"Well, espers are really rare so I wasn't planning on it though I did always want powers. I was not really clear on it sucking this much or in this way, that's not really what the media focuses on at all, although now that I have a little practice with not doing solipsism I'm, like, ready to grit my teeth and push through it, I guess. I was going to go to med school and do epidemiology, if I didn't get powers. If I can't go home I might do something like that here but it sort of sounds like this world has bigger problems, maybe it'd make sense to specialize in something else to do with Endbringers or whatever."

"Did you have thoughts as to what you'd use your powers for in your world?" Why does Lucien feel like he is conducting an interview.

"It depends what my powers are, it could be almost anything! Dungeons, if I can do those - not all espers have dungeoneering-suitable powers but there are dungeons that you really can't clear with a SWAT team and need to send in the superheroes for. But if I get healing powers I'll heal, if I get construction powers I'll build stuff... if I can find a partner."

"How does partner finding work? Also uh, do you have a powers preference?" Lucien hates this entire thing they are doing so much.

"If - are you mad at me, did I say something wrong -"

Oh no.

"No not at all I am not mad I just don't like the feeling that I'm interviewing you for being a Lorica, I'm not going to leave you alone."

Cling. "Um. Um, if espers touch each other they can tell how compatible they are. A healing power would be really neat if I got to pick but I don't want to get attached to the idea, they're really rare."

Cling! "Uh. How did you decide you wanted to go into epidemiology if you didn't get powers."

"Oh, uh, it seems really high-leverage, potentially? Like we eradicated smallpox - did that happen here? -"

"Yeah, it did."

"And that's really cool and I wanna put malaria in the ground."

"Oh yeah that does seem really important - getting aid to Africa is really difficult right now but people keep trying to arrange things to get people help, and there's a vaccine that was developed by some scientists running challenge trials relying on a healing cape to make it feasible to test things much more aggressively than they'd otherwise have been able to manage."

"Oh wow that cape is very cool and deserves fanmail. What's difficult about it?"

"There are a lot of rather violent warlords and exactly who is in control changes often, making the logistics of delivering anything safety very difficult."

"Oh, that sucks, in my world I can just donate my esper money to charities and they will have only relatively navigable logistics type problems I think."

"I think you can do that for malaria vaccines for pregnant women in Namibia which is pretty good if you don't account for the side effects but maybe bad if you do. There's some refugee funds that are better I think - getting someone to the US is usually cheaper and more effective than improving things where they are."

"The US is still routinely descending into warlordism, though? Or is this situation now weirder than you've made it sound."

"Brockton Bay was just hit by Leviathan which leaves thing way worse than they are - in most places there is a largely functioning government and even here people aren't going hungry or being killed by easily preventable diseases or violence - for the most part."

"Okay. Still, I don't think even a really bad rash of dungeons has warlords popping up in major first world cities on my Earth."

"Yeah I think Endbringers are really quite bad and this accounts for a lot. Also capes are just generally a source of uh... chaos."

"...you don't seem especially chaotic?"

"I would generally agree but I did just join a supervillain team a week ago so I am not as confident as I'd like to be."

"That's fair! And maybe you're very special and most capes are different. What about Lorica, was she chaotic?"

"She was among the least chaotic capes I'd ever met," 

"Is something about being a cape making them chaotic or is it likelier for chaotic capes to awaken - or whatever you call it instead of awakening?"