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Reply Subj: Re: That's a bit cold. Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 at 04:45:12 pm EDT (Viewed 434 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: When the Legion is in a more co-ordinated phase they're careful about exposing minors to dangerous situations.Quote: The problem there is that Anna is "growing up" really fast. She's almost at the place where her creator intended her to be, becoming more self reliant.I'm not actually sure how one would assess the emotional age of somebody nonhuman. Quote: Quote: 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".Quote: That's what I get for typing while tired. I think when I pictured teleporting explosives out, I thought that meant teleporting in, snatching them, and then teleporting them away. I was trying to explain that Lara is *unable* to transport things if she can't see and touch them. She also needs to have some kind of knowledge of the destination point if she's transporting anything but just herself (she herself can just cruise along the waves of energy until she decides to stop).Quote: So she can wander the compound and send the explosives somewhere safe, but there's a good chance that as stealthy as she possibly can be, she could miss some, or that someone would notice some of the explosives missing and set off the rest before she can finish.That's not as bad as random teleportation but it's still a major power to have as a subset of main one. Quote: Although really I shouldn't call it teleporting at all, that's a bad habit. Teleport is the act of changing the physical location of an object. What Lara does is accelerate it into energy so that it can ride flows of energy that go through the universe all the time, and then decelerate it at its destination so it becomes solid matter again. She does the same with herself, or any guests she has along with her. Basically, to use a Star Trek analogy, she sends any object into Warp. Unlike teleporting, Lara needs to control the trip at both ends, or someone or something could be lost like a raft adrift on the Pacific ocean.Quote: That has a couple of interesting effects, by the way. It expends a lot of her stored energy (the larger the quantity of matter and the longer the trip, the more energy it takes), and it also, unlike actual teleporting, takes time. A very short time, mind you, but if you race Lara against a teleporter, the teleporter will get there first by far. Liu Xi would also, because folding void creates an absence of distance (like pinching together two points of a sheet of paper), which means you get from one point to another instantly, much like a wormhole only faster and less collateral damage.Noted. Quote: But really though, a lot of Lara's transport ability limitations are her own human limitations. She can only transport things she sees and touches because she can't get a good sense for the energy and matter in them otherwise. It's like trying to identify the size, shape, and weight of an item - if the room is dark and you can't touch it, you'll probably guess wrong. Also things like a personal belief that she can't possibly transport a huge building limits her as well.Limits are good. Limits are what define heroes. Quote: Which is funny, because Liu Xi believes she can shove anything through Void. That's led to her being hurt a few times when she pushes past her abilities. It's quite likely she's going to have to stop using it so often because it's doing some kind of damage to her, and she needs to leave sufficient time to heal.Don't worry. There's something coming through the void. It's noticed her. Quote: Quote: 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.Quote: I don't think I've actually had her teleport stuff. She grabbed the Hooded Hood and tossed him and his throne into a cult's fire hundreds of miles away, but that's more of a "drop off on the way" kind of thing since she was transporting somewhere else.That stuff's easy to retcon. Quote: Quote: Sally's former closest female confidante was Elizabeth von Zemo. You can see why she's reluctant to form other close trusting relationships.Quote: There's where the solution presents itself: Chiaki wouldn't be very trusting, or friendly. She doesn't like Beth Zemo or any of her former associates. But, like I said, she hates injustice more, so she wouldn't stand for Sally being terrorized like that either.As I've said elsewhere, everything Citizen Z accused Sally of is true, even if none of the actual charges against her are accurate. | |||||||
