User blog comment:Emperors Arise/Character Sheet: Zenon Takis/@comment-4867780-20150723084407/@comment-26107895-20150724001057

aye, you got some good points there, some of which i was hoping to fix later in the future. thanks for the reminder, actually!

the all-female family would usually be amazing for most men, however, he was at such a young age, that he didn't have sexual attraction yet. besides, i figured i would go for the cliche "bad childhood" origin, just to get some sort of excuse to have him escape. but hey, every character has to have flaws in its plot, right?

the swim also seems pretty farfetched, as anticipated. well, to start off, the spotting is quite simple to explain. having been a street orphan for five years at the time, he became quite restless, considering that new york is one of the louder cities, especially at night. he started to sleep mostly during the daytimes, and come out at night. over time, this developed a night vision of sorts, his vision adjusting to the dark. eventually, he became stronger overall in all aspects, also having attempted to enhance his senses. i think it's obvious that it worked.

back to the swim. i didn't exactly calculate how much muscle mass would be needed in comparison to height and weight, along with the stamina, distance, and currents. i should probably do that to adjust the distance to a reasonable limit. despite this, again, he had been a street kid for 5 years, and his physical aspects grew. he was most likely in a peak human condition, at a level as high, if not higher, than a fully-trained dick grayson. the swim probably took an hour or so, making his stamina godly, which i guess is fitting. after all, he had to adjust to roof-jumping all day eventually.

the virtual god, well, yeah. i really wanted him to be a mary sue, because almost every universe has to have one that isn't omnipotent. for example, it took multiple dc universes to defeat a single villain at one point. i'm pretty sure zenon has some sort of weakness that i haven't managed to find yet.

the city population, on the other hand, was actually calculated. i took gotham city (which, of course, is composed of five islands) and multiplied its surface area and population by the same factor, then multiplied those by a certain factor due to the fact that zaffre is made up of 8 islands rather than 5.

but i appreciate the input, i'll be sure to address some of those issues in further edits. as you can tell, i grew pretty lazy with the backstory.