"Yeah, my brother did a lot of that, too. Driving me nuts with it."

He grinned a huge grin, thinking back to the time Robby had appropriated all the pots and pans in the house to try to build a mecha. All Rich had wanted was a pot to make himself some mac n' cheese but nooooo...

"But you should'a seen how he was as a Nova. Worldmind said she hadn't seen intuitive gravimetric force-skills like Robby's in seven generations. He even held a Strontian -- we're talking an alpha level war criminal -- pinned for two hours. Strontians are some of the strongest aliens in my universe because their powers are based on confidence. The woman he pinned? Had killed thousands of people."

Rich tapped his temple.

"It was that big ol' brain of his. Made it so he could do crazy things when he had power over gravity. Give his brain an inch and he'd use it to run a marathon."

Slowly, so Donnie didn't think it was an attack, Rich reached out and tapped Donnie's forehead with one finger.

Boop.

"That's always way more useful than muscles or being walking supernovas. It's never the powers that matter, it's what people do with 'em."