A long time ago I was in a typography class and I had an assignment to draw a word out of its material. Like writing "Rock" and drawing it to make it look like it's carved from stone. I chose "Hair" and I was proud enough of the result that I ended up posting it online to Twitter. Whoever I showed it to online, I got a weird reaction like "Oh...cool." which was strange cuz I was expecting to get complimented on it. It turned out that no one thought it was a drawing. For months, everyone I showed it to thought that I was playing with wet hair clippings in my spare time like some nasty little freak.
I don't want my favourite villains to be "redeemed". I only want them semi-redeemed. I want them on the good guy's side now, more or less, but otherwise not really changed at all. I want them around more and I want them coming in clutch at the last minute unexpectedly when things seem desperate, and I want scenes of them interacting with and talking to the main characters where no-one's trying to kill or harm or get away from each other, but I want them to still be sinister and shifty and say and do insane and objectionable and criminal things on the side, so I never forget why I liked them in the first place.
my mundane super power is being really good at picking out what strings of words can be sung to the tune of “teenage mutant ninja turtles.” this is primarily a curse.