Video, after Babadon't

[wherenoonegoes]

Appearing onscreen is a tall, gangly man who already looks fed up with this entire situation. He's not happy, and for that matter neither is the dragon behind him.]

Hi. Figured this is as good a place to introduce myself as any. I'm Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, Chief of Berk. The dragon behind me is my best friend, Toothless.

Just to get it out of the way, yes, I have heard every possible joke you could make about that. None of them are funny.

Normally this would be the part where I'd say I'm happy to meet all of you, but my wife gave birth to our daughter two days ago. So while I can certainly think of worse possible times for all this, this one is still pretty high up there.

[LOCKED]

If there are any Legionnaires here, however? Disregard that. I [Toothless nudges Hiccup] We actually are happy to see you.

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[googledox]

My own powers have shifted to a new power set, which is irritating.

Now I understand what some of the others went through, the displacees that had their powers changed.

My forcefields are gone. I now have a form of empathy, both receptive and projective, and a strange ability to animate objects but only if they have a humanoid shape. Haven't the faintest clue why it's those particular things.

[wherenoonegoes]

[Hiccup paces a bit, thinking it over. It's not a pressing question, but it is an interesting one.

He doesn't really have any insights about the empathy powers, but the object animation does make a little bit of sense when looked at from the right angle.]

The Roboticans. Obviously it's not exactly the same thing since you're not actually bringing anything to life this time. It would definitely look that way from an outside perspective, though.

[googledox]

[Brainy opens his mouth slightly in dawning comprehension.]

Perhaps you're right. The Stuff reacts to thought and when it does alter us it likely is drawing from something in our personal history.

[He explains.]

The empathic ability make sense in a way that you displacees likely wouldn't understand because of when you met me. When I was younger and far more damaged I had great difficulty empathizing with others. My sense of empathy was later artificially broadened by contact with an unquantifiable spatial anomaly.

It didn't introduce anything that was completely impossible for me, but I later realized it stripped my psychological defense mechanisms away by force. Later, I had to...reassemble them to a certain degree, but I was able to eventually allow such a change to happen more naturally.

I assumed the empathic power was echoing that.