fandomhigh_ooc | Powers and Skills and Abilities, Oh My!

For everybody's convenience in plotting, we try to keep a running list of the various abilities possessed by FH characters. If you ever find yourself saying, "Hey, I need a magic user/archer/person who can whistle Dixie while eating crackers and covering one eye," that list of powers is meant to be there for you to take a look at.

It's been a while since we did this so here we go:

All of the previous posts have been compiled into a spreadsheet that you can always head over to check (and will be linked on the FH community info page)

From now on, we only need people to fill this out for new characters, or if you have an update or correction for your older ones. If your stuff is listed over on the spreadsheet, don't worry about this!

We've streamlined the categories a bit to focus on "what can you do" instead of worrying about whether that's a magic or mutant or inherent ability. So the wacky powers are now just broken into spellcasting, psionic powers, and superhuman physical attributes.

Anything that is a canon power or ability of your character (including those developed at FH) and could be used in a plot in some way, please list below in the correct thread. This is for all character types - students/alumni, teachers and townies - and covers everything, not just the wacky powers. We also appreciate yer fighting, research, weapons, support skills and whittlin', baby.

Thank you so much in advance for taking the time to do this!

[[~~Wait for the~~ OCD is up! Have at it. ~~or I will throw a pony at your head.~~]]

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Please reply with a detailed explanation of which weapon/s your character is comfortable with and their skill level/s.

Summer knows her way around firearms and is a fairly accurate shot, especially when using handguns (though she prefers to use them as a last resort).

Dru's quite competent with most small weapons.

Zack is particularly skilled with a sword... The bigger, the better! And will actually tend to bludgeon his enemies to death with the blunt side of his massive Buster Sword, as opposed to cleaving them clean in two. Which possibly says a great deal about his upper body strength, actually.

With any sword that isn't the aforementioned Buster Sword, he doesn't have any such compunctions against using the sharp edge, and it shows.

... He can also kill you ten ways to Sunday with a closed beach umbrella. Fear.

Please. Miles is on LOST. 90% of those characters can work any weapon they pick up.

I blame island magic.

Captain John Price is very well trained in firearms, and is skilled enough as a sniper to hit a target from an extreme distance.

Scully is a very good shot, FBI rated expert-- although she's working on regaining that classification since her transformation.

Algren is less comfortable with guns than he used to be, but that doesn't change the fact that he's still ridiculously skilled with pistols and rifles from his own era back in 1877. He very, very rarely misses his target. Even when drunk. Oh, canon.

... On top of that, he's a freaking samurai. He's most comfortable with a katana, and because canon makes him a huge freaking Gary Stu, he's skilled enough that he could hold his own with it alongside the most skilled Samurai in the village that took him in.

And he still wields a mean hammer. :D

Faith is awesome with almost any sort of weapon you put in her hands; while the past Slayers have already mastered the ways of every weapon of the medieval sort, Slayers are pretty good at picking up skills.

Roy is the second-best archer in his world. And he's faster on the draw than the one guy who's better. So he's crazy-good with any form of bow and, additionally, proficient with firearms. He can also hit what he's aiming at with anything he can throw.

Tim's highly skilled with bo staff and slingshot and can hit nearly anything with a batarang. He also has at least a passing familiarity with most weapons.

Asuna can summon a harisen, a steel metal fan the length of a sword and use it to fight and dispel magic. She can also summon a Big Damn Sword under duress. The BDS can slash boulders like butter, dispel magical attacks and unsummon demons.

Both swords can also destroy any magical barriers.

Gunn is pretty darn good with a sword, battle axe, stake, crossbow and generally anything that can kill a vampire.

Cindy has been training to be a spy for centuries. In the comics, we see her using pistols and swords a lot, but off-hand comments suggest she has at least passing familiarity with most types of weapons.

And after two hundred years of practice, you can get damn good.

Goose is an expert in weaponry and is able to shoot with any blaster he is given.

Rinoa's weapon of choice is a "blaster edge" -- that is, a wrist-mounted boomerang of sorts. It looks pretty wtf but I swear it does actual, real damage. She's fairly good with it, although I'm not sure exactly how much training a wrist-mounted boomerang needed in the first place.

Guns and knives. Marcus is an excellent shot with most common street guns, and he is very good with knives.

Jake is licensed to carry a handgun! And has some police training so is likely a pretty good shot.

Also he can point hairdryer menacingly.

Squall's weapon of choice is a gunblade, a sword that has a hilt which looks like a revolver. It doesn't actually shoot anything; instead, if Squall pulls the trigger just as he hits something with the blade, the attack is a little extra-powerful.

Yes, that's kind of silly. But it looks cool.

The gunblade is his specialty, but he also has basic training with several other kinds of weapons -- guns, nunchaku, whips, etc.

Hiccup has been trained to use Viking weapons: axes, knives, shields, hammers, bolas. He's not particularly good at any of them, and his interest in them is best classed as indifferent, but if necessary he can fight with those sorts of weapons. He's limited by having only leg, of course.

Cassidy doesn't know how to fight all that well, but she knows enough to strike at someone while screaming like a banshee both vocally and psychically.

She has been known to use a garden hoe like a staff and can be lethal when throwing a hammer.

...

I suspect these skills will change in Fandom.

Bruce's main weapons on the island are bolos. He's an expert shot with them, generally able to tie up or just strike targets from a distance. He is also experienced - but not yet an expert by any means - with swords, staffs, and other melee and thrown weapons.

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