Half-Ass

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“Half ass, whole hero!”

Half-Ass is the master of starting projects, then letting them fall to the wayside. But somehow, all that potential energy that would have been put into those projects—he’s got access to! Not just that, but possibly the energies that could have arisen out of inspiration from the unifinished endeavors!

He’s typed outlines or first pages to hundreds of novels and screenplays. He’s got designs for comic strips and sketches of comic book characters. His garage is filled with the shells of inventions and his workbench is piled with the startings of sculptures. He’s got start-ups, societies, clubs—all yet to have their first meetings.

And where does all this potential energy go? This energy of becoming allows Half-Ass to half become anything. Half another animal, half some other substance—pretty much half another anything.

The only limit seems to be the energy stored up from unended endeavors. If he ever starts to run out of power, he just starts a few more projects.

Though he’s got no shortage of ideas and goals to fail at, there is one goal he spends most his time trying to actually achieve. He wants to develop his potentiality powers to the point where he need only intend to start a project in order to draw on it’s energies. He’s sure he’ll achieve this and spends hours focusing on unstarted projects, even while swimming or sunbathing.

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