by Will Stanton » Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:53 pm
"Well, I can't shift myself, but I'm inverted. I can shift other things. Any other things. I can...I can feel the shifting potential in everything around me.
I hit Tosh with it, without meaning to. Turned him into a bottle of water for about five minutes; the poor guy is going to be scarred for about 15 years. There's someone I don't know in the cafeteria who's two inches shorter than they should be, because I couldn't see over their head while waiting in line and I brushed up against them. I barely dodged out of the way of...shit, what's his name, the dude with the glasses, you know the one. The guy who wears three pairs of glasses for his three sets of eyes. He tripped, and if he had slammed into me, I have no idea what would have happened.
And it freaks people out, and it bums me out. I came out of the mirror for a specific role, and not only can I not do that, but I have to watch other people do things that I'd kill for and freak out about it," he said, slowly building into a rant. "And it just feels so, so wrong -- like, if everyone could ready your mind rather than vice versa. It just isn't the way things go.
I don't know why I'm reacting so much worse than I did when Lippencott drained all our powers. That was frustrating and aggravating, but this just feels...like I'm coated in a layer of grease, or something. Everything just feels wrong, on an inherent level. I can feel it in my bones."