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Especially Ordinary
Being "normal" in a world full of superpowers
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GerardDiLeo in Paranormal

HOLY OMNIPOTENCE: The Most Powerful Superpower

I can't see through walls. I can't fly. I can't play a superhero or supervillain. I can't bend space-time or invoke magic. I can't run mercurially; I'm no speedster, scarlet or otherwise.

Speeding bullets would easily catch me. I can't leap over even traffic cones, let alone tall buildings, let alone in single bounds. I can't afford to erect a fortress of solitude or its heating bill.

Evil can easily escape my sight, my lantern's light. Bizarros don't seem bizarre to me. I'm no crusader, caped or otherwise. I will never be dynamic, in a duo or otherwise. I am in no league; I don't avenge; I'm not fantastic. When I look for the Bifröst, I only see a rainbow. My only X is on my chromosomes.

I was born under a yellow sun. I am ridiculously vulnerable, ordinary, and have no behavioral escape from my mild mannered ways.

My superpower is my humility, and I'm in love.