so as I pray...

a random thought popped into my head as I was flipping thru facebook.

~~FAVORITE SUPERPOWER~~

Oh yeah. I mean, i've heard about the LAMEST superpowers, like that fish dude in Hell Boy. WTF kind of power is that? Aqua Man?

Logically speaking, if people were to have superpowers, it wouldnt be like in Heroes or X-Men. That's bullshit. SUDDENLY, a man can conjure up a nuclear explosion when his parents had absolutely nothing to do with one. Or a man who can just FLY suddenly. Superpowers wouldnt just HAPPEN. They'd evolve. Slowly. A man might suddenly be able to levitate a little for a short period of time. A generation later and this power might increase in magnitude and duration until presumably tens of hundreds of generations later, his predecessors would be able to fly.

In that case, I FOR SURE would NOT want Peter's powers. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too messy. Something simpler would be better - like controlling fire, or the awesome control of metal, like Magneto.

A more intriguing source of superpowers would be blaming it on the stars. In other words: IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!!! The prime example of this would be Superman. Guy crashes onto earth and comes with superhuman strength, speed, flight, and the inability to hide one's underwear. BUT IT'S ALL OKAY. Why? Bcos he's from outer space. So this kinda shit can happen.

Instead of raising our minds to the stars, let's just presume that human beings ACQUIRE powers. And just like *that* too. Without warning and with instantaneous efficiency. Enter Darker than Black. A world of "contractors". Beings who can use their superpowers, so long as they pay off their power in some way. An example would be the ability to stop time, with the payment being that the person ages backwards. Or the ability to conjure electricity, with the payment being having to sleep. That's a little more logical. And the source of this phenomenon, according to the storyline, is much too complicated to explain. Read it yourself.

As such, it would seem that the logical BEST superpower would be something PRACTICAL, USEFUL, DISCRETE and FREE.

And based solely on this, I choose Magneto's mutant power. The ability to control metal, with the advanced level of this being the ability to control electromagnetic waves.

HOWEVER, after a little deliberation, the better side of me kicked in. Out with practicality, usefulness, discretion and savings. Eventually, this power would become my life. I would rely on it. And turn myself into a fat, lazy piece of useless crap bcos of this kind of superpower.

And so, I put it to you: Your superpower should not make your life. Your life should shape your superpower.

Your superpower should be a product of your past experiences, lessons learned, gains, losses, regrets, future hopes and security. It should be your safe haven. A reflection of you and your persona.

Your superpower should be EPIC, and EPIC from your point of view, and yours alone.

And in my search, there is no superpower that fits the bill of EPICNESS better than UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS.

The workings are simple. Unlimited Blade Works is a spell, upon which, it encases you and your opponent in a reality marble (a plane of reality of your making). And in this reality marble, it is littered with all the weapons and equipment you have encountered throughout your entire life. A conjuration chant of Unlimited Blade Works itself is poetic verse which is pretty easy on the ears.

Truly Epic. (There's a few vids of it on youtube im sure. Go and check it out.)

Oh ya, and New Moon STILL SUX.