Talk:Rubedo/@comment-68.101.76.25-20151218055116/@comment-27557332-20160128003958

And how is this unusual? Shalltear has something similar to a lesser extent. Her Blood Frenzy is pretty much the same thing in practice.

It might not even be something that Rubedo is in active control of. 'Caloric' = the archaic meaning of the word just means 'Heat'. When taken into context with her given name and where she would be deployed in Nazarick, completely understandable. My guess is she's nuclear fission powered... powering her up to a full combat state is probably along the lines of starting up a nuclear reactor without any kind of safety system in place. Combine this with the fact that she was intended to be deployed with Victim.

And yes... you can technically fire up a nuclear reactor without triggering a meltdown effect. It takes so much energy to push the reaction. If the reactive energy doesn't go over a certain point, fission does not occur. (Which would explain why Rubedo is normally in a dormant state, but can be energized for short periods to move her or such.)

As to why I also think this way = Population % wise... Japan relies more on Nuclear than any other country in the modern World with the possible exception of France. They've had more firsthand experience than any other country on both the immediate horrors of and the aftermath conditions resulting from nuclear weapons and nuclear disaster. (Discounting Fukushima, which happened AFTER the WN first came out... 2/5 - ['99-'06] of the previous nuclear accidents publically reported happened in Japan, and of those 5 they were the only ones where immediate deaths occured. Going back before those... the only other publically reported accident that had immediate deaths was Chernobyl back in '86.)