Leonerdo said
I also want to mention acrobatics. If your character has little muscle, he'll probably find some time doing tricks in the air. It does take muscle to get yourself effectively off the ground, along with muscle flexibility and muscle control. If your character tires out like you say he does, then doing backflips is definitely going to make him feel like someone kicked his ass.
Ah, the "acrobatic" adjective I used. Perhaps it was the wrong word to use, but I intended that to be less of an "in-the-air" and more of a "evasive" knack of his. In retrospect, I should have stuck with just the word "nimble". Still, you do make a good point; if he tires out easily, then he might not be so nimble. I will have to find a way to either change that trait, or get rid of it.
Leonerdo said
As for your power, I made an empath before. While he could not control everyone's emotions (he could influence them, though), he could feel everyone's emotions when he looked at them. However, on top of his own emotions, looking into everyone and feeling emotions is a drastic change. And this would happen dozens upon dozens of times a day. It's relentless. So my character had some sort of instability because of that, his head and body couldn't take all these mood fluctuations so he would be prone (even when he's not looking at anybody) to random mood swings and irrational anger or depression or unreasonably joyful and euphoric. Of course, he was a nice boy and all, but he had a hard time forming relationships with people because of his mood swings and mannerisms.
The matter of reading others' emotions along with his own was not an aspect of the Mule that I had intended to touch upon outside of fights and decisive situations, but come to think of it, that is definitely something that a young developing meta-human with this ability would have to cope with. Would a self-induced apathy or a self-induced "mental shield" be out of the question, assuming both coping mechanisms were still being honed by the time the Mule reaches the island?
Mr Allen J said
And I think his power should be less of downright instantly changing emotions, and more of influencing them, or reading them.
Very well. I was considering changing it to a progression of the emotion (as in beginning slow, barely noticeable in the back of the target's head, slowly growing more potent until it is a very large weight on the target's mind/heart/whatever), instead of it being instantly induced. I assume this is what you mean by influencing them.
Also, on an unrelated note, I've also taken up the prospect of writing a second character, this one not taken from other literary works. I'll present both character sheets together.
