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Alden Thorn wants to be a superhero — and the interstellar System that licenses Earth's supers hands him a support skill instead. What follows is the most patient, character-first story in the catalog: school, friendship, alien bureaucracy, and the slow discovery that helping is its own kind of power.
Progression: deliberate and personal; one skill, explored to its depths, in a superhero world run by alien administrators.
Reader fit: you want prose and character over crunch, worldbuilding that rewards patience, and a hard arc that earns its warmth.
Texture: thoughtful, funny, occasionally harrowing.