I am a superhero
I am a total geek. I love comics and gaming. I love to read. I love to play rpg's when I can, and watch them often. Maybe that is why my dreams have always been like this crazy double life.
Today after getting up early and being human as long as I could, I simply had to sleep this afternoon. That is when it happens most. Sometimes I'm some strange faery creature flying around on a Pegasus in full plate in some seemingly never ending war. Sometimes I am in the past, or even present just watching things happen. Today tech heavy thugs in some strange college parking system (why are they always so weird?) "trigger" my super powers. All the electrical tingling in my waking mind became a static cloud of power. It hurt, like it always does, but it was like two whips of electricity formed and I grasped them. A field of energy deflected their attacks as it surrounds my body with a buzzing numbing force. Though some manage to hit. Bruising my knee and hip. An epic fight ensues. I finish the fight in flight beginning to float and fritz out. I sink to the floor. Pick up my wooden cane and limp away.
I woke up relieved and then sort of bummed out.
There are no superheroes who have fibromyalgia. That can do amazing things, but then need a week in bed. I can't help but feel this is a loss. It would be a great. FibroWarriors often feel like they have ice about to explode from their bones, or like they are about to burst into flames, or like they can sense everything for miles around them.
The cost of these powers is needing a cane, or sometimes a chair because the spin of the cosmos makes us so dizzy. The power running through us makes us so tired we can barely move for a few days. Our almost Deadpool like ability to take damage because well everything already hurts.
I would love there to be a fibro superhero. Maybe even a super villain, I am British after all aren't we always the villain?
Of course I'm not sure how it would translate into other systems. In D&D it would seem like a curse. In Vampire, who even knows! In Callisto 6, I could be a hero.

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