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- Peterborough, NH, USA
So, not feeling qualified to make any kind of guess about who the kid is. Instead, I'll pontificate on something nobody else seems to be talking about: Our clear lack of a Tactile Telekinesis equivalent, as seen in the serious issues we had moving the house without breaking it.
For the longest time, people would see Superman lift skyscrapers and the like and note that they should be crumbling under their own weight regardless of how strong he was. Eventually, it was revealed that he was using Tactile Telekinesis to essentially sheath anything he touched in a psychic field that let him treat it as one giant molecule, allowing him to ignore things like that.'
Now, I would be surprised if this was a crossover with most any kind of comic universe like Marvel/DC. Much like Bleach, the cosmology doesn't match up. However, there is a Superman expy that could work. She even has an Instant Wardrobe Shift that she normally triggers with a catchphrase, and can thus technically be treated as a Magical Girl. May I introduce the thread to Becky Botsford, aka, Wordgirl.
She is explicitly shown to have not only Tactile Telekinesis, but some form of anti-collateral damage power. As seen here, where the meteor's heat simply vanishes shortly before she makes contact with it. I suspect it's somewhat akin to Superman's heat vision. Really useful, but very, very draining relative to everything else. She's lifted much heavier things, but right after the meteor's heat vanishes, she's struggling with the weight. Given what happens here, I think she's training it up to match with her more extreme physical capabilities. Note how she explicitly states that she's achieved a new record, despite having stopped to grab a sombrero for her sidekick. Despite having flown fast enough that she's a measurable fractions of lightspeed(somewhere between 3% and 12.5%) she'd be more worried about causing nuclear detonations from forcing the air molecules together than setting the atmosphere on fire in her wake, though that would also be a concern. Instead, she just caused a few gusts of wind, which notably decrease in strength after the first time.
The thing is, she once grabbed a mind control ray set on the Moon(so the villain could hit everybody at once with it) and dumped it in a star(I'd post the video, but I can only find it on Dailymotion, it's Wordgirl Makes A Mistake Part 2 towards the end). Assuming that's still set in the Solar System(supposedly it is, but more on that later) that's a minimum of 100 times lightspeed if it took her 5 seconds(Earth is almost exactly 500 light seconds from the Sun on average) and 500 times if it took her a singular second. Considering the second clip, it seems pretty clear that the main reason she doesn't do that all the time is that she's got a pretty hard limit on how fast she can go without depopulating the planet, or turning it into forms of energy and matter that haven't been seen since the Big Bang, since we have no idea what even a hundred kilograms of matter moving even 10 times as fast as light would look like, but it seems a safe bet that it would make the Tsar Bomba look like a spark by comparison. That's more than enough to keep her relevant in the Space/Super Senshi stage.
This is assuming, of course, that it was in fact the Solar system and she hadn't moved further away because the villain clearly demonstrated the ability to get to the Moon pretty casually, and Becky had taken some serious hits to her ego(which she canonically has a problem with, presumably a byproduct of her ridiculously overwhelming power compared to everyone else) and might've just wanted to flex on him a little. The main point of evidence in favor is that WoG on the matter is that the green planet with rings that can be seen in the background is supposed to be Saturn. Given that they messed the rings up(Saturn has one band around the middle, there isn't one at either pole, nevermind both) I feel reasonably safe in ignoring that. The nearest gas giant around a singular yellow star is 35 lightyears away. Considering that one is more along the lines of Pluto's distance from the Sun than anything like the distance to look that big that close to it's parent star(another reason to take issue with that claim) it's probably even further out, and even that far would set her at something on the order of 220 million times the speed of light, assuming that's her maximum and not her taking a casual stroll without needing to worry about the planet being destroyed if she does.
You may wonder how she could possibly be challenged at this stage of the game. 1) she's 12, and arrogant as hell a lot of the time, though not undeservedly, 2) she has Superman's weakness to magic, which leaves her pretty vulnerable to a lot of weird villains and their powers, like The Butcher and his Meat Dimension, and is about as crippling as Superman's weakness to magic would be in a setting like this, as well as a Kryptonite expy in Lexonite, though her homeworld hasn't been blown up so it's not nearly as common as it is in Superman comics(side note, prolonged exposure will start punching holes in her vocabulary in addition to leaving her lying on the floor, so that's a thing), 3) much like Supes, she keeps the dial way down on her powers unless the situation warrants it most of the time, to avoid pasting anyone. Her anti-collateral ability seems to stop working if she's actually touching something, so, while she's apparently got a great deal of self-control, she still has to be careful of turning people into red mist. The going theory is that she struggles to modulate specific powers rather than a general 'so and so percent across the board' sort of deal, so she especially struggles against people who can hit outside their weight class for whatever reason(ie, Flash isn't particularly durable outside of Speed Force stunts, as is common to speedsters) not in terms of beating them in a fistfight, but in terms of not maiming or killing them in the process. She generally responds to a supercriminal by smashing any gadgets they're using for the episode, dumping them in jail, and leaving it at that, though she will snark at them. If they're not doing evil, she sometimes even rewards them.
So yeah, I think she'd get along with the Senshi. She might relate to Makoto having issues with bullet ricochet hurting people trying to hurt her. Not that specific scenario, perhaps, but definitely that sort of problem.
For the longest time, people would see Superman lift skyscrapers and the like and note that they should be crumbling under their own weight regardless of how strong he was. Eventually, it was revealed that he was using Tactile Telekinesis to essentially sheath anything he touched in a psychic field that let him treat it as one giant molecule, allowing him to ignore things like that.'
Now, I would be surprised if this was a crossover with most any kind of comic universe like Marvel/DC. Much like Bleach, the cosmology doesn't match up. However, there is a Superman expy that could work. She even has an Instant Wardrobe Shift that she normally triggers with a catchphrase, and can thus technically be treated as a Magical Girl. May I introduce the thread to Becky Botsford, aka, Wordgirl.
She is explicitly shown to have not only Tactile Telekinesis, but some form of anti-collateral damage power. As seen here, where the meteor's heat simply vanishes shortly before she makes contact with it. I suspect it's somewhat akin to Superman's heat vision. Really useful, but very, very draining relative to everything else. She's lifted much heavier things, but right after the meteor's heat vanishes, she's struggling with the weight. Given what happens here, I think she's training it up to match with her more extreme physical capabilities. Note how she explicitly states that she's achieved a new record, despite having stopped to grab a sombrero for her sidekick. Despite having flown fast enough that she's a measurable fractions of lightspeed(somewhere between 3% and 12.5%) she'd be more worried about causing nuclear detonations from forcing the air molecules together than setting the atmosphere on fire in her wake, though that would also be a concern. Instead, she just caused a few gusts of wind, which notably decrease in strength after the first time.
The thing is, she once grabbed a mind control ray set on the Moon(so the villain could hit everybody at once with it) and dumped it in a star(I'd post the video, but I can only find it on Dailymotion, it's Wordgirl Makes A Mistake Part 2 towards the end). Assuming that's still set in the Solar System(supposedly it is, but more on that later) that's a minimum of 100 times lightspeed if it took her 5 seconds(Earth is almost exactly 500 light seconds from the Sun on average) and 500 times if it took her a singular second. Considering the second clip, it seems pretty clear that the main reason she doesn't do that all the time is that she's got a pretty hard limit on how fast she can go without depopulating the planet, or turning it into forms of energy and matter that haven't been seen since the Big Bang, since we have no idea what even a hundred kilograms of matter moving even 10 times as fast as light would look like, but it seems a safe bet that it would make the Tsar Bomba look like a spark by comparison. That's more than enough to keep her relevant in the Space/Super Senshi stage.
This is assuming, of course, that it was in fact the Solar system and she hadn't moved further away because the villain clearly demonstrated the ability to get to the Moon pretty casually, and Becky had taken some serious hits to her ego(which she canonically has a problem with, presumably a byproduct of her ridiculously overwhelming power compared to everyone else) and might've just wanted to flex on him a little. The main point of evidence in favor is that WoG on the matter is that the green planet with rings that can be seen in the background is supposed to be Saturn. Given that they messed the rings up(Saturn has one band around the middle, there isn't one at either pole, nevermind both) I feel reasonably safe in ignoring that. The nearest gas giant around a singular yellow star is 35 lightyears away. Considering that one is more along the lines of Pluto's distance from the Sun than anything like the distance to look that big that close to it's parent star(another reason to take issue with that claim) it's probably even further out, and even that far would set her at something on the order of 220 million times the speed of light, assuming that's her maximum and not her taking a casual stroll without needing to worry about the planet being destroyed if she does.
You may wonder how she could possibly be challenged at this stage of the game. 1) she's 12, and arrogant as hell a lot of the time, though not undeservedly, 2) she has Superman's weakness to magic, which leaves her pretty vulnerable to a lot of weird villains and their powers, like The Butcher and his Meat Dimension, and is about as crippling as Superman's weakness to magic would be in a setting like this, as well as a Kryptonite expy in Lexonite, though her homeworld hasn't been blown up so it's not nearly as common as it is in Superman comics(side note, prolonged exposure will start punching holes in her vocabulary in addition to leaving her lying on the floor, so that's a thing), 3) much like Supes, she keeps the dial way down on her powers unless the situation warrants it most of the time, to avoid pasting anyone. Her anti-collateral ability seems to stop working if she's actually touching something, so, while she's apparently got a great deal of self-control, she still has to be careful of turning people into red mist. The going theory is that she struggles to modulate specific powers rather than a general 'so and so percent across the board' sort of deal, so she especially struggles against people who can hit outside their weight class for whatever reason(ie, Flash isn't particularly durable outside of Speed Force stunts, as is common to speedsters) not in terms of beating them in a fistfight, but in terms of not maiming or killing them in the process. She generally responds to a supercriminal by smashing any gadgets they're using for the episode, dumping them in jail, and leaving it at that, though she will snark at them. If they're not doing evil, she sometimes even rewards them.
So yeah, I think she'd get along with the Senshi. She might relate to Makoto having issues with bullet ricochet hurting people trying to hurt her. Not that specific scenario, perhaps, but definitely that sort of problem.
