The Knight in Shining Skull T-shirt ([info]gillan) wrote,
@ 2008-02-26 16:13:00
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If I had a superpower
My name is Bret Gillan. I am completely invulnerable. I use this power to become a star of television and movies. One of my greatest stunts is being dropped into the Grand Canyon from a helicopter.

I receive extreme pressure from the government to be involved in military training and deployment. I refuse, publically citing pacifism. Peace lovers and war objectors love me, hawks call me a coward and despise me for all the good I could but refuse to do for my country. Oddly enough, my power brings me fame and infamy not for my ability to live fearless of death, but for the controversy over what exactly I should be doing with it.

Stressed out, I seek out more and more extreme tests of my power. I participate in dangerous sports, getting tackled by some of the heaviest linebackers in the NFL. I'm a guest star on nature shows where the most popular footage of my powers - wrestling with a grizzly bear and laughing while it mauled me - originated. But eventually, eventually, I become totally numb. An overload of adrenaline combined with a complete lack of fear make me emotionally deadened. Finally, in an act of ennui, I agree to be launched into the atmosphere in a space shuttle designed to break up when it reaches an extreme height. In an accident that many individuals accuse the government of doing on purpose, the shuttle breaks up over the Atlantic Ocean. I plummet flaming into the water and am never seen again. I'm presumed drowned and dead, or perhaps I sank to the bottom, entangled with a heavy metal piece of the spaceship and I'm pinned and trapped, going completely insane. Or maybe in the darkness and the cold, I just rest and listen to the sound of the water.


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(Anonymous)
2008-02-26 10:08 pm UTC (link)
Bret Gillan: Invulnerable, except for his heart (and re-entry)

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[info]luciddreams
2008-02-26 10:54 pm UTC (link)
My desire for this superpower just tripled. And it was ranked highest on my list of desired superpowers. :D

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[info]shaelbopp
2008-02-27 03:03 am UTC (link)
One of your best.

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[info]clock
2008-02-27 04:42 am UTC (link)
You had me at "ennui". Seriously though, wicked post.

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[info]stalkermadeline
2008-02-27 05:25 am UTC (link)
Well that went south pretty quickly.

I enjoyed the shift in mood.

typo: grizzly bear and laughing with while it

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[info]gillan
2008-02-27 02:03 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. Typo corrected.

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[info]revelsofthedead
2008-02-27 04:26 pm UTC (link)
PUBLISH DAMN YOU.

Also, another awesome one.

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[info]gillan
2008-02-27 04:30 pm UTC (link)
Fuck publishing. I'm positive that would take the fun out of it.

And thanks for the encouragement.

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[info]owl_clan
2008-02-29 01:15 am UTC (link)

If I could have any super power I wanted, I'd want the power to shit gold. I'd want every bowel movement to turn into solid, high-karat gold as soon as it hit the toilet water, so that I could pop on a surgical glove and fish out my new fortune, every day.

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