I'm posting this for a friend who feels like he needs some guidance. Personally I think he shuld just get over himself, but what do I know? I'm a freaking mutant.
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Daniel, I feel your pain and confusion. You are not alone!
I too have a "super-suit" of sorts. As a physicist studying high-energy particles when the Rikti originally attacked, I was involved in a terrible accident. As near as I can tell, my body was bombarded by strange energies (sub-quarks I called them at the time) which changed me, giving me unusual and amazing powers.
By time I learned to control them the invasion mostly over and the city lay in ruins. I tried fighting some of those nasty clockwork creatures that had attacked a colleague of mine, and my powers were useful. However, my body was merely mortal, and I was overcome. If The Tiny Freak hadn't saved me I don't know what would have happened.
So, in order to continue fighting the Rikti, I turned my scientific knowledge to designing a power suit that could make up for the normal-ness of my flesh and compliment the new powers I had.
Now, when I kick Rikti butt, I feel so alive and so powerful that it's a major rush! At the end of the day, when I have to get down to work with my research, I feel so weak again. I find myself only working the minimum hours required by my employer instead of the long nights I used to spend on this very interesting work.
I don't know what to do or where I should draw the line. I can't be a full-time hero because I have no other source of income. But being a full-time researcher seems so boring now that I can control light itself.
- Signed: Anonymous
