This is an informational post for how Headway works with certain powers or abilities on Mayim/Mahon, with some Q&A's for questions I've gotten a couple of times, or think I might get asked a couple times in the future.
Please check this post before you ask questions about how powers from Mayim or Mahon interact with Headway. It will regularly be updated, either as people ask questions or as I think about powers. With series as diverse as Marvel, Parahumans, and One Piece, stuff will always be coming up, and it will be edited, I suspect fairly frequently.
(A small favor I'd like to ask of active players - if someone asks a question that's listed in this FAQ/informational page or on the Parahumans FAQ/informational page, please give them a bonk on the head and link them to it/quote it.)
Earth-Mayim
Awakening Devil Fruits
Q: Do devil fruits powers gained the awakened fruit ability at 10?
A: No. Not yet, at least. That's probably going to be a reward for mastering quite a few Devil Fruits. We've done 10 for the Tinkers, we'll do 10 for the Devil Fruits as well. Being very, very skilled with a Devil Fruit is enough of a reward for your effort on its own.
Awakened Devil Fruits will probably be a second skill that branches off from the core skill, and the ability to awaken Devil Fruits will likely require mastering quite a few. It's not something you'll be able to easily get.
So you get Kachi Kachi and Sube Sube to level 10, you beat up eight more DF users after Alvida and Bear King, master those, and then you can slowly (it'd probably be a difficult skill) start to transmute your surroundings into that red-hot rock, or make it slippery, or turn it into wax, or what have you.
Awakened Zoan would be more of a controlled, disassociated werewolf state with increased physical capabilities at the cost of losing reasoning ability and non-physical capabilities. (This might apply differently to Zoans whose physical abilities involve things like fire breath and whatnot.)
Devil Fruit: Anchor Qualities/Misc. Non-awakening stuff
Q: How exactly does the 'weakness to full submerging' being removed from Devil Fruits apply to this quest?
A: Basically, you can swim, work, etc., underwater just as you would normally after defeating a DF user. Fruits like Kachi Kachi or Sube Sube - their effects will also apply underwater, as will any other Fruits, with various abnormalities depending on the ability. (I wouldn't use Enel's power underwater around allied fishmen, for instance.)
Fengen's Tekkutoryu
Q: Is this Haki?
A: No. Okay, everyone, Q&A over - alright, alright, fine. No, Fengten is an OC from the first quest Taylor defeated. He basically just had harder, faster punches. Something close to Marvel's Iron Fist. It's a useful magical style, and learning it would give Taylor a frame of reference for
other magical styles, but it's not Haki.
Hobi Hobi no Mi/Hobby Hobby Fruit/Sugar/general rumination on Devil Fruit range limits and Endbringer interactions
No, you wouldn't be able to just turn Leviathan into a seahorse marionette or something. Endbringers have really weird, fucked up dimensional doorway mechanics behind them, weird dimension fuckery making them the size they are while also being as dense as a solar system, and Devil Fruits, which do have size limits even if they're pretty big, wouldn't be able to overwhelm their limits.
During the Drum Island arc,
Luffy was able to stretch back his arms to an extent where he was crossing several cities and a wide stretch of forest. I don't know if I like using Doflamingo covering Dressrosa as an example, since he was Awakened, but that's another one (same for Aokiji and Akainu at Punk Hazard). They have a big range limit. (Oda's given less impressive numbers in statements and WoG, but they contradict canon, so I'm inclined to ignore them.)
If you tried to use the Hobi Hobi no Mi on an Endbringer, things would go pretty disastrously fast, and not in a good way.
Hey, we have Swordsmanship 10/hypothetical Carpentry 10, how come we can't effortlessly beat Mihawk or Franky at those skills? Also some talking about Zoro/Santoryu.
I'll have to do an informational post on this and Mahon powers at some point. Yes. Franky/Iceberg's carpentry, as recognized by Headway, would likely be a supernatural technique in a similar vein as the Three Sword Style or Black Leg Style. You'd have to ask one of them (probably Franky, he'll likely have more free time) to teach you the style.
Chopper's style, even before he went to Internecine Bird War island during the timeskip, would be superior to Doctor 10. Franky's skill at carpentry is better. Limits that exist on Bet do not exist on Mayim, and the magic inherent in the world allows for that difference to be magnified.
I've mentioned this before, and it's implied if not outright stated in the text, but having a general skill at 10 normally will not make you as good as a high-level Mayim specialist in that skill. You have Swordsmanship 10 - current Zoro (Early Grand Line Zoro) is still a better swordsman than you, because he has a good magical style and superhuman (beyond your level of superhuman) physique on top of that.
(Taylor, in character, thinks his style is a bit ridiculous/something that would only work for him and would rather carve her own path/build on existing skills.)
How much does mastering mundane martial arts help with Rokushiki and related superhuman martial arts skills?
A little. Not a lot, but you're better off than you would have been if you hadn't mastered them. I take it into account when designing the rolls. Rokushiki is inherently magical, so mundane martial arts, even brought to superhuman levels, wouldn't be extremely helpful.
On the efficacy of Acting/Disguise skill against bullshit spirit senses/telepathy, and the distinction in this quest between Haki and Rokushiki
Disguising yourself as a Rokushiki trainee is unlikely to work well. A big trope on One Piece, that also has metaphysical reasons for continuing in Mayim and Mahon to a lesser extent, is understanding someone better by fighting them, often gaining a deeper, spiritual comprehension of them through crossing blades or fists. Rokushiki, by its nature, is trained through combat, and the people qualified to instruct it tend to be especially good at understanding their students through this pseudo-Kenbunshoku Haki. (Think along the lines of bursts of intuition, etc., not necessarily Dogtooth-style 'I predict everything you do'.)
Much like Swordsmanship 10 does not help that much against higher level Mayim combat styles, Acting+Disguise 10 won't help much against a telepath, or someone with that kind of magical intuition.
Also, Rokushiki's pretty well guarded, at least for all six techniques. SWORD and CP9 use it, yeah, and
individual techniques are taught to Marines. You might have a Marine or even a Marine liaison from a friendly government who knows Soru or, at least, a chopped down version of Soru, but they might not have been trained in other techniques. Knowing all six techniques is pretty rare - the sort of person who's that skilled tends to gravitate towards Haki.
Trouble with Haki is that other Haki users can sniff you out more easily than they could if you're just very physically powerful, which is what Rokushiki is. Control of the body. Rokushiki is better for a candidate if you A: don't trust the Marine/Marine ally enough yet to teach them Haki, or B: If you need them to be able to be stealthy and infiltrate. (This is my justification for why the World Government didn't teach Lucci and the others Haki before the events of the timeskip.)
Sube Sube no Mi/Smooth Smooth Fruit/Alvida -
Q: Can Taylor just slide power/Master effects off with this power?
A: This is a cheeky answer, but it depends on the power/Master effect. You should go into combat assuming that every enemy you face will be the one that can bypass it.
If Alvida's Devil Fruit was *that* impressive, it wouldn't be in the East Blue. A pirate would have snapped it up and likely taken it to at the very least, Paradise, if not the New World. Same reason we only started seeing fruits like Law's or the Mythical Zoans in the Grand Line in canon. The super-duper impressive Fruits tend to go to people in the more powerful parts of the world. (Before people start jumping in with exceptions, please note my use of the word 'tend'. I'm not saying it's a certainty, but it's a useful heuristic.)
Keep in mind how Smoker was able to restrain her with his Logia, before he learned Haki, she's likely still vulnerable to fire, heat, cold, etc. Alvida+Bear King's Fruits are a potent defense, but it won't make you invincible.
Earth-Mahon
Canon imports from 616: I've got loads in mind. Not telling you about them until they become relevant. The only hint I'll give you is: If you're only thinking of popular, A-list characters - you're thinking in a different direction than I am.
Doctor Strange/other Marvel wizards: They might be around somewhere! Too bad Taylor has no idea how to find them, or if they even exist on Mahon. She has also not heard of Dr. Strange in-character.
Fantastic Four: Taylor found no evidence the team existed. Reed Richards seems to be a talented college student with several honorary doctorates already.
Magneto: His power is a very versatile application of ferrokinesis. It's not the borderline reality warping it is in some versions of the character.
Mystique: Mystique transforms into a raven (
) and a wolf at varying points in the cartoon. Animal transformations beneath her mass level will probably be allowed, but heavier ones will likely be lighter, weaker. Her power likely involves some level of dimensional shifting, same way as her son, but it's not quite as obvious as bamfing.
She did not have psi-resistance from the start of canon, it was something she was able to either train herself or adjust the shape of her mind to complicate matters. In her first appearance in X-Men: Evolution, Logan was literally sniffing her out, and Xavier's telepathy detected her.
Psychics/Astral Plane Shenanigans: Will help a lot with resisting Master effects. In general, astral plane bullshit > Master effects. I'd now like you to reread that last sentence, and then, out loud, say 'in general'.
Quicksilver
Q: Will we be able to bypass the daily 7 action limit with Pietro's power?
A: No. You will 'only' have his super speed and thinking power during combat or crucial actions. It may help speed up projects, but bear in mind that an object's resistance to Pietro's speed will only go so far.
The seven action limit is hardwired into Headway - it needs time to recharge after learning (or trying to learn). That's the in-universe explanation, anyway - the out of universe one is that I don't want to write ninety-five thousand updates or whatever for a single day of in-universe time.
Scarlet Witch: Her powers are not magic in X-Men: Evolution.
Taylor's awareness of Marvel: Low. And she isn't especially interested in tracking down comics on Bet, since they seem, to her, to be pretty distinct from what she sees on Mahon. She's aware that Spider-Man is a Marvel character, that his name is Peter Parker. She has heard the names 'Fantastic Four', 'Captain America' and 'X-Men'. That's about where her knowledge ends. Further information will have to be gained locally on Mahon, and not by spending eight million actions reading obscure comics on Bet.
Marvel and DC's level of cultural awareness on Bet is analogous to Green Hornet or Zorro in our world. Most people have heard the big names, they used to be huge, and there's still material being published by smaller publishers who own the rights, but if you asked the average man on the street, or even the average enthusiastic reader of genre fiction, for details, you wouldn't get much.
I think that last sentence is something people might nitpick or be pedantic about. Be honest with me and yourself. If you walked up to the average comics fan or the average enthusiastic reader of regular books (either a fantasy fan, romance fan, sci-fi fan, westerns fan, etc.), would they know anything about Green Hornet or Zorro beyond 'uhhh… I think that used to be a big thing, and I've heard the name?'
Technology: Mahontech is not tinkertech. It is teachable to regular Bet humans. Be wise about doing this.
EDIT: No, I *didn't* accidentally make this a regular Threadmark at first, why do you ask?
