User blog:Xanneer/Semblances

Ok, to avoid further headaches in the future with my characters, I am going to ask the community at large (if thats a real phrase) what their opinion is and whether what I'm doing is OK. Basically, I am going to create two more characters to fill out my team who both have semblances. I will provide a summary of what I plan to write out for each of their semblances, and I want you guys to tell me whether my semblances are acceptable.

First off, one of my characters will have teleportation. The Semblance will only allow her to teleport up to a maximum of 30 ft, and she can only teleport if there is a line of sight to her destination (if she can't see it, she can't go there). The Semblance only allows her to teleport in a straight line and she can't use it to move diagonally. Meaning if her body is facing north, she can't move North east or south west. This also applies if she were to teleport up in the air. She can however control what direction shes facing when she comes out of the teleport. She also has to wait about 5 seconds before she can teleport again. She is unable to teleport someone along with her, but she can teleport while holding an inanimate objects. And to make this more fair, when she teleports, the sudden missing mass causes the air to violently move into the open space with a loud but harmless explosion(an implosion?). The same thing happens when she comes out of a teleport. This part is based off of Nightcrawler from the X-Men who also has teleportation powers. And to elaborate on the character, she wields two Dao swords, think an arabian Sword from aladdin, its somewhat similar.

And for the 2nd character, let me just say it plain and simple. Her Semblance is basically Earthbending from the Avatar series. She moves the earth and uses all the same moves as the earthbenders from the series, with strong rooted stances and hard and powerful kicks and punches. She learned it while still at Signal or another academy of the same education level and spent most of her young life mastering it, with little time for socialization. She won't be moving any pillars or giant eastern island heads without seriously tiring herself out. I did this because I'm a big fan of the Avatar series and I thought it would be cool to have a character who used the same abilities. And to be clear, she used the same martial art moves (Hung Gar kung fu which is what earthbending is based on) even before she learned she had a semblance, she just found that the moves translated/ worked really well with her Semblance. She doesn't use a weapon aside from metal gauntlets to protect her hands. She usually switches between using her semblance attack from a distance by throwing rocks at them or by covering her body in stone when she goes in for melee which is how she primarily fights. Due to her style of martial arts and the semblance, she can be very slow and her attacks can be very easily dodged by faster opponents but her defense is pretty solid.