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Topaz fights crime
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The package of arcane energies spins through the space between worlds. There is no time here, so it is not quite right to say that this package is lagging its multiversal duplicates, but it is late.

It strains, reaching out for its destination, its recipient, wrapping tightly around her soul —

— and it has just slightly too much "momentum", pulling her free from the cradle of her world and out into what, in some places, they call the Bleed.

The gift and its recipient pop back into reality on the corner of a street, across the road from "Central City Pizza — Try Our Central Pepperoni!". The muted honks of cars compete with the distant sound of cackling.

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She blinks away the sudden sunlight, and shakes off the popping of her ears. It looks she's not in Kansas anymore, so...

She steps back from the street a little, and takes a good long look at the cars, and glances over to the source of the laughter. 

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Down the block, a man in an unseasonable parka points a blue gun at a boy in a yellow skin-tight leotard. The boy's feet appear to be frozen to the ground. In the background, an armored truck has been overturned.

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A gentle, hesitant feeling pokes at her mind. Does she want the ability to intuit things about people who are laughing, maybe?

The question comes with the sense that this is truly an option — she doesn't have to accept. And the feeling that if she pushes away the source of the question, it will leave her alone.

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Oh hello telepathic nudging thing! 

That probably wouldn't be that helpful? Probably better then not having it - goddess knows that she's bad enough at taking advantage of social cues to make good use of it but. 

But that did sound kind of like a first offering, based on what she was thinking, or something like that? A power to help out here would probably be a decent place to get started - something medical, maybe, or something to help deal with that ice on that kid's feet would be good, assuming you're not a demon or something? That outfit really does scream 'supervillain' to her...

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It's not a demon, it's a gift! It can do all kinds of things.

Does she want the ability to make ice melt quickly? Or maybe an intuitive knowledge of the best way to treat cold-related injuries?

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Okay, as long as it's not irreversible... Let's.

Melting ice off is probably more useful, especially if it's reasonably precise or decently ranged - this looks modern enough that there's no reason to think they couldn't do better than her once this whole mess is over, she thinks? 

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There's a sense of deeply considering her response, and then a dim spark flares to life somewhere inside of her, and it becomes obvious that she can shoot a weak beam that will cause ice to melt faster. It's not anything foreign, or even unfamiliar, it's just something that she can do now.

The spark orbits gently inside of her, and she can tell that she can push it away when she's done with it, in the same way that she could push away the whole gift, if she chose.

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"... and when he comes for you, my gelion trap will activate ..."

The man with the gun seems to be monologuing, now.

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She takes a deep breath, swallows down her fear, and feels out the familiar confines of the power. That's a supervillain monologue if she's ever heard one, and there's no time for hesistation or inaccuracy, and no need to have more of a profile then she needs to have. 

She gets down to the ground, and extends out her hand in the direction of the kid in the yellow and red supersuit, and shoots the pale blue beam at his feet.

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The kid is momentarily taken aback, but ultimately reacts faster than the man with the gun, ducking under another shot from it.

And then several things happen very quickly.

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The man in the parka releases a button held in his other hand —

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The kid hits him in the solar plexus and then starts to slow —

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An older man in a predominantly red body stocking appears from nowhere, throwing a rock —

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And parka guy manages to tag him with a blast from his gun, creating a cone of ice around the man's head.

"Don't!—"

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She flinches slightly at the flurry of action, wincing at the sight of the ice covering that man's head - that seems like the sort of thing that in real life ought to be horrifically lethal but she has to try. Her first beam disperses in a barely visible fuzz as her hand tilts up and fires out a second beam at his head, unfocusing the stream of whatever-it-is just a little to make as much of his head as possible is saturated in the effect, even with how much he's moving.

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Her beam reacts strangely with something the man does, and the ice goes flying away from his head just as the stone knocks against a device on the ground —

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And then it's all over. The man with the parka is down on his front with his hands handcuffed behind him, and the man in red is blurring around in and out of the car.

The boy in the bodysuit — who, on closer look appears to be about 15 or so — appears over her just as suddenly.

"Hey! Thanks for the assist! Are you all right?"

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Does she want faster reaction times?

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She startles and blushes self-consciously. Why did she have to get introduced to the heroes looking like this... The plain blue t-shirt and the loose pants are reasonably comfortable but give her a certain 'scruffy 20-something boy' look that she's never really managed to shake. Being able to do something about that really would be good.

She gathers herself up, and nods a little shakily. 

"Sort of? I'm not injured or anything, but I just... appeared here suddenly, so I'm more than a little disoriented." 

A little sheepish laugh spills out of her lips. 

 

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There's a sense of sorting through different options. Does she want a tailoring ability? A slow regeneration ability? The ability to summon decorative aesthetic sparkles?

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"Just appeared here, huh?"

Well, it wouldn't be the weirdest thing he's seen since becoming The Flash's partner.

"In that case, you're pretty on top of things!"

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"I suppose!" 

She smiles bashfully. Her thoughts whir a little bit in the background, her eyes darting up into the air to help her think. 

Some sort of shapeshifting power, maybe? Really it depends on what's easy - some sort of super (femininization) hormone production ability or even a zero range illusion power could make sense for this, amongst other options? Not that she's sure that they would treat her alright if she suddenly started girlifying... 

"Really, I just felt like I couldn't just stand there when people were getting hurt and I had the option to do something about it." 

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Oh! It can do feminizing hormone production! But the actual uptake by her body tissues would be slow, without a regeneration power. A zero-range self-targeted illusion is totally possible too.

Does she want the ability to appear to others as she would if she had been born with androgen insensitivity?

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A regeneration power isn't a bad thing to have, by any means? It depends a bit on how many powers she gets and how good the powers would be, and of course how safe it would be to actually go through with it. And honestly she's not even that sure that she'd look great directly distaffed? Not that that'd be a bad place to start, necessarily, if she's going to be working up to her ideal body slowly. 

Probably the most important thing is knowing if and when it'd be okay to try to start down the path...? 

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She gets the sense that there's no limit on the number of powers she can get — only a limit on how many she can hold onto at once. And she's not very full right now.

Does she want the ability to intuitively guess whether someone would be upset if her appearance started to change?

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