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shes_intenseWhen Brenda punches someone with the deliberate intent to hurt them (even if it's an 'I'm sorry I have to do this' intent) she drains part of their intelligence and takes it on for herself.
For example she could punch Tony Stark and he would lose a random chunk of what his brain considers standard information and Brenda would gain it (say, his understanding of nuclear physics, or bookkeeping). She doesn't gain his MEMORIES directly, but long-term stored information like how to work on different kinds of computers, how to operate the Iron Man armour or drive a car, knowledge of spelling and reading - anything he has accumulated that he now draws on as stuff he just KNOWS as second nature and doesn't have to think about much or at all.
If she kept punching him enough times he would be temporarily rendered functionally retarded and she would temporarily be a genius. This transfer of mental fortitude lasts about five minutes per punch - so if she hit him five times she would have his intelligence for twenty five minutes, with her steadily losing information and him steadily gaining it back over that time until they were back to normal. If the person loses consciousness from any hit she takes there is an automatic 'full drain that will fade in half an hour at the most and sooner if they wake back up.
For a normal person of about the same intelligence as herself Brenda could use this power to, for example punch someone unconscious and absorb their knowledge of how to operate a vehicle or weapon, or just to incapacitate them so much that they can't even tie their own shoes.
It has to be a bare handed closed-fist punch, with some decent force. She can't just tap you with her knuckles so you barely feel it, she's gotta leave a bit of a bruise.
Also, just knowing how to do something is not the same as experience - although she might understand the controls of a machine or a weapon, having the physical capacity to operate it isn't the same. She might instantenously learn how to, for example, do a handstand kick, but that doesn't mean that she is necessarily strong or flexible enough to execute it well. And she doesn't get to REQUEST what knowledge she gets from someone. Hitting an EMT to learn first aid may get her said person's intimate knowledge of model planes instead for example.
This is really the sort of power that will need to be plotted out on a use by use basis in most cases, however this is for anyone who's character has a mental shielding ability, or who is a telepath or something who could block this mind drain power either as a matter of course, or who would figure out how to stop or reduce it after an initial hit.
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Date: 2009-11-02 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 03:31 am (UTC)I think it would still work but it may function as, like, temporarily yanking out a chunk of their 'programming'? So what Brenda GETS might be un-processable by her human brain and not really useful to her (might give her a headache and just make no sense) but it may still impair whoever she's hitting for a short period of time.
Would that work/make sense?
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 03:49 am (UTC)Also Old Lace. I don't think it would work on Old Lace.
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:12 am (UTC)Ken Ichijouji has some psychic powers and he would be able to defense himself unless you completely KO'd him.
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 06:06 am (UTC)Mara is good to go, as well as Mitch!
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:14 am (UTC)THEREFORE WE NEED A PRESSING REASON FOR BRENDA TO PUNCH TONY STARK, PROBABLY IN A NON-COMBAT SETTING BECAUSE SHE CAN'T PUNCH THROUGH ARMOUR.
Also she's a tiny redhead so I'll mail you cookies if he, like, looks at her and is like 'you're going to punch me? seriously?' and then she does and he's like 'OW, WHAT THE... oh dear, that was my brain...'
But yeah, it won't really work on Extremis!Tony, it'll just... be like... uhm... I think the term I'm looking for might be 'brain rape'...
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:16 am (UTC)AND HE TOTALLY WILL.
AND THEN HE CAN GO: "I NEED THE THINGY TO DO THE THINGY KEEP RUNNING D-D-DUNNO"
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:25 am (UTC)This is Brenda's equivalent. XD
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:42 am (UTC)You know, since Tony started out human and then gained Extremis, Brenda might be able to process SOME of the 'intelligence' she gains when she's stripping his brain of stuff.
jasldkfj OH MY GOD, if we can try to swing it that her punching him is how she DISCOVERS her powers that would be AMAZING!
Tony's like 'buh, can't brain I have the programming glitches' and Brenda gets a wicked headache and some encyclopedic knowledge of sexual positions she really didn't want. XD
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:44 am (UTC)Oh god that would be amazing!!
THIS HAS TO HAPPEN.
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Date: 2009-11-02 06:48 am (UTC)Oh god we need to think of a reason for this to happen. It wouldn't even need to be anything hero like. The could have an altercation over a latte in Starbucks or something idfk! XD
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Date: 2009-11-02 07:05 am (UTC)UM BUT SHOULD BE OKAY WITH SOUNDWAVE AND WALKER, YES.
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Date: 2009-11-02 03:43 pm (UTC)Not that Vash has much knowledge that Brenda wants, except maybe the history of his planet and, idk, firearms expertise?
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Date: 2009-11-06 02:49 am (UTC)She will so not be happy, but I say go for it.
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Date: 2009-11-06 04:03 am (UTC)Phoenix and Quatre are also free for this, but lol... I can't imagine any of my character that aren't Phoenix pissing anyone off enough to get punched.
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Date: 2010-03-23 02:11 am (UTC)For him, he knows a lot about being a police officer, and a vampire. The most basic of this information would include laws, his job duties, and also what he needs to survive, what his limits and abilities are, and how to kill his specific breed of vampires.