“People can buy powers? How many people are doing this?” I felt a touch offended at the idea. I’d earned my powers through my hardships.
Most of us had.
It’s even more easy-street than being born with the potential to get them from much lighter trigger events, like children of parahuman parents are.
“My whole life, really has been a ‘no’, and I fought through it. I’ve been– and, you know, I talk about it. It has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brockton Bay. My father gave me a small loan of a superpower. I came into Manhattan, and I had to pay him back, and I had to pay him back with interest. But I came into Manhattan and I started fighting people, and I did great.”
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