[quote=@Valiance]
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*Guards my own self by turning my back and covering my head, letting the shrapnel hit the armor plating that covers my body*
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[quote=@Artifact]
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*Guards my face with my wrists, embedding the thorny shards in the scale plating of my arms*
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*Whenever the shards make contact with a surface, they begin to calcify that structure, including the ground itself; the bone structure inches toward both of you while the other fragments remain suspended weightlessly*