User blog:The real cal howard/Special Powers for all Potents

For the record, this is for Potents as in the subset of "superpowered" humans, rather than the series. This will explain certain powers they have, and some qualities they have. Also note that some cybernetic enhancements can reach the same effects of most of these.

Not all Potents have crazy powers
Not all are like Seth and his reactive evolution or Delia's plant powers. Some with super strength could simply be 10-A or 9-C. There are some who have superhuman charisma, or even the ability to iron clothes perfectly every time.

Potents have a traceable gene determining them being Potents
Basically, what makes a Potent a Potent is a certain gene. This gene can be tracked by certain machinery, and the trace gets stronger depending on the power of the individual. Think of it like a Scouter from Dragon Ball, mixed with the Dragon Radar from...Dragon Ball. Xarshians, magical beings from a parallel plane of existence (very important that I explain them later in a different blog), do not have this gene. However, breeding downwards from humans has the child's genetics be identical to the gene, and vulnerable to the tracking. Powerful enough invisibility users make tracking impossible.

Potents make up less than .000001% of the population
They're obviously very rare. The Potents that are capable of performing anything above even building level feats are even rarer...by a lot.

Potents are attracted to each other by fate
By attracted, I mean drawn to. Not physically. Potents attract fate manipulators and such, and have beings slightly changing the wheel of fate to make things more interesting. We'll...get to that much later.

Potents are more likely to be attracted to other Potents
This time I do mean in a romantic light. Because the gene wishes to spread and give powers to more individuals through evolution and such, Potents give out a hormone that will be more attractive to another Potent rather than a normal human, though relationships between the two are the exact opposite of impossible. "Trouble in paradise" happens, but it's not severe. If they get married, the rate of divorce is much lower than that of normal humans.

Power related things
Note that a large portion of these apply to powerful Potents rather than the lower ones.

Strength training is that of a normal human
Let me explain. Doing normal human workouts improve a Potent by the same proportion that it would a normal human. For example, a Potent and a normal bodybuilder bench 200 pounds. Both would gain strength proportional to their previous power, like a normal person should, despite the fact that the former can bench press mountains with the same effort.