Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27123758-20191202204135/@comment-36846645-20191203013848

Skill is something that is hard to do. Which is why i focus on the bizarre in my fight scenes. When i think of skill, i think "How hard is it to do that". So if Lyria does a backflip on a sword with one foot, and then pulls it out with her legs doing another backflip and throwing it at Anex perfectly while upside down, that is fucking bizarre.

Examples of skill


 * catching a bullet with your toes


 * Doing acrobatics to dodge projectiles and attacks. I mean acrobatics in a fight doesn't even work irl. But doing it to dodge attacks and projectiles is mind blowing. I look at skill like "how hard is it to do that"


 * Slicing bullets with a sword and having it form a spelling on the ground intentionally.

Ricardo Diaz from Arrow was covered in gasoline, someone through a lighter at him, if it touches him, he burns to death. Yet he was somehow able to catch the lighter on the side perfectly so it does not go off. A lot of people sort of brush that off, but to me i'm aware of how crazy that was. Not only did he have the intelligence he was supposed to catch it perfectly as it was thrown, but he did that in a split second, while his entire body is wet. Granted, he got set on fire anyway, but the fact he did that blows my fucking mind. Catching a thrown lighter on it's side is not easy to do in itself. Imagine doing so under stress and fear, and in a split second, and while your hands are wet. That's mindblowing. He stil got set on fire but i was like wtf did he really just do that. Obvi there are better feats in Arrow, but still.