Talk:Dean Hinto/@comment-24911350-20140521205444/@comment-24911350-20140528225507

That's a plasma gun, and is actually more within the realm of possibility, but a semblance wouldn't be capable of doing it alone. Plasma is created by heating gas to the point of ionization, and further heating can be done safely using electromagnetic containment. Electromagnetism is also what would fire it.

So what you'd want is a magnetism semblance, probably one that can create extremely strong spherical fields in a short range, and then you could just have a weapon do the initial heating, and firing.

The only thing is that a plasma gun would be pretty short-range, and would take some time to heat up and charge, initially and between shots. Ammo probably wouldn't be an issue-- You could just use gas canisters, although then those canisters would be a potential vulnerability, and could really hurt Dean if something pierces them.

It would be a devastating weapon though. If you want to do that though then you should probably add a blade or a musket or something onto it at least, so you have some more readily-available offense in that form. It should probably have another form more suited to fighting groups, and striking quickly too.