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Okay so! The power cap...

The thing about Ticky/Slick's power is that they are ridiculously godmode. His ability to 'choose' what he touches means he can do things like rip people's hearts out without breaking their flesh, he can walk through walls, he can walk on air, he can ignore people attacking him because their blows will go right through him. What's worse, is there is no limit on it; it doesn't tire him, he doesn't have a time restraint. Slick could literally keep it up for weeks without a second thought.

So, for obvious reasons, this wouldn't work in Igura because he could just walk around and grab everyone's dog tags, without exorcists with their Innocence weapons around, he would be pretty unstoppable!

Thankfully, there is a power cap. However, then the question is... how do I represent Slick getting his powers back gradually? The ability to REJECT ALL MATTER is a crazy strong super power, even if you can only maintain it for a few seconds.

So here is how I am doing it: upon arrival his powers were completely useless. Since then, every day he can maintain his ability two seconds longer, and the radius can effect grows by two centimeters.

The width of the space he can effect applies to what he is REJECTING, so say he can reject something the size of a quarter; this means he can only reach into someone's skin a quarter wide and a quarter deep! STILL ENOUGH TO PUNCTURE YOUR JUGULAR WITH THE TIP OF HIS FISHING POLE. But not enough to do damage all over the body.Similarly, because rejection IS instantaneous, he can reject bullets flying at him (if he times it right, because he can only hold it for a few seconds). But he can't reject an entire fist, or an axe head... Eventually, bigger objects are going to have the advantage when it comes to attacking Slick.

On top of all of this, rejecting stuff now requires FOCUS. He can't do it absently or easily. It isn't REALLY DIFFICULT but he does have to try, and as he pushes the limit of his time he gets a headache. Do it too often, it becomes a horrible migraine.

Ultimately, it's still a pretty powerful ability, even limited this much. BUT it is now finally an ability that requires effort and thought and skill, instead of Ticky just derping around not giving a fuck. So... he probably won't use it a lot for more than minor theft and card tricks. And it will be a few months before he can do anything significant with it.

OOC INFO:
Name: Aviy
Personal LJ: aviy
Are you over 17?: Yes
Contact: aviychan@gmail.com
Characters already in game: None

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*itp, ticky is sitting outside, starting at a list of names, and chewing on the end of a pencil instead of smoking*

*FOLLOW UP to stuff I'm too lazy to find the links for this and this. Ticky is sitting at the table in his cabin. Feet up on the table, leaning back in the chair, staring in non-sane fascination at slightly folded picture in his hand, smoking*