Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-17970636-20140525014209/@comment-23309369-20140525030819

In this fight there is a very clear victor, which is Julian.

Amet may have his Reflex semblance, which yes could help him out in a bare knuckle brawl against Jules, but the fact of the matter is that it would do almost nothing in an armed fight against Julian.

Why?

Because reflexes are not the same as body movement speed. Reflexes by definition are involuntary reactions to a stimulas, NOT the movement of the body itself.

Now I'm goin to assume this semblance targets the sensors of Mr. Revfold, giving him slightly enhanced perception and quicker reaction times. With this assumption in mind, his escape and startle reflexes would be rated to almost superhuman levels (I'm only noting these because they seem the most useful in this fight and NOT because that's all the semblance could or does target) allowing him to be able to be able to move out of the way of almost anything swung or thrown at him, including grenades or similar devices. The weapon itself be dodged? Absolutely. The near instantanious blast, following shockwave, likely shrapnel and the definite heat from the blasts? No.....hell no.

Even if his reflexes allow him to perceive whether something is a bomb or just a hunk of mostly harmless rock, which they indeed may, and even WITH the assumed jolt to the time it takes for signals to reach the nerves in his muscles to get him moving, he still MOVES as fast as any other person of his size and build can without assistance from adrenalin, since his body still has limiters on how powerful his muscles can be at any given time.

If Amet wanted to kill Jules, he'd have to get up close. Say what you will, but the launcher form on his weapon has little to no effect on Julian, with the only exception being to the fact that Jules MAY get burned if hit on any bare skin, though this exception is almost immediately shoved to the curb for a good majority of the fight once Julian's semblance, which is PURELY defensive, is taken into account. Even without his semblance in mind, with his blast proof and fire retardant clothing a direct or glancing blow to the face would be required for the attack to mean anything other than a distraction.

This leaves Amet's cqc skills which, quite frankly, don't help him very much either. Why? Because Julian can survive his own detonations. Amet cannot. With this in mind, once Amet is close enough Julian can and most likely WILL detonate his dynamite regardless of how close it is to himself. But for arguements sake, let's assume he wouldn't or couldn't.

Amet's only defence seems to be his aura, while on top of his own aura, which once more is purely defence based, Jules has a suit of light armor that can withstand automatic fire, which though isn't designed to survive stabbing weapons specifically, it IS designed to protect against shrapnel and fly rock, which cause hundreds of blast related deaths individually and separately to shockwaves, meaning it is able to survive a number of attacks before being rendered null and void. Once through this layer of defence Amet would still need to get through Jule's aura, which, once more, can allow Julian to survive multiple point blank detonations if he needs to. Amet however, would be hard pressed to stay upright after two at the most even without taking into account the havok the blasts would play on his senses once his defence was weakened, which would render his semblance useless.

Yes I said it, useless. Without properly functioning sensory nerves that are both not "distracted" and are for the most part undamaged, Amet's one real advantage, his reflexes, are suddenly useless to him. The shockwaves that DID hit him from short distance? Sure his aura can deal with most of it. Most of it. However, seeing as it takes 5-10 psi to rupture an eardrum (without even taking into account that the mere sound from the explosion would uber-vibrate these body parts into oblivion) one, possibly two, of Julian's dynamite would most likely get enough pressure through Amet's aura to rupture his ears, causing both pain and loss of one sense, and this is at the very least. Along with this the human body itself is very susceptable to shockwaves, being made mostly of water the human body is full of lots of squishy bits to burst, such as the lungs of in this case Amet for example, which the pressure from the blasts alone could collapse those two lovely organs from close proximity.

Not even taking into account the bodily carnage the explosions would inflict, the mere force of the explosion would stagger Amet from a short distance and fully throw him up close, and given the fact that some of the explosives Julian carries are impact triggered, its safe to assume these blasts are going to be very in very close proximity to mr. Revfold.

Final verdict; Julian wins.