Shush, you.

I would like to thank Wizard of Woah for letting me borrow his setting.

Copyright is fake but gratitude and cooperation are real.

It's 21st century on Earth Mira, and the world is slowly transitioning from a series of system shocks into something otherworldly complicated and beautiful.

From some point, each kid* is presented with a choice - a boring vaccine that would protect them from a widespread and deadly virus, or a more fun "vaccine" that would, coupled with that virus, change them into a more exciting sort of a human.

*Of course, the choice is as often as not effectively in the hands of parents rather than the kids. But not by legal force. Kids have more say in the matters of norms and governance, this time and place - insofar as they are being restored or emerge from the ground up.

If you, as a kid, were given a choice to either:

1) Remain a human, the apex species of Earth with millenia of history and amazing powers like "thermoregulation by sweating", "grabby hands" and "language", 

2) Keep all of that, plus get a few degrees of magnitude in endurance, resilience, power output, agility, perception, memory, processing depth and processing speed, plus agelessness, plus some extra power that bluntly defies what people thought they knew about the laws of physics, for a price of one sucky week and temporarily increased sleep time and permanently increased appetite,

what would you pick? 

Is that supposed to be a hard choice? That doesn't look like an especially hard choice.

If it doesn't look like a hard choice to you, that means making the choice won't be hard.

Ready?

Ready or not, let's do this.

Here's hoping for some awesome, unique power!

Okay it's gonna really suck eventually.

But first-

Have a glimpse of truth, Jean!

Who the hell are you?

Status Report's opposite, kind of.

What.

Joking. And you probably wouldn't get it.

Some call me Origin, though it's not my real name.

What is? 

I am the one you customarily refer to as "I".

When I say "I", I mean myself.

Okay, uh, whatever.

Why are we talking. Shouldn't I be just, like, getting a vision of omnipotence?

Oh, we aren't really talking. We are pretending we are talking. Or, UselessCommon is pretending we are pretending we are talking. Or, I am pretending UselessCommon is pretending we are pretending we are talking. Or,

What are you even saying.

Among other things, "What are you even saying."

Hey, that's my voice! Okay, you're being funny or something. Whatever, I don't get you.

You wanna give me a cool power, or what?

I'm sure a lot of people don't get me. They're welcome to read my character description!

And no, you're actually getting a really lame power.

What. No fair! I wanna do cool things! 

You sure? Or I'm going to actually decide to have you do cool things. 

Haha!