Ooooh! Superheroes? Yes? No? And if you could have any superpower (except for being immortal and ones you’ve already had AHEM shooting lightning out of your hands) what would you choose and why?

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Mind control?  Surprisingly, too easy: not enough of a challenge.  No, it’s not enough for people to be obeisant; they have to want to obey him.  They have to worship him because they truly desire it.  

      “I would make it so others would see me only as I wished them to.”

There.  He could construct a desirable persona; a worthy persona; a self that had unequivocally earned the right to attention and love.  A way to finally placate  a terrible, insatiable hunger for validation.  And then others would choose to be his.  

Have you ever been to a comic convention? Why, and did you like it?

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       “Oh, yes, it was delightful.  They all recognized me as ‘the Mad Prime Minister’ and I, what’s the term the youth use? ‘Trolled’ them: especially in the elevators and bathrooms.  Pretended to talk to myself or to an invisible friend, usually a unicorn, or the Easter Bunny.  Went double if they had dressed oop their brat children.  One of them wouldn’t stop smacking me on the leg, so I made him cry by alleging that the Easter Bunny had terminal cancer.”