Maybe Kid Win was being optimistic.
Legend turned and opened a window, then let himself float through.
Who needs doors?
He took a second to get his bearings, to inform himself of which direction was up, down, north, east, south and west, then he took off.
I like how he needs to keep track of up and down among these. Does he feel any gravity on his body while he’s flying?
Powers were classified into categories, and the ‘breaker’ classification was used to mark those powers which were limited to one’s own body and their immediate vicinity.
Are you telling me that your flight is a result of you breaking gravity?
Though it had initially been used to cover individuals who could make themselves stronger, denser, larger or change the materials they were made of, it was slowly expanding to include others. There was a theory that was gaining traction, suggesting that the breaker classification was one of the most common powersets, if not always the most pronounced.
I suppose there are a lot of powers that could be described that way.
Innumerable people with powers had also adapted innate defenses that kept their own powers from harming themselves. Pyrokinetics tended to be resistant to flame. There were automatic shutoffs, biological and mental, for various other powers. Even beyond that, there were other adaptations that were so subtle as to be almost undetectable. His weren’t.
So… is he talking about something about the way his flight works that keeps it from hurting him? Or maybe it’s something about light?
…I should probably just let him continue.
Legend’s flight powers let him accelerate to a speed that exceeded sound and continue accelerating, to no hard limit.
Not even the speed of light?
…oh yeah, I suppose the speed of light is technically a soft limit, even if it’s hard in the sense that you can’t surpass it. It has to do with the energy needed to accelerate approaching infinity.
The soft limit was that he had breaker powers that kept the acceleration from tearing him to shreds, altering his body into something else entirely as he gained speed.
…huh. That’s a weird and pretty cool way to do it.
The drawback to this was that his brain also shut down on a cognitive level as the transformation occurred. He had never let himself go so fast that he lost the ability to consciously control his movements.
He’s probably going to need to do that at some point. Possibly by the end of this Interlude.
Question is, though, can he then be slowed down enough to regain control without tearing down half a city?
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