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I had a neat dream idea.
It didn't go in this order, but what shook out was, there was this teenage girl superhero, Superman-hodgepodge adjacent rather than specific powers, and like Superman, she wasn't from there, and like Superman, she had a symbol, but it was more abstract, a bunch of squares in a half circle, but not quite symmetric.
A little later, a broadcast comes on TV. You know those things we've sent into space? This one started with the same symbol she used, and it was much like ours - Hello, we're here, we don't know if you're out there but we hope so, and we hope you'll be happy to know you're not alone if you get this!
The reason she was there now was because that planet and those people were all gone. Early on in the dream, she'd shouted at some other teens saying superpowers seemed neat by saying they don't start showing up until mass deaths take out at least a quarter of your population, a riff on how Marvel and DC keep having disasters and how comics superpowers get more and more common over time due to a shared universe constantly throwing in more, combined with the idea it's some sort of adaptation/defense, and by the end I'd settled on it being some sort of psychic thing, where all her people had been slightly psychic and when they'd all died, she'd won the lottery of being the one who lived slightly longer and ended up getting all that power concentrated in her, allowing her to survive through whatever happened as well as teleport off the planet to the one she remembered people thought might have life on it.
In the dream, both groups were alien, which seems overly complicated. I'm not sure if it'd work better for her to be human or the planet to be Earth, though.
It didn't go in this order, but what shook out was, there was this teenage girl superhero, Superman-hodgepodge adjacent rather than specific powers, and like Superman, she wasn't from there, and like Superman, she had a symbol, but it was more abstract, a bunch of squares in a half circle, but not quite symmetric.
A little later, a broadcast comes on TV. You know those things we've sent into space? This one started with the same symbol she used, and it was much like ours - Hello, we're here, we don't know if you're out there but we hope so, and we hope you'll be happy to know you're not alone if you get this!
The reason she was there now was because that planet and those people were all gone. Early on in the dream, she'd shouted at some other teens saying superpowers seemed neat by saying they don't start showing up until mass deaths take out at least a quarter of your population, a riff on how Marvel and DC keep having disasters and how comics superpowers get more and more common over time due to a shared universe constantly throwing in more, combined with the idea it's some sort of adaptation/defense, and by the end I'd settled on it being some sort of psychic thing, where all her people had been slightly psychic and when they'd all died, she'd won the lottery of being the one who lived slightly longer and ended up getting all that power concentrated in her, allowing her to survive through whatever happened as well as teleport off the planet to the one she remembered people thought might have life on it.
In the dream, both groups were alien, which seems overly complicated. I'm not sure if it'd work better for her to be human or the planet to be Earth, though.
