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A rash decision mostly, bought on by a desire to particularly just get herself away from her family. She's smart, but doesn't have a lot of world experience and just did what seemed like a good idea at the time. A big factor was simply a desire to see constructs up close, even hostile ones. She also probably assumed a place like Geiru would have like an R&D department or something she could get into.

If not, well, she'll have to deal with that.

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Yeah, this makes enough sense to me. Doesn't have any R&D you can get into as a regular student though; it's a standardized course for every enrollment. Again, though, it's not like she's screwed out of academics forever even if she does spend the rest of her formative years there.

[quote=@Rune_Alchemist]
Whoops. Dropped the ball on that bit.

It'd be hard for her to make an earthquake, but it would certainly be possible. Dive her talons into the ground, amplify the resulting vibrations downwards, and you get an earthquake. More realistically, she'd probably use something like the beating of her wings to generate directed blasts of pressure towards targets, and as you said her 'voice' in a way similar as a constant stream of pressure to blast something.

If you're not sold on the power though and don't think it fits her visually, I don't mind changing it. Just felt like doing something like a standard thunder or wind bird would be a bit cliche and a change of pace from what I normally do. I wasn't particularly going for a siren feel at all, though. The whole thing about finding her voice was simply a metaphor for Chidori's lack of confidence and Nehls excess of it.

Suppose I could go for a more Siren angle, but I don't really know what that would entail at the moment.
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I'm honestly even more confused than I started.

This doesn't really bring up the image of her specifically manipulating [i]sound[/i] in my head. Sound manifests itself in waves, yes, but they're not the only kind of waves. Light is a type of wave, too. Just vibration on its own is not sound, it's a specific type of vibration that our ears are sensitive to which causes them to pick it up and convert it to something audible.

If her powers are to manipulate motion in a more general fashion then, yeah, what you described could work in some fashion. The idea of being able to remotely control the vibration or motion of your feathers could work to that end; by having them spazz out in mid-air you could create a current or, indeed, if done at a certain frequency, create a sound. Spin them around on their own axis and you might even have something that can cut while making a hellish shrieking noise from slicing through the air like that.

It just sounds like you want to use the force rather than anything audio-based, is all I'm saying.