QUESTION MEME

[lightningfield]

I have yet to hit 1k, but given how much I tl;dr'd at Haru earlier, and the amount of time I have on my hands, I figure I might as well do one anyway.

If you have any questions about Hei/Li Shengshun, or DtB, or trees, or pretty much anything, I guess, I will be glad to answer them. I will then proceed to ask you a question in return. Then, hopefully, we will build nice towers of tealdeer together until one of us gives up or forgets to answer!

(Come at me, bros.)

Comments

[whetblood]

Uh... basically Thusia is the new Cannibal Corpse except he doesn't have to kill humans and they don't get dissected afterwards. Um... so mostly he's sliding back into that insular type mentality. You go out, you kill things, you come back, you eat, you heal, you sleep, you do it all over again. He's making a couple of connections with people, and he's ended up nearly killing someone already over... nothing as far as he can tell. So yeah, basically just like prison for him.

Um... Tell me about Hei and his masks since I know nothing of DtB.

[rootless]

I hope this, uh, adequately answers your question...

TELL ME ABOUT SENJI'S DEATH/its effect on him/how you handled it/etc...

[whetblood]

Senji doesn't remember his death. It's basically just a fuzzy nothingness following his fight against Mockingbird at the prison, and that's the last thing he remembers: finishing up the fight and brofisting Ganta on the rooftop. Then... nothing. What he thinks happened is that he passed out from bloodloss after that and fell of the roof. That's embarrassing so he's never brought up that theory again. Eventually canon will either give me an actual death for him, or I'll have him hit with a bus after the series ends. :|a

I apped him as the fight against Toto was going on and really did think it was going to kill him, so I asked and received permission to do a one time update if and when he ever dies in canon. :|a We'll see how it turns out eventually.

Senarios: what happens if Hei isn't able to find balance with his masks?

[lightningfield]

He's just as fucked up as he is in canon, I guess... Honestly a lot of his development in canon is him trying and FAILING to balance himselves, until he gets topped in his own headspace by all his dead canonmates that are like IF YOU CAN'T MAKE A CHOICE JUST BE BOTH YOU SHITHEAD. BRIDGE THE GAAAP.

I took him from the canonpoint directly after said topping, but he. Got into Thusia and promptly started ignoring their advice because. Because Hei. And Stubborn. And changed situations apparently mean ignoring the advice of everyone he ever cared about...

Did you powercap Senji's Branch Of Sin in any way? If so, how?

[whetblood]

Yeah. It's length capped basically. He can only extend the blades about 6 ft or so. He can also only use the Invisible Black a few times before he's down for the count. And of course the general impetus of he can't cut things in half at whim and has to gain some damage from fights he goes out on alone.

The other major cap is the same one he has in canon. He only has so much blood in his body and while he can push himself to insanely stupid points, he's eventually going to go down and go down hard when he no longer has enough blood to pump through his veins.

What kind of abilities does Hei have?

[lightningfield]

Hei is, purely physically, strong enough and fast enough and crafty enough that he lasted years in a war full of super-powered people out to kill him, when he was still only human. This is including people who can, say, blow things up with their minds. His weapons of choice are double-bladed tuning-fork-esque knives, and lengthy, tough wires with clips on the ends. These can be used so he can swing around like Batman, as well as being handy for, say, trapping people. Or strangling them. Or hanging them from the branches of trees.

THESE PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES BECAME SUPER HANDY WHEN HE GOT POWERS. Hei's ability is, basically, manipulation of electricity. He's a human taser. Direct contact, or contact through conductive materials (such as, say, his wires. or knives. or a car. or water. or ice.) means he can deliver a shock more than strong enough to kill a man, or several, in one go. He can, of course, limit the strength of the shock, such as when he knocked out a teammate. It's also good for, say, cracking super high tech electronic locks, and so on.

Tell me about the Senji-Ganta bromance!!!