EXOTIC ESSENCE
Some superhumans claim that they can feel a sort of exotic “energy”
within them which they can direct to perform their superhuman actions, the same
way a normal person can simply raise their arm to pick something up. This
energy does not appear to be a fuel of any kind, as powers do not grow weaker
through extended use. It is almost like an extra phantom limb that can be
directed with a thought. It is called an energy by most superhumans, but may
more accurately be called an Essence.
Currently, we believe that, whether there is an awareness of
this internal Essence or not, it may be present in all superhumans. Some just
access it subconsciously, while others are perhaps more attune to it. This
Essence, then, provides the means through which a power is created. It creates
the spark and channels the fuel for a superhuman fire, provides the kinetic
force for superhuman strength, creates the barrier for superhuman durability.
What this Essence is, of course, is up for debate. A sort of
Quantum Interface? The fabled Quintessence of Antiquity? A more direct
manifestation of the Soul? A form of Magic not yet conceived of in our own
fictions? A binding of one’s will to the very Fundamental Fabric of Reality,
through which reality’s laws can be bent or broken? Cheat Codes to the program
of what we think is reality, but may in fact be a fantastically huge and
complicated computer simulation?
We still don’t know, and may never know. The Essence has
never been detected or observed by mundane human observation or technology,
only its effects on the world.
INNER DOORWAY
Some have theorized that the power of superhumans actually
originates from Higher Dimensions, perhaps the same dimensions that the
Doorways themselves may come from. In this way, the previously mentioned “Essence”
may itself be a sort of internal Doorway set into the superhuman. When a
superhuman uses their powers, they may in fact be opening their own personal
Doorway to let slip through the exotic energies and forces that allow their
powers to function.
Another way of putting it is that they may be channeling the
physics of other worlds through this Inner Doorway, and temporarily overlaying
them into our reality. Perhaps the theory of a Multiverse is true, and in one
universe, it is perfectly normal for cotton to be magnetically attracted to
clay, and thus a superhuman who causes that effect is simply channeling those
physics into our reality.
If this theory does ever prove true, perhaps those who like
to try and rank superhumans by “power levels” might be better off trying less
to figure out hard numbers, and consider a percentage system that measures how
wide a superhuman’s Inner Doorway opens.
MAGIC FROM ANOTHER
WORLD
Superhumans do not remember where they have been when they
come back through the Doorway, but it is very telling that they always come
back wearing exotic clothing, as if they have been spending several days in
some unusual circumstances where they had to dress up like a wizard, or a
superhero, or a futuristic knight.
Likewise, many superhumans have mentioned having dreams
that, while barely remembered, leave them with a sense that they have been on
some grand adventure. Flashes of great battles on other worlds, exploring alien
ruins, interacting with inhuman entities, etc.
Many believe that the Doorways are, in fact, taking people
into other realities, and that while they are there, Earthlings find themselves
caught up in the sort of epic quests one might see in a video game, an
adventure anime, a fantasy novel, or a sci-fi movie. If this is actually
happening, then it stands to reason (if you consider the narrative convolutions
of these stories to be a type of physics all their own), that the Earthlings
sent on these adventures would acquire the superhuman powers necessary to
accomplish these tasks.
Ergo, when the person returns to our world, they may still,
somehow, retain the powers gained in the other world. Why there is a universal
side-effect of memory loss is unknown, but perhaps this is a defense mechanism
built into the Doorways. Perhaps they were designed as a means of summoning
champions from one world to assist the downtrodden in others, but the creators
of the Doorways didn’t want to risk the denizens of their champion’s world
learning about them, and potentially becoming a new enemy. Random handfuls of
people could be more easily manipulated to go on heroic quests. Armies of
soldiers under government orders to secure a new frontier are a whole other
matter.
SUPERNATURAL
POSSESSION
Some believe that the aforementioned Essence or Inner
Doorway theories are just different ways of explaining the same concept, and
that we are failing to account for something very worrying in said concept:
that these powers are being granted to superhumans through a supernatural
entity.
Be it a demon, a god, an angel, a djinn, a spirit, a machine
elf, or something we’ve never even conceived of in all our history, superhumans
may, in fact, just be the finger puppets of entities that exist far beyond our
comprehension. The powers we wield are simply their own natural powers,
channeled outwards through our bodies. Should this theory be true, it begs the
question, then, as whether or not a superhuman’s will is truly their own.
It also begs the question of whether the superhumans coming
through the Doorways are even human at all, or if they are just puppets,
artificial shells programmed to act like the people they were based on, but
without knowledge of their masters. The fact that no superhumans were killed in
the Extinction Wave, despite all other mammalian life being disintegrated, at
least signifies that despite genetic tests saying otherwise, superhumans may in
fact no longer be human, mammal, or even animal life forms.
SYNTHETIC BODIES OF
ALIEN TECHNOLOGY
Following the above, despite genetic tests showing the
superhumans still have normal human DNA, there is the idea that their bodies
may in fact be composed of some kind of exotic alien particles that can
perfectly mimic the human form, down the cellular or even atomic level, but are
in fact composed of a different set of sub-particles. If true, than the powers
of superhumans may in fact be a side effect of how these exotic particles
interact without our own reality’s sub-atomic make-up.
This is the least accepted of these theories, but still generally
considered more plausible than most others.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Despite being a superhuman myself, I don’t have any
particular bias one way or the other. I have the occasional Other World Dreams,
like any other, but they are so vague and so infrequent, I tend to chalk such
dreams up to just memories of cartoons I watched or books I read. Otherwise, I
do not experience feeling the Exotic Essence or an Inner Door or anything like
that. Likewise, if I am indeed just the finger puppet of a higher being or an
alien automaton, then the illusion of being otherwise is so perfect, that it is
as good as useless to speculate further on the matter.
In the end, these are all just theories. I fear we will
never have a true answer until somehow, someone comes through a Doorway with
their memories intact, or we discover the secret of the Doorways themselves.
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