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"I can see his genes."

"Rei Ayanami had always known what she was. It was hard not to, when every moment of your existence you could sense your greater body deep in the Geofront, far below the surface, or feel the AT-Fields of those around you screaming their isolation at each other."

"At that moment, he happened to chance a glance the way he had come. He came by train, of course, as he was instructed, but he looked up the road. He saw waves of heat, the heat of a summer that never ended, rising from the road, creating the illusion of water in the places where it lowered. He also saw waves of shimmering infrared radiation, the heat rising from the ground and the buildings, and the faint interplay of cosmic radiation, the little that leaked through the ionosphere, painting the world in a dozen hues no one else could see."
Shinji Ikari, Last Child of Krypton, chapter 1

Grace: I can also "feel" the dice? It's hard to describe, but... if I focus, it sorta feels like touching them? Anyways, since the numbers are indentations, I can tell you there's a D-twenty by Sarah that I'm... pretty sure rolled a twenty.
Sarah: Yep! Twenty!
Justin: That's so Jedi.

"Think of the difference between a simple eye, capable only of differentiating light and dark, and the eye of a mantis shrimp, with its 16 different color receptors. Add a LIDAR array, an x-ray interferometer, and an orbital telescope, and you begin to approach the breadth and depth of the sensory capacity we process. We are awash in a swirling cacophony of data that passes through normal people's senses like neutrinos through the photosphere of a star. But for us, it sings."

"It was like I could see everything. I could see through walls, flesh, bones, machinery, everything. I could see heat and cold as if they were visible to the naked eye. I could hear Nam-Ek's breathing, Faora strolling back and forth on the bridge, the heartbeats of everyone board this ship, all of it as if it was happening right inside my ear drum."

"He also recalled that Superman had other powers. X-ray vision, and heat vision, and half a dozen other visions. All from the comic books. All dreamed up by those idiots down at DC Comics, who really believed that such a thing was possible. Who bought into the myth so much, they tried to rationalize out every bit of it.
Only here, in this dream, it needed no rationalization."

"Hoo! Drive wit' me eyes? I can't see more den ten meters wid dese, brah. I use electromagnetic proprioreception. Much better dan eyes."

"Kara was using her super-hearing for various things. First, to check the pulse rate of the processors and guards. A bit tense, but nothing which indicated they might have discerned their identities. She increased her listening level a bit more and caught a cacophony of sound all over the planet. Her brain became a super-processing unit to filter out all but what she was really seeking for.
She thought about just using her vision powers, but didn't want to be seen looking in too many directions. The guards were bound to be suspicious enough as it was, and it was easier to keep her visuals here in the processing room to keep up her ruse while her aurals sought out the information.
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"I can feel radar along my skin, cosmic rays glistening through the clouds. The hum of the trees creaking through the earth, the pheromone songs of the forest. The bioelectric voices of the river, tugging at the Earth's magnetic field. A million sounds, a million smells, a million sights. I'm awake. For the first time in my life, I'm awake — and I'm whole."
Kimiko Ross, on upgrading to a fully synthetic body, Dresden Codak

"That nanotech you've got in you gives off a strange energy signature. It would look purple, if you could see it."
Kara Zor-El, Way of the World

Superman: "See it?— A faint trail of electrically-charged particles— a leftover trace of the teleportation-beam, I'd guess!"
Supergirl: "I see it, all right... And I've just tracked it to its source!"


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