> All I know is that between field, armor and
> training, Doug is pretty much invulnerable to
> small-arms fire, and I have a wonderful mental
> image of his walking through a hail of bullets more
> or less untouched to rip the gun out of the hand
> of a Soldat goon and deck him.
Well, against your run-of-the-mill Soldat MIB that
would probably work, but I wouldn't try it against
Kirika. I mean, have you seen the things she does
with a gun? After the first two shots missed, she
would probably be able to compensate and bounce a
bullet through the field into Doug's mouth.
It's not as unlikely as you may think: if Noir was
within your cosmology, there would be evidence that
all its high-powered killers are low level metahumans.
Even Mireille (the most "normal" of them) seems to be
able to go into "bullet time", which would make their
reflexes faster than Doug's, I think.
Two more comments based on snippets from other planned
steps that you have posted:
1)
All the "Grand Retour" ceremony is as good a candidate
for a magic ritual as Utena's Duel Game. I wonder just
what kind of duties and powers it imposes on the newly
anointed Noir?
2)
If Doug has any objection to Kirika and Mireille's
relationship (what with them sleeping in the same bed
and all), he'd better keep them to himself. If he
tried to pull the same stunt on Mireille that he pulled
on Sana-chan's Rei, he'd immediately get introduced to
Kirika's aforementioned mad gun skillz. ^_^
NN
> training, Doug is pretty much invulnerable to
> small-arms fire, and I have a wonderful mental
> image of his walking through a hail of bullets more
> or less untouched to rip the gun out of the hand
> of a Soldat goon and deck him.
Well, against your run-of-the-mill Soldat MIB that
would probably work, but I wouldn't try it against
Kirika. I mean, have you seen the things she does
with a gun? After the first two shots missed, she
would probably be able to compensate and bounce a
bullet through the field into Doug's mouth.
It's not as unlikely as you may think: if Noir was
within your cosmology, there would be evidence that
all its high-powered killers are low level metahumans.
Even Mireille (the most "normal" of them) seems to be
able to go into "bullet time", which would make their
reflexes faster than Doug's, I think.
Two more comments based on snippets from other planned
steps that you have posted:
1)
All the "Grand Retour" ceremony is as good a candidate
for a magic ritual as Utena's Duel Game. I wonder just
what kind of duties and powers it imposes on the newly
anointed Noir?
2)
If Doug has any objection to Kirika and Mireille's
relationship (what with them sleeping in the same bed
and all), he'd better keep them to himself. If he
tried to pull the same stunt on Mireille that he pulled
on Sana-chan's Rei, he'd immediately get introduced to
Kirika's aforementioned mad gun skillz. ^_^
NN