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==='Balance'=== Rain described this ability as allowing him to "catch my balance or secure my footing more easily [...] lets me turn on a dime or keep from falling over."<ref name="II2.6"/> He later elaborated that it effectively let him stop and freeze in position no matter what inertia he is under.<ref name="4.2 e2">He stepped back, then jogged a few steps, stopping mid-run, as if he’d frozen in time. He hadn’t, though. While suspended at an angle someone else would have tipped over, he twisted around and put a foot out to one side. He moved in another direction, back to his board.<br/><br/>“Any limitations? If I used my full strength and threw you, would you only slow down?”<br/><br/>“No. I’d stop. If I timed it right, I could fall from a plane, hit terminal velocity and then stop myself just before hitting the ground. It’s- it’d be useful then, it’s useful if I want to not fall over or if I want to maneuver a bit. But it’s not that amazing as powers go.”<br/><br/>He wasn’t lying, then. Not about that. There were uses, but it did sound somewhat limited for even a secondary power.<br/><br/>He seemed to read something in my expression, because he had further protests, “It’s ''really'' not that amazing. I have to wait between each use of it, and it’s not something I can build a name or identity around. The emotion power has no impact or visual side to it, so it’s out too.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/30/shade-4-2/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.2]]</ref> He could use it to step out of a moving train and immediately come to a dead stop on landing, or to stand on a slope without slipping,<ref>He climbed over the railing and jumped, while the train was going well over a hundred miles an hour.<br/> Hands out to his side, his bag in one hand, other empty, his feet touched the slope, and he stopped. No momentum, nothing to suggest he’d been on a speeding train a matter of seconds ago. The fact he stood on a slope didn’t seem to matter, as he didn’t slide, slip, or fall. - [[Glare 3.5]]</ref> or even float in air for a short moment. It has a cool down time and can not be used continuously.<ref name="4.2 e2"/>
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