Man, I'm probably not the best person to tell you about that. Like I said, my powers are just knock-off versions of what I already had at home, so I didn't really have to go through that initial period of adjusting to them or experimenting with all kindsa different things to discover them the way most of the others have.

I think some of them respond to certain emotions? That's how a friend of mine found out about her healing powers. She saw blood, panicked, and then bam - next thing she knew she was making it so nobody could ever tell anybody got injured in the first place. Sometimes my gem glows and that's definitely always a thing that happens whenever I'm feeling a certain way.

[But let's not go into how his gem is activated by feelings of self-loathing.]