Talk:Velvet Scarlatina/@comment-10390252-20160207214452

Coco was very clear in Breach that Velvet has some pretty significant limits. I'm guessing that it takes a long time for her to build up the energy to do something like she did in this episode and she has a long dry period afterwards. We know that techniques dependent on semblance tend to burn through aura strength at an accelerated rate. So, a technique like this probably burns her out entirely if used for an extended period.

Maybe, like the spells of AD&D mages, each replication is a one-shot and she needs to 'reload' the pattern with meditation afterwards. Alternately, maybe it just costs a hell of a lot of lien to buy enough dust to charge her hard light replications.

I'm thinking of her as a 'Death Blossom'. Basically a one-shot attack-spammer who can do an immense amount of damge to multiple or even powerful single targets but only once per event. She's actually below-average power for most other scenarios.