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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 05:09:41 pm EDT (Viewed 377 times)
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    That means that nonexistent things can creep in that way, then.


Possibly - but Liu Xi has no reason to consider that yet. Remember, to her, void is this vast frontier. It's like building a small house in nowhere, Montana and getting robbed - the last thing you'd ever expect.

Of course since the door to the new bathroom is firmly anchored in the physical world, all one has to do is leave and shut the door.



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      As for the construction of the bathroom itself: That's just arrangement of elements, which she has slowly begun to perfect.



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    I'm always slightly worried when characters develop powers that move away from their core skillset. It's like the Flash suddenly getting the ability to read minds, or Spider-Man learning to fly. These things detract from the shining simlicity of the original concept.


With elemental power, she can build the bathroom already, but she'd need space to put it in.



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    My concern with Liu Xi is that the void control moves her away from the Chinese elements base that was her original shtick. Void control gives her teleportation, and space folding, and the ability to hide, and the ability to shift people thousands of miles away and all kind of other things. Her other four elemental skills are quite uneccessary and become a mere codicil to this one overwhelming power. And then Liu Xi also dabbles in sorcery.


She's not very good at the sorcery part, not even nearly as good as Vinnie. She mostly learned a few simple spells for self-defense, since bad guys keep taking away her ability to do much else.



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    Even Liu Xi's other elemental abilities are becoming rather wide. If she can combine and control elements now to form things as complex as plumbing or wiring (which presumably means she must understand plumbing and wiring) she's pretty much got an entire new skillset again there - the power to create anything.


Create, no. Duplicate is more like it. She also needs a source for all the elements she uses, which is easy when they're common and everywhere. Cloning diamonds would be very difficult.



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    I like Liu Xi. I'd like her more if she was less all-powerful.


Ironically, as she learns more about void, she's going to start to understand how dangerous it is, and she probably won't use it nearly as often anymore. Which would encourage her to use the core 5 elements more - since they're all around her, and can be seen and quantified, they're far safer.

It'll be kind of a funny circular event, where you think she's learning to become more powerful, but as she learns, she's figuring out that it's not a good thing. Lara Night learned that years ago - now it's Liu Xi's turn.






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