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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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well, you got two choices

either you don't tell them, and keeps things shallow so you don't get hurt. or you tell them and hope that person is a good enough friend to you that they're willing to overlook whatever the 'problem' is and stay in your life.

you'll find out who your true friends are real quick.

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.

and what if they don't overlook it?

i'm not saying they're a bad person in this hypothetical
but like, let's just say they were burnt really bad in the past, multiple times, by someone w/ abilities and stuff like that

so it makes it difficult for them to trust someone who might have them
esp if it's like a dangerous in nature ability (i.e. violent, etc, you catch my drift)

like... if you told them and they said that
would they not be your friend anymore?

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?

... 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.

i'd just leave them alone. whether or not they think it's worth the risk to be around me is a choice they gotta make for themselves, and i don't think less of anyone for choosing to be safe.

odds are if you're someone with a violent or dangerous ability, you're already used to not having many friends

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

that's absolutely fair!

tbh i'm of the personal opinion that it would take some time getting to know the person first
and then they decide based on that

but idk, rly

and maybe
although if their ability is like that and they're a nice person

not having many friends
is probably really sad honestly...

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.

how fair is it to knowingly put a person at risk for the time it takes them to get to know you? hard to say that kind of person is a totally good one

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

hmmm

well, i wouldn't say it's fair at all to put someone at risk if their ability was violent
but

it would depend on it, ig??

bc "super strength" is 'an ability that can be used for violence'
but
it's not necessarily a bad thing, or something that could put that person at risk all the time

i think if they wre upfront about their abilities to their friend it'd be better for them to make that decision

can't say one or another if they're really good, tho

that's the hard part about being upfront, isn't it? you gotta be prepared to lose a friend

not sure which side of the equation you're asking about, but it ain't easy for either party i'm sure

tell them to piss off they're not much of a friend if they have problems with your powers or whatever you are

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.

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

yikes

well ig that reaction isn't unwarranted

both ig would be relevant
although for what I just said, mostly for the person who has powers

it's just a tough situation I think

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.

Where I'm from there is no such thing as the benevolent supernatural. Anyone would be quite correct in being wary, or outright hostile towards someone who displayed such abilities.

If I was told they had problems with the supernatural, I would be encouraging them to retain that suspicion and to try and get as far away from the source of the supernatural as they could.

yeah, it is. frankly i still haven't got it figured out. it is what it is though, friends are gonna choose to stick around or not.

but if you're the type who's willing to hang around long enough to get to know a person, and maybe forgive them for not speaking up right away

i bet it'd mean a lot, no matter what the choice was in the end

If they didn't 'get it,' I wouldn't bother to begin with, so it's a nonissue.

But in the hypothetical sense, it's not the responsibility of someone with 'abilities' to help other people be comfortable with it.

Me? I'd let them go. It's the people who don't have a problem with it who need their heads examined.

If I were just some run-of-the-mill mage... I'd probably tell them about my culture and lifestyle. Put the power in its context. Magic isn't an obscurity or aberration in a society of mages, and most who wield it don't experience it as a power that places them above anyone else, any more than a 20th century human from the developed countries would experience the ownership of a car as a transformational mastery of the people around them.

so i could definitely NOT use magic around someone at first but it would feel too restrictive to stay like that forever i guess?

i'm the only one from my world too. idk i've met some cool people but i don't really have a regular crew i hang out with yet. but i'm from An Earth.

yeah it's def not the easiest thing, i think...
friendship, that is, in general

at least in my opinion.
i didn't have any real friends for the longest time
it's kind of pathetic wwww

i think knowing people is p. important in order to understand them
i don't think you can call yourself a friend if you don't

besides, ppl make mistakes, that's what being human's all about
(or ig people? creatures? non-humans???? terms are hard)
you get kicked down but you just get back up again

arguments happen after all and you're never gonna 100% agree with one person or another, i think
but i'm rambling at this point probably haha
sorry

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