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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RobotRobotI" data-source="post: 2885409" data-attributes="member: 31419">I am verily having trouble figuring out what to replace Blast with.  I considered Minion (Shadow Puppet), but I could only afford two ranks in that (30 PP) - plus, it'd only be 'helpful', not 'fanatical.'Animate Object (Shadow) would be equally expensive.  Hm.Is 'Only usable in dark/shaded areas' doesn't qualify as a Flaw on a power if I have the power to blanket an entire area in darkness, does it?   Could I take Animate Shadows (Flaws: Only Shadows, only while within Shadows) (this would stop Maleck from marching little shadow puppets around outside of already-dark areas - I'd picture the animated shadows being identical to her Darkness Control, so pretty much a nonpresence of light.  In lighter shadows, they'd be noticeable, but in light/very faint shadow, they'd just disappear.)Alternately, I was thinking of something like Fly or Speed that only works while she's in a dark place (notably, the blanketed area of her Darkness Control power.)  A lot of these powers don't have the Limited flaw option, but my idea is mostly that Maleck can't use any of her powers (besides Darkness Control) without a dark area to use them in.</blockquote>