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Subj: Re: He's quite confident when he's in his "safe zone" - battling undead. Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 at 12:47:24 am EDT (Viewed 635 times) | Reply Subj: Re: He's quite confident when he's in his "safe zone" - battling undead. Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 at 07:45:21 pm EDT (Viewed 2 times) | ||||||
Quote: Quote: What makes Chiaki's intuition all the more interesting is she almost never has the upper hand. She is not particularly strong, she has no command of magic. All she is armed with is one bladed weapon, years of Samurai training, and her brain. She can win fights only because she knows through training what would be the most debilitating attack to open with. Often that opening attack is verbal, and demoralizing.Quote: We need to see that more in non-combat situations too.Her use of psychic power is generally directly proportional to how much danger she's in, so it is most often used in combat situations. There are situations that are too great or too small for her though. Such as when the universe is in danger, she can sense it, but then she has to get help. Or perhaps when bad weather is coming she can sense it, but there's really no solution to that aside from going indoors (but it can save a friend from getting soaked!). Quote: Quote: Note that it does fail her sometimes, if she encounters someone who is really insane and unpredictable. Her psychic sense only shows her the most likely possibilities; but if someone is insane, they're prone to suddenly changing their mind and taking the least likely. Once she fought someone who simply tackled her and began strangling her, and she had to resort to animal instincts for self preservation, biting and kicking her way out.Quote: Could make for an interesting recurrent adversary.And one that would scare her into trying to avoid any confrontation at all. Quote: Quote: Of course she's also difficult to fool twice, so that liability won't last too long.Quote: Quote: Another weakness of hers is the same as Jedi from Star Wars: She is prone to making much more rash decisions if she is emotionally involved. When she's in love with someome who's being harmed, or if it's a kid she knows, or she is very angry, for instance.Quote: Heroes are defined by their flaws as much as their strengths.Chiaki has a lot of flaws. She might need a miniseries too. Quote: Quote: Also her psychic sense can work against her sometimes, because it's at its sharpest when she takes rash action without planning, and when she is highly stressed. It preserves her, but as you can tell by now, it frightens her to use it as its full potential, when she is also in the most danger. So it helps her the most when she is most afraid to use it.Quote: We need to hear her reflect on this someday.She will, someday. Quote: Quote: Someday I guess she'll find this perfect zen point where she is able to physically and mentally push her psychic gift to its potential reliably, and then she'll really be dangerous. But then again she might not want to, because she feels like doing that would sacrifice her humanity and compassion.Quote: What are the implications of this in non-threatening situations? For example, it must be impossible to throw her a surprise party, or maybe to give her an unexpected birthday gift.Fortunately Chiaki does not like using her ability to violate other people's privacy, she believes that's wrong. So she tries to mind her own business, even when it's people planning positive surprises for her. Quote: Quote: Quote: Really this story is just about Vinnie taking care of his regular business. As he pointed out at the end, there were half a dozen ways he could have beaten Ripper and his cadre. Sometimes Vinnie faces dangers that he struggles to survive; this wasn't one of them. The tough part of his day was heading home afterwards to negotiate a fee with Lisa.Quote: Quote: Speaking of Chiaki, she likely has several lawyers but nobody thinks to ask her for a reference...Quote: If they're not good for a quick one-line joke they're not getting a call.All lawyers are a quick one-line joke. | |||||||
