Fusion #9 Page 20
EssayBee on June 17, 2014
Here's page 20, and Fusion gives the Darmarian forces a literal pounding. Since Fusion doesn't know the architecture of the helicopters (and the location of their vital flight systems), she only wants to make stable flight for them impossible to force them out of the air. Plus I'm sure there's a certain visceral satisfaction from delivering blow
after blow after blow to the Darmarian forces.
EssayBee at 10:07AM, June 23, 2014
Yep, like Stig Hemmer said, Savunn's never killed before, and she has no desire to start. As has been established, Bob's kind are only permitted to fuse to those who are inherently good, and I think that inherently good people value all life (regardless of whether that life is worth valuing) and would never actively seek to kill another. That's not to say that inherently good people can't or won't kill, but they'd never kill if there was another option.
Stig Hemmer at 3:28PM, June 22, 2014
She is also someone who, I suspect, have never killed before. Deliberately killing someone is psychologically very very hard. (Physically, all too easy)
Smoothly at 6:57PM, June 19, 2014
@Tssha Yeah that makes sense; she IS showing an awful lot of maturity: given the situation she's in it muss be a tough job rising above the bloodthirsty lunatics trying to kill her.
Tssha at 6:50PM, June 19, 2014
@Smoothly: She's probably doing it this way to avoid an international incident...well...a bigger international incident. If she handles herself beyond reproach and does entirely the right thing, she'll probably get away with it. If she kills members of a foreign army...she could quickly become persona non grata. Plus, why kill when you can disable? It's also way more impressive to disable an entire army without killing them...and sets certain bleeding hearts at ease. ;)
Smoothly at 11:42AM, June 19, 2014
Nice way to keep it non-lethal, but she's showing an awful lot of restraint in keeping it so against people who clearly want to hurt or kill the people she's established herself as protector of. Is she doing so out of altruism or because it's just "the done thing"? I wonder how she might react if she inadvertently killed someone?
EssayBee at 7:51AM, June 17, 2014
hkmaly--That's why she's limiting her strikes to kinetic blasts; she pounding them primarily in the noses and tails (denting the crap out of them, but not knocking holes in them; although, from the smoke trails, it seems she's certainly damaged some internal systems as well) to rattle them, and high kinetic "winds" to create unsafe flight conditions. Basically, she's encouraging them to land.
hkmaly at 4:40AM, June 17, 2014
Not knowing the architecture of the helicopters (and the location of their vital flight systems) almost GUARANTEES she damage some of them so bad they crash into ground ... or in each other.