OOC: General request for plotting and organization

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Hey, all!

So, in an effort to keep things a little more organized for plottishness and so on, we're going to ask a quick favor of you all.

Could you please reply to each appropriate comment below, and let us know what kind of powers/abilities/etc your character possesses? This is for all characters - students/alumni, teachers and townies - and covers everything including especially good researching/support skills, magic, skill with weaponry, mutations, etc.

Anything that is a canon power or ability of your character and could be used in a plot in some way, please list below in the correct thread.

Thank you so much for indulging my OCD your participation.

(And naturally, there will be threads, so please to be waiting for them and they're up!)

Comments

Re: Fighting

[soldtoarmenians]

As mentioned in the weapons thread, Xander's got wacky implanted memories from a canonical spell that made him think he was a soldier, and left the knowledge behind even after the spell itself wore off. In terms of fighting this basically means he's got military hand to hand training in addition to basic self-defense abilities that he picked up working with Buffy and filling in for her during the summer she was missing.

The military expertise seriously wore off in canon if we're looking at the comedy slapfight he had with a vamped classmate in BtVS Season 4, which corresponds to this year for FH!Xander. On the other hand he's been shown to be more coordinated than that later on, so either he re-learned it for real through fighting beside Buffy, or he suppressed a lot of it due to lack of self-confidence in his real personality. Or, likely, both.

So in practical terms, he can defend himself and others, hand to hand, but he's also, to quote Olaf the Troll, 'ludicrously breakable' aka almost as injury-prone as Nadia.