I've now watched all the episodes of the first three seasons on
the British television series “Misfits” including the “mini
episode” “Vegas Baby”. The series is interesting as the
characters and their not necessarily orthodox “powers” are based
on the characters personalities or deepest desires or what they were
thinking at the time of the storm. So I've decided to do a three part
version of how I would have been affected by the storm.
Background
The Storm was an event that occurred in the Misfits series in
Wertham a section of an unnamed British city. The Storm bestowed
“super powers” on individuals who were near the storms lightning
strikes. Nothing else is ever stated about the Storm after it occurs.
Description
The Storm consisted of sinister dark clouds, giant hail instead of
rain and simultaneous lightning strikes.
Powers
As stated above the Storm gives a subject who is either struck by
it's lightning or are near the lightning when it strikes some kind of
“super power” based on the based on the characters' personalities,
deepest desires or what they were thinking at the time of the Storm.
If I was affected by the Storm
For this first part I'm going to write about what would happen if
I suffered the fate of the “proper adults” affected by the storm.
These adults usually suffer some form of negative change based on
their emotional preoccupation at the time of the storm. The “Misfits”
first case worker developed a psychotic rage that led him to kill one
of his “charges” and to attempt to kill the others. The father of
the girl Simon lost his virginity to would undergo murderous rages if
he thought someone was “wronging” his daughter. Nathan's Mother's
boyfriend would act like his childhood pet at night. He was thinking
of him while the Storm was going on. Every night he would strip naked
and explore the city like a dog does.
For me I like to help people and see them achieve their full
potential. I usually do that by using what I know about the person to
get them to learn and grow. However the darker side of it is that I
can be “too amused” by using what I know about a person to
manipulate them to see just how much power I can have over them. This
usually takes the form of trading insults and other forms of “wit
to wit combat” but not always. So if I was affected by the Storm as
a “proper” adult (which I am a far cry from being) the likelihood would be that I would become a compulsive mind game player to
the point of criminal actions. Getting people to commit crimes or
ruin their own lives via my “well meaning advice” that they don't
know I would also be giving to others that would counter the advice I
gave them. You know sort of like in every tale of the “Devil”. He
“doesn't do”. He gets you to do it. That would be me. When I saw
someone worth manipulating my eyes would momentarily glow red and I would go
about my work.
My most common “hustle” would be to get people to get me
money. When I feel I've gotten all I can get I would turn the people
against each other. Because information gathering is a big part of
how I operate, I would be using the money I've been getting people to
acquire for me to buy more information gathering powers. Then I would
set myself up as an “oracle” expanding my hustle to a higher
level. Possibly becoming a corporate “seer” or even using my
influence on politicians. I'd be an actual “Bondsian” super
villain.
The end game of my manipulations would be similar to the Marvel
Comics' villain Apocalypse. I would engage in my manipulations until I
believed the species had proved itself strong enough to survive
without them. After (just in case I do better than I
expect) that I would just manipulate people for my own benefit until
I died or was killed. Given that it's Misfits I would probably end up
getting killed because I tried to get them to kill one of their own
in case they got too close to figuring out that I was using them.
Thanks for reading
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