Powers and abilities section

[Peppypony]

Am I allowed to format the powers and abilities section differently to VSbattles format like like with my OC Sparkie here? Yes or no?

I prefer doing it this way. Blocks of text scare me. Sparkie has other things, but I want her electricity and air abilities to be the main focus. If people don't want to format their profiles this way,, fine. But personally, Tif ASM/NWH Electro was one of my OCs, I would do this-

Electricity
Electro has the power to control, fire and absorb electricity. He can turn into natural cloud-to-ground lightning, teleport and fly. Electro can sense electricity in his surroundings, even detect it's difference between one universe to another and an alternate Spider-Man attacking him from behind, allowing himself to effectively avoid being hit. He can go intangible, use his electricity to move, lift objects, hold two people at once which paralyzed them. Electro can also control technology and make electric shockwaves.

When you ask people outside the VSdebating community what powers Electro has, they'd just say "electricity". When people read any character of mine (like Sparkie)'s profile page, I wouldn't want them to think "OMG! Sparkie has like, a bajillion abilities!", I'd want them to think "she fights with a whip, has electricity and wind abilities".

 

[JohnConquest1]

You can have descriptions like this in the notable abilities section. I would recomend putting your more detailed explanations there and keep the powers and abilities section to the point as it were.

 

[Phoenks]

I would usually not mind unique formatting, but to be blunt, this is just... bad.

It didn't make the typical formatting of the P&N any more readable, organized, or well-represented—it did the opposite.

If you don't like blocks of text, you can opt for a bullet-point list instead. Though I honestly don't recommend that unless you have a lot of abilities. Sparkie doesn't seem to have many.

Now, I'm not gonna stop you or anything since this isn't really against the rules... but, yeah definitely don't really think this kind of formatting is a good idea at all.

 

[Peppypony]

Yeah after making some edits and stuff, I agree with you now. But I don't like the idea of looking at my character's powers/abilities and thinking they've got a bunch of other stuff besides controlling air, electricity and fighting with a whip. I mean she does, but like I explained with Electro. Samurai Jack has like 19 powers and abilities, but people outside the VSdebating community don't see him as a guy with 19 powers and abilities, they' just see him as a super skilled fighter with a sword and that's it.

 

[Peppypony]

So I changed it again and uhhhh... I'm pretty happy with what I've got now. I know not everyone will like it, but I don't care lol.