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Ivan Bruel: Stoneheart
- He gained one stone hand from his first akumatization & another from the one immediately after. Leaving him with two stone hands.
- He's literally the first person to go through this. For a long while he was an outlier among marks were more... 'cosmetic' color changes, patterns left behind from the akuma's suit.
- This all made him quite self-conscious about all of it. Something he had to work through, though it didn't hurt Mylène that thought they were pretty awesome.
The Practical aspects of living with stone hands:
- Continues to wear gloves fairly often. Long after he's adjusted, accepted them as part of himself, and Paris has gotten really desensitized to marks in general. Personal items and Public property alike are not really built with the wear and tear of constantly being handled by stone.
- His hands are objectively amazing & very magical. The stone is effectively alive and will absolutely heal! He doesn't actually know it, but they'd grow back entirely.
- They also don't feel pain traditionally (though they do give him a vibe of 'I should really let go' in its place) So he can actually have the unhewn stone worked into something relatively smoother, or get cool patterns carved.
- Minotaurox's costume has gloves, so how much the Glamour obfuscates in regard to Marks is in his case completely moot.
Alternate Universes, time travel & unexpected portals to New Jersey:
- In the Event he's ever dropped into the past, an alternate timeline, parallel dimension, or just gets Voyaged into another country & doesn't want 20,000 questions about his hands: he's always got his gloves for the above because bullet number four, and for the same reason he's liable to already be wearing them on entry.
- If this had been one of Betterfly's kamiko, they (& by extension Stoneheart) would likely be more statue like... though there's a lot of kinds of statues, and he's a fashion guy. So maybe he'd be some Olympian deal or maybe he'd be a modern art statue?
So, Can he punch things?
- He can in fact punch things real hard, has punched several akuma when they've come at him, Mylène or a friend. But hitting akuma with a rock with the force a burly middle schooler could muster, is not often as effective as we might like it to be.
- It is however fairly devastating when inevitably combined with the Temple's anti-akuma martial arts. More so when Minotaurox. Akuma's unfortunately tend to have some really tricky powers that blunt the effectiveness of the 'direct approach', but when it works? It really works!