Non-useful powers.

I need to write someone who, while being given magical powers, is given one that seems to be a blessing of suck.

I think it would be easier to get into her mindset if I have to figure out how to use it by myself first. So I'm asking for all of your silly, useless powers. I was using the power to open any lock, but it became too powerful when I realized that my universe has a physical heaven and hell...

The power to turn any liquid solid. This can only be done if the liquid is touched directly (not touched through a solid medium.)

The ability to predict the weather accurately.

Which, while convenient and magical, doesn't really compare to say, flight.

The ability to communicate with animals... but nothing to do with influencing how they act. Sure, they can talk to wild, majestic lions; however, he'd much rather have a nice nap than do any of your bidding.

Alternatively, a character that can communicate with only a very specific, useless type of animal: like butterflies or sea cucumbers.

The ability to put an illusory haze of a certain color around an area.

The ability to change the colour of his/her skin and hair to any colour. I guess it could be useful for spying, but if you want to use it for camouflage you'd need to be naked.

Alternatively, colour changing based on your emotions.

edited 15th Feb '12 10:56:13 PM by LoniJay

The ability to create and destroy individual atoms. But they have to be on or inside your body.

See in ultraviolet. (Completely useless for any practical purpose.)

Assuming you've got commensurate sensory abilities (that is, you can tell what the fuck you're doing) that's actually the most overpowered ability ever, given that it equates to unlimited body modification.

The ability to disrupt cell phones but only at a very short range.

The ability to detect the minutest of differences in colour shades (does not come with automatic ability to put them together in a non-eye-watering way). Great if you want to be a painter/ home-decorator/ fashoinista (if you develop the secondary skill). Not-so-hot if you're out fighting crime. Totally pants if you can't work out what combinations make people want to hit you or accurately depict/ describe what you see.

Th ability to make your index finger grow a meter long...

but only if it's up your nose.

The ability to, instead of growing hungry, knowing the right ammount of nutrients that you need at any given time.

Or:

The ability to find thte right end of a roll of tape instantly.

Or:

The ability to see the dead. Not commune with, just see. They don't know you're there.

Or:

The ability to believe you are flying.

edited 16th Feb '12 4:37:43 AM by TrulyElse

This is actually kind of a shitty ability on its own because then someone could easily break your meter-long index finger, and it could even break under its own weight.

Alright... how about the ability to turn into styrofoam or spaghetti or Jello or something else similarly flimsy?

edited 16th Feb '12 8:26:56 AM by CrystalGlacia

Thought of another one: the ability to detect whether it's butter or not. No other taste-detection abilities... just that one.

The ability to follow precisely whats going on in a spanish soap opera

The ability to know what color and type of underwear any given person is wearing.

edited 16th Feb '12 5:26:45 AM by SalFishFin

The ability to figure out an object's components by tasting it. Poison and similar things will still harm you though.

The ability to scratch any itch anywhere on your body and successfully remove said itch.

The ability to lick one's elbow.

Ooh, I've got another one—the ability to fall any distance without injury.

(I'm trying to come up with powers here that look useless at first, but are incredibly exploitable.)

The power to clean any toilet with your mind.

That is too a useful power!

edited 16th Feb '12 11:52:57 AM by CrystalGlacia

The ability to turn into a swarm of cockroaches, but not to turn back into a human.

Ah — then I've got a good one when it comes to that. The ability to detect both gross and minute pressure changes accurately. On the face of it, only useful if you want an accurate weather report for the next few hours or know how high up the plane/ sub is. However, if refined, could make you a walking detector of any moving thing: a bit like a thinking beeper out of Alien.