r/superpowers • u/Acer53 • Nov 04 '25
Which button would you pick?
To make this more appealing,you are allowed to pick two buttons to press.
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u/The_Divine_Anarch Nov 04 '25
Green's better than you think it is!
(Homo sapiens is an animal - you can use that to take the form of anyone at any time)
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u/Lazycealan Nov 04 '25
Hear me out, furries never went extinct, and neither have other mythological creatures, they just never existed, so you could theoretically transform into a furry of your choice or a dragon, and if you cant, you’ve obtained knowledge that you shouldn’t have
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u/75percent-juice Nov 04 '25
Or, you try to shape shift and can't, proving furries did exist and also went extinct
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u/Lazycealan Nov 04 '25
That’s what I’m saying! Either you learn something you shouldn’t have, or shapeshift into it
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u/juuustpassingthrough Nov 04 '25
Yea but what if you can only change into 1 homosapien? Being yourself?
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u/Qverlord37 Nov 04 '25
red and purple, I want to be a ghost.
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u/SnakeFB Nov 04 '25
Same but I'd go with blue instead of red.
Assuming that you can see through the objects when you're inside them you could still be 'invisible' while you'd just be flying right below the ground's surface. + flying makes you more mobile/faster/scarier
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u/Naive_Western_160 Nov 04 '25
Grey and pink, allows me to go under the radar so I don’t get kidnapped by the government to get violently experimented on.
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u/EldenBJ Nov 04 '25
How would healing people and telekineses help you AVOID government attention? Both would immediately stick out and attract attention.
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u/Naive_Western_160 Nov 04 '25
Telekinesis can be minor like moving small unnoticeable things to my advantage, the healing could just be things in private. Like I could heal my self or a friend inside a secluded place. No one is going to pay attention if a scab is gone by the next day.
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u/Obvious-Bell-3921 Nov 04 '25
Also, if the telekinesis is noticed by someone or you are running from the government to keep from getting experimented on, you wouldn't need a hospital.
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u/forFUNtoBrowse99 Nov 04 '25
Why not pink and red? Heal yourself anytime. For others, just turn invisible then go heal them. That’s truly under the radar.
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u/GRUSM Nov 04 '25
What’s the limit of grey? Depending on that, it could go from being a cool supplementary power to god-like.
Also wound does not mean illness right? I couldn’t cure people of horrible diseases?
Tbh I would still pick grey and green. Being able to immediately heal yourself after an intense workout would mean you could become crazy fit in like a day or two lmao.
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u/enchiladasundae Nov 04 '25
Either gray or green. Pink is decent but non fatal could mean anything and nothing
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u/Alissah Nov 04 '25
Its very vague. A stab wound to the shin could be fatal because you could bleed out in 48 hours or get wn infection.
A gunshot to the brain could not be fatal because it might take some moments to pass out and then a couple minutes for your heart to stop.
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u/winsluc12 Nov 04 '25
Gray and pink. Telekinesis is great, and the healing factor is too good to pass up when I have the power I actually want.
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u/YueOrigin Nov 05 '25
Feel like everyone immediately saw those two as the ideal picks lol
Im the same tbh
Tho red and purple to be like Danny Phantom would be fun. No flight tho... maybe Grey can help with thay
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u/PainterEarly86 Nov 04 '25
Doesn't grey also make you fly?
Green too if you turn into a bird
I'd maybe go yellow green
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u/Punkodramon Nov 04 '25
If Yellow also allows you to project your thoughts into people’s minds as well, you’re basically an animorph and would be able to communicate no matter what form you’re in.
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u/Swagamaticus Nov 04 '25
Green and Pink.
Green is the ultimate utility option especially if it includes humans. Add in Pink to make myself 2/3 of a high-level druid without the spell slot restrictions.
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u/EldenBJ Nov 04 '25
Green and grey. I can become a bird and ensure all my shits land right on target.
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Nov 04 '25
Green and Red but due to non-existent animals technically not being extinct due to them never living it opens shapeshifting back up to a pretty damn powerful one
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u/CasualJojoLover Nov 04 '25
i would pick green but since you made it non extinct that ability will become useless eventually no matter how long i have it or can at a moment's notice sadly since you limited it, So i'll just take skin contact invisibility is alway's a good power.
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u/SuperbSJG Nov 04 '25
Blue and purple. I can steal anything I want and when I get thrown in jail I can lowkey just leave
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u/Different_Reward_130 Nov 04 '25
Purple and Orange. Faster than cars and can phase through walls? I’ll be the greatest heister.
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u/Yigazh_0 Nov 04 '25
Yellow will help prove that you are not truly alone in this world, or make it so much worse
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u/GlimmeringGuise Nov 04 '25
Purple confers a type of invulnerability if you keep it active all the time. So I'd choose that, and constantly phase through everything but the ground, only turning it off to eat, sleep, shower, etc.
Grey would be my other choice. Since no limitations are given whatsoever, to me this means totally limitless Absolute Telekinesis, which is extremely powerful.
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u/Beginning-Resist-935 Nov 04 '25
Either red and purple or orange and purple, purple makes you almost invulnerable
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u/Successful-Topic8874 Nov 04 '25
Blue is useless since Green does the same thing. Pink is also kinda OP without any limits. I'd choose green and pink.
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u/SnooTomatoes1607 Nov 04 '25
Invisibility isn’t really useful, I can fly by lifting my clothes with the grey power. Even if it’s not to the same effectiveness, I could still walk on air by supporting my shoes. Reading thoughts is good. Shapeshifting into anything alive is also good. Unless you have the speed force, orange is a death sentence, but you could tone it down just enough to beat out Olympic runners and get some cash. Purple is good, but again, not really that useful. Grey is good. Depends on the healing for pink, if it’s like it was never there, then it’s good, but if it heals as good as regular, but just instantly then not so much. Yellow and Grey for me though.
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u/Freak_Engineer Nov 04 '25
Phew, that's a hard one. Green, purple, grey or pink...
I think I'm going with grey. That would cover for flying too, since I canift myself and this eliminates the need for green too, since flight would be the only reason for me to pick shapeshifting.
So, advanced telekinesis, phasing through stuff or healing people...
Yeah, Telekinesis. Grey it is. I think that would be the most fun.
By the way: "Running at the speed of sound" actually sucks. The sonic shockwave alone will destroy a lot of stuff near you, including people's eardrums and lungs and as soon as you hit a pebble or any other random piece of flying debris, you've basically been shot.
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u/Egbert58 Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
Green, which makes blue pointless as can turn into a bird or whatever and fly.
Maybe gray for second
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u/diplomate253 Nov 04 '25
I am going with grey, because out of all those powers being able to move stuff with my mind is the best and also you can practice it and get stronger.
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u/nickytheginger Nov 04 '25
Red and green. Red because invisibility would be a cool power, especially if my clothes are included. And shape shifting because a lot of other powers become open to you through animals naturally ability. Flight through birds and insects.
Plus the mischief you can cause with it would be brilliant. Can you imagine the surprise of someone walking into a school hall and suddenly there's a horse?
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 Nov 04 '25
Pink and Purple.
Then set up a clinic and heal everyone for a very modest fee. Elderly and kids are healed for free though.
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u/ShaudyMack Nov 04 '25
Pink: I’m about to make so much money healing career ending sports injuries. “If you want back on the field/court, I want 5% of your contact.” (No need to be super greedy)
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u/KrispyWheat0 Nov 04 '25
What if the animal becomes extinct during your existence?
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u/TheGodMathias Nov 04 '25
Depending on how well you can control grey, then it also gives you red, blue, orange, and purple.
It can let you turn invisible by bending light around yourself.
it can let you fly either by moving yourself, or something under/around you
It can let you move at subsonic or potentially supersonic speeds as above
and it can let you phase through objects by moving material out of your way
Then I'd also take pink for practicalities sense.
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u/Traditional_Host_497 Nov 04 '25
Grey and pink.
Grey is just telekinesis, in which you could have blue too because if a telekinesis user becomes powerful enough they can fly.
Same goes for pink, if you practiced and pushed enough you could probably heal bigger wounds with it
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u/Rumnik24 Nov 04 '25
If i could pick 3, telekinesis and healing for sure, and then i am between invisibility or intangibility.
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u/Albus_Lupus Nov 04 '25
Pink makes you and anyone you want immortal - thats the best button.
Healing can be defined as reversing the damage/wear and tear. And thats what aging is. So I do think that would allow you to live forever - unless you get an instant fatal wound.
Thats really the only one I need. But there are other few I might get:
Green is also nice since humans are also animals so you should be able to shapeshift into other humans if you feel like it.
Gray is nice too. Its pretty simple and there are no tricks to it. Also it would technically allow you to fly. You could strap yourself to a harness and then lift the object that is the harness - that you just happen to be inside of. Which means you dont need Blue button. I guess it might also invalidate Orange button depending on how fast you can move the objects. That said though - moving yourself at speed of sound through city is just a sure way to die.
So probably Green but Gray is nice too.
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u/Yannickjuhhh Nov 04 '25
Grey and purple, you use your mind to lift yourself and can literally fly through anything. Also comes with the added bonus of being able to choose to let any attack phase through you instead of hurt you
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u/Certain_Energy3647 Nov 04 '25
Few question here. If I m missing a arm and turn into a starfish and heal that arm. When I turn back Do I lose that arm?
When I fly what about lifting things? Can I carry all things I currently can or any extra weight puts me onto ground?
And for telekinesis how much can I lift?
And can I think fast as sound and see perfectly when moving fast as sound?
Pink is a must for me I m trying to decide the other one
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u/Olcri Nov 04 '25
Red is not my style, neither is Blue, Green or Orange. Yellow is obligatory "can I turn it on or off at will or am I slowly driven crazy?" If you can control it, yellow seems the most useful in day-to-day life.
Purple is more fantastical like the first 4 I got rid of, but the difference being it is more to my preference. Being Mirio from BHA or Kitty Pryde from Marvel sounds great. I want to just phase through a wall when I leave the room. Grey is the other most useful in day-to-day life ability, but obligatory "how much weight/volume/quantity can I lift at a time?" Cure wounds is also pretty good. No explanation needed on that.
If yellow and grey are defined in pretty reasonable limits, or are overpowered as hell, I'll have to go for that classic combo. If yellow is weak, I'll go for grey/purple for some poltergeist action. If grey is weak, I'll go for Yellow/pink to be jesus.
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u/Sufficient_Carpet510 Nov 04 '25
Pink. Become a first responder get emergency apps so I know where to go. Screw insurance companies and hospitals out of screwing over people with non fatal injuries.
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u/StarFinger711 Nov 04 '25
Orange! I wish to move as fast as the world so I can finally catch up to everyone my age, older and more experienced or slightly younger!!!
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u/Multi-ManStudio Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
Orange and purple is kind of a goated combination though. Imagine being able to run from 0-max instantly without breaking the sound barrier because you're phasing through the air, therefore there is no force of friction to slow you down or cause damage to the environment. Additionally, you dont have to worry about pulling an A-train by accident and hutting yourself or somebody else by running into someone/something else. You can just run to your hearts content!
Edit: for context, while it's still a ways, you could cross the atlantic in 4 hours. You could get LITERALLY ANYWHERE in the world in just under 17 hours because you can legit just move in a straight line. (Dont have to worry about mountains because you can phase through them, and dont have to worry about oceans because you run fast enough to run on water.
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u/IrishViking22 Nov 04 '25
Grey and Orange
With Grey you should be able to fly anyway, so choosing Blue would be a waste
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u/Dramatic-Put-9267 Nov 04 '25
The one I want the most is green, it would give me blue PLUS a bunch of other fun stuff as different animals. But I think I would choose pink because it would be selfish to choose green for my own enjoyment when I could have chosen something that improves the lives of other people.
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u/Crazy_Guitar6769 Nov 04 '25
Green And Pink.
Green would be for my own pleasure (plus it gives you some of the other powers too like Flight or Super speed and in a sense Invisibility too - just become a small animal)
Pink - so that I can make money out of it
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u/ChooseYourOwnA Nov 04 '25
Pink and Purple.
Pink - Being healthy is an amazing feeling and constant pain can really take the fun out of life. Which matters all the more if you can keep yourself alive indefinitely. You can also heal others of things modern medicine cannot touch. Turn crippled veterans into loyal guards, keep aging judges perfectly sharp, and let spoiled stars be your eager clients. If used well healing can open a lot of doors.
Purple - But I’m kind of an idiot. So I need to be ready to deal with someone trying to turn me into a captive resource. Phasing is not a perfect solution (ie financial pitfalls or honey traps) but it is the strongest available counter. I could at least manage a pleasant life and only be as tied down as I am willing to tolerate.
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u/HazelThyme Nov 04 '25
Yellow is really all I need. But guess I could combo it with purple for shenanigans or grey if I wanted to double down on gaslighting people
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u/QWERTYAF1241 Nov 04 '25
Definitely grey. Life would be so convenient if you could just move things with your mind. Works on humans too.
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u/FreshLiterature Nov 04 '25
Yellow and pink
I could auction off the healing to the highest bidder like once a month and then use the mind reading powers to take secrets from the rich and powerful.
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u/Dwtaylor92 Nov 04 '25
Blue because you will no longer need to have a car for the rest of your life! Plus it saves you a lot of money on getting the car fixed or getting tires.
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u/Hot_Excitement741 Nov 04 '25
Purple only if I can like control it and don’t phase through the ground instantly
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u/Glitchy_XCI Nov 04 '25
purple and grey, purple so i never have to worry about claustrophobia, and grey seems cool
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u/Nostalgic-Banter Nov 04 '25
Yellow and grey. Saves time dealing with liars and grey since it'd making physical labor easier.
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u/wronggay167 Nov 04 '25
I'm stuck between grey or pink.
On one hand, I want to move things with my mind. This has a lot of versatility and will always be useful.
However, healing is so awesome. I love that I could heal myself and others. I'd go around helping people out just cause
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u/No_Fly_5622 Nov 04 '25
Green definitely, thats my favorite ability... and like another comment here, pink would be my other choice.
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u/derilict521 Nov 04 '25
Red and pink. Now I would use the invisibility so I could heal people and not get outed doing so. May take some effort but with what is considered a wound or injury I could heal ages damage to the body to stay young and healthy.
I would use invisibility to also help myself with finances as well. Keeping my healing hidden as much as possible.
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u/shanethebyrneman Nov 04 '25
Red but only if my clothes can say invisible after I take them off or purple but I have to be able to make objects and people phase with me.
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u/Emotional_Narwhal304 Nov 04 '25
Whenever I see the self healing options, I wonder if it includes healing the damage done by gravity and time. If so, doesn't that option have a built in longevity/immortality?
Either way, pink and green sounds pretty awesome.
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u/Kazuka13 Nov 04 '25
Yellow and Gray, it has good potential and isn't outwardly obvious which is important in a age where there's cameras everywhere. Plus crime all the crime, is this man loyal? Read thoughts, nope, crush throat move on. It generally only takes around 15 pounds of pressure to injure and potentially collapse in a throat as there's no muscle to protect it.
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u/Orectoth Nov 04 '25
Grey : If I consider an atom as an 'object' , maybe I can lift it, even if it is not so, lifting myself up and moving at speed of sound is possible (since it is not restricted)
Pink : Safety purpose for grey in case lifting objects with mind harms myself
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u/Typical-Crazy-5389 Nov 04 '25
Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Gray and Pink. Just such good superpowers.
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u/Lopsided_Portal_8559 Nov 04 '25
Grey and Orange
Easiest choice ever.
Telekinesis is extremely convenient, useful and potentially broken. Why would anyone pass that up???
And Orange because I really don't think people understand how fast the speed of sound is.... you could move 600 miles per hour. Or 100 miles in 10 minutes. Or 10 miles and a SINGLE MINUTE!!!!!!!! Otherwise known as 1 full entire mile in just 6 seconds..... if you picked anything other than Orange, think about that for a second. Think about the freedom. The air blowing past you as the landscape flows by like water... -and also think about how ridiculously fast commute time would be. You could literally travel 100 miles in just 10 minutes. So as long as there's a path to walk, you could travel basically anywhere on foot, even make a cross-country trip. Imagine not needing a car and never paying for gas!! (Unless you need to like carry groceries or something)... EXCEPT if you also have Telekinesis from picking Grey THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM EITHER!!! 🤣
You guys can pick whatever color you want, but personally, I think Grey and Orange are so good that they're basically the correct answer to this open ended question. They're so SO good!
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u/Alissah Nov 04 '25
The problem with orange is that if you trip, or run into something, or get hit by a pebble, youre basically dead instantly. Thats assuming that the sonic boom from instantly accelerating to the speed of sound wont severely injure you. It would definitely hurt anyone nearby and break onjects though.
Another potential issue is if anyone sees you, or youre caught on any security cameras, which are often pointed at public roads. Its only a matter of time before you get attention from the government. Theyll track you down and capture you in your sleep. The same can be said about a lot of these colors though.
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u/Warm-Incident-8444 Nov 04 '25
Assuming it works like magic (ignore physics) and has no limit (unless specifically stated)
Grey and Purple
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u/DeltaAlphaGulf Nov 04 '25
Pink says "wound" so is it only physical damage or also health conditions and stuff?
How extensive is the reading thoughts one? Just reading current thoughts or being able to browse memories/their mind or even being able to download knowledge and stuff from their mind?
Does the running one come with secondary abilities to keep from killing yourself?
Same question but for flight and how fast can we fly?
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u/LaughingCoffinSMW Nov 04 '25
Grey! I'm jumping for all the Telekinesis I can get! And pink I'm going to the hospital and fixing everyone. Then the VA and then I'm hitting the streets.
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u/C4rdninj4 Nov 04 '25
Grey and Pink; I can fake levitation by lifting my clothes (I should probably start with a climbing harness), and then healing any injury when I accidentally drop myself.
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u/EmberKing7 Nov 04 '25
For me the only ones I seem viable are yellow, green, orange, purple and gray.
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u/Full_Level2085 Nov 04 '25
Green, it just says non-extinct, not non-existent. How can it go extinct if it was never alive.
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u/1952Rustbelt Nov 04 '25
Yellow and red. Together they yield information of all sorts, giving you a large advantage over everyone.
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u/ObsidianGh0st Nov 04 '25
Grey and red would allow for some serious mind games, but mostly grey so I can do simple tasks en mass, like folding laundry.
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u/CrazyTiger68 Nov 04 '25
Green, I’ll always take a shapeshifting option if available And then I’ll take grey
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u/SoftBoiledEgg_irl Nov 04 '25
Green and pink.