Editing Sveta Karelia (section)

===Strength and Speed===
A single large tendril can easily rip a limb off of someone,<ref name="18.z e95343">"I'm fine. I understand," Jessica soothed. She shifted position, and one tendril snapped out to catch her leg, gripping her around the knee, squeezing and twisting with a strength that could have torn every ligament in her knee and wrenched Jessica's calf from her upper leg. Sveta flinched, closed her eyes for a second, and the tendril moved back to the post. The suit had held. No damage done. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref> several at once possess enough strength to bend steel bars and demolish concrete barriers. Further these can move at speeds normal eyes can not track.<ref>Sveta snatched a notebook off of the small table with the art supplies, reaching out and bringing it to her faster than the eye could follow. She passed it to Jessica with just as much speed and force. Even with the air bags filling the void in the protective suit and offering a cushioning effect, Jessica had to take a step back to catch her balance. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref>

When she couldn't control herself the only way for a normal human to safely interact with her would be to wear what was essentially a deep sea scuba divers suit - walking tank,<ref name="18.z e6543">“-But I have to go over them anyways. There are regulations, Jessica, as you well know. You’ll be wearing a type-C reinforced protective suit. The suits include both an inner and outer layer, the inner layer-”<br/><br/>“Has a button in the palm. I can withdraw my fingers from the outer glove and press the button. At random intervals, you’ll buzz me surreptitiously…”<br/><br/>“And we expect you to press the button to verify that you’re okay. You can press it twice in the event of an emergency.”<br/>[...]<br/>“It’s what we have for the time being. If you don’t verify your own safety or if you signal an emergency, we’ll employ containment foam through the sprinkler system.”<br/><br/>Jessica pulled on the protective inner-suit. The suit fit close to her body, smelled faintly of someone else's sweat, and consisted of a stretching mesh covered in fine chain link. The entire thing was reinforced by a grid of metal bars, complete with oiled hinges at each joint, so she had a near-full range of motion. Zipping it up, it went straight up her neck, the bars running vertically down her throat. She couldn't look down without getting jabbed in the soft flesh beneath her jaw.<br/><br/>It made it harder to get the outer suit on. The entire thing was one piece, like footie-pyjamas, and the fabric was heavy, with alternating layers of insulated fabric and more chain mesh.<br/>[...]<br/>Now that she had a better grasp of what her patients were capable of, it was easier to hope the people designing the safeguards were doing everything they needed to. It was better than researching it and knowing they weren't.<br/><br/>The heavy fabric exterior suit fit her like hazardous materials gear, bulky, broad, leaving a great deal of empty space between her body and the fabric. Protective airbags of more reinforced cloth inflated to fill that space - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref> one that needs regular maintenance between visits. She is even able to affect Weld thanks to her strength.

She was able to fling a massive load with her tentacles with enough leverage,<ref>“''Sveta'',” I said. “''Now''.”
<br/><br/>She anchored herself on three different areas. Then she grabbed the burning corpse.<br/><br/>She flung it at Scion.<br/><br/>''Can’t hurt him physically.''<br/><br/>emotionally.<br/><br/>He reeled, perhaps a little stunned.<br/><br/>She hit him with more. One after the other.<br/><br/>His hands glowed.<br/><br/>''“Run,”'' I said, with my swarm, in the same moment I said, “Now.”<br/><br/>Sveta bolted. Scion attacked, a wide-area effect that scoured the room’s interior. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/05 Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.8]]</ref> even though she was injured at the time.
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In her full body Prosthesis (see above) she retains her durability, but is restrained somewhat by the confines of the humanoid body. She moves somewhat clumsily. This is due counter-intuitive movement that is required to control bodysuit from the inside.<ref name="II3.3 e2">“I’m anxious,” Sveta said.<br/><br/>“Me too,” Tristan said.  “Your control gets bad when you’re nervous, right?  You have more reflexive movements?”<br/><br/>“It gets so fucking shitty,” Sveta said.  “I’m sorry.  I’m worried I’ll be terrible because I’m all over the place inside here.  I don’t know if you can hear it, but I keep fumbling because I’ll reflexively reach out to grab something off in the distance and hit the wall of the suit instead, and then I have to reach for the right control ring again.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13/glare-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref> Nervousness has been known to exacerbate this problem.

She can unlatch her joints, allowing her to extend her limbs a considerable distance, as she can when she is completely out of the body, and use them as grappling hooks.<ref name="II3.2 e1">She didn’t touch or move anything external, but the joints of her elbow shifted, and the forearm and hand dropped.  Ten or so tendrils extended between elbow and forearm, like a muscle with gaps between strands.<br/><br/>She moved it, tendrils bending, flinging her hand and the attached segment of arm out fifty feet.  She tried to grab a branch, missed it, grabbed another, and seized it, before pulling her body to follow.  I saw her turn her head away as she pulled herself through the intervening twigs and leaves.<br/><br/>She twisted around, pointed a hand, and used tendrils to push her fist out.<br/><br/>She seized the wheel that Byron had left embedded in the earth, and pulled herself to it.<br/><br/>There was a bit of gracelessness to the landing, her pants leg and the side of her body rubbing against the grass, a few clumps of earth flying, but it served to put her in our midst again.  She wobbled as she stood and Tristan and I caught her between us.<br/><br/>She made a small ‘phew’ sound.<br/><br/>“You’re made of grappling hooks, basically,” Chris said.  Kenzie, sitting on her box, stuck out her toe to jab Chris in the shoulder. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.2]]</ref> She is able to remove part of the prosthesis to allow out more appendages.<ref name="II3.3 e4">It was Sveta, perched on a branch, flag in hand.  Another blur, moving the clock back.<br/><br/>Sveta removed one of her prosthetic hands.  Fifty or more tendrils snapped out.<br/><br/>“You grabbed ''every'' flag,” Tristan said.<br/><br/>“I grabbed at every flag,” Sveta said.  “I had to reposition a few times, so I probably grabbed at some fake ones several times.  It didn’t help that I couldn’t see that well after being shot.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13/glare-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref>. Her body is, however, not smart enough to get out of the suit without her conscious input,<ref>“Positive side is I just found out I’m all instinct when I’m forced into attack mode.  My body isn’t smart enough to figure out how to get out of the suit.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/03/shadow-5-3/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.3]]</ref>, including above the "neck", where tendrils are loosely restrained with a series of metal rings.<ref>“She’d undone a clasp at the shoulder.  She brought her head out,  twisting it around in a way a neck couldn’t.  Her tendrils were bound with metal rings into a loose column that disappeared into her suit.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/27/shadow-5-10/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.10]]</ref> She usually needs assistance to get out of the suit.<ref name=5.6e2/>

For example, she was confident in her ability to use her arms to snatch Kenzie out of Ashley's way. Even with her grip strength being less than adequate and Ashley being able to move faster then her.<ref name="II3.3 e6">When Kenzie was out of earshot, but before she had reached Ashley, Sveta raised one hand and said, voice quiet, “If there’s a problem, I’ll haul her back.”<br/><br/>“That takes a second or two,” I said.  “Sparring with Ashley, I gotta say she moves faster than that.”<br/><br/>“And your grip isn’t a hundred percent,” Tristan said.<br/><br/>Sveta set her jaw, hand pointed at Kenzie. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13 Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref> She uses her ability to move around quickly but not always gracefully.