Glad you found it disturbing. *mission accomplished music*
Yeah, another reader on ff.net didn't buy the whole water thing either. I wrote them the following: I wouldn't describe water as a weapon, more of a deterrent. In my fanon, it spreads the biomass apart just like if you had a container with a light oil an add water to it. The oil clumps up in globs and eventually rejoins together while in the water, but it still broke apart and setiently that might be traumatizing but it isn't deadly. So, yeah, after the nuclear explosion he was more of an oil slick in the water till he reached land and could reform after feeding.
Best reason I could think of since canon states that Mercer won't cross large bodies of water and he skips right out sea water, just as quickly as he jumps out of the lake in central park, so it's not high levels of salt that get to him. I could find plenty of scientific reasoning for excess salt or lack there of, causing problems with osmoregulation through celular walls with a high level of permeability. Cytolosis in fresh water and plasmolysis in salt.
It certaintly isn't common in viruses, since they tend to be hydrophilic and thrive in watery conditions like the hunters in the water tanks. But hey, maybe if a firemen had blasted Mercer it could have been a short game of water guns.
Mercer's too strong story-wise. He needs a kryptonite. In my fanon, it's going to be water. Yeah, take that, Zeus. It's raining, what you gonna do now?
Lol at the double insult with the 'dense' comment.
Yeah, another reader on ff.net didn't buy the whole water thing either. I wrote them the following: I wouldn't describe water as a weapon, more of a deterrent. In my fanon, it spreads the biomass apart just like if you had a container with a light oil an add water to it. The oil clumps up in globs and eventually rejoins together while in the water, but it still broke apart and setiently that might be traumatizing but it isn't deadly. So, yeah, after the nuclear explosion he was more of an oil slick in the water till he reached land and could reform after feeding.
Best reason I could think of since canon states that Mercer won't cross large bodies of water and he skips right out sea water, just as quickly as he jumps out of the lake in central park, so it's not high levels of salt that get to him. I could find plenty of scientific reasoning for excess salt or lack there of, causing problems with osmoregulation through celular walls with a high level of permeability. Cytolosis in fresh water and plasmolysis in salt.
It certaintly isn't common in viruses, since they tend to be hydrophilic and thrive in watery conditions like the hunters in the water tanks. But hey, maybe if a firemen had blasted Mercer it could have been a short game of water guns.
Mercer's too strong story-wise. He needs a kryptonite. In my fanon, it's going to be water. Yeah, take that, Zeus. It's raining, what you gonna do now?
Lol at the double insult with the 'dense' comment.
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