jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
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Well they have been very motivated to practice and improve their abilities.
A Flung Light (Worm/minor toaru cross)
Given the demonstrated capability Blink is probably getting a solid 9:
A teleporter with no Manton Limit is the sort of threat your entire combat operation needs to be planned around countering. Same thing applies to Mental Out; engaging without a team designed around countering her is doomed to fail and even then she has some feats that imply she has counters to her counters. Amusingly BiriBiri is the only member of the team that isn't a nine and she makes up for it with her sheer breadth as a Mover, Brute, and Blaster compared to the rest of the team's more narrow abilities.
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weight = height * width * thickness * density
Stainless steel is 7.8 grams/centimeter. Let's assume a 2 meter height, anywhere from 30-50 centimeters wide and anywhere from 0.5 to 1 cm thick.
Gives us a nice range of 23.4kg-78kg.
Yea, Charlotte's moving nicely into the "person-weight" category which is a very important category to Nozomi.
It's also the category where Charlotte can start working on teleporting herself. If she's willing to risk death that is, because messing up with that may very well kill her.
Mhm. The way she's been using it Blaster 9.
Aka: Dodge, don't block.
And you may fire back with missiles if the cape escalates.
Wouldn't it be Shaker since it teleports making it more an effects within an area power than a projectile one and it'd probably have a striker subrating since she needs to touch things to teleport them.
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- She/Her
The PRT ratings are based on the combat protocols you'd use. Being near her isn't dangerous in and of itself, there's no "aura of telefragging". Instead, she 'fires projectiles' along her line of sight - from a certain point of view, she's like a pseudo-Legend, except that the only laser she can fire is "solid object manifest inside your body".
The PRT Shaker guidelines are really unsuitable for dealing with Blink - "Spread out to cover a wide area so the Shaker can affect fewer people at once" is a waste of effort, since she can already only hit one person at a time. "Try to keep the fight moving, so as to prevent the Shaker from entrenching their power into a location" is actively harmful, bc it lets her grab more debris and ammo whereas keeping her locked down in one place would slowly deplete the number of viable telefrag projectiles. "The target should be lured into attacking, rather than being allowed to remain on the defensive" is currently a good idea, until she starts teleporting herself, whereupon it contradicts with the Mover requirements, which are usually to keep them from making the first move. Finally, "Stay out of her range" is useless since she can hit anything she can see, there is no 'range'.
Meanwhile, the PRT Blaster guidelines are much more reasonable - "Frequently report Blaster's location and potential line of fire" allows for tracking how much ammo she has access to, as well as noting her line-of-sight, especially since being in her line of fire is equivalent to being hit, if she wants to hit you and has ammunition. "Pressure the Blaster, keeping them focused on a single target to protect other personnel, who should seek cover" is a bit of a mixed bag, since her Blast is a one-hit incapacitation or kill if she wants it to be, but certain Breakers and Brutes would be well suited to such a hassling-type role. This is even more useful since her teleportation relies on mental calculation, and she can't afford to teleport things while distracted due to the dangers involved. Finally, as LightLan mentioned, the "Dodge, don't block" rule.
As a result, it is strategically better to treat her as a Blaster (with additional Mover qualities in the future), than to treat her as a Shaker. Thus her PRT rating is Blaster 9+, because the PRT rating is a strategic consideration.
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The Blaster responses would still be better but It's not line of sight based it's targeting is determined by the calculations which is why Kuroko can do things such as in the fight where she demolished a building where she teleported herself and other objects to different floors than the one she was on including not being able to see the places the glass she teleported arrived at aside from the first one which she also did by reaching behind her so couldn't see the object she teleported.
Kuroko does however have both a weight and distance limit of of 130.7 kilograms, to a distance of 81.5 meters from herself at one point which does also mean there is a range limit. There is also benefit to spreading out since objects like that door Charlotte teleported could be used to hit more than one person since the orientation the object reappears in is up to the teleporter which means that 2 meter height could be turned into length. There's also a minimum of 1 second between teleports aside from in the anime which removed it being part of a fight and has shown ones 0.4 seconds apart. Plus there's also the usual esper downsides of needing to do calculations so distractions work and doing them consumes mental resources so she would eventually hit the point she can't teleport anymore.
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I made a minor edit to the chapter.
Breakers, High-level Brutes (Crawler), very confident combat precogs (March)
Mhm.
Technically she's still Level 3, if very high 3. She only needs to learn to teleport herself to get to Level 4.
The Brockton Bay Gu jar is working.
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Even Crawler has a Corona Polentia and would not survive having it skewered by a bunch of steel plates teleported straight into his body. That said, it's not located in his brain, so the real issue would be knowing where to hit him and that this kind of attack is possible at all. The same also appears to be true for other high-level brutes with seemingly impossible regeneration.
[WOG Source]
Crash_0537
Waifu Appreciator
First off
I'd like to apologize, I forgot SV existed, and now I missed out on some discussions 😭 😔 😭 😔
Anyways good news is that I remember it existed
I was looking for this fic at a wrong site lol
Though it seems Keiko is A mix of Mikasa and hokaze in their utilization of power
And I think Nozomi do all three of her plan even if its on a lower scale and probably a lot of backups
I'd like to apologize, I forgot SV existed, and now I missed out on some discussions 😭 😔 😭 😔
Anyways good news is that I remember it existed
I was looking for this fic at a wrong site lol
Though it seems Keiko is A mix of Mikasa and hokaze in their utilization of power
And I think Nozomi do all three of her plan even if its on a lower scale and probably a lot of backups
With Toaru teleportation it's less of an issue than you'd think cause Echidna is the same and while not used for it in canon it was shown that if cut in half she'd regenerate from the half that had the core which quickly narrows it down to an area that can be covered with a single object
SV5195R
C-Weapon
- Location
- Russian Federation
It also should be noted that while Keiko's powerset is closer to that of Misaka, the role she plays is closer to Hokaze, being the squishy hydrokinetic telepath's extremely loyal best friend, minder, emotional support and right-hand girl.
- Location
- North Wales
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- He/Him/His
There was a Thanda cape, as someone mentioned earlier, who specialised in that kind of thing. Other than that, people who can teleport things into other people or teleport parts of people away are usually qualified as Blasters rather than Movers. Auger was able to teleport sparks/flowers from another dimension into his targets, for example. Scrub's power is a teleport beachball that doesn't care if it only catches part of you - it just swaps what's there for what's on the other side.
Also the usual "these people have bullshit powers" gallery. Eidolon uses non-Manton teleportation on-screen to Scion, shunting part of his body away. Siberian can be summoned overlapping someone (also used on Scion). And Leet, who at the very least was capable of teleporting people inside bodies of liquid as part of a Bond Villain deathtrap. Though not the people he was actually trying to teleport, because Leet.
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There's also alt trickster who there's a wog of if what if he was the one with the half vial. Leet's thing was also because Coil wanted him to teleport Taylor but QA went to bat for her so he wasn't allowed to have kill her and she had to be given a fair chance to survive. I also find it hilarious that I've been mentioning that fact quite a bit recently to the point it seems to be becoming more well known with some big writers even saying it using that exact same phrasing which is how I phrase it and not how the wog does.
Collection
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Collection
Saturday, 30th April 2011 – Brockton Bay, Keiko's homeThe three of us sat down in Keiko's living room to decompress after the fight.
"I threatened Lung," Charlotte muttered. The ice in her tea had melted by now.
"Yup, well done," I grinned. I leaned over the desk and tapped on her glass. A fresh ice cube clinked around in it.
"That remains to be decided," Mr. Kimura growled as the door shut behind him. "Please explain to me how a simple visit to the storage yard ended with you fighting Lung."
I looked at the other two only to find them both looking back at me. I pointed at myself with a frown. They nodded too eagerly.
I sighed. "A girl asked us for help."
"Against Lung. What exactly has gotten into you to agree? You told us you did not know if your power would work on him." he pressed. "Was it urgent?"
I shook my head. "Not against Lung. Against the Merchants. I don't know how Lung caught wind of it," I glossed over the urgent part. It wasn't; strictly speaking. "They were easy enough to deal with."
"It wasn't hard to track them down between Nozomi reading their minds and me reading their phones," Keiko grinned smugly.
"That is not what you should focus on," he tapped his fingers on the desk.
"As soon as we knew he was there, we decided to make a run for it," Charlotte told him. "Vista helped."
"That's the first good decision I heard from you so far," he stated. "And how were you planning to get away without her? I doubt you arranged for her to be there in specific."
"We had a getaway car ready," I told a half-truth. The Merchants had brought cars. We had not planned for them.
I saw him visible mull it over.
"Reasonable," he stated at last. A smile tentatively grew on my face and the others. "Now what was so urgent this couldn't have waited until Yumie or I got home?"
Damn it. Busted after all.
Sunday, 1th May 2011 – Brockton Bay, Bowen Dockyard - Workshop
Go squeaked in my hands. "Shh," I soothed her. No slowed reactions, no visible wounds. She was alert. Slightly uncomfortable too the way she squirmed, but that was expected.
The other two were hiding inside the little wooden house in their cage after my inspection.
Keiko and Charlotte were watching me inspect them.
"Any problems?" Keiko asked.
"None," I smiled. "We will rescue Mother today." Finally.
"Are you sure?" Charlotte fidgeted with her hands.
"I wouldn't continue on, if I wasn't sure," I answered.
"Before you go do that, let me bring something up before I have to go home since I'm grounded. Still can't believe you managed to wiggle yourself out of a punishment," Keiko grumbled.
Caring parents were a pain sometimes. I missed Mother.
"They have merely deferred my punishment to Mother since I am getting her out today," I reminded her. Included in that was the implicit demand that I told Mother and did not keep her in the dark. Something I had never planned to do, so an easy concession to make. Not that they knew it. Charlotte was the one who had gotten away Scot-free.
"It's only until we have a plan for Lung," Charlotte took their side.
A pity me throwing Bakuda's glass bomb at him did get vetoed.
Keiko did not rise to the argument. "We should recruit Aisha."
I started chuckling. Keiko frowned at me. "Oh, you mean that."
"Yes. Yes, I mean that."
"Do I really have to explain to you why that's a terrible idea?"
She raised a single eyebrow at me. Apparently, yes. I had to.
"Her brother is a villain," I reminded her.
"No one's perfect," Keiko shrugged. "An arrested one. And we both know he's likely to go through a re-branding instead of prison. I've read enough PRT files stolen by Coil and you've rifled through enough minds to know that."
"The PRT re-brands villains as heroes?" Charlotte frowned.
"Regularly. As long as they aren't more trouble than they're worth," I confirmed that. "At a guess they'll re-brand at least three of the five Undersiders, maybe four. Regent got up to way too much, Hellhound is borderline."
"Hellhound is a murderer. They let them get away with what.. a slap on the wrist?" Charlotte crossed her arms. "Slap a new coat of paint on them and let them call themselves heroes? They are that desperate for manpower?"
I wobbled my hand. "A good lawyer might get her manslaughter. She doesn't actually control her dogs and her only kills where when she freshly triggered." Not that it was likely that she would get a good lawyer. "She still had her dogs hurt a lot of people later though. They do put restrictions and punishment on their recruits, but not nearly as much as they probably should. They also completely keep it secret from the public. They do it for a simple reason. They know they are losing. So they grab any parahuman they remotely can. It's not a compromise I have to make." I had a much bigger pool to choose from.
"We don't need perfect, we need good enough and she is. She hates all of the gangs. She sicked us on the Merchants herself. A little blind spot where her family is concerned is far from the worst flaw. We should give Mark the offer too. He'll take it."
"He is ABB," I stated. She couldn't be serious about that one.
"He doesn't want to be. He never wanted to be. Just didn't have any good choices. It just is that way sometimes. You and me both know that. You give him powers and worst case he scampers off into the Wards, because suddenly they'll care about him," Keiko rolled her eyes. "He'll get nice subsidized housing outside of ABB territory. Or he'll join us and help us dismantle it. Because he hates it too."
Asking the PRT for help as a normal citizen was a crap shot at best.
"Does he truly want to get out?" Charlotte looked at me.
I mulled it over for a moment. "As long as it doesn't get his father killed, he'll take any out he can get."
I saw the impact that had. I was about to lose this argument.
"You gave me a second chance as well," Charlotte said as if her passivity to Taylor's bullying compared to what Mark got up to. I did not know if he had killed anyone. I.. did not want to know. If he had, it probably was some Nazi goon. There was no way he hadn't gotten into a couple scuffles between the gangs. I've seen him collect the dragon's due. If a shop owner couldn't pay he would've been expected to trash the shop.
Did I want to win the argument? Not really.
"I'll think it over," I delayed.
"That means she gave up," Keiko faux-whispered to Charlotte.
Charlotte giggled. Then held her hand in front of her mouth to stop.
I sighed, but gave a slight smile to Charlotte to show I wasn't upset.
Sunday, 1th May 2011 – Brockton Bay, Nozomi's home
My cheeks hurt from smiling.
Mother carefully took a sip of her tea. Usually I had trouble focusing and would start to fidget instead of holding the seiza as she did, but not today. I watched her every move as I waited patiently for her to speak. Her posture was – as always – picture perfect. She was so beautifully, vibrantly alive again. Not that horrible unmoving moment that still haunted my dreams every couple days.
Mother placed the tea cup back on the low table.
"It has been two weeks, you say?" she looked at me with a blank face.
"Yes. I'm sorry it took-" "Don't. You have nothing to apologize for," she interrupted me. "You commanded space to break time. In only two weeks." She gently shook her head. Two weeks ago I wouldn't have caught her flicker of incredulity. "I can't scarce believe it."
"It has still been too long, Mother," I insisted. Because any time she was stuck in there was too long.
"That it has. The Kimura's have been taking care of you, I presume," she stated.
"They have been most accommodating," I fell back into the more formal speak.
"I will have to visit and show my gratitude for their help in the trying days you had. But for now tell me about the last two weeks. I wish to know everything."
I told her.. most of it. Nothing about Cauldron or Scion, but all about the gangs. How did you tell anyone the world was ending anyway?
"You have arrested Satomi's murderer?"
"I did. Legend took him to New York with him. He did succeed on shipping Bakuda into the birdcage. With the rest of the Nazis cooling their heels in the cells of the local PRT this might be it." I felt hope he'd actually arrive in the birdcage unlike the two other times they had tried.
"I shall pray for his good luck," Mother shared the sentiment. We had high hopes the first time Hookwolf was arrested only for them to turn into disappointment when his gang broke him out. We'd celebrate if he actually made it there. No sooner. She took another sip from her tea.
"We arrested Coil's gang and the Merchants as well," I continued.
"You have been busy," she remarked. Whatever she thought about it I couldn't read from her face.
"Lung's proving to be more of a problem," I sighed. "He crashed our arrest of the Merchants yesterday. It was all we could do to drive him off."
"You look remarkably well for someone who fought Lung," her fingers tense on the tea cup. "Did a healer patch you up afterwards?"
"Uh, no. We did not get hurt." Much. Besides Keiko, who healed on her own, I had gotten the worst of it. And I wouldn't even call it first degree burns. I had worse sun burns. "He got away though," I sighed.
"He got away?" She raised an eyebrow at me. "You have become arrogant, my daughter."
What? My shock must've shown on my face because she elaborated.
"You have removed two of the three major gangs of Brockton. One of them was here for longer than you were alive. You have fought Lung on even terms and your complaint is that you haven't managed more? That he got away? Your success must've gone to your head."
Before I could even begin to think that through the door to our apartment shook.
"Collection day. Open up," Yan's voice traveled through the door.
She was the last person I wanted here right now. She wasn't alone either. Lao was with her. Junior members weren't trusted to collect the money on their own.
Mother sighed and stood up. "Coming."
"We don't have this month's money," I whispered at her as I stood up myself. It had not crossed my mind with everything else going on. I still considered every dollar well spent, but I would've taken a couple hours out of my day to get some if I had remembered this.
She grimaced at that, but went towards the door anyway.
I skipped ahead of her and opened the door before she managed to get there.
"Told you someone was there, Lao." Yan looked right at me showing her teeth. It wasn't a smile. It promised violence at the slightest excuse. Her hand was already on the knife in her belt. Finally I could no longer run away from her thought she not knowing that she was digging her own grave.
"So there are." Lao looked past me. His single eye was looking at Mother. Frowning. Something was bothering him, like he should remember her from somewhere. He definitely remembered me, if only as the girl Bakuda used for her demonstration. "It's the same spiel as every month," he stated deliberately casual. "For the Dragon's protection you gotta cough up his due."
Oh, Lung had a few things overdue. Money was not among them.
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Spectrum
Tell me a secret~
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- Behind you~
Sorry, every story needs the person with poor impulse control to get them into trouble and keep things from stagnating.
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- Germany
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- She/Her
I mean, I can see how that could potentially turn out badly, but I've seen enough good really well done versions of her to honestly kind of look forward to the possibility.
Recently The Weaver's Web has been an example of a really well written heroic Aisha who has kind of become my favorite character in that story.
Trailblazer is another example.
At the start of canon Aisha is in an incrdibly shitty position with no real perspective to get out of it and a lot of her attitude issues stem from that. (which then got exacerbated by her shard in all the worst ways in typical Worm fashion)
With a few more positive influences in her life and some actual hope for the future it's really not hard to take her character into a pretty different direction, while still staying completely in character.
IMO it would also fit in pretty well with this story's themes of focusing on and building up people from minorities that usually get glossed over by the authorities in BB and essentially pushed towards crime pretty much by default.
Pretty sure the ABB thing is going to go south fast since iirc she mentioned in class about her mother getting stuck in the time bubble course it's probably going to run right into instant mental out takedown.
Aisha can be a good addition to the group and I'd add brockton's celestial forge as another example where it's handled well to show I'm not against the concept plus it also had a negative responce to her addition in some cases extremely so with some pretty crazy suggestions for what the protag should do to her. However, the problem here is Aisha's holding a grudge over Brian's capture at bare minimum it shouldn't be flat out agreement to it but we'll meet again and I'll use mental out to check on that grudge now that we've taken out the merchants possibly even using mental out as a safety net to probe her about joining and erasing the memories in the worst case. While less of an issue she also is going to be on the prt's radar since they have Grue's id which isn't a good thing.
Aisha can be a good addition to the group and I'd add brockton's celestial forge as another example where it's handled well to show I'm not against the concept plus it also had a negative responce to her addition in some cases extremely so with some pretty crazy suggestions for what the protag should do to her. However, the problem here is Aisha's holding a grudge over Brian's capture at bare minimum it shouldn't be flat out agreement to it but we'll meet again and I'll use mental out to check on that grudge now that we've taken out the merchants possibly even using mental out as a safety net to probe her about joining and erasing the memories in the worst case. While less of an issue she also is going to be on the prt's radar since they have Grue's id which isn't a good thing.
I think the chances of Mark getting yoinked into the team are higher than Aisha's right now, depending on how the vetting will go.
Also small suggestions on grammar:
Is grammatically correct. Stylistic choice though.
Also, I believe it's "I can scarcely believe it", taken from "I can hardly believe it".
Thank you for the chapter and have a great day!
Also small suggestions on grammar:
Technically, going for a new line in interruption—
Is grammatically correct. Stylistic choice though.
Also, I believe it's "I can scarcely believe it", taken from "I can hardly believe it".
Thank you for the chapter and have a great day!
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jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Only the twist is that her Esper power is completely useless in combat/low level with her being unable/not interested in putting in the work to improve it.
Look Aisha is nice and all but if you observe her other versions are normally more oc than heroic Taylor full of hope for the love of Jehova, Amaterasu, Odin and Styx be very careful with how you handle that. I am not gonna stop reading just because I don't agree with your decision, if I was the type I would never have finished Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus because I liked Kalypso more than Annabeth.
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