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AurumArgenteus t1_j3y325c wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] Everyone is born with a power, but they can be bought and sold. Being poor, you purchase only the cheapest ones, gaining you ridicule and the title "Mr. Useless". Recently, however, you realized how you can use all these "useless" powers together, and set out to make a better name for yourself. by chacham2

Prompt is a bit off. If you are born with a power, you wouldn't need money to get your first power. Makes me think of the anime where the guy's power was the ability to absorb and retain other people's; that's why the protagonist I won't write would need money to get his first and why others don't try.

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chacham2 OP t1_j3yaqm5 wrote

Valid point. Fwiw, i had to keep stuff out to fit it into the prompt though.

>If you are born with a power, you wouldn't need money to get your first power.

Unless your power was useless. If you can sell that, you might be able to afford something useful.

> Makes me think of the anime where the guy's power was the ability to absorb and retain other people's;

I was thinking about something like that, except, that drove the idea towards grabbing better and better powers. I was aiming for all of the protagonists powers to be useless, and it just being a matter of how to use them.

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AurumArgenteus t1_j3zf4fm wrote

Or getting so many useless powers with synergistic effects they are surprisngly OP.

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