“Wait, how is moving her body involuntarily affecting her flight, considering she’s using her brain to do that? Did Regent mess with the nerves in her brain? Can he do that?” I would assume he can mess with at least some of them, considering he can hijack the entire body. But I’m not a neurologist.

Maybe, maybe not. There’s no good reason for his power to not affect the brain when it’s divorced from human ideas, but if he can do that, that’s a form of mind control rather than body control, and he’s been pretty clear on the distinction there.

More Steven Universe spoilers! Assuming Shatterbird is constrained by the Manton effect, I doubt the S9 (except maybe the Siberian) have enough firepower to even scratch the Diamonds, the things Blue tanked were insane, and I doubt Yellow’s durability is any worse. Even if they only have their hot bods, it’ll still be like fighting 2 even more durable Crawlers (though with admitedly lesser regeneration), rather than Fenja and Menja.

Ehh. I’d imagine Shatterbird and maybe Crawler could top the stuff Blue was hit with tenfold or more. That includes Steven’s bubble attack, which was the only non-barn attack that really fazed Blue in the sequence where the CGs fly past, attacking one by one. (Symbolism, only a diamond can scratch a diamond.)

You’re right, the Diamonds are probably significantly more durable than Fenja and Menja, but I do think you’re overestimating the attacks we’ve seen them at the receiving end of.

Figured I might note that if you want to get really nitty gritty, then the damage heat would do to a person is technically based in movement on a microscopic scale, so Siberian being unharmed by Sundancer’s power does still jive with the “immovable object” model on some level. Of course when you get that granular the difference between “immovable object” and “physical form that is fundamentally impossible to compromise” is essentially nonexistent.

I suppose that’s true, and it is something I have given some thought. I’ve been thinking along the lines that heat transfer by radiation (like sunlight) wouldn’t be moving the atoms directly like heat transfer by contact would. That might not really hold up, though, especially since temperature is movement.

Ballistic was the one supposed to kill Cherish, the others had different targets. It was when they didn’t attack the others while waiting on ballistic to kill her, and instead pushing him to do it, that she instead warned the nine after having been waiting a safe distance away.

Ahh, I suppose it makes sense that she might not have time to mess with the others’ emotions after she realized messing with Ballistic’s wasn’t enough. She didn’t think they all were after her, so she may have figured Ballistic’s murderous intent was in spite of the plan.