Localized Time Stop?

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

So I'm reading a webcomic (it's called gunnerkrigg court, ti's fantastic, you should all read it) and one of the newest characters has Time Stop, because of course, but his new time stop power is currently localized to a specific location. I've not yet encountered another series that explicitly localizes the time stop so I was wondering,

"Is it more impressive to Time Stop just a specific location, or to seemingly Time Stop your whole verse?"

I know this question might seem obvious, but I figure why not?

 

[DragonEmperor23]

I think being able to time stop a larger area would be more impressive.

 

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

So, normally I'd agree with you. Larger effected area = greater impressiveness. My question comes from the fact that in most fiction, we don't see outside the time stoped area, and it's usually assumed, at least by me I don't know about anybody else, that the whole verse is frozen. Now this may just be flawed logic, god knows I have enough of that, but assuming the above is the case, would not time stoping just a set location be an example of more skill? Maybe?

 

[DMB_1]

It's just time-stop in a smaller range. Unless proven otherwise, it's no worse than any other regular time-stop.

 

[DragonEmperor23]

Eh, I don't see why it would be skilled. I mean in most cases you would want to freeze a larger area with time stop because then it would be harder for people to notice that time had stopped for others.

 

[Akreious]

Depends on the context. A localized Timestop, by the very nature of how timestop works, should be no different from a universal one.

Also, "Skill" is highly contextual. If Timestop is a normally hard to control thing and this person is able to focus their timestop into a very small area, then yes. It'd be a feat of Skill.