Given your theory about powers being naive attempts at helping by the dandelions, have you come up with any theories about what some characters trigger events might have been? Lisa, Imp, one of the heroes maybe?
I think there’s a good chance Lisa’s trigger event would involve a moment of intense uncertainty, and maybe someone – perhaps a parent – who would regularly belittle her intelligence. I think there’s a reason Lisa is so averse to being called stupid.
Aisha’s power is… actually a lot like Grue’s. It’s good for hiding. And considering she showed up as a cape shortly after Extermination, it’s not hard to think of something she might’ve felt an intense need to hide from, to the point that the Dandelions decided to help out.
As for the heroes… Maybe Vista’s trigger event involved getting stuck in a really small space, much like Taylor? Something like that?
This theory doesn’t quite seem to fit everything, so I’m not sure how accurate it is – it seems especially hard to explain tinkers. But maybe that’s just me lacking imagination or understanding of the dandelions’ worldview? For instance, I don’t know what sort of situation would cause them to give Armmaster the ability to make technology smaller, or Leet the ability to make anything once, but that doesn’t necessarily mean such situations didn’t happen.
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