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god plays dice / billy kaplan (wiccan) / by aud koch

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I really really like Billy Kaplan, but it’s more that i like what Marvel could be doing with his character than what they’re actually doing.  — because it feels like Marvel doesn’t have a damn clue what to do with him, most especially when it comes to his powers (but also when it comes to his family situation).  Is he this powerful being capable of warping the fabric of reality or is he this dumb kid who can’t get away from a gun to the head and can’t use his powers if he can’t hear his own voice?  (Like, seriously, WTF?)  It’s like no one knows for sure what he can or can’t do, and so the different writers create different arbitrary limits for his powers that don’t make any sense and aren’t compatible.

It’s really. frustrating. to me, because i think there’s an incredibly cool and incredibly easy explanation of his powers that they could go with:  all that Billy does is manipulate the rules of probability in (Quantum) Physics.

Right?  Okay, because what Quantum Physics tells us is that pretty much anything is possible — it’s just not terribly probable.  It’s entirely possible that every single atom on Earth will spontaneously disappear and reappear somewhere else in the universe, and it is possible to travel at superluminal speeds, and it’s possible that the entire universe will suddenly collapse into a massive black hole.  Possible, not probable. 

But if Billy had the power to see & tweak these probabilities — the ability to manipulate the essence of matter —, he could cause all sorts of weird-ass stuff to happen, and you can bet that there would be an insane learning curve for that sort of thing.  (Plus, it would explain the electricity thing because i bet manipulating electromagnetism — which is pretty much just the movement of electrons — would be a lot easier than manipulating other aspects of physics that deal with protons and neutrons and muons etc. etc.)

Anyway, that’s my idea for Billy’s powers, and i’m sticking with it.

I really love this headcanon! Because that means that Tommy’s powers are basically the other faces of quantum physics and general relativity. 

Rather than bend and tweak the probabilities of quantum physics, Tommy manipulates the fabric of space time, bending it around him to run faster. He’s also able to manipulate matter at the atomic level too; he manipulates the space between atoms when he vibrates through things, and excites electrons and disrupts chemical bonds when he explodes them. 

So when you combine their powers, they cover the whole breadth of possibilities of Quantum Mechanics and that’s super cool and I love it. Plus, it meets up with what Heinburg originally planned, which is that Tommy’s just as powerful as Billy, but then the ball was kind of dropped.

(I had a really long post about this that was much better when I first saw this on my dash, but tumblr ate it 😑 so hopefully this explains my thoughts just as well)

… . . OH MY GOD.  That’s — that had never occurred to me, I’ve got such bad tunnel vision with Billy, but — that’s SO AMAZING!  What a crazy perfect idea for Tommy.  Thank you so much for typing that out, @hulkling!  (●♡∀♡))ヾ☆*。