They usually combine cognitive/I.Q. tests (which Anna would score very high on because her memory and reasoning skills are exemplary) and appropriate emotional response. Anna would probably score somewhere in the middle on the emotional response, which means she still lets her fears and her temper control her too easily. At the encouragement of others - most notably the always rock solid Psychic Samurai - she's learning to overcome that rapidly.

Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man would score very high on the cognitive tests, but very low on appropriate emotional response.





That's why I try not to define powers *too* well. Once you attach numbers or comparisons and draw a thick black line around the "rules" it becomes a tabletop role-playing game with dice, and it loses all its abstract charm and character.

For instance never ask me how many volts Lara is capable of generating. That's a quantitative question that'll lead to how many are required to kill villain x, and whoops, she doesn't have enough. And now I can't go back and change her maximum. I prefer to have fun with it instead, and say Lara doesn't really know, and she's afraid to find out.

With Liu Xi that's even more important since elemental magic is by nature abstract. It's prone to so many infinite combinations, like seasonings in a meal. Attaching quantities to that would just be silly.

Anna I just plain don't want to attach numbers to what she's capable of strength-wise, speed-wise, or with the laser. If she doesn't know for sure, neither do I. I suppose someone could try to test her someday but she'd get bored and sulk about being treated like an appliance.





Chiaki would say absolutely not. And she helped run a prison, so she has a pretty good perspective of what's fair now.