You can really see when devs have some talent in actually writing a story. Always appreciate when there is some type of structure to the narrative rather than the usual exposition dump explaining the entire back story and characters at the start.
I really liked everything about it, save for maybe the scarcity of choices. This might be the most mature take on the superhero genre we've seen so far. Not overly clowny. Not just some corruption. Not just a straight up power fantasy. Not some wish fulfillment hero simulator.
I think it tackles real issues like differences in the supers' powers and the rift that could cause. The way the government was treating them was very realistic. Cautious, paranoid, but wanting to keep complete control over the situation and use them to their advantage. We will have to see the story play out, but I bet Fiona will turn out to be a sympathetic villain of sorts. I think Avery is likely to be an obstacle going forward. Probably her and Charlotte are the only ones that could threaten MC and they seem to be going along with the government. The incident that made the MC leave will let us know the real nature of the story I think. One thing that worries me is the lack of supers. It's basically limited to this group of friends unless there are secret super heroes that stayed out of the media. That could make the possible sources of conflicts limited.
I do hope this doesn't turn out to be a really simple PG-13 style good vs evil superhero story. Something a bit gritty and "realistic" like The Boys or Jupiter's Legacy would be cool.
I think this is a great take on the game, well said. I agree with almost everything you said. Regarding Avery being an obstacle however I disagree. I see her more as a character who is pissed off at the whole situation whose also in a bit of shock. This leads to her letting her emotions control her actions ie; breaking into Selenas house and dropping her from the second story. She previously believed the MC to be dead. 3 years go by and suddenly her boyfriend turns out to be well, "Not Quite Dead". She's pissed at Selena for not being able to bring the MC in to the SCD. So I feel that when she finally sees the MC in person again, that's when she will eventually get her emotions in check and not lash out at her friends for failing to bring him in.
In regards to Avery and Charlotte being the only ones who can possibly threaten the MC... I don't see Avery as much a threat to the MC power wise. They both can fly, it seems that Avery has enhanced strength (we saw from her lifting Selena by her ankle) and Avery can also shoot lasers out of her eyes. But the MC was said to lift an 18 wheeler and made it look easy and Tyena estimated he can lift 200 tons. That was 3 years ago when he was first developing his strength. Who knows how much more he can lift after 3 years of training. The MC is also described to the president as the most powerful person on the planet including the other supers and also that the MC is a "living, breathing, nuclear bomb" as well as being invincible by Avery. So comparing the MC to Avery, they have some similar powers being flight and enhanced strength since no normal person can just hold someone by their ankle like Avery did. I see Avery as someone who is similar in regards to what their powers are, but she is also less powerful than the MC. We saw no indication she can lift 200 tons or is invincible like the story made mention of the MC. So if it did somehow come to a standoff between Avery and the MC (which I don't see happening as it seems she just wants her boyfriend back), the MC would wipe the floor with her and anyone else who attacked him.
In regards to Charlotte it gets a little trickier. We know she can read minds and can see other peoples memories but we don't know much more about her powers. Based on what we know, Charlotte has the abilities of an empath. We first saw this when she went silent for a while, and again when Fiona had the limo driver brought in for Charlotte to replay the MC saving the limo. We also know that she can read minds and we saw that a few times but we don't know to what extent. We know it's easier for her to read minds when the MC had his arm around her before the guard hit her with his gun so we can speculate physical touch increases her abilities. However, with empaths we can speculate that people can fight for control of their own mind. So if Charlotte tries to use her abilities on the MC and he resists them, we don't know what the outcome will be. Will it be dependent on their will power? If so, I can see the MC being able to withstand most types of mental assault's by Charlotte. We know for a fact that he's pissed at Fiona. Being that Charlotte works for Fiona, I don't think the MC would allow Charlotte to just walk through his mind to find what she's looking for but instead start putting up mental walls so Charlotte wouldn't be able to do what she is tasked with. But we don't yet know how Charlotte's powers work fully yet. We don't know about all the training the supers had with the SCD, but it's very possible that the supers would all be trained physically, mentally and emotionally. So in regards to being a threat to the MC and just based off information we know about empaths and people being able to throw up mental walls to block an empath coming into their mind, I see it as very likely that Charlotte will have a difficult time trying to get into the MC's head with force compared to if his defenses are down. But that's how empathy works in most stories. Until we know how Charlotte's powers work in THIS story, and how other people can defend themselves against it, it's a coin toss if Charlotte could be a threat to the MC. Hopefully we will see the full extent of her abilities while also how they affect other people when they try to resist her abilities
