Back home before I got better control, it was emotions. Once I was better at staying calm and not letting my emotions get the better of me, the unintended transformations stopped.
[They look down at the palm of their hand as they flex their fingers.]
Here it may be different though. I don't have to tap into my anger or fear to use my powers.
[ the comparisons are interesting, because there are only a few people here in oceanside who have powers similar to the things they can do at home. so he knows he's probably pressing it, but he's curious anyway. ]
Do you know how you actually tap into it here? Will's powers are activated in a similar way back home. I think Danny and Nimona's are, too.
Huh. [ he's just eyeballing the claws and he has an urge to poke them but he decides that's inappropriate and weird. ] And then re-focusing on making yourself more human-shaped is the same thing, I presume. That comes in handy, but...I can also see how it'd be easy for control to slip sometimes. If you're not really focusing, I mean. It's a lot of mental willpower.
[Tiger un-claws their fingers and they look normal once again.]
It can be. But it's strange...Nimona and I have the same power, but she doesn't seem to be struggling with this. Could it be something specific to the leaders?
She might not be struggling because it's not actually the same power, Tiger. They might look the same on the surface, but I don't think they really are. [ this isn't said unkindly, but more like something he's thought about. ]
I think that's not a bad idea. It's better to know now so we can figure out what to do before things get too hard to reverse. [ and he's thinking on this... ] Another reason to find blank pages, or that book that keeps being talked about. If we could find it and write in that none of that's happening maybe it'll stop.
You and me both. I know people are still finding notes and things, and knowing this place even more people are going to be sent on those dumb trips to find notes. [ frowning... ] Any luck on your guys' end in finding leads?
Yeah. Everything is kind of shared with each other so we can all update other people as we go, just to be sure everyone knows what to keep an eye out for. I guess I was hoping maybe you guys had access to places we didn't yet, but...Oceanside's still pretty limited, isn't it?
That's probably likely. Power-mixing can be pretty messy if you aren't careful with which ones are in play. You think it was a combination that opened, like, a portal?
That's the most likely possibility, at least in my eyes. In my world, everything unusual that happens is because of a power or two powers reacting to each other. So I'm more inclined to believe powers caused the strange trips here.
I guess that's a pretty decent possibility. Most things that happen where we're from are because of certain people with power changing things around. I wish we had a more concrete answer, but that's better than nothing to go off of for right now.
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[They look down at the palm of their hand as they flex their fingers.]
Here it may be different though. I don't have to tap into my anger or fear to use my powers.
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Do you know how you actually tap into it here? Will's powers are activated in a similar way back home. I think Danny and Nimona's are, too.
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[They demonstrate by growing their fingernails + fingertips into long, black, sharp nails. They're like over a foot long.]
-like this. It just happens, no anger or fear needed.
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It can be. But it's strange...Nimona and I have the same power, but she doesn't seem to be struggling with this. Could it be something specific to the leaders?
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She might not be struggling because it's not actually the same power, Tiger. They might look the same on the surface, but I don't think they really are. [ this isn't said unkindly, but more like something he's thought about. ]
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I'll ask the other leaders about the problems with powers though, to see if they're having some difficulties too.
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I think that's not a bad idea. It's better to know now so we can figure out what to do before things get too hard to reverse. [ and he's thinking on this... ] Another reason to find blank pages, or that book that keeps being talked about. If we could find it and write in that none of that's happening maybe it'll stop.
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No more than what we've been told by Will and Hung. And I'm assuming you have those notes already.
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...Phoenix told me about the one you guys were on. Did you guys ever figure out why it happened?
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