Talk:Coil/@comment-70.113.31.247-20140115051744

Coil's first demonstration of his power is to control the outcome of coin flips. He causes a series of coin flips to come out the way he wants.  However, this is not something his power is directly capable of, based on later information on how it works.

His power lets him maintain two versions of reality and to at any time, fork one while dropping the other.  The two realities diverge after the fork based on Coil's actions.  If he forks reality and then flips a coin, the results of the coin should be random in each universe and equally distributed between HH, TH, HT, and TT.  In the TH and HT cases, he can pick a reality to compel the result he wants.  If the coin comes up the same in both universes, he's stuck with that result, but half the time when he's stuck with a result it's the result he wants, giving him an accuracy of 3/4ths if he uses his powers on a flip.  

However, he flips coins repeatedly while controlling the outcome, and with only 75% accuracy odds are strong that he'd screw up at least one toss.

His alternative is to instead fork reality before he calls a meeting with the Undersiders, and only call the meeting in one reality.  He then attempts the coin flips.  If any of the flips come out wrong, he abandons that reality and forks from the reality where he didn't call the Undersiders.  He can then keep doing this until he finally gets all the coin flips correct in a row by chance, then keep that reality.  

However, this would take a long time, during which he can't really use his power for anything.  It might be worth it in order to confuse people about how exactly his power works, and to make it seem stronger than it really is, except that Tattletale would likely see through the deception.

Or he has a secondary power of manipulating coin flips.