It turns out that I write about my superpowers quite often.
First, there was a post about my actual superhero persona: Mr. Indestructible.
I cannot be killed (having been brought back from death twice already) nor have I ever been bruised, and I have not vomited since 1983, yet I tend to be hurt all the time. Golfer’s elbow. Bad knees. Separated shoulders. Frequent concussions.
Strength and weakness tied together. The classic superhero motif.
Then there were posts about some of my lesser superpowers:
My ability to wake up in the middle of the night and accurately state the time within fifteen minutes of the actual time, and oftentimes much more accurately than that.
My ability to hold my breath underwater for an exceedingly long time.
My ability to sleep very little, fall asleep almost instantly, and sleep almost anywhere, regardless of the discomfort associated with the location.
For a short time, I tried to bring a few of my friends together with similarly questionable superpowers to form a band of superheroes.
At the time, I thought that if Elysha had wanted to join our team, she might use her ability to identify any song after listening to it for three seconds or less as her superpower, but it turns out that she has a more legitimate and equally useless superpower:
Her sense of smell is superior to any human being on the planet.
Unfortunately, this is the worst of the five senses to possess in super quantities. As far as I can tell, this superpower only allows her to smell the dog or similarly distasteful scents when no one else can.
Unless your sense of smell is superior enough to sniff out the chemical components of a bomb at an airport, a super sense of smell is an atrocious power to have.
It prevents you from sitting in the train car with the restroom.
It makes you smell the dead skunk on the road for much longer than anyone else in the car.
And yes, it lets you smell the dog when no one else in the house can smell her unless she is in your lap.
On a positive note, her superpower fits the classic motif of combining a superpower with an associated weakness.
Now all I need is a name for her superhero persona, and she can be on the team. Suggestions?
