i love taking the idea of “the serum gave steve better muscles and better senses” and just pushing it just that little bit into uncanny valley territory. he can see very slightly into the ultravioliet and infared spectra, moves/thinks quicker than normal people (hes conciously slowing himself down a LOT bc he knows it freaks people out) and is just. really strong. all of him is very strong. he can open a can of beans with a fingernail.
superhuman as in “above and a little too the left of 100% human and not always in the good way”
At first, Steve didn’t notice that he could see too much, more than most people could. Before the serum, he’d been a bit colourblind, so how could he tell which new colours he was meant to see, and which he wasn’t?
Seeing in the infrared, he can finally understand what people mean when they describe someone as “glowing”. Nobody ever really explained that it’s a metaphor.
Birds and flowers are so colourful now! He can’t quite get the colours all down on paper when he draws, and people just think he’s being a bit fanciful with the patterns he gives them.
The best thing is that of COURSE he wouldn’t realize!! He’s been colourblind for most of his life!!!!!
kajsdkl;fjasdf @lbibliophile-mcu this is the most hilarious thing. local man gains superpowers, genuinely does not realize he has superpowers because he’s spent most of his life in various states of “literally dying”
Concept: a superhero whose civilian identity is five different people. Not like they’re a hive mind or they can duplicate themselves or anything – they’re just a group of five people who all have different powers but coincidentally wear roughly the same size costume, who’ve decided to team up and share the same heroic persona. As far as both the general public and the broader super-powered community know, they’re a single incredibly hard-working super with a bewildering variety of seemingly unrelated powers, except they only have access to any given power some of the time owing to complex criteria they refuse to adequately explain.
(Thus far they’ve been very careful to ensure that their heroic persona is never provably in two places at once, though honestly it’s only a matter of time; there’s some argument among the group whether to deal with that eventuality by coming clean, or by claiming that bilocation is also one of their powers.)
Each of them has a different specific weakness. After a long and harrowing fight their Archnemesis discovers that the Hero’s vulnerable to silver. Three weeks later they’ve got the Hero wrapped head to toe in silver chains, only to have the super-strong Hero break out like it was toilet paper.
(That one’s allergic to bees, not silver.)
The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Superhero Spandex
this thing about LFF is that sometimes gifs like this show up on my dash/in my rss reader and like…so that’s what he was doing while we were all waiting in the cinema
