Thread "Your Character's Powerful Weapon." in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 5:05PM, May. 1, 2016

What is your character's object of power? Is it a ring? A crown? A watch?

What do they do?
What are there weaknesses?
Who bares it?
Does it have a limit?
Who made it and for what purpose?

Posted at 9:05PM, May. 2, 2016

Pinky's most powerful object is her Tromper:

That's a scout model. The S.S.V.5
It's armed with 7 high explosive undirected rockets in pods on each side of the cab for a total of 14, and 2x50 cal Vikers heavy machine guns with water jackets. They have a slow rate of fire but are reliable as hell and can go on for days without stopping.
Its purpose is a long range all terrain scouting and destruction vehicle. It's even submersible.

Its weakness is that it's poorly armoured. Antitank weapons could demolish it easily. Its also hard to maintain and pretty experimental- uncomfortable to ride in, hot, and smelly. And once the ammunition is gone it can't do much.

Pinky is the main person who "bares" it. Though Ace Kinkaid also rides in the Battle version as she rides in her own in chapter 7. The battle version is armed differently and more heavily armoured:
That's the S.B.V.6. I think it has 9 rockets in pods on each side for a total of 18. It has a large flame thrower cannon and 3 barrel rotary 50cal machine gun. The armour is sloped heavily and up to 80mm atvthe front, 50mm on the sides, hardened nickle steel. Mucher tougher than the scout model and able to survive low calibre tank rounds.

The range of them is pretty limited. It takes a lot of energy to walk in them so without maintenance and refuelling stops they're useless. In the comic they're used for one way missions.

They were developed by the Crimean Imperial Cavalry as special all terrain vehicles for insertion behind enemy lines in difficult to reach areas and bringing massive fire-power where you couldn't normally get it. They're used for assault and scouting. - for places you could never get a tank or any other heavy weapon without a team of mules and workers pulling by brute force.

Posted at 11:05AM, May. 3, 2016

In my comic The Godstrain, Kimber Lee's powerful weapon is… The Godstrain!

It may also be the source of her undoing…

The Godstrain is 'something' residing inside Kimber Lee, which she seems to have ‘caught’ during some cutting edge, tech induced lucid dream experiments. When she senses its presence, it resembles a tiny ball of light or energy (see my avatar) and it grants her some classic 'Superhero' traits, such as enhanced strength, speed, reflexes and resistance to physical injury, plus very fast healing if she is injured (even from seemingly fatal injuries). It even seems to have brought her back from death once. It also greatly magnifies her senses, often in synesthesia-type ways (she senses smells and sounds as visual manifestations (which others can’t see))!

It has also ‘spread’ to others via physical contact with Kimber Lee (via fluids such as saliva and tears), and has given them abilities similar to Kimber Lee’s, and additional ones as well, such as giant size, the ability to fire off electrical discharges, and healing others’ injuries. The limit of these abilities (and what new ones there might be) is not yet known.

What the Godstrain exactly is, however, has yet to be revealed, but the guesses have included: a deity, an alien energy being, a dream meme or idea that has somehow taken on a life of its own… Whatever it is, it does seem to have some level of sentience and awareness, and it appears to have a sort of drive or goal, in that it seems to want to spread to others, like a virus. It has done this against Kimber Lee’s will (even taking over her body in a form of possession for a time), and attempted to at other times, but she was able to suppress it and prevent it from doing so (which required extreme exertion of will on her part)!

Answers are being revealed - slooooowly!!