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==Abilities and Powers== The Siberian is both an [[Perfects|unstoppable force and immovable object]].<ref name="Reddit ePerfect">'''Torrieltar:''' How fast can Path to Victory react to unforeseen changes?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' All changes are foreseen, as a rule. Can't cite anything, but there's a line that sorta appears in the story, where you run into the perfects (perfect defense, perfect offense) and stuff gets fucky - and the rule of thumb is that 'unless your ability beats -everything-, it doesn't beat this'. For processing power Contessa's ability would be on this level (as with Flechette's Sting, Clockblocker's inviolability, Siberian's invulnerability). - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on [https://spacebattles.com/posts/29824546 Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="Cast2">'''The Siberian (Deceased)''' – A recurring nemesis of the Triumvirate, the Siberian’s skin is striped with black and white, leaving her nationality uncertain. Her powers make her unstoppable and untouchable, with no armor protecting against her blows, no object barring her way, no weapon touching her, and no power affecting her. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (spoilers)]</ref><ref>“Right. Siberian’s like the queen. She’s fast, mobile, one of the strongest physically, and the bitch of the matter is, she can’t be taken off the board, and she can’t be contained. A special queen, if you will. Physically she’s an unstoppable force and an immovable object any time she wants to be.” - [[Plague 12.3]]</ref><ref>What was she? Unstoppable, a deceptively strong, deceptively tough juggernaut of a woman. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> She is one of the few individuals who can theoretically break in and out of the [[Birdcage]].<ref>Originally, the Birdcage was conceived of in ‘The Cat and the Canary’, wherein Canary was the main character, and Siberian was a notorious inmate, who decided Canary was her newest victim. I make a nod to this draft when someone mentions in-story that Siberian is one of the only individuals who could break in/out of the Birdcage. (I do this a lot, actually). - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/extinction-27-4/#comment-38848 Comment by] Wildbow in [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref><ref>“They’d ''find'' me. You don’t even know what these guys are capable of. Our newest member, she replaced Hatchet Face, though he’s still around… kind of. She can ''find'' people. There’s no place secure enough to keep me safe until they took me to the Birdcage. I almost think they’d be able to get me in there, if they wanted to. Siberian? She’d be able to get me. Even in the Birdcage. She ''always'' gets her prey.” - [[Interlude 11c]]</ref> ===Unstoppable Force=== Although the Siberian does not possess the ability to delete matter on contact,<ref name="15.z eAlexandriaPunch">''She looks familiar'', Alexandria thought, even as she soared across the room.<br><br>They’d underestimated their opponent. Alexandria’s fists collided with Siberian and didn’t budge a hair. She flew out of the way before Siberian could claw at her with long fingernails. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref><ref>“Go!” She shouted. The woman didn’t budge. Bitch glanced at her dogs to see who was the biggest, the least injured. Lucy. “Lucy! Attack!”<br><br>Lucy pounced on Siberian. Bitch saw Siberian stretch out her arm, saw Lucy’s jaws clamp down on the limb.<br><br>There was no reaction. Lucy tugged, the full force of her body behind the movement, and the woman didn’t move a hair. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/interlude-11a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11a]]</ref> when moving she can choose to be an [[All-or-Nothing|unstoppable force]] that cannot be blocked by any non-perfect defense.<ref name="14.2 eGouge">I could see Siberian flex her fingers. Her nails were long, and they were sharp. There wasn’t anything special about them, on an aesthetic level, but they did have the benefit of her power. If she raked those across a surface, they ''would'' leave gouges. Didn’t matter how hard or dense the material was. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref><ref name="Reddit eAttack" /><ref name="Cast2" /> She can easily take the shortest, most direct paths by simply pulverizing obstacles (and people) in her way as though they were tissue paper.<ref>Siberian didn’t even have to run to keep up. The chase was something she’d honed into an art. Amy had to run around buildings, hurdle over piles of debris, and climb fences. Siberian anticipated her movements, pushed through walls of stone, brick, wood and plaster as though they were tissue paper and ultimately took the shortest, most direct paths. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref><ref>“Much obliged, Siberian.” Jack said. “Go. Have fun.”<br><br>Siberian reached up and set Bonesaw down, and then was gone, one footstep carrying her into the midst of the crowd. She didn’t care if she hit anyone. Anyone unfortunate enough to be in her way was pulverized, their limbs broken, chests shattered and necks snapped by the impact. Even those in the general area were caught by the flying bodies and hurt just as grievously. - [[Interlude 12]]</ref> The Siberian's attacks pierced through [[Hero]]'s body armor and [[Alexandria]]'s invulnerability.<ref name="15.z eHeroDeath">Alexandria dove to intervene, to guard her teammate, but Siberian was faster. She reached Hero first, her hands plunging through his chest cavity. When she pulled her arms free, she nearly bisected him.<br><br>Eidolon screamed, flying close to scoop up the two pieces of Hero, carrying them outside.<br><br>Siberian leaped after them, missed only because Legend shot his comrades with a laser to alter their trajectory.<br><br>Their enemy plunged to the street, landing on both feet as though she were light as a feather. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref><ref name="15.z eLoseEye">Alexandria moved in close, hoping to stop Siberian, to catch her and slow her down, saw Siberian swing, pulled back out of the way.<br><br>Her visor fell free, clattering to the ground. Then she felt the blood.<br><br>Saw, in her one remaining good eye, the chunks of her own face that were falling to the ground around her, bouncing off her right breast, the spray of blood.<br><br>It had been so long since she’d felt pain.<br><br>Legend called out the order and buried her in containment foam, hiding her from sight. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> She slapped aside a projectile dense enough to pull in cars with their gravity.<ref name="15.z eEidolonChange">And they were losing. Eidolon was trying to heal Hero, to teleport people out of danger when Alexandria and Legend proved unable, and changing up his abilities every few seconds to throw something new at Siberian in the hopes that something would affect her. She waded through zones of altered time, through lightning storms and force fields, tore through barricades of living wood and slapped aside a projectile so hyperdense that its gravitational field pulled cars behind it. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> Attacks from the Siberian are strong enough to take [[Legend]] out of a fight.<ref>If an opponent attacked and struck him, he instinctively transitioned into his energy form for a split second. In that state, he absorbed energy of a variety of kinds, including the kinetic energy that was transferred with a punch or with a bullet. His opponents were forced to whittle him down, each attack only a fraction as effective as it might otherwise be. Even then, a share of that small amount of damage was healed a second later as he used the absorbed energy to mend his body. Conversely, his enemies could try to hit him with enough speed and force that even a hundredth of a second of contact was sufficient to take him out of the fight. Leviathan and Behemoth had managed to land blows of that magnitude.<br><br>''Siberian has as well.'' - [[Interlude 14.y]]</ref> Because of how [[Scion]]'s regeneration worked,<ref>Chevalier drew the sword back, then ''cleaved Scion''. The sword passed through the golden man’s shoulder, ribcage, and out his waist, cutting into the earth.<br><br>''Bisected''.<br><br>Chevalier remained where he was, hands on the handle of the weapon, making eye contact with Scion.<br>[...]<br>Just the same as we’d seen with the Siberian. The damage was there, but Scion was holding himself together. - [[Speck 30.2]]</ref><ref>"Because we aren't hurting him," I spoke my thoughts aloud. ''We haven't touched him''.<br><br>"We're hurting him," she said. "Kind of like how people hurt Gavel. He's… he's got a defense, not making him invincible, but making him a living portal. So you hurt him, and faster than you can do anything, he just swaps out the damaged material for material from… this bottomless well." - [[Venom 29.2]]</ref> she can intersect his body to constantly damage it.<ref>I could sense the two meeting. The Siberian dashing forward. Scion apparently uncaring.<br><br>The Siberian cleaved deep. The way her body intersected Scion, it was like ghosts fighting.<br><br>''Tattletale says he closes wounds as fast as they appear, so fast our senses can’t perceive it.''<br><br>If that was so, the Siberian was doing horrific amounts of damage. She passed bodily through him, and glowing motes followed her as she emerged on the other side, landing and wheeling around. - [[Venom 29.7]]</ref><ref>The Siberian was standing in the middle of Scion, their bodies overlapping. If her presence tore into him, then every passing fraction of a second was a good one-hundred and some pounds of flesh being eaten away. Depending on how fast he regenerated, it could be vast quantities. Turning a strength into a weakness.<br><br>But he didn’t seem to care. He floated there, his back turned to the doorway we’d used to travel to the next floor down, staring at the rows of vials. Uncaring about the Siberian’s sustained assault. - [[Venom 29.7]]</ref> ===Untouchable and Immovable Object=== An [[All-or-Nothing|untouchable and immovable object]],<ref>More troubling were the Nine he couldn’t put down. The Siberian was untouchable, an immovable object, invincible in a way that even Alexandria wasn’t. - [[Interlude 11e]]</ref> the Siberian is unaffected by physical forces or any non-perfect attack.<ref name="Reddit ePerfect" /><ref name="Cast2"/> Punches from [[Alexandria]]<ref name="15.z eAlexandriaPunch" /> and lasers from [[Legend]]<ref>Legend fired beam after beam at Siberian, but the striped woman didn’t even flinch. She was invincible on a level that surpassed even Alexandria. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> did nothing to her. She is immune to both [[Trickster]]'s teleportation and [[Panacea]]'s biological manipulation abilities.<ref name="14.2 c1">She’s immune to Trickster and Panacea both. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/#comment-4074 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> She can decide what parts of her are affected by which forces, actively allowing her hair to sway in the breeze.<ref>I focused my binoculars on Siberian, instead. Her hair drifted in the wind. The length she wasn’t holding in her hand fanned out, briefly.<br><br>“If the wind moves her hair like that, is that a clue?” I asked, looking at Tattletale. “Like the dust on Glory Girl’s clothes hinting that she wasn’t covered by her forcefield?”<br><br>“Ninety-five percent sure I’m right on this score, but her power probably copies her real body’s physiology to some degree, molding all the internal organs and whatever else with whatever reality-scrambling-stuff she’s made of. Her call about what parts of her are affected by what, so I don’t-” She stopped, “Heads up.” - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> The Siberian actively allows gravity to affect her so she can walk; she could ignore gravity powers.<ref name="SB726">'''Nervaqus987:''' Siberian has shrugged off all forms of attack that were tried on her in the series, only being popped by Foil's Sting and Clockblocker's Time Stop. But when Legend blasted a crater under her feet and when Tecton opened a hole under her, she fell through, which seems to indicate that she's still affected by gravity. So if someone were to throw some kind of gravity manipulation power at her, would that do anything or would she ignore it like everything else?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' :Nervaqus987 said:<br>Siberian & Gravity powers? She actively allows gravity to affect her so she can walk. She's seen gliding/minimizing inertia in a few cases, fighting Legend and jumping off a roof with Jack/Bonesaw/Cherish.<br><br>She could ignore it. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12852536 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> ===Property Sharing=== With the exception of a [[Siberian's Master|certain individual]],<ref>“And the controller is vulnerable?” There was a note of interest in the Director’s voice.<br><br>“Particularly vulnerable. She can’t extend her invincibility over her real body.” - [[Prey 14.4]]</ref><ref>'''Erratic:''' Waitasec. Siberian just grabbed her creator. I thought she couldn’t touch or use her power on him?<br><br>'''wildbow:''' Siberian can touch him, s/he can’t use her power on him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/sting-26-4/#comment-34493 Comment by] Wildbow on [[Sting 26.4]]</ref> she is capable of bestowing her invulnerability on anyone or anything she is in physical contact with; this sometimes bestows a similar monochrome effect on them.<ref name="29.8 e738">The cupped hand turned monochrome as the Siberian used her power on it, then turned back to normal. Alexandria lifted the hand, making room for others, for us to get underneath. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/05 Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.8]]</ref> This allows her to make huge leaps on even the most unstable surfaces by transferring the effect to where she leaps from and then applying it to where she lands.<ref>Siberian hopped up to the highest point of the wrecked aircraft, the twisted remains of a propeller that should not have borne her weight. Her hair blew in the hot air that rose from the heap of burning metal. She glanced around to see where she might do the most damage, spat out a gobbet of meat and then leaped off to one side, out of sight. The propeller didn’t even move. - [[Interlude 12]]</ref><ref>I was focusing on four things at once: staying seated behind Grue, guiding Amy, tracking Siberian’s location and trying to find Siberian’s real body. I could sense her as she made her way up the side of a building.<br>[...]<br>Through my swarm-sense, I could feel her dropping back down to ground level. I expected a splash or shattered pavement, but there was nothing. She was snapping her invulnerability out to affect the surface she was landing on. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref><ref>He dove straight for the shelter. Siberian gave chase, and without slowing in the slightest, he raked a laser across the street to render her footing less stable. It couldn’t have bought him more than a fraction of a second, if it even made a difference at all; I could see her placing one foot on a shattered piece of road that wouldn’t have held a squirrel without collapsing. She used it to kick herself forward, soaring after Legend, hands curled into claws. He was ahead of her by only ten or fifteen feet. - [[Prey 14.7]]</ref> While sprinting and granting invulnerability to two individuals, she can still grant invulnerability to the surface around her feet to prevent it from shattering.<ref name="13.6 eRunCarry">She was protecting them, which we hadn’t anticipated, but she couldn’t do that ''and'' come after us.<br><br>''Or maybe she can''. I saw Siberian virtually toss Bonesaw in the air, the girl wrapping her arms around the woman’s neck as she landed. Holding her two teammates, Siberian sprinted for Trickster and Regent. She was fast, but it was a speed borne of her peculiar powers, more enhanced strength than augmented acceleration. Not so different from Battery on that count.<br><br>Air resistance and inertia didn’t hamper her in the same ways. More than that, whatever it was that made her invincible and untouchable to any outside force, she had the ability to snap it out to affect any surface she touched. Her strength was virtually limitless, and the pavement didn’t shatter with her footfalls because she made it as untouchable as she was. - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref> According to the [[Number Man]], she can only grant invulnerability to up to five individuals at once, less if they also intend to move afterward.<ref>“''The Siberian'',” I said. “''Protection effect''.”<br><br>“Can only protect a handful of us, less if you intend to move after things collapse. Two hands, perhaps two feet, one behind.”<br><br>''Only five''.<br><br>Five wasn’t enough. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/05 Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.8]]</ref> ===Mobility=== The Siberian cannot fly.<ref>But I wouldn’t be able to kill Siberian. She’d fought Alexandria, Legend and Eidolon at the same time and walked away unscathed. She hadn’t been able to hurt them due to her inability to fly, but she’d still survived. - [[Plague 12.5]]</ref><ref name="13.6 eShatterbird" /><ref name="14.7 eDown" /> Although she lacks augmented acceleration and is slower than [[Mover]]s like [[Battery]] or [[Velocity]], the Siberian still has the physical power to move quickly, especially since she can ignore air resistance and minimize inertia.<ref name="14.7 eArrow" /><ref>Something caught her attention. A vibration in the road? Or had she used her power to protect the ground, and sensed some impact as the dogs walked on it?<br><br>Either way, she started to chase us. We could have turned at a right angle, to hopefully throw her off, but both Grue and I knew that if we did, and she continued straight, she’d run straight into Amy.<br><br>''Fast''. She was fast. Not as much as Battery or Velocity might have been on a good day, but highly mobile. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref><ref name="13.6 eRunCarry" /> When she attempted to catch [[Legend]], [[Skitter]] compared her leaps to an arrow loosed from a bow.<ref name="14.7 eArrow">Either way, it was better to try to catch his attention with a written message: ’20 CIVILIAN, JS, BS, SIB’.<br><br>He was too distracted by Siberian to see it. She wasn’t as fast as Battery or Velocity, but she had the physical power to move quickly, and she was leaping between buildings to throw herself at him with the speed and aim of an arrow shot from a bow. - [[Prey 14.7]]</ref> She is seen gliding in a few cases to make huge leaps:<ref name="SB726" /> she can leap across a city block (i.e., 300 feet<ref>She’s described her range as [...] city blocks. A city block is about 300 feet long. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/chrysalis-20-1/#comment-13946 Comment by] Wildbow on [[Chrysalis 20.1]]</ref>) in a single bound.<ref>The thought clicked into the blank I was looking to fill. How was her alter ego getting around? I’d assumed he was traveling on foot because that was how ninety-percent of the city was getting by. Very few cars on the road had access to gas and the ability to traverse the broken, flooded streets. But if there was a range limit to the projection, how was he keeping up with the woman who could ignore air resistance and leap across a city block in a single bound? - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> The Siberian can travel faster than [[Bitch's dogs]],<ref>''Shit, shit, shit, shit''. What options did we have? Running? Siberian was bound to be faster than the dogs, and none of them were big. We’d be dead before Bitch got them to grow. That was even without considering Jack’s ability to cut us down from where he stood. - [[Plague 12.4]]</ref> [[Crawler]],<ref>“Then there’s Crawler, who visited us the other night. Maybe not as fast or agile as Siberian, and he ''can'' be contained, but he can’t be taken off the board. A special rook.” - [[Plague 12.3]]</ref> and [[Shatterbird]].<ref name="13.6 eShatterbird">The first way this could play out was that Shatterbird’s flight over the buildings would make her faster than Crawler or Siberian, who had to climb or circumvent the obstacles.<br><br>When I’d brought this up during the meeting, assuming it would happen, it had been Tattletale who pointed out that I was maybe underestimating how fast Crawler and Siberian could be. She was right. Despite her ability to fly, Shatterbird was falling behind. - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref> On one occasion, she was in close proximity and on the same road as [[Tattletale]], [[Trickster]], [[Sundancer]], [[Grue]], [[Skitter]], [[Panacea]], [[Bentley]], and [[Sirius]].<ref name="14.2 eGroupConfront">My respect for Grue grew a hundredfold as he veered straight for Amy without my asking him to. We swept past her, and I caught her around the shoulder. Grue offered one hand, and we lifted her together, kicking and struggling, onto my lap. I wrapped one arm around her chest, to keep her securely in place. She was breathing hard, almost hyperventilating.<br>[...]<br>Siberian closed the gap in a single bound, crashing into Bentley, Lisa, Trickster and Sundancer and shoving them forward into the rest of us. We sprawled, and I felt my leg bend painfully as Sirius rolled over it.<br><br>Grue banished his darkness. I could see the six of us and the two dogs, lying on the road. Nobody dead.<br><br>And there was Siberian. Faintly glowing eyes, black and white striped skin, straight hair in similar variations of black and white, trailing to her tailbone. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> However, if she lunged for them after Tattletale revealed they knew about her [[Siberian's Master|secret]],<ref name="14.2 eSecretReveal">And, as it turned out, she wanted to talk. She pulled herself up to a standing position and raised one hand, palm facing Siberian. “Hold on.”<br><br>Siberian stopped.<br>[...]<br>“Reason number two, we’re aiming to kill you. See, we know about your… other self.”<br><br>There wasn’t the slightest reaction from Siberian.<br><br>“And the third reason, I think you should know, is sort of tied into the first. We’re making you waste time. Longer you take to kill Panacea, here, the better off we are. Awfully arrogant of you to leave your team and go off to pick off candidates like Amy. The rest of your team? Crawler, Jack, Mannequin and Bonesaw? Right this second, they’re getting a surprise visit from the rest of ''our'' team. What do you think-”<br><br>Siberian flickered and disappeared. Tattletale’s jaw dropped. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> despite the group not yet knowing its location,<ref>I shouldn’t have been looking for people. I should have been looking for ''vehicles''. Had I overlooked anything like a truck or a van interior he could be hiding inside? Or was he still in a location outside of my range? Or -I wasn’t ignoring the possibility- had Cherish lied or misled us?<br><br>''Damn it''! The extra possibility threw my hopes of finding the man totally out of whack. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> the Siberian would actually lose this fight as she would not be fast enough to kill them before they found and dealt with her secret.<ref>'''Artful Lounger:''' Also, I'd like to ask a question. Worm survives about eighty percent of the time by author caveat, there's no way that the Undersiders would have succeeded the way they did without it. But I'd like to point out a particular moment. So Tattletale is just telling the Siberian everything and everyone is just standing there, off of the dogs. Did anybody else think that this is the moment where they honestly should have died?<br><br>We saw Siberian cross half a city block with a step, and she doesn't even need to strike you, she just needs to run into you. Did anybody else think that, rather than letting all of these enemies who know her most important secret live, she should have just taken one step forward and pulped everyone instead of immediately cancelling the aparition?<br><br> I just wanted to point it out because while it isn't the biggest and most tense moment, this is a moment where the Undersiders came a razor's edge from dying horribly and only survived because the story needed them to.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' If Siberian was stupid and lunged for them, ''that'' would have been me throwing the characters a bone and handing the idiot ball to Siberian. It would have been a brief and frantic fight before Manton got killed for a tepid finish. Terribly boring. - Conversation with Wildbow on Sufficient Velocity, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/33897007 archived on Spacebattles]</ref> ===Manifestation=== Because of her [[The_Siberian#Origins|origin]], the Siberian can reform in close proximity to a [[Siberian's Master|certain individual]] when destroyed.<ref name="26.x e1" /><ref name="29.7 e1" /> Even when not destroyed, she can apparently do so at will:<ref name="14.2 eSecretReveal" /> this effectively gives her the ability to teleport to that individual.<ref>We had a bead on him, and the dogs were better suited for rough terrain than the moving vehicle. It was only a minute before we caught up. As I’d guessed, a white moving van with a giant icon of a hand on the back with the words ‘Haul It!’<br><br>I might have found it amusing if the circumstances were slightly different.<br><br>He noticed us shortly after we noticed him. Siberian flickered into existence on top of the vehicle, standing, her legs shifting to adjust her balance as it hit a crack in the pavement and rocked slightly to one side. I heard Amy shriek as she saw Siberian. - [[Prey 14.3]]</ref> ===Vulnerabilities=== Although the Siberian is immune to virtually any [[parahuman]] power used directly against her, she is not necessarily immune to external influences.<ref name="13.x eVista" /> To pin and slow down her movements,<ref>“Legend’s fighting Siberian ''here''. It feels wrong. He’s working to pin her down, slow her movements as much as he can. I know he’s probably buying time, trying to wear her other self out, but why not a place with flatter terrain? Why not a place where there’ll be less cover for her and less collateral damage? - [[Prey 14.7]]</ref> [[Legend]] blasted the unprotected area around her so that she could only go straight down.<ref name="14.7 eDown">Rather, his shots seemed to be strategically placed. He ripped apart the side of a building a moment before Siberian landed there, then tore through the five or six floors beneath her so she had nowhere to go except straight down. The instant she stepped free of the building’s ground floor, he tore into the ground with a series of laser blasts that expanded outward, thinning as they went. It created a bowl-shaped indent, with rubble covering the storm drains that had been exposed by the lasers.<br><br>Carrying the truck, Siberian headed for the storm drains anyways, tearing through the piles of debris. Legend unloaded on the entire street, collapsing them around her. - [[Prey 14.7]]</ref> While being held hostage, [[Tecton]] created a fissure by striking the ground; the Siberian was not immune to gravity at the time and so fell into it.<ref>He sprayed containment foam at both Jack and Siberian.<br><br>Nothing. It wouldn’t achieve a thing.<br><br>But Tecton took the moment of Jack’s blindness to duck, to strike the ground.<br><br>The Siberian wasn’t immune to gravity. She fell, and just for a moment, she broke contact with Jack.<br>[...]<br>The Siberian leaped out of the fissure, then paced towards Jack. - [[Interlude 26b]]</ref> [[Piggot]] believed [[Vista]] could manipulate the space around the Siberian to help control her movements.<ref name="13.x eVista">“Vista, I’m counting on you to help control the movements of the Nine. Siberian is immune to powers, but not to external influences. The timing will be sensitive.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/01 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 13]]</ref> If the Siberian contacts an [[All-or-Nothing]] effect, they will nullify each other, causing her to flicker out of existence:<ref>'''Belial666:''' Harm is harm. Since there doesn’t seem to be a limit to what powers can actually do, think of an effect that could trump other effects. For example, a sword that cuts ANYthing is something that has occasionally appears in fantasy. Not the “absurdly sharp edge” version but the “name the object of objection and it’s cut” version.<br>Swing it at someone and you could cut off a limb. Or, you could cut off their will to fight. Or their strength. Or their ability to interact with the world. Or anything else of them you could name at all.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' But if you’re talking in that respect, you might as well be asking what happens when the unstoppable force strikes the immovable object. You might be talking about exactly this if you’re referring to flechette’s arrows vs. Siberian. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/#comment-4085 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Prey 14.2]]</ref><ref name="26.5 eConflict" /> * Charged objects from [[Foil]] can pop the Siberian.<ref>Up until the moment Foil, still screaming, using her augmented sense of timing to measure the length of each scream, stepped around the monochrome field he’d cast just in front of her. She threw a handful of darts through the Siberian and Gray Boy’s head as his back was turned.<br><br>The Siberian flickered out of existence as Gray Boy collapsed.<br><br>Neither reappeared, healthy or otherwise. - [[Interlude 26b]]</ref><ref name="26.x e1">A female, standing just outside another time distortion, walked around the effect, charging objects with energy. The entity could see as the small pieces of alloyed metal unfolded, taking shape in not just this world, but ''all'' realities, at the same space and time, bristling with an effect that would sever their attachment to most physical laws.<br><br>They were thrown, and they disrupted connections to two shards at once. The projection disappeared, only to reappear a distance away. The boy who had created the time distortions fell as well.<br><br>''Sting'', the entity thought. Once it had been a weapon for his kind, against his kind, back in the beginning, when they had dwelt in oceans of gray sludge. - [[Interlude 26]]</ref> * Similarly, a blast from [[Damsel of Distress]] would also pop her.<ref>'''Wildbow:''' :i really doubt ashley can pop sibby Ashley could pop Siberian<br>It's why she came up as a possible thing in relation to Sleeper<br>Ashley was named in a WoG a while back talking about the 'anything but' powers and stuff like Alexandria Invulnerability. - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/62429974 archived on Spacebattles]</ref> * The Siberian popped after contacting [[Clockblocker]]'s frozen object; the object unfroze upon contact.<ref name="26.5 eConflict">Clockblocker fired his threads from his gauntlet. They surrounded the cube-carrier, and he froze them.<br><br>''Unstoppable force against an immovable object.''<br><br>Which won?<br><br>The Siberian made contact with the thread and flickered out of existence, and the thread went limp. The cube fell with a crash. - [[Sting 26.5]]</ref> A tuned Stilling attack, such as one from [[Scion]], can also pop her.<ref>'''Wildbow:''' :'''would a golden blast still erase her?''' Yep. - Comment by Wildbow [https://redd.it/sg11jg on Reddit]</ref><ref name="29.7 e1">The Siberian appeared beside us in the same instant. Manton spoke, “He finally took action and struck my Siberian.” - [[Venom 29.7]]</ref>
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