"I have gravity powers." The room went quiet and I continued, "I can increase gravity on things or make them weightless. I can also make gravity fields that push things away or bring things closer. The backlash can be pretty bad when I overdo it so I wear these braces," I said holding up my arms to show them.
Nanaba just smiled before turning back around to look at Rico who was just staring at me with a blank face. What, did I say something wrong?
"Your turn," Nanaba said smiling at Rico. I was a little surprised to hear her say that, but I pulled out a pen and a piece of paper to take notes.
She just rolled her eyes and slouched back in the chair, "I'm immune to all poisons, venoms, and gases. I can also emit poisonous gas. I can kill people with it or just incapacitate them. I can make my skin toxic to the touch enough to kill or incapacitate. If I bite people or scratch them it will release venom into their system that if not treated they will be on their ass in 10 seconds and dead in 10 minutes."
She stopped talking and I knew one thing was for sure I did not want to be on her bad side. "When you say if not treated, do you mean there's a cure?"
"Yeah, but you don't need to know what it is," she rolled her eyes. "And I'm not saying my backlash. You don't need to know."
Nanaba reached over and pulled up her sleeve exposing a scaly green patch of skin. "Part of her backlash makes her skin really dry. When it cracks it turns green and scaly. As far as we know they are permanent. She also gets very lightheaded and can black out from overuse."
Rico pulled her arm away and pulled her sleeve back down and glared at Nanaba. "Fucking nosey bitch," she mumbled.
"Ignore her," Nanaba whispered mostly to herself.
"Their turn, someone else has to tell us about their power or we won't talk," Rico crossed her arms staring at us.
I looked at Levi and before he could start talking Pixis cut him off. "Force fields," he said before making a small one in front of himself, "I can lift things with them or just use them to protect people," the force field disappeared and he looked back up at them.
"For backlash, I get bad migraines and it will start to affect my joints especially in my wrists which is why I wear these little braces." he showed them his arm. His wrist braces only went slightly below his wrists whereas mine went most of the way down my arms. "It's nothing compared to Eren's since his can lead to nerve damage, but it does cause accelerating arthritis."
He looked to Nanaba waiting for her to speak up. "Guess it's our turn," she shrugged and then stood up. We watched as she turned into Pixis. Everything matched even the voice. "I can shapeshift into any person I've seen and have heard speak. I can also shapeshift into animals though that is harder and more painful. I can also shapeshift into a person that doesn't exist however, my voice will remain the same as my own."
We watched as she morphed back to her usual self. Her face winced as she shifted back. "When I overuse my powers the shifting process is a lot slower and more painful rather than everything shifting back all at once I can feel every bone in my body break and rearrange themselves and if I've really overdone it, they will stop mid-break and I'll have to deal with walking around with broken bones for a couple of hours."
Oh damn, that sounds painful. I thought mine sucked but that sounds horrible.
I watched as Pixis whispered something into Shadis's ear. Shadis looked unamused but Pixis elbowed him and he started talking.
"I can inflict pain on anyone I look at or paralyze them. I can only affect one person at once, however, I can cause them enough pain so that they will pass out. Hypothetically I should be able to cause them enough pain that their heart stops, but I have never tried to do that before."
He stopped talking and Pixis rolled his eyes and finished the rest for him, "when he tried to overuse his power he will feel any pain he inflicts on others as well as get sharp pains in his chest and have trouble breathing."
Hannes was next to speak up. "I can mimic anything, voices, noises, movements. If you were to write something behind your back as long as I can see you and the slightest bit of movement I should be able to mimic it. As for backlash, if I mimic too much noise or voices I can get a really bad sore throat that makes it hard for me to speak or do much of anything, my muscles will also get sore if I mimic too much movement."
Hanji spoke up next telling them about her power, "as for backlash," she continued, "I get very fatigued, and if I'm making plants out of thin air it starts to burn away at my body fat and if there's nothing left to burn away then it will eat at my muscles. As for backlash for healing people, their pain will be transferred over to me/ I'll feel their injuries and I will feel every cell as they move and heal. It's quite painful."
Nanaba was staring down Gunther but he was staying quiet. She just let out a sigh and started talking for him. "He can make people tell nothing but truths or nothing but lies. He can switch between the two but it drains him a lot faster. When he passes his limit he gets strep throat, it's not contagious to anyone, but it makes it hard for him to talk without severe pain. He also could pass out from fatigue." Gunther rolled his eyes as she spoke for him. He and Rico really didn't want to be here and it shows.
Erwin started talking and he told them all about his powers. He let an awkward pause out before continuing on to backlash. " Mine also drains my energy and I could collapse from fatigue. Also during astral projection, my body has to be in a safe place and must remain undisturbed or I will be snapped back to my body very disoriented with the worst vertigo. Lastly, if I teleport too much or go through too many portals and go past my limit there is a slight chance I won't come back in one piece."
Wait what, no one ever told me that. How did he figure that out, you know what I don't think I want to know. That would have been good to know before teleporting with him for every mission. I gave Levi a look of horror and he just shrugged before whispering, "He said only if he goes over his limit." Ah yes, that is supposed to make me feel better.
"I can see heat signatures as well as Xrays of people when I want," Marlowe shrugged, "Backlash is horrible though. It will start with a painful migraine and if I continue the room will start spinning before fading to black. It can last for about an hour."
An hour of blindness yikes, I'd trip over everything. I thought and Levi leaned in and whispered, "You already do." Hey. I mean it's true but you didn't have to say it.
Auruo started talking. "I can understand every language. I can read it and write it, but I can't speak more than a few phrases. I get a sore throat, lose my voice, and get a migraine." He rushed through before looking down at the table.
"Well, um," Thomas started, "I can connect people's thoughts together. & including myself, 6 without myself. It's like having built-in radios in your heads, but they can't be hacked. Once the people are connected all they have to do is think that they want the others to hear it and they will. Each connection has a time limit before it cuts out. If I try and hold it for longer than that then it starts to backlash." He rubbed the back of his neck.
Is that what brought Levi to his knees? I mean it would make sense. That's why Levi was trying to tell me they weren't attacking him because they weren't at least not on purpose. I looked at Levi and he nodded. Well, that explains that.
"When it backlashes it short circuits the language processing part of my brain as well as the part of the brain that controls speech. I can't understand what people are saying and my words come out all jumbled and don't end up making much sense."
When he finished Levi was about to speak when someone cut him off. "My power," hitch excitedly jumped up with a big smile on her face. She looked happy to be telling us about it, "I can, well, why don't I just show you?" She asked before looking around the room.
I looked up and we were no longer in the conference room. We were on a boat in the middle of the ocean. I could feel the movement of the waves. God, I'm going to be sick. So she can teleport people too?
"Nice illusion," Levi said and I looked at him.
"Huh," she seemed almost shocked, "how- that's impossible, no one should be able to see through my illusions." The room went back to normal and sure enough, we were still in the conference room.
"What is your power?" She asked, looking at him.
"I'll tell you after you explain your powers to everyone else," he shrugged.
"I can make people see, hear, smell, and feel what I want them too. Whether it's a big change or a little one. A little one will last longer than a bigger one. My backlash makes me hallucinate, and gives me panic attacks when I do." She rushed out her explanation. "Now you, how can you see through my powers?"
"Easy," Levi shrugged. "I didn't see through your illusion but you told me it was an illusion," she looked confused. "I have three powers, telekinesis, empathy, and lastly mind-reading," Levi shrugged, "your mind was practically screaming that it was an illusion."
Rico jumped up, "so much for trust! You're reading our minds!" She yelled with her fists balled up ready to fight.
Pixis and Shadis jumped up too. Is that why they were trying to stop Levi from sharing earlier. Did they know they would react this way?
"Look, I will admit earlier I was trying to read your minds, but only to see if you were planning on hurting us. Right now I wasn't trying to read her mind, but when people have intense emotions my powers get drawn to that person's thoughts. She was really excited and my power snapped to her. I was trying to keep my powers focused on Eren, but sometimes they wander."
"I don't want to hear your excuse! They can't be trusted!" Rico yelled. Nanaba just put her hand out telling her to stop. She gave her a look and she slumped down in her chair. Nanaba didn't seem all to bothered with Levi's powers and actually looked annoyed that Rico was so bothered by it.
"So earlier?" Nanaba asked as she looked at Levi, "Is that why you were brought to your knees?"
"Yes and no," he shrugged. "I was trying to read your mind, but I was hit with all of your thoughts, now I know that's because of your power," Levi said looking at Thomas. "Your power is strong normally 7 people's thoughts wouldn't bring me to my knees but your power did."
"What's your backlash?" Nanaba asked with a curious tone.
"Well, for empath abilities it makes them stronger on myself and it causes my emotions to basically be so intense that my mind shuts down. Telekinesis backlash can tear muscles and make me blackout. Mind reading backlash can make me blackout. I can get bloody noses from all of them and I get severe migraines. It knocks the wind out of me and can easily bring me to my knees and gives me chest pain." Levi said.
"And that's what we do know, he's only really ever overused his mind-reading, so we don't know if any of his other abilities have worse backlashes," I added.
She nodded before changing the topic. "Okay, based on that information you'll be able to put us into teams?" Nanaba asked.
"I should be able to but I'm going to need some time," I said awkwardly.
"Well how about we show them to their rooms and you can tell them when you're ready," Pixis suggested.
"That's fine with me," Nanaba said.
We all stood up and they were about to head out of the room when Nanaba walked back in and walked up to me she leaned into my ear before whispering, "here this should help," she discreetly handed me something and then followed the others out of the room. I looked down at what she handed me and saw it was makeup.
"Concealer, it matches your skin tone apparently," Levi snickered. Why would she give me- fuck, the hickeys. I said, pulling my jacket up to hide them.
"The bite marks too," Levi laughed.
"Fuck you," I hissed.
"Maybe later, I'm tired right now," he said before walking out of the room. I just let out a long sigh before we head back to our room to plan. I was going to talk to Pixis first to make sure he's okay with where I put them in the plan before talking to them.
I plopped down on the bed and looked through all my notes. Levi looked like he was ready to pass out.
"No no, don't you dare fall asleep, I'm going to need your help with this."
"Ugh fine," Levi rolled over propping his head up on his hands and looking at my notes. "Let's do this quickly, I'm exhausted."
"It's not even noon," I rolled my eyes.
"Exactly, it's way too early for me to be up and besides my head still hurts from early," he pouted.
"Well, suck it up," I said avoiding his eyes knowing I would change my mind by looking into them. "The faster we get this done the faster you can take a nap."