His proportions were wrong – his calves and forearms seemed too long for his height, his clawed fingers and digitigrade feet doubly so.

Basically, scratch “seem to remain in human form physically”.

He moved with a languid sort of grace as he advanced through the spraying water.  His arms moved like pendulums, claws sweeping against the water’s surface, while his upper body swayed left and right, as if to give counterbalance to his great height.

I feel like this is reminding me of some kind of specific animal, but I can’t quite place it.

His tail, forty or fifty feet long and whiplike, lashed behind and around him in time with his steps, perhaps borne of the same need for balance that gave him his teetering gait.

Oh jeez, he’s a long boi.

Gallons of water poured around him in the wake of his movements, roughly the same amount of mass as the body part that had just occupied the space.

This ‘afterimage’ streamed down him and splashed violently against the water he waded through.

Ahh, that’s what it means.

As if the ocean didn’t make it hard enough to deprive him of ammo, he just needs to move a little to create loads more.

I looked around, saw the other heroes and villains composing themselves, climbing to their feet in the knee deep rush of water.  A few fliers were conveying our ranged combatants up to the rooftops.

Wasting no time, I see.

At the end of the road, downhill, was the Boardwalk, or what was left of it.  From what I could see through the downpour, the wooden pathways and docks had been shattered by the initial wave, to the point that many were standing nearly straight up, or were buckled into fractured arches.  Water frothed and sprayed as it rushed back against the ragged barrier that had been Brockton Bay’s high end shopping district.

R.I.P. the Boardwalk.

I think I’ll count that as a death for tagging purposes, and that’s before considering that it might not have been empty when the wave hit.

He was there, too.  I could see his silhouette through the rain and the spraying water that was the tidal wave’s aftermath, much as I had on the television set.  Thirty feet tall, the majority of him was was muscled but not bulky.

Ah, okay, so he is huge. I had just begun to think he might not be.

He’s not quite as huge as the Lovecraftian monstrosities would’ve been, but still a lot bigger than a regular human.

His hunched shoulders, neck and upper torso were the exception, bearing cords of muscles that stood out like steel cables.  It gave him a top-heavy appearance, almost like an inverted teardrop with limbs and a tail.

Not gonna lie, the comparison to steel cables just made me think of Weld.

So Leviathan has a tail, huh?

…I just realized what a suitable comparison might be. We’ve got a tailed monster attacking a city, with associations to natural disasters, being fought against by the locals and other parts of an organization in this case sort of analogous to the army.

It’s a kaiju movie. Leviathan is like a kaiju.

Although admittedly he’s a really small one compared to even the smallest iteration of Godzilla.

The air was sucked out of my lungs, and there was a noise like thunder.

Much like when those out-of-towner heroes were taxiported in.

My entire body was rattled down to the core, and I thought I might have been struck by lightning.  I was outside, I realized, on my hands and knees in what I first took to be the middle of a shallow river.  The rain that pounded down on us was more like a waterfall than any rainstorm I’d been in. 

Is this shallow river perhaps a street?

The taste of the salty ocean water filled my nose and mouth.  My soaked mask clung to my lower face, forcing me to hang my head to keep my breaths from pulling more water into my mouth.  A few coughs and heavy exhalations cleared the worst of it away.

Phew.

So is she alone? Did Strider end up scattering people?

We’d arrived in the middle of a road,

Well, one for two so far in this post.

one I’d crossed several times when going to the loft or leaving it.  It was still dark out – either the sun either hadn’t started to rise yet, or the storm was enough to obscure it.  The ‘river’ that I was kneeling in was the ebb of water from the first tidal wave, receding downhill toward the beach and the ocean.  It brought waves of trash, litter, broken windows, wooden boards and dead plants with it.

It has begun.

There was a loud groan, and the ceiling at one corner of the room began to descend swiftly toward the ground.  Narwhal flicked two fingers up in that direction, and shored the ceiling with some forcefields, but I saw other portions of the ceiling begin to sag, gallons of water pouring through the gaps in the ceiling tile.

Hm, seeing Narwhal in action makes me think: Why can’t Narwhal kill an Endbringer? We’ve been told extensively that Narwhal can cut through people with forcefields. What is protecting their bodies to the point where a forcefield through the stomach won’t kill them, or won’t be able to go through in the first place?

“Strider!” Legend bellowed, over the noise and chaos, “Get us out of here!”

TG: what
TG: oh okay
TG: sorry i was listening to this sweet beat i just made hang on

Homestuck aside, I guess Strider might be a mass taxiporter and also a coolkid DAMMIT I SAID HOMESTUCK ASIDE!

A voice sounding from the armband, female, synthesized, except I couldn’t make it out over the noise.

Ah, shit, Strider’s female? Now I have to resort to AUs if I wanna make more references… or just pretend Dave’s a girl, that works too.

By the way, at this point it seems that the Endbringers remain in human form both physically and mentally, but I’m not going to call someone who kills nine and a half million people in one night just for the hell of it a human.

“The rest of you-” Legend was interrupted by shouts.  Bastion bellowed, pointed, and the people in his team moved.

Uh oh. Did we run out of time?

Spit out the words, quickly!

Layers of forcefields went up around the far wall in front of and behind the front windows, and they weren’t enough to take the hit.  The building rocked with an impact, the forcefields to the left collapsed, and the water began to rush in, carrying chunks of brick, glass and the metal windowframes into the lobby.

Leviathan: “You people need a bath before we fight.”

One of the television screens toppled in the onrushing flood.  The other two showed a flickering series of images, a half second of each.  The coast of Brockton Bay being struck with a wave.  The ferry, the harbor down at the south end of town, the boardwalk, all smashed by the initial wave.  I saw a glimpse of a tall figure in the middle of one shot, little more than a blur behind the spray of water and the rain.

If Leviathan gets his way it’s gonna be even harder for Danny to get that ferry running again.

For, uh, several reasons.

“Long ranged attackers, with me!  If you fall in more than one category, go with the group where you think you’ll be the greatest assistance!”

I guess Taylor is a long ranged attacker if anything, even if I don’t think she’ll be able to do much damage.

Putting that note about people who fall in more than one category here seems to imply that he’s done. Did they seriously not make a misc group? Where is Tattletale supposed to go?

Did I count as a long ranged attacker?  No, my power wouldn’t hurt Leviathan.  I turned to look at those of us who were still seated.  I recognized Grue, Tattletale, Regent, Othala, Victor, Panacea and Kaiser.  There were a half dozen more who I’d never seen before.  People from out of town.

It seems to me that Panacea should go with the mover team, at least if there’s someone on there who can teleport more than one other person at a time.

So Kaiser doesn’t think he fits in either of the close ranged attacker groups or in the ranged group. Interesting.

And Regent, why are you not in the “interrupt Leviathan’s movements” group? What better power is there against a speedster than the ability to make him trip?

Anyway, yeah, there’s plenty of people here for a misc group.