Good, Bad, and Depends-On-Circumstance - The Second

[Bob Schroeck]

Mm. Don't know if I'll have time to listen to all three before I need to crash tonight, but let's see what I can manage.

Power: Doug would probably try for a gate song (I’m coming home), but I see this turning the AOE into holy ground, with all the metaphysical bonuses that implies, like a MASSIVE bonus fighting demons and vampires.

Hm. Yeah, sounds reasonable. Thing is, I can see this as an Evangelion song, too...

Power: A ‘make me a completely powerless human’ song, whilst theoretically useful in certain circumstances, has two downsides. 1) It’s very short length makes it relatively useless, and 2) I see this working on any/all Superheroes surrounding Doug at the time as well, making it a very bad one to try out in the middle of a firefight. Plus there’s the looming apocalypse and giving up theme throughout, and the possibility that the power-drain could have potentially have no time-limit.

I have to agree with Rob here -- Doug doesn't view himself as a superhero at all, especially after finding out what the concept entails. But I can't see a justification for a "shut off everyone else's powers" effect in the lyrics, either. I'll have to think some more on this one.

Power: I could see this going two ways, either a ‘drive a person mad with war and screaming in thier heads’ ability, or a more benign mind-control telepathy power, with the downside of rendering the person into a zombie-like state during use.

I suppose. But it seems to me like there's something else it could do, except I'm just not seeing it at the moment. Maybe because I'm about to fall over with exhaustion right now. Hm. I'll think on this one, too.

Thanks for the suggestions!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.