Tales of the Parodyverse - Re: That's a bit cold.

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Subj: Re: That's a bit cold.
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 at 03:31:37 pm EDT (Viewed 3 times)

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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 at 02:09:26 pm EDT (Viewed 461 times)

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Had Anna been around there would have had to be a determined attempt to take her out of the picture more permenently, for reasons that will become apparent.

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Plus Yuki is determined to keep her out of trouble, and may have just left her at the Lair Mansion anyhow. Anna isn't the least bit insulted - she trusts Yuki and is aware of the danger she's in.

When the Legion is in a more co-ordinated phase they're careful about exposing minors to dangerous situations.

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As much as I point out that Lara has teleportational abilities, she really can only teleport stuff she can either see or knows is there. Probably she could explore the place first and find the explosives or hostages and pull them out of there, but depending on the size of the place, it could take a while. Anna, on the other hand, can find all of the triggers instantly if they're remote because they're using radio frequency.

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That's another major expansion of Lara's powers.

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Don't you mean expansion *on* Lara's powers? I haven't really added anything to them above. $\:\)$

You've indicated that her energy abilities somehow allow her to jump universes. A corollary of that seems to be an ability to teleport herself within universes. This is the first time I've seen anything to suggest that she can shift other matter - at range - within universes. It doesn't seem to naturally follow from "can put out great amounts of energy".

It's the same problem for me as when Kirk decided CSFB! could fly. It doesn't really add anything to the character, it's not core to the general theme of the the characters powers, and it makes the character even less limited. It's like suddenly giving the Flash telepathy, very useful for an actual crimefighter but not so great from a storytelling or thematic point of view.

But I don't get to say what people want their characters to be able to do. I just avoid having Dream fly in my stories and I'll shy away from situations where Lara teleports stuff.

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I did say before though that her powers have very human limitations to them. How many people can pinpoint something they don't even know is there?

They're still limitations on a massive and useful new - or previously undemonstrated - power, though.

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She doesn't think much of herself sometimes so she's no reason to expect Jay would think much of her either. After all, Jay wasn't even interested enough to sleep with her.

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But he wasn't mean to her either.

Sally hasn't always got the highest self-esteem. At other times, when things are going well, she's the perfect self-confident party girl. At the moment I'm just putting her through the grinder.

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I suppose if she's around Chiaki would help, but she won't like it. She hates injustice, though, which would be her only motivation.

Sally's former closest female confidante was Elizabeth von Zemo. You can see why she's reluctant to form other close trusting relationships.

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Camellia's ambition was to be Queene over Faerie. Now that's been forbidden forever she's got to find new ways of venting her ambitions to rule.

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So basically everyone with the least bit of power is trying to take over the universe in a rotation?

They always have been. Camellia's not wanting to rule the whole universe yet though; just an Earth cleased of the infestation of humanity.