This one has been on my mind for a while now, and goes something like this:
A man discovers his ability to make people laugh. Not like laughing gas laugh, but genuinely laugh.
His life orbited around the fear of being like anyone else, just another person adding to the traffic, another body in a better man's uniform.
He discovers his talent when he joins a talent show for his community. His jokes and antics make them laugh at him and laugh with him as well, giving them a therapeutic catharsis. Yet he can't use his powers on himself, so in order to find his own way he leaves his tight-knit community to find his purpose, starting his journey in a third-world country surrounded by poverty and hopelessness. After helping families put themselves together, he joins a clown brigade, taking on the name "Bigby" after picking it from a hat.
From there he travels to another place, this time ravaged by a monsoon (possibly part 2 of the story), where he learns that laughter doesn't necessarily help heal, but can enhance empathy and calm the victims down. Grief can overpower laughter, so all you can do is empathize.
At some point he finds friends in a girl his age, who shares the opposite power (helps people grieve instead of laugh), a few others and more as he travels the world to bring happiness to the darkest places in people's hearts and minds.
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