Talk:Farran Thanatos/@comment-17970636-20151208192522/@comment-26069379-20151209023430

Being perfectly honest I actually added the lack of ranged option just for this Wiki as it is apparently a rule here, although part of it worked out for designing the weapon. Originally it ranged was just not his forte.

Ability-wise I did NOT design this guy to be a student, he's supposed to be a veteran. Along the lines of Glynda and Qrow. Although I will agreed that many of his physical abilities alone are quite up there it's not like other people in RWBY don't have it too.

While I understand how a Semblance should not be OP (such as time control or control over life & death) I'm still trying to work everything you pointed out. You said in chat the RWBYverse is different from the verses I've pulled inspiration from. That doesn't exactly explain much unless you REALLY want to get down into the scientific process of this which I really don't want to do.

Your saying that the Semblance would just utterly kill anyone but I'm don't think thats the case. Even if I remove the One Piece/Naruto-verse anime logic in which the technique(s) are survivable, what I interpreted from what you are saying is that any NORMAL human or even RWBYverse humans would be torn to shreds from this. This is true in a normal sense. I will not deny that if you or I got hit by this power it could easily kill us, but we're normal humans without Aura. But if that we're the case then several characters in the RWBY canon should be outright pulped right now.

Using Yang as example, she enough regular strength to punch a full grown man through air and through a glass pillar easily or send an Ursa Grimm crashing through several trees. When she smashed Lie Ren into the ground during the cafeteria fight, the shockwave sent furniture and vending machines flying. Thats without her Semblance on. With her Semblance not only is she extremely durable (if not immune to kinetic energy) but she gets enough strength that she is easily able to completely destroy the one of the mechanical arms of a Paladin mech, an military grade battlemech with heavy metal plating (I don't know if it's steel or not), with a single punch, and then utterly destroy the rest of the mech with a second punch. If I got hit by her, forget breaking a couple ribs, I'd be a puddle on the ground!

 Her only weakness is the fact that she can be reckless in battle, thus becoming sloppy in fighting but it doesn't exactly matter much as she almost near invulerable to kinetic force and there is apparently no known limits to her Semblance meaning that potentially her strength can still be much greater.

 Insult to injury is that she also a VERY GOOD shot. With her weapon she's been able to shoot several missles mid flight as well as hit a Nevermore flying through the sky several times, with one hit even hitting the Grimm in the eye.

But the characters of RWBY are also durable. Yang is able to take barrage of bazooka rockets, being punched multple times by a military mech, and being launched through the cafeteria roof. flying through the air for two minutes by Nora (Who also has a crazy amount of strength) and then literally laugh it off. Other characters show signs of durability elsewise anything that has ever been hit once by Yang or Nora shouldn't even be alive, let alone standing.

 There are numerous other examples for strength and durability I can put out too:

 Nora is strong enough to kill large Grimm with only a single hit and Semblance can increase her strength to absurd levels without any known limit. Nora even states she can bench five of herself naturally. I'm noting going to into she can also produce electricity as well as absorb and channel it. The strength part is enough for me as she is easily able to launch an entire team of four by herself, send them all flying through the air and crashing into the barrier. Considering that Nora's blows can easily kill very large creatures, it's amazing that Team BRNZ didn't become a stain on the barrier from that attack, especially since this is AFTER Nora got a major powerboost from the lightning.

Even Oobleck and Zwei are inhuman. Oobleck has enough strength to launch Zwei with enough force to fly a great distance and knock smash Paladin mech into the air. Zwei is also very durable as he was lit on fire during said attack and showed no discomfort after being struck or upon striking the mech.

I honestly after thinking about this believe that my current Semblance actually fits a bit better than expected. Can I tune it down? Probably but I don't see how this completely OP anymore considering the feats in the Canon itself.