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Whew! Sorry about the wait. I finally managed to post. It's not much, but it's not like we needed much either.
Steve coughed, holding his stomach, definitely not excepting the elbow. For a quick second he wondered why she didn't hear him. He practically shouted in her ear. But then again, that siren was pretty loud. Before he did anything else he punched in the emergency alarm shut-off code (luckily, THAT usually stayed the same) which also opened the door, before he turned to Heidi. "Don't worry *cough, cough* about. I might've done the same. But that's not important! How are... you?" Steve's grin faded fast at what he saw "My god! Are you alright, what the hell happened!?" He had just now taken his first good look at his friend... and she looked like hell. Her clothes were dirty and ripped, and she had dried blood trailing out her ears. That only meant one thing. "My god. Your eardrums were ruptured. You can't even hear me, can you? That's why the siren didn't even bother you. Can you at least read my lips? You always were the smartest of us" Steve prattled off question after question. He couldn't help himself, he had to know everything. But there was also something else that was bothering him "Where's Caleb?"...
It's cool. I'm used to it with my other RPs.
Sorry, been away these past few days.
Sorry I haven't posted, guys. I'm at my dad's with no comp access and typing on my iPod is ridiculously difficult. I'll be home tomorrow.
I'm not sure if I could do Chief Science (as my brain is sciency, but not that kind of science) but I'll take a stab at it if necessary. I thin I'll start Kris off as a farmer. A very intelligent farmer, but a farmer non the less.
I will try and get a post up today.
Are you british, by the way?
Hence Required Secondary Powers.
Directly from tvtropes
"Okay, so you've got one of those people who's got a "Special Power". But even if you supposedly only have the one ability, if you're going to actually use it for anything, Fridge Logic demands that you have myriad other passive powers in order to make it work the way it usually does. This is sometimes directly referred to and explained, and sometimes not.
Related to Fan Wank, this encompasses all of the powers that aren't explicitly stated that would make a power function like it does in the work in question. Often, these powers would be useless outside of allowing the main power to work, but some could have use beyond that.
This only covers if the power in question is not explicitly defined. While Cyclops from the X-Men doesn't hurt his own eyelids with his Eye Beams every time he shuts his eyes, this is defined as an explicit ability of his (and his brother).
All these tropes are especially good targets for subversion or aversion, because the absence or malfunction of a superhero's Required Secondary Powers creates a dramatically useful limit on their primary powers. A slight lack of these may oftentimes cause a Logical Weakness. Compare Lethal Harmless Powers. Also, many accusations of Misapplied Phlebotinum rely on the assumption that the characters or factions in question have the RSPs needed to pull out all the theoretical potential.
Warning: Exploration of this Trope may result in brain breakage. But you probably have something to counter that, right?"
And
"Implicitly acknowledged with the Marvel Comics "Decimation" arc, where several mutants keep their primary powers but lose the secondaries. Mutants with fire abilities are no longer immune to their own flames and incinerate themselves, a dragon-like mutant falls out of the sky because his mass can't stay airborne under normal physics even with the wings, a fishlike mutant drowns because his gills can't extract enough oxygen from the water to support a human body, and so forth."
And
"The Flash's powers are an all inclusive package called the Speed Force but parts of it come and go for the purposes of a given story. For example, his seeming ability to slow down his required super-perception has been pointed out a few times. In the Justice League episode "Only a Dream", for instance, the villain Doctor Destiny tormented superheroes with various nightmares; the Flash dreamt that he was unable to slow down, and perceived everything around him as motionless. The idea of a Flash unable to slow down his perception was also eloquently expanded upon by Jim's Big Ego in this song.
Alternate Company Equivalent Quicksilver explicitly doesn't have this: while he can slow down his perception as he speeds up, his default is still faster than human normal. It's described as the reason that he's so cranky: everyone else is moving at a snail's pace.
Flash doesn't always have this ability. In one comic he spent a subjective week watching a movie with his wife.
This would be really painful, given that persistence of vision wouldn't work, and so you wouldn't even be able to perceive the motion in the movie properly. It would be like watching a slideshow of someone's vacation pictures.
Or rather like watching a procession of phosphorous dots or pixels cover the screen one at a time, possibly building up to a coherent picture at the end. For every single frame of the movie.
At least one comic has explained this as being subconscious. When he is bored he tends to zone out and activate his speed without meaning to. This means that a conversation with his father in law, or a trip to the opera, can take forever."
So basically, Aya's elecricty would go were she tells it to, or it at least loses it's attraction to other materials. So come on. Give me a break here?
Directly from tvtropes
"Okay, so you've got one of those people who's got a "Special Power". But even if you supposedly only have the one ability, if you're going to actually use it for anything, Fridge Logic demands that you have myriad other passive powers in order to make it work the way it usually does. This is sometimes directly referred to and explained, and sometimes not.
Related to Fan Wank, this encompasses all of the powers that aren't explicitly stated that would make a power function like it does in the work in question. Often, these powers would be useless outside of allowing the main power to work, but some could have use beyond that.
This only covers if the power in question is not explicitly defined. While Cyclops from the X-Men doesn't hurt his own eyelids with his Eye Beams every time he shuts his eyes, this is defined as an explicit ability of his (and his brother).
All these tropes are especially good targets for subversion or aversion, because the absence or malfunction of a superhero's Required Secondary Powers creates a dramatically useful limit on their primary powers. A slight lack of these may oftentimes cause a Logical Weakness. Compare Lethal Harmless Powers. Also, many accusations of Misapplied Phlebotinum rely on the assumption that the characters or factions in question have the RSPs needed to pull out all the theoretical potential.
Warning: Exploration of this Trope may result in brain breakage. But you probably have something to counter that, right?"
And
"Implicitly acknowledged with the Marvel Comics "Decimation" arc, where several mutants keep their primary powers but lose the secondaries. Mutants with fire abilities are no longer immune to their own flames and incinerate themselves, a dragon-like mutant falls out of the sky because his mass can't stay airborne under normal physics even with the wings, a fishlike mutant drowns because his gills can't extract enough oxygen from the water to support a human body, and so forth."
And
"The Flash's powers are an all inclusive package called the Speed Force but parts of it come and go for the purposes of a given story. For example, his seeming ability to slow down his required super-perception has been pointed out a few times. In the Justice League episode "Only a Dream", for instance, the villain Doctor Destiny tormented superheroes with various nightmares; the Flash dreamt that he was unable to slow down, and perceived everything around him as motionless. The idea of a Flash unable to slow down his perception was also eloquently expanded upon by Jim's Big Ego in this song.
Alternate Company Equivalent Quicksilver explicitly doesn't have this: while he can slow down his perception as he speeds up, his default is still faster than human normal. It's described as the reason that he's so cranky: everyone else is moving at a snail's pace.
Flash doesn't always have this ability. In one comic he spent a subjective week watching a movie with his wife.
This would be really painful, given that persistence of vision wouldn't work, and so you wouldn't even be able to perceive the motion in the movie properly. It would be like watching a slideshow of someone's vacation pictures.
Or rather like watching a procession of phosphorous dots or pixels cover the screen one at a time, possibly building up to a coherent picture at the end. For every single frame of the movie.
At least one comic has explained this as being subconscious. When he is bored he tends to zone out and activate his speed without meaning to. This means that a conversation with his father in law, or a trip to the opera, can take forever."
So basically, Aya's elecricty would go were she tells it to, or it at least loses it's attraction to other materials. So come on. Give me a break here?
Assallya said
Or standing on concrete... or on sand or grass? Also, Voltage isn't a measure of electrical power, it's how fast the electricity is moving. He other half is amperage. Multiply the two and you get Power, with a capitol P, expressed in watts. The higher the voltage, the further the electricity can jump.
Okay. I eliminated that bit about touching things. She also wears specially designed clothing that won't knock her out of her electric state. Which I'm gonna call her "Arc Form" even if it's wrong because electrified state is just weird whereas arc form sounds awesome! Also what does need to be lowered so she can't kill. I looked around and got a lot of "it depends on the person and circumstance" stuff. But seeing as this is an RP with superheroes, I figure a little suspension of disbelief is required. But I want to at least be scientifically accurate.
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