How do you think about this character?

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You say powers are genetic and that most people have them. I suppose the question would be how they interact with each other. Like unless every family is super incestuous or whatever if one of their parents has the Deaths Door InstaKarmaOverKill, and the other has a different power all together would they know what power the kid will get?

By whose understanding is "evil intent" defined? Evil is such a nebulous idea it seems unlikely that anyone would actually fall into that category?

You say they would be like a grenade on the battlefield but most people fighting in an army wouldn't be "evil" by default just because they are on the opposing side.

I think if the actual power only responded to "evil intent" the family would never really have figured out their power and they would probably think that they were powerless and be treated as such.
 

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He'd simply be avoided like the plague. No one would bother with him, why would they when there's the risk of spontaneous death years along the line from one slip up?
Would make an interesting, if not foundationally generic, romance story though.
Hmmmmmmm. I really doubt this. Imagine it like leprosy or aids? Like, deadly, but it is well known how to avoid it.
"with evil intent" . . . so accidentally hurting him doesn't count?
I'll be his friend, maybe even more :s_wink:
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Hmmmmmmm. I really doubt this. Imagine it like leprosy or aids? Like, deadly, but it is well known how to avoid it.

:blob_aww:
That would make sense, but no matter what people would always be conscious and cautious around the character. I mean, even if it is well known how to avoid it, he'd still likely be a social outcast with few, if any, real friends.
 

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You say powers are genetic and that most people have them. I suppose the question would be how they interact with each other. Like unless every family is super incestuous or whatever if one of their parents has the Deaths Door InstaKarmaOverKill, and the other has a different power all together would they know what power the kid will get?

By whose understanding is "evil intent" defined? Evil is such a nebulous idea it seems unlikely that anyone would actually fall into that category?

You say they would be like a grenade on the battlefield but most people fighting in an army wouldn't be "evil" by default just because they are on the opposing side.

I think if the actual power only responded to "evil intent" the family would never really have figured out their power and they would probably think that they were powerless and be treated as such.
Not evil intent, but bad intent. So the other side aren't evil, but they wish bad things to happen to him, in which case it would be activated.

As for the marriage option, I think a status screen can resolve that which parent's power will be adopted.

Many families are powerful here, like MC shall have power to convert damage taken into attack, a rival shall have power to deal double damage.
 

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Not evil intent, but bad intent. So the other side aren't evil, but they wish bad things to happen to him, in which case it would be activated.

As for the marriage option, I think a status screen can resolve that which parent's power will be adopted.

Many families are powerful here, like MC shall have power to convert damage taken into attack, a rival shall have power to deal double damage.
Divine Blessing I spy!
 

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So, this character randomly popped into my mind.

Soooo, the world is basically that most people have superpowers, all inherited, new powers are extremely rare.

And, this character has power called
Last Man Standing
Which activates on death's door scenarios and shall kill everyone who ever hurt that person with evil intent.

So, how would his peers, or just general public like classmates treat him?

Anime says that they would ignore him, and talk behind his back,
But, but but but,
This isn't the first time! This power is possessed by all members of his family! Surely, they wouldn't completely alienate him.


Would they be scared of him?
Hold up. Is there a limit to the range of this power? Is there a time limit to this power?

That is, suppose he is beat up really badly, and the effect goes off. I assume it kills the guy actively punching him, but what about the bully from 7th grade who has since matured and stopped picking on kids. Or someone who beat him up last week, who took a vacation to Japan or Argentina. Does this karma act against everyone who hurt him no matter how far away or long ago?

Also, it's worth mentioning the revenge angle. That kid from childhood is now running a business and his wife gets to watch him die suddenly of a power, she might track this guy down.
 

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Hold up. Is there a limit to the range of this power? Is there a time limit to this power?

That is, suppose he is beat up really badly, and the effect goes off. I assume it kills the guy actively punching him, but what about the bully from 7th grade who has since matured and stopped picking on kids. Or someone who beat him up last week, who took a vacation to Japan or Argentina. Does this karma act against everyone who hurt him no matter how far away or long ago?

Also, it's worth mentioning the revenge angle. That kid from childhood is now running a business and his wife gets to watch him die suddenly of a power, she might track this guy down.
Nope, no limit.

And yes to all your questions.

The only thing you can do is to not be stupid enough to beat a kid who is known to have this power.

So, what do you think public will treat him like?
 

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Fun fact: If he aggros multiple people by making made and make them harm him with ill intentions, and then shoots himself a few times he can get a super kill streak
 

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Ai-chan personally thinks this character's power is too powerful. Sure, he can only use it when he dies, but this has the potential of killing huge number of people, even those who do not really have anything to do with it. Let's face it, we are human, we think bad things all the time. Ai-chan too had thoughts of bludgeoning the head of a dude who honked Ai-chan from behind despite Ai-chan having nothing to do with the traffic congestion. If this dude is the character in your story, Ai-chan would die when he die, just because Ai-chan seriously wanted to bludgeon him to death during a traffic congestion.

Ai-chan thinks that you should limit his power a little. Instead of a single-use bomb, make it a 'single-use bomb within a specific radius'. Maybe 1 kilometer. It would make him a single-use low-yield nuke, but it only harms humans. Which is a more environmentally-friendly nuke that will not leave behind radiation.

The downside is, his death leaves behind a psychic shock that causes brain haemorrhage in people within 10 meters of him, massive migrain within 100 meters and short-term depression for anyone within 500 meters, even if they're not the intended target.

This would make people in power keep him and his family, feed them, keep them in luxury, until one day they need to kill the enemy and send them off to die.
 

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Ai-chan personally thinks this character's power is too powerful. Sure, he can only use it when he dies, but this has the potential of killing huge number of people, even those who do not really have anything to do with it. Let's face it, we are human, we think bad things all the time. Ai-chan too had thoughts of bludgeoning the head of a dude who honked Ai-chan from behind despite Ai-chan having nothing to do with the traffic congestion. If this dude is the character in your story, Ai-chan would die when he die, just because Ai-chan seriously wanted to bludgeon him to death during a traffic congestion.

Ai-chan thinks that you should limit his power a little. Instead of a single-use bomb, make it a 'single-use bomb within a specific radius'. Maybe 1 kilometer. It would make him a single-use low-yield nuke, but it only harms humans. Which is a more environmentally-friendly nuke that will not leave behind radiation.

The downside is, his death leaves behind a psychic shock that causes brain haemorrhage in people within 10 meters of him, massive migrain within 100 meters and short-term depression for anyone within 500 meters, even if they're not the intended target.

This would make people in power keep him and his family, feed them, keep them in luxury, until one day they need to kill the enemy and send them off to die.
Same concern here.
Fun fact: If he aggros multiple people by making made and make them harm him with ill intentions, and then shoots himself a few times he can get a super kill streak
Doesn't get it. And also won't his abilities counter each other or just backfire on him anyway. Shooting oneself is an act of malice in the form of self-harm.
 

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Speaking of death, you never know when terrorists might target those with that ability even at the cost of their own lives.
For example, a terrorist might want to force a plastic surgery on him and get hundreds of people to punch him, not that it's realistic but you get the idea.
 

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This power is similar to this one. Can’t remember it’s name, but if he harms himself the pain will be passed on to any target he wants. But he heals from these maybe .
 

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Ai-chan personally thinks this character's power is too powerful. Sure, he can only use it when he dies, but this has the potential of killing huge number of people, even those who do not really have anything to do with it. Let's face it, we are human, we think bad things all the time. Ai-chan too had thoughts of bludgeoning the head of a dude who honked Ai-chan from behind despite Ai-chan having nothing to do with the traffic congestion. If this dude is the character in your story, Ai-chan would die when he die, just because Ai-chan seriously wanted to bludgeon him to death during a traffic congestion.

Ai-chan thinks that you should limit his power a little. Instead of a single-use bomb, make it a 'single-use bomb within a specific radius'. Maybe 1 kilometer. It would make him a single-use low-yield nuke, but it only harms humans. Which is a more environmentally-friendly nuke that will not leave behind radiation.

The downside is, his death leaves behind a psychic shock that causes brain haemorrhage in people within 10 meters of him, massive migrain within 100 meters and short-term depression for anyone within 500 meters, even if they're not the intended target.

This would make people in power keep him and his family, feed them, keep them in luxury, until one day they need to kill the enemy and send them off to die.
But Ai chan, he isn't the only person to have this power, his whole family has it. It is well known too. Well known enough that the enemy you speak of also knows about his power. Would he still be that valuable?
 

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But Ai chan, he isn't the only person to have this power, his whole family has it. It is well known too. Well known enough that the enemy you speak of also knows about his power. Would he still be that valuable?
Kind of sound like the entire government, military, and mafia are monitoring the entire family in case one go boom and everyone get rekt. Or other situations, shaking in fear at any harm that come to this family's way?
 

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But Ai chan, he isn't the only person to have this power, his whole family has it. It is well known too. Well known enough that the enemy you speak of also knows about his power. Would he still be that valuable?
Yes. The fact that his whole family has it means the power can be inherited. The smart thing to do would be to keep a few of them indebted to you. Raise them from young to be loyal to you, through kindness, luxuries or just indoctrination. But since the idea of raising them to be sacrificed later can be considered a bad thought, the actual raising is not done by yourself, who harbour such thoughts, but to kind servants who were only doing their jobs. It would be better if the servants are nerve-stapled too so that they can't have bad thoughts and do their jobs diligently.

Then when they grow up, you breed them. You keep only those who have the power. Then rinse repeat the above. Now you have whole families of nukes loyal only to you, indoctrinated to serve you and happy to die for you on command.

The fact that the enemy knows about his power means the enemy will want him on their side too. The enemy probably already has a few of his relatives ready to be unleashed. Such power is too powerful to not have on your side. The more nukes you have, the less people want to piss you off. So the fact that rival factions have these nukes would likely be announced or implied.
 

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What a bloody mess. If the family get divided by factions, everyone would be dead but them.
 

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So, this character randomly popped into my mind.

Soooo, the world is basically that most people have superpowers, all inherited, new powers are extremely rare.

And, this character has power called
Last Man Standing
Which activates on death's door scenarios and shall kill everyone who ever hurt that person with evil intent.

So, how would his peers, or just general public like classmates treat him?

Anime says that they would ignore him, and talk behind his back,
But, but but but,
This isn't the first time! This power is possessed by all members of his family! Surely, they wouldn't completely alienate him.


Would they be scared of him?
Like, if he crashes into someone, would the other person start begging "please don't kill me, I don't wanna die!"?
Yet again, I can't imagine this.
Same reason, powers are well known.
Besides, others have powers like fire, water, earth, Strength, regeneration, etc, while this dude just has one which will activate on his death. He is weak! Totally weak!
Even his family is weak! It's not like they will do well in war or anything,
Imagine sending them to war, and they are crushed by a giant, and that giant dies. They are literally just grenades, so I doubt the family would be well respected one,

At the same time, you can't turn them into slaves, since you will die if you hurt them with bad intentions. Yeah, some mind control stuff might be used, but let us assume they don't exist.
Smells like Boku no Hero in here

Jokes aside, that character's on the verge of being OP, the only thing holding him back is the fact that he needs to be in a death's door scenario.

The public will treat him as a being that must not be disturbed. If they bump into him, say sorry. If they hurt him, say sorry. They'd most likely have a method on how to treat him. Kind of like that one SCP where they have to continuously do a ritual, else the world ends. Having a person like him in the world would turn all eyes on him, making sure that no one ever dares hurt him. If they know that that is his power, who's to say that his power can't evolve? Sure, there hasn't been something like that but who's to say that it's impossible? We did say that mobile phones were impossible after all.
 
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