Quote:She does that. ^_^
IMD, Nao hijacked this one.
Nao's fight had happened interestingly, because she had spent most of it working closely with Yukino - and Diana.
See, while Julia's particular powers made for great equalizers, compared to the other Childs she was really towards the bottom of the barrel - some of that might have been put down as being due to Nao's carefully cultivated emotional distance from, well, just about everything, but Kagutsuchi's existance and abilities in particular were eloquent testimony to just how much of an internal ranking there was between the otherworldly beasts. Her 'spidersilk' was no more than a binding agent, if an almost unbeatable one, and while she could produce and spit a corrosive agent, that ability of hers was both badly draining and far weaker than those available to most of the other Childs - which was particularly noticable compared to Kiyohime.
Put gruesomely, Julia's acid could flay the flesh off your bones in minutes - but Kiyohime's could burn through stainless steel in seconds.
Diana, on the other hand, was very possibly one of the most powerful. Certainly she was the most versitile.
Don't get it? Well, let me walk you through the logic.
The solar constant at Earth's orbit - the amount of energy we recieve in the form of light - is about fourteen-hundred watts per minute. Most of that is lost just getting to ground level, particularly away from the equator - say that, in Japan, peak energy at ground level will never go over about three hundred watts per square meter. In the anime, we saw Diana apparently control, alter, all light passing out of an area perhaps a kilometer across - call it a hemisphere with an area around one and a half million square meters. Even with the flames Kagutsuchi had been throwing around and adding into the equation, say that three quarters of that incoming light had already been absorbed before she had to deal with it.
That comes out to saying that Diana was capable of remotely redirecting a bit less than two megawatts worth of light every second, for extended periods. What that amount of energy could do when concentrated on a single, specific target was... unspeakable. So what if she couldn't generate it herself? It made her vulnerable at night, of course, but first you had to find her.
The hard part, Yukino eventually determined after experimenting with the idea once I pointed it out, was aiming. Positioning her 'spores' the needed way took a lot of Diana's concentration, since the angles of the way they interacted couldn't be outsourced to the little things the way an instruction like 'edit this out' could, and concentration took time.
On the other hand, an Orphan that was busy trying to fight its way free of one of Julia's glue bombs was essentially a sitting target.
Which brings us to Yukino, who was also a great deal more than she ever got a chance to be shown as (pardon my pun) on the show.
Sorry to leave off there, but I just came down with a migrane, and the only painkiller in the house is regular-strength aspirin. Ow.
And I cannot wait to run my Nao arc - it's one of those things I'm looking forwards to.
Ja, -n
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