Editing Aegis (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Aegis possesses the ability of flight and an augmented physiology that operates at peak capacity as long as he is still living.<ref name="List">Carlos	Aegis	'''Redundant biology, operating at peak capacity so long as alive, possessed of flight and ability to use body with no fear of self harm.'''	Wards	Brute Mover - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc Parahuman List]; bolded edit by [[Wildbow]]</ref><ref name="Cast2">'''Aegis (Deceased)''' – Powers included flight and an augmented physiology that lacks any weak points. Onetime team leader of the local Wards team. Wore a rust and silver costume with a shield emblem. Perished in the Endbringer arc. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast Page (In-Depth)]</ref><ref name="3.3 e1">“Sure,” he said, “So let’s go down the list. Team leader: Aegis. You’d think he has the standard Alexandria package, flight, super strength, invincibility, but that isn’t exactly right. He does fly, but the other two powers work differently than you’d expect. See, he isn’t invincible… he just doesn’t have any weak points. His entire biology is filled with so many redundancies and reinforcements that you just can’t put him down. Throw sand in his eyes and he can still see by sensing the light on his skin. Cut his throat and it doesn’t bleed any more than the back of his hand would. The guy’s had an arm cut off and it was attached and working fine the next day. Stab him through the heart and another organ takes over the necessary functions.”<br/><br/>“Not that we’re stabbing anyone through the heart?” I made it a hopeful half-question, half-statement.<br/><br/>“No. Well, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to stab Aegis through the heart just to slow him down. If you did it with something big enough. The guy’s like a zombie, he gets back up within seconds of you beating him down, keeps coming at you until you’re too tired to fight back or you make a mistake.” - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/agitation-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.3]]</ref><ref name="3.9">Aegis bolted the second the dog changed course, but it was too late. As he tried to fly out of reach, Judas leaped, nearly twice as far and high as I might have guessed something as big as he was could. The dog’s prehensile tail wrapped around Aegis’ torso. As they all fell, mount, rider and ensnared captive, Bitch shouted something I couldn’t hear, and Judas whipped Aegis straight down, adding the force of the throw to the momentum of the fall.<br/><br/>I thought I might have heard the impact from the interior of the bank. Or maybe it was as auditory illusion and my bugs were the ones who heard it. Either way, Aegis hit the ground hard enough to kill an ordinary person.<br/><br/>He wasn’t down for one second before he was on his feet again. In the same motion he used to get to his feet, he lunged for the dog and swung a fist at Judas’ snout.<br/><br/>Strong enough to slam a two ton dog to the side with one blow, chomped on by said dogs, whipped around like a chew toy, and continues to fight without slowing down. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/agitation-3-9/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.9]]</ref><ref name="3.10">He swiveled the cannon to face Judas, who was still guarding the spot where Bitch had fallen. A bolt of light erupted from the cannon and sent Judas flying beyond my field of vision. He fired another shot, at a greater distance, presumably at the fallen dog. Then he swiveled and fired off two more shots in quick succession, blasting Aegis and the two dogs that were gripping him.<br/><br/>The dogs and Aegis were all sent flying into the wall of the office building opposite the bank. While the dogs didn’t get up immediately, a bloody and tattered Aegis was on his feet in an instant, and in the air a moment later. He got to a good height – maybe two or three stories up, and stayed there, likely to get his bearings and survey the situation. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/agitation-3-10/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.10]]</ref><ref name="3.9 e2">While I’d been distracted by Clockblocker, Bitch had set Brutus and Angelica on Aegis. He was fending the two dogs off, but the white pane of his helm – Clockblocker’s helm – was shattered, now, and his costume was torn with one piece of ruined armor dangling by a string of cloth at his armpit.<br/><br/>Brutus lunged for Aegis, but as he passed over the edge of the area Vista had distorted, he fell short. The dog’s jaws clacked shut a foot away from Aegis’ face, spittle flying.<br/><br/>Aegis responded by slamming both fists, fingers interlaced, into Brutus’ snout. The dog crashed onto its side, giving Aegis the time to take flight once more, heading straight for the sky.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>If I was surprised to see that display of acrobatics from one of the dogs, I doubted there were words for what Aegis’ must have felt, just then. Angelica seized the teen hero in her jaws and they plummeted together.<br/><br/>Angelica didn’t land with all four claws beneath her, and she sprawled as she hit the ground. When she stopped, though, she still had Aegis, one of his arms and half his torso clasped between her teeth. She whipped him around like a dog might shake a toy. When she paused, he was still fighting her, slamming his free hand against the side of her head over and over. Loops and strings of drool mixed with blood hung from her mouth. At least, that’s what I thought it was, from my vantage point inside the bank, peering through gloom and pouring rain. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/06 Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.9]]</ref>His entire biology is filled with so many redundancies and reinforcements that it makes it very difficult to put him down. For example: blinding him allows him to see by sensing light through his skin, cutting his throat bleeds no more than cutting the back of his hand, cutting off an arm would only last until he could get it reattached and stabbing him in the heart means that other organs would take its place.<ref name="3.3 e1" /> Aegis could survive decapitation.<ref name="R1">AceOfSword: With his redundant biology he could have survived getting bissected I'm pretty sure. Aegis doesn't have any special protection against damage but most of the wounds he get turn out to be minor to him. Getting beheaded would probably only slow him down. It was pure bad luck that Aegis, who could have survived a lot of damage, got crushed into paste: even his redundant biology couldn't keep him alive when all of his body got wrecked.<br /><br />Wildbow: Yep.<br />[...]<br />Wildbow: Brutes (esp. regenerators) and changers often relocate their cores/coronas to the hardest to access part of their body, or adapt to do without. Crawler's wasn't in his brain, for example.<br /><br />Aegis could survive decapitation. - [https://redd.it/6d99gw Reddit comment] by Wildbow</ref><ref name="3.3 e2" />

During the Wards' confrontation of the Undersiders at the bank, Aegis survived being slammed into the ground hard enough to kill an ordinary person and stood back up after less than a second. [[Angelica]] held him in her mouth and whipped him around like a toy, but he kept fighting.<ref name="3.9" /> After [[Brutus]] and Angelica played a game of tug of war with his body, [[Kid Win]] hit them with a series of bolts from his Alternator Cannon, blasting the three of them into the opposite building.<ref name="3.12 e1">We got on the dogs, and Regent fired a salvo of shots from the laser cannon into Aegis, hammering him into the side of a building until the wall around him collapsed - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/agitation-3-12/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.12]]</ref> It took the dogs some time to get up, but Aegis was in the air immediately. <ref name="3.10" />

Aegis' augmented physiology allows him to abuse his body in ways that make him appear to possess supernatural strength. He can throw punches hard enough that they’d break his hand, mangle his joints and tear his muscles, and his body will take it. He can further enhance his strength by undergoing adrenaline rushes that he can keep going for hours. This has the further side effect of making it so that he never gets tired.<ref name="3.3 e1"/> He was able to deliver a two-handed blow to [[Brutus]]' snout that knocked him over onto his side.<ref name="3.9"/>

In addition to his flight and augmented physiology, Aegis does not seem to feel pain, although his powers allow him to deal with the drawbacks. It is left unclear if Aegis truly possessed a congenital insensitivity to pain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital%20insensitivity%20to%20pain (CIP)] or if he simply had an incredible ability to simply "deal" with the sensation.<ref name="R2">The problems with CIP (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain) don't tend to afflict someone with a natural ability to simply ''deal''. Infection? Psh. Scratched corneas? He can see if his eyes get plucked out. Broken bones? Sections of muscle simply go rigid and offer the structure. - [https://redd.it/2qt5cd Reddit comment] by Wildbow</ref> Strictly speaking with his adaptive brute ability Aegis would be able to defeat [[Glory Girl]].<ref name="IRC">Wildbow: Stronger, cleaner overall lineup, citrine is a weak point, only strong against the really plodding heavy hitters. Aegis beats Glory Girl, Oni Lee beats Trickster. I see Foxtail's group crumbling first. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/19718375 Comment by Wildbow on the IRC, archived on Space Battles]</ref>