Fayt:
We've never met, so sup. Anyway;
How is he both crazy but lawful good? Unless you mean crazy in the most idealistic Batman sense, where he literally lets himself get the shit beat out of him on a regular basis in order to SAVE INNOCENTS (insert
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader reference where he lets himself get killed because INNOCENTS). I contrast this with the most cynical Batman sense, where he just beats up poor, arguably defenseless people with his superior training, physique, and weaponry, and justifies it to himself by screeching CRIME and patting himself on the back for not killing, but nonetheless prides himself on putting people in traction for 8 months. That was a really long digression, but I have deeply mixed feelings about Batman, mostly because fundamentally
god dammit I wanna be Batman.
Back to your thing: yeah please explain the 'crazy but lawful good nonetheless'. Is this an Azrael sort of gig, where he's brainwashed into this psycho PRAISE GOD, KILL CRIMINALS kind of deal? The aforementioned 'I am Batman and I have a serious martyr complex' kind of deal? Or is he just
honestly seriously crazy and only thinks he's lawful good because he's so crazy (I like this theory best because that's some 3deep5me shit)?
I'm...uh...not sure how useful being #1 in his class at swordplay is. I generally didn't have
swording classes at school. Besides that though, it's an origin story. It's okay. You can tell us if he made the powered armor or not. Arguably we should kind of insist, because it's the difference between being Tony Stark (genius who makes powered armor, to the extent that 'genius' is probably power #1, trumping 'powered armor' and 'ludicrous wealth', which is arguably a required secondary power for powered armor anyway unless it's some kitbashed backyard-scientist looking stuff) or James Rhodes (pretty smart dude but not 'make powered armor' smart).
To clarify - does he have 200% strength and speed outside the suit, and 800% (400% of 200%) inside the suit, or is it 200% and 400% (or 600%, if it's supposed to be 200%+400%), and most of what the suit is adding is durability? Can he fly in the suit (Iron Man) or is it more of a kind of MJOLNIR V kind of deal? Does the suit have integrated weapons, or is it mostly, er, sword? Seeing as the sword is unmentioned, are we supposed to assume there's anything special about it, or is it just supposed to be your regular old sword?
And now the hard part.
The hard part
Quantifying the amount of damage an M1 Abrams can withstand. This is harder than it sounds, because real talk: that armor is fucking thick, hard, and get your mind out of the gutter we're doing physics. Penetrating (goddamit) that armor will take...well we'll just use an M829 at point blank range, because hell if I'm doing too much math past midnight, and we'll get 12MJ of energy. That's...well, that's kind of a shitload (considering a heavyweight boxer might do 1kJ, or a .50 cal bullet maybe 18kJ). I don't even have the slightest clue what kind of pressure will be necessary to get that to break, since presumably this is some kind of super-material that can do in a centimeter or two what an Abrams needs 20-30 times that quantity of armor to do, which then presumably raises its degree of resistance to other forms of energy. Assuming that this armor is the magic type of armor that we get in fiction, which perfectly distributes energy, kinetic or otherwise, across its own surface, transferring none to the delicate flesh beneath it until it fails, for all practical purposes they'd probably need rocket artillery, or an alarmingly accurate tank crew, to take you down. Or, y'know, a superhero.
Also I can't tell if you're a hero or a villain.
Ashton:
I am literally playing a superhero-themed FATE game with my usual gaming group. We do this kind of loophole finding shit all the time. Of course, for the purposes of gaming abstractions, we eliminate a lot of the 'elemental manipulation on the atomic level' kind of stuff outside of stunts or other fate point uses, and really it degenerates to 'aight I use my Shoot 6 on you, you use your Athletics 5 to dodge, rolloff fam'. But then the DM spins it into a 'Sparkboy launches a torrent of electricity at Mantis, but she pushes her jetboots into overdrive. Stray crackles of lightning dance across the surface of her armor, but the vast majority is wasted into the air. The stench of ozone fills Mantis' nose, and she knows she got lucky here - but how long can it last?'
He's a good DM. That's what I'm getting at.
And I mean, sure, 'peak' performance and intelligence is probably worth contending. But I'd be pretty happy with the assumption that anyone trying to play with the big boy superheroes is in the 90th percentile and up in most categories.
I'd also like to be 100% clear that being fast, or strong, or agile in no way suggests you'd be able to survive a bullet. Knife Nut might be 4% body fat, runs a mile in 3 minutes, and can bench press a car, but he gets shot, he doesn't have an extra lung lying around. He's gonna die. ("Good," growls Nighthawk in his deep bass voice. "Death is the only suitable price for his crimes. The pocketbook of Justice has been balanced." Nighthawk is kind of an asshole, but the Justice Community accepts him because he's
really cool, and more importantly he paid for their secret base. He put up a billion dollars for it, they can put up with his ancap rhetoric every so often.)
Give me like...30 minutes to type up the rest of my PM. Maybe we can make something else work. nevermind there have been 4 new replies since I started writing this and you put up a topic already jesus fuck am I slow
Justinian:
It's vaguely annoying. Quotes are easier and accomplish much the same objective. Just remove the necessary content. But with me you don't really have to, because I click on threads that I'm actively interested in anyway. I'll read any reference to me eventually.
And aight. I just wanted clarity. Although more clarity (read: more questions answered) is always a positive for everyone, because often I find that by answering questions people ask, it's an opportunity for me to just make up some shit about backstory by giving examples.
Cinciri:
generally when I do strikeouts i'm approximately 0% serious
I asked about the weapons because I want to get an idea of just how much of a heavy-hitter he is. Mjolnir, for example, is generally considered unbreakable (Cate Blanchett aside, but shit those cheekbones could cut diamonds anyway), and Thor can go toe-to-toe with immensely powerful villains without worrying about losing an important part of his toolkit (which, admittedly, is pretty much
entirely Mjolnir, and maybe like 2% flowing blonde locks). Deadpool, on the other hand, uses just sort of regular old weapons that he presumably buys in bulk, and so he goes through quite a few of these because they break every so often, although since he uses katanas, and everyone knows
katanas are overpowered, not quite as many as you'd otherwise think. Still, when they do break, he's kinda gotta scramble for a new thing, or hope for a backup.
but yes you the real MVP answering all my annoying questions
