Hi there,
Sorry about the title "Do I have a serious problem on my hands" was my question.
I am not very knowledgeable about electrical and am trying to understand what has been going on in my home and am a bit concerned about my electrical being a potential fire hazard. Any insight is much appreciated.
There are over 10 receptacles/switches on each 15 amp circuit, which I think may be overloading the circuit. When a circuit overloads, the breaker doesn't trip, the entire circuit just stops receiving power; there are switches and outlets all on each circuit, so when one fails the power to all of them stops and a lot of diagnostic has to take place to find the problem outlet or switch. The other day, everything on a 15 amp circuit stopped receiving power (circuit has: kitchen pot lights x 3; kitchen accent lights x 3; basement stair lights x 2; bathroom light x 1 + 1 fan; 1 x living room outlet) only the kitchen pot and accent lights were being used at the time (and a charger with nothing plugged in was in the outlet) the breaker did not trip, (I did not think the outlet was in the circuit as it already had ten switches on a 15 amp circuit) when my daughter plugged the tablet into the charger that was already plugged into the outlet, all the lights came back on and the circuit began working again?
I had an outlet blow (smoke and burn marks on the outlet) when the vacuum was being run in the upstairs hall while two other sets of lights were on. This caused all the outlets and lights after that outlet to stop receiving power, but again the breaker did not trip. The outlet being replaced fixed the circuit, and I no longer use that outlet to vacuum.
I dont know if related, but I have to replace at least 2 switches per year, which I have gathered from talking to others, is not normal switch wear and tear (my house is 15 years old and maybe has 40 switches total).
I have experinced flickering and dimming of lights pretty regularly, especailly upstairs, and also my chime began loudly buzzing one day and the entire house started smelling very strongly like burning plastic, I turned it off at the breaker; had I not been home, I worry that my house probably would have burned down.
The smoke detectors were also never wired in for power, and neither was the thermostat. The detectors have the wiring to the area, but were never wired in, which is a pain as my upstairs ceiling is 15 feet/vaulted, and the detector is very hard to reach over the stair. The thermostat is also only a 3 wire and uses batteries; not improper, but is this because the circuits are already highly used?
The four-way switch in my upstairs hall was either improperly installed or has failed (3 switches for one light). When one switch is on, it disables the other 2 switches.
I am wondering if these are the kinds of problems that lead to fires? What can I do to remedy this?

I (14F) have been struggling since I was little child. I'm diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder and schizoaffective disorder. They tried to hospitalise me multiple times but I couldn't allow it since my parents would straight up kill me and if I'm going to die, at least i will die with perfect grades and attendance.
My parents got divorced when I was 7, which isn't really important, but it's important to say that my mom left my dad because of how manipulative his family was. And I was left alone for them to raise me. Their only job was to make me look like the worst person alive.
I loved singing, I wasn't allowed to sing because it sounded horrible. I loved drawing, I wasn't allowed fo draw because it looked horrible. I wanted to try different hairstyle, I wasn't allowed to because it would look horrible.
Growing up I was always the daughter that had ugly hair, ugly eyebrows, no eyelashes, no talent for music, dumb and everything else.
By the time I was 9 I vacuumed 3 times a week, cleaned around the house every morning and afternoon, tutored my brother who was in 1st grade, cooked for myself while my grandma cooked for everyone else etc.
This isn't really my biggest problem, I don't think that my childhood was traumatic in any way maybe just little bit different. But now I'm teen, left alone to suffer.
The best thing in my life happened when I was 10, I met my best friend.
We shared a friend and would talk a lot in the comments, after maybe 1 month we finally started texting. She was always the person I admired the most. I always wanted to be her best friend, text her 24/7 and I wanted to grow up with her. We "officially" became best friends in 2021, she was the cool kid I was the ugly kid nobody wanted. I was afraid to go out with her because I felt too ugly for her, too fat, too socially awkward.
I made a mistake in May 2021. I went out with my brother and accidentally told her where, she just grabbed her things and it looked like she teleported to the park to meet me. I was okay after that, I found a group of friends and went out with them maybe 7 times during may-september. I got my first girlfriend, found new hobbies and many other things.
After September 2021 it only went downhill.
At the end of last year I noticed that somethings off. I realised that my best friend didn't care about what I said, would ignore me and spent more time with her other friends instead. When I asked her our, she took her friend with us (without informing me), when she asked me out, she took her friend with us. Last year we were together, alone, maybe 3 times.
I started being sad, because why did they matter to her more than I did if I was her best friend? Best friend means that I must be best of her friends, then why I'm not?
We have birthdays close to each other, that's why she thought that it will be good idea to celebrate together. It started out really good! I almost really felt like I was her best friend. We were suppose to spend the day together, then she said she's going to bring a friend (the same friend that was mentioned up), but at least she told me. It was okay, I always liked him after all, If I had to throw birthday party on my own I definitely would have invited him. Then she said that she will be bringing another friend, who I never met, and we were going to restaurant and her place afterwards. I gave her gifts, she opened it with them, we ate, we went to her place, they played video games while I sat on the floor by wall, I went home. Boom, heart shattered.
She always pays attention to other people, but never me. She never bothered to check on me, how I am feeling, what I ate, how I am doing at school... But I did! I asked her so many times but she liked my message and didn't respond. Boom, heart shattered again.
When I started ignoring her because I was so sick of myself, I realised that she's the only thing I have left. My cat died last November, and I have only one other friend that i sometimes text to but I never wanted to bother her with this.
After December I attempted multiple times, nothing really extreme, just hoping that it would mix in my stomach and I wouldn't wake up. Then I realised how silly that was, I'm just little I deserve to be alive after all. I threw up and wanted to text someone to be proud of me that I'm still alive! That's definitely a thing to be proud of. But then, who I am supposed to text if I have nobody.
I told her about it few times, actually the last time was this Tuesday, she just sent a photo of her and her classmate reading it together. Boom, heart doesn't even function at this point.
My first experience with eating disorders was during 2020, it was quarantine and I got even fatter. I saw on internet that if I will vomit after eating, I don't have to worry about eating.
It never helped, I lost big amount of weight. I can see my ribcage, but why do I still look fat? (PS: my post was once removed from another community because I was seeking attention, I just want to say that I am not and I don't care about validation, I don't care if someone will tell me that I don't look bad because that's not what I want zo hear, this is just informative information)
I can't go out, I cry everytime I see myself in mirror. Who is supposed to know this?
I will die and I will just be another of the kids that just wanted love and acceptance but never got it. My story will never be heard out. Nobody will know how many times I starved, how I'm not able to drink water because my throat is too damaged, how I'm hiding the scars on my thighs.
Every part of me kept on breaking apart slowly, my heart is suffering everytime I breathe.
The most important part, the reason why I'm here today.
Om Thursday I told my best friend that I want to tell her something really important, but I cant rn because she's on trip so I will wait till Saturday (today).
This afternoon I told her to stay awake at least until 11pm because I had to shower and sht.
At 10pm I told her that she needs to focus on me, and just me.
She answered half an hour later about her hair not being done.
I told myself okay, I will wait till its done then.
Its going to be 1am soon.
Did she just...forgot?
Even though I told her that this is really important?
Literally only thing I asked for this year?
She's my only happiness.
I wanted to tell her what Im telling you now. I will never bring this up again.
It there was some piece of my heart that was still okay, unscattered, it broke tonight.
But still, if she was in building full of fire, together will every person I ever met, including my family, I would go in no matter how big the fire is. Even if there wasn't any building, just ashes left, I would still go in, just to save her. I would protect her from everything, even if I would die in the fire. Guess that's what I'm doing now

Respect Wolverine

"Maybe your mutation isn't about healing at all. It's about surviving."

History: Years of torture and tampering with his memories made much of Wolverine's past a mystery. Though it's known he was a Canadian paratrooper during WWII, the man known as James "Lucky Jim" Howlett became one of the most influential figures in history when government experiments turned him into the world's first mutant.
Eventually renamed Logan, by the time he escaped the Weapon X program he became better known as Wolverine. He was given enhanced senses, an accelerated healing factor, and razor sharp claws. His entire skeleton was coated in an indestructible metal known as adamantium, and his memories were rewired to optimize their battle efficiency. He was the perfect weapon...and then he escaped.
Though he served Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy, Wolverine turned on Magneto to serve the X-Men as one of its fiercest proponents. Inspired by Xavier's dream, Wolverine never quite uncovered the secrets of his past, nor did he find much happiness in his present. But when he gave his life to save the world he proved his redemption, and survived in the memories of the X-Men who cared for him and the son that never knew him.

Source Key: Ultimate Marvel Team-Up = UMT Ultimate X-Men = UXM# Ultimate Spider-Man = USM Ultimate Nightmare = UN Ultimate War = UW Ultimate X-Men & Fantastic Four = X4 Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk = WvH Ultimate Power = UP Ultimate Origins = UO Ultimates 3 = U3 Ultimatum = UTM Ultimatum: X-Men Requium = REQ Ultimate Comics Wolverine = UCW 

Scaling - Apocalypse - Captain America - Colossus - Cyclops - Deathstrike - Gambit - Hulk - Iron Man - Magneto - Mister Fantastic - Nightcrawler - Rogue - Sabretooth - Spider-Man - Storm - Thing - Xavier

Physiology

• The experiments that created Wolverine began as a project to create a super soldier like Captain America ^UO#1
• Wolverine regenerates from every injury he endures until he is nearly skeletonized and then reduced to ashes and every cell in his body is killed ^{UTM#5 & REQ}
• His bones are coated in adamantium, a material frequently referred to as unbreakable and indestructible and which is shown to be far stronger than steel ^UXM#2
• He was built to be radar-invisible, and uses that to ambush Iron Man ^UW#4
• He is heavy enough that Storm believes carrying him would rip her arms out of their sockets ^UXM#60
  • Storm manages to fly with him in tow not long after, but does make note of his considerable weight ^UXM#65

Strength

Striking

• Kicks in a locked door, shattering it and knocking a man on the other side across the room ^UXM#8
• Breaks out of an ice encasement created by Iceman ^UXM#17
• KOs a man with an elbow to the face ^UXM#29
• Shatters apart a wooden door ^UXM#48
• Dazes Gambit with a headbutt, then with a kick ^UXM#53
• Kicks in a door ^UXM#100
• KOs the Shocker with a punch ^USM#67
• Punches through a thick wall of ice and knocks the Thing over while so sick he collapses afterwards ^X4#2

Lifting

• Carries a survivor for 17 hours across the desert after surviving an explosion ^UXM#11
• Uses one arm to hold a man over his head ^UXM#59
• Pushes a wrecked car off himself ^USM#67
• Holds a person aloft with one arm ^X4#1

Throwing

• Grabs a person by the hair with one hand and throws them a distance away ^UXM#37
• Throws and kicks people across a barroom ^UXM#59
• Rips off a Sentinel's head and throws it into others, dominoing them against eachother ^UXM#86
• Throws Sabretooth a considerable distance away ^MTU#1

Misc.

• Makes an impressive leap ^UXM#24
• Closes a commercial plane's cabin door after it opens mid-flight ^WvH#6

Durability

Concussive
High material reference

• Fistfights Cyclops, then gets blasted through a thick concrete wall reinforced with rebar before bouncing right back ^UXM#22
• Hit by a missile that busts him through a wall and still manages to flip over the missile and escape before it detonates directly on him and remains in fine shape right after ^UXM#35-36
• Hit by one speeding car, smashed into another, and then a car lands on him and he pulls himself out of the wreckage without injury ^USM#66-67
• Partly cratered into a wall by Mister Fantastic and gets back up ^X4#1
• Takes a hit from the Hulk that tears him through trees and then another hit ^WvH#3
• Fights through several hits from the Hulk that smashes him through stone and trees before being ripped in half and climbing up a mountain ^WvH#3
• Busted through several walls and has his eye gouged out by She-Hulk and still fights back to gain the upperhand ^WvH#6

Low material reference

• Knocked out by Jean Grey hurling him against an outcropping ^UXM#2
• Blasted by Jean Grey into a mirror that shatters and is fine ^UXM#6
• A reality-warper tosses the convertible he is driving through a building hard enough that Xavier estimates it will take 9-10 minutes for Wolverine to recover ^UXM#19
• Unaffected by Gambit shattering his staff over Wolverine's head ^UXM#50
• A man shatters a chair over his head and he is unaffected ^UXM#59
• Fights through a blow from Sabretooth and Storm embedding his face into a car frame ^UXM#67
• Dazzler blasts him into stone that cracks around him and he gets right up ^UXM#91
• Fights through sonic screams that blast him away and warp metal ^UXM#97
• Busted through the wall of a shack by Magneto throwing a cauldron at him and tumbled off a mountain, and gets up back ^U3#3

Scaling w/reference

• Downed with a blast from Cyclops, who later describes the blast as him cutting loose ^UXM#32-33
• Recovers quickly from a blast from Cyclops ^UXM#73
• Bounces back from a punch from Colossus ^UXM#46
  • Colossus elsewhere shatters a large stone with a punch ^UXM#73
• Guardian blasts him from Westchester, NY to Maine and he comes back the same day without injury ^UXM#94
• Hit by the Juggernaut and gets back up ^U3#4
  • The same charge from Juggernaut tears through trees and craters a boulder

Minimal reference

• Gambit kicks his knee in and he pops it back into place to continue fighting ^UXM#53
• Tackled by Cannonball, and comes back a short while later having defeated him ^UXM#63
• Survives a fall from a plane into water and swims himself to shore ^UXM#65
• Takes a punch from Nightcrawler ^{UXM Annual 2}
• Nick Fury hits him over the head with a rifle stock and he keeps fighting ^UN#5
• Punched by the Thing down a hallway and into a wall and gets back up ^X4#1
• Falls from a plane mid-flight confident he'll survive and walks away fine ^WvH#6
• Takes a hit from a weakened Hyperion ^UP#8
• Tumbles off a cliff with a dinosaur after him, and returns to the clifftop extremely soon after ^U3#3

Gunfire
Long guns

• Before the adamantium-bonding process, several soldiers shoot to kill Wolverine, shooting him in the head, but they can see the wounds immediately begin to heal ^UO#1
• Downed by automatic gunfire from multiple Weapon X shooters ambushing him and wakes up with nothing worse than a hangover ^UXM#2
• Shot with an automatic rifle as Wraith muses on how he used to shoot, stab, beat, and burn Wolverine for amusement on a regular basis, all of which he recovered from ^UXM#2
• 20 seconds after someone pulls a gun on Wolverine he is seen riddled with bullets and having downed several of the men around him, eventually hospitalizing 50-60 ^UXM#28
• Riddled with bullets from a hit squad and manages to escape, making it from Brooklyn to Queens and fully recovering after two days^UXM#34
• Shot by a helicopter-mounted Gatling gun and gets back up, saying the bullets going clean through him would help him recover faster ^UXM#37
• A shotgun blast point blank to the face does little more than tear the skin off his face ^UXM#84
• Captain America downs him with an automatic rifle ^UW#4

Handguns

• Attacks men through gunfire, and his skull resists adamantium bullets fired at point blank range, later pulling them out of his skin so they immediately heal ^UXM#37
• A pistol shot to the head makes a metallic sound against his skull as he walks out of prison, and the wound seals up as soon as the bullet is pulled out of his skin ^USM#67
• Charges through Hawkeye firing pistols into his face and chest without issue ^U3#3

General

• Had a reputation in WWII for getting back up no matter how many times he was shot ^UW#2
• Only notices bullets embedded in his skin when he showers after a fight ^UXM#20
• Though riddled with bullets, Wolverine restores his major organs and becomes fighting fit a short while later ^UXM#21

Piercing

• Stabbed in the back with debris by Magneto, downing him ^UXM#6
• Cuts his own throat open and ambushes a team of assassins following him moments later, with the injury fooling the assassins because they were tracking Wolverine by his vital signs ^UXM#35
• When his own pinky is severed off it regenerates almost immediately ^USM#66
• Stabbed in the xiphoid, which hadn't fully ossified when adamantium was bonded to his skeleton, and his nervous system shuts down until the blade is withdrawn ^UXM#60
• Sabretooth slices a chunk out of his abdomen and it heals a few moments later ^UXM#68
• Takes a slash across the chest from Cable and keeps fighting through more wounds ^UXM#75-76
• Ends an extended fight while being impaled on 4 adamantium claws, saying afterward it will take him a few hours to heal ^UXM#89

Explosions

• Survives his Humvee getting blown up in well enough condition to kill 14 soldiers around him, then to carry a survivor's body 17 hours through the desert back to base ^UXM#11
• Gambit creates an explosion in Wolverine's mouth that blows off his face and Wolverine gets up shortly after unconcerned ^UXM#50-51
• Charges through gunfire and emerges from a helicopter exploding seemingly uninjured ^UXM#60
• A grenade explodes in his face and he is seen conscious and uninjured a moment later ^UN#5

Heat/Electricity

• Survives being frozen in a snowdrift and then being hit with "enough napalm to hold off the Viet Cong" ^UXM#10
• Phoenix lights Wolverine aflame to melt away thick metallic bindings around him, and he immediately leaps into action as his skin regenerates within moments ^UXM#74
• Energy from the Fenris twins hurts him, but he recovers quickly ^UXM#86
• Gets up from a bolt of lightning from Storm ^UXM#90
• Half his face is fried off and it only seems to piss him off ^UP#8
  • It regenerates within the same fight

Multiple Damage Types

• Tackles Sabretooth off a building, then exchanges several blows and slashes with him before ultimately prevailing and then regenerating from the damage he sustained in moments ^MTU#1
• Bound and shot by 3 automatic rifles ^UXM#11-12
  • Then back up a short while later taking slices from Sabretooth
  • Then freed and starts fighting back
  • And engages in a prolonged fight where a tree snaps apart when he's thrown against it
  • Sabretooth then attempts to drown him before Wolverine tackles him off a 300 ft. cliff
  • And ultimately walks back to his team by the end of their mission ^UXM#11-12
• Inhabited by a mutant who burns up his body's soft tissues, then hit with lightning, then ran over by a semi ^UXM#17
  • Starts regenerating quickly enough it's "like an autopsy in reverse," with his healing factor prioritizing his head ^UXM#17
• Takes a slash across the chest from Cable ^UXM#75-76
  • Keeps fighting through an energy weapon and getting electrified before consecutive bombs blasting holes in his chest downs him
  • Gets up again before the fight is complete
• Touches Rogue so she can absorb his energy, still charging into battle and dropping when a shotgun blasts away a piece of his abdomen ^UXM#77
  • Yet back up and fighting moments later with the wound healed ^UXM#78
  • Rogue used Wolverine's healing factor to survive losing her arm and later regenerate it
  • Elsewhere, Rogue briefly touching Sabretooth and Toad knocks them unconscious ^UXM#98
• Fights through hits from Apocalypse even after Apocalypse rips off his arm ^UXM#91
  • Tries to brush off the injury as Nightcrawler makes note of his blood loss
  • Taken to a hospital and still insists on fighting before he's healed up ^UXM#92
  • And participates in the ongoing battle against Apocalypse ^UXM#92
• Fights through punches from Colossus before Colossus rips off his leg ^UXM#97
  • It is later reattached ^UXM#97
• Ripped in half by the Hulk, and 3.5 minutes later begins to climb 4 miles up a mountain to retrieve his legs ^WvH#1
  • Then has a conversation while he continues to bleed ^WvH#3
  • It is clarified later that his spine popped out of his hip bone ^WvH#6
  • The question of his joints was raised earlier in the comic ^WvH#1
  • Immediately preceding all this he was battered around by the Hulk ^WvH#3
• After the above, he then survived a nuclear bomb being dropped on him, waking up as a severed head that breathes through its skin, and continued to survive in stasis without oxygen even when put in a depressurized vacuum ^WvH#5
  • Wolverine was considerably close to ground zero
  • He is completely fine once he is put back together
• When She-Hulk busts him through several walls and gouges his eye out the eye takes a day to heal, as Wolverine says it is "complex machinery" ^WvH#6
  • He clarifies there's about an hour left in its healing process ^WvH#6
• While attacking Magneto, has Cyclops and Iron Man nearly skeletonize him, then still manages to stab Magneto again, and is finally annihilated only when Magneto tears the adamantium from his bones and reduces him to ash ^UTM#5
  • The process killed every cell in Wolverine's body ^REQ

Toxins/Poisons

• Remains in close quarters for an extended duration with a mutant he is confident cannot hurt him
  • Earlier, the mutant's power vaporized everyone in his radius
  • The mutant's powers were said to utilize a series of toxins and acid-like poisons ^UXM#41
• Tattoos only last a few hours before Wolverine's healing factor erases them ^UXM#48
• A bartender says they have seen men twice Wolverine's size die from drinking as much alcohol as Wolverine has ^UXM#84
• Hit with a supervirus that makes him sick ^X4#1
  • Goes on a mission despite shaking so hard he can barely walk
  • Gets in a brief fight before passing out entirely ^X4#2
  • The virus was a retrovirus that mutates every 7 seconds to outpace Wolverine's healing factor, though Mister Fantastic injects him with antibodies that cure him within a week

Misc.

• Sought out a mythic witch in a foreign land hoping to discover some means of killing himself ^U3#3
• A mutant who deteriorates the bodies he inhabits says Wolverine's body regrows soft tissue as fast as the mutant burns it up ^UXM#17

Speed

Against Superhumans

• Charges Sabretooth to stab him in the chest and hits away each of his bodyguards before fleeing ^UMT#1
• Races past Colossus and Beast, who fail to detain him ^UXM#2
• Ambushes an injured Quicksilver from around a corner, then takes a swipe out of him ^UXM#3
• Cable, an older version of Wolverine, notes that the younger is faster ^UXM#76
• Tackles Bishop out of the way of a beam from the Fenris twins ^UXM#87
• Evades Thing in close-quarters before knocking him down and pinning him, even while sick ^X4#2
• Ambushes Quicksilver and stabs him in the chest ^U3#3

Against humans

• Swipes apart a gun pointed at him without the gunman firing ^UXM#8
• Murders his way across a room and removes the hand of a suicide bomber before they could activate their detonator ^UXM#20
• 20 seconds after someone pulls a gun on Wolverine he has already downed several of his attackers ^UXM#28
• Retracts his claws and grabs an agent holding a gun before they can aim and fire at him ^UXM#37
• Intervenes to slash off a man's outstretched gunhand before he fires on a woman ^UCW#1

Against objects

• Reacts to a missile fired at him, stabbing it after it hits him and flipping over it before it fully detonates ^UXM#35

Claws

Guns

• Slices apart a gun ^UXM#8
• Kills two men and slices apart the barrel of a rifle ^UXM#11
• Slices rifles and bodies to pieces ^UXM#20
• Slices apart a hunting rifle, and stabs into the floor to hold himself against Storm's wind ^UXM#59

Robots

• Slices through a Danger Room robot ^UXM#21
• Cuts into the hull of a Sentinel robot as he falls, slashing down its chest with Wolverine's weight ^UXM#44
• Decapitates a large Sentinel ^UXM#85
• Slices through more Sentinels ^UXM#86
• Rips through even more Sentinels ^UXM#86
• Beheads a Sentinel ^UXM#87
• Stabs through the face of an android version of Hulk ^U3#5

Vehicles

• Wraith has seen Wolverine's claws tear through the side of a tank, though they cannot cut through adamantium bars used to imprison him ^UXM#2
• Quickly cuts a hole into a helicopter large enough to accommodate his body ^UXM#60
• Embeds into a plane flying at cruising altitude, allowing him to climb outside the cabin ^WvH#6
• Slices a large hole in the hull of a Helicarrier ^{X4 Annual 2}

Special materials

• Slashes apart Iron Man's armor ^UW#4
• Clashes evenly with Deathstrike's adamantium claws before he lands a blow on her abdomen ^UXM#60
• Cuts a metal specially-designed collar off Bruce Banner's neck ^WvH#6
  • The collar was designed to be unbreakable and withstand 81 billion tons of pressure, roughly the weight of moon ^WvH#5
• Executes an alternate timeline version of himself that had been horribly experimented upon ^{X4 Annual #2}

Scaling

• Beheads Sabretooth ^UXM#30
  • Sabretooth later survives, revealing a few threads kept his head attached ^UXM#67
• Slits Sabretooth's throat and then executes a monstrosity derived from his own powers ^UXM#89
• Slices and stabs Apocalypse ^UXM#91
  • Scaling for Apocalypse's piercing durability
• Cuts out Colossus' heart ^UXM#96
  • Scaling for Colossus' piercing durability ^UXM#1
• Stabs into Hulk's chest ^UP#9
  • Scaling for Hulk's piercing durability
• Slashes Hyperion to no avail ^UP#8
• Slashes a metallic Russian super soldier abomination to no avail ^UN#3
• Punctures She-Hulk's abdomen, with each claw aimed at a different organ ^WvH#6

Misc. materials

• Eviscerates a small army of zombie soldiers despite their skin being built from superhard alloys ^UXM#24
• Efficiently kills a grizzly bear ^UXM#33
• Slices through a face mask and costume of goons ^UXM#72
• Stabs through a manhole cover ^WvH#5
• Stabs through body armor ^UCW#2
• Impales a gameboy ^UN#2
• Digs into the side of a mountain so he can climb it ^WvH#1
• Spider-Man pops them out accidentally and the cut apart a phone receiver and slices off Wolverine's own finger ^USM#66
• Slices off the Juggernaut's helmet ^U3#5

Misc. abilities/information

• Scrapes his claws together to spark flammable materials ^UXM#97
• Uses his claws to light a torch ^UN#3
• When Spider-Man inhabits Wolverine's body he has difficulty controlling the claws ^USM#67
• Spider-Man pops them out accidentally into his own arm ^USM#66
• Stabs through a jail cell's lock in order to release himself ^USM#67

Senses

Tracking

• Tracks down a man by his cologne as that man flees from him in a full-speed vehicle ^UXM#2
• Tracks several marines, determining that they all died and were killed without firing a shot, detects an approaching dinosaur before Cyclops, and only missed Shadowcat stowing away on their plane because she remained intangible the entire flight ^UXM#23
  • He then continues to track the marines through a complex ^UXM#24
• Tracked Spider-Man to his house without Spider-Man realizing it ^UXM#34
• Tracks Gambit despite the scent fading over an hour and Wolverine suffering from a blown up face at the time, then regains the trail when Storm puts the wind in his favor, picking up on Gambit's day-old crawfish smell ^UXM#51-52
• Despite his powers being messed with, still manages to track down a teenager in an isolated cabin in the midst of a blizzard ^UXM#100
• Smells his own legs from 4 miles away up a mountain ^WvH#1
• Tracks the Hulk across the world using one sniff of the serum Hulk used, tracing him through a village in the Himilayas before finding him in a mountain fortress ^WvH#1
• Sniffs out Hank Pym amidst a massive Helicarrier ^{X4 Annual #2}
• Tracks down his own scent ^{X4 Annual #2}

Detecting

• Detects a black ops team about to snipe him down ^UXM#2
• Scent forewarns him of an attack from behind from zombie soldiers ^UXM#24
• Detects a hit squad tracking him from outside before Spider-Man's spider sense does so ^UXM#34-35
• Detects a missile launched at him before Spider-Man does ^UXM#35
• Smells Nick Fury elsewhere in the mansion while Wolverine himself is in the Danger Room ^UXM#44
• Sits in a window brooding, and smells Sabretooth watching him from the treeline outside ^UXM#74
• Despite ventilation systems working against him, Wolverine smells 2 women hiding behind a wall, their soap, and the Altoid one is chewing ^WvH#1
• Smells a man hiding in a toilet ^WvH#5
• Detects a new presence his surroundings ^UCW#2

Identifying

• Smells that a man is still alive by his blood ^UXM#11
• Smells the old books on Daredevil from across an alleyway ^UXM#36
• Describes how his super senses pick up on subtle indications of what people really think of him ^UXM#38
• Smells the blood on an apparently clean man who murdered someone the night before ^UXM#59
• Confirms Beast is who he says he is, and says that it would be difficult to fool his sense of smell ^UXM#88
• Confident he could identify his children based on the similarity of their scent to his own ^UXM#89
• Can smell Dazzler on Nightcrawler ^{UXM Annual 2}
• Identifies Captain America in disguise as the Black Panther ^U3#3
• Identifies another person previously present at a scene ^UCW#1
• Identifies a robot as pure metal, oil, and hate ^{X4 Annual #1}

Statements

• After failing to detect any scent or trace of Mister Sinister, determines Sinister must have a superhuman ability to evade detection ^UXM#47
• Claims he could smell someone coming from a mile away if they wore half as much aftershave as Cyclops ^UXM#62
• Baffled that a mutant could deceive his senses ^UXM#73

Misc.

• Can see in the dark fine when others around him feel they need flashlights ^UN#3
• Spots a person drop from a jet breaking the sound barrier and implies his eyes are better than the Hulk's ^WvH#3
• Can ordinarily use his senses to determine if someone is lying ^X4#1
• Says he isn't allowed at poker nights because he can smell deception ^WvH#3
• Again implies he could sense deception if the Hulk had been using a code phrase ^WvH#6

Skills

Combat

• Murders all of the X-Men during an advanced VR simulation ^UXM#3
• Sneaks up on Magneto in the midst of a fight to stab him in the back ^UXM#6
• Hospitalized 50-60 men in a fight while avoiding killing any of them ^UXM#28
• Severs a bartenders fingers off with a swipe while managing to keep any of the bartender's blood from falling on the floor ^UXM#84
• Rides a motorcycle across rooftops while evading 4 SHIELD helicopters, then quickly takes out all 4 units after making a jump onto one of the aircrafts ^UW#4
• Amidst a fight, stabs She-Hulk so precisely that he puts one claw in her kidney, one in her spleen, and keeps a third claw sheathed as he informs her that he could pop it into her liver to kill her ^WvH#6

Statements

• Magneto considers him a qualified assassin, and he kills a dinosaur ^UXM#1
• Magneto considers him the shadow-world's most highly-trained assassin ^UXM#2
• Colossus refers to him as the most dangerous mutant in the world, and describes his Weapon X training as battle plans and murder techniques that replace his memories ^UXM#10
• Said to have a three figure personal body count ^UN#4
• Captain America considered him a special forces hotshot back in WWII ^UW#2
• Served in the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during WWII, and Captain America says Weapon X added "fancy fight maneuvers" when they wiped his memories ^UW#4

Noncombat

• Somehow bypasses the metal detector at airport security ^UXM#2
• Communicates a last minute plan to Jean while driving a beaten car through hazards, then jumping it off a cliff to land in the Blackbird ^UXM#3
• Sneaks through a window into an active crime scene where officers are present without being detected ^UXM#47
• Sneaks past the metal detectors in the airport by slipping a grenade into another traveler's luggage ^WvH#6
• Shadowcat considered Wolverine stealthier than herself, despite her own ability to mute her footsteps ^REQ

Telepathic Resistance
Statements

• Magneto selects Wolverine for a mission to assassinate Xavier because of Wolverine's immunity to the powerful telepath ^UXM#1
• Wolverine is considered by Xavier and Jean to be the only membered of the X-Men who can resist SHIELD's telepaths ^UW#3
• Nightcrawler's Weapon X interrogation defenses are compared unfavorably to Wolverine's ^UXM#28
• Nick Fury notes Wolverine is the only person whose mind Xavier cannot read ^WvH#1

Showings

• Xavier cannot identify Wolverine through Cerebro by reading his mind ^UXM#2
• Said to be the only member of the Brotherhood who could shield his thoughts from Xavier, and does so as he stands next to Xavier ^UXM#3
• Blocks Jean Grey from reading the thoughts he doesn't want her to read ^UXM#4
• Xavier needs Wolverine to let down his psychic defenses so he can be sure Wolverine's mind is not inhabited by another mutant ^UXM#17
• Xavier considers seeing into Wolverine's mind impossible for anybody, though Jean sees flashes of his memories with the aid of the Phoenix Force ^UW#3
• Jean Grey taps into the power of the Phoenix Force to look past his psychic defenses, but does not seem fully successful ^UXM#28
• Even when Wolverine cooperates with him, it takes Xavier 12 hours to access Wolverine's memories and it still gives Xavier a headache ^UXM#38
• His healing factors aids in overpowering mind control ^UXM#100

Respect Superman, The Man of Steel

Origin
Born Kal-El of Krypton, his parents Jor-El and Lara sent him to Earth to save him from his doomed planet. Found by Johnathan and Martha Kent, Clark Kent was raised to help others and use his powers for good. Starting out as an opportunistic hero, the trials he went through gradually turned him into Superman, the world's greatest hero.
Name(s): Kal-El, Clark Kent, The Blur, Superman
Family: Jor-El (Biological Father), Lara (Biological Mother), Johnathan Kent (Adoptive Father), Martha Kent (Adoptive Mother), Kara Zor-El/Kara Kent (Paternal Cousin), Kon-El/Conner Kent (Clone), Zor-El (Paternal Uncle), Lois Lane (Wife)
Appearance: Red-Blue Blur The Blur, version two Superman suit, version two
Feat index

• Feats will have a S followed by a number than a E followed by a number in the gif name. So S5E11 means the feat came from season 5 episode 11.
  
• Comic feats will come from what series or issue they came from which can be found here
  
• Bolded feats are the best feats are in a category (in my opinion)
  

Super Strength

Physical/Lifting
Superhuman

• Smashes Greg into concrete and throws Greg across a factory ^S1E2
• Overpowers Tina, throws her hard enough to break a tombstone, then throws her into a tree ^S1E4
• At age five he could easily lift 500 pounds ^S2E1
• Moves a pool table at super speed ^S2E4
• Throws a man through a warehouse roof and into a RV ^S4E5
• After Jed pulls Clark underground, he tunnels through the Earth and beats up Jed ^S6E9
• Tosses Brainiac through a barn and a well ^S7E15
• Overpowers Kara and later on catches her punch ^S7E2/E4
• Shatters a block of ice after being frozen ^S11V2

One to Five Tons

• Clark is capable of easily moving or lifting cars: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Casually lifts a generator. Later on he easily tosses it ^S1E9
• Spins a Ferris wheel ^S3E7
• Overpowers a car crusher ^S3E10
• Smashes through a wall and catches a falling elevator ^S5E19
• Overpowers Conner ^S10E16

Five to Ten Tons

• According to Martha Clark can bench press a tractor - flashback ^S1E12
• Eric Summers (who has stolen Clark's powers) flips a truck casually ^S1E12
• Flips a mobile home ^S2E1
• Overpowers Byron, who was strong enough to down a helicopter ^S2E5
• Throws a rock high into the air, lifts a large tree, and then smashes into the ground hard enough to crater it
• Lionel in Clark's body lifts a tractor ^S4E6
• Superior to Maxima who tossed a car a couple hundred feet into the air ^S8E4
• Stops a plane from crashing into the Daily Planet ^S9E21
• Lifts a helicopter ^S10E4

Ten to One-hundred Tons

• Overpowers a truck pulling down a large metal tower then fixes said tower ^S2E18
• Tosses a tractor miles away. He failed at first because of a solar flare ^S3E5
• Overpowers a helicopter and rapidly tugs it towards him ^S5E6
• Stops a runaway train ^S9E1
• Moves a loaded Semi-Truck ^S9E3
• Lifts the Daily Planet globe ^S10E1
• Stops a mag-lev train ^S11V6

Over One-Hundred tons

• Saves an airplane ^S10E22
• Lifts a large cargo ship ^S11V2
• Stops a falling space craft ^S11V4
• Tosses a golem made from the Washington Monument ^S11V5
• Throws a Green Lantern ring past the moon ^S11V7
• [Pushes Apokolips away from Earth](8j99zq) ^S10E22
  • The feat was noted as being accomplished with ease in Guardian. However it was later noted by Lois and Superman himself that he was high on adrenaline when he preformed the feat ^{V1 & V8}
  • While at first Apokolips was shown to be similar to Saturn in size, every single follow up appearance has shown it to be closer to Mars in size. So while still impressive, it seems the original size was lowered.

Striking

• Kicks Walt through a window and slaps him over ten feet into a wall ^S1E3
• Casually tosses a gate then punches a stone slab in half ^S1E4
• Kicks a metal door off of its hinges ^S1E7
• Palm strikes Sean hundreds of feet into the air ^S1E5
• Elbows Jeff multiple feet into metal pipes that bend on the impact ^S1E10
• No sells a baseball bat swing and punches Kyle ten+ feet into a door ^S1E11
• Karate chops logs in half ^S1E13
• Punches through the ground and into a coffin ^S1E20
• Shatters a wooden wall ^S2E3
• Easily defeats multiple people in a bar fight ^S2E4
• Shakes a train car ^S2E19
• Hits Jeremiah with a tree hard enough to break the tree ^S3E20
• Hits Greg through a brick and concrete wall ^~S2E20
• Clashes with Brainiac which shakes the Fortress of Solitude and overpowers him. For reference the Fortress is extremely large ^S5E8
• Knocks out Lois with a finger tap ^S5E16
• Rams Titan into a concrete pillar which destroys part of an area and it. Later on he overpowers Titan and smacks him into the ground which shakes the arena and punches Titan into the air with enough force to shake the arena again when he lands ^S6E17
• Punches Bizarro hard enough to shake a dam and later on they clash hard enough to shake the dam and break a part of it ^S6E22
• Punches Bizarro through a tree and into a electric tower ^S7E1
• Punches Bizarro through a dam and into the atmosphere ^S7E1
• Him and (an enhanced) Lana having sex causes earthquakes ^S7E7
• Punches Zod pretty far ^S9E21
• Destroys a window with a thunderclap and later on blow an entire group of apes away with one ^S11V1/V3
• Throws Cyborg Superman through a wall and punches him through multiple buildings ^S11V1
• Slams Batman into a concrete wall then body slams him through three thick concrete floors ^S11V2
• Destroys a truck ^S11V3
• Black Racer and Superman impacting each other creates a massive light explosion and cause earthquakes when hitting each other ^S11V3
• Throws Hades from outer space into the Earth ^S11V5
• Shatter a bunch of windows from the shockwaves of his headbutt ^S11V6
• Makes a big shockwave when he goes all out against the Omega Monitor ^S11V9

Tearing/Grip Strength

• Crushes a lock ^S2E13
• Rips off the roof of a car ^S1E1
• Casually bends a metal pipe ^S1E7
• Rips off a metal cover ^S1E9
• Casually bends multiple steel bars ^S1E9
• Rips off a hydraulic line and rips apart metal to save Ryan ^S1E16
• Bends a metal pipe around a man at super speed ^S2E20
• Stops a falling elevator by grabbing onto a pipe ^S3E14
• Overcomes the pull of the Phantom Zone ^S5E1
• Crushes coal into diamond ^S5E12
• Bends a metal vault door ^S7E6
• Bends part of a bus roof ^S8E2
• Crushes a rocket after out-flying it ^S11V1

Super Speed

Vaguely Fast/FTE

• Outruns a bus to school ^S1E1
• Saves Johnathan from falling onto a bunch of blades ^S1E2
• Runs and grabs a empty bowl before a teenager hurls ^S1E8
• Cleans up after a house party ^S1E8
• After throwing a safe onto a car he runs from the fifth floor of a building to in front of Sam ^S1E9
• Saves Lex and takes down a gunman without either noticing Clark's movements ^S1E14
• Catches up to a speeding truck
• Catches Kenny and Johnathan before they hit the ground
• Temporarily outruns an explosion to save Pete ^S2E13
• Steals a vial at FTE speeds ^S3E15
• [Moves so fast an entire stadium full of people cannot register his movements and saves Chloe](iszk92) ^S4E7
• Creates a vortex to get rid of a fire at FTE speeds ^S4E9/S10E1
• Outruns a energy beam ^S4E19
• Saves a child from a meteor ^S4E22
• Runs down a building to save Santa ^S5E9
• Saves Graham from being hit by a truck ^S5E20
• When view from a real time PoV he's completely FTE ^S6E16/S7E16
• Contemplates saving Lex as a canister flies at his face, then actually saves him ^S6E18
• Saves an actor from a car while both were falling ^S7E5
• At age 8 he runs to the local library and back before Chloe turns around ^S8E9
• Saves Cat from an exploding car ^S10E2
• Moves Cat across Metropolis before she can take a picture ^S10E5
• Saves Green Arrow from a rocket ^S11V1
• Grabs a casual Impulse ^S11V3

Supersonic

• Clark can easily catch and react to bullets: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Clark can dodge bullets: 1, 2, 3
• Clark can outrun bullets: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Saves Impulse from an electric trap that would trigger if he stopped running for even a millisecond ^S6E11
• Moves a armored van out of a building without a camera registering the event ^S10E15

Hypersonic

• Runs 425 miles pretty quickly ^S2E8
• Moves so fast rain slows down to a crawl ^S2E21
• Runs from Smallville to Metropolis and catches a bullet before it hits Lex ^S3E3
• Throws a bomb into a well after its detonator is activated but before it explodes ^S3E15
• Runs across Smallville to save Lana from a bullet after it had been fired ^S3E16
• Runs from Kansas to the Amazon Rainforest before a storm can end
• Runs from Smallville to Metropolis in around five seconds ^S5E5
• Outruns the explosion of a bunch of C4 ^S5E11
• Slaps a bullet after running across a room, outruns a electric bolt of energy, all while moving FTE to two humans ^S6E15
• Comparable to Bizarro who flew up a building and tossed a piece of C4 in under a second ^S7E9
• Saves Lois from an exploding rocket ^S10E7
• Catches dozens of bullets ^S11V2
• Saves men from an exploding tank ^S11V5

High Ends

• Comparable to Brainiac who Lionel claimed can move at near-light speeds ^S5E8
• Runs from Kansas to Honduras in under ten seconds ^S5E17
• Runs from Smallville to Vermont and back in under three seconds ^S7E4
• Moves so fast electricity looks frozen from his view ^S7E20
• [Runs from Metropolis to Campo Grande in a couple minutes](eoyvzh) ^S8E3
• Outruns the light of a camera flash ^S8E7
• Runs from Smallville to the North Pole and does it again later on ^S8E20/S10E17
• Runs from London to Metropolis in seconds ^S10E14

Leaping

• Jumps 10+ feet to slam dunk a basketball ^S2E3
• Leaps to the LuthorCorp building from the Daily Planet which was over 200 feet away ^S2E12
• Jumps on a truck ^S4E16
• Jumps on a flying ICBM ^S5E3
• Jumps to the top of the Fortress of Solitude ^S5E12
• Jumps across a couple of streets with Lois ^S6E13
• Leaps tall buildings in a single bound: 1, 2, 3
• Jumps out of a city with Doomsday and smashes it into a geothermal plant ^S8E22

Flight

• Flies from Smallville to Egypt ^S4E1
• Saves Lana ^S7E5
• Clark sees his future self contain a nuclear detonation by flying around it ^S10E4
• Flies from orbit to ground multiple times in seconds ^S11V1
• Flies from Metropolis to Mexico without Lex noticing ^S11V3
• Flies across the United States twice in seconds ^S11V5
• Flies to a Green Lantern ring which moves pretty fast ^S11V7
• Flies to Parallax who was located in another space sector, which are typically multiple solar systems or galaxies apart. ^S11V7

[Scaling] When he gains the ability to fly he's shown to be comparable to the following

• Martian Manhunter who flew from Earth to the Sun in seconds ^S8E1
• Supergirl who can rapidly fly into outer space and flew from [Kandor back to Earth](5mujsw) within two years (Krypton is 23 Galaxies away from Earth) ^{S7E15/S10E3/S8E8}
• Bizarro who flew from Mars to Earth in a short amount of time ^S7E10

Swimming

• Swims fast to save Troy ^S2E6
• Gets ahead of Aquaman ^S5E4

Invulnerability

Blunt Force

• Completely fine after being hit by a car through a road railing ^S1E1
  • The car was moving at 60 miles per hour
• Fine after being rammed through concrete by a truck ^S1E1
• Greg hits him across a factory ^S1E2
  • Greg is strong enough to flip cars
• Gets hit with a metal rod hard enough to be sent through a tombstone ^S1E4
  • Tina is strong enough to casually push Clark through solid wood
• No sells a bus smashing into him ^S1E9
• Byron slaps him dozens of feet into a shed, destroying it ^S2E5
• Falls hundreds of feet onto the ground and is fine ^S2E9
• A boulder shatters when it hits him ^S2E10
• Gets pounded on by Eric while possibly weakened by Kryptonite and later tanks him smashing a concrete slab on his head ^S2E20
  • Eric and his buddies are strong enough to flip vans and Clark noted they could actually hurt them
• Withstands Holly's acid touch which can eat through steel and takes a building collapsing on top of him
• Knives shatter when they hit him, overpowers four men, jumps out of an airplane and lands on the ground with no damage
• Falls over sixty stories into a generator, slams the ground hard enough to shake a underground complex, then gets rammed through concrete column ^S3E2
• No sells a car smashing into him at 80 MPH ^S3E8
• No sells a giant slab of concrete smashing into him ^S4E17
• Tanks a tractor being smashed into him ^S5E21
• Zod tackles him miles away, rams him into the ground, throws Superman into a tree, smashes him into a boulder, pounds on him for a bit, then throws him through a forest ^S6E1
• Aldar tosses Clark into a crane but it doesn't harm him ^S6E8
• Titan hits him multiple times with enough force to shake an arena and break a concrete pillar ^S6E17
• Gets punched through two pillars ^S6E21
• Bizarro rams into him hard enough to shake a dam, punches him into a generator, and off-screen delivers a hit that effects the surrounding area ^S6E22
• Gets smashed through a thick concrete pillar by an amped Bizarro ^S7E1
• Sent flying through a forest by Kara ^S7E2
• Sent through a concrete wall by Faora and falls on a van ^S8E8
• Punched through a building by Doomsday ^S8E22
• Punched through multiple skyscrapers and punched into the ground by Cyborg Superman ^S11V1
• After being weakened by red sunlight he gets punch across concrete by Batman and gets hit with a large explosion ^S11V2
• Withstands multiple attacks from Doomsday 2.0. This fight damaged New Krypton which is a planet sized ship ^S11V4

Piercing/Cutting

• A wood chipper can't break his skin ^S1E1
• A grain harvester's blade bends when he falls on them ^S1E2
• A knife shatters when it hits him. Also a strength feat ^S1E6
• While weakened by kryptonite a spiked mace shatters when it hits him ^S1E10
• Superman is shown to be bulletproof on multiple occasions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• A chainsaw shatters when it hits him ^S1E19
• An ax shatters when it hits him ^S2E7
• Blocks multiple sword swings from Trent who previously chopped through a tombstone ^S4E2
• Scissors break trying to cut his hair ^S4E8

Explosions

• A close range car explosion doesn't do much to him ^S1E2
• A explosion that destroys a shed doesn't harm Clark ^S1E18
• No sells a truck explosion while inside the truck ^S1E21
• Unharmed from an explosion
• Tanks a point blank dynamite and blasting cap explosion
• Tanks a point blank explosion that turns people to ash and damages a building
• Survives a point blank explosion from his ship ^S2E23
• A explosion that destroys a semi-truck doesn't phase him ^S3E2
• Shields a man from an explosion that destroys a barn
• Survives Evan's death explosion. Previously one of his explosions made a 30 foot crater ^S4E20
• Survives the shockwave of a nuclear weapon and orbital reentry ^S5E3
• Plastique's explosion wave bounces off of him. Previously her explosion destroyed a bus and shook a city block ^S8E2
• No sells a point blank dynamite explosion ^S9E4
• Survives explosion that destroys a military base while weakened by Kryptonite ^S10E9
• Shields Lex from a city collapsing explosion ^S11V6
• Survives a monitor ship exploding. As a note Monitor tech can harm Superman ^S11V6

Energy

• Resist Jeremy's electric pulse. Also a speed feat ^S1E1
  • His electric shocks are capable of throwing people multiple feet away and cracking glass
• Withstands a lightning bolt ^S1E12
• Immune to Walt's fire powers ^S1E3
  • Walt's fire is hot enough to burn water
• Survives Walden's energy blasts ^S2E22
• Nam-Ek and Aethyr's heat vision doesn't notably hurt him and previously that easily destroyed helicopters, cars, and made some pretty large craters ^S5E1
• Withstands Baern's energy blast, which previously disintegrated a human ^S6E6
• An electric stun-gun that can instantly stop a person's heart doesn't effect Clark ^S6E15
• No sells Conner's heat vision which can burn through barns ^S10E16
• No sells Supergirl's heat vision. Supergirl can down massive ships with her heat vision ^S11V4
• Withstands blasts from Eclipso who can destroy airplanes and helicopters with its beams ^S11V8

Healing Factor

• When he regains his powers he rapidly heals from a cut ^S1E12
• Rapidly heals from Tyler's touch. Tyler can rapidly turn humans into ash piles by touching them ^S1E17
• Rapidly heals after being thrown into a blast furnace while weakened by Kryptonite. Also a strength and durability feat ^S2E20
• Heals from a bullet wound when kryptonite is removed ^S3E3
• Once a blow torch destroys his kryptonite-blinded eyes, he begins to regenerate new eyes ^S3E10
• Comes out of the scare toxin, which is something no one else was capable of doing without an antidote ^S4E10
• His hands rapidly heal after being cut ^S6E3
• [Rapidly heals after being stabbed through the chest by a giant spike](g8il8w) ^S6E3
• Once Kryptonite is removed from his presence he instantly heals a massive chest wound ^S7E19
• [Heals from deep burn wounds](m3qz7h) ^S10E6
• Heals after being stabbed in the heart ^S11V7

Other

• When Clark gets his future read both people see him outliving everyone else around him ^S1E6/S3E12

Heat Vision

• Heats up Lois and Jimmy ^S7E17
• When he first unlocks his heat vision he lights a screen on fire, lights part of the Talon on fire, and when practicing with his powers he lights a scarecrow on fire ^S2E2
• Vaporizes a bullet ^S2E2
• Easily lights a truck on fire ^S2E18
• Destroys a police car ^S3E1
• Melts a section of asphalt ^S3E7
• Vaporizes a bullet before it hits Lana
• Melts part of a water tower while in super speed ^S3E21
• Downs a helicopter ^S4E2
• Lights a bunch of hay bales on fire ^S4E6
• Heats up a bunch of vials to 1,000 degrees Kelvin ^S4E10
• Counters a man who can turn into sand ^S4E12
• After Lana gains Clark's powers she vaporize a vampire. Later on its mentioned by Chloe he can incinerate humans ^S5E5/E10
• Cuts a small hole in Chloe's shoulder ^S6E15
• Kills a giant monster ^S11V5
• One shots a bunch of Manhunters ^S11V7
• Overpowers Wes' force field. An earlier model of the same super-soldier took the equivalent of a mini-nuke to breach ^S6E21
• Vaporizes a tidal wave while in super speed ^S7E1
• Destroys two skyscrapers ^S9E13

Super Breath

• Blows a barn door seven miles away ^S6E2
• Causes an air draft in the Daily Planet ^S6E2
• Blows a steel vault door off of its hinges ^S6E2
• Blows out a fire ^S6E2
• Blows away some clouds ^S6E2
• Destroys a wall ^S8E5
• Causes a snow storm over Oregon ^S9E17
• With Zod he freezes Metallo ^S9E17
• [When Lois gains Clark's powers she stops a flood off screen](t17sm8) ^S10E20
• Stops fuel fire on a space shuttle ^S11V1
• Instantly freezes a man and a group of soldiers ^S11V2/V4

Super Senses

Telescopic Vision

• Finds Lana in the woods ^S3E4
• Zooms in on a earring ^S4E9
• With a telescope he sees two comets collide ^S4E16
• Zooms in on a person's hand ^S10E14
• Scans an entire base ^S11V5
• Sees a falling pod from orbit ^S11V9

Multi-Spectrum Vision

• When trying to find Jeff he taps into the ultraviolet spectrum ^S1E10
• After fully unlocking his powers he can see in the Gamma and Infrared spectrum ^S11V1
• Has thermal vision ^S11V2

X-Ray Vision

• Sees Tina's skeleton system ^S1E4
• Sees through Pete's skin. Then looks through concrete walls and metal pipes the girl's locker room ^{S1E4 NSFW}
• Sees through a locker and a backpack ^S1E4
• Looks through a safe ^S1E9
• Looks through a vault door ^S1E13
• Zooms in on a wooden beam to find a bullet ^S2E13
• Scans Cyborg's body ^S5E15
• [Limits] His X-Ray vision is incapable of seeing through dense material like lead: 1 2

Super Hearing

• Hears Chloe's conversation while on the opposite side of the school and his parents talking while in another building ^S3E10
• Hears Lois and Lucy's conversation in the back of a semi-truck while on a bridge ^S4E16
• [Hears Graham's heartbeat](2dyzve) ^S5E20
• [According to Clark him and Kara can hear things for miles](156w1f) ^S7E2
• Can detect Kara's voice when a computer couldn't after a dozen tries ^S7E20
• Hears a bomb tick at the roof of the Daily Planet while on the ground floor ^S8E14
• Can hear a dog barking from ten miles away ^S8E15
• Hears Chloe screaming in Edge City when he's in Metropolis ^S8E22
• Heard Lois' speech in orbit ^S11V1
• Can tell if a person's lying from their heartbeat ^S11V2
• Listens to the Earth while in orbit ^S11V6
• Can apparently hear Tectonic Plates shifting ^S11V8

Mental Capacity

• Does some quick math ^S1E5
• Chloe notes he has a freakishly good memory ^S1E10
• Chloe says he has never forgotten anything ^S7E10
• Can rapidly learn langues and is shown to know Hindi and Japanese

Resistances

Physical

• Resist Sean's heat drain ^S1E5
  • Sean can freeze fire and humans with his heat drain
• Immune to Geoff's powers which can paralyze people with a touch ^S4E13
• Immune to Brendan's powers which turn people to wax ^S4E21
• Withstands the bleed which destroys anything it touches ^S11V8
• Resists being rebooted by Blue Bleed energy ^S11V9

Mind Reading/Mind Control

• Resist Bob Rickman's handshake ^S1E11
  • [Bob Rickman can make people kill themselves with his power](euqr6)
• Ryan can't read Clark's mind ^S1E16
• Desirée can't control Clark with her pheromone powers ^S2E2
  • Desirée can control members of the opposite sex with her powers
• Is immune to Chloe's powers which forces everyone to tell her the truth ^S3E18
• Psimon can't read his mind ^S11V3

Skill

• Throws a bowling ball through a wall and into a man's chest ^S1E16
• Sinks a basket from a pretty far distance ^S2E3
• Throws a football at a wooden bucket from pretty far away ^S4E6
• Throws a knife into Brainiac ^S5E22
• KO's a shadow man with a tire ^S8E6
• Knocks a man out with a can ^S9E12
• After training with Jor-El he learned Martial Arts ^S9E1
• After training with Jor-El he won't kill humans by sleeping with them ^S9E15

Weaknesses

• Kryptonite
  
• Red Sun Radiation: Energy in the red sun spectrum can weaken and eventually depower Clark, since his body cannot process its low energy into his super powers.
  
• Magic: Superman has no resistances to magic, meaning he's can be effected as easily as a normal person by it.
  

Mom was driving with her elbows on the steering wheel, sorting through her CD case. When she finally picked one, it was one of her stupid God-is-strength audiobooks. The narrators always sounded like grandmas. After my incident, Mom started playing them more and more. Maybe she thought they would make me want to kill myself less.
As the grandma talked about how “faith was like a trust fall into God’s arms”, I thought back to “the night”. In my defense, my suicide attempt was heavy on the “attempt”. As soon as I had taken the pills, I regretted it. I felt really guilty. I didn’t want Mom to find me, so I ran into her room and immediately puked on her carpet. She gave me the dirtiest look.
“Don’t you know how rentals work?” she’d said.
That was the last thing I remembered. I woke up two days later in a hospital bed. My hair still smelled like puke.
In a way, I’d thought Mom would be happy I didn’t full-blown kill myself. But no. Instead, she thanked me by packing up everything we owned and moving us to the middle of nowhere.
She found Twin Pines in a book she borrowed from the library. It was called “America’s Sleepiest Towns”. Twin Pines was number one on the list, with three pages of colorful pictures to go along with it (not that it needed them). You could capture Twin Pines in a single picture. A main street with a dozen antique shops. A backdrop of two hills with abandoned ski trails running through them. An overgrown front lawn. That pretty much captured it.
At least our old town had character. It didn’t matter that it was squished between three highways.
When Mom pulled into our new driveway, she reached over and grabbed my hand. “Welcome to our new life,” she said, smiling.
I looked ahead. There was another family in the driveway. Mom’s smile quickly went away.
“What in the…”
They were throwing trash bags into the back of their station wagon. There was a mom, a dad, and a little boy hanging on the dad’s leg. The parents were hippies with long hair that curled down to their butt cracks.
As we parked, the couple seemed to get nervous. They packed faster. We stepped out of the car. Hippie mom waved but didn’t look at us. I felt the birds claw at my stomach. I didn’t like being the person taking away this family’s home.
The little boy didn’t seem sad, though. He let go of his dad’s leg and walked toward us. He had these big, blue eyes that for some reason made me nervous. The color reminded me of a frozen lake.
“Look out for Lisa,” the boy said.
Mom crossed her arms over her chest. It was her signature move before a “talking to”. “Excuse me, little boy?” she said.
“We’ll be out of here soon,” the boy’s mom said. She was trying to squeeze an acoustic bass into the backseat.
Mom gave her a thumbs up then turned back toward the town, leaving me alone with the boy. He kept standing there, looking at me with those pale blue eyes.
“She likes to walk across the lawn,” he said.
“She?” I asked.
The boy’s dad dropped a bag and walked toward us. He held out his hands in surrender.
“L-Y-S-S-A,” he said. His voice had a bounce to it, “Lyssa’s the Greek Goddess of Rage and Madness.
Jake and I are very into mythology. Are either of you fans?”
Mom turned back to face me. She rolled her eyes as if we were thinking the same thing. We weren’t.
“Marjorie said we would have the house by 10 AM,” Mom said. “It’s 10:30. Do I need to call her?” Hippie Mom finally squeezed the bass into the backseat. She slapped some dirt off her dress and walked over.
“Marjorie’s right across the street, ma’am,” she said, pointing behind us. “Why don’t you go over and introduce yourself?”
Mom looked at me with a dramatically dropped jaw. “Quite the guts for someone breaking the law,”
Mom said, turning back to the woman. “Why don’t you focus on packing your witchcraft and get out of our house?”
My cheeks burned. I wanted to shrink to the size of a mouse. I hated the way she talked to people, especially people who, in her words, were happy for “no reason”—hippies, waiters, people handing out flyers, neighbors, cashiers. The nicer they were, the meaner she got.
“Please stop,” I whispered.
Mom reached down and squeezed my wrist. “There’s no problem here, Emma, just a solution,” Mom said. “They have a problem. We have a solution.”
“We’re on our way out, ma’am,” the dad said.
The couple went back to packing. Mom huffed in victory. But, the boy didn’t move. He kept looking at us.
I stared back, but he didn’t break.
He was dressed like it was his first communion. His hair was perfectly swooshed and his shirt was free of wrinkles, an impressive feat for a little kid. He reminded me of a doll.
I don’t know why I didn’t look away. We were in a full-blown staring contest. I think I was trying to figure him out, the same way you stare at an abstract painting.
He reached out and grabbed my hand. It was ice cold.
“If you see Lyssa, tell her we moved to the city,” he said. “I don’t want her to think we left without her.”
Mom, who was back at the car looking at a map, tossed it on the seat and walked over. She shooed the boy’s hand away from mine.
“Go to your keepers, little devil,” Mom said.
I looked up at her and she winked at me. I could tell she was trying not to laugh. My mom’s emotional range always amazed me. She could go from yelling at strangers to making fun of children in the blink of an eye.
After the hippies left, Mom and I unpacked. We got a few boxes in before our new landlord walked over.
Marjorie lived across the street in a slightly larger, slightly newer-looking house. It was twice as tall as ours, with rooms built on top of rooms, each floor wider as it stretched into the sky. It looked like a giant dreidel.
She had two German Shepherds with her. Their fur was so dark it was almost black. They were taller than her hip and had big yellow eyes. As she walked on our lawn, they started barking. Spit hung from heir jaws.
“I’m Marjorie,” she yelled over the barking.
She was standing on the other side of the lawn, but the dogs were out ahead of her. She didn’t bother pulling them back. They came within a foot of my face. I ducked behind Mom.
“Yes, Ms. Marjorie, hello,” Mom said.
Mom stuck out her hand, which made the dogs snap. Mom didn’t seem to notice. Somehow, she managed to scratch behind their ears.
“Miss Dog Whisperer,” Marjorie said.
Marjorie was an older woman with a short bob and big square glasses. She walked with a slight hunch, as if the wind was too heavy for her. But, despite looking weak, she couldn’t stand still. Every few seconds, she shifted from chewing her lip to kicking the grass to snorting air. Between her and the snapping dogs, there was never a moment of peace. They were like a fever that wouldn’t break.
“Rent’s due first of the month,” she said. “Don’t be like those tree huggers. All they wanted to do was accuse me of horrible crimes and pray to their shrubbery gods.”
Marjorie spat onto our lawn. Mom laughed, as if she admired her bravery. Who would do something as vile as spit on someone else’s lawn?
“You’re a tough lady,” Mom said. “I like that.”
This time, I rolled my eyes. I don’t know if Marjorie saw it, but I didn’t care. I didn’t like Marjorie for the same reasons I didn’t like my mom. They were dressed like twins at a funeral, both of their outfits the same shade of shapeless grey. I missed the hippies. I missed their hair, their bright clothes, their inflections. I wanted to be like that, but I knew I was no better than Mom and Marjorie. My sweater was white and my pants were an off-white shade of the same white. I was at least wearing my “fun shoes”—green slippers with pink soles. Mom always said clothes were supposed to cover you up, not show you off. Somehow, she let the green slippers slide.
Clothes were just one of the million ways Mom liked to keep me in line. We never ate dinner after 6PM.
I was only allowed to read C.S. Lewis books (Mom liked how the lion was a metaphor for Jesus). And, I could only watch the church TV channel or Mom-approved VHSs.
On the night of my stupid mistake, we had just finished a dinner of angel hair pasta and butter. We had watched Angels in the Outfield, then went to bed at 9PM. When I got in bed, I had the strangest feeling, like I was at the top of a waterslide. I pulled the bottle of pills out from under my pillow. When I found them the week before in the CVS parking lot, I thought they would give me interesting dreams. But as I stared at them, I thought about all the dreams I could have if I was dead. No more Mom. No more buttered noodles. No more VHSs. If I took enough pills, maybe I’d be reincarnated in a different life where I wore pink shirts and yellow pants and sang at the top of my lungs just because I wanted to.
Marjorie’s dogs threw me out of my trance. They were barking a few inches from my face now. I grabbed a box off the lawn and walked inside.
Our new home was mostly dust. It was on the walls, in the floorboards, covering the sinks. As the light came in through the windows, I saw it all around me. I was used to it, though. Mom always picked dusty houses.
Our new house in Twin Pines was our thirteenth rental. Mom would flip-flop between different types of houses (apartments, two-families, trailers, etc.), but dusty Victorians seemed to be her favorite. She liked fragile houses, ones where if you used something twice, it would break. In one of the houses, the sink looked like something out of a fairy tale, with gold gooseneck faucets and hand-drawn hot/cold script. But, after two uses, the water shot toward the ceiling.
I dropped the box in the kitchen and went up to explore my new room. The house came “pre-furnished”, but all I was given was a bed and a mirror. The bed still had the creepy boy’s Toy Story comforter. The mirror was tall and oval-shaped with metal, human-looking feet.
I sat on the corner of the bed and stared at my reflection.
I didn’t like looking at myself. Reflections were like words you repeat so much they lose their meaning. After a few minutes, my whole body looked like a sack of potatoes. The only thing non-potato-like was my hair. I always liked my hair, even if I fantasized about shaving it off. One time, we were in a bookstore and I saw a Sinead O’Connor CD. I thought her shaved head was badass. She looked like an angry baby, but in a cool way.
I looked again in the mirror. I reached up and grabbed a clump of blonde. “One day,” I said.
I let go of it and stood up. I needed to get back to moving boxes. But, as I got to my feet, I heard something.
Footsteps.
They were inside my room. I turned to look, but no one was there.
The birds flew into my throat. All of a sudden, I felt terribly alone. Mom and Marjorie’s conversation fell quiet. The wind pushed against the window. The sun ducked behind a hill.
All that was left were me and the sound. It moved closer and closer. It was behind me.
I closed my eyes and scrunched my face. I took a long, slow breath, then whipped around, my hands out like a shield. I slapped the air.
I opened my eyes. No one, or nothing, was there. But, the sound grew louder. And closer.
ernnnnn
creeeeeak
ernnnnnn
creeeeeak
“Hello?” I said. My mouth was a sandbox. I put my hand on my chest. My heart was going crazy. Calm down, Emma. Breathe. Remember what that doctor told you? If you panic, you just need to breathe.
Each breath felt like licking sandpaper.
The footsteps came closer. Dust kicked up into clouds.
ernnnnn
creeeeeak
It was a few feet away now. Then, closer. Then inches.
I wanted to throw up, or scream, or cry. All of a sudden, the house felt huge. There were shadows holding shadows holding shadows. I was in dark water. How many rooms were here? Two? Three? Ten? One hundred? How many floors? Mom had never said. It was the biggest house we’d ever lived in. I wasn’t safe.
I didn’t know what I wasn’t safe from, but I knew I was in danger.
I looked down. The sound stopped right in front of my green slippers. It lingered there. I felt it breathe on my ankles. It was warm and wet.
“Please,” I whispered. “Don’t hurt me.”
There was a long pause. The sound didn’t move. An icky feeling ran up my arms. It was like a thousand fingertips.
I took a step back. I moved my right foot. The sound didn’t attack. I lifted my left.
Then…
SLASH!
The pain flew up my leg. I screamed and jumped back, landing hard on my butt. I crawled backward, desperate to move as far away as I could from that thing. I kicked. I swung. I spit. All of my nerves fired at once.
“Get away from me!”
I looked down at my ankle. Dark blood fell in lightning bolts down to my toes. My skin pulsed. There were three cuts. They weren’t deep, but it didn’t matter. I’d never been hurt by the air before. I felt naked. It could be behind me, above me, below me – crawling through my suitcase, tangled in my hair, hiding under the bed. I was surrounded, but, at the same time, totally alone.
I slid into the corner and curled into a ball. My eyes welled. I couldn’t stop it. I felt it all at once.
The new town.
The new house.
The new neighbors.
The thing, whatever it was.
The pain in my foot.
I slapped myself in the head. Why did I have to do such a stupid, stupid thing? I could be back in my old school, ignoring my teachers and eating lunch alone like a normal kid.
After a few minutes, my ankle stopped bleeding. I stood up and checked myself for more wounds. I was unscathed, but my hands wouldn’t stop shaking. I held my breath and listened for more footsteps. They were gone. The thing was gone. All I heard was Mom and Marjorie’s small talk. The dogs were still barking.
I wiped away my tears with the Toy Story comforter. I let the blood dry on my foot. Maybe Mom would see and ask me about it.
As I reached the top of the staircase, I hooked the sides of my mouth and pulled my face into a smile. Then, I walked downstairs to finish unpacking.
After a few hours of unpacking, Mom heated up two TV dinners and we watched Flubber. When the movie ended, Mom announced it was bedtime. The sun was still up, but I didn’t mind. Sleep would do me good. Maybe that thing was just an exhaustion-induced hallucination.
As Mom washed off our plastic trays, I watched her from the doorway of our new kitchen. I contemplated telling her about my ankle. It’s not like it was some sort of secret. If she looked at me, she’d see it. My foot was caked in blood. But, she didn’t look at me. She only looked at me when she had too. Instead, she hummed a gospel song and scrubbed like the marinara was devil’s blood.
So, I grabbed a glass of water, walked upstairs, and collapsed onto the bed.
I dug my face into the Toy Story comforter. It smelled like a home. Not quite my home, but someone’s home, and that was enough to relax me. My shoulders melted. My eyelids grew heavy. My breathing slowed. Outside, I heard the distant hum of thunder. A summer storm was on its way.
Darkness came in waves as the thunder moved closer. I knew sleep was coming. I felt so relaxed, eerily relaxed. I hadn’t been this relaxed since I was a little kid, before the incident, or the incident’s pre-incident, or the incident before that. There were too many to count. I just settled on the fact that I was cursed.
But, at this moment, I was at peace.
Unfortunately, it didn’t last long.
Someone knocked on the door.
“Emma?”
It was a familiar voice.
“Come in,” I said.
The door opened and Mom appeared. Her hair was brushed and she was wearing her flowing, white nightgown. Normally, that meant she wasn’t leaving her room for the night. She never came out to see me like this.
She sat on the edge of my bed.
“I was doing some reflecting,” she said, “and I just want you to know that all strength comes from God. Give him your time, and you will receive his strength.”
I nodded, like I always did. I’d heard this one before.
But, as she rambled, something felt different. She smiled, rubbed my arm, and spoke in a soft whisper.
It was like someone took my mom and smoothed the edges. I remembered a version of her like this, before Dad left. She would bake pies and sing Motown songs and wear sundresses. But, I hadn’t seen that Mom in a long time.
Then, I noticed something.
It was my mirror, the one with the weird, human feet. It held Mom’s reflection, or at least a version of her reflection. The back of her nightgown had tears in it. Mom never wore anything that wasn’t perfect.
“Maybe the move to Twin Pines was God’s plan,” she went on. “Do you feel that way?”
Mom cleared the hair from my face.
“Gosh, I love your hair,” she said. “So blonde and beautiful. Like an angel.”
I tried to look her in the eyes, but I couldn’t. The mirror kept drawing me in.
The Mom in the reflection was also leaning over me in bed. But, slowly, she turned her face back toward the mirror. I looked at the real Mom. Her head wasn’t moving. Mirror Mom kept going through. Her chin crossed her shoulder. She twisted like an owl. I could see a sliver of face, then half, then all of it. Her head was turned completely around. I looked at her eyes. A shiver crawled down my neck.
I looked away.
I was getting that feeling again, that flutter of panic, that scattering of birds. I tried to breathe. I tried to collect myself. I turned to look out the window.
Outside, dark clouds moved over the hills. Rain fell slow at first, then faster and faster until it was pounding on the windows. Wind shoved the walls. I heard the house’s frame shift. I’d been in old houses before, but none this old. One more gust and the whole thing could fall over.
The more I thought about it, the stranger it seemed that Mom was here. Whenever there was a storm, Mom locked herself in her room and blasted her Jesus tapes. She said rain made her think of all the evils in the world.
I looked back at the real Mom.
“Do you hear me, little angel?” Mom asked.
“Yes.”
“So answer.”
“Answer?”
“Answer my question.”
“What was your…”
“Do you feel moving to Twin Pines was God’s plan?”
“Oh,” I said.
Her face moved closer to mine. When did her teeth get so white?
“Yes, I do.”
“So you never want to leave here?”
She kept running her hands through my hair. Her fingertips were freezing.
I looked at the mirror Mom. She wasn’t smiling. She had a hard stare, her eyes as bright as the moon. She didn’t blink. I keep watching. Blink. Please blink. Mom, please. But, she never did. Her face was a statue.
“Is this a dream?” I asked the real Mom.
She didn’t answer.
“My sweet angel tried to go back to Heaven,” she whispered.
I pinched my thighs. I felt the pain. It was real. I was awake. I tried to sit up, but Mom pushed me back down. “Where are you going?” she asked. Her smile kept growing, closer and closer to her ears. I looked over at mirror Mom. The smile was inverted, her frown dripping toward the floor like melting wax.
“I need to pee,” I said.
“Are you lying to me?”
“No, I…”
“You wouldn’t lie to your mother, would you? Not again?”
“No, Mom,” I said. “I just…I…”
Mom didn’t like talking about why I did what I did, but she loved making me promise I’d never do it again. Not again. She’d make me repeat it. Not again, not again, not again. I wouldn’t lie to her. I wouldn’t hurt myself. I wouldn’t let the devil in.
The mirror woman started to change. She raised her arms then flipped them behind her, looking like one of the Barbies I used to torture. As she stood up, she walked closer to the mirror, lifting her backward hands and bringing them to her backward face. She grabbed two fistfuls of hair.
I wanted to warn the real Mom, but I couldn’t speak. It was that same feeling I always felt—powerless, scared, frozen in a dumb state of terror. All I could do was watch.
The mirror woman stood in front of her reflection and pulled on her hair. At first, she’d only rip out a strand or two. Then, it came in handfuls. The sound made me sick. It was like Velcro. Her frown kept sinking. Her face was saggy and bruised, with lips covered in scars. Drops of blood ran from her forehead down to her chin.
She started mouthing something.
NOT AGAIN.
NOT AGAIN.
NOT AGAIN!
She was screaming now, but there was no sound. She was silent.
“Not again, right?” real Mom said. She kept brushing my hair with her hand. It was starting to hurt. With each pull, small strands broke loose and tangled in her fingers.
“Stop, please,” I whispered.
“It’ll never stop, will it angel?” She chuckled.
Thunder rolled through the bed frame. The storm was here. We couldn’t run away. The storm was here. Tears streamed down my cheeks.
“I didn’t mean to do it,” I said.
“Do what, honey?”
“It,” I said. “You know, it. It was a stupid mistake.”
I looked back at the mirror. Mirror Mom was almost bald. All that remained were a few tufts of hair, the last stalks of a torched cornfield. Her frown stretched down to her clavicle.
“Are you cold?” Mom asked.
“What?”
She pulled the blankets up to my chin. She pressed down on my neck. I coughed, but she pressed harder.
“Moh—”
“You look so cold, angel.”
I gasped for air, pushing at the blanket. Mom pressed harder, using her body weight. She never stopped smiling.
“Angels shouldn’t be so cold. So blue. So frozen. Angels should be white and warm and flying. Why is my angel so blue?”
The thunder roared every few seconds—BAM, BOOM, CRASH. Mirror Mom dropped to her knees. She ran her hands across her bald head. She mouthed those same horrible words, the words Mom worked into her prayers loud enough so I would hear, the words she made me promise whenever I had a bad day or cried or didn’t laugh during the funny part in the movie.
My breaths came few and far between. The room went black. I saw stars. I kicked and pushed and squirmed, but I only sank deeper, and deeper, and deeper, and…
CRASH!
A flash of lightning filled the room. It sounded like our house was hit. It was the loudest crash I’d ever heard, like a car coming through my window.
The pressure left my neck. I gulped fresh air and pounced forward.
“Stop!” I yelled.
I looked up at Mom, but she was gone. The room was quiet. All that was left was the sound of rain.
I looked at the mirror, but it was empty too.
I was alone.
It was a nightmare.
I wiped the sweat off my forehead and reached down to grab my glass of water. It had a thin layer of dust on it, but I didn’t care. I was medically thirsty. As I drank, I placed my hand on my heart. It was galloping. How much could a heart really take? It was going to explode if I kept up with these nightmares and ghosts.
I looked at myself in the mirror. I was still intact. My head was not popped off. My hair was not torn to shreds. My mouth was not contorted in a horrific smile or frown.
I was okay.
I finished the water and put the empty glass on the ground. I went to lay back down, but I noticed something.
My reflection was disappearing.
A cloud of darkness came over it. It climbed around the edges of the mirror like black ink, swallowing me in its pulses. It kept eating me until the mirror was an oil spill, nothing but black.
Then, like the first stars of night, two yellow dots appeared. They were towards the bottom of the mirror, right at ankle height.
The darkness fled from the top down to the yellow circles. Black dots appeared in their centers. They were eyes. Two yellow eyes. Black ink circled around them in the vague shape of a head.
The face disappeared below the mirror’s rim.
Then, I heard it.
ernnnnn
creeeeeak
ernnnnnn
creeeeeak
It was moving toward me.
The footsteps would start, then stop, then start again. They went near the walls, under the bed, by the glass of water, near the door. But, they never left the room.
Meanwhile, the storm moved over our house. Rain pounded the roof. It wanted to be let in. Drops of water raced down the wall. The house was falling apart. Everything was falling apart.
I tried to focus on my breathing.
I didn’t want to think about the thing.
I looked out the window. It was a trick I learned in the hospital. Everything was always so loud. I’d hear my friends getting taken to the “quiet rooms” or parents yelling at the caretakers. I never wanted to be where I was, so I looked out the window. The hospital was in New Brunswick, right across from Rutgers University. I watched frat boys play frisbee. Girls with tattoos smoked cigarettes. I wanted to be there, to be older, to be in life instead of just watching other people live it.
But, in our new town, there were no college kids to fantasize about it. All I had were hills. So, I imagined I was in the Swiss Alps with the friends I made at the hospital. There were three girls I really connected with. We ate lunch together. They showed me their scars and visible rib cages. We made fun of the therapists. We had all been struggling, but now we were struggling together. Out in the Alps, we weren’t gloomy anymore. We were all drinking wine and smoking long cigarettes. The breeze was soft. Animals climbed the hills. My head was shaved. We were all happy, just like goats along the cliffs.
I closed my eyes and pulled the blanket over my face. Marjorie’s dogs were barking. The rain became like white noise.
For a moment, I felt myself fall asleep.
But then…
hessssssssssssssss
I opened my eyes.
The sound was high-pitched, like hissing. It started out soft. Then it built, higher and higher, rising from a match to a wildfire.
hesssSSSSSSSSS HEEESSSSSSS
I covered my ears. The sound cut through everything. I felt it in my stomach. It rattled the birdcage.
I kicked off the blankets and ran for the light switch. I flicked it on, but nothing happened. Everything was still dark.
I looked around. I was still alone. Was Mom hearing this kettle? It was like a train crashing into my temple. I felt like puking.
HEEEESSSSSS
HEEEEESSSSSS
I opened my suitcase and searched for a flashlight. Did I pack it? Did I even own a flashlight? Where do people buy flashlights?
The sound kept building. It was already stupidly loud. How was it getting louder? Yet, simultaneously, it grew deeper, churning from a hiss to a growl. It shook the house. I couldn’t tell what was from the storm or the thing. Rain ran down the walls in streams. The floor was covered in puddles.
I kept digging through my suitcase. I didn’t find a flashlight, but I did find my dad’s electric razor. It was the only thing he left behind. I always brought it with me in case he ever wanted it back.
I clicked it on and held it in front of me. It was my only protection.
I looked under my bed. Nothing.
In the closet. Nothing.
Behind the mirror. Nothing.
The sound kept building. I stood in the center of the room and spun around. This was it. This was the moment I get ripped apart, the moment I die. I couldn’t back out of it this time. I thought about Mom finding me, my jaw hanging off, my eyes chewed out, my guts scattered like confetti. Would she scream? Cry? Walk back into her room? Would she ever recover? What would happen when the paramedics found me? Would they jigsaw my limbs into a human shape? Would they go home and cry in their spouse’s arms? Would I be the worst day of their life?
It was always me.
Everything came back to me.
I was the root cause of every problem in the world.
“What did I do?!” I yelled.
I couldn’t hear my own voice. The room was too loud.
I kept spinning around, my puny razor in front of me.
“I’m sorry,” I went on. “Whatever I did, I’m sorry about it.”
Lightning struck our shed. The backyard filled with smoke.
I was getting dizzy from twisting around. I just wanted the noise to stop. I couldn’t take it anymore. I turned and turned and turned until…
All of a sudden…
THWAAAAAP!
Light passed through my skull. My eyelids snapped shut. The floor hit my back.
Everything went dark.
At first, it felt like my face was glued shut. The darkness was a weighted blanket. But, after a few attempts, I was able to open my eyes.
I looked up at the ceiling. There was a black web in the corner, the wood splintered and filled with pulsing embers. Smoke crowded the windows.
We’d been hit.
Lightning had hit our house.
I had to tell Mom. I tried to stand up, but my whole body was in pain. My legs were wet cement.
I laid back down.
I stared at the lightning strike. As the rain had attacked the roof, debris fell into the room. Black ash covered the bed. If I was sleeping, the coals would have smothered me. I imagined that death—my skin peeling back, burnt wood filling my mouth.
The clouds of smoke started to shrink. They were regathering, vacuuming back to the impact point.
It didn’t take long for the shape to appear.
First, I saw its head. The top of its skull was flat, with two horns on either side. The smoke reformed to fill the rest of its body. Two arms. Two legs. A massive, arched back. There were three claws on the end of its hands, just like the three slashes on my ankle. Only, this time, they were ten times the size. If the thing attacked me now, I’d be ground beef.
“What…do…you…want…?” I mouthed.
With each swell of the storm, the thing grew taller. Its eyes hovered over me. The smoke widened. It enveloped me. I couldn’t see. My spit turned to black sludge. My bedroom smelled like a campfire.
Then, slowly, the creature slunk through the shattered window and moved through the storm, right towards Marjorie’s house. In the distance, her dogs whimpered. Their violent barking was gone.
Now, they sounded sad, almost nervous, like they were about to be punished.
Once the shock from the lightning strike wore off, I was able to stand. I kept walking in small circles, chewing on my fingernails. The creature hung over Marjorie’s house like a thousand swarming bats.
The dogs stopped barking. There was a long, grueling silence. The rain grew soft as the thunder fell to a dull whisper. The storm was now a breeze.
Yet, I couldn’t help but feel like I was at the start of something much worse.
The cloud made a sound like a foghorn, then shifted. It broke into Marjorie’s windows and swarmed through her house, purring something deep and horrendous. This was not a please-pet-me purr. This was loud. End of the world loud. I felt the vibration run up my legs.
The monster twisted and turned as it went from room to room, rushing through doorways. Every once in a while, its eyes appeared. It was searching for something.
All of a sudden, Marjorie’s living room window shattered. Glass rained onto the lawn as the black cloud gathered on the first floor.
Then, something yelped.
An object flew through the shattered window. It rolled through the grass like a crash test dummy, thrashing and lifeless. It landed on the road.
The fog thinned out. An upstairs light turned on. I heard Marjorie’s voice.
“Beezle? Bub? Boys? Where are you!?”
I grabbed Dad’s razor and ran downstairs. I was still in my pajamas. I didn’t have time to change to confront this monster in some badass getup. No cape or steel-toed boots. Not even a rain jacket. Just me, Emma, in all my poorly prepared glory.
I ran through the house and pounced through the front door, my razor out in front of me like a sword. As I leaped through the muddy yard toward the road, I got a clearer picture of what flew out of Marjorie’s house. When I walked closer, I knew for sure; it’s black fur was unmistakable. I stopped running. The razor buzzed in my hand as my brief feeling of power went away. It clicked it off. I was too late.
I knelt beside the German Shepard and put my finger on its neck.
No pulse.
I couldn’t look at the animal for long. The sight of it made me sick. It was as if all of its features shifted a few inches in different directions. I never loved Marjorie’s dogs, but no crime justified this kind of punishment.
I stood up and looked at Marjorie’s house. The thing was gone. Marjorie walked from room to room, calling out for Beezle.
I let out a long sigh. Again, I was useless. Again, I lost. The monster won. Marjorie’s dog was dead.
Throughout the battle, I just stood and watched. Just like so many things in my life, I waited around for a better version of me to show up.
I turned to go back into our house, my head down. As I moped through the grass, I noticed something strange. There was a stream of mud running from our house to the road. In it, there were little specks of white. I reached down and grabbed one. It was pencil-thin, but dull at the ends.
It didn’t take me long to realize.
It was a bone.
I followed the bones to their origin, a dank space under our front steps. I knelt down in the mud and inspected. The bones multiplied as I crawled behind the cinder blocks. I couldn’t get my whole body through, just to my hips. But, I got far enough.
The skeleton was small, about purse-sized. It had a collar around its neck. I read the tag.
L-Y-S-S-A.
My eyes grew wide.
I imagined the little boy. I pictured him in the months leading up to this morning, running around the house, calling out with all his might.
Lyssa! Lyssa? Where are you?
I felt his cold hand on my own.
If you find Lyssa, tell her we moved to the city.
I don’t know what I thought Lyssa was when he said that, but I didn’t think she was a dead cat. But, somehow, I had found her anyway.
I was halfway inside the dead cat’s grave when I heard my mom’s voice.
“Emma?”
I squeezed my torso out from under the stairs. Mom was standing over me. There was mud on the bottom of her nightgown, and her hair was soaked. She crossed her arms over her chest—her yelling stance.
“Why are you out here?!”
I stood up and slapped the mud off my pajamas. It only made it smear.
Mom took a step closer. “I said why are you out here?”
My mind was racing. I couldn’t focus on Mom or my soon-to-be punishment. I kept thinking about Marjorie’s dog. I imagined its face, its look of confusion, dismay, regret. I pictured its broken teeth.
There was so much anger in its injuries, such revenge.
I imagined the thing, my ankle, the way it moved around my room, the way it purred, its shape in the upper corner of my room. I remembered how those dogs snapped at me, how prone to violence they were.
The pieces came together.
“Marjorie’s dogs killed Lyssa,” I blurted.
“That is not an answer to my question,” Mom said. “And who? What?”
“It was Marjorie’s dogs,” I said. “They killed the dead cat. Well, it wasn’t dead then. They made it dead.”
“Whose dead cat? What? Are you on drugs?”
“Lyssa,” I said. “Remember? The little boy?” I grabbed Mom by the wrist, so she’d know how serious I was. “He had a cat, Lyssa. I found it. I think Marjorie’s dogs killed it.”
“First of all, you shouldn’t get involved in other people’s problems,” Mom said. “That’s too messy for a little girl.”
I shuttered when she said it.
Little girl.
My thoughts ran off.
I was back in the hospital, in those first few days after my accident. I kept going in and out of consciousness. It was all blurred. It’s not like I had visitors to mark the days by. All I saw were nurses, strangers.
It wasn’t that no one wanted to see me. No one visited me because Mom didn’t tell anyone I was in the hospital. Mom didn’t visit me either. She said she would pick me up when I was “done”.
To this day, she’s never told anyone what happened.
Not even Dad.
So, the only people I saw were the hospital staff. There was one woman I saw a lot—she was old with a round face and soft, plump fingers. She spoke in an annoyingly cheerful Midwest drawl. She would adjust my pillow and give me medicine and hum lullabies—Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Mary had a Little Lamb, Ring Around the Rosy. At first, I thought it was creepy. Then, I remembered I was in the children’s ward.
One day, she leaned in real close to my face. I don’t know if she thought I was sleeping, but I was wide awake. I kept my eyes closed. I didn’t want to scare her. She smelled like peppermint and sweat. For a moment, I was scared. I thought she was going to hurt me. But, she didn’t. Instead, she whispered directly into my face.
“This is too much pain for a little girl.”
Little girl.
Now, standing in the rain, I heard that old woman’s voice again.
Little girl.
Little girl.
Little girl.
That’s how Mom saw me. That’s how the world saw me. But, it wasn’t true. The things I felt were far from little. They were big and dark and thundering.
I turned back and looked at Lyssa. Her body was broken by the rain. She was little, even for a cat. But still, I felt her power, her rage, her revenge. In that state, she was bigger than me, the dog, our house, her pain. She could consume galaxies. She had my attention in the deepest, darkest way.
She wasn’t little.
And, neither was I.
I turned back to Mom. I pulled the razor out of my pocket and clicked it on.
“Honey?” she said.
She stepped toward me. I stepped back. She started to say something else, but I couldn’t hear her. The buzzing was too loud. I brought the razor to my forehead and went across my scalp. It was a rough, ticklish feeling. Wet hair fell into the mud, right around Lyssa’s bones. Mom lunged at me, but I jumped away. I kept shaving.
When Mom realized she couldn’t stop me, she clasped her hands in prayer and looked at the stars.
“God, please shine your light on Emma. Please just…”
She paused for a moment. Then, she shook her head and unclasped her hands. She looked confused, then sad. I could tell she wanted to say something. She looked at me, her eyelids flickering. But, she didn’t say it. Instead, she bit her fist and walked back into the house.
As I finished, lightning struck in the distance. The storm was now towns away. All that remained was a drizzle. It was cold as it hit my newly bald head.
Even after I finished, I stayed outside. The birds in my stomach whistled something cheerful. My hair was tangled in the razor. The morning sun was peeking over the hills. Marjorie was in her backyard, calling Beezle’s name into the wind.
I was happy, and sad, and confused.
But, more than anything, I was feeling, and that felt good.
Really, really good.
I looked out at Twin Pines, my new hometown. Everyone was still asleep. On normal mornings, most people stayed asleep. People didn’t wake up in a sleepy town. They were forever yawning, forever on the verge of sleep, forever wrestling with the dark. But, tomorrow morning, that would change. In the morning, the town would look into the eyes of a dead dog and wonder: what happened when we were all asleep?
I kept rubbing my newly shaved head. I smiled. It hurt my face. I don’t think I’d smiled in three years.
It was a new feeling, a new me.
Even if this town was forever sleepy, I was finally awake.
​
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Hey there, everyone! It has been a year since I last posted one of these. For shame. I won’t bore you with a litany of excuses why it’s been so long, and I also won’t promise you that I’ll do one of these for every CoW from here on out. So let’s just get right down to it, shall we?
As always, if you see any errors or believe something should be added please let me know in the comments below! I don't claim to have everything figured out, just sharing what I've gathered so far.
**Note: Some errors were discovered in the Attack Pattern section. They have now been corrected.*\*
Wiki Page: https://exvius.fandom.com/wiki/Wolf_of_Unknown_Origin#No_Mods

THE BASICS

• Boss Type: Machine, Beast, Demon
• Elemental Weaknesses: -40% to Lightning, -15% to Fire and Dark 85% resistant to all other elements, and 80% resistance to non-elemental damage.
**This boss will not buff its elemental resistances at all during the fight.
• Status Ailment Resistance: Immune to All Ailments
• Breaks: Vulnerable to All Breaks
• HP: 1,800,000,000 at Level 99
**3.15 billion with 75% HP bonus (~1.575 billion to 50% threshold)
**4.50 billion with 150% HP bonus (~2.25 billion to 50% threshold)
**5.85 billion with full 225% HP bonus (~2.93 billion to 50% threshold)
• Ailments Used: Single Target Confusion, Paralyze, Silence (provokable)
***If your morale gauge remains below 100% for 4 turns it will cast Stop, and will continue to do so every 4 turns as long as your morale is below 100%. Due to the pre-emptive turn, the first instance of this happens on Turn 3.
• Standard Attacks Used:
**AoE and ST non-elemental Physical Attacks most turns (can be evaded and/or miraged)
**ST elemental physical attacks (can and should be provoked with full evasion)
**Multiple AoE and ST non-elemental magic attacks most turns.
• Bring a Magic Tank
- Most of the incoming damage in this fight is non-elemental magic damage, so a magic tank is preferred. Just bulk up your tank with high HP/SPR and you should be fine. It’s best to have a separate provoke unit to make sure the magic tank uses cover mitigation for the strong ST magic attacks.
- Turns 4 and 7 can be potentially fatal to your magic tank if you’re not prepared. Make sure you have dispelled the boss’s ATK/MAG buffs and use your strongest mitigations (or simply guard) your mag tank on those turns.
- Currently the best magic tanks for this fight are: Abigail, Cecil, Ashe, Chow, Maeve, but for Lv 99 no mod clears Beatrix also works just as well. Hell, I’ve even seen a Rank 1 clear with Beatrix!
• Bring an evade-provoke unit (not your tank!) with ailment resists
- On turns 3, 6, and 9 the boss will do several single-target (ST) physical attacks that also inflict status ailments. The boss has no accuracy so these attacks can be evaded without issue.
• This boss has no accuracy!
- What this means is that all of the physical damage can be evaded, thus making physical tanks irrelevant for this fight. The easiest way to manage this is to bring a unit that can do a 50% accuracy reduction on the boss (e.g. Kaito or Skye) and have your units built for 50% evasion.
- You can also just bring support units with party mirage (e.g. Sylvie, Reberta, Ling). The most AoE physicals it will ever do is 3, but most of the time it’s only 2 or 3.
• Make sure you hit Beowolf with lightning, fire, or dark element each turn!
- If you fail to do so for two consecutive turns, it will break you, imperil you, slap you with a 3000 morale penalty and then shoot some missiles at you (which should all be provoked and evaded, so no big deal).
• This boss will debuff your accuracy by 200%
- On turns 2, 5, and 8 the boss will apply a 200% accuracy debuff (undispellable) to the party that lasts for 2 turns. This is clearly a gimmick to sell the new unit, Nora, who is the only unit in the game with a 200% accuracy buff for the party. If you have Nora, you can effectively ignore this gimmick.
- For those of use without Nora, do not fret, you still have options!
- The easiest way to deal with this is to use TDH units who already have at least 100% innate accuracy, meaning you only need a 100% accuracy buff to insure that your hits will land every time. Sylvie and Chizuru are notable support units that offer 100% accuracy buffs to the party.
- The special morale ability “Infallible Will” which can be activated by tapping the morale bar and selecting the ability, also provides a 150% party accuracy buff for 2 turns on a 3 turn cooldown (which lines up perfectly with the boss AI).
- If you’re using TDW units without Nora then you will have to rely on the 150% morale buff and even then you only have a 50% chance of landing your attack, so I hope you like RNG!
- On Turns 1, 2, 5, and 8 you will have no accuracy debuff so if all you’re trying to do is kill the boss for a Lv 99 no mods clear, then try to do most of your damage on these turns!
- You can also bring pure mages and/or evokers to ignore the accuracy debuff completely.
• This boss will heal 10% of its health every turn while below 50% HP!
- This can be an issue if your team isn’t strong enough to keep up with consistent damage every turn. You can use Melissa to cut that 10% heal in half. Otherwise, you just gotta git gud and do the damage to finish the fight.
- If the boss heals itself above 50% HP it won’t keep healing until you push it back below 50%.
• This boss will put up a 50% DEF/SPR buff field that should be removed!
- It starts the battle with the field in place, and while there is no animation that shows a field in play, you’ll notice the indicator at the top of the screen on the enemy side. It will put this field up again on Turns 3 and 6.
- It’s a good idea to get rid of this field if you want to do significant damage to the boss. Bring units that can put up imperil fields or global effect fields (e.g. Sakura, Lenna, Esther) more than once so that you can bring it down each time the boss reapplies it.
- Thanks u/Kordrun for highlighting the list of units with field effects from the wiki: https://exvius.fandom.com/wiki/Area_Effect?so=search. When looking at this list, you can use fields that target ALL or ENEMEY but fields that only target ALLY will not remove the boss's field.

ATTACK PATTERN

This has been laid out fully on the wiki, but the pattern isn't too complex, so I'll reproduce it here for your convenience.
Pre-emptive
• 50% DEF/SPR buff field effect
• 100% DEF/SPR buff (dispellable)
• 200% party elemental imperil (who cares, we’re evading all the elemental damage anyway)
• 8000 morale penalty (be prepared to dig yourself out of this hole!)
The boss follows a predictable and unchanging 10-turn rotation. Passing the 50% threshold will not alter this rotation in any way.
Turn 1
• 1x ST magic attack
• 2x AoE magic attacks
• 90% full break
• 150% elemental imperil (which we can ignore)
Turn 2
• 200% accuracy debuff to party (undispellable)
• 1x AoE physical attack and 2x ST physical attacks
• 200% party elemental imperil (still ignoring)
• 3000 morale penalty
Turn 3
• 3x ST elemental physical attacks with status ailments (your evade-provoke unit should soak up all of these without issue)
• 50% DEF/SPR buff field effect
• 50% ATK/MAG/DEF/SPR buff (dispellable, and should be dispelled for maximum enjoyment)
Turn 4
• 2x ST magic attack
• 3x AoE magic attacks
• 90% full break
• 150% elemental imperil (yep, you guessed it, still ignoring this)
Turn 5
• 200% accuracy debuff
• 2x AoE physicals attacks and 4x ST physical attacks
• 200% party elemental imperil (zzzzzzz…)
• 3000 morale penalty
Turn 6
• 3x ST elemental physical attacks with status ailments (your evade-provoke unit should soak up all of these without issue)
• 50% DEF/SPR buff field effect
• 100% ATK/MAG buff (dispellable, and should be dispelled unless you enjoy dying!)
Turn 7
• 3x ST magic attack
• 5x AoE magic attacks
• 90% full break
• 150% elemental imperil (OH NO I BETTER REMOVE THESE! Oh wait, jk)
Turn 8
• 200% accuracy debuff
• 3x AoE physical attacks
• 6x ST physical attacks
• 200% party elemental imperil (I’m running out of ways to ignore this…)
• 3000 morale penalty
Turn 9
• 3x ST elemental physical attacks with status ailments (your evade-provoke unit should soak up all of these without issue)
• 1x ST magic attack
• 1x AoE magic attack
• 1x ST physical attack
• 1x AoE physical attack
Turn 10
• 2x ST magic attack
• 2x AoE magic attack
• 2x ST physical attack
• 2x AoE physical attack
Conditional: Any Turn below 50% HP
• Beowolf will heal 10% HP

WHAT UNITS TO BRING

TANK: You’ll definitely want to bring a magic tank to this fight. A majority of the attacks are non-elemental magic, making it fairly difficult to build a team that can face-tank it. All the physical damage can be evaded or miraged, so really the only threat to the team is the magic damage. So pick your favorite one build them up for high HP/SPR and you’re good to go! You don’t need to worry about elemental resists, just pure bulk here. Currently the best magic tank we have is Abigail, and she handles this beastie with ease. But you can definitely use others such as Cecil and Ashe who have machine mitigations on their LBs, as well as Chow and Maeve who have Beast mitigations in their kit. With good external support in the form of magic mitigation and racial mitigations, Beatrix can even tank this one due to her on-demand 85% personal gen mit. Snow also makes a case for himself since he’s quite tanky with his upgrades at EX+3!
PROVOKE: You’ll definitely want a dedicated provoker with 100% evasion (or 50% if you’re bringing an accuracy reducer like Kaito or Skye). This will probably be your dedicated support unit like Sylvie or Melissa. Just make sure it’s not your tank! The provoke unit doesn’t need anything except ailment resistance.
BREAKER: You don’t necessarily need a dedicated breaker for this fight, especially if you have Abigail, or someone who can provide at least 85% ATK/MAG breaks and preferably 87% DEF/SPR breaks. If you do bring a breaker, Kaito is absolutely fantastic for this fight due to his 200% machine/demon killer buffs for the party and 50% accuracy reduction on demand. Akstar -The Return – can be useful since the boss is weak to Dark, and his LB/SLB also provides a 140%/160% beast killer buff to the party! Angeal could come in handy with the big lightning imperil and machine killer buffs. Vaan is a great breaker if you’re going with a fire team, and can provide 2-stack mirage to the party on-demand.
SUPPORT (KILLERS): Being a three-race boss, killer buffs are going to be pretty important if you want to deal big PP damage. The best killer buffer for this fight is the new Dark Lineage Fina, as she buffs all three races by 160% to the party and can do ST 250% killer buffs to demon and machine. Kaito, as mentioned above, also does 200% machine/demon killers to the party. Sylvie is great for her 250% ST demon killer with 150% party killer buff. Melissa can do 250% ST beast killer buff with 150% party killer buff. Chizuru can do 150% beast killer to party with 250% to herself. The new unit Nora can do 150% party killer buffs to beasts and machines with 250% buffs to herself. Ling is an oldie but goodie for this fight with her 150% beast and machine killers.
SUPPORT (IMBUES/AMPS): We currently only have two 100% party ampers for this fight: Sylvie (Lightning) and Melissa (Dark). Either one is great for this fight, but since Lightning is the boss’s main weakness it might be the better way to go. Fire doesn’t have a 100% party-wide amp, but Cleome can be your party imbue if you want to go fire, as can Reberta, Dark Lineage Fina, or even Ashe (at EX+3). Lehftia might even work here for her ST 100% fire amp and she provides machine killer buffs for the party!
SUPPORT (Field Effect): This is the first CoW fight that actually requires a field effect to remove the boss’s field (Thranothor had fields, but I think they were permanent?). You’ll need someone that can put up their field more than once (so kick Tsukiko out of the party!) as the boss will reapply the field several times. Imperil fields are a great option like Crowned Sakura or Dark Lineage Sakura for Lightning, Summoner Lenna, Red Mage Ingus or Taivas&Yshe for fire, and Crowned Vlad for Dark. My personal favorite, of course, is Esther’s LB field, which for over a year now has been the bane of the imperil-field meta, but now has finally proven itself useful! Of course, you could just do what Gumi wants you to do and pull Nora so you can put up her 35% fire/lightning imperil field on-demand.
DAMAGE DEALERS: The list is quite long at this point in the game, and honestly it depends a lot on which Leader Skill unit you’re bringing to the fight. Flaring Aether Rain makes pretty much any old CoW unit shine like new again, and deals a crap-ton of damage in his own right. Duane and Nora both can make your robot waifus viable options, and they of course deal considerable damage themselves. The biggest thing to consider with your DPS units on this fight is: can they cap all three killers easily (i.e. are they premium)? I’ll leave this category up to the comments section, feel free to let everyone know which DPS units you used to clear or Rank 1 this fight. For me, personally, I used FARain with Esther, Chizuru and Kaito (yes, Kaito actually did some damage).

Content Creators putting out awesome content on this CoW

(in alphabetical order)
*This is not an exhaustive list and is limited by the content I’ve personally seen on YT for this specific CoW boss. If you know of other creators that should be on this list, please let me know in the comments below and I’ll add them!
B_DOBB: https://www.youtube.com/@b_dobb1994
Cloud03: https://www.youtube.com/@cloud0346
gerrtt84: https://www.youtube.com/@gerrtt84
Hellsingir: https://www.youtube.com/@Hellsengir
Kamikiro: https://www.youtube.com/@Kamikiro/videos
Resnaught: https://www.youtube.com/@resnaught6353
Sartre: https://www.youtube.com/@SartreBraveX
Sinzar: https://www.youtube.com/@Sinzar
Zodiac: https://www.youtube.com/@zodiacjobsystem
Hope this is helpful, and good luck to everyone out there shooting for either that lvl 99 clear or that rank 1!

EDIT:
Thank you all for your insights! I've come to the conclusion that I was a bit too gullible when reading through this list for the first time, and should have dismissed many of the points instantly.
Most of the tasks are indeed:

• regularly outsourced to professionals
• monthly, annually or even less often occurring
• rooted in toxic masculinity
• not even really tasks anyway? like the jar opening u/screenee mentioned

So thanks again for opening my eyes on this and seeing the actual value of this list Mr. Farrell made! And also on not creating the female equivalent I was asking for, which would rightly be very toxic as said by u/faeduster
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So there was this post on another sub about how men and women generally divide tasks around the house / the relationship. And how men do more housework than women realise. There was a list added to the post which was created by a man called Warren Farrell called the male housework list.
While reading that list I was surprised by the massive amount of things on there! My second surprise was that I, the woman in our relationship, still do most of the relevant tasks of this list. But that's perhaps something I should talk to him about, because I feel like I'm burning up with the mental and physical load of all the housework I do. Especially since I'm the also the one with the full-time job who brings in the majority of our income...
The total housework list I had in my head was way shorter than just Mr Farrell's male housework list. This was my list:

• grocery shopping
• cooking
• dishes
• house cleaning
• washing clothes
• waste management
• gardening
• property maintenance

Since this male housework list is way more extensive than I could have imagined, I was wondering what a female equivalent of this list would be. Because I must be missing something here and might be doing even more things I didn't imagine I was doing.

So my question is:

What are all the female coded (hidden) household/relationship tasks that women perform?

​
Here is the list that Farrell came up with:

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TIME DO YOU VS. YOUR PARTNER DO THESE CHORES?
Activities most likely to break an arm, leg, or neck, or to crack a skull: In your relationship, who climbs tall ladders or checks out the roof? For example, who uses ladders to do house painting (e.g., reaching for a spot we’ve missed that’s too far away on a homemade scaffold on a windy day), or to clean outside windows; or to go into the attic? Who shovels wet snow off a roof to avoid roof damage, resulting in many men slipping off the roof every winter?
A man who falls off a roof or ladder is lucky if he breaks only an arm; some men, though, are paralyzed for life, or killed; others find shoveling snow off a roof leads to problems that get them classified in one of the next two categories.

1. Activities most likely to trigger heart attacks: Shoveling snow off a driveway or sidewalk; pushing a car that’s out of gas off a crowded street into the gas station; playing tag, soccer, or basketball with the kids for a “little too long” while trying to teach the children that a parent can be a playmate too; or carrying a sleepy child from an upstairs bed to the backseat of a car and back into bed again without waking up the child, only to find Dad’s heartbeat getting erratic and pain thrusting through his arm.
   
2. Activities most likely to cause lower back problems and hernia operations: Moving furniture or twisting his back as he juggles a heavy suitcase into the backseat of a two-door car (or behind other suitcases in a trunk); or trying to carry a IV or a computer up a down staircase; or moving the refrigerator or some file cabinets; or moving tables at a church event or picnic.
   
3. Assembly: Mail-order products, toys, bikes, furniture, bookcases, beds; putting up kids’ plastic pools, backyard tents.
   
4. Barbecuing: Shopping for barbecue, charcoal, propane; basting, marinating, cooking; cleaning up of grill, tongs, ashes, etc.
   
5. Bodyguard: at home (e.g., who usually checks it out in the middle of the night when you and your partner are awakened by a noise that sounds like someone has just broken into your home, and you know they could have a gun?); in public places (who plays bodyguard when nightfall turns a beautiful park into a dangerous park or a quaint side street into a dangerous alley; or when a lonely hiking trail proves to be a rattlesnake haven; or when a ski slope becomes an avalanche?). We've all read stories of a man saving a woman from a burning house or a raging river or a crashed car. Women often save children in these situations—and even lift cars to save children. Although I’ve asked over a million people (on IV and radio) to send me a story of a woman risking her life to save an adult man, so far, no stories. Every time a woman and man walk together in a public place, he unconsciously serves as an unpaid bodyguard.
   
6. Camping: It starts with taking psychological responsibility for avoiding disaster (checking weather predictions and safety of the location, buying correct tent and camping gear, taking responsibility for not getting lost, knowing how to use a compass, etc.), then carrying the primary backpack (often including the stove and a kerosene lamp), erecting the tent, dig¬ ging drainage trenches, gathering firewood, building the fire, hoisting food away from animals. The man is often the camping home buyer, home mover, and homemaker.
   
7. Car buying: Price negotiation, Consumer Guide/Blue Book- type research.
   
8. Car maintenance and repair: Checking hoses, belts, tire pressures, vacuuming inside, applying Armor All; comparisons of prices with mechanics, tire changing (see also Emergencies).
   
9. Carpentry: From putting up shelves (in garage, basement, and closets) to repairing loose fence slats, to making bookcases, to building a doghouse.
   
10. Christmas: Putting up lights on house and tree; tree purchase, set-up, dismantling and disposal; retrieving boxes of ornaments from dusty attic or storage area.
    
11. “Male cleaning”: Car washing (and waxing); cleaning all painting tools for reuse (brushes, rollers, pans, guides); cleaning out the basement, attic, fireplace and gutters (the darkest, dirtiest, hottest and coldest parts of the house); cleaning filters of air conditioning and heating units; cleaning yard; bathing of dogs; and, if there’s a pool or Jacuzzi. . . . (See also: Barbecuing; Diaper Changing, Male Equivalents of; Guns and Weapons; Activities most likely to break. . . . )
    
12. Coaching-as-child care: Baseball (1-Ball, CAP Leagues, Little League), softball (e.g., Bobby Soxers), football (Pop Warner), roller hockey, field hockey, ice hockey, soccer; more informal coaching-as-child care via "playing together” in basketball, or throwing, catching, and hitting a ball; instructions in individualized sports such as tennis; instructions in self- defense (aikido, boxing, wrestling).
    
13. Computer buying: Researching best hardware and software; comparing prices, new vs. used markets, etc.
    
14. Confrontations—with neighbors or strangers: “Go tell the neighbors their dogs barking too loud.” Or, you’ve just gotten into a car accident with a stranger; who approaches the other driver when everyone is emotionally off center?
    
15. Dead animal disposal: DAD quickly comes to mean Dead Animal Disposer when the gerbil dies, the rat’s been trapped, when the mouse has been lead into temptation, or when the dog’s been run over and the street has blood all over. What’s worse for some dads, though, is having to kill the almost-dead animal—when DAD means Dying Animal Disposer.
    
16. Decks: Building, sanding, staining, sealing.
    
17. Diaper changing, male equivalents of: Plunging a backed-up toilet; wiping up a child's vomit when carsick on a vacation; cleaning up after dog doo from own dog and neighbors'.
    
18. Digging: Holes and ditches, removing of boulders, tree stumps, etc.
    
19. Dinner when company’s visiting: Meat carving, wine opening, cocktail making (careful guys, most women still do most everything else when company's visiting).
    
20. Disciplining of kids: "Wait till Daddy comes home."
    
21. Dragon-killing—modern version: Swatting flies, stepping on roaches, squishing spiders—all without a sword (or, for pacifist performers, removing the spider without hurting it!).
    
22. Driving: To and from functions that both sexes go to together, especially when conditions are hazardous (e.g., when caught in rush hour in a strange city; when caught in snow on an icy mountain road; when caught in heavy rain, wind, and fog at night, or when in a foreign country), or when both are exhausted or have had a bit too much to drink; on long trips, especially late at night while the family sleeps; or on a motorcycle (have you ever seen a woman on a motorcycle with a man hanging on?). The automobile and motorcycle are the modern-day white horse. Like the man on the white horse, his role involves more accidents; the man on the white horse, though, never had to worry about a DU I citation!
    
23. Emergency prevention: In home (e.g., noticing and repairing frayed wires, plugs, sockets, smoke detectors); in car (putting chains on tires; being certain all the cars' fluids [oil, transmission, anti-freeze] are being changed on schedule, tool kit and flares are adequate, flashlight has batteries, etc.); via nature (battening down windows, putting sand bags in the trunk before a blizzard, making sure trees aren't creating a hazard to house or people should a storm arise), on the town (making sure there’s cash in the wallet and gas in the car).
    
24. When emergencies arise despite prevention: Sandbagging; changing a tire on a cold night in the rain on a dangerous part of the road in the bad part of town; taking the walk for five gallons of gas when the car runs out; or risking putting the battery cable on the wrong side of the battery.
    
25. Post-emergencies: Roof repair (shingles, holes, leaks, etc.); removal of fallen trees and branches; rebuilding and repairing after damage; or arranging for, supervising and helping with rebuilding and repair.
    
26. Fences: Building fences from stone or wood, or installing a wire fence.
    
27. Fire building, wood chopping and carting wood indoors while not getting the carpet dirty.
    
28. Garbage: Real men take out the garbage because, you see, it's in their genes to know how to use the garbage can cover as a shield should anything happen in that journey from the castle to the street. If he takes out the recycled items and the garden waste, it’s just because he wants to protect his turf of being the garbage man (excuse me, waste management engineer).
    
29. Gas/electric failures: Resetting clocks and circuit switches; relighting pilot lights; troubleshooting.
    
30. Gift-giving as a contribution to maintaining the romance: We often say men aren’t romantic, but we forget that it is men who are more likely to give the flowers she likes; the diamonds with the right 4 Cs (carat size, clarity, cut and color [then he worries about the 5th C—cost]); the earrings with the hypoallergenic studs; the perfume with the scent she prefers; the right-size ring for the correct finger with the right stone and her preferred cut; or to choose a restaurant that fits her definition of romantic, arranging the occasion, taking her there, and paying. Many a man has never had even one of these things done for him by even one woman one time (just as some women have never had a man do their laundry, cook a meal, or even make a cup of tea).
    
31. Guns and weapon: Purchase, cleaning, usage, and safety for protecting family from thieves in city and from animals in rural areas.
    
32. Hanging: Of heavy pictures, wall hangings, clocks, phones (especially when molly bolts, toggle bolts, or drywall or plastic anchors are necessary)
    
33. Installation/hook-up: Of washer, dryer, computer, TV, cables, and antennas.
    
34. Life insurance: Purchasing and choice of carrier.
    
35. Risky investment management (stocks, joint ventures, rental property): The investments that inspire blame when they fail and induce stress even when they succeed.
    
36. Opening: Jars, doors, big boxes, paint cans, windows that are stuck or frozen.
    
37. Option generating: In many couples, the man generates the options, the woman generates the rejections. For example, he asks, “Where would you like to go for dinner?” She answers, “Anywhere.” “Chinese?” he offers. “We just had that,” she reminds. “Italian?” “loo heavy.” “How about that new place—what's its name?” he tries. “I hear that's expensive.” When it comes to restaurants and to movies, the man often generates the options and the woman often selects even immediately after she's said, “It makes no difference.” Option-generating often involves having one's ideas rejected, which can be emotionally taxing.
    
38. Painting: Inside and outside of the home, and the laying down of masking tape, sheets, and other painting preparation (See also: Male cleaning and Activities most likely to break an arm . . . ).
    
39. Patio and sidewalk making: And sealing over cracks, requiring cement mixing, building of frame, making it level, and living with every mistake because it's “laid on concrete.”
    
40. Planting: New trees, bushes, larger plants.
    
41. Plastering, spackling, grouting, caulking, and mortaring: And creating the plaster, spackle, grout and mortar mixtures.
    
42. Poisons, exposure to: Use of insecticides to spray for ants and roaches; or to spray trees, flowers, garden vegies.
    
43. Programming: The VCR (“Honey, before we leave, I can't miss the special on male housework; would you program the VCR?”), or the CD player, the telephone speed dial.
    
44. Pumping gas, paying for gas, changing oil: When there's both a man and woman in the car, I notice men pump the gas about 80 percent of the time in Northeast 8c West Coast urban areas and university towns, and almost 100 percent of the time anywhere else.
    
45. Reading the business and financial pages: To get a feel for business trends that may affect career decisions and information related to investment decisions (which may just look like him “goofing off reading the paper” but is the equivalent of a woman reading recipes in Better Homes & Gardens or Family Circle [still the best selling magazines to women]). On the other hand, guys, the sports pages don't count!
    
46. Remodeling: Taking down walls, putting in windows, finishing garage or basement, and, for better men than I, building entire new rooms.
    
47. Repairs: Toilets, faucets, plumbing, electrical, window screens, sliding glass and screen doors, problems with cabinets, doors, etc.
    
48. Sharpening: Knives, mower blades, pruning shears.
    
49. Shopping for: Paint, hardware, lumber, spackle, lawnmower, tools, much of the "bulk” shopping (Office Depot, Home Depot, Price Club, CostCo, etc.) (See Also: Computer buying; Car buying; Stereo aTid video buying; and Life insurance, for additional "Male Shopping” categories)
    
50. Stereo and video buying: Hooking up, troubleshooting, repair arranging, and supervising.
    
51. Toy and bike care: Oiling, painting, and fixing kids' bikes, swing sets, jungle gyms, merry-go-rounds, and other outdoor play equipment.
    
52. Weather guard: Guarding a woman against exposure to rain, sleet, and snow by forfeiting his jacket to a woman who is cold even when he is also cold; walking between a woman and a street in which cars and trucks might splash water or slush onto their clothes; scraping ice and snow off a car windshield on a freezing morning; dropping the family off at a restaurant or movie when it's pouring, then parking and walking to the restaurant or theater in the rain (especially if no one has an umbrella); warming up the car before the family gets in it; bringing in the newspaper on a rainy morning; salting the driveway, sidewalk, and stairs when the rain has frozen over, so that if anyone falls, he does .‘(See Also: "Activities most likely to trigger heart attacks” and "Emergency” categories).
    
53. Yard work: Lawn mowing, fertilizing, weeding, clipping, leaf raking, tree trimming, etc.
    

Warren Farrell's male housework list came up here a couple months ago, so I figured I would transcribe it in full.
It comes from the book Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. It's a relationship book about communication strategies that tackles a lot of the issues that come up in some of these gender discussions.
The author is a well known feminist and men's rights advocate who spent decades working as a professional marriage counselor.
One of the premises of the book is that marital conflict often comes from "political" messages in society that people internalise. A lot of which is the kind of stuff you hear from feminists pretty regularly today. Like the idea that women do all the work at home (they don't) and are unappreciated by men (which isn't true). Or the idea that they're being exploited and treated like slaves because they don't get paid (they obviously live off their husband's money).
Of course if you're a woman and you believe that, you might start harbouring resentment against your husband!
Farrell gives the example of ads saying things like "when was the last time your husband cooked?". And says that men might harbour resentment against their wives if ads instead said things like, "when was the last time your wife helped you clean the gutters?".
Men often don't notice what they do for their families themselves.
One study mentioned by Farrell found that women exaggerate the amount of time they spend doing chores by a factor of 3.
Whereas men underestimate their contributions by a full half.
So if a man estimates that he puts in 10 hours a week at home, in reality he's doing 20.
And if a woman estimates she's doing 60, in reality she's only doing 20 as well.
Sources:

F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford, “The Allocation of Time: Empirical Findings, Behavioral Models, and Problems of Measurement,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 29, June 1991, p. 484.
Martha S. Hill and F. Thomas Juster, "Constraints and Complementaries in Time Use," in Juster and Stafford 1985, pp. 429-70 as cited in Juster, ibid., Table 3 "Changes in Time Allocation in Five Societies, 1965-1980s."

Women of course do a lot at home. On average they spend more time doing housework and taking care of children than men. But that is changing now that more and more women work full-time.
Sources:

Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift (New York: Avon Books, 1990), p. 248.
Robert VerBruggen. The Myth of the ‘Lazy’ Father (Institute for Family Studies, 2019), https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-lazy-father. Total paid and unpaid labour for fathers with stay at home mums: 62 hours to mum's 46 hours; both work at least part time: fathers labour 62 hours to mum's 59 hours; both work full-time: fathers labour 63 hours to mum's 62 hours.

When you include paid labor, men actually do more work than women across the board. That includes stay at home situations, and full-time working couples. Data going back to the 1960s has shown that this is relatively constant across time, and between different countries.
Sources:

F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford, “The Allocation of Time: Empirical Findings, Behavioral Models, and Problems of Measurement,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 29, June 1991, p. 477. Her average hours both inside and outside the home add up to fifty-four (54.4); his, to fifty-eight (57.8).
Martha Hill, Patterns of Time Use in Time, Goods, and Well-Being (Ann Arbor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1985), ed. F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford. See also Joseph H. Pleck, Working Wives of Working Husbands (Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1985), p. 41, table 2.3.
John P. Robinson, “Up Close and Personal,” American Demographics, Vol. 11, No. I 1, November 1989, p. 10. Men: 72.9 hours of leisure time; women: 74.7. Included in leisure time was time to eat, sleep, groom, take care of personal medical care, and other personal care, as well as the travel related to these activities.
John P. Robinson, "Americans on the Road,” American Demographics, September 1989, p. 10. Men commute four hours per week to women's two hours per week. Of course, working mothers with young children are likely to commute even less, and fathers, because of their income-producing responsibilities, to commute even more.
"For both moms and dads, more time spent on child care" (PEW RESEARCH CENTER, 2019), https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/12/fathers-day-facts/ft_18-05-01_fathersday_time/. 2016 dads: 61 hours per week; moms: 57. 1965 dads: 52.5 hours per week; moms: 51.
Robert VerBruggen. The Myth of the ‘Lazy’ Father (Institute for Family Studies, 2019), https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-lazy-father. Average combined paid and unpaid labour for fathers: 59 hours to mum's 54 hours.

Many of these studies come to these conclusions despite exaggerating female tasks and downplaying male tasks (which is sometimes done intentionally). This is one of the reasons Farrell made his list in the first place. He compares it against a different list used by the radical feminist Arlie Hochschild in her book The Second Shift where she tries to cherry pick government data to prove that women effectively work two jobs, while men only work one.
But the reality is a man's contributions to his family don't stop at the workplace. There's an entire second shift that men do every day around (and outside) their homes as well. Women aren't the only ones who do chores for their families. The only difference is we systematically ignore the male side of this. Many men spend entire weekends, or take days off from work, to get their honey do lists accomplished. But for some reason, we view all of this very different from how we view housework done by women.
Here is the list that Farrell came up with:

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TIME DO YOU VS. YOUR PARTNER DO THESE CHORES?
1. Activities most likely to break an arm, leg, or neck, or to crack a skull: In your relationship, who climbs tall ladders or checks out the roof? For example, who uses ladders to do house painting (e.g., reaching for a spot we’ve missed that’s too far away on a homemade scaffold on a windy day), or to clean outside windows; or to go into the attic? Who shovels wet snow off a roof to avoid roof damage, resulting in many men slipping off the roof every winter?
A man who falls off a roof or ladder is lucky if he breaks only an arm; some men, though, are paralyzed for life, or killed; others find shoveling snow off a roof leads to problems that get them classified in one of the next two categories.
2. Activities most likely to trigger heart attacks: Shoveling snow off a driveway or sidewalk; pushing a car that’s out of gas off a crowded street into the gas station; playing tag, soccer, or basketball with the kids for a “little too long” while trying to teach the children that a parent can be a playmate too; or carrying a sleepy child from an upstairs bed to the backseat of a car and back into bed again without waking up the child, only to find Dad’s heartbeat getting erratic and pain thrusting through his arm.
3. Activities most likely to cause lower back problems and hernia operations: Moving furniture or twisting his back as he juggles a heavy suitcase into the backseat of a two-door car (or behind other suitcases in a trunk); or trying to carry a IV or a computer up a down staircase; or moving the refrigerator or some file cabinets; or moving tables at a church event or picnic.
4. Assembly: Mail-order products, toys, bikes, furniture, bookcases, beds; putting up kids’ plastic pools, backyard tents.
5. Barbecuing: Shopping for barbecue, charcoal, propane; basting, marinating, cooking; cleaning up of grill, tongs, ashes, etc.
6. Bodyguard: at home (e.g., who usually checks it out in the middle of the night when you and your partner are awakened by a noise that sounds like someone has just broken into your home, and you know they could have a gun?); in public places (who plays bodyguard when nightfall turns a beautiful park into a dangerous park or a quaint side street into a dangerous alley; or when a lonely hiking trail proves to be a rattlesnake haven; or when a ski slope becomes an avalanche?). We've all read stories of a man saving a woman from a burning house or a raging river or a crashed car. Women often save children in these situations—and even lift cars to save children. Although I’ve asked over a million people (on IV and radio) to send me a story of a woman risking her life to save an adult man, so far, no stories. Every time a woman and man walk together in a public place, he unconsciously serves as an unpaid bodyguard.
7. Camping: It starts with taking psychological responsibility for avoiding disaster (checking weather predictions and safety of the location, buying correct tent and camping gear, taking responsibility for not getting lost, knowing how to use a compass, etc.), then carrying the primary backpack (often including the stove and a kerosene lamp), erecting the tent, dig¬ ging drainage trenches, gathering firewood, building the fire, hoisting food away from animals. The man is often the camping home buyer, home mover, and homemaker.
8. Car buying: Price negotiation, Consumer Guide/Blue Book- type research.
9. Car maintenance and repair: Checking hoses, belts, tire pressures, vacuuming inside, applying Armor All; comparisons of prices with mechanics, tire changing (see also Emergencies).
10. Carpentry: From putting up shelves (in garage, basement, and closets) to repairing loose fence slats, to making bookcases, to building a doghouse.
11. Christmas: Putting up lights on house and tree; tree purchase, set-up, dismantling and disposal; retrieving boxes of ornaments from dusty attic or storage area.
12. “Male cleaning”: Car washing (and waxing); cleaning all painting tools for reuse (brushes, rollers, pans, guides); cleaning out the basement, attic, fireplace and gutters (the darkest, dirtiest, hottest and coldest parts of the house); cleaning filters of air conditioning and heating units; cleaning yard; bathing of dogs; and, if there’s a pool or Jacuzzi. . . . (See also: Barbecuing; Diaper Changing, Male Equivalents of; Guns and Weapons; Activities most likely to break. . . . )
13. Coaching-as-child care: Baseball (1-Ball, CAP Leagues, Little League), softball (e.g., Bobby Soxers), football (Pop Warner), roller hockey, field hockey, ice hockey, soccer; more informal coaching-as-child care via "playing together” in basketball, or throwing, catching, and hitting a ball; instructions in individualized sports such as tennis; instructions in self- defense (aikido, boxing, wrestling).
14. Computer buying: Researching best hardware and software; comparing prices, new vs. used markets, etc.
15. Confrontations—with neighbors or strangers: “Go tell the neighbors their dogs barking too loud.” Or, you’ve just gotten into a car accident with a stranger; who approaches the other driver when everyone is emotionally off center?
16. Dead animal disposal: DAD quickly comes to mean Dead Animal Disposer when the gerbil dies, the rat’s been trapped, when the mouse has been lead into temptation, or when the dog’s been run over and the street has blood all over. What’s worse for some dads, though, is having to kill the almost-dead animal—when DAD means Dying Animal Disposer.
17. Decks: Building, sanding, staining, sealing.
18. Diaper changing, male equivalents of: Plunging a backed-up toilet; wiping up a child's vomit when carsick on a vacation; cleaning up after dog doo from own dog and neighbors'.
19. Digging: Holes and ditches, removing of boulders, tree stumps, etc.
20. Dinner when company’s visiting: Meat carving, wine opening, cocktail making (careful guys, most women still do most everything else when company's visiting).
21. Disciplining of kids: "Wait till Daddy comes home."
22. Dragon-killing—modern version: Swatting flies, stepping on roaches, squishing spiders—all without a sword (or, for pacifist performers, removing the spider without hurting it!).
23. Driving: To and from functions that both sexes go to together, especially when conditions are hazardous (e.g., when caught in rush hour in a strange city; when caught in snow on an icy mountain road; when caught in heavy rain, wind, and fog at night, or when in a foreign country), or when both are exhausted or have had a bit too much to drink; on long trips, especially late at night while the family sleeps; or on a motorcycle (have you ever seen a woman on a motorcycle with a man hanging on?). The automobile and motorcycle are the modern-day white horse. Like the man on the white horse, his role involves more accidents; the man on the white horse, though, never had to worry about a DU I citation!
24. Emergency prevention: In home (e.g., noticing and repairing frayed wires, plugs, sockets, smoke detectors); in car (putting chains on tires; being certain all the cars' fluids [oil, transmission, anti-freeze] are being changed on schedule, tool kit and flares are adequate, flashlight has batteries, etc.); via nature (battening down windows, putting sand bags in the trunk before a blizzard, making sure trees aren't creating a hazard to house or people should a storm arise), on the town (making sure there’s cash in the wallet and gas in the car).
25. When emergencies arise despite prevention: Sandbagging; changing a tire on a cold night in the rain on a dangerous part of the road in the bad part of town; taking the walk for five gallons of gas when the car runs out; or risking putting the battery cable on the wrong side of the battery.
26. Post-emergencies: Roof repair (shingles, holes, leaks, etc.); removal of fallen trees and branches; rebuilding and repairing after damage; or arranging for, supervising and helping with rebuilding and repair.
27. Fences: Building fences from stone or wood, or installing a wire fence.
28. Fire building, wood chopping and carting wood indoors while not getting the carpet dirty.
29. Garbage: Real men take out the garbage because, you see, it's in their genes to know how to use the garbage can cover as a shield should anything happen in that journey from the castle to the street. If he takes out the recycled items and the garden waste, it’s just because he wants to protect his turf of being the garbage man (excuse me, waste management engineer).
30. Gas/electric failures: Resetting clocks and circuit switches; relighting pilot lights; troubleshooting.
31. Gift-giving as a contribution to maintaining the romance: We often say men aren’t romantic, but we forget that it is men who are more likely to give the flowers she likes; the diamonds with the right 4 Cs (carat size, clarity, cut and color [then he worries about the 5th C—cost]); the earrings with the hypoallergenic studs; the perfume with the scent she prefers; the right-size ring for the correct finger with the right stone and her preferred cut; or to choose a restaurant that fits her definition of romantic, arranging the occasion, taking her there, and paying. Many a man has never had even one of these things done for him by even one woman one time (just as some women have never had a man do their laundry, cook a meal, or even make a cup of tea).
32. Guns and weapon: Purchase, cleaning, usage, and safety for protecting family from thieves in city and from animals in rural areas.
33. Hanging: Of heavy pictures, wall hangings, clocks, phones (especially when molly bolts, toggle bolts, or drywall or plastic anchors are necessary)
34. Installation/hook-up: Of washer, dryer, computer, TV, cables, and antennas.
35. Life insurance: Purchasing and choice of carrier.
36. Risky investment management (stocks, joint ventures, rental property): The investments that inspire blame when they fail and induce stress even when they succeed.
37. Opening: Jars, doors, big boxes, paint cans, windows that are stuck or frozen.
38. Option generating: In many couples, the man generates the options, the woman generates the rejections. For example, he asks, “Where would you like to go for dinner?” She answers, “Anywhere.” “Chinese?” he offers. “We just had that,” she reminds. “Italian?” “loo heavy.” “How about that new place—what's its name?” he tries. “I hear that's expensive.” When it comes to restaurants and to movies, the man often generates the options and the woman often selects even immediately after she's said, “It makes no difference.” Option-generating often involves having one's ideas rejected, which can be emotionally taxing.
39. Painting: Inside and outside of the home, and the laying down of masking tape, sheets, and other painting preparation (See also: Male cleaning and Activities most likely to break an arm . . . ).
40. Patio and sidewalk making: And sealing over cracks, requiring cement mixing, building of frame, making it level, and living with every mistake because it's “laid on concrete.”
41. Planting: New trees, bushes, larger plants.
42. Plastering, spackling, grouting, caulking, and mortaring: And creating the plaster, spackle, grout and mortar mixtures.
43. Poisons, exposure to: Use of insecticides to spray for ants and roaches; or to spray trees, flowers, garden vegies.
44. Programming: The VCR (“Honey, before we leave, I can't miss the special on male housework; would you program the VCR?”), or the CD player, the telephone speed dial.
45. Pumping gas, paying for gas, changing oil: When there's both a man and woman in the car, I notice men pump the gas about 80 percent of the time in Northeast 8c West Coast urban areas and university towns, and almost 100 percent of the time anywhere else.
46. Reading the business and financial pages: To get a feel for business trends that may affect career decisions and information related to investment decisions (which may just look like him “goofing off reading the paper” but is the equivalent of a woman reading recipes in Better Homes & Gardens or Family Circle [still the best selling magazines to women]). On the other hand, guys, the sports pages don't count!
47. Remodeling: Taking down walls, putting in windows, finishing garage or basement, and, for better men than I, building entire new rooms.
48. Repairs: Toilets, faucets, plumbing, electrical, window screens, sliding glass and screen doors, problems with cabinets, doors, etc.
49. Sharpening: Knives, mower blades, pruning shears.
50. Shopping for: Paint, hardware, lumber, spackle, lawnmower, tools, much of the "bulk” shopping (Office Depot, Home Depot, Price Club, CostCo, etc.) (See Also: Computer buying; Car buying; Stereo aTid video buying; and Life insurance, for additional "Male Shopping” categories)
51. Stereo and video buying: Hooking up, troubleshooting, repair arranging, and supervising.
52. Toy and bike care: Oiling, painting, and fixing kids' bikes, swing sets, jungle gyms, merry-go-rounds, and other outdoor play equipment.
53. Weather guard: Guarding a woman against exposure to rain, sleet, and snow by forfeiting his jacket to a woman who is cold even when he is also cold; walking between a woman and a street in which cars and trucks might splash water or slush onto their clothes; scraping ice and snow off a car windshield on a freezing morning; dropping the family off at a restaurant or movie when it's pouring, then parking and walking to the restaurant or theater in the rain (especially if no one has an umbrella); warming up the car before the family gets in it; bringing in the newspaper on a rainy morning; salting the driveway, sidewalk, and stairs when the rain has frozen over, so that if anyone falls, he does .‘(See Also: "Activities most likely to trigger heart attacks” and "Emergency” categories).
54. Yard work: Lawn mowing, fertilizing, weeding, clipping, leaf raking, tree trimming, etc.
So if men do all this, why don't we know about it? In part because instead of complaining, men offer to carry the luggage, barbecue, build the shelves, or shop for the stereo. And in part because we perform our roles unconsciously, as with our bodyguard role; it's hard to complain about that of which we're unconscious. Complaining is the shadow side of consciousness. But men were secretly hoping for the lighter side: appreciation and love . . . but someone took the appreciation and love out to the garbage.
Hopefully this list destroys some myths that create anger toward men, and creates instead some of the following understandings.

Disclaimer: It is early days, the patch is fresh, and the best players in the world are busy with that pesky MSI and not giving us any builds yet. This is what feels optimal to me, what I think will eventually be shown as optimal in winrate, and I hope to make a persuasive enough argument to convince you to try it out and get more data on the build for everyone’s benefit.
The core build: Stormrazor>Galeforce>Runaan’s. Rune keystone: Lethal Tempo or Fleet Footwork.
Ashe: I think everyone will agree when I define Ashe as a good laner with high utility and carry (but not hypercarry) damage. I think this build perfectly plays into her strengths and helps cover some of her weaknesses. This build really highlights her chase-down/kiting ability, while helping with both her mobility and burst.
Stormrazor: Builds out of noonquiver, a great first buy in lane. Stormrazor maths out super gold efficient. And when completed, as your first item spike, it is super strong. With chase-down/kiting such a big part of Ashe’s kit, the move speed proc on stormrazor just further increases that move speed delta, giving you a big advantage in trades or all-ins. This is going to secure you kills or save your life in a way no other first item buy will.
Galeforce: It’s the only mythic with AD+AS, a compelling argument on it’s own. Then we have the 7% MS, hey! MS is the best stat in the game, and Ashe uses it as well as anyone and better than most, again that move speed delta grows. Then there is the Dash+Execute active. This is going to secure you kills or save your life in a way no other Mythic can. Gigantic 2 item spike.
Runaan’s: I admit, I love this item, but my bias aside I think the argument for it is strong. First, it now gives 30 magic damage on hit, even in single target, so it is comparable to the 30AD on RFC and PD. Not the same, as enemy resists may make this better or worse from situation to situation, but comparable over-all. Second: Waveclear. As an ADC our job is to vacuum up as much gold as possible, runaan’s is a giant leap in waveclear and jungle camp clearing. Third, AoE teamfighting, you won’t always hit 3 targets, but when you do, wow. 3 items and you're fully online; a farming, teamfighting, hottie with a bow.
(Bonus note: I think there is a case for runaan’s second some times. Never when you are ahead, galeforce is to big of a spike, but when behind because you had to lane with a potato or cat. It is cheaper than galeforce, and will let you farm waves, jungle camps, and assists in skirmishes/teamfights to get you back into the game with GF 3rd.)
Runes: My recommended full build at lvl 18 with fully stacked alacrity and Q active comes to 2.46 of the 2.5 attack speed cap. This means unlike the new rageblade builds on the on-hit type champions we do not need that uncapped AS aspect of lethal tempo. This gives us a meaningful choice. Lethal Tempo offers late game, Fleet Footwork offers us early game. The FF+Stormrazor synergy is undeniable, and the sustain from FF helps with those hard lanes, you can’t carry if you get crushed in lane and can just never dig yourself back out. Secure your early game to ensure your late game is super valid, do not sleep on FF. However, Lethal Tempo still scales well and is great. I think this choice is meaningful, gives you a lever to control your tilt towards early game or late game, but because both are good you won’t auto-lose if you forgot to change your runepage from last game. (Bonus note: take approach velocity!)
4th and 5th Item: Kraken, Shieldbow, LDR, pick 2. You should probably get the armor pen item either way every game, LDR is best, but if you need anti-heal badly you can go mortal reminder. The real choice here is between kraken and shieldbow, you just have to decide between tank busting with the great combo of kraken+LDR or if you need the anti-assassin/durability of shieldbow. My attack speed cap example assumed kraken, so no worries there.
So that’s it. That’s my 13.10 Ashe build. It feels so good to me. Damage output feels great. Playstyle feels great. Meaningful choices in runes and final build feels great. I think she is stronger, and more fun than last patch!
Give it a try and tell me what you think, any feedback is welcome!

Recently got my best friend into One Piece and we've been reading it together for the past few weeks. It's been enjoyable seeing his reactions and reliving my first time experience with the manga vicariously through him. I would recommend doing a reread alongside someone who doesn't know anything about One Piece, it made me remember why I love this series in the first place.
Anyway, we thought it would be a fun idea to make a top 10 strongest characters every 100 chapters since we both like to powerscale. The only rule being that the character either has to be explicitly named or shown on panel. I have not spoiled him or influenced him in any way and his prior knowledge of One Piece is nearly nonexistent. So let's see what a top 10 strongest characters list would like from a pair of fresh eyes. This list includes everything from Romance Dawn to the end of Loguetown.
Friend's Top 10:

1. Dragon - Created an island-wide storm in Loguetown and is so infamous that Captain Smoker knew who he was immediately. He predicts Dragon is Luffy's father because he helped the Strawhats escape.
2. Mihawk - World's strongest swordsman. Cut down 50 ships with ease and neg-diffed Zoro.
3. Shanks - Doesn't have any of feats but was confident in challenging Mihawk. Weaker than Mihawk because he only has one arm.
4. Captain Smoker - Was able to easily apprehend Buggy's crew and Alvida who are both DF users. Smoke Smoke Fruit makes him seemingly invincible, with the exception of Dragon's wind or air-based attacks.
5. Luffy - Ran through the East Blue with relative ease but doesn't have anything to fight back against Smoker (his suggestions were a vacuum or vacuum DF or sucking him up).
6. Zoro - Could potentially be stronger than Luffy but uncertain. In all of his fights Zoro was nerfed in some sort of way so we haven't seen him go all out (except against Mihawk but that doesn't count).
7. Don Krieg - In his opinion gave Luffy the hardest time of the East Blue villains. His poison gas can kill anyone if they don't have a gas mask.
8. Buggy - Believes in "Buggy stonks". Has been to the grandline and former crewmates with Shanks.
9. Arlong - Has an overinflated bounty by riding the coattails of a warlord and "running a resort". Luffy had an easier time against him than against Don Krieg.
10. Gin - Gave Sanji the hands and shattered Pearl's armor in one blow.

Honorable Mentions: Sanji, Captain Kuro, Jango, Jango-amped Butchie
He did not include anyone on the list that he felt were featless or didn't have enough information about to make a conclusion. So characters that were briefly seen or mentioned in passing were left out such as Garp and Jinbe.
My Top 10 with the perspective of a new reader:

1. Jinbe - One of the 7 warlords, the same rank as the WSS Mihawk. Arlong stated that fishmen are 10x stronger than humans, so could be potentially 10x stronger than Mihawk.
2. Mihawk - WSS, one of the 7 warlords.
3. Dragon - It's only speculation that he caused the storm at Loguetown, but made someone as strong as Captain Smoker shit himself.
4. Shanks - Has history with Mihawk, but considered a "has-been". Was perhaps as strong as Mihawk with 2 arms.
5. Vice Admiral Garp - Highest ranking marine we've seen so far. Only 2 ranks below fleet admiral.
6. Bogard - We don't know what his rank is, but he is the right hand of a Vice Admiral. Was able to cut Koby's guns to ribbons in the blink of the eye.
7. Lt. Commander Brannew - second highest ranked marine we've seen
8. Benn Beckmann - right hand of Shanks and soloed all of his Higuma's men with ease. Probably got stronger.
9. Captain Smoker- Insanely strong devil fruit but only has the rank of Captain. Most likely has a weakness we don't know about.
10. Luffy

Honorable Mentions: Zoro, Sanji, Gin, Arlong
Was a lot of fun making this! I will return with a new top 10 after another 100 chapters. Cheers!

Recently got my best friend into One Piece and we've been reading it together for the past few weeks. It's been enjoyable seeing his reactions and reliving my first time experience with the manga vicariously through him. I would recommend doing a reread alongside someone who doesn't know anything about One Piece, it made me remember why I love this series in the first place.
Anyway, we thought it would be a fun idea to make a top 10 strongest characters every 100 chapters since we both like to powerscale. The only rule being that the character either has to be explicitly named or shown on panel. I have not spoiled him or influenced him in any way and his prior knowledge of One Piece is nearly nonexistent. So let's see what a top 10 strongest characters list would like from a pair of fresh eyes. This list includes everything from Romance Dawn to the end of Loguetown.
Friend's Top 10:

1. Dragon - Created an island-wide storm in Loguetown and is so infamous that Captain Smoker knew who he was immediately. He predicts Dragon is Luffy's father because he helped the Strawhats escape.
2. Mihawk - World's strongest swordsman. Cut down 50 ships with ease and neg-diffed Zoro.
3. Shanks - Doesn't have any of feats but was confident in challenging Mihawk. Weaker than Mihawk because he only has one arm.
4. Captain Smoker - Was able to easily apprehend Buggy's crew and Alvida who are both DF users. Smoke Smoke Fruit makes him seemingly invincible, with the exception of Dragon's wind or air-based attacks.
5. Luffy - Ran through the East Blue with relative ease but doesn't have anything to fight back against Smoker (his suggestions were a vacuum or vacuum DF or sucking him up).
6. Zoro - Could potentially be stronger than Luffy but uncertain. In all of his fights Zoro was nerfed in some sort of way so we haven't seen him go all out (except against Mihawk but that doesn't count).
7. Don Krieg - In his opinion gave Luffy the hardest time of the East Blue villains. His poison gas can kill anyone if they don't have a gas mask.
8. Buggy - Believes in "Buggy stonks". Has been to the grandline and former crewmates with Shanks.
9. Arlong - Has an overinflated bounty by riding the coattails of a warlord and "running a resort". Luffy had an easier time against him than against Don Krieg.
10. Gin - Gave Sanji the hands and shattered Pearl's armor in one blow.

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Honorable Mentions: Sanji, Captain Kuro, Jango, Jango-amped Butchie
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He did not include anyone on the list that he felt were featless or didn't have enough information about to make a conclusion. So characters that were briefly seen or mentioned in passing were left out such as Garp and Jinbe.
​
My Top 10 with the perspective of a new reader:

1. Jinbe - One of the 7 warlords, the same rank as the WSS Mihawk. Arlong stated that fishmen are 10x stronger than humans, so could be potentially 10x stronger than Mihawk.
2. Mihawk - WSS, one of the 7 warlords.
3. Dragon - It's only speculation that he caused the storm at Loguetown, but made someone as strong as Captain Smoker shit himself.
4. Shanks - Has history with Mihawk, but considered a "has-been". Was perhaps as strong as Mihawk with 2 arms.
5. Vice Admiral Garp - Highest ranking marine we've seen so far. Only 2 ranks below fleet admiral.
6. Bogard - We don't know what his rank is, but he is the right hand of a Vice Admiral. Was able to cut Koby's guns to ribbons in the blink of the eye.
7. Lt. Commander Brannew - second highest ranked marine we've seen
8. Benn Beckmann - right hand of Shanks and soloed all of his Higuma's men with ease. Probably got stronger.
9. Captain Smoker- Insanely strong devil fruit but only has the rank of Captain. Most likely has a weakness we don't know about.
10. Luffy

Honorable Mentions: Zoro, Sanji, Gin, Arlong
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Was a lot of fun making this! I will return with a new top 10 after another 100 chapters. Cheers!

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The Soviet Union and East Germany were two of the most developed socialist experiments. I wanted to understand the differences between the two in terms of the development of feminism and LGBT rights—a topic that is deeply significant to leftists. After my research, I believe I have enough evidence to make a conclusion about the extent of gender and sexuality rights in the Soviet Union and East Germany, which I will share with you all.
The purpose of this post is to compare and contrast the gender and sexuality rights in the two countries. Every source I cite is available online either via open access or through piracy. To pirate scientific articles, you can use sci-hub. To pirate books, you can use Library Genesis. More about open access to information here.

Summary

Gender and sexuality rights in East Germany were far more developed than in the Soviet Union. Studying these two countries through the lens of progressiveness may be valuable so socialists in advancing civil rights going forward.

Analysis Of The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics

The Soviet Union was preceded by the Russian Empire, the government of which was a monarchy. Since the 1700s, the empires of the world were grappling with the ideas of the enlightenment, such as liberty, equality, and republicanism. The international feminist movement arose from these ideas, aiming to give women a greater degree of autonomy and choice. In the early 1900s up until the revolution 1917, the Russian League for Women's Rights was a highly notable feminist organization in the empire, which organized a congress whose primary goal was women's suffrage. One historical account noted:

the Women’s Congress has been largely invisible in the historical literature. Yet this forum for discussion about the status of Russian women won great attention at the time. Its feminist initiators wanted to show that women could successfully organize a large political gathering, deliberate, and make proposals. Despite the many obstacles put in their path by the authorities, feminist activists succeeded in organizing the largest women’s legal gathering in prerevolutionary history.

The empire repressed feminist organizations while they continued to hold discussions about equality and how it was to be achieved. There were both liberal and socialist feminists who wanted incremental change and revolutionary change respectively. During the February revolution of 1917, the liberal provisional government reluctantly granted women the right to vote after massive protests. But ultimately, it was the socialist feminists who won with the October revolution of 1917.^\1])
A new world was in birth. The Soviet Union was the world's first socialist state. Its 1936 constitution extended universal suffrage to all workers, and it explicitly declared equality of the sexes:

Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life.^\2])

In October of 1918, the union ratified the Code on Marriage, the Family, and Guardianship, which further enshrined equality into law, granted the right of married individuals to their own separate property and earnings, and made divorce more easily accessible.^\3]) Abortion was legalized in 1918. Broadly, women started to gain economic independence from men.
After the revolution, the LGBT community gained some freedom. New criminal codes left out laws against LGBT activity. Sadly, reactionary attitudes were still prevalent. Violence and discrimination against LGBT people continued in the Soviet Union. Under Stalin's leadership, homosexuality was made illegal by the Criminal Code of 1934.^\4])
Stalin's leadership is associated with a revival of reactionary attitudes toward gender and sex. A socialist feminist who grew up in the union wrote about feminism during the Stalinist era:

During the period of the personality cult, all questions con­cerning women and the family were slighted or ignored com­pletely. Russia’s finest intellectual energies were destroyed and a generation gap arose. The neofeminist movement began in a virtual vacuum, for our women know almost nothing about the Russian feminist movement of the early 1900s.^\5])

We have records of the soviet people disapproving of these reactionary policies. For example, a 1936 law banning abortion was put up for public debate. A newspaper article reported:

For ten days already millions of Soviet citizens have been debating the government’s project of law. At meetings, in the shops and clubs, in the collectives and Soviet farms, in the institutions and the homes, conversations about the project are taking place. From such serious and matter-of-fact discussion tens and hundreds of concrete remarks, amendments and additions are born. One of our newspapers received no less than 3,713 letters from readers during these days. The toilers of our land are clearly stating their suggestions, demands and explanations.

One woman stated her concern about banning abortion:

I am non-party, married, with a 5-year-old son. I work as an engineer and have been and still am in a responsible position. I regard myself as a good citizen of the USSR. I cannot agree with the prohibition of abortions. And I am very glad that this law has not entered into force but has been submitted to the workers for discussion. The prohibition of abortion means the compulsory birth of a child to a woman who does not want children. The birth of a child ties married people to each other. Not everyone will readily abandon a child, for alimony is not all that children need. Where the parents produce a child of their own free will, all is well. But where a child comes into the family against the will of the parents, a grim personal drama will be enacted which will undoubtedly lower the social value of the parents and leave its mark on the child.

Another woman stated:

There are thousands of women in the same position as myself. I am a student reading the first course of the second Moscow Medical Institute. My husband is also a student reading same course at our Institute. Our scholarships amount jointly to 205 rubles. Neither he nor I have a room of our own. Next year we intend to apply for admission to a hostel, but I do not know whether our application will be granted. I love children and shall probably have some in four or five years’ time. But, can I have a child now? Having a child now would mean leaving the Institute, lagging behind my husband, forgetting everything I have learnt and probably leaving Moscow because there is nowhere to live.^\6])

Ultimately, the ban on abortion was passed, symbolizing an era of reactionary policies toward gender and sexuality rights.
After the Stalinist era, reactionary policies were rolled back. In 1955, abortion was made legal again.^\7]) Over the coming decades, attitudes toward feminism slowly advanced. A notable advancement is the Vostok 6 space mission, which was the first spaceflight to carry a woman. Furthermore, the 1977 constitution of the Soviet Union was very progressive for its time, affirming equality between men and women in all aspects of public life, among other notable civil rights which are beyond the scope of this post.^\9])
After the Stalinist era, there are records of intense debate from various groups pressuring the government to legalize homosexuality. However, it remained illegal up until the dissolution of the union in 1991.^\9])

Analysis Of The German Democratic Republic

There isn't much nuance to explore about East Germany's predecessor. The German Democratic Republic was born from the ashes of the Third Reich. Gender and sexuality rights were nonexistent in Nazi Germany. Women were forced into highly reactionary essentialist gender roles and queer people were murdered on an industrial scale. Such policies caused human suffering on a scale never before seen. As a result of the horrifying ideology of the Nazis, East Germany steered in the complete opposite direction.
The socialist government of the republic picked up where feminists left off before the Nazis gained power. A book written by a former East German citizen explained the foundation of gender rights in the republic:

In the GDR, the idea of emancipation was based on the political struggles going back to the 19 th century when August Bebel (1840 - 1913) and Clara Zetkin (1857 - 1933) argued that the solution of the ‘women’s question’ was inextricably linked with a liberation from exploitation and the creation of a socialist society. Equal rights for women were anchored in the constitution right from the very beginning of the GDR. The 1949 constitution states simply: ‘Men and women are equal.’ In 1950, the GDR introduced a specific law (Gesetz über die Rechte der Frau) with the aim of securing the rights of women and protecting mothers. It stated that ‘marriage must not result in a reduction of women’s rights’. It emphasised the need for support in training and professional development for women and made any dismissal because of pregnancy illegal. The reasoning behind this law was given as making ‘it possible for women to take part in creative work for society, in local and national government, in political as well as cultural areas in both towns and villages’

In the next decade, women saw further advancement in society:

Further rights for women were granted under a new law that came into force in 1965, initiated by the first female Secretary of State for Justice, Hilde Benjamin. This gave women the right to develop their own career paths through training and qualification. It also simplified the regulations regarding divorce, abolishing the notion of guilt and replacing it with the ‘break-up principle’, e.g. if a husband attempted to prevent his wife following her own career choices.

By the 1970s, staggering advances were made in access to birth control and maternity rights:

1972 was an important year for the emancipation of women in the GDR. Abortion was made legal and free contraception became available for all women above the age of 16. Maternity leave, paid at 90 per cent of salary, was increased from 14 to 18 weeks (to be increased to 26 weeks in 1976). In addition, the payment of 1,000 Marks (more than a month’s average salary) was introduced on the birth of a baby as support for the [parents].^\10])

Civic participation among women increased greatly. The politics of East Germany were made up of political parties in the National Front and "mass organizations," one of which was the Democratic Women's League of Germany, which was established right after the war in 1946 and worked heavily with the Socialist Unity Party of Germany to include women in the building of socialism.^\11]) According to the Wikipedia article for the organization (accessed May 18th, 2023), in 1988 the league had 1.5 million members. However I was unable to access the source for this claim, so this number can't be confirmed.
While women made advances, their representation in society still lagged behind men. In the 1986 general election, 339 men were voted into parliament, but only 161 women were voted in.^\12])
East Germany was notably very sex positive. East German leadership considered a healthy sexuality to be a goal of socialism, which included the liberalization of laws relating to sex and sexuality (including LGBT rights, which will be discussed in this analysis) and encouraging loving relationships with non-exploitative sex. A goal of the republic was to phase out prostitution, which was seen as a form of exploitation. Initially, the government sought to integrate prostitutes into the workforce through training instead of using punitive action. However, measures became more intense as time went on, seeing prostitutes being put in corrective detention centers for up to two years. Prostitution was made illegal in 1968. The subsequent rate of prostitution was low, with one estimate stating that about 3,000 women made a living as prostitutes. It was also noted that there was some element of hypocrisy among government officials, who still received services from sex workers. The same source discusses the results of surveys about sexuality and love in East Germany:

A comparison of sexual attitudes among young people in East and West Germany completed in 1990 reported that there was more harmony between male and female responses to questions about life choices and enjoyment of sex in the East than in the West. In one study 73 percent of GDR women and 74 percent of GDR men said they wanted to marry, compared with 71 percent of FRG women and only 57 percent of FRG men. Another study of student attitudes and experiences revealed that 74 percent of Eastern males and 75 percent of Eastern females felt that their most recent coitus was sexually satisfying, compared to 84 percent of West German males but only 46 percent of West German females. While 76 percent of Eastern males and 82 percent of Eastern females claimed to be "happy" after sex, only 71 percent of Western males and 52 percent of Western females could say the same.^\13])

A book about sexuality under socialism noted other positive sex outcomes in East Germany:

in 1984, Kurt Starke and Walter Friedrich published a book of their research findings about love and sexuality among East Germans under the age of thirty. The authors found that GDR youth, both male and female, were highly satisfied with their sexual lives, and that two-thirds of the young women self-reported that they achieved orgasm “almost always,” with an additional 18 percent saying that they did so “often.” Starke and Friedrich claimed that these levels of personal satisfaction in the bedroom resulted from socialist life: “the sense of social security, equal educational and professional responsibilities, equal rights and possibilities for participating in and determining the life of society.”

The author argued that, in building a society that uplifts women, a natural corollary is that everybody has more fulfilling relationships and a healthier sex life.^\14])
LGBT rights in East Germany were relatively straight forward. According to the previously cited book written by a former GDR citizen:

as early as 1956, the GDR had abolished paragraph 175 of the German penal code which outlawed homosexuality, but even beforehand the law had been largely ignored.^\10])

Queer people were still largely discriminated against, with them being excluded from some political organizations, but not persecuted on the scale of the Soviet Union. Queer acceptance slowly grew as time went on and culture progressed. Just before the collapse of the republic in 1989, Coming out, the last film released in East Germany, detailed a gay relationship with a cameo from a trans activist , marking a significant shift toward the acceptance of the LGBT community.^\15])

Conclusion

East Germany was far more progressive than the Soviet Union in terms of gender and sexuality rights. The USSR's gender and sexuality rights were shaky, with rights initially being afforded, but rolled back during the Stalinist era, only to be half-reinstated afterward. By contrast, the GDR's advancement of gender and sexuality rights consistently trended upward as time went on with little interruption. However, the East German government still lacked female representation and prostitution was criminalized.
The difference between the two is likely due to a couple factors. Firstly, the GDR's context facilitated a more direct shift toward progressivism, as they wanted to steer as far away from Nazism as possible. Secondly, the GDR was established decades after the Soviet Union, when feminism and queer acceptance were more advanced. Finally, the leadership of East Germany made an effort to include women in politics from the very beginning.
Modern socialists can learn from the mistakes and successes of these countries. The main takeaway should be: to build a version of socialism that advances well-being for all, we must actively make an effort to include everyone, and we must accommodate a broad range of sexual and gender expression.

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The next "expected" trial for Global should be the new Chamber of Arms battles (Sheratan EX and Evil Queen Byalcua), but at this point they're now technically late (they came with the Raegen/Sol banner in JP). I'll be posting some tips anyway for when/if these trials arrive in the future.
This post will mostly focus on Evil Queen Byalcua. The Sheratan EX fight is extremely simple and I meme cleared it in JP in just a few turns for amusement.
For Sheratan EX, it's the exact same AI and skills as the old trial, with some new (easy to complete) missions, and higher stats. Beating Sheratan EX will give you the upgrade recipe to holy wand to make it 2h with modern stats (and flat stats for the new Sheratan unit). The shards to upgrade Sheratan to ex3 come from the Evil Queen Byalcua special missions (see below).

Details

Wiki page: https://exvius.fandom.com/wiki/Reverse_Chamber_of_Arms_-_The_Evil_Queen_of_Ambition_and_Intrigue

Missions	Reward
Complete the quest	NV Unit Sheratan
Deal Light Damage	100 Lapis
Use 5 or less items	100 Lapis
Clear without any KO's	100 Lapis

There's ALSO special (permanent) missions to obtain Sheratan unit fragments, bringing her to ex3 if you complete everything:

Missions	Reward
Clear Chamber of Arms: The Troubled Strategist (EX)	50x Sheratan Fragment
Clear Evil Princess Byalcua with Sheratan in the party	50x Sheratan Fragment
Clear Evil Princess Byalcua with "FFBE"-tagged units only	50x Sheratan Fragment
Clear Evil Princess Byalcua with "FFBE 4th Season"-tagged units only	50x Sheratan Fragment
Clear Evil Princess Byalcua within 25 turns	50x Sheratan Fragment
Clear Evil Princess Byalcua within 18 turns	50x Sheratan Fragment
Clear Evil Princess Byalcua within 12 turns	50x Sheratan Fragment

General Tips

Reminder that this is all based on the JP version. There may be changes when it releases to Global.
Evil Queen Byalcua:

HP	MP	ATK	DEF	MAG	SPR
15,640,000,000	200,000	42,500	1,500,000	42,500	1,500,000
Breaks:	--	Can Break	Can Break	Can Break	Can Break

Note: No stat passives at all

Fire	Ice	Lightning	Water	Wind	Earth	Light	Dark	Neutral
0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	-20%	0%	0%

Poison	Blind	Sleep	Silence	Paralyze	Confuse	Disease	Stone
100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

• Race: Demon, Human, Insect
• Vulnerable to all breaks, with no stat passives.
• Has HP lock at 50% and 20% (see notes below)
• Both tanks are recommended (Phys and Mag). Not required though.
• Perfect dispel is very helpful, but not required
• Uses every status effect, stop, charm, berserk, DoT, death, dispel
• Uses status imperil, so you need immunity from both gear AND buffs
• Gains permanent unremovable 60% DEF/SPR and 5% ATK/MAG buff at 50% threshold
• Gains permanent unremovable 150% DEF/SPR and 10% ATK/MAG buff at 20% threshold
• Heals for 5% max health every few turns under 20%, so turtle clears won't work

Fight Tips

This trial is one of the hardest we've had in a long time (at least on the JP server). Phase one (100 to 50%) is pretty simple, then it gets harder in phase two (50-20%), then phase three is just silly (20% until dead). Before I go into the fight explanation, I'll briefly mention the cheese that may or may not work when it comes to Global.

The Cheese Method

So this boss is very squishy in phase one (before she gets unremovable DEF/SPR buffs in phase 2 and 3). Therefore, lots of people in JP were using the threshold skip bug to enable you to OTK this boss from 100% to dead in one round due to bypassing the HP locks, completely skipping phase 2 and 3. This made the special missions, and the fight as a whole, a complete joke. Doing this did involve taking advantage of a bug in the game (the same threshold skip bug people have been using on Clash for a year+).
A day or so after this method became popular and widespread the JP dev team put out a news notice saying they would take action against people using this bug, and they were going to patch the game to fix the threshold bug once and for all so it no longer was possible to skip thresholds on any boss.
When this trial arrives to Global, the threshold bug may or may not be patched. The rest of this post will assume the bug is fixed, and you can only do the fight the proper way.

Phase One 100% until 50%

Phase one has a lot of fixed attacks that bypass normal covers (be sure you're using good general mit), as well as a bunch of AoE dispels (both on your party, and on herself). The boss will also be cycling between total physical immunity, total magical immunity, and total immunity to everything.
Overall phase one is very simple (relative to the rest of the fight). Just keep re-buffing and re-breaking between dispels, and line up your bursting while the proper immunity is not active. When you push her to 50% she HP locks and phase two begins:

Phase Two 50% until 20%

During the 50% HP lock, she will gain permanent unremovable 60% DEF/SPR and 5% ATK/MAG buff. This will increase her bulk quite a bit as a no passive boss.
During this phase, the boss still frequently AoE dispels your team, but she stops dispeling herself, making keeping your strong breaks/imperils active on her so much easier. She will now start to ST berserk a unit, and if you don't cure the berserk that unit will be berserked for most of the fight. Very recommended to bring a unit who can remove berserk. Everyone also needs death immunity gear to deal with the AoE death's going out.
So this phase isn't too bad, other than incoming damage being a bit higher than phase one. It's mostly just a headache because the boss's bulk went up a lot, but because she isn't purging your debuffs off herself anymore, it may even feel squishier than phase one, depending on your party.
The big gimmick to this phase (and phase 3) is the human killer buff the boss applies to herself at the end of a lot of turns. This is something like a 50,000% human killer buff, which as you can kind of imagine, will cause her to instantly slay any human she touches if it's not removed immediately. There's a few ways to handle this:

• Tank the boss with a non-human
• Remove it for "free" with a unit who counters perfect dispel, such as NV Ashe
• Manually perfect dispel it yourself when it goes up
• Full dispel the boss and re-apply debuffs as needed
• You may be able to ignore it and keep re-raise up? Not sure

So in summary, deal with the killer buff, rebuff when you're dispelled, cure berserk off your provoker as it's applied, and just work your way to the 20% threshold.
At 20% health, the boss HP locks again and phase 3 begins:

Phase Three 20% until 0%

During the 20% HP lock, she will gain permanent unremovable 150% DEF/SPR and 10% ATK/MAG buff. This is a MASSIVE increase to her bulk due to how a boss without passives works.
Worst thing of all in this phase: Not only does her bulk go through the roof, but she starts to heal by 5% every few turns as well. This means if you don't have a certain level of DPS, you just can't win, period. You're also going to want to save all of your best burst like the 150% amps for this phase to get through it as quick as you possibly can.
This phase is mostly similar to phase two, with a few notable changes:

• Her bulk jumps up massively
• She starts to heal
• The incoming damage is overall higher

That's mostly it. She still uses dispel (your party only), berserk, and a self-killer that all have to be dealt with. Lot's of misc hard hitting attacks and DoT's too, so be sure to keep those mitigations up, especially after dispels!

Video Examples of the fight from JP

Here's my clear in JP that gets a clear without any bugs, but it took like 200 turns:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoDfcUg28c0
Team:

• Fina -DarkLineage- -- buffer, lb fill
• Ashe -- mtank, perfect dispel
• Runda -- mits, ptank, lb fill
• Ihana -- killers, lb fill
• Squall -- breaker, DPS
• friend Squall -- same

(Note that with newer powercreep units, people have done far quicker clears on this boss without any bugs in JP)
More example clears can be found in the JP Thread