Makin' my blorbos smooch is what gets me through the hard times

[socksuke_uchiha]

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[(Anonymous)]

For me, it's less the power and more the character I like. I do like a variety of media, so maybe I'm not the exact target of this question, but I have played superheroes or just heroic characters with powers in general and often I just like writing the struggles they have with bonus powers. There are things in games you can't really do with characters who have no powers, or at least will be very difficult to do (particularly in games where there are battles involved), so the abilities are more of a perk than a necessity.

I like reading (in superhero comics) the struggles they have about doing the right thing, what the right thing is, and when people push back when they don't agree with their methods. DC and Marvel admittedly aren't always the best at this because a lot of the writers just don't have good stories or worse, they have godawful characterization, but some storylines that I like tend to focus on the struggles of integrating in society, found family, friendship, struggles with wanting their own life versus the greater good, and the responsibilities of having dangerous abilities.

I don't think they're unrelatable personally. There's a lot of overlap with real life struggles with some of them. When the stories are well thought-out, they can feel good to read too.

[(Anonymous)]

i think the fact marvel does it bad a lot actually does come into play a lot, too. Sometimes people just want to give those characters better stories than they got in canon.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

This is also true!

ngl that is also part of the reason I rp characters that I do. Like if a story feels so good and the characters are written well I rarely rp them because I'm satisfied with their arc. If the writing leaves much to be desired I tend to want to pluck that character out of canon and play them to my satisfaction.