Schradinger

Rust and Rain

Unfortunately, my reply is going to have to wait until tomorrow again. I do have Wednesday off though, so hopefully we can do some back and forth posting then.

And what is your opinion of other NPC characters having more drastically superhuman abilities?

Rust and Rain

Oh, I had no intention of portraying her as weak. That's why it happened when she was trying to sneak (something you mention her not being particularly good at), and why the men he shot were positioned outside of hand to hand range. It gave him a reason to intervene without handicapping any of her strengths.

Rust and Rain

Oh? Change it to what?

And I got an idea while writing that post. What if instead of remaining bitter rivals, Bloodshot takes pity on her and offers to train her? As a frendemy, he wouldn't want to see her get killed, but the relationship is going to be a grudging one at best.

Rust and Rain

Mostly dramas, thrillers, and clever ones. Arrow, Elementary, Walking Dead, that sort of thing.

Also, I hope you don't mind the bit of character control in my post. I didn't want to stop so early on and it seemed like the kind of thing she would do in that situation. If it's not okay just let me know and I'll happily change it.

Rust and Rain

Mere moments before the gunfire began to ring out, a single black-clad hand reached out from the shadows of a nearby burned out vehicle husk and pulled Malia into cover, saving her from the hail of bullets that immediately followed. "We've got to stop meeting like this." The voice belonged to a face clad in a black armored mask that blended almost seamlessly with the shadows around them, as did the armor that covered the rest of the man. The voice itself, while distorted somewhat by the vocalizer in the mask, was still recognizable as that of the man she had met in the alley only a few short hours ago, though she had never before seen this particular side of him. It was strange for him too, as it was normally this side that he showed to those who knew who he was, rather than the one without armor or weapons or the distinct air of walking death about him. "Oh, and thanks for ruining a perfectly good surprise attack. Have you ever even done something like this before?"

He didn't wait for her answer, instead moving off to flank the approaching gunmen, sticking to the shadows as he moved with a seemingly effortless grace. He did have to admit, albeit grudgingly, that the girl had promise, but promise alone would not be enough to survive in this profession she had apparently chosen. She was going to need help. A lot of it.

For now, though, he had goons to dispose of. It didn't take him long to reach the vehicles the men had arrived in, keeping to cover and staying just ahead of their peripheral vision whenever he moved, and he sincerely hoped Malia was not trying to emulate him. He'd trained since he was a child to move the way he did, predict his opponent's movements and gaze to avoid detection, it wasn't something you could just...

"Over here! I found her!"

Bloodshot would have facepalmed if it wasn't for the direness of the situation. She just had to try and do it, didn't she? He backpedaled to find her midway between one shadowed cover and the next, caught standing in a flashlight beam with a deer in headlights look. Drawing one of his pistols, he took aim at the guard that had trained the light on her and sent a bullet spiraling through his gas mask, then did the same to the two to either side of him. The suppressor he'd fitted to his pistol would conceal the noise enough that the others wouldn't hear the gunshot, but they would still be here in only a matter of seconds. Catching Malia's attention, he beckoned her to join him and when she did pressed his second pistol into her hand. "Gas masks don't have armor plating." Then he was moving again, though this time the shadows were plentiful enough that he was confident Malia could follow without getting caught.

Rust and Rain

It is indeed. Any shows in particular that fascinate you?

Rust and Rain

Is that a joke based on the fact that Malia is surrounded by 50+ men with guns and body armor? ;)

The Everlasting Arena: Main Thread

I think that with all that equipment and his extremely high resistance to any kind of surprise attack he should still be a tier 5. Though if others disagree I could be convinced otherwise.

He's just a really hard character to pin down as far as power level, given the very wide range of things he has access to.

The Everlasting Arena: Main Thread

As long as the 2mph applies to movement speed and not action speed like you said, and the peripheral range of the wallhack ability is no greater than his natural eyesight (with similar levels of clarity at similar angles), L33T is accepted.

The Everlasting Arena: Main Thread

That's not exactly the wallhack fix I had in mind, and I'm not sure it would actually do the job of nerfing the ability enough. For instance, it's easier to have the minimap ability function based on overall movement speed since it only registers things as a dot, but if it's part of his vision, what would happen if someone moved one finger faster than 2mph? Or what if their heart beat moved those muscles faster than 2 mph? (which I'm pretty sure it does) It would defeat the entire point of having the limitation in the first place if he can see any object/portion of an object moving faster than 2 mph.

Edit for Drall: Mach 1 should be fine, since he can summon dozens of spikes at once and fire them in whatever pattern he wants, making them innately difficult to dodge.