Backstory
a strange world event causes everyone to start to get magic power (angelfire), most of which is fleeting and benign.
Story
At first Sarena feels passed over, then she realizes she has the rarest of all, the magic siphon. As she experiments with different siphons, she becomes more bold, and more 'addicted' to using it, upsetting her friends.
Inciting Event
1 - Until there is a scarry event where someone with mind-control struts into a restaurant with two gorgeous mind-controlled shapeshifters, screwing with people. Only when he touches her, she siphons his mind control, and turns the tables.
2 - maybe she's 'bottom feeding', siphoning shape shifters to get the attention to boys... only to have herself taken over by someone with mind-control to demeaningly entertain them.... but when he touches her, she siphons the mind control and turns the tables on them all.
3 - maybe 'mind control' is pretty limiting, and it takes a few of them to
Limits to Siphon powers
one at a time? how long does it last? can she siphon the entire life force?
how strong are the siphon powers?
characters
Powers (common to rare)
fire, ice, claryvoiance, telekenesis, luck, shapeshift, mind-control, siphon
Ideas
( Magic users are alive and in hiding, working to find and hide new magic users. Something they do goes horribly wrong, and it starts an infection, which awakens magic in every human. ) Nerdy Trent's nerdy overly-sexual girlfriend Sarena laments her funky looks and low-status. Then the infection hits, at first she thinks she got the short end of that stick too, until she finds out she's a rare siphon, who can absorb any power, and either use it, or her innate powers (telekenesis, fire, ?). (maybe if she siphons it all, that person will permanently lose their magic, and she'll gain that as an 'innate' ability (though still she has to siphon magic to use it).
Trent's innate power is mind-control / suggestion, which he finds out accidentally, and then tries on Sarena - which she finds mostly comical.
only over a few days, he experiments and starts mind controlling her alot, and making her not realize he's doing it.
Sarena discovers she's a siphon when she's holding his hand and coaching him to do telekenesis, and she siphons his power and does it herself... comical "i'm not doing this. are you doing this? i'm not doing this. ohh wait, i am doing this!" / when they realize it's her, Trent explains what a siphon is, and she tries his mind control power in a comical way, and finds it totally works. She has a little fun, then asks him if he's been mind controling her, and he confesses he has.
Sarena plays a trick on him, siphoning his power, but pretending to still obey his suggestions.
he takes her to a magic support group meeting, and she starts to relize she can 'feel' the different magic within the people, almost like colors or flavors.
..when someone confesses they are a shifter... he whispers for her to siphon the shifter. she gives him a funny glance, and then remembers she's pretending to be mind controlled, so she does as he requested. then he takes her to the hallway outside, and asks her to 'try to shapeshift'. she makes a funny joke "what do you want me to shift into? a bird? a donkey?" - "no, change yourself, make yourself sexier."
she makes some jokes, then melts away her love handles, and laughs at how much easier that was than starving herself for months. / "he prods her to do more." / "