Lightning Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I have to admit that I did not see Firefight's true power coming. The ability to reach into alternate possibilities?! Awesome. It got me thinking about how each of the epic powers disobeys the laws of physics. Bullets literally reverse direction. Momentum is passed from one object to another. People can scry using water. But couldn't each of these abilities just be how things work in an alternate universe? So could it not be that each and every epic power is just someone tapping an alternate reality in some way. Firefight's ability is just less-focused than the others. They can only pull off specified effects. Firefight can literally make anything happen for a short time (at least in her amplified state, when she is reborn). This also might explain Calamity, who came from an alternate universe to our own. Perhaps he/she can channel all of the abilities at once. Or maybe scientists (at NASA, where Tia worked) pierced the boundary of our universe, and that's how Calamity was created. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Maybe the alternate universe in question is the Cosmere, and the Shard of Temptation accidentally got pulled through... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 I like this theory a lot. Could it be that in Calamity Megan will take herself and David into the parallel universe from which Calamity himself came through? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Posted January 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 This might also explain why powers from different Epics cannot held by the same person. The universes those powers come from have incompatible physics. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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