I think a lot of folks who say they wish they could be invisible don’t realize how horrible it’d actually be without secondary superpowers. The reason you don’t currently fall over and you’re able to grab what you’re looking at is because you can see your own body and gain a sense of direction. But if you’re invisible… how do you know where your feet are going to land exactly? How do you know how far your arm is from that book you’re trying to pick up?
It’d be pretty hellish to constantly trip over yourself and not be able to balance yourself at all! This kind of caveat applies to a lot of superpowers, like super strength. Sure, you’re strong enough to lift that car, but your bones and flesh aren’t. They’ll be crushed under the weight and you’ll have a big problem, lol.
That said… superpower? I’ll go with omnipotence. It’s always my answer to any “if you could have X, what would it be?”, omnipotence!! It’s basically EVERYTHING that I could ever possibly want packed into one. Imagine the sort of life you could have. The sort of freedom. What could you do, create, see, experience, feel. I do daydream about it more than I should.
“But if you’re invisible… how do you know where your feet are going to land exactly? How do you know how far your arm is from that book you’re trying to pick up?”
We do have a specific sense for where our body parts are relative to eachother and most people can stand or walk perfectly fine with their eyes closed. So what you’re describing as a neccesary secondary superpower is something most people already have. Could be a little clumsy at first but I imagine you’d get the hang of it pretty quickly considering how functional blind people can be.
I think a lot of folks who say they wish they could be invisible don’t realize how horrible it’d actually be without secondary superpowers. The reason you don’t currently fall over and you’re able to grab what you’re looking at is because you can see your own body and gain a sense of direction. But if you’re invisible… how do you know where your feet are going to land exactly? How do you know how far your arm is from that book you’re trying to pick up?
It’d be pretty hellish to constantly trip over yourself and not be able to balance yourself at all! This kind of caveat applies to a lot of superpowers, like super strength. Sure, you’re strong enough to lift that car, but your bones and flesh aren’t. They’ll be crushed under the weight and you’ll have a big problem, lol.
That said… superpower? I’ll go with omnipotence. It’s always my answer to any “if you could have X, what would it be?”, omnipotence!! It’s basically EVERYTHING that I could ever possibly want packed into one. Imagine the sort of life you could have. The sort of freedom. What could you do, create, see, experience, feel. I do daydream about it more than I should.
My boy just forgot blind people exist and can function their bodies
Which brings up the fact that an invisible person would be blind. Pretty useless power.
I mean, superpowers are already supernatural, so I don’t want to assume that all the rules of physics apply
“But if you’re invisible… how do you know where your feet are going to land exactly? How do you know how far your arm is from that book you’re trying to pick up?”
We do have a specific sense for where our body parts are relative to eachother and most people can stand or walk perfectly fine with their eyes closed. So what you’re describing as a neccesary secondary superpower is something most people already have. Could be a little clumsy at first but I imagine you’d get the hang of it pretty quickly considering how functional blind people can be.