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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5345873" data-attributes="member: 2710">So I got to thinking what kind of abilities might develop in a big factory city on a desert planet, and here's where my head went:Brian works hard and keeps his mouth shut. And even if the others think he's jumpy and odd, they don't mind. Fact is, work at the forge is always a little easier when Brian's on shift. So they let him hum his tuneless tune and don't ask him questions about where he came from, and honest to goodness if it don't seem not so unbearably hot on Brian's shifts. Of course, that's exactly what Brian's so jumpy about. It's not their imaginations. The forge is cooler when Brian works, because ever since he was a little boy, he soaked up heat. Made life pleasant in the desert. Until Brian found out that heat didn't go away. No, it stayed all penned up inside of him, and if he wasn't careful, if he got angry or upset ... well, then things could get very hot, very fast.  It's happened once or twice. He's gotten better, learned to keep tighter reins on it, but, well, there's a reason he left home and came to Victoria city, where he didn't know anyone and no one knew him. And there's a reason why that wife-beating foreman's shirt caught fire when he wasn't anywhere near the forge, but Brian, he's the quiet type, so he keeps it to himself...---------Basically thermal control powers: environmental control with a little ignite or fire control, that sort of thing. I see him as torn between protecting his secret and feeling compelled to act when he sees something bad happening, knowing he has the ability to effect a better outcome.</blockquote>

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