Subject: A couple more.
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Posted on: 2010-03-29 05:40:00 UTC

Goldenrod explained it pretty well--the only danger of a powerful species is that they'd have it too easy and it wouldn't be any fun to read about them. However, power can be made up for in any number of ways, such as personality, the Laws of Narrative Comedy, and/or the Ironic Overpower preventing them from getting out of hand.

For example, my Agent Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill is an Andalite, which (if you don't know) is a centaur-like alien with four eyes, no mouth, telepathic speech, and a very fast and wickedly sharp tail-blade. He also has the ability to morph into any species he comes into contact with, which has the potential to get really ridiculous given the access he has as an agent to the powerful races of the multiverse. HOWEVER, due to being "born" in a badfic and getting his personality from sessions in FicPsych, and the fact that he sucks at morphing, he's kind of a woobie. (He is getting better, though. Character growth and all.)

Another powerful-yet-fun agent I can think of off the top of my head is Agent Verra Rose, who was a frickin' dragon. I don't remember precisely how Kippur handled her, but I think she just didn't go on missions much due to being a wife and mom.

And then there's always the option of just not using one's superpowers. My character Jenni is one of the Powers That Be in her own universe, but the most she's ever shown of it in HQ is a bit of telepathy. She has Rules.

~Neshomeh

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