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healingmirthI am now having all the thoughts about how little they did, you guys, even though it's short and jumpy and I didn't intend to ever go back to it.
I started writing that thing where John McClane is a fallen angel, and there's a werewolf fic or two in the depths of my googledocs, but this is the first thing I've tried writing where people had powers that weren't either assigned by canon or all in the same vein.
So, I don't have any idea, in-universe, what the origin of the powers are, just that they manifest sometime in adolescence. I'm sure that there are scientists who've done a study to try to get at causation, but as far as Tunny, Will and Johnny are concerned, it's just one more thing that they don't have any control over, so why bother to study it? They're not even particularly interested in mastering their own talents, and that might actually be practical.
I barely even had to think about who had which talents. The image of Johnny flicking flame in an out of existence like fidgeting with a lighter was the image that kicked it off, and whether it's chicken or egg, Tunny and Will's talents fell into place. It's the spiritual twin of those "He kissed exactly like/nothing like he [whatevered]," lines. If I were making an actual thing of this, I might have been more tempted to go the route where their talents were more random with respect to their canon characters (or my perception thereof), but I can't imagine how a superpower doesn't affect one's personality, and I wasn't looking to go off exploring that sort of thing in a new direction.
I imagine that this is slightly pre-canon, or canon-adjacent. It is possible that Johnny will still run away to the city, and probable that he'll still shoot up, and maybe he'll threaten Whatsername and himself with fire instead of a knife. Maybe he burns down his building and goes to jail for it.
The main reason I didn't explicitly place it with respect to canon is because I couldn't handle starting to think about what conflict or war might look like in a world where nearly everyone has an identifiable power of some sort. I think Tunny would still be looking for a connection to something important and larger than himself; I think he might also, convinced by his talent that hardly anyone values him as-is, still be infatuated with the Favorite Son.
In conclusion: hmm.
I started writing that thing where John McClane is a fallen angel, and there's a werewolf fic or two in the depths of my googledocs, but this is the first thing I've tried writing where people had powers that weren't either assigned by canon or all in the same vein.
So, I don't have any idea, in-universe, what the origin of the powers are, just that they manifest sometime in adolescence. I'm sure that there are scientists who've done a study to try to get at causation, but as far as Tunny, Will and Johnny are concerned, it's just one more thing that they don't have any control over, so why bother to study it? They're not even particularly interested in mastering their own talents, and that might actually be practical.
I barely even had to think about who had which talents. The image of Johnny flicking flame in an out of existence like fidgeting with a lighter was the image that kicked it off, and whether it's chicken or egg, Tunny and Will's talents fell into place. It's the spiritual twin of those "He kissed exactly like/nothing like he [whatevered]," lines. If I were making an actual thing of this, I might have been more tempted to go the route where their talents were more random with respect to their canon characters (or my perception thereof), but I can't imagine how a superpower doesn't affect one's personality, and I wasn't looking to go off exploring that sort of thing in a new direction.
I imagine that this is slightly pre-canon, or canon-adjacent. It is possible that Johnny will still run away to the city, and probable that he'll still shoot up, and maybe he'll threaten Whatsername and himself with fire instead of a knife. Maybe he burns down his building and goes to jail for it.
The main reason I didn't explicitly place it with respect to canon is because I couldn't handle starting to think about what conflict or war might look like in a world where nearly everyone has an identifiable power of some sort. I think Tunny would still be looking for a connection to something important and larger than himself; I think he might also, convinced by his talent that hardly anyone values him as-is, still be infatuated with the Favorite Son.
In conclusion: hmm.
