“This sorta plays out the classic “Flight or Invisibility” hypothetical.
Would you rather be able to fly or turn invisible?
Keeping in mind that these powers come with NO other powers. So, you are not super strong and could only carry someone while flying if you could carry them while walking. You could fly at a moderate speed, let’s say 30 mph, but not like 1,000 mph.
If you were invisible, you couldn’t turn other things invisible, like your clothes. I’m going to say we wouldn’t see food going through your body, and anything, like let’s say you have a metal pin somewhere in your body, would also be invisible. We’ll say your outer layer of skin, basically, is invisible and hides everything inside. But again, no other powers.
Flight is more amazing. Even flying kinda average speed and whatnot, it’d be pretty awesome. Even if you were going 30, you could probably get to work WAY faster because you’d go straight there, right?
Okay, the actual travel time, if you’re over 30 minutes or so by car, is going to be almost identical. But it’s gotta be more pleasant.
I guess it’d come in handy if you were ever in danger, your car broke down, whatever. Also, you could bail out of an airplane, so if you had anxiety about flying, that’d make things a little better, I expect.
But.
Invisibility is definitely the ticket to never working a day in your life. Robbing banks would be SO easy. The court cases would be easy. Even if you totally got caught because someone saw a stack of bills float away, how would they prove it was you?
A) “Are you suggesting that I’m able to turn invisible?
B) “If you CAN prove that I am able to turn invisible, somehow, wouldn’t it then be plausible that other people can turn invisible, and therefore, how can you prove that I’m the ONLY invisible man, and how can you prove that I robbed the bank? Even if you found my DNA and fingerprints on the scene, we’ve now learned that something we previously thought impossible is completely possible in terms of invisibility powers, so wouldn’t it stand to reason that other things, like DNA and fingerprinting being wrong or my DNA being planted, are also possible?”
I think I’d choose invisibility. But it IS sort of too bad to get invisibility powers after aging out of the interest in spying on a girls’ locker room. Maybe it’s for the best.
Flying would primarily be of benefit to me in that I could have a more pleasant commute to work. With invisibility, I wouldn’t have to go at all. So…that’s a slam dunk.”