[u]Let me give you a quick lesson in physics my feline friend, if she were to be constantly propelled by the rocket pack, the effect of an external force (in this case, the shockwave of a small explosion) would still be enough to knock her off course, even with the weight behind it and the constant propulsion. Without the constant propellant, she would be easily knocked off course because when a shockwave hits it pushes the air around it to create a pulse of motion that pushes the surroundings away, let alone completely stop since the explosion was a direct hit. If she was standing on the ground, I could understand it not effecting her as much and simply slowing her down, but she's specifically flying towards him which is a big deal with this kind of thing. Yah see, when an object is freely propelled through a space devoid of solids, there's nothing to stop it from being knocked back or for it to anchor onto. Unless she's somehow immune to the laws of physics, she shouldn't be able to completely ignore a pointblank explosion without some sort of response.[/u]

[spoiler]I told you, you choose how much it slows her down, that's the effect. The propulsion pack is self stabilizing because realistically, it would not make sense to manufacture something that can send someone flying long distances of they can easily be knocked out of control. Now, shockwaves are not an unstoppable force. If an explosion goes off and the shockwave hits the side of a mountain or something, it will bounce back off. Now, Sapphire isn't immovable, no, but these are small explosives versus a heavy object moving the opposite direction. Someone could easily bat her out of the air with a tree, but these are hitting her head-on and and again, her propulsion pack is stabilized to keep her moving in one direction... If you really can't find a way to continue this then I guess I'll change it, but this isn't something that should really be a huge deal.[/spoiler]

[u]Do you not understand how an explosion works? I'm not saying that you should be hurt, or anything like that shit, I'm simply saying it would have no goddamn effect. Just because a goddamn character has a propulsion pack and is really heavy doesn't mean they're immune to an explosion! Do you not -blam!-ing understand how combat or explosive rounds work? To be honest I've been sick of your shit for a while. Characters that can stop bullets and send them back with ease (which is pretty much the -blam!-ing force, a goddamn ability outlawed by pants), wanting to perma-kill Irina just because she's -blam!-ing evil with no risk towards yourself, shrugging off explosions which would even knock a -blam!-ing JETFIGHTER off course with simple physics, and pretty much making anything you don't like disappear by whining about it until the person either gets sick of hearing it or an admin steps in![/u]