TERRAGENESIS MEME or the SUDDENLY SUPERPOWERED MEME with a twist.

[memelikeyoumeanit]

“This doesn’t destroy. It gives life, new life. We finally get to find out what we become.”

Terragenesis, an ancient alien procedure that has been around for centuries, perhaps millennia. Not everyone has "unique" DNA that leaves them with abilities but there's always a chance that you might. From being injected with alien DNA to being born different, there are a number of ways you could end up inhuman. Now here's an opportunity for your character to find out "What they become" on a global scale. Roll for your role and pick a scenario. Enjoy your sudden but inevitable abilities - and the potential ramifications thereof.

A. Hit up random.org for how the mists affect you.
B. Hit up the superpower wiki and hit random to see what power you get.
C. Choose your own adventure.
D. Profit.

RANDOM.ORG

1. NO EFFECT congratulations you dodged a serious bullet. You may be dead or dying - poisoned by inhuman crystal technology or you may be watching your friends and loved ones being mutated but you're normal. Hooray! Or boo! Either or.
2. COOL POWER BRO the thing about inhuman powers is that you're amped up by ten. Powers that we've seen so far include causing avalanches and moving mountains. Do you light fires with your mind? Control people's thoughts? Tap into magic? turn into things and turn human again? there are lots of options.
3. UNLUCKY OR EXTRA LUCKY? the more degraded the DNA the more likely it is you might end up with a physical mutation in addition to some form of ability. You get a power yes, but you're also butt ugly. Common mutations include spikes, no eyes (or perhaps extra eyes?) animal features, generally terrible things that happen. You literally cannot pass for a human being anymore. But hey! You can also build really cool alien technology. Makes it worth it right?

SCENARIOS

1. WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME: There's been an explosion. Or you've been dragged into the dark, and suddenly there's this mist and stuff's happening. You break out of it and you're changed! You're hideous! You still look normal but you feel like hell! Were you prepared for this? Was it expected? Did you always want to secretly be an x-man Inhuman? Or is this a complete and total surprise?
2. THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANTED: whatever happened - if you wanted it or not - you've gotta deal with it. That means if you have a brand new tail or if you're suddenly generating bolts of ice with your hands or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound you've gotta make the most of it. There is no cure...
3. THAT DOESN'T MEAN I WON'T LOOK FOR ONE.: because having three eyes and being able to control people with your thoughts is totally curable right? Right? absolutely right. Means that some people who didn't get so lucky could help you right? Of course. Your bros are still your bros even though you now have scales and can lift six tons right?
4. BUDDY UP IT'S TIME TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR NEW ABILITIES Partner up with another inhuman or a human bro and learn about yourself. Test your new abilities, run rampant, get comfort. This is the obligatory hurt-comfort option. Honestly your human friends may turn out to be the most supportive, or you might make a new inhuman pal who can sympathize with what you're going through.
5. ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY Inevitably you are going to be tempted to use these powers for financial gain right? Or alternatively for the good of mankind but you're freakin' hideous and gross. Or you could probably force your enemies to do whatever you wanted them to. Why not just give in and do it?
6. WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY You've gained control over your abilities, or you're still learning, and you've decided that the thing to do is go off and use such powers! For the good of mankind! Never mind the potential destruction that could come with it! never mind that you are literally hideous!
7. SMUT OPTION: Smut with your powers. Superpowered people, heroes and villains getting it on. Can't not have a smut option right?
8. WILDCARD: Mix, match, make up your own scenario. What makes this different from other superpower canons is that there's the possibility to look really awful involved in it. Triton's a fish, Karnak looks like that. This is the place to make a terrible AU. Or play with the powers you already have and do new stuff with them. Ready? GO.

Comments

GRANT WARD | AOS | MCU

[ingrantitude]

[Rolled a 3 - so you get either Hellfire with a mutation or Taskmaster with a mutation. :D can we say skeleton hands and constantly on fire or unnatural body proportions? Sure I knew that you could!]

[valuedstrength]

[Grant Ward is normally not the kind Steve would bother with. Steve's not a cruel man by any means. The narrative Agent- Director Coulson creates is less than kind. The story makes Grant sound like the burning, skeleton monster he's become long before the mist touched his skin. That's not the only point of view he's getting. A young woman named Kara who has endured horrors at the hands of HYDRA paints him as her savior; he helped her regain her identity. That for obvious reasons moves him. He knows what he needs to do or at least offer.]

May I have a word?

Howard Stark | Agent Carter | MCU

[soitworks]

[Available either as an Inhuman!3 with Musical Empathy and sound manipulation - or as 1, and someone trying to exploit inhumans]

Lindsey McDonald | Angel | ota

[evilhandissues]

[straight up here to try and manipulate all you newborn superpowered people.]

Naoto Shirogane ⊗ Persona 4 ⊗ OTA

[pishirogane]

[OOC: Rolled a three. Pulled up Nephilim Physiology though; however, making it so her Etheral form is completely inhuman.]

Naomi Kimishima | Trauma Team | OTA

[chatwithdeath]

[OOC: Rolled 2. She already had healing powers, but let's tag on Discord Manipulation. Thanks random powers.]

Clint Barton | MCU | OTA

[madeadifferentcall]

[Rolled a 2, with Neutral Empowerment. Which is going to make things really interesting.]

John Garrett | AoS | MCU

[theclairvoyant]

[Rolled a 3. Have fun with stone mimicry and the ability to control it. Not bad for a cyborg right?]

idk freestyling

[thornier]

[There's something rather ironic about this, Raina thinks.

Has been thinking, since the notion came to her. She's still sorting out the hows and whys of what she sees, but the fact remains that she sees it now, if she's not trying. She sees what may come and who, and though before she'd thought the man dead (and good riddance, when he didn't really do a damn thing for her) now she knows he very much isn't.

So she waits, primly as she's able anymore, ready for the confrontation to come.]

Zell Dincht | Final Fantasy VIII | OTA

[zell_dincht]

[Zell here is stuck with a 3 and... Drink Empowerment. Since I rolled 3, I think it would work best with this power where, instead of always having a physical mutation, individual drinks have different effects on Zell's appearance as well as his powers!]

Lorne Pruitt | Original Character | OTA

[not_so_friendly_fire]

[Rolled 2, Photokinetic Regeneration. Eh, could be worse.]

Jackson Whittemore ( Teen Wolf ) OTA

[ex_aerodynamic677]

[ How awful is it that he got a 3? I guess we'll go with part kanima. Got temporal monster physiology for his power. Maybe one hand can slow down a person's time and the other can speed it up? If it's out of control, he could be freezing people and turning them into dust. Have fun with that. ]

Silas Botwin ( Weeds ) OTA

[ex_grower692]

[ Rolled a 2. Corrupted Environment Manipulation; things tend to go pretty Silent Hill when he gets stressed out (which kind of happens a lot thanks to his family; good going, guys). ]

Phil Coulson | MCU:AoS | ota

[tahiti_sucked]

[When Phil Coulson was young he was different. It started early. He could open a door and it would lead to the wrong place. A closet door would open up to a snowy hillside somewhere, or the bathroom door suddenly opened up into a dental office for no reason. Door Manipulation. He doesn't remember what happened or even when. That part of his life is a blank for some reason, and the power was something his parents tried to make him forget. To hide. An incident that cost his fathers life made him hide his power. When his mother died the same day, years later, he seemed to forget the power completely.]

[Now in the current times, once in a while strange things happen. SHIELD has fallen, his group of people are falling apart and Phil has opened a door to a beach a few times now, considering actually going off for a while. He never does, and he closes the door before anyone sees.]

[I can tag with a young Phil or current Phil, so come at me kids. Come at me.]

Re: Phil Coulson | MCU:AoS | ota

[ingrantitude]

[Ward as a new-inhuman and their "reunion."]

[It's one thing to have Skye throw up her hands and disappear into the void, the mists, it's another for HYDRA to take Lincoln and Mike out, it's a third thing entirely that there's no bullet in the HYDRA soldier's hands. Instead there's a flash, a bright warm light and fire before there's a smell. A smell of cooking human meat for just a moment and then it's gone before there's just a pile of singed ...everything.

And ward.

Standing there with slightly smoking hands.]

...So we should talk.

something sort of like 4, I suppose

[trinny]

[To look at Trinity, it would seem like there's nothing wrong with her, nothing out of the ordinary. At first she didn't think there was anything wrong with her, either, that she somehow managed to escape unharmed. This, she knows, is a lie.

She's given up giving a shit, leaving her ma (for her own good, isn't that the heroic line) and winding her way across the world preying on others' despair and negativity to get done what she needs to get done, and the only idea she's had is maybe, maybe if she finds her brother he might have an idea of what's going on. Whatever's in her body causing this, it must have come from their dad's side. That's the only answer.

So, she'll be turning up on a proverbial doorstep, looking a bit worse for wear.]

Mike Traceur | Knight Rider '08

[secondtry]

Not so long ago, Mike was a Special Forces soldier in the Middle East. He'd been tapped for black ops because of his ties to one Charles Graiman - neighbor, father of his childhood sweetheart, and military contractor - and he was very, very good at what he did. An exemplary soldier, executing mission after mission without hesitation. But then, something went odd.

He can't remember what. There are years of his memory missing. One moment, he was on his way to an operation, and the next, he was waking up in a VA hospital, soon after to be dropped off in Vegas, with odd memories of needles and screaming. All he knows now is that no matter how the guys in his bar come after him when it's time to kick them out, he can counter them without thinking, and he always seems to be just a little stronger than they are.

He's pretty sure those fragmented memories explain how he can do these things, but given how those nightmares keep coming back, he's not sure he wants to know in any more detail.

the au possibilities tho;

[righteously]

It's actually kind of a misunderstanding. Dean has a rough night, maybe this guy did too, but considering they never actually exchanged words about it up to this point, he can't really say for sure. The details are a little fuzzy, the product of a little too much liquor, someone stumbles into someone else, someone else spills a drink down someone else's front, he's snapping at this guy and this guy's snapping at him back, Sam's got a fucking addiction, Dean's got a bad attitude, and things escalate.

Truth be told, he gets in fights sometimes lately. If he had to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? They're kind of cathartic. Something about letting your temper flare, something about things getting heated and exchanging a few blows with some asshole that can never really keep up lets him walk away with some steam blown off.

Drinking, getting into stupid fights, one night stands, they're easy things that help him cope with his day life. He hasn't lost one yet. He hasn't lost one since the incident a few years back.

And yet.

And yet this time, it's going a little differently. This time, shoving this random douchebag doesn't seem as easy as usual.

peggy carter | mcu

[cartering]

[ Inhuman #2 - has the ability of energy manipulation (including molecular and aura). ]

Phil Coulson | Agents of SHIELD

[superagent]

[morethanthedriver]

Oliver was all right. That was the last conscious thought John had before the lab they had been investigating went up in an explosion that filled his world with thunder and searing light before everything went dark.

He gave his life to protect his best friend. Not a bad way to go, really.

So the last thing he expects is to open his eyes again. Everything hurts but he's alive and he's looking up at a very familiar face. "I know you."

Kara/Agent 33 | MCU:AoS | ota

[facemyenemies]

[Rolled 2, Random power of Sound manipulation. Because the mask wasn't enough...]

2 with shades of 4.

[ingrantitude]

[The mission went south fast. That's what ward's aware of. Coulson had sent Kara and he ahead to see if it was a trap right before that click, that beep and that bang and then the entire chamber filling with mist.

Cal may have mentioned something along those lines. "Kara! Ka-" They're both covering in rock from the bottom up. The last thing that he sees before his eyes close and he dreams for a moment, just a moment - is Kara's desperate look to him.

Then silence.

Chilled cold silence and the sense of liars. All of them liars and a cold feeling blowing from the wind before he feels everything ...itch and stretch. Itch and stretch. He feels chilled, the fire that's in his nature burning in a different way. There's a breath of fresh air across his - fingers? The burning gets worse.

There's a crack in the stone, then a second, then a third and his dreams of running through the snow vanish. There's a second crack and then a third before one bright yellow eye appears and then another. The rest of it is crawling his way out, shaking away from the stone and there's...

It's Ward but there's more of Ward. The sound of ripping clothing as his arms grow out of their sleeves - face turned away from her. He's blowing up - no taller but broader, thicker. He's too busy trying to tear off his shirt and jacket to care. There's hair Everywhere thick black hair slowly fading to grayish white.

He snarls and it sounds more animal then man.]

K-

[Cough. He pulls at the jacket and rips it away, shirt stretching to it's limit]

Kara - you with me?

[What's happening, what's happening dear god what's happening]

Shireen Baratheon | GOT/ASOIAF (modern)

[hyperliteracy]

[On the 3-ish side of 2, Shireen's dubious gift is neuro-psychic knowledge. Sent through the mist by her power-crazed father and over-spiritual mother's morally gray religiously fanatic personal assistant of sorts only to be scorned for the ugly scarring that it gave her on top of the power (which would be cool if, you know, she'd opted for it herself) she's kind of feeling like a walking "be careful what you wish for," except it wasn't her own wish.]

Maya Hansen | MCU

[fromshore]

[Either 1 or an immune system manipulation-related 2, take your pick.]

rapunzel | into the woods

[bemoans]

[ musical hypnosis. with her voice! her tears can also heal you, but that's canon. ]

May | Pokémon ΩRΑS | OTA

[secretbase]

[Rolled 3! And the power... a mouthful. She's probably mutated to have groudon's terrible markings and some earthy plating, perhaps, in some places.

But she can summon sandy/soil-based monsters to fight so she's got that going for her.]

[clowmaster]

(OoC: Rolled 2 and has Ice Mimicry! Ended up rolling 1 for a scenario unless there's one you want...!)

Endrance | .hack//G.U.

[sheiswithme]

[Rolled a 1 - he already has a history of watching close friends dying and disappearing (in front of his eyes or otherwise) so it's really rather appropriate.]

Shibuya Yūri | Kyō Kara Maoh!

[divineputz]

[Rolled a 2! And got... Retroactive Immortality. He is undoubtedly not pleased that he can't have something a little more useful to helping other people.]

Elijah Broder || Original Character

[elijahbroder]

[ This is kind of canon for him. He has just discovered he has Elemental Manipulation, and has no clue what to do. Could use some guidance/help, very susceptible to villainous schemes too right now. ]

Chuck Hansen | Pacific Rim

[hercsboy]

[ Who needs a Jaeger to kill Kaiju when you've got Size Manipulation? ]