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Old 2009-11-08, 16:43   Link #208
Dean_the_Young
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Originally Posted by dahak View Post
Except when she hasn't. She called down lightning from the clouds on Touma more than once.
She virtually always calls down lightning on herself, and leaves Touma to be hit by the blast zone. Lightning always focus on or from her, which is consistent with the point that she alters herself (in this clase, the potential difference between her and the sky, making lightning possible).
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She and 10032 have to be able to manipulate Electromagnetic fields into intricate shapes at a distance to pull off a number of their stunts. Electrokinetic Telepathy being the most obvious, but the Ozone Death Technique as well as hacking electronic locks and ATM machines require it.
Electromagnetic fields don't do intricate fields, though. That's not how fields work. It's the entire problem of justifying those talents through manipulating electromagnetic fields. Electromagnetic fields doing distinct shapes is like, oh...

-Carving an exact copy Michaelangelo's David by throwing a stream of water at limestone, justified because of erosion

-Getting 100 yard football passes 100% despite full coverage because of manipulating wind

-Reliably hitting someone in the next town after batting a baseball, regardless of pitch or how they move, because you hit the ball really, really hard and well
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