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[dereban]

hey everyone

i've got a question to ask that i'm a little shy about asking off anon
so, let's just say that you've had bad experiences with things that are supernatural back home.

like abilities, phenomena, things like that?

but you're here now.
magic is abundant here. a lot of people have powers and crap like that.

so what i'm wondering is that...

for those of you who have abilities: how would you feel if someone close to you, like a friend? had problems with your powers? how would you ease them into that sort of thing?
or if someone told you outright that they had problems with the supernatural, how would you help them?

unrelated to that, i do have another question.
i think i'm the only one explicitly from my world? but i think there are some people that are from a city or country similar to it, and i think it's really interesting that there's actually people like that.
but for someone who's kind of anti-social, it makes it hard to make friends wwww
is there anybody else here that's in that boat? i'm kind of curious.

anyway, tyvm in advance!! _へ__(‾◡◝ )>

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anon

[justicedevil]

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure how'd I really deal with that. I don't exactly think of my powers as "supernatural", especially since anyone could actually learn how to use them.

But I guess I'd just try to... not bring it up or use them around them, if a friend was bothered by powers. I mean, that really seems to be the only thing I can think of doing.

[dereban]

really? maybe it's something that's common in your world, but def not in mine afaik

and i guess that's a fair answer
but would you do the same if the person was in trouble?

[justicedevil]

... Well, I wouldn't say it's common either. Not many people know about it, there's just nothing about you that needs to be special for you to use it.

... But okay, yeah, if the person was in trouble and the only way that I could actually help them was to use my powers, then I'd have to go ahead and use them and just hope that they're less upset with that than whatever else was going to happen.

[dereban]

that's interesting... how does it work?

i mean, if you saved that person, i'd like to hope that they'd choose being saved over their issues tbh

[justicedevil]

Well, it's manipulating your ki, which is something that everything that's living has. Once you know how to do it, it's just doing that to do whatever it is that you need to do, like making your attacks stronger or flying or shooting blasts of it.

Unfortunately, it's not really something that's super documented anywhere, so anyone who would be learning how to do it would have to learn from someone else who already knows how. Which is why not that many people know how to do it.

... Well, that and the fact that it's still hard to actually do.

And yeah, I'd hope the same if I saved someone, but some people can be a little weird about things like that.

[dereban]

oh, yeah the whole 'spiritual energy' thing? i think that's what it was back home? i've heard of it from doing research but
afaik it doesn't work

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

idk if it's just the nature of my world and how biology works back home
or if everyone on our planet was doing smth wrong wwww

but makes sense!
well, i guess some people can. i mean, ig it depends but like sometimes having a bad association w/ smth makes it
hard
to just get rid of

[justicedevil]

Huh. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Though the fact that it doesn't work where you're from is really weird. But I've already taught someone who wasn't from my world how to use it... and back home there were aliens who could use it too so I think it's probably more that everyone who's tried to do it where you're from are just messing up.

Or maybe the ones who can actually do it aren't advertising it, so you only have people who are faking it that you know about. It's hard to say without me actually, you know, being there to tell.

[dereban]

yeah idk
I have no personal interest in learning something like that myself tho

[justicedevil]

Okay, fair enough. It's not exactly something you should even start trying to learn unless you really want to and you're serious about it.

[dereban]

yeah

while i'd be vaguely interested in how it works
it's not the kind of thing that... i'd want to use

[justicedevil]

Again, makes sense.

I mean, even at first I was only interested in learning how to do it because it meant that I could fly. Though I did fight crime back home, so all the other stuff was also a pretty big help.

[dereban]

i see

i'm not the type of person to fight people physically so it wouldn't be of any use to me
and i'm used to just using an airplane or just walking or utilizing the train system back home

[justicedevil]

Again, that last part is totally fair, but flying through the air without the aid of any plane or hover-copter is pretty amazing. Even if you have other practical options.

[dereban]

i guess?

it just isn't for me

[justicedevil]

Okay, I'll stop trying to sell it then.

[ Maybe this person was someone who had issues with special abilities? Or maybe not and she was reading too much into it. Either way, it didn't really matter, as long as they were happy. ]