Editing Chevalier (section)

==Powers and Equipment==
Chevalier has the power to combine the properties of several items into one - selectively taking their attributes into his primary weapons,<ref name="cast"/> he needs stamina and concentration to use his power.<ref name="I24"/> He viewed these different attributes as shapes and lines in an abstract representation of the object's properties.<ref name="I24 e7">He could see the shadows, as he now thought of them.<br>[...]<br>Glimmers of memories and dreams, the conclusion had been, after long discussions with Eidolon and the parahuman researchers. An effect of the thinker power required to manage his own ability, tied to trigger events in some fashion.<br>[...]<br>His ability to see the ‘shadows’ about people was an extension of this power. He could see the general makeup of the two weapons, the phantom images, the underlying physics, in lines and shapes and patterns. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> His power also grants him the ability to see certain details of other capes' trigger events, or even metaphorical visions of their passengers, as a sort of overlay when he looks at them.<ref name="I24 e7"/> People who had had second [[trigger event]]s had a noticeable intensity to them, while viewing [[Eidolon]] gave him a migraine after long periods.<ref>He’d raised the subject of the images with others. When his proximity to Eidolon had started to give him migraines, he’d confessed about the images. He’d feared a kind of schizophrenia, but Eidolon had reassured him otherwise.<br><br>It was a piece of the puzzle, but that puzzle was still far from complete. Until they had more to work with, it was merely data. Glimmers of memories and dreams, the conclusion had been, after long discussions with Eidolon and the parahuman researchers. An effect of the thinker power required to manage his own ability, tied to trigger events in some fashion.<br>[...]<br>The core elements were the same, but the appearance of it had changed enough that he’d wondered if the man had managed a second trigger event. He would have assumed so, except there was no intensity to corroborate the idea.<br>[...]<br>His eyes settled on Weaver, surrounded by the nimbus of her power, which glowed with an intensity that surpassed any and all of her teammates. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> The images grew more distinct when people used their powers, and the shadows alone help with his combat and awareness but it can overwhelm him.<ref>And Exalt? His ‘shadow’ was barely visible, impossible to make out. When it came to the fore, though, Chevalier knew it would look much as Hannah’s power did in its transitions. Phantom images.<br>[...]<br>Chevalier could sense the attacker by the movement of the shadows. He whirled around, only to find himself face to face with a cloud of the ‘shadows’.<br>[...]<br>His opponent slipped out of the way, and images flared with life as he drew on a power to fly.<br><br>Chevalier couldn’t make him out in the midst of the shadows. Did the [[Yàngbǎn]] know this would trip him up, slow him down? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> This part of his powers was considered classified information.<ref name="I28E3">“I can see you. On a lot of levels. I can see your power, and I can see what you’ve made of it. You’re something special, putting it to uses like you do. Brave.”<br><br>[Chevalier] frowned.<br><br>“I know about your special sight.”<br><br>“My sight is ''classified'',” he said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 28]]</ref>
[[File:WB ChevSword.png|thumb|The [https://m.imgur.com/a/eT3Ik fabled cannonblade] by [[Wildbow]]]]
All of his equipment is specially constructed so that the different versions matched up as much as possible. His distinctive "cannon-blade" was constructed by overlaying three distinct swords, a decorative ceramic blade with a molecular cutting edge, a functional lightweight aluminum sword for ease of use, and a massive steel sword usually transported as the floor of a [[Dragonflight]] carrier all with identical cannon mechanisms built within;<ref name="I24 e2">He turned to the swords, set into the floor of the craft. There were two.<br><br>In truth, there were three. The largest was thirty feet long, running from the ramp at the back to the cabin at the front, almost entirely set into the floor. There was no decoration on it. Only mass, sturdy craftsmanship, and the mechanisms necessary for the cannon that was set inside the handle and blade.<br><br>It would have been too heavy for the ship to carry, except he’d already used his power, drawing it together with a second blade, an aluminum blade a mere four feet long. Lightweight. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> similarly he has three suits of armor. The armor is combined from the decorative suit that he is known for, a suit that is light as aluminum, and a gigantic scaled-up version made from welded steel construction, he wears mesh and similar protective gear under the armor.<ref>His armor was the same, only it was too large to bring on the craft. A veritable mountain of construction grade steel, as light as aluminum, with the decoration of a third set. It had required some concentration, to maintain the balances he’d set, but he was confident he could fight outside of the kill aura’s range.<br>[...]<br>They’d cut off the layer of mesh that sat beneath the armor, and the cloth that sat against his skin. She discarded each of those and simply brought him the armor. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> The armor is easier to do than the cannon blade.

His power is interfered with by some other space-warping effects, such as in the core of an Endbringer,<ref name=EC>He made the sword grow, from ten to twenty feet in length. It was more by the growth than by any action on Chevalier’s part that it extended into the wound. The weapon penetrated into the scar Weaver’s crew had created, as close to the core as Chevalier could get it.<br>[...]<br>Space and time distortion were supposed to protect it? He’d fight fire with fire.<br><br>Flesh parted as the blade grew inside the wound. He put his finger on the trigger, ready to fire.<br><br>Before he could, the sword’s tip touched the core, and everything went wrong.<br><br>His power abruptly ceased to take effect, and the blades came apart, in its three individual pieces. They slid from the wound, falling down around him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> or [[Foil]]'s power,<ref name="R1">''Using [[Foil|her]] power on Chevalier's sword would have broken it, like the space warping around the Endbringer core did.'' - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3bwjv7/why_didnt_they_use_foil_to_the_fullest_extent/csq6r7g Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> causing the individual objects to separate. This does not mean his armor is weak however.<ref name="28E0">“The golden bastard did a number on you, huh?”<br><br>Chevalier nodded again. “Some of the best armor out there, and I still dropped from a hit that wasn’t even aimed at me.”<br><br>“And yet you instinctively shielded Ingenue with your body.”<br><br>“Old habits.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 28]]</ref>

===Strategies and Skills===
He can adjust which properties to use on the fly, making his weapons heavier, larger, sharper, etc. when it provides the most benefit.<ref>He adjusted the balances of his blade, maintaining the reach, the appearance, but he altered its interaction with the rest of the world, maintaining its lightweight feel as far as he was concerned, changing it in other respects.<br>[...]<br>He had his sword out in a flash, swung. A forcefield appeared, but the weapon breezed through it as if it weren’t even there.<br><br>It was, in all respects except appearance, and the ease with which he moved it, a weapon that weighed upwards of fifty tons, as durable as the heaviest weapon. The cutting edge of the ceramic blade.



 - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> He can enlarge his weapons while they're embedded in something,<ref name=EC/> damaging it.<ref name="cast">'''Chevalier''' – A major member of the Protectorate, heading the Philadelphia branch. Wears an ornate suit of knight’s armor and carries a trademark cannonblade, which is both a bastard sword and a gun. His power lets him grow and/or condense his gear, rendering it larger or more durable, while he ignores any alterations in weight or scale. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Basic Cast Page]</ref> He could apply the properties of one to only a portion of another,<ref>His sword wasn’t much better. The ceramic properties he’d applied to the edge were heat-resistant, but the remainder of the weapon were growing more nebulous in shape, the hottest parts of the metal flowing down to obscure the edge. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> take the appearance of one and the properties of another,<ref>He’d drawn them into one blade, with the appearance of the larger, the properties of the smaller.<br>[...]<br>Combining the first blade with this one proved more difficult. He granted the weapon the appearance of this blade, gave it the cutting edge, but retained the lightweight mass and the durability of the largest weapon. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> and manipulate the properties to a point in-between those of two different items he'd combined.<ref>Chevalier focused his power on his blade, making it as large as he could.<br>[...]<br>The size of the weapon and the effect of the firing pin seemed to help with the jammed mechanism. That, or the transition to being closer to his largest blade had shifted something in a fractional way. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> It allows him, for example, to use his sword as a vaulting pole or slingshot himself by returning the true mass at the right moment.<ref name="parkour">As he reached an intersection, where he had more room to navigate, he hefted the sword, treating it as feather-light despite its massive scale. It batted through two traffic lights and grazed a memorial stone that lined the main street as it came forward, came down-<br><br>He vaulted, striking the ground, lifting himself up, until the cannon blade was directly below him. Both hands on the handle, one foot on the trigger-guard, he scaled up the weapon, extending its length, carrying himself up.<br><br>It couldn’t quite grow long enough to get him to where he wanted to be, but the camera showed him reaching into the handle, with a shadow-flicker surrounding him up to the shoulders, just like the kind that surrounded the distant Knight. He fell for a moment as he swung his blade overhead, cutting into a building.<br><br>That cut was his point of leverage to use the blade to carry himself to the roof of a ten-story building that hadn’t yet finished construction, blade extending, carrying him back and out, lurching slightly as he adjusted before landing on a partially finished rooftop, surrounded by yellow-painted girders and beams. Two of the three screens I could see showed him. The screen in the middle showed the Dauntless titan and its uninterrupted approach.<br><br>A shift of the image showed the speck that was Chevalier standing on the building, easier to identify by the framing of girders and beams around him than by his silhouette. And the distant ‘titan’, Dauntless. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19 Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref>