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AeronFarron said
Molecular Kinetic Energy, wise ass. That is why she cannot control it mentally and why it is a biological phenomenon. Her body uses the kinetic energy produced by her own bodily function and amplifies it. THAT is why she cannot control how much kinetic energy she can output and THAT is why she cannot absorb that energy. Lightning is pure kinetic energy. Lightning is also plasma which is heated, ionized gas. Gas which, shockingly, is made of rapidly moving molecules that can somehow have a structure. And plasma can't create black eyes, person that doesn't read before he comments. Her face still suffers injury from the punch. She can't mitigate that. And...FIRE is NOT a plasma. Stars, lightning and some FLAMES are. Flame is not fire. Thank you, but take your self-serving trolling ass elsewhere.

Kinetic energy has molecules! Wow! No. Kinetic energy is nothing like other forms of energy (atoms can have kinetic energy - but we call that temperature, and operates different than what we - sorry, I mean I, understand typical kinetic energy). In fact, this stills stems from your lack of understand of kinetic energy. In fact, it's a pretty metaphysical term that we use kinetic energy to explain motion and inertia. That said, take out the word "kinetic energy" and replaced it with "motion" and you have what is essentially the same idea. So, sorry to burst the bubble, but kinetic energy isn't a biological phenomenon.

And nope, wrong again. Lightning is NOT pure kinetic energy, it is an electrical discharge. It is electrical energy. Saying lightning is pure kinetic energy is like saying lightning is pure motion. Which is, of course, dumb! But congratulations, you know that lightning is made of plasma and the general idea of what plasma is. Just by saying that, you contradicted the prior statement by suggesting lightning is pure kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is produced as the ionized gases that makes up the lightning heats up and strikes, and also results in thunder.

No, I definitely read. The reason it doesn't make sense is because I said the same thing back to you. So, you absorb the kinetic energy in a punch, but it still maintains its momentum and creates an impact, hitting you in the face? How would you even convert kinetic energy into plasma? What exactly is the result of that?

Holy shit. Take a step back and examine how insignificant that petty detail is. Okay, whatever, the flame. The point stands. The flame is plasma. Stars have plasma and super heated gas. Entirely irrelevant to the conversation at hand. It looks like an attempt to make yourself feel better, or something, I don't even know at this rate (but, hey, speaking of petty irrelevant details - and this probably doesn't mean anything to you or anything [I just figured to mention it since you seem to enjoy doing it] - I was here long before you, or even most people given how I was in this roleplay's previous incarnation).

But on a more serious note, I want to cover some details I haven't yet done here yet. I was talking to someone and this is what came out of it:

They: "But in theory, you could get kinetic energy from your bloodstream moving."
They: "Not a lot."
Me: "If you want to absorb that, go ahead. I'll sit here, off to the side, while your brain and the rest of the body is being deprived of blood and oxygen."
Me: "And then there's your heart, still pumping, and your bloodstream not moving. You'll probably even get a heart attack."
They: "That is if you absorb all of it. But what about a small portion?"
Me: "You'll probably suffer the same effects as super low blood pressure. Granted, the blood pressure might be the same, or even build, but a slow moving bloodstream will at least make you light headed and tired. And then you might feel tense, because if your blood pressure builds, that's applying pressure on the inside of your veins and arteries. And if your heart rate remains the same, it's working just as hard for a smaller benefit. And the blood is moving slow. So the heart might even work harder."

EDIT: Woop, woop. Sorry about that Allen, didn't see ya there.

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Peter, out of all the kids, definitely has the most experience and so on. But he won't invest a lot of effort into it and won't give any suggestions to the team strategists. He wouldn't even care very much. He will know what to expect or see whatever coming due to his insight though, but he's still pretty new to the field of superpowers.

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QuietThinker said
Well the way I see it, enhanced muscle control is more of a skill than a power.. And that wouldn't burn him out.

Totally. Because, you know, moving normally in a world that moves in slow motion is a skill. If I trained hard enough, I can see everything in slow motion and run really fast. Thanks. Your insight is invaluable.

AeronFarron said
She will still receive injury depending on the magnitude. She cannot actually absorb kinetic energy since she creates it biologically. She can only redirect its path. She can redirect the kinetic energy from a punch to the face into a plasma blast, but she will still have a black eye. She wouldn't try to absorb a laser due to its electromagnetic properties. Could she? Maybe, but who is to say if her body could handle it. Energy Absorption is her main power, Kinetic Energy Redirection is only an arm of that power.

I want whatever it is you're smoking. Biologically producing kinetic energy? Redirected kinetic energy? Kinetic energy is energy derived from motion. It isn't the same kind of energy as electrical energy. Or heat energy. It's something else entirely and you probably shouldn't think of it as actual energy. It's motion. Motion, motion, motion, and you can not turn that into a plasma blast because it doesn't make an ounce of sense. How does plasma blasts even create black eyes? You know what plasma is? The kind of stuff electricity and fire is made of. What? What? You can't understand the state my brain is in right now. Or apparently kinetic energy. Like, what the hell is going on right now? By a count of hands, who is in high school or who graduated from high school? Because I'm about to drop down a God damn science textbook. From the '90s.

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Space Communist said
""...welp, that's my stupdity for ya. I must have missed that. Whatever revised editions I write will be posted there.""I see. Perhaps one that is heavily based off of the character will do?""Well, society has it's sick fellows. He's underweight, weak in strength, pale in the skin...I assumed that would be a big enough implication that he is not a very healthy man. He's just weaker than other people, and if someone else doesn't kill him, then likely some natural error will occur quickly enough. Other than that, there isn't much that ails him, other than being borderline ugly, which is really only a social issue.""Fair enough. Any recommendations?""Then more limitations should be added, of course. Perhaps I could make him much more kind-hearted and/or apathetic, therefore giving him a personal reason not to control others. Again, any suggestions?""Again, fair enough. If it's details you desire, it's details you'll get. Like I said, I'll post any revisions in the character deposit.

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.

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 their 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.

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Mr Allen J said
Ah, very well, on the first two points.Though, we can't reliably apply power levels to attacks, even with your example. We have a lot of energy-types (Gabe, Stephen, Peter, etc) and they're all capable of different things. For example, Gabe can shoot a laser with volcanic levels of heat, Sylvia can shoot blasts of sound that can destabilize buildings without coming close to ashing (Though, they both have their own consequences to doing this). What would you classify those as? My point being is that there's a lot of variables.

Peter can make lightning bolts (with complementary thunderclaps)! And a condensed lightning bolt arm that he can keep up for only a few minutes. There's a lot of energy in that.

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Of course, his body will learn to keep up, but he'll follow the laws of physics like everyone else (okay, maybe not EVERYONE else) and not be invulnerable and zip around. His power is slowing his perception of time, not actually slowing time down. Perception has nothing to do with body enhancement.

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No I don't. The adjustment of Mark's perception of time somehow provides super-speed and invulnerability? The power, as I am aware of it, is to slow down his perception of time while maintaining the speed of his usual thought process, yes? I don't see how that makes him invulnerable or grants his body super speed. The power relates to his perception and his brain procession, not other unrelated superhuman feats.

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1,000 x X, where X is the value of the speed of potato, represented by miles per hour per potato speed, or mph/ps.

x = mph/ps = 0

x = 0

1,000 x 0 = 0

So, the speed of a potato, when multiplied by 1,000, remains at a value of zero.

Brought to you by "Math Time With Leo."

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Well, I can tell you I am not a GM, but I can also tell you that I pull all the strings. I'm the real mastermind. I'll see what I can do about looking at it, bae.

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