I've been stalking this thread for a couple days now and I can no longer resist the urge! Mind if I joined?
I've been playing around with a physics concept- kinetic energy manipulation. The gist of it is that my character will be able to speed up, slow down an object/ persons that are in motion.
Limitations:
- objects needs to have kinetic energy (ie: be in motion)
- objects need to be within an area of effect
- powers will not have an indefinite effect (haven't decided on time range)
- larger the mass, the more difficult it is for her to control (ie: easier for her to control a marble she throws rather than say a moving bus). Not to say that her powers wouldn't work on something as large as a bus, but it is difficult for her to control the outcome.
I'm imagining in the beginning stages she'll only be able to manipulate the energies of objects forward, but eventually will learn to change their directions... which could lead to the use of projectiles. Maybe? perhaps? I've just been itching to write a character that manipulates the kinetic energy of steel balls (maybe a small amount like 3 or so) like projectiles. Any thoughts?
I like the sound of this idea. It's a nice deviation from the typical "absorb kinetic energy and use it as force"; I've felt for a while that there is so much more to be done with kinetic energy and you have a solid concept there which might just do the trick. I am a little concerned with the idea of smaller object at high speed (you explicitly mentioned steel balls and all I can think of is Magneto absolutely pulverising those guards in X-Men!).
My advice would be to throw up a sheet, expanding on the power in more detail, and if there are kinks to iron out then Shard and I will guide you from there. It's difficult for me to give a concrete answer whilst Shard isn't here to confer with, so we will likely message you again tomorrow (if your sheet isn't already up by then).
As a side note...
Thanks for all the interest and discussion thus far. Lots of you have put forward really creative, interesting and experimental powers which is really, really refreshing for this genre of roleplay. It's exactly what Shard and I wanted to see and I am very grateful for the overwhelming response we've had. We expected to get very little interest.
From now on, I will be paying little interest to this thread, and all queries and questions should be addressed over in The OOC.
I can't wait to see all your applications.
