What's the most creative power or application you've written?

[AnEmberOfSundown]

Sounds like a complex endeavor conjuring up such forces of quantum physics to change from disrupting for destruction to healing, sounds kinda magical even, is it a magical sci-fi setting or advanced beyond comprehension?

It's presented as magic in a fantasy setting, but I try to keep the results grounded in reality, if that makes sense. Basically saying, if someone could instinctively control or throttle entropic decay, what real effects and limitations might that present?

Even in a world with magic and healing potions, she still deals with a lot of real-world pharmacology in order to ground the setting in a way that feels believable. This way it become less about "hey cool power to rot and destroy" and more about how she balances her desire to heal and do good when she's been taught that her true talent lies in destruction. One of my favorite twists in Book 1 comes at the midpoint. Instead of resolving the plot with her hinted-at dark powers saving the day, it hinges on her community-building and willingness to sacrifice for others backed up by seemingly-throwaway details from earlier in the story.

The story isn't power-progression, she's already incredibly deadly. It's about her learning to define what that power is used for.

 

[DireBadger]

So technically he sees everything (past, present, futures) about anything he sees? :o

Nope, he sees their quantum state. velocity, position, at the same time. That means alteration on a very small scale. Temporal observation is a LOT farther down the theoretical rabbit hole than I am willing to go.

I don't mind using unproven theories, but unproven theories based on unsustainable theories based on pure conjecture are a bit past that :)

 

[Nekyo]

It's indeed an OP skill. However, I have an unwritten principle that OP characters must have certain disabilities, whether trauma, power limitations, etc.

Well, FMC happens to be a moralistic and humanist heroine. She doesn't want to use the [Eyes of Judgment] skill carelessly. The reason is that she doesn't want to lose faith in humanity. Imagine if every day you saw sinners around you, your family, your friends, and society, then you would lose trust in them. Therefore, FMC only uses the skill consciously to uncover crimes and to fight (reading the opponent's intentions). But she won't use it for fun just to look at other people's privacy.

I have indeed seen sinner and lost a lot of trust, it makes perfect sense, but poor girl she kinda releases that is actually the case even and just decided to turn a blind eye to not stop believing poor thing T.T

Malcolm used Open Arms because it was the first song they danced to and described their relationship... and was immediately teased with a line very much like what you said... :D

In canon, it was a side remark the game developers used to explain how Spell Material Components worked. But players used it to do creative "pun effects" with the more open-ended spell, and when a player finds himself actually able to use magic, its one of the first things he tests out.

Aww so cute for the first
And as an exploit of the system sounds fun!

Nope, he sees their quantum state. velocity, position, at the same time. That means alteration on a very small scale. Temporal observation is a LOT farther down the theoretical rabbit hole than I am willing to go.

I don't mind using unproven theories, but unproven theories based on unsustainable theories based on pure conjecture are a bit past that :)

Oh is the ability's use mainly for data extraction operations like planet level observation or specific scientific studies? Seems like it's more about information rather than combat right? (or maybe something about space battle/mechs? Just guessing, as I wonder about the implications)

 

[DireBadger]

Oh is the ability's use mainly for data extraction operations like planet level observation or specific scientific studies? Seems like it's more about information rather than combat right? (or maybe something about space battle/mechs? Just guessing, as I wonder about the implications)

he can use them (now) for small-scale molecular manipulation, but of course, they are tied to a huge amount of limitations, underthe theory that 'observation can alter behavior'. Mostly, he can memorize molecular position and motion and reproduce it.

Which means, on a small scale, he can 'simulate' a number of superpowers (fire, electricity, cold, all are examples of molecular or atmoic motion) and synthesize small amounts of matter, to boot... but altering atomic structures is HARD based on how much he tries to alter the electron/proton/neutron count. He has figured out how to do conversions of atomic weight, which means something like... shifting a small amount of mercury into gold, for example.

He is also able to reproduce things on a tiny scale. Which basically means he can make a computer the size of a pinhead capable of advanced mathematics (although he isn't actually an inventor) and create things like elongated carbon nanotubes.

in essence, his biggest limitation is ignorance, not incapacity. He can teleport, and heal by reassembling people skin and such. but it's always the scale that's the problem... I mean, how many atoms are there in even a tiny patch of skin?

 

[Author_Riceball]

So if your stories have power systems or magic what are some of the most creative powers or applications you've come up with in your stories?

It doesn't matter if it's in the story already or if you have just thought it up and are going to implement it later on.

I for example I'm probably a lot of chapters away from showing this in the story but one cool ability I have thought up is that one mc with his shadow pocket dimension starts stockpiling gallons of blood, so when he's fighting and receives damage he manifests tiny shadow portals inside his veins to refill the blood loss. Like his own IV system. While he also has room for other things~

nothing is new. nothing is creative. These things have already existed but we claim as our invention.

 

[DireBadger]

nothing is new. nothing is creative. These things have already existed but we claim as our invention.

Wrong. If you don't KNOW about it, it is still new and creative, even if it was created before, that doesn't remove your triumph for having created it.

 

[Nekyo]

nothing is new. nothing is creative. These things have already existed but we claim as our invention.

I would say, on one hand: technology is constantly evolving every day, even if the idea of Home Robots is not New the actual ones being sold are new of this year. There are new breakthroughs in medicine, science, even new species of animals are being born as evolution never stops working.

Now on the other hand, nothing is "Original" I could agree more. Pretty much every "new" idea is mostly based off a previous one but that doesn't mean its not new, the moment you give it your own uniqueness is where the actual creativity lies.

Isaac Newton said: "f I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" as a metaphor for building upon the work of those who came before you,

Take Your main character in your book for example, is there any other character with the same name in a similar world with the same relationships on a different fiction before you made it?

 

[Valerijs]

Oh that's very beautiful! Your idea resonates with me a lot because those topics of inner self and the human psyche reminds me a lot of Carl Jung's psychology and Inner Shadow talk! My own story does have a power system that relies on such concepts of "Inner Spirits" so its really fun to hear a concept that feels similar in essence.

If you’re genuinely interested – I actually released a soundtrack on YouTube that’s directly connected to my webnovel and built around the same concept. I’ve even woven parts of it into the story itself. Probably can’t drop spoilers here, but I could send you the link in a private message if you’d like.

 

[MFontana]

So if your stories have power systems or magic what are some of the most creative powers or applications you've come up with in your stories?

It doesn't matter if it's in the story already or if you have just thought it up and are going to implement it later on.

I for example I'm probably a lot of chapters away from showing this in the story but one cool ability I have thought up is that one mc with his shadow pocket dimension starts stockpiling gallons of blood, so when he's fighting and receives damage he manifests tiny shadow portals inside his veins to refill the blood loss. Like his own IV system. While he also has room for other things~

As for the most 'creative' it would probably be the Rune Magic system that I used for my Mythbound story. It wasn't fully implemented yet as more than a planned feature that basically let mages create runic formulae for their spells, and the protagonist used an atypical combination to create magical 'traps' that would allow him to create delayed effects days, or weeks, in advance, and use them in unexpected and creative ways.
For example, carving the runes [in this order] on the space under a door. -Sleep-Burst-Sleep- to create a trap that puts the victim into a magically induced sleep.
The first rune is the 'spell effect', the second is the 'area effect/target' and the third is the 'passive' effect that puts the first two in a "sleep" state until triggered.
I've outlined how the runic magic system works in the posted story as well for anyone who might be curious about those details too.