Im going with the hands. I can shoot in 2 different dsirections that way. With the eyes, they are pretty much gonna be the same direction parallel to each other. That kinda sucks.
1. Faster and easier to look at something than point your hand.
2. More accurate. If you're looking at it, you're on target (and while you might be able to shoot in two different directions with your hands, you can still only look in one direction at a time to aim).
3. Less conspicuous, harder to anticipate.
4. Glowing eyes (should one choose this option) do look cooler than glowing fists because "the eyes are the window to the soul," thus suggesting powerful energies emanating from the very core of one's being.
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Last edited by Mindship on Mar 10th, 2007 at 10:01 PM
do the beams fire straight out from the eye sockets (ala superman and cyclops) or from the pupil of the eye itself?
Most often, humans do not turn their head the whole way to look at things, they just move their eyes. So, if the beams do fire straight out of the face, you would still have to take time to properly target something with your head as opposed to just looking at it out of the corner of your eye. It would still be quicker than your hand, but the range of things you can directly face is much smaller than the range of things you can see.
lol, and if the beams are generated by the pupils, then it would be almost impossible to hit something. Saccidic movement refers to very small and quick movements your eyes make every second, averaging like 6-7 a second. They are unconscious and uncontrollable Eyebeams like this would be more like shotguns than precision instruments.
Versatility could possibly go to HB's though , you could melt objects at a touch , reinforce your punches and possibly do the whole 'Punch the ground energy shockwave' shtick.
The first part should actually be a problem (ie, you would loose some ability to target things with eye beams due to head movement being more restricted then hand movement) but ya, the seccade stuff is just me blowing smoke out of the bum
Honestly, it seems like a really even balance between speed and versatility on the eye vs hand thing
Well its hard to target at anything you can't see (unless you have some additional supersensory power or decades of MA experience). Also you could just turn your whole body to face an opponent.
I think that EyeBeams have the additional advantage of also making it so that if someone ties of you hands you can still blast them.
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Eyebeam energy discharge temporarily stifles the saccades, thanks to evolution. Those superorganisms in which eyebeam firing did not stifle the saccades (making target-strike less likely) were less likely to survive and have offspring.
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its not that you can't see them, its that there is a big difference between "looking" at something and "aiming" your head at something. Honestly, the majority of the time when you are looking at something, your head is not directly facing it.
Very true on the last part, though hand beams could theoretically get out of being bound unless it is a special alloy metal or whatever, but then the same could be said for blindfolds of the like
I can see advantage to both of them, I just prefer the advantages of handbeams. The speed and accuracy advantages, once accustomed to the power, are going to be almost negligible and the multi directional shooting is something I'd really like.
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Handbeams. Imagine if your powers malfunctioned and you burnt off your eyes!. And I wouldn't like any side effects either. Brain cancer isn't what I'd wish for. Neither would I like a "hand" cancer
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Mar 10th, 2007 09:37 PM
Eyebeams like this would be more like shotguns than precision instruments.
