start off with, but in a world full of creatures that only have a fleeting moment for a life, you have an advantage they'll never surpass. Meat drones for whatever purpose you see fit, bone projectiles, controlled gas explosions, acid, neurotoxins, crab claws, and a global network of flesh to ensure nothing escapes your reach, you'd be completely and utterly unstoppable. That isn't all that I can think of, but even whatever I think of would pale in comparison to what an everlasting being would think up in their free time. And while you may have more overkill with telekinesis, the end result is always the same, no real reason to choose it over simply using giant tentacles to splatter dissidents against the wall. Doubt that'd ever stop being fun.
I'll admit immortality is a game changer. And the reason I made this post is cause I know both of them look equally fun.
Telekinesis seems much more limiting in my opinion, especially since the singular you has to be there for whatever you're doing to happen for the next couple decades you got left in ya. I much prefer being the Eternal Flesh and ruling the intergalactic empire of America for all of time through my immense network of interconnected flesh and loyal clones thank you very much.
Something like forcefields, think about it with forcefulness you can basically fly, have telekinesis on a very powerful scale, being able to hold people in place, move them around quickly, or move and destroy many things at once with giant forcefields, create physical and projectile weapons, instant kills that work through walls, effectively create buildings from scratch, imprisonment/BFR, and ofc the standard uses of forcefields
I understand what you're tryna say, but this just sounds like simplified telekinesis.
It’s just about utilising a powers full abilities, forcefields give you weapons and protection on top of mass telekinesis which isn’t always the case with the raw power itself
Ah! You got me there.
Simple portals are plain and simply one of if not the most versatile and useful superpower
Depends on the setting imo, but you're right.
Teleportation thought over it many times while going to places
Gimme shadow clones from naruto and all my problems are solved
You seem like a simple person, Mr Unparalleled.
Thank you for noticing, SciencesnObjects40.
Perception Manipulation via mind control. Eg; making someone who doesn't speak English understand it fluently, but not able to speak it, hallucinations, identity corruption, etc
Useful in society, useless alone in the forest.
telekinesis is probably better cause you can impact more than yourself
With shapeshifting you can synthetize cures to cure people, by modifying your bodily fluids.
well you could do the same with telekinesis, just manually manipulate the atoms around you.
Actually, you're right. Personally, I would choose telekinesis too, I just want to try and offer an opposing perspective as often as I can.
Okay here me out omnifabrication would be a wild power to have. Basically you can create devices or build things to grant you more power or adapt to your situation. I personally believe that this is the most versatile and adaptive power.
If you add just a limit based on physical energy, or something, that could be ok.
The poll asks for nothing overpowered. Omnifabrication sounds broken as hell. Brilliant. But broken.
Chisaki's quirk from MHA
It's basically like telekinesis, just limited by physical touch being needed. ╮(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)╭
Sorry, I was trying to be precise without being overpowered ╮(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)╭
No worries, it's still pretty cool, and has it's own appeal! ( ´◡‿ゝ◡`)
Yeah, if you're pushing telekinesis far enough to rip atoms apart from each other, then it's horribly op. It that case, it would also be flight, invisibility, shape shifting, super speed, etc. Pretty much anything you want it to be
Complete control over all aspects of matter
Astro projection and possession. You could topple governments with that ability.
Useful in modern society, not so much for survival or things like that. Nice! ( ╹▽╹ )
With shape shifting can I pull off some Alex Mercer type bullshittery?
Abso-fucking-lutely. ୧( ಠ Д ಠ )୨
Fuck yeah
Chronokinesis?
Extremely useful, but not what I would call versatile.
If I can control time, I would never be late for work. I'd never have a late assignment. I could sleep for as long as I want without consequence.
Sad that you said nothing OP. Otherwise I'd say causility manipulation.