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[bastardofipswich]

[ BEHOLD... a teen witch sitting on his bed. He seems way too energetic, considering he's indoors and doing nothing. (lbr he's nursing a magic-high right now, and it's got him feeling both restless and aimless at the same time.) ]

Hey, show of hands, who here's got too much free time right now? [ HE'LL START. Look at that hand go up. ] Come on, at least one of you watching raised your hand, too. So let's do something about it. Get drunk in public, find a corner to loiter on, a shop to vandalize, you know, normal kids' stuff.

[ He grins. ]

Kidding! [ With a shrug and a careless wave of his hand. ] I'd get up to way worse than that if I wanted to be a public menace. [ Still kidding? EH. ]

Anyway, I can't be the only one here with nothing better to do, so who wants to play a game of Would You Rather? Look, I can even start:

[ He claps his hands together and makes a show of thinking. ]

Would you rather... Have superpowers, but die young. Or be perfectly average, and live a long, painfully uneventful life?

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[eraze]

You won't get a real sample from asking people. The fact that they want to tell themselves they'd choose the second is functionally meaningless. Given the real choice, most would take the first, and likely do nothing with it.

The most dangerous are the ones with power whose lives are painfully uneventful anyway.

[bastardofipswich]

[ Now that's an interesting response. ]

where i'm from, everyone with power refuses to do anything with it. they've got no ambition

would you do something with it if you took the first option?

[eraze]

My world has the opposite problem. A surplus of ambition, especially in people without the necessary talent or work ethic to achieve it. The majority of people waste more time and energy looking for shortcuts than they would have working toward sustainably achieving their goal.

I would.

[ In a sense, he already did. He didn't choose to have his quirk, maybe, but becoming a pro hero is essentially signing up for the decreased lifespan. ]

I take it you already are.

[bastardofipswich]

soooo that leads to a lot of cheating and backstabbing, huh?

you could say that [ What a non-answer, Chase. ] i guess i'm at a crossroads now that i'm here

[eraze]

Among other things.

A crossroads between good and evil, or action and inaction?

[ Apparently teenagers are teenagers no matter what world you're in. ]

[bastardofipswich]

let's just say i've got a whole lot of potential and no idea where to direct it anymore. getting sent here really screwed up my 10 year plan!