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There is much Fridge Horror in my random thought. Though if it justifies all of Voidus' random Epics....

Random thought. Firefight spoilers:

I'm morbidly curious now: what do you think my powers would be?

I think the empowerment theory holds water--that Epic powers give them symbolic empowerment over their fears without really requiring them to face those fears, like the spyril did with David's fear of water. Of course, this would mean one of two things:1. Calamity has some method of seeing into a person's past, allowing him to choose powers that will symbolically empower that person. This would mean Calamity potentially knows the weakness of every Epic he has created at the very least. 2. Calamity uses the same transformation process with every Epic and has no idea what powers they will receive. This means either he lied to Regalia when he said David's powers would have been "thematically appropriate" (because he had no clue what they'd be) or David was a special case and Calamity handpicked his powers, which he had done for no other Epic. The first one points to a near-omniscient Calamity who has very specific reasons for choosing the people he does. The second points to a much more limited Calamity, perhaps with some sort of empathic ability that allows him to separate the courageous from the fearful.

ThirdGen's signature. It's Mistborn with the Swedish Chef from Sesame Street.

Much more useful than Library and Information Center Management. (Though I'd also kill for How to Not Explode When Your Coworker Stands By Your Desk and Loudly Smacks His Lips on Hard Candy for Hours.)

Meestbork!

I'm so sorry.

I was right about Calamity being an Epic, and wrong about where weaknesses come from. So, with that track record, it looks like I have a….75 percent chance of being wrong. Anyway. Ever since finishing Firefight, I've wondered why some Epics are more powerful than others. You have Steelheart, who is basically a god among Epics, and then you have Firefight, who is a High Epic by default but far less powerful by her own admission. Why is this? As of right now, I have no idea, and I'm preparing to have this theory blown to smithereens. But with Epic powers tied to their fears, with powers appearing to give symbolic empowerment over those fears while their greatest fear cancels their powers entirely, I'm wondering if an Epic's power level is related to their willingness/ability to act on their fear. Take Steelheart, for example. He wasn't about to overthrow the government (so far as we know) but he was more than willing to use force when making his peers fear him. Once Calamity gave him the power to do so, he became one of the first Epics to conquer a city, and was one of the main reasons the US passed the Capitulation Act. He was extremely willing to act on his fear, and did once given the power to do so. Then there's Firefight. She fears fire, yet throughout Steelheart, we don't see her going out of her way to avoid fire. This could be—and almost certainly is—because Newcago runs entirely on green energy (well, Epic-supplied energy, which doesn't seem to leave a carbon footprint) leaving the citizens with little to no reason to ever use fire, making her avoidance of it a moot point. But even before Calamity, the only thing she could really do to act on her fear was get her parents to buy better smoke alarms and install an indoors sprinkler system. Her fear of fire is strong, but her willingness and ability to act on it is lower, so this could be a connection between her fear and her power level. What do you guys think? Thoughts? Comments? Snarky memes?

Even those whose RPGs are threatened by this constant bait-and-switch.

If it's reality warping, is he famous for leading his subjects to believe one thing about the reality he's created for them, then revealing at the last minute that--psych!--everything was actually completely different all along?

I'd like to see his powers.

When it comes to Timeport, there's no kill like overkill. The only thing more destructive than Man of Steel Superman is Steelheart.

As promised, I shall allow Fantomah to begin this thread.

I thought so. It's an adult services position in a public library. Casper is about 60,000 people—which is pretty big for Wyoming. When we lived in Douglas, we'd drive 45 minutes to go to their mall and eat at Outback. Which says a lot about how small Douglas is…. I'll close this thread and post the Fantomah comic.

Youth services are always looking for "new" and "innovative" ways to reach teens for literacy. (Thanks. ) Edit: Casper, Wyoming.

The Fantomah comic is finished. And so is my first job application of the semester.

I suggest we fill the next 1.5 pages of this thread with suggestions for how to fill the next 1.5 pages of this thread.

I'm sorry, spren! I'll read SA just as soon as the stupid library gets me a copy! I'm honestly not sure. Thanks. I don't know if it's the best, but I'm still smiling. That means a lot. ThirdGen, I think I need to tell you something: Every time I see your signature, I give you an upvote. It…it's like a compulsion. Your signature combines two awesome things in the most surreal and puntastic way possible, and I can't not upvote it every time I see it. Just in case you're wondering where all the random upvotes are coming from.

I pictured her face being rounder, and maybe if you added some pink to her mane or tail, it would help with the punk flair? Edit: Here's the Fantomah code, for anyone interested. 401N061281E2E2E2A8A8A804511F2DFDFON183720504000380FEEC3DFF7FFF02107F3FCC004CB2 ​I should have the comic done tomorrow.

Remember how my sister's "Grafitti in Newcago" doodles broke your brain? Well, this comic broke hers. And mine. I can't stop laughing.

I haven't read Stormlight, either.

Any day Timeport gets curbstomped is a good day. Oh, you know what'd be interesting? If Superpony met Fantomah and they got to talking about what a menace Timeport was, and talk led to a team up.....

Please. All he has to do in the comics is mess up his hair and put on a pair of glasses, so if pony!Superman puts a pair of glasses over his cutie mark, he'll fool literally everyone. I love Superpony, by the way. He looks just like a Superman pony should look.