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[ringen]

[ Tonight, the video feed shows Gaby tossing a roughly palm-sized object up into the air and catching it repetitively; for those who venture to look more closely it's a door knob. For those who venture to look even more closely, there is a nearly-unhinged door somewhere in the background. Sorry, Heropa 006. ]

I'm curious. Now, I'm sure this question has been posed many times before, but I'd still like to know. How many of you already had powers before you were brought to this place? And how many of you were--for lack of a better term--completely ordinary beforehand? And how did you adjust to your newfound powers, if at all?

You see, I've been here for quite some time now, but still find it a little difficult to compensate for this--hm, unnatural strength? [ she doesn't want to call it super strength ] That I've been given. I assumed I would get used to it over time, but perhaps there's something more to it than just that.

[ She sighs, and stops tossing the thing up and down, now holding the broken-off doorknob up to be seen. ]

In other news, there doesn't happen to be anyone here with the power to fix doors very quickly, does there? I can certainly fix it myself, but I'm afraid I might make things worse instead.

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Have you always had "superstrength," or is it something that the Porter gave you?

video; WHOOPS fell off the face off tag earth for awhile, sorry!

[earnedmystripes]

I came into my powers when I was a kid, 'bout ten. So I've had 'em a long time, but I didn't always have 'em.

no worries!

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Ten years old? It's been quite some time, then. [ just roughly based on his appearance. ]

What was it like, coming into them at such an age? Adolescence must have been very exciting, hm?

[earnedmystripes]

[His expression turns briefly uncomfortable, before he covers it with an awkward sort of smile.]

I guess you could call it that, heh. [Exciting, frightening, confusing, upsetting, lonely, miserable.........basically the same thing, right.]

It was definitely, um...[he seems to be searching for an appropriate word, here, but in that way one does when they don't want to say what they actually mean]

...intense. People like us had only started showing up in the last twenty years, and I was the only one in my family to change like that, so I uh, didn't see it coming.

[ringen]

[ For what it's worth, Gaby offers a sympathetic smile. ]

...It sounds like it was a great burden for you to bear. [ And probably still is. ]

If you would have the time and patience to train me in this, so to speak, then I would be very grateful.

[earnedmystripes]

[Sort of. It "still is" in the sense that after he came to accept his powers, he sort of uh, built his entire life/identity/self-esteem around them and being able to use them to help people l m a o. So when he started losing them he may have had a minor uhhhh existential crisis........

Convenient how he hasn't had to think about that in two and a half years, huh.]

Sure thing. It's my job around here, actually. Like, officially with kids, but I'm not gonna turn down anyone who needs help.