So, what's your favorite way for a girl to gain superpowers?

Heya, 
How do you like your girls becoming super? Perhaps from touching a meteorite, or  maybe an experiment gone wrong?

For me, I like it when the transformation happens slowly and the characters don't immediately know the cause. I find that adds a nice bit of mystery to the plot.

I'd love to hear back.

I love what happiest in shadow wrote in going super, where the character slowly becomes more and more unstoppable because of an accident, an accident, an illness         

Generally, my big thing is person gets turned into Supergirl, so it’s the costume, the blonde hair the powers. So usually I like it when a meteor  is the cause. But as long as the person gets turned into Supergirl, I’m fine with making the formula essentially X happens then person gets turned into Supergirl.

Power transfer is my favorite. Accidental or intended can both be fun, but intended has a slight edge to me. I enjoy when a regular person wants those powers and is driven/obsessed to make it happen. 

Slow burn is great story wise however I do like it when a woman is empowered quickly and then tests out her powers

I like it if the effect is temporary. Either from a potion, transformation, or maybe even putting a super suit on. And not just because I'm a tokusatsu fan either, I like it when someone can re-experience becoming powerful or able to show off for a friend/lover

Well I think I am more in line with the empowerment being accidental - or at least unexpected. A freak lab accident, touching a meteor, super potion/serum, radioactive shower gel, alien plants - the McGuffin itself isn't too important. Personally I am also a fan of a temporary power-up, so the girl can undergo the empowering process multiple times with a possibility of sharing - but that's just my personal preference. Repeated exposure could be one way of letting the character become more powerful, having better mastery over the powers. That's why I also prefer for the powers to not come with an instruction manual - the honeymoon phase where the character gets to know her powers is clearly my favorite part apart from the transformation itself - when it comes with a decent amount of beautification.

Not a huge fan of turning into "the character" specifically - the costumes do little for me and it already spells out the power set. Similar issue with absorbtion stories plus the characters are usually evil-ish at least there.

njae wrote:

Well I think I am more in line with the empowerment being accidental - or at least unexpected. A freak lab accident, touching a meteor, super potion/serum, radioactive shower gel, alien plants - the McGuffin itself isn't too important. Personally I am also a fan of a temporary power-up, so the girl can undergo the empowering process multiple times with a possibility of sharing - but that's just my personal preference. Repeated exposure could be one way of letting the character become more powerful, having better mastery over the powers. That's why I also prefer for the powers to not come with an instruction manual - the honeymoon phase where the character gets to know her powers is clearly my favorite part apart from the transformation itself - when it comes with a decent amount of beautification.

Not a huge fan of turning into "the character" specifically - the costumes do little for me and it already spells out the power set. Similar issue with absorbtion stories plus the characters are usually evil-ish at least there.

I have a similar thought on costumes... don't find them interesting in most cases and they get in the way. I much prefer a character who wears ordinary clothing that tends to be shredded when doing super stuff. Starting a fight in clothing that would be appropriate for work or an outing or even a night club, and ending up with only a few shreds here and there. 

For obvious reasons that doesn't work for fan-videos given that's not where the models are likely to want to go. And of course many people truly ARE into costumes.

But the young woman who hides herself beneath layers until a fight, when her obvious superiority in both her physique and her skills are revealed during the mayhem, the air filled with clothing confetti, are much more interesting to me. 

I know this makes me different than many people here, but the whole costume and related memes of most videos are what destroy the fantasy for me. Which is why I'm not into videos.  A manipulated still image, especially some of the new AI stuff, combined with a good story are what cranks my starter. 

But then fantasies  have no boundaries. That's the point. I firmly believe that the ability to wildly and elaborately fantasize is one of the traits that are unique to our species. We share so much with the animal world (just ask my pack of dogs, especially when it comes to emotions), but that's one area where we likely share nothing.

It's our unique human superpower, and SWM is a great place to exercise that power. In all the myriad ways...

Shadar

I like it when a villainess steals power from the hero or heroine.

shadar wrote:

njae wrote:

Well I think I am more in line with the empowerment being accidental - or at least unexpected. A freak lab accident, touching a meteor, super potion/serum, radioactive shower gel, alien plants - the McGuffin itself isn't too important. Personally I am also a fan of a temporary power-up, so the girl can undergo the empowering process multiple times with a possibility of sharing - but that's just my personal preference. Repeated exposure could be one way of letting the character become more powerful, having better mastery over the powers. That's why I also prefer for the powers to not come with an instruction manual - the honeymoon phase where the character gets to know her powers is clearly my favorite part apart from the transformation itself - when it comes with a decent amount of beautification.

Not a huge fan of turning into "the character" specifically - the costumes do little for me and it already spells out the power set. Similar issue with absorbtion stories plus the characters are usually evil-ish at least there.

I have a similar thought on costumes... don't find them interesting in most cases and they get in the way. I much prefer a character who wears ordinary clothing that tends to be shredded when doing super stuff. Starting a fight in clothing that would be appropriate for work or an outing or even a night club, and ending up with only a few shreds here and there. 

For obvious reasons that doesn't work for fan-videos given that's not where the models are likely to want to go. And of course many people truly ARE into costumes.

But the young woman who hides herself beneath layers until a fight, when her obvious superiority in both her physique and her skills are revealed during the mayhem, the air filled with clothing confetti, are much more interesting to me. 

I know this makes me different than many people here, but the whole costume and related memes of most videos are what destroy the fantasy for me. Which is why I'm not into videos.  A manipulated still image, especially some of the new AI stuff, combined with a good story are what cranks my starter. 

But then fantasies  have no boundaries. That's the point. I firmly believe that the ability to wildly and elaborately fantasize is one of the traits that are unique to our species. We share so much with the animal world (just ask my pack of dogs, especially when it comes to emotions), but that's one area where we likely share nothing.

It's our unique human superpower, and SWM is a great place to exercise that power. In all the myriad ways...

Shadar

As an example, my imagination can do far more with an AI-generated image like this than I can with any video.

Standing perhaps on the edge of a tall cliff in Norway, unaffected by the winter cold, a woman who is perhaps a descendent of the Valkyrie, her physical perfection obvious with only her upper body visible, and wearing simple clothing that seems to only remain in place because she's superhumanly firm. 

This kind of picture almost demands a story to be written around it.

 

Shadar

That picture looks amazing!

Speaking of inspiration and AI - these two were kinda inspired by the threads question. Three guesses what happens next for them
 
 

Rjjt456 wrote:

That picture looks amazing!
 

The best of the AI-generated picts that I can find lately are amazing, and I'm sure I'm not plugged into the best stuff yet.

Note that I can't generate them myself, but the quality and artistry is evolving monthly. Sometimes they need a touch of cleanup, but many don't. 

As someone whose stories almost always start with a picture, this time period is the best I'm experienced in 30 years of generating content. And this is just the start of what AI is going to be able to offer. Eventually full video with photorealism is going to be here, and probably not too far out.

Imagine your favorite animation becoming indistinguishable from a live production, yet unbounded by human limitations of actors and special effects. 

For now, that's relegated to still photos. But not for long, I suspect...


Shadar

shadar wrote:

Rjjt456 wrote:

That picture looks amazing!

 

The best of the AI-generated picts that I can find lately are amazing, and I'm sure I'm not plugged into the best stuff yet.

Note that I can't generate them myself, but the quality and artistry is evolving monthly. Sometimes they need a touch of cleanup, but many don't. 

As someone whose stories almost always start with a picture, this time period is the best I'm experienced in 30 years of generating content. And this is just the start of what AI is going to be able to offer. Eventually full video with photorealism is going to be here, and probably not too far out.

Imagine your favorite animation becoming indistinguishable from a live production, yet unbounded by human limitations of actors and special effects. 

For now, that's relegated to still photos. But not for long, I suspect...


Shadar

 

Yeah, it's evolving rather quickly. I've been tinkering with it for a few weeks now and the results are quite remarkable. The power of what can be done with prompts alone is already incredible but it becomes even better when you can fire them agains an image that already resembles your desired outcome in some way. This way you can turn a 3d rendered image into a photorealistic one with effects that you would've cost a lot of time and skill to reproduce
But it definitely is the right time to spice a story up with images,

Absolutely has to be Power Transfer for me.  I prefer intential, stealing it from a super hero.  I would love to see more stories where its duplicated, for example someone builds a machine that instead of draining Superman's powers it duplicates them but its amplified so the women gains 2 or 3 times his power and goes on to punish him. Just an example, or goes on to replace him as the hero. 

I like slow 'upgrade' scene,s (injection,drugs,etc) followed by some testing.

Vampire turnings (FF) are high on the list too.