Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

Characters are flying to the place.

I realize that when defining their powers I have to factor that in.

Then, I remember we have someone who could make the entire matter moot by giving them rings of flight.

I'm going to have to juggle that carefully, so that the heroine doesn't get one. So it's easy but not too easy for him to make enough.

Plugging along on the story. Threw in something to make it easier for a hero to find the captive.

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Am trying to work up the scene where our hero rescues children instead of taking down the bad guy.

Muse is having fun having the children babble to the secondary hero that they were rescued by an angel because of his specific powers.  Secondary hero is annoyed, partly because he can do what the hero did, and he knows he's human, not an angel.  (No wings, even, in either case.) 

Ran across some bad advice about making a super-system:  namely, that all powers have to come from the same source.  Radiation, for instance.  It even talks about choosing between a scientific or a magical explanation. 

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A frequent fantastical plot device is the production of something wonderful that will produce real and earth-shaking changes for the better -- only for it to be revealed that it has a secret flaw.

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Was pondering the question of vigilantism in my high fantasy superhero work.   Decided to allude to it.
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Was pondering what personality-based powers to give two rather nasty characters -- 

When I remembered that only very strong-willed characters (and those born with their powers) exactly fit their powers.  Wizards can impress a different set of powers, if not too incongruous.

Fortunately these two are merely extremely spiteful and potential bad influences.  Plus potential sources of misinformation.  Not that the hero and heroine are any slouches in their own misunderstandings -- culture clashes are involved. 

Superhero fights can't be so dramatic on the written page as in the comics.

Still, I think mine need some work.  A baseline of energy attacks and some kind of defense lacks the magical touch.   Especially when I specify that every single knight has a unique prowess, however much they can be classified.  

Colors are only a start.  But they are a start.  

Was pondering how few origins there were for superheroes in my high fantasy world. Then I remembered that I had actually had another: gadgeteer. Mind you, with magical gadgets. There are clockpunk ones, but clockpunk needs something magic to make the springs hold enough power.

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