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    Attractive female, attractive male, invisibility

    I’m the most beautiful creature on earth, and only I decide who gets the privilege of knowing it

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        That depends on what chameleon means exactly. Does it let you change color, is it more like a predator cloak, or is it like being an octopus, or is it more like being able to blend in through body language and pheromones and become kind of hidden, or being a social chameleon who can fit into any circumstances. It’s kind of a vague word without any more description.

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        That would mean you could turn into an attractive form but you wouldn’t be inherently attractive in your own.

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          Shapeshifting doesn’t have any limitations in this picture, so you might as well choose a form and stick to it as your new standard. The chameleon might only function as a kind of makeup, where you temporarily hide your blemishes, I’m not sure.

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    I feel ‘Magic’ is able to cover a lot of these…

    Anyway

    Immortality, Insanely Rich, Magic.

    I will then become a supervillainous evil wizard. Sorry-not-sorry.

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      Immortal, invulnerable, teleport. I’m sure the super rich I can acquire in a lifetime or two in 1 hour deliveries. Cargo ship from U.S. to Australia in an hour, got you. Rich people need organ transplants? Poof.

      Military needs someone to take someone out? Poof. A few contracts and now your stacking bank accounts.

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        Methinks eventually going completely nuts is part and parcel of the supervillain lifestyle

        I know what I signed up for.

        Now all I need is a hero type who will antagonise me and mess with my plans… But never kill me or take my wealth to reduce my power. And also we’ll have a rivalry that borders on the homoerotic sexual tension.

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    Attractive male, insanely rich, intellect.

    Y’all have fun being superheroes. I’m gonna enjoy the fuck out of life.

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    Anyone who is planning shenanigans and doesn’t take phasing or teleportation is asking for it. Sooner or later some government entity or another is going to try to put you in some kind of prison and you’d better have an escape card. Especially if you also take immortality. If you’re immortal and some asshole Cask of Amontillados you, you’re going to be pissed off about it forever.

    And is “divine powers” just a free combo deal of magic, invisibility, and immortality?

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      If you take immortality, you also probably need to take healing. Being mortally wounded and unable to die sounds, uh, bad.

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        See. I thought “immortal” was “non-ageing” and impervious to cancer and Alzheimer’s, etc. I took Healing because I felt it closed the injury loophole.

        Of course teleport because life may not be too short but I’m still going to mars and I don’t have to learn the katana. #thereCanBeOnlyOne

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    Immortal, invulnerable, teleport. I can be where I want to be, when I want to be, until the end of time.

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      I recently realized how much I say my password in my head while typing it. For me, I’d swap invulnerable with telepathy and steal all the passwords!

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        Even if “immortality” is the sucky kind, invulnerability kind of implies that you’re immune to the aging process.

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          The fact that invulnerability is on the list strongly implys that “immortality” just means agelessness.

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          Can’t wait to spend trillions of years floating in the vacuum of space or crushed inside a black hole while unable to die. Immortality is the worst possible curse, not a super power.

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      Yeah, the power gamer one is siphon abilities plus whatever two give the best advantage with that. Though psychic might be enough to negate any other, plus would help figure out where to get the others.

      Though it’s hard to meta game with just ability names. Like it could be god tier where teleportation works like you said and can be used on its own to find things or people, or it could be the kind where using it at all is risky because you might end up inside a wall.

      Psychic could mean you can freely look into the future, past, and present (like knowing your opponent’s poker hand). It could mean you get a warning if you need to deal with danger. Either of those could make invulnerability unnecessary (along with very rich, intellect, physical fighting, and others). Or it could just be con artistry like psychics that sell their “abilities” in the world we live in.

      Siphon abilities might be permanent, temporary, or might require contact with the ability owner to use the ability. Maybe you get a copy of the ability or the original owner loses their ability. Maybe it applies only to powers on the list or maybe to any skill/ability.

      Magic and divine power are especially vague, could be anything from the most powerful on the list (maybe even including everything else on the list already) to what real life magicians and priests can do.

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    Insanely rich: cheat codes for a comfortable life.

    Shapeshifter: renders attractiveness options irrelevant and has enormous utility.

    Psionics or magic, depending on strength and utility. For pscionics it really depends on how broad a range we’re talking about. If it’s just one thing or two things, nah. Being able to fling things around with my mind and pyro/cryo/electrokinesis are all tangently attached to telekinesis is great. But so is being able to throw fireballs in reanimate the dead. So really it would depend on the rules and mechanics for the magic/psionic systems. I think pscionics if it’s more like The Force or something strong from GURPS or RIFTS, magic if it’s something strong from RIFTS or D&D. If both are awesome then I’d pick whatever has the most utility probably. Especially since magic can duplicate psionic abilities using certain magic systems. But if it’s lame magic or requires something like Faustian pacts or answering to any kind of more powerful entity, screw that. But depending on the mechanics, psionics and magic are just different kinds of magic systems.

    Tldr, being a stupidly rich shape-shifting reality bender sounds like the life.

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      You could use many of the other options to become insanely rich relatively quickly 😅

      But yeah I guess skipping the part where you rob a bank or something does have some appeal 😅

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    All choices depend on the degree of the power. How much can you lift with telekinesis and how dexterous is? Is magic cantrips, level 9 spells, or something even more arcane? To what level are the speed and strength “super”? Are you a “Captain America” super human or Superman?

    Thankfully, my constant favorites are pretty definite: invulnerability and immortality.

    What even is “psychic” and how is meaningfully different from “telekinesis” and “telepathy”? Is it bundling all the other -kineses? Yeah, I’m giving it too much thought but personally I don’t like discussions based entirely on everyone not having enough information.

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      That was my take as well. I already have a degree of elasticity, agility, and healing. Guess I’m tapped out and cannot redeem this coupon for god-mode.

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      Yeah it would be interesting to know the limits. Mine would be SuperSight+Teleport, with the understanding that I’m able to perceive time very slowly at will and maybe see very far if I want to. Also, sneezing wouldn’t trigger a teleport.

      I don’t want any Saiki-K situations where I’m unable to be attracted to people because I can only see through their skin by default

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    Give me arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation in the simulation we live in and I’ll be satisfied.

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      I’d like that too, but I don’t know how to program so it’d turn out to be a pretty cruel joke. I’d need that plus access to interdimensional internet so I could download scripts and be a scriptkiddy of reality.