Editing The Gibborim Knight (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
The Gibborim Knight has abilities similar to [[Chevalier]],<ref>It couldn’t quite grow long enough to get [Chevalier] to where he wanted to be, but the camera showed him reaching into the handle, with a shadow-flicker surrounding him up to the shoulders, just like the kind that surrounded the distant Knight. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref> but scaled up.<ref name=lookG>She worried it would collapse into constituent parts, but it didn’t.  A storm of overlapping identities and bodies.  And one piercing eye, as it focused its gaze and looked down at her.<br/><br/>With every step she took backwards, the figure seemed to clarify.  She took a step forward, and saw it separate apart again.<br/><br/>Not wholly of this world’s rules.  Closer to Chevalier’s power than Chevalier himself. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 16.z II]]</ref> He exists in multiple dimensions at once and presumably can affect things that also exist in multiple dimensions like the [[Machine Army]].<ref>“Good to know.  Is he going to punch his way through it?  Overturn every stone?  This is a replicating robot threat that infects, recycles, and adapts.”<br/><br/>“He can.  At least in a swathe around the portal.  He can cut them back.”<br/><br/>“And if they infect him?  We know they can operate interdimensionally.  They can plant those seeds.”<br/><br/>“He can chew them up.  It’s his domain and focus.  It’s like saying they have blowtorches, so they’re a threat to a burning ''continent''.”<br/><br/>“They have blowtorches, and they got those blowtorches ''scarily'' fast.  It’s like saying those people who learned to make blowtorches with amazing speed might learn and adapt to that burning continent, given enough time.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/15/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.5]]</ref>

His native strength is enough to rip cars and infrastructure apart,<ref>He’d already armored himself in part.  He walked, holding car roof and construction materials, and the two overlapped, pressing in together, steel girders becoming fiberglass, then car roof becoming an arrangement of girders.  He stopped, bent down, and twisted the girders so they fit to the curvature of his leg.<br/><br/>Then, touching more armor, he blended existing armor to new armor, translating and combining aesthetics, making it uniform.  Pelvis, butt and crotch, three-quarters of his legs had already been covered, and arrangements sat under his feet and between his toes like sandals.  With the new addition, he was armored from the waist down, pretty much.  Boots to be filled out, the rest encased. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/12 Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.4]]</ref> with additional abilities letting him create armor and weapons similar to Chevalier by combining these various items together.<ref> The ‘Gibborim Knight’ was there, still fashioning its armor, still trudging forward.  It had built boots to cover its feet, which had been sandals before, and was building cross-straps for its chest.  The expression it wore was a focused, determined one, even as its face broke apart into three transparent versions.<br/>[...]<br/>The Chevalier had paused at a stockpile of construction materials, gathering more things.  A weapon, a shield, armor for the chest, armor for the face.  The interception time didn’t change much as a consequence of his stalling.  He was wholly focused on his mission. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/15/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.5]]</ref>

Armored up he can take an appreciable amount of hits from Titans, like [[Dauntless]]<ref>Dauntless continued his assault, striking out repeatedly, with a spear of lightning that curved and arced around clusters of buildings.  There were a lot of buildings, so each attack had to be timed.  The Knight kept its heavy shield up, retreating, enduring strikes that sometimes sent him skidding back a hundred feet.  Sometimes he fell with the impacts, tearing up road and toppling heel over head.  Always getting his shield up and in the way before the next strike, always keeping the shield at an angle so he would be driven down and back and not purely back and away.  When intervening buildings provided cover, it ran, shield over its back.  Glass fell from nearby windows with every heavy footfall.  Like the world wept with its passing.<br/><br/>Fucking Amy.<br/><br/>Dauntless only advanced.  He didn’t walk, his body more a pillar between sky and ground than a body.  He flowed forward, scraped past the city, navigating a path that favored lakes and water, parks and open spaces.  Some buildings fell, but the damage to the city proper was minimal, all considering.  Had he been moving in a straight line, he would have caught the Knight already. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref> and [[Hunter]].<ref>The Gibborim Knight was holding firmest.  The armor it had built and wrapped around itself was seemingly the only thing that could endure the onslaught. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/12/interlude-17-z-sundown/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 17.z II]]</ref>

As an artificial being he is unable to produce or even survive without intercession from his creators.<ref>“The giants, yeah.  What happens to them if Amy dies?”<br/><br/>There was a telling pause.<br/><br/>“I think they die, eventually.  They’ll need upkeep.  They can’t eat.  They burn through power.  But eventually is a long time.  Maybe a year.  They can do a lot of damage in the meantime, and I don’t know if they can be controlled.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/29/sundown-17-9/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.9]]</ref>

After being upgraded by [[Chris]], the Gibborim Knight appears to have even more depth with his abilities. It appears he can infuse objects with more abstract properties, as he is seen making a chunk of building into a bomb by swiping it through fire,<ref>Seemingly uncaring, roaring in a guttural way, he picked up a chunk of building with two hands, dragged it through a bed of flames on the ground in the process of drawing it back, and then chucked it underhanded.<br/><br/>It detonated on impact, like the material of the building was an eggshell containing molten material.  The Titan reared back, and the mostly naked Titan threw himself at the liqud Titan, grappling and wrestling with it to keep it from sinking into the ground. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/18/infrared-19-5/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.5]]</ref> and enhancing a concrete pole with reality-warping effects by swiping it against a crack in reality.<ref>The Chevalier Giant picked up a concrete pole, and brushed it against a crack in reality as it passed it.  The pole shifted, blurring, and became transparent, with a torn-up reality at the outer periphery.<br/><br/>He clubbed the two Titans, thrashing them like he was swinging a baseball bat, and as hard as he swung, the pole didn’t disintegrate. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/18/infrared-19-5/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.5]]</ref>