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Gravity control - The strongest of her abilities, Xhaiq is able to alter gravity's effects around herself, or in a sphere about 10 meters across at up to 20 meters away. She can selectively alter the areas around individuals, up to about 6 different spots as long as they're all within that 20 meter distance of herself, and can keep this all up all but indefinitely. Creating the illusion of flight or weightlessness, or pulling down (or up) in a more crushing grip, she can enhance the challenge of a routine or cancel out dangerous conditions equally well. She does seem to have the ability to detect specific gravity around various mass or people, when they also have this power, or may be from a world with higher or lower normal gravity. She uses this all to assist training for students, and knows that when they go out to perform, they will have been given proper instruction for how to handle rapid drops, bursts of speed, or the like due to having trained in more difficult gravity than 'real'
Reaction Speed - Her overall reaction time is nearly triple what other people, even other Zeddians, show. Combined with her perception, she is easily able to get her hands into the right spots to catch multiple items at once, or zip out of the way quickly. While this does apply to her whole body, for the most part, she concentrates on feet and hand coordination, useful for gymnastics to say the least
Perception - Xhaiq has very sharp senses of sight, pressure, balance, and touch. With these all active, she knows when a storm is coming, but also how much that will affect delicate maneuvers or the texture of gymnastic powders for beam and uneven bars. She can see motion nearby, and actually the very slight pressure wave as well, even down to 'bee sized' items flying around. When she goes to a performance venue, she will take her shoes off and walk along many of the padded surfaces, beams, and the like, to make sure that they have no stray lumps and bumps or minor dips, any of which might make or break a performance. Even without her ability to change gravity's effects, she lands on her feet, or her hands, or tumbles perfectly out of a fall, and even in unusual situations such as being at the whim of someone else's powers or a zero-gravity simulation, can orient herself with ease
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Gymnastics And Sports +4 If you can tumble and jump, spin and balance, and perform both ritualized motions as well as improvise, you'd have a good start, and she had all of those things even as a child. Graceful and inherently balanced, and gifted with powers that enhance her prowess, Xhaiq spent the better part of two decades earning accolades with sports and dance in mind. She can assess a person's abilities by watching them move around a simple course, recommend the right direction for their activities, and makes sure that anyone who might suffer because of a harder routine has access to other options. Students performing under her instruction learn quickly since she herself remembers the tricks she used to memorize routines, how to stretch and warm up, and when to say no to a specific element of a routine
Physics +2 Some of her success came because she can alter gravity either on herself or in a nearby area, and changes in rules of competition are why she had to leave the sport on Zed. She learned more about the basics of 'why this isn't fair', but here at Carramba ... there are plenty of students to teach how to use their own abilities in conjunction with physical skill, and the blessing of a world filled with amazing people who enjoy these 'mixed' sports! But she has a good grasp on basic physics, not quite enough to teach but she sometimes does show up as an aide when gravity studies are needed
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