The Sword: Difference between revisions

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** Zakros controls [[Making a Splash|water]], including [[An Ice Person|ice]].

** Malia controls [[Blow You Away|air]], which in addition to [[Flight]], apparently also gives her [[Shock and Awe|lightning]] powers.

** Phaistos controlled [[Playing ~~With~~ Fire|fire]].

** Phaistos controlled [[Playing with Fire|fire]].

* [[Fountain of Youth]]: Holding the sword has been shown to de-age people. Not college-age Dara or anyone else near her age, though, since [[Immortality Begins At Twenty]].

* [[Gangsta Style]]: one of the fake cops trying to kidnap Dara shoots a guy this way. Forgiveable, since it's essentially a point-blank shot.

* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Dara racks up an impressive collection of injuries during the course of the story. {{spoiler|In the end, after she's abandoned the sword and goes home to die, her wounds all come back simultaneously}}

* [[Gorn]]: Not only do the brutal fight scenes exploit the [[Healing Factor]]s of Dara and her opponents; they also showcase some of the creative and gruesome things one can do to the human body with [[Elemental Powers]], [[Super Strength]], and an [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]].

* [[Grievous Harm ~~With~~ a Body]]: Zakros uses his water-controlling ability to toss [[Innocent Bystanders]] at Dara. He can also weaponize water extracted from people's bodies, e.g. at one point impaling {{spoiler|Dara____}} through the stomach with a spear made out of {{spoiler|her }} own blood.

* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: Zakros uses his water-controlling ability to toss [[Innocent Bystanders]] at Dara. He can also weaponize water extracted from people's bodies, e.g. at one point impaling {{spoiler|Dara____}} through the stomach with a spear made out of {{spoiler|her }} own blood.

* [[Hero ~~With~~ Bad Publicity]]: Dara is the prime suspect in her family's murder, and though she makes sure to [[Never Hurt an Innocent]], people generally see her as a dangerous psycho.

* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Dara is the prime suspect in her family's murder, and though she makes sure to [[Never Hurt an Innocent]], people generally see her as a dangerous psycho.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Knossos and Zakros's view of humans.

* [[Immortal Procreation Clause]]: the demigods can't procreate. Demetrios, obviously, could.

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* [[Torture Always Works]]: ...er, not when you go overboard on the [[Electric Torture]] and end up killing the guy. An attempt to torture Dara doesn't work either, because she's just that badass.

* [[Unreliable Voiceover]]: Malia, when addressing the media.

* [[Villain ~~With~~ Good Publicity]]: Malia manages this for awhile by telling the media a revisionist version of her past that makes it seem like her brothers were the evil ones and she just wants to save humanity from a power-mad Dara.

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Malia manages this for awhile by telling the media a revisionist version of her past that makes it seem like her brothers were the evil ones and she just wants to save humanity from a power-mad Dara.

* [[Walk On Water]]: Dara's [[Super Speed]] allows her to run across water.

* [[What Measure Is a Non Super]]: Zakros compares mortals to animals; Knossos says their lives amount to no more than grains of sand; Malia doesn't have a metaphor, but she clearly shares her brothers' disregard for humanity.