Old vs. New Fighting Style

One of the issues of being a parahuman was that there wasn't a history to build on or a peerage to draw from. We had powers, yes. Some of those powers were similar to the powers others had, but there were almost always tricks and caveats, strengths one person had that another didn't. I couldn't copy Alexandria's old tactics and style because my invincibility worked differently. Timing was so much more important to me.

I could be shot, if my timing was wrong, or if their timing was especially right.

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There was only one Victoria Dallon with Victoria Dallon's powers. I had to lean heavily on my own experience. In exercising my abilities, there was a point beyond which I was the only person that could teach myself – nobody resembled me closely enough to be an instructor in how to fight, how to process, or how to or pass on their experience.

But my own experience was a drawback if I was caught in the moment, where I had to rely on instinct but that instinct pointed me right back to my old ways.

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The old me would have dealt with this by blitzing them. Hit each hard, fast, before they had a chance to react. Some minor harm would have come to innocents, but the situation would be resolved.

The current me waited, staying silent, letting them get close.

- Daybreak 1.5