In an otherwise normal modern day setting, many of the patients of a certain mental hospital woke up one morning finding out they have superpowers.
Keeping with venerable comic book tradition, of course their powers are all somehow related to their personal fuckups/mental illnesses/disorders/issues.
This is due to some people fucking around with consciousness based reality warping technology founded on misunderstood psychic alien science.
Which comic book superpower would go with which kind of mental illness?
Hardmode: what sort of character would that produce?
Thomas Hill
>Traditional super-strength, invulnerability, flight, big strapping chin - narcissism
>Telepathy - paranoia
>Pyrokinesis - pyromania
>Teleportation - kleptomania
>Regeneration - addictive personality disorder
John Gutierrez
Recently I've had the idea of a bizarre and weirdo power: objective morality manipulation. You can manipulate what ethical decisions are objectively right and wrong. I guess this would imply you could summon angels and demons to do your bidding. This would probably be a bit of a mindscrew about a delusion that your god or Jesus or speak to god.
Leo Hill
>when you make a fake magazine cover but you don't know that you're not very good at English so you don't think that you need to have anyone else proofread it before you post it
Gavin Kelly
>The voices! They want me to really make sure I don't forget bread at the market! Aaaah!
Jackson Flores
Isn't it a bit underwhelming to give the paranoid telepathy? With all the other cases you could see them abusing the shit out of their powers. With this guy, he'll just be cured.
>O-oh. I guess people weren't plotting to hurt me after all.
Ayden Williams
Yes, because that's how mental illness works.
Evan Gomez
No it gos deeper, people know you can read there minds and are thinking wrong things to misslead you!!!!!!!
Gabriel Butler
I once thought of using this on a lovecraftian horror style game.
PC were to enter a mental house because reasons. And the patients were puzzle type of fights, each using their disease.
A setting like OP would be closer to Watchman than to Superman.
Caleb Adams
Teleportation would be claustrophobia
Kleptomania could be pocket dimension, able to put things in a pocket space where no one else could get them
>Dissosiative Identity Disorder Make duplicates Hulk or Jekyll/Hyde powers (this could also be from bipolar disorder)
>ADHD Superspeed
>ADD multitasking
>Schizophrenia hallucinations and reality warping (maybe keep it small scale, like summoning familiars, or slowly warping their home)
