.... does the cat have lazer eyes?
if no? - good
otherwise AHAHAAH WHERE IS MY DOG?!
The cat that it actually is? No. (I may have to crop the cover of "On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service"...)
The cat it's supposed to be? Why should it use lasers- convincing the molecular bonds to stop existing is considerably easier, though your dog may eat it as it tries to form the wizardry.
So, what I'm getting from this is: I can win if I'm fast enough? Easy for Black Hand, all lanterns have FTL.
I should also probably note that feline wizards can do something called "sidling" where they... You know the thing you can do in some levels of Kirby's Epic Yarn, where you slip behind the yarn background? Yeah, basically that. Aaand now I feel like I'm describing an overpowered OC.
Have a book citation:
The Book of Night With Moon said:
Normally sidling was a simple matter of slipping yourself among the bunched and bundled hyperstrings, where visible light could not get at you.
Wouldn't work quite well enough to hide from a lantern ring, but it might do for long enough to set up a more advanced camo wizardry. Or a quick teleport away while they prepared something to deal with you.
. . .
The Young Wizards/Feline Wizards series(es?) is actually quite good, I swear!
Interestingly enough, black lanterns are
a) basically what YW-verse wizards were created to fight- essentially entropic,
and
b)difficult targets for wizards- most enemies with reality-bending power(to a limit, at least) could be taken down by simply talking reality out of working with them- got a mage? convince local laws of physics to stand up for themselves, take down depowered foe in the shock. Lanterns, on the other hand, work on the emotional spectrum, which is natural per DC-laws(I think), and black lanterns are close enough to entropy that there's no good way to depower them- entropy is of the Power that they were created to fight, and is an underlying feature of all wizardries anyways- they cannot effect it.
Not buying FTL reactions, though- FTL reaction speed plus lantern ring = victory for ring-slinging zombie corps(es), before the white lantern rings manage to get off their collective figurative ass.
(used my avatar 'cause I'm just a regular fleshy human- me vs. black lantern = me becoming a black lantern.)
Also, this is the first time I've ever gotten to vent about the YW series- this is rather fun!