Editing Topsy (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Daniel has the power to alter the direction but not magnitude of gravitational pull on or by himself, other people, and objects within his range. He applies his powers most offensively by hurling people or objects up and then reversing his power to let them fall.<ref name="25.3" /><!--cite real world concept gravity mirror, gravity lensing, whatever-->

This environmental change allows him to do things like walk along the sides of buildings. Daniel is not strictly limited to shifting gravity ninety<ref>Gravity shifted again.  Our backs slammed against the side of the building, the two of us grunting in unison.  My metal box scraped against the metal of the fire escape to land beside me.  We were now more or less lying down on the building’s face.<br /><br />Watch and Topsy’s men were making their way along the side of the building, walking on it. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/scarab-25-3/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.3]]</ref><ref name="25.3 e67">I lifted the box, as Watch and Topsy made their way up the snow-covered ramp to us, underlings following them. An adjustment of gravity removed the issues the slope posed. Watch was saying something I couldn’t make out over the rush of wind. Something about our location. We didn’t have long. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/scarab-25-3/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.3]]</ref> or even a hundred eighty degrees but every degree in between.<ref>Cuff threw out a chain with an audible clatter, then caught the end, moving like she was winding it around the villain. She reconsidered as Topsy and his minions reacted to the noise of the collision and came after her. She was nearly at the far end of the street when Topsy used his power. He reoriented gravity, and she veered to one side, striking the wall beside the alleyway rather than disappearing inside. The tilt continued, and she turned away, moving with the tilt.<br /><br />He leveraged his power further, only this time, it was his namesake topsy-turvy ‘up is down’ variant. It was his most offensive power, the ability to hurl large numbers of people or objects into the city’s skyline, then revoke his power to let them fall. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/scarab-25-2/ Exerpt] from [[Scarab 25.2]]</ref> It is unknown how controlled he can be with the effect or how localized it can be. He can only seem to manifest one gravitational change at a time.<ref>[[Scarab 25.3]]</ref>

This power lets him weaponize loose objects. Being able to reverse gravity up sending them up into the air and then refocus gravity to send it towards his targets.<ref>They wasted no time in putting it into action. Topsy used his power over a wide area, reversing gravity’s effect. Snow began to fly in the air, and was soon joined by a pair of cars. They reached the top of Topsy’s effect, caught between the two gravities, and began to rotate aimlessly in the weightless middle-ground between normal gravity and the area Topsy had altered.<br /><br />Then he shifted gravity’s direction again. An attack, such as it was. The snow and cars fell in my direction. Were flung, for lack of a better term. I flew for cover, ungainly as I raised the insulated box as a shield, snow and ice slamming into the buildings around me, pinging off of the metal. I managed to duck out of sight. The cars, for their part, were only thrown into the street a block away.<br /><br />It wasn’t an attack he’d aimed, but a scattershot approach, meant to scare, to allow the possibility that he’d get lucky.<br /><br />And it had given them the chance to try and slip away. A few minutes, while I recouped and tried to get my sights on them in the midst of the stirring snow and limited visibility. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/scarab-25-2/ Exerpt] from [[Scarab 25.2]]</ref> He can also use it to move large amnounts of objects around.<ref>Once the majority of his underlings were out of the apartment, Topsy leveraged his power, reorienting gravity to shift the boxes and piles of stuff. They hit the wall, slid down the hallway, and finally tumbled through the open front door of the apartment in a heap. With money bands cut and bags chewed open, much of the merchandise in Topsy’s stock was scattered to the wind. My bugs could sense the clouds of powder filling the air. Evidence, if nothing else.<br />[...]<br />Topsy’s crew reached the first floor of the basement, which included the parking garage. Topsy followed right after with the piles of goods, abused by their rough tumble down a dozen flights of stairs. The packages of powder virtually floated in the air, with Topsy batting them in the direction of his people. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/scarab-25-2/ Exerpt] from [[Scarab 25.2]]</ref> Securing oneself to the ground as well as other objects negates much of his offensive ability.<ref name="25.2 e4">Topsy hit Golem and the truck with flipped gravity. Both moved, but neither lifted off the ground. Even before he started raising the wall, Golem would have used his power to hold his feet against the ground, to grab the truck’s axle. Tecton would be waiting inside, ready to leap out and break the hands if necessary. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/scarab-25-2/ Exerpt] from [[Scarab 25.2]]</ref> His power has an upper limit, when objects reach the treashold of his effect the object will be effectively weightless in the liminality of the effect and regular gravity.<ref name="25.3 e5">I nearly droppd the box, slick as it was with the snow that had melted while it sat in the lobby. Cuff helped me catch it. A moment’s delay, but enough time for Topsy, Watch and the others to crest the top of the ramp that led from the basement level to the street.<br /><br />As we ducked behind cover, taking our steps into the alley, the snow that had accumulated on the ground began to fall in reverse, in thick, wet clumps. I felt the same kind of lift that accompanied a use of my flight pack, and both Cuff and I were lifted off the ground as well.<br /><br />The weightlessness ceased, and we fell. Only we fell up.<br /><br />My flight pack kicked to life, and the wings unfolded so I could use the propulsion. I reached for Cuff with one free hand, nearly grabbing one of her braids, but found her wrist instead, felt her hand clasp my wrist in return. Snow and ice pummeled us as it broke free of the sidewalk and flew skyward. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/scarab-25-3/ Exerpt] from [[Scarab 25.3]]</ref>