TM 198 - Super Power

[prodigalwatcher]

198 - If you could have any mutant/super power, which one would it be, and what would you do with it? (If you already have a mutant or super power, what one would you trade it in for?)

Prescience, without a doubt.

There is, in all lives, a great measure of uncertainty that exists in regards to the future and the choices that shape it and influence the choices yet to come. This is particularly true in dangerous professions. It seems the more lives that hang in the balance of any one individual's decisions, the more difficult it is to predict the outcome of those decisions beforehand.

To be able to know those outcomes, or at least to be able to predict them with a greater degree of certainty, could be the most powerful tool possible in the hands of one with a mind to use it properly. While I am unsure whether I am indeed such a person, I would not hesitate to make the attempt and find out.


How many terrible things, could have been prevented had I or one of the others been able to see into the future? Even more, how many innocent lives could have been spared? What I would not have given to have been able to predict Jasmine's game before the whole world fell under her spell, or to know an instant before the knife was drawn that Justine was planning to betray me and kidnap Connor.

We are, those of us who choose to stand beside a Champion and fight against the darkness, by the very nature of our calling, reactionary. When a vampire is reported in a town or city, we hunt it down and stake it. If a werewolf has begun to rampage through a village or a sorcerer has begun to amass dark power for himself, our job is to step into the situation and end it. Evil has a tendency to strike when and where it is least expected and take on so myriad forms that proactive tactics are near impossible.

But if one could know which town or what village or the name of the sorcerer in question before their crimes are committed... or at the least, before they are allowed to continue... would that not be the better way?

Perhaps if one could truly tell the future, then it wouldn't seem as though we were always so many steps behind our foes.


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Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_freaksrus/]

I think you'd be up to the task of handling that power responsibly. Me, on the other hand, would so use it on the crap tables at Vegas.

I'm not sure if prescience would have been able to reveal Justine's actions. There's always the human factor. Demons, on the other hand, are pretty predictable. It's the humans with their insane (sometimes literally) mind set that you can't predict.

[prodigalwatcher.livejournal.com]

Oh, I doubt I'd be above a little lining of the coffers. Good work still has its overheads.

Human are notoriously unreliable. Which is why I suppose ever since that instance, I've generally relied on them being so.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_freaksrus/]

That's the one thing you can count on.

[prodigalwatcher.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Outside of a few I do trust, of course.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_freaksrus/]

Definitely the few you trust. Just... sometimes keep it in the back of your mind that they might surprise you, too.

[prodigalwatcher.livejournal.com]

I do. As much as I dislike it, on principle, I do.