Need some concept advice on how to make sense of a ice/kin corrupter.
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Biospark,
Posted on: 2010-11-17 19:55 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
IIRC there was an early War Machine enemy called Cold Warrior who absorbed kinetic energy and turned it into blasts.
Since heat is the random motion of particles, it makes sense that absorbing kinetic energy would cause cold. I have an Ice/Kin Corr named The Angel of Winter with that as an explanation for why she has that combination of abilities.
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I used a similar concept for my Ice/Fire Dom (Heatsink). The idea of absorbing heat can easily explain both effects. In the case of Kinetics, you could say that your hero has control over matter at a molecular level, so slowing the motion of molecules definitely causes a reduction in temperature.
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My Kin/Ice defender is simply a "speed mage": remove the speed from air and you get shards of ice to throw at people; add it to your teammates and they start bouncing off the walls.
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Gambit uses Kinetics, although it is in a different way most of the time. He has the mutant ability to shift kinetic energy into objects. He also has the ability to shift kinetic energy OUT of them as well, though that side of his powers isn't used very much in the comics. |
Originally Posted by moonbound
I will be playing on the heroes side but I need some examples of super heroes in any comics that have kinetics as a power, for some reason I just cannot think of a good concept or name for this, the colors match well together, of course you can with magic but that is to easy besides I think I did allot of the magic missions before unless there are new and better ones out now.
Any examples to help me what kinetics actually is concept wise would greatly be appreciated thanks all. |
The way *I* would explain an Ice/Kinetics corruptor is: You have the ability to control the movement of molecules in things. You can slow them down or speed them up, or even mash them together. So, you can slow down an enemy while speeding yourself up (Siphon Speed), slow down an enemies bullets or melee attacks while speeding yours up (Siphon Power, since velocity = striking power, it would explain the -dam/+dam nature of the powers). You can increase the strength of the bond between molecules (Increase Density) or decrease it (Inertial Reduction)
You also have the ability to slow down the hydrogen and oxygen molecules found in the atmosphere, and cause them to bond to each other, hence forming ice. Since all ice is is water in which the molecules have been drastically slowed down.
That help?
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Play around with colors and maybe it's not ice- crystals for example
or go dark and it's nano technology or insects (or other very small bio weapon)
or one is your ability and the other is provided by a device or talisman, like a glove or suit
or you're just naturally that way and so is everyone where you come from
Heat is just small-scale kinetics.
No concept can explain the powerset called Kinetics.
You can heal allies (but only if an enemy is present), you can induce superspeed or density increase in others, you can absorb energy from enemies into yourself and others and you can create a field around your body that violently repels things.
Is it superspeed with benefits like the Flash? Is it energy absorbtion like Sebastian Shaw, Absorbing Man or Rogue? Could the ability to fast forward, slow down or reverse time maybe explain it? Or what??!??!!
I'm pretty sure no comic character has ever had that exact weird grab-bag of abilities.
For Ice/Kin though, I like the idea of an energy organiser, and used this for an Ice/Kin Controller way back. You can take the random molecular motion that is heat, and turn it onto directed motion. If you made all the atoms in an object direct themsleves to the left, the object would move to the left and cool down.
This of course grossly violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which is kind of cool. You're decreasing entropy every time you use your powers.
Wow that helped a bit, thanks all.
I will be playing on the heroes side but I need some examples of super heroes in any comics that have kinetics as a power, for some reason I just cannot think of a good concept or name for this, the colors match well together, of course you can with magic but that is to easy besides I think I did allot of the magic missions before unless there are new and better ones out now.
Any examples to help me what kinetics actually is concept wise would greatly be appreciated thanks all.