It's been repeatedly stated that Tiffany/Lash is a kind of Lasciel. She isn't part mortal at all, she's knowledge that is itself divine and scraps of stolen divinity shaped like a mortal woman.
Stabbing someone in the heart wouldn't kill by that standard either, but I would think it would allow a death curse.
You need to be able to think or see or otherwise interact with anything to launch a death curse though or have it prepared which considering this guy is actively absorbing to try and fire it it's not prepared and if he is suddenly incapable of moving thinking or seeing I fail to see why he would be able to get off his death curse.
Six minutes at the minimum before you begin to suffer irreversible brain damage.
Stabbing someone in the heart doesnt cause the sort of neurogenic trauma that causes immediate loss of consciousness, at least not for most victims.
I mean his brain would be immediately leaking out if you did that the human skull is like maybe 7 mm thick. Though if he's still alive after that happens I imagine he will definitely not be trying to cast a spell.
Point of order:
Seems odd to mention all of those merits and not hell weaving. I have generally thought of that as the center of her build.
No time for aim actions now unfortunately.
Not guaranteed.
She only has 3 points of Demon Chi for the whole day.
I'm not contesting that a head shot would stop a death curse, just that it wouldn't kill them on the spot. I thought what Harry was afraid of with Kinkaid was the idea of being killed by complete surprise too fast to cast anything.
It also lasts all day so long as she is directly acting in Molly's service.
I'd like to point out the case of Phineas Gage, a man who got a metal pole shoved all the way through his brain in a construction accident, had surgery to get it out (along with even more of his brain) and continued to function relatively normally, hold a job speak and do everything you'd expect a man without a gaping hole in their brain to do for several years. Not to say there weren't side effects but still.
It is guaranteed to be easier and less dangerous to nick his skull without penetrating or causing a fracture that sends bone splinters into his brain compared to actually targeting the brain stem in a manner that doesn't cause instantaneous death through trauma or leave enough him aware enough to complete the curse despite being shot.
The penetration of the brain itself isn't necessarily the fatal part of the injury, assuming nothing immediately lethal is hit, it's the amount of energy delivered. A spike, nail, knife, etc., doesn't have the same effect as a projectile blasting a hole through the skull, sending pressure waves bouncing around inside while turning everything to jelly as skull fragments shred the rest.I'd like to point out the case of Phineas Gage, a man who got a metal pole shoved all the way through his brain in a construction accident, had surgery to get it out (along with even more is his brain) and continued to function relatively normally, hold a job speak and do everything you'd expect a man without a gaping hole in their brain to do for several years. Not to say there weren't side effects but still.
We can extract way more information from a living crazy dude than from a corpse but also it's way less suspicious for us to have a living crazy dude and get information that it is for us to just have the information while just having a corpse. Though if you want Olivia just to shoot him in the head that you can just write a plan where that happens.
Example said:
He's a Willpower 7 wizard, not a backstreet thug.
Its a scenelong effect, not daylong.
Should I bring up examples of people surviving bullets to the brain (not a graze)? Point being that a bullet to the brain technically isn't guaranteed to be an instant kill, not that Olivia is using bullets atm.
The original thing in the book was way longer with loads of examples for what counted as direct furtherance of his and the Yama Kings' evil purposes which all didn't apply, but the general idea still should. When Olivia is acting directly under our orders to our ends it can last a whole day.
How many of those survivors took a shot intended to kill from an expert marksman using a serious weapon, rather than a lucky hit from something wimpy like a .22 or other smaller caliber, that barely penetrates and hits at a good angle to prevent catastrophic trauma? I doubt any of those survivors were conscious after taking the hit, either.
