I'm not sure I can explain this to someone who doesn't have one themselves, but as far as I can tell, everyone's power is the kind of thing it makes sense to them to have. That's just intuition, though. For all I know it could be random and we could all just be reading too much into it, like horoscopes. Or having the power could make you the kind of person who would have it instead of the other way around.
Not sure I can get into the whys. Let's say it was supposed to be trivial and leave it at that.
Speculations:
I think the number of sides on a coin is an indicator of power. More sides means it can do bigger or more complicated things.
If mints are where nonnative powers come from, there has to have been a native mint at some point, doesn't there? But I've never seen one. I can't figure out why.
I said nonnative powers are easier to figure out than native ones, and that's almost always true. Mints are the exception. Or I think they are, anyway. They're a lot more complicated than any other power, but at the same time in some ways they're simpler.
There's some element of interpretation involved whenever I figure out a power. I don't just directly perceive how they work.
I've figured some things out about minting that I'm not sure I really believe. They're kind of unnerving.
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Date: 2012-11-01 01:23 am (UTC)