#burns study.

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tell us your favorite quotes from your character. give us an idea of who they are by the things they’ve said. then tag your friends.

listed alphabetically by my character's first name

tagged by: @petitsdieu THANK YOU! tagging: GOODNIGHT!

aria to vincent @despiterage — "You have a boner right now. You have a boner right now, and we just killed a bunch of people, and your back is literally against the wall. There is something so wrong with you. And you think you're great? Be serious. We have a job to do. You're gonna follow through, and you're gonna do it my way."

SF to AL @petitsdieu — "I do not want to hurt you. I will hurt you, I–What do you want this to be?"

beck to funke @nightrot — "My love is not a little thing. It is a big thing. A big thing still called love."

beck to homelander @rejectory — "I AM—I am good. I am ready. Terrorists, traffickers, people blowing themselves up. I am ready. Have you seen what I can do, even."

beck to houston @jupiterfree — "I am doing this for them, for all of them! And for you! For you! Because it is right, and because I can!"

burns to rex @deficd —"I DID NAWTI DID NAWT I DID NAWT! I'm not a snitch and I'm not a fuckin' spy or a fuckin' lurker or WHATEVAH! I don't know where he went or why he's got a tail and that's the end of it!"

cain to charles @id1eyouth — "What do you want from me, Charles? Do you want to visit my office hours? Do you want to get lunch somewhere with delicious sandwiches? We do not need to be friends."

cullen to ben @kylo-wrecked — "Let us not forget who put whose hands on whom first. I mean. It almost sounds like you're victim blaming right now. Are you? Victim blaming?"

dafne to chris @rassvetiye — "I don't even—I'm not cynical, you know? I'm not. I like people. Oh my god, do I have to be a feminist because of this? I have to?"

dafne to harrison @id1eyouth — "Do you even understand who you're threatening, right now?"

dafne to zachary @id1eyouth — "Hiii! Sorry. Not who you were expecting. I'm the girl coming to cut your hair. Your regular barber had a scheduling conflict, but I come highly recommended. You can give him a call, if you want. I know this is to-ta-lly freaky."

dick to harold @gordiacea — "You'll have to forgive us for the, well, I'll admit it, secretive manner in which we conduct ourselves at our little facility. Protecting my colleagues' innovations and discoveries is of the utmost importance! I do appreciate you signing that document, as it's a necessary sort of formality, but it's rather preliminary—and gives us quite the air of mystery, don't you think? Everyone who steps foot on Site A has to sign it, though. The premises liability clause is just as imperative as the non-disclosure clauses—you wouldn't believe the insurance premiums I'm shelling out on a regular basis! Besides, now we can really get down to brass tacks. I'm sure [Big University] pays the bills just fine, and it's a noble institution, but let me be frank, Doctor: we'd love to collaborate with you. Permanently."

dick to johns @eviji — "Being so dismissive will hardly service you, my good man. You're playing a dangerous game, and I'm not sure you understand the basic rules. You see, my opinion matters, and it matters far more than yours. Hypotheses matter just as much as the data our experiments yield. Do you understand me, Johns?"

dmitri to josephine @ruinaa — ""I see people in a way others can't, with a degree of detail that is maddening. It is what makes me unique. It is, I think, what allows me to recreate them so well. I can also see their potential. I see your potential. I see you conflicted, battling something. Restrained by this life you've stuck yourself in. It hurts, Josephine, to see such a waste."

elijah knight to elijah mercer @midcenturies — "Well, to start, it'd be real nice if we could put an end to these hostilities. After that, I do believe we've got more in common than you think. Do you not believe Jesus Christ died for our sins?"

lila to charles @id1eyouth —

slime texture its good

margot to hara @petitsdieu — "You are here, though. You're—shocked? In shock? Right now, but you won't always be. My first time, it was terrifying. It was self defense, but it was terrifying. But I learned. I adapted. I overcame."

max to johns @eviji — "Who is letting you listen to that British bullshit? Answer me in a plain sentence. Remember how you speak to me."

pyotr to dallas @jupiterfree — "I think if you actually give up on yourself, and on that girl, you will live the saddest, sorriest life that a man has ever lived. And when you die, you will go to hell forever. To be tortured."

stella to lorenza @holyrots — "You deserved good things as soon as you were born."

spirit to becky @scarestress — "I don't need to be better than you. I just need to be there. Does it feel good, or something? Finding ways to make yourself miserable? You look so ugly when you get so worked up."

spirit to delta @graveflwers —"When we die, we don't get heaven or hell. We don't get to let go. We get something in between, forever. And we're not part of our world anymore, but we know what happens on it. We just can't do anything to anybody who made us suffer. You never get to stop feeling—feeling. It hurts forever. It feels like this forever."

spirit to jon @sscarecrow — "Don't you know all of the twenty-year-old girls in the tri-state area all meet up, like, once a month, and we gossip, and we talk about you for, like, hours and hours and hours? We do. We really do. There's a groupchat, too."

spirit to josephine @ruinaa — "Fuck you for saying that. I'm so happy. And he takes care of me. I'm finally being taken care of. Finally, finally, finally. I love him so fucking much. Fuck, Jo!"

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how to stop burns:

he has to do some sort of logical quest or game of riddles

you break his hands

you choke him out, apparently, i have just decided

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abilities breakdown for plotting and powerscaling: coeus kids

this post fails to consider things like baseline physical prowess and hand-to-hand combat skill. it only addresses meta/superhuman abilities these characters have due to body modification (mutilation?), genetic alteration, and other weird sci-fi bullshit.

BECK

his body is able to withstand nuclear power from the inside out. very little is going to injure, wound, or surprise him.

being solar-powered means he is limited by the presence or absence of the sun. earth's tilt, the seasons, etc. affect him more than anything else.

energy blasts that come from his eyes (which glow, cool) or hands are, as implied, nuclear. you are probably not going to survive if he does not want you to. nothing is. he incinerates and obliterates at will.

even when he isnt being crazy destructive, his natural body temperature can raise high enough to melt people and objects.

BURNS

pyrokinetic.

if you set him on fire directly he would live. he can survive in a burning building without firefighter-type equipment. lungs impervious to smoke inhalation, etc.

"spontaneous" combustion requires him to be able to snap his fingers. he's got weird stuff embedded in his skin that allows him to create flames this way.

HARRIS

captain america but evil

as in: super speed, strength, regenerative healing.

also: intuitive understanding of battle strategy, new weapons technology, and hand to hand combat.

LILA

delayed effects of aging in regards to her hair, skin, and bones. things like her eyes and her brain (cognitive function) will still age naturally.

regenerative healing from physical injuries, though not all infections or illnesses. like, some, but not all. for example, being intentionally infected with a particularly brutal case of meningitis as an infant is what lead to her auditory disability.

SPIRIT

has a radio in her brain that hears the afterlife. people who have killed are haunted by their victims, and she perceives this. she cannot see ghosts. she cannot travel to the afterlife.

can hear someone's exact time of death, which i guess is cool if you're the recordskeeper at a hospital.

said radio also delivers her signals for every human or metahuman entity. including undead creatures that used to be fully human. she hears no signal if the entity in question was never human at all; she has learned to treat this absence of noise as a signal in and of itself. she can recognize each individual's signal, which renders things like shapeshifting, disguising, or cloaking useless.

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beck is the anti-burns not for any really complicated idealogical or abilities-based reasons or by function of how they were designed by dr hayes and dr miller — but because burns is short and uses contractions/slang, and beck is tall and does not use those things

this comparison becomes even messier with the homelanderification of beck and development of solar flare. all the same, beck bodies burns (alliteration always amazes) 100% of the time because burns is fireproof, not nukeproof. also, even though burns very informally trains in hand-to-hand combat (mostly mma type bullshit) with harris, burns is a gamer loser. he's really good at twiddling his thumbs around! and he's super strong/resilient bc of coeus experiments! but he is so laughably weak compared to beck; it is kind of hilarious they were designed and built/created around the same time.

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during the escape from the coeus institute:

e72/spirit gouges out erik's eyes and kills him (w55/harris ensures he's dead. it's overkill.). im not really sure she's responsible directly for any more deaths, but she is responsible for coming up with an escape plan that does not include saving the dozens of other coeus experiments from burning to death.

w55/harris kills like, a million people? he kills dick/jacky's assistant @eviji in front of juniper, he kills all his comrades in the wolfgang division, he kills dr. kingsley harris (and takes his name) who was in charge of the wolfgang division. he kills dick and jacky in front of juniper. i could probably go on.

m60/burns also kills like, a million people - either directly putting his fire hands on them or just by being responsible for the conflagration that kills literally everyone, coeus employee and experiment, besides the escapees.

j7/beck kills probably four people—only when necessary in self defense or to save them from the crueler fate of burning to death. he feels incredibly guilty. j7/beck was not part of the harris&co escape plan. he survived and ran off on his own bc he's OP like that. he resents harris&co for how they escaped and for leaving everyone else behind to die. he would probably kill harris and burns bc he sees them as the most responsible (even though the escape was orchestrated primarily by spirit and her ghostly connections—looking externally, harris and burns did most of the damage).

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@schattenwerfenkeineschatten there is no need to be so sassy about it.