even timestop doesn't stop him

I tried to signal my allies, kicking myself a bit for pushing even as I resigned myself to the relatively advantageous situation—before abruptly realizing I couldn’t move. No, rather, nothing could move. In the distance, I could see insects frozen between beats of their wings and the very air around me seemed to have halted its motions. Mercury was standing as a statue beside and immobile Emerald.

Even before a window appear to notify me of what happened, I understood, my eyes tracking to a pair of luminous crystals.

You have been ‘Stopped.’

Time had been frozen by the Dust crystals now growing from Cinder’s arms, several of them glowing with an inner light as they wrought their effect on the world. Everything had stopped in place as a result of her power—even I couldn’t move anymore.

And yet, I remained aware. I supposed I had my Semblance to thank for that, like most everything else. It seemed that while my perceptions could be sped up and slowed down, even stopping time couldn’t shut them down—well, not like this at least. While stopping time didn’t seem to work, my Dimensional’s effects had played havoc on me. I suppose that was the difference between stopping time and skipping it; even if I was immune to any effects that tried to affect my mind, I guess I couldn’t see what wasn’t there to begin with. It was a distinction to keep in mind, given that the number of hostile time manipulators I was going to have to face seemed to be on the rise.

Under most circumstances, I’d have been glad to know that the Gamer’s Mind was effective even against something like this, for that very reason, but despite the Gamer’s Mind keeping me calm, there was no way around it.