Most skin-tight all-over suits, like wetsuits or speedskater suits etc, have a single zipper up the back. That's the most practical.
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David Evil Overlord
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I know the kind you mean, HB. And they have a long cord on them so the wearer can zip and unzip. Now, if I melt her suit so the parts closest to her skin set hard (so she can't quite reach the cord on the zip), while the outer surface remains a sticky mess...
Wetsuits have a cord; the others don't. I'd have thought a cord might be quite dangerous in super-heroing (might catch on things or give enemies a chance to grab hold of it), and the zipper-pull alone might be quite difficult to find and grab in a panic situation.
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Hmmm. She does have a sidekick who specialises in high-tech gadgets. Maybe some sort of morphing spandex that doesn't morph off her when it's half-melted...
Could you say that she was struggling/fumbling with the seam, and let the readers mind fill in the rest?
I know, a seam is something that is stitched (at least i believe it is). But if her suit does have some kind of special properties, it could seal itself with stitches instead of a zipper or buttons, and to take it off, she just has to be able to get at the seams.
I know, a seam is something that is stitched (at least i believe it is). But if her suit does have some kind of special properties, it could seal itself with stitches instead of a zipper or buttons, and to take it off, she just has to be able to get at the seams.
David Evil Overlord
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Not a bad idea at all. Or maybe "seal", because it seals the suit.
The morphing suit should really wait until the tech-head sidekick gets her hands on more resources later in the story.
The morphing suit should really wait until the tech-head sidekick gets her hands on more resources later in the story.
By my understanding, the Germanic mythologies include the myths of the Angles, the Saxons, the Norse and the continental German peoples.
On the subject, Anglo-Saxon and Norse mythology tends to have a lot of cross-over.
Not a silly question, by the way. Perfectly legitimate question.
On the subject, Anglo-Saxon and Norse mythology tends to have a lot of cross-over.
Not a silly question, by the way. Perfectly legitimate question.
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I would go with the zipper but make it high tech low profile.
Some companies which are working on pressure suits for use in space have tried various fasteners and I think they agree that zippers still seem the best. The toughest parts for them is that they have stacks of layers so they have to offset each zipper to avoid bulk and chaffing. But a thin low profile zipper on a tight suit would definitely be a good place to start fumbling. and the zipper could be near one side or the other. Just be sure to give it a bit of padding underneath to avoid chafing.Or for that fact leaving an impression.
David Evil Overlord
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Padding might be a problem, since at one point I do have her cursing comic book companies for insisting on drawing super heroes in skin-tight costumes for so many years no average citizen would recognise a hero wearing anything other than skin-tight spandex.
At the moment, I'm using "seals"...until the Muse gives me a better idea.
Real life seals, bio engineered to cover her body and enable her to swim in water? 
if you come up with a story idea from that, I'll be very very worri -
Ooh, ooh, selkies! off to write.
if you come up with a story idea from that, I'll be very very worri -
Ooh, ooh, selkies! off to write.
David Evil Overlord
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Fur seals. That way, she can wear fur without all that cruel kill-and-skin treatment animals really don't like.
If you use the "ed" version, you get a series of very short, chopped sentences, making it nervous and jumpy. The present participle ("ing", when it's not a gerund or anything) makes it flow, more laid-backly. So it depends on the mood you're trying to generate. But either is grammatically acceptable.
The 'ing's, in this case, make it more immediate for me. Having 'ed', while still correct, would take me out of the scene more, which is probably only repeating what Chris said, looking at his answer.
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Real life seals, bio engineered to cover her body and enable her to swim in water?
if you come up with a story idea from that, I'll be very very worri -
Ooh, ooh, selkies! off to write.
I already have a story written about a living fur coat. Not seal or selkie, though.
As well as matters of flow - choppiness, for example - the different words indicate different sequences of actions.
As you have it now, the people are opening a** room at a time, turning the light of that room on and checking in that room's wardrobe and behind that room's door. Then they move to the next room.
If you changed it to 'turned' and 'looked', this would suggest that they're checking*** every room, then turning on all the lights and then looking in the wardrobes and behind the doors. Given that this would seem a rather silly way of searching, the reader will cotton on to what you meant (which your original wording captures), so no harm is done to the meaning, but some may raise an eyebrow at your wording.
So in my eyes at least, Mouse, you had it right the first time.
** - Obviously, it's one room at a time because they're looking in every room together.
*** - Though not in a thorough way.
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