"I'm not sure. Triggers are always traumatic by definition—if our world was nice and post-scarcity then maybe triggers would happen less but I don't know if given that they happened at all people wouldn't just be bad guys anyway."

"Lots of people have traumatic things happen to them and don't turn bad - well, lots of Elves do, maybe Elves're just nicer -"

"Humans don't exactly turn bad when they're traumatized, but they do become more emotionally unstable and there are lots of incentives to use powers—guess most of those'd be fixed by post-scarcity—and lots of powers are combat-oriented anyway." 

"Could there be sports competitions or something?"

"I guess? But comparatively very few powers are physical, and I'm not sure people would be as excited about sports that would be won because of the power lottery rather than effort and dedication."

"If we found my peal we could fix all of this." Sigh. "Well, we'll tell your PRT what I can do and maybe they'll think of things, thinking of things is probably not a part I'm especially good at."

"I'm good at inventing things, but not this." Sigh. "...also, uh, peal?"

"It's a pun. In English, actually. Boots is named Isabella and all the alternate universe versions of her are named something with 'bel' in it - Akibel, Campbell, Iobel, Beldri - so they call themselves Bells. And what are a lot of bells?"

He dissolves into a fit of giggles.

"Bells are pretty great."

"They sound it. I'd love to meet them."

"Me too because that'd mean all our problems were solved. Anyway, the PRT can probably think of stuff. We'll just magic stuff for them."

"Yeah." Pause. "Can you show me an arcology?"

"Yeah for sure!" Scale model. "We could just go to the Moon and build one if you want."

"Yes let's do that!"

Pop! He shouldn't leave spaceships floating around everywhere, it's irresponsible, but whatever. He makes air so Hero can breathe while he works. This Moon is going to have such a nice set of arcologies.

Maybe they should've asked for permission but worst-case Epic can just teleport them away and arcologies on the Moon!!!!!!!

Yeah who'd be such a spoilsport as to refuse them permission? ...and who even has the authority, no one's claimed the Moon yet, it can be theirs if they want.

Well there's the Outer Space Treaty.

He is not a signatory to that.

That is indeed true! The various Earth governments might not be too thrilled about this anyway, but—" Arcologies!"

Yeah!!!!!!!! He will do such nice plants and sufficiently pretty buildings and tell Hero "I did this on Cube's Earth's Moon when Elves had to live there to help with Yeerk sorting."

"Yeerk sorting?"

"Yeerks are these parasitic aliens that crawl into your head through your ear canal and control you. They'd conquered a bunch of species that way and they tried to go after Earth and Earth stopped them and then when the peal found that dimension they got the whole empire to surrender in a week and then we needed to sort billions of Yeerks by how likely they were to respect that they can only take consenting hosts now."

"...eek. That sounds terrible. And I think I remember hearing about a master who could do that in Namibia."