Sadde and Bell in Worm
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So it would seem!

"Comms?"
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"Yep. Bots are doing most of the work, I'm basically just assembling from kits and inscribing serial numbers so I can claim to be a necessary part of the process if anyone thinks I've gone too self-replicating-y."

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"Hmmm." Watch watch. "So no time for maybe some hypnosis power testing?"

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"I'm basically doing Lego for dummies, here, I can talk at the same time. Bot can put you under and I'll take over from there and put down the paint-by-numbers if it turns out to split my attention too much?"

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"Okay!" He lies down on the loveseat.

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The bot starts up the induction procedure in Lorica's voice.

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And he's soon under.

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And then Lorica, assembling comm bits without even looking, decides not to tell him he's in a forest this time. She goes over the list of power classifications in her head and starts asserting that he can produce copies with quintessential versions of each - insofar as she can test things in this workshop, anyway.

She particularly wants to know if he can do a Rewind.
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Apparently not even hypnosis is enough for a copy to do a Rewind.

Speed: naive applications are limited by his maximum, shown with the ping pong balls that one time.

Strength: he can do the Siberian.

Shapeshifting: practically arbitrary.

Teleporting: can be simulated.

Forcefields: pretty good ones.

Lasers: best not test those here, but from Endbringer fights, pretty damn good, probably.

Space manipulation: nope.

Physical properties: he can do the Siberian. Various other imaginary properties can be simulated.

Enhanced cognition: nope. Knowledge doesn't appear out of nowhere, nothing thinks faster, his reaction times still limit stuff.
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Okay... and how's his teekay with non-homemade objects doing?

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After a few tests, they discover that he never could do that, and that the times it looked like he was doing it with the ping pong balls he had actually conjured wind that would get unconjured right after.

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...Okay, can she convince him that he's just really good at the wind thing and get more precise "teekay"?

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For stuff like ping pong balls, he can get pretty good, though not as good as with imaginary ping pong balls. He can't get good enough to "teekay" much heavier objects.

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That's weird, some aerokineticists can move stuff around... whatever. If he can't do it hypnotized he probably can't do it.

He's being a boy this time so she pops her helmet off and kisses him, then puts it back on and snaps him out of it.
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Probably most aerokineticists have enhanced senses related to detecting the air they're controlling that Sadde doesn't, or something. In any case, he slowly returns to the surface, blinks, and looks at her. "Video?" he asks.

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The bot plays it.

Lorica assembles comms.
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"Okay, that's interesting, especially the teekay thing. And did you kiss me there?"

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"Was I not supposed to?"

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"You won't see me complaining."

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"I didn't think so."

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"You're making one of those faces right now, aren't you."

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"You aaaaare!"

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"I still can't see myself, but you're probably right."

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"I love you," he says. "Have you talked to any higher ups about using those comms in Endbringer fights yet?"

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