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Also, tell me this: how does one person have a ridiculously powerful combat magic, illusion magic, invisibility, complete magic detection, and telepathy? Doesn't that strike anyone as flawless/ludicrous?
Powerful magic- yeah, I'll get behind that.
Illusion and invisibility go hand and hand. He (I) got creative, how can you blame that?
Magic detection- ehh, more like sensitivity, in a real fight, thats giving him less then a split second warning. In Nero's case, Ferrin was focused on him, and so he felt it, and Nero held it, this giving Ferrin time to sense it.
Telepathy- I have explained that his is not very powerful, he can't break into your mind, or whatever, but he can communicate, glean thoughts, and emotions.
Mine aside, what about
instantaneous magic that can horribly cripple and weaken to the point of defeat, and that decreases magical and physical power.
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Ferrin is 'Hesitant', though, and Nero's curses activate instantly. Doesn't matter if you can make stars fall from the sky if it only takes a split second to give you a cocktail of diseases, reduce your body mass so much that you collapse instantly, manifest your magic into a solid object and then steal it, or turn you into a magic-deficient child.
Nero doesn't do direct damage at all. His curses alter and debilitate. In any straight-up fight, he'd lose quickly if not instantly. Nero doesn't fight straight-up fights. He seldom engages in any kind of fight. In fact, in the course of this RP so far he's used a curse in anger exactly twice: once to make Prince vomit and once to turn Gabriel into glass, and both were really asking for it.
Nero chooses to be annoying with his magic rather than use it to try and be some cliche anime badass. Magic fighting and badassery isn't what he's about. I don't want to just have a fighty badass character. If he were forced to use his magic in self-defense, there are very, very few people who could beat him, but he doesn't. Funnily enough, the guy who's both a dark mage and a mischievous genie is one of the more responsible wizards in the Fairy Tail universe.
Stones and glass houses.
Edit: I want to point out (kindly) that there are many powerful characters here, in any normal RP almost every one of our characters would be OP, but we have a balance here, each with their own strengths, and weaknesses for example, if Nero were to catch Ferrin by surprise with his curses, magic detection or no, Ferrin could lose. Don't start blowing the OP whistle, just because a character does something amazing or clever.
