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identityformationsIntelligence analysis
Regained - Skill game #12, Green Knight, giving up maze (in which Amethyst won by DEFYING GRAVITYYY)
So this is kind of a handwavy skill that is ultimately an int boost. (I swear there are skills on his registry that are more than HANDWAVE THIS, HANDWAVE THAT, but. Yeah.) Because Mark is very, very smart in certain ways, even if he doesn't think of himself for a fair amount of time. Because he's constantly comparing his intelligence to Miles, and they're smart in very different ways. Miles is a rapid-fire think-on-his-feet tactician who can talk his way out of almost anything. Mark is a (non-military) strategist and analyst with the patience to chew through massive stacks of raw data.
As a canon example, he spent a few days looking through raw intelligence reports in a basement office in ImpSec HQ, supplementing it with his own personal store of knowledge and instincts about how things work on Jackson's Whole, and came to a few key conclusions about where Miles' frozen corpse might be which ImpSec hadn't come to yet. He has very good instincts when it comes to that sort of thing, he just doesn't tend to trust them. But when he does...well, he found his brother. \:D/
+50 patience for looking through raw data.
+50 ability to develop correct theories and and deductions and intuitions from said data.
+50 general intelligence and focus.
Regained - Skill game #12, Green Knight, giving up maze (in which Amethyst won by DEFYING GRAVITYYY)
So this is kind of a handwavy skill that is ultimately an int boost. (I swear there are skills on his registry that are more than HANDWAVE THIS, HANDWAVE THAT, but. Yeah.) Because Mark is very, very smart in certain ways, even if he doesn't think of himself for a fair amount of time. Because he's constantly comparing his intelligence to Miles, and they're smart in very different ways. Miles is a rapid-fire think-on-his-feet tactician who can talk his way out of almost anything. Mark is a (non-military) strategist and analyst with the patience to chew through massive stacks of raw data.
As a canon example, he spent a few days looking through raw intelligence reports in a basement office in ImpSec HQ, supplementing it with his own personal store of knowledge and instincts about how things work on Jackson's Whole, and came to a few key conclusions about where Miles' frozen corpse might be which ImpSec hadn't come to yet. He has very good instincts when it comes to that sort of thing, he just doesn't tend to trust them. But when he does...well, he found his brother. \:D/
+50 patience for looking through raw data.
+50 ability to develop correct theories and and deductions and intuitions from said data.
+50 general intelligence and focus.