Editing Legend (section)

===Lasers===
His lasers were primarily blue-white.<ref>He doesn't shoot rainbows. His lasers are primarily blue-white. - [https://redd.it/364xcv Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref><ref>A section of the street was torn free and flipped through the air.  Legend blasted it out of existence with an indigo flash of light.<br><br>“Cash!”  Legend bellowed the word.  He began pelting Siberian with lasers.  Beams capable of leveling buildings, and she ignored them. - [[Prey 14.3]]</ref> These beams can turn corners, fork into multiple lasers, pass through walls, and freeze or ignite his targets. He can use different effects, creating cutting, disintegration, impact, heat, focused, staccato bursts, fat lasers, and invisible lasers. He could combine these effects, but this took time to investigate and he rarely faced threats that necessitated the needed effort.<ref name="SB1">'''Nervaqus987:''' And speaking of Legend, he's mentioned as having a ton of different kinds of lasers that he can use to blast people with, the examples mentioned being lasers that turn corners and lasers that freeze. What other modes of fire does he have? And can he combine modes, like firing a freezing laser that turns corners?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Cutting, disintegration, impact, heat, focused, staccato bursts, fat lasers, invisible lasers. The freezing laser isn't so much a 'create ice' laser as a 'this deals damage and then frost spreads out from the site of impact'.<br><br>He can combine them, but he's not typically in situations where he needs to, and it's sort of something that takes time to figure out, like putting your gun together in the middle of the battlefield when you could just whip out another gun that's bound to do the job. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12852536/ Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> The 'freezing' laser actually lowers the temperature at the point of contact, damaging the target and freezing ambient moisture.<ref name="SB1" /> The 'heat ray' that ignited a target works on a similar principle.

A known strange feature of his lasers is that they can bend around corners.<ref>Legend can shoot lasers from his hands, lasers that ''turn corners.''  - [[Agitation 3.11]]</ref> This versatility extends to him splitting lasers he's fired into multiple smaller lasers.<ref name="19.6 e1">Legend shot the Eidolon-clone before he could do anything more. A laser tore into the Eidolon’s chest cavity, slashed out to carve into Echidna’s foremost leg, causing it to buckle mid-step.<br/><br/>The Alexandria-clone floated up, interjecting herself between Legend and his targets. He adjusted the beam’s orientation, and she moved to block it. He divided it in two shots that she couldn’t block, and she charged him. Legend broke off to flee. - [[Scourge 19.6]]</ref><!--cite vault attack--> Further, he can radiate an unheard of number of his lasers when he needs to.<!--link the amount and quantity he can fire to how much attention he can devote to it--> He can increase the size and power of lasers but requires time to do it.<ref>An enemy that hit too hard to defend against, too tough to hurt. Eidolon teleported rather than try to stand up to his lasers, Alexandria took a glancing blow and plunged to the ground. Legend peppered Scion, paused, then hit him with a bigger laser.<br/><br/>When that failed, Legend doubled down again. - [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref><!--ref>Legend opened fire.  One beam at first, then five, maybe, then twenty, and then a hundred, producing so many that there was nothing forward-facing that could emit a beam, so he sent them backwards, turning at sharp angles in the air until they were aimed at the right target.- [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/07/infrared-19-4/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.4]]</ref--> His raw firepower has been favorably compared to [[Purity]]<ref name="8.1 e3" /> or a battalion of tanks.<ref name="13.xe1" /> Although the time frame is unknown, Legend managed to deter [[Sleeper]] by leveling around 30 km<sup>2</sup> of city.<ref name="II17.9 e1" />

Legend requires line of sight to properly aim at targets.<ref name="II15.x e7">It put him closer to the point the lasers were all diverging from, but it took him out of Legend’s sight.  The man couldn’t aim at what he couldn’t-<br><br>A series of beams all firing in a line struck the Isaiah.<br><br>It had to be a guess, helped by a listening ear.<br><br>Legend couldn’t aim at what he couldn’t see.  Mischa took an evasive course of action, one eye glancing at the screen with the damage report.  Thermal control, mostly.  Some articulation, but the Isaiah didn’t need much.  It wasn’t what he would have fired at, had he been aiming that shot.<br><br>No more chance shots came, as he regained control, booted up antigrav, and started up the jet turbines. - [[Interlude 15.x II]]</ref> It is also possible to aim dodge his lasers.<ref name="I12.5 e1">Madcap leapt to one side as Legend fired a series of beams at him.  The villain plunged into and through the concrete wall of the jail, and Jamie was only steps behind him.  She saw him rounding a corner and gave chase.<br>[...]<br>Legend’s lasers tore into the spot where Madcap had been a half second ago.  The villain sprinted toward Jamie, moving faster with each step.<br><br>“Battery!” Legend called out, “Stop him!” - [[Interlude 12.5]]</ref><ref name="19.6 e2">Legend and Alexandria still fought above us.  I could, when he passed into my range, note how he got faster the longer he flew, giving him the ability to put distance between himself and Alexandria, but he couldn’t stop to take aim and shoot without losing that acceleration and giving her a chance to close the gap.<br><br>The result was that he was flying in loops and circles, using the turns to find opportunities to take aim and fire on her.  She dodged most, but the hits that did land bought him distance and time to stop and laser down clones who were attempting to escape. - [[Scourge 19.6]]</ref><ref name="II20.7 e3">By the time I had my bearings and was flying straight, the Simurgh was relocating, taking some evasive action and crashing through Narwhal’s forcefields as Legend opened fire. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref>

Spatial distortions can affect Legend's lasers. [[Mystic Magic Impaler|The Impaler Titan]] could redirect his lasers into his allies with the support of [[Titan Fortuna]], causing Legend to disengage.<ref name="II19.5 e1">A streak of blue marked a single laser fired by Legend.  Unlike the raw barrage he’d fired earlier, this was a narrow, thin bolt that was bright enough to see from a mile away.<br><br>The Impaler Titan was already there, acting.  One of its rod-like limbs, column-like, reached out, and space distorted beyond it.<br><br>Legend’s laser hit that distorted column, and flashed out.  It lasted for a quarter second, but in that quarter-second, the laser raked across our defensive lines.<br><br>Her network was operating with the benefit of her power. - [[Infrared 19.5]]</ref><ref name="II19.5 e2">Legend was using smaller lasers now, a hail of short lasers that were each only about as long as he was tall.  She blocked three of them with a reach of her hand, not even looking at what she was doing, and then changed that reaching limb to vault herself in the air.<br>[...]<br>I saw the Impaler Titan start to move, and stopped firing.  I watched as she fended off more of Legend’s hail of lasers.  By keeping her weapons still, she let it unfurl, and the expanded weapon served to block more.<br><br>I couldn’t risk that she’d intercept my laser and redirect it with that space warping drill bit of hers.<br>[...]<br>Legend was barely even visible now.  He was aware of an omnipresent threat that the Impaler Titan could space-distort his lasers and send them to new targets.  He flew to keep one Titan or another between himself and the Impaler. - [[Infrared 19.5]]</ref> [[The Yàngbǎn]]-assisted squadron of [[the Taught]] could slap his more powerful lasers aside by creating distortions in the air that redirected them into the atmosphere or towards his allies.<ref name="II15.x e6">Teacher’s soldiers glowed white where hit, as if they were metal and not flesh.  That would be one of the powers, then.  The ones at the front reached out to slap the lasers aside, creating distortions in the air that forced the rays back toward the bubble, or up into the atmosphere.<br>[...]<br>Below, Legend was in the air, assaulting the Yangban-assisted squadron.  The shots he used were either too minor to penetrate their protection, that made them glow like metal instead of being burned or cut, or they were too big, and too risky, as the squad slapped those shots aside or redirected them into the platform.  The group was cut off, and too much damage to the platform would send all of them to their doom.  It forced him to play defensive. - [[Interlude 15.x II]]</ref>