pepperjack
A Variety of Cheese
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2014
- Messages
- 27,992
- Likes received
- 73,331
I don't think Panacea ever did anything that wasn't assuming control of what's already there - she didn't craft life from nothing, and was limited by biomass.It seems like it's more limited than Amelia's canon power in ability; canon Amelia could do literally anything, whereas Claire seems to mostly assume control of what's already there.
I agree that Marchioness's power is likely limited in ways that Panacea's wasn't, though. I'd thought at first she might be limited to killing and hurting, which would have been ironic, but then she saved Abigail; and then I thought she might have been limited to destruction and repair, but then she offered to change Abigail's face. She hasn't actually demonstrated any limitations that Panacea lacked, but I suspect she has some anyway.
She may be limited to macroscopic life, for example, or even only to human life. If so, then while she's much more dangerous than Panacea in many kinds of fights, Marchioness wouldn't actually be a Class S threat like Panacea was - no super-plagues, no ending life as we know it in the span of a week.