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He does! However, if he is swimming in Milliways in his own natural form, he must be very very careful not to get any water in his mouth.

Why's that? Water screw up his programming or somesuch?

Shorts him out. Electrocutes him, basically, to a degree proportionate to the amount of intake, but even enough to, say, make his legs go briefly numb would be a big problem if he's in the middle of the lake...

It's not just water, in fact, it's if matter and sprite energy try to mix in any way. Chewing or swallowing anything, liquids in the mouth mixing with his saliva... (There's an exemption for breathing, obviously, otherwise we'd never get anything done.) Goes the other way around, too, so don't try to steal his food.

Voodoo's a SEAL. I don't think I need to say much more.

John can't swim. If you get him into anything higher than chest-deep water in-game, he dies, and he mentions to Irish that he can't swim while they're having a shootout on the ferry to Mexico.

Mako can't. Being born to a middle-class family then assuming parental responsibilities for Bolin does not time or money for swimming lessons make. Dollars to dinars Korra will make fun of him for it later on.

Connor (who I will MAYBE be apping in January FOR SRS this time) can swim like a fish.

I thought that in the pro-bending arena, you fall into a big pool if you're knocked off the side. Am I misremembering that? It's certainly possible!

D'oh! Forgot about that. I blame finals.

Okay, yes, he can swim, but only as well as he needs to. Toza probably taught him.

Yep, all of them.

Though I think Gene spends more time bombing in the pool, and generally acting like a giant kid, than doing any actual swimming. :\

Edited 2012-12-13 10:11 (UTC)

All of mine do, except Bean!

Jack and Alfred are special forces and ex-special forces, so, yeah, both had to be able to, to pass training, for a start.

Max and Erik both had lessons when they were younger. Erik has let his slip a fair bit, but Max still swims regularly. It's a useful workout.

Bean has never had the opportunity, and will never need it.

Zelgadiss is a strong swimmer, and can use a modified version of the Ray Wing spell to encase himself in a bubble of air in which to travel to the bottom of deep water. Also, he makes a good ship's anchor (oh canon, you're joyous).

Yrael can swim. Really. But good luck getting him into the water. Ick.

Sunshine likes to splash about as much as the next person, but she's not a strong swimmer and she knows it. There haven't been many opportunities to go swimming regularly, apart from taking basic swimming lessons when she was very young. Lounging on an inflatable thing or on a towel on the shore is more her style.

Gordon not only knows how to swim but can and has done so in what is effectively a suit of light power armor, weighted down with a ridiculous number of guns, often in substances that can only just barely be classified as 'water'.

Adrian learned how to swim in the Cheat River and finds swimming pools a little weird, but yeah, he's good.

Ray can swim, although he's nothing spectacular at it and prefers jumping off the diving board and paddling around to actual swimming.

Ellen can, despite growing up in a resource-restricted Vault. There's a quest in the Rivet City area where you have to either be God of Picking Locks or else able to swim in order to get anywhere, and she didn't get 100 in Lockpick skill (which was necessary to open the door on dry land) until near the very end of that playthrough. I handwaved that Vault 101 had a very small 'endless pool' that was justified as therapeutic rehabilitation equipment for people with broken limbs or various illnesses, and that she'd learned to swim using that.

Arcade is a companion NPC and can follow the PC anywhere, including into Lake Mead or the Colorado River. He does not, however, follow the PC in three dimensions; I have only ever seen him and Rex on the surface. Therefore I'm millicanoning it that he can swim, and that he learned to do so in the course of his travels (he and his mother spent a lot of time moving from place to place when he was young), but that he is not very good at it.

Medic can swim. So can anybody else in Team Fortress 2. I'm more impressed by the fact that he can swim effectively with his clothes on, including the lab coat.

Mordin's people are amphibians. I'm reasonably certain he can still swim.

Hektor can swim although he has never done so in any man-made facilities. He would assume a swimming pool was the world's most grotesquely extravagant bathtub and start looking for the house-women who tended it- or possibly ask to hire the man who designed it and laid all the tile.

I don't think either Zira or Varric can swim. Zira's fiance' Cornelius probably can, but it doesn't seem like something Zira would have stopped to learn, and as for Varric, Kirkwall harbor is kind of a nasty place to try to learn- not to mention that he's a dwarf and I assume they're denser muscled and boned than humans. (Plus the meta factor of 'Bioware absolutely positively will not let you go anywhere other than a very tightly defined corridor on any given map, and water IS NOT PART OF THAT, EVER'.)

Knox, being a city boy (like me), possesses only the most rudimentary skills in the water.

Cyborg used to know how to swim, but he isn't what anyone would call buoyant.

The rest of my pups are fair to decent swimmers, Gibbs probably the best after all his years at sea. Though come to think of it, we never saw Kirk go swimming once (unless you count a rather lame episode of the Star Trek cartoon.) (Which I don't.)

Did he swim in the episode with the faux!Native Americans? I know he demonstrated 1960s skill at resuscitating a drowning victim, because I remember even as a child watching the reruns thinking "what is he DOING with that man's legs? Shouldn't he be doing CPR?".

Memory Alpha knows all. Memory Alpha tells all.

And it tells me that the boy was coincidentally brought to where Kirk was. Where he performs his oddly effective 23rd century version of CPR.

Haven't actually gotten to that episode in my Netflix rewatch of the show. (Stalled out at the pro-Vietnam War episode of the show.)

Ben is a good swimmer though his buoyancy isn't what it used to be. ;p

Val is an excellent swimmer, having swam competitively when she was a kid. Plus her mom was a master swimmer, and that sort of thing gets passed down.

Jessica did most of her social developing in California so yes she swims, and surfs and sails.

Hank used to swim but stopped when his feet really started developing. I'm sure he'll pick it up again once he goes furry.

I can't imagine Palamedes grew up learning how to swim but picked it up in his adulthood after traveling by boat to Britain.

I'm also having trouble believing Thalia knows how to swim. Her learning would take effort on her mom's part, and once she ran away, she wouldn't have had the time.

ETA: D'oh! I forgot Andrea. I think she didn't learn to swim until the Academy and had a hard time learning. I think she sees it as a practical skill and doesn't get people who do it for fun.

Edited 2012-12-14 00:23 (UTC)

Amascut is in the same boat as Yrael with regards to swimming. She can do it, and won't freak out about it especially if there is a purpose to it, but getting wet is sooo undignified!

Um. I don't know if I intended that to be a double entendre or not.

Boats are fine, as long as they aren't overturned by mischievous fishpeople.

Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEoPOcAnVek

River does, per millicanon; we've talked about family vacations to a bioluminescent lagoon, and stuff. I don't think she's a particularly strong swimmer, over distance or in really rough water or whatever, but she can stay afloat happily under normal conditions.

Regan, ditto, but she enjoys swimming laps more, or did when she had more free time for it. So she's a bit stronger.

Trowa can swim. Uh, I'm not sure he entirely understands the point of swimming recreationally in a "splashing around in a lake/pool/etc" sense, but understands "if I am dropped in the water or have cause to cross water without a vehicle, I should be able to cover however much distance I need as safely and efficiently as possible." He probably learned in lakes and oceans more than pools, given his childhood. Cathy probably drags him swimming sometimes and tries valiantly (and futilely) to get him to wrap his brain around the fun part of a swimming pool or beach.

Clare... I'm not sure. She has fights in lakes and bathes there and stuff, but they're all in shallow water. I'm not sure Clare can actually swim so much as leap off the bottom and out of even deep water.

Thor can swim, and has quite an excellent concept of fun! And is pretty strong and tireless, which is good since if he were dropped into water it'd probably be in full armor and with a hammer. (He can make the armor go away magically and drop the hammer for later retrieval, though. Sorry, any sea life swimming underneath!) Going to the beach or whatever would not be his first thought for fun, but he'd happily participate if someone else suggested it.

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Will can swim as there are various waterways around Nottingham and swimming is how you clean off.

Charles can swim though I think its not his favorite exercise, I'm not sure what is.

William can swim as I think he grew up in an area with more water than Arizona. I've never been clear on where the Evans' family lived before Arizona but it was somewhere east and I think Dan mentions being a sharpshooter for a Massachusetts' company.

Sameth can also swim as water is important in the Old Kingdom, knowing your way in and around it can save you from the Dead. Though he does have some issues with drowning, thanks canon.

I think Moist can as it seems like a useful skill to learn but I can't see it as being easy to learn in Uberwald.

Jane, I feel like she learned to swim when she was a girl against her mother's wishes but hasn't swum in a long time. Its not ladylike.

Demeter can swim as well, because goddess, she can do whatever she wants to if she puts her mind to it.

Tumnus, I think can swim but doesn't do it that often, it makes his fur dry in weird ways.

The Pirate King can definitely swim and looks good doing it.

Mark is a California boy, albeit an inlander. He can definitely swim, and probably took regular trips to the beach with his family. In canon, he "flies" through the water when he has to move faster than normal.

In canon, he "flies" through the water when he has to move faster than normal.

And if I had a personal, in built reactionless drive I'd be tempted to use it like that myself.

...That's a really good question!

I think Tom Riddle must know how. Orphans would have been taken to outings at the local pools, since London had many public pools held over from Victorian days. We know he's been to the ocean from canon. Yeah, he knows how to swim.

Therefore, Ingress does, too, since canonically there is a pool in the House of Arch.

Bela has to know how.

I don't think Gilderoy does, though!

But Gilderoy had so many daring adventures underwater, braving hosts of spear-wielding mermen and so forth! HIS BOOKS TOLD ME SO.

Muahaha! He can probably tread water while looking dashing.

Which takes some skill, really. Say whatever else you like, he does know how to play to his skillset!

Nope! A world of nope. Stitch swims like a lead brick.

I imagine that when the need arises, Chalk could manage to not drown. His people are camped out next to a pretty big natural pool, after all. It's not really an issue most of the time. Deserts are handy like that.

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Elle has never been swimming. Her father explained the basic concept to her, but for obvious reasons, she can't just go swimming. At least, not without possibly killing anyone else in the water with her.

Asami can swim - her home has a swimming pool in it, she's traveled to places with beaches/etc., and she could more than afford swimming lessons as a child. She mostly swims for fun, however, as she gets a lot of exercise through her self-defense classes.

Leslie took swim classes along with a lot of other public programs when she was young, so she can swim just fine. Manny... lacks buoyancy, but also doesn't have to breathe, and seems to get along well enough.

And I don't know about Marceline. I don't know of any reason why she couldn't swim, other than that it's usually a sunny day type of activity, and she can't be part of those. Mostly I don't see her as having a problem with moving through water, I just don't know when it would come up.

Mike, Raph, and Splinter all know how to swim by virtue of being animals that instinctively know how to do so.

Having said that...they are less good at it now that they're human. A good bulk of Splinter's swimming power came from his tail, which he hasn't got anymore. Mike had a bad incident in his bathtub that has instilled in him a rather sizable fear of drowning. No...seriously, it was a thing.

Aang and Bumi can both swim. I assume swimming is something that Aang learned in the Air Scouts, and Bumi learned from his father.

The Loompas have varying skill when it comes to swimming, depending on the Loompa. I imagine Braids needs water wings.

Ida probably has a submarine function somewhere, but for some reason I see her more as the type to just walk along the bottom of whatever water hazard she might come across.

Ida probably has a submarine function somewhere, but for some reason I see her more as the type to just walk along the bottom of whatever water hazard she might come across.

Jaws theme. Right when I read that.

Mostly yes to varying degrees.

Robo mostly walks on the bottom of whatever he's in, density being what it is.

Tyler can swim, though he hasn't done much in beyond soaking in a hot tub in years.

Ako can swim and is good at it. This is helped by the fact that Milliways has an excellent year round beach and Mahora has the kinds of baths you normally need to own a a mansion to get the keys to.

Janet can swim and does so mostly for fun. Also, drinks with tiny umbrellas.

Artemis can swim like a fish, when she isn't fighting, just as a random example, a hydrokinetic. She will eventually pick up some rebreathers in canon- they look like Bat models.
Did I mention that trying to swim in a fight with a hydrokinetic sucks? Because it does.

Elrond is the son of The Mariner. Also, he has already taken advantage of the lake in Millicanon, so we know he prefers to swim naked.

Eric is a viking and likes to swim. Not having to breathe is a great advantage as well.

Clay can paddle like a dog. He's only been exposed to shallow pools.

Interesting topic!

Carl is probably the best swimmer of the bunch, what with Delta and Ranger training and all that. I've got it in a bit of headcanon that he's attempted to surf but he's not great - certainly not as good as Jack is. ;)

Doc is likely the second best swimmer - he grew up in Alabama and there was a good-sized lake nearby the farm, as well as several creeks. He likes swimming in Milliways and thinks the beach is great, and the lake will do in a warmer season. I don't think he's ever really seen an indoor pool. He'd likely be very confused, honestly.

Dan can swim, not great but he can. I don't think he really enjoys it much though.

Skellig floats very well - advantage of having hollow bird-bones. Swimming with a pair of wings sprouted from your back is awkward, but he can manage to paddle around if the situation calls for it. He prefers to dive and surface, fly up, dive, surface. Repeat. Etc.

Jim Gordon can swim - probably decently, too. But Gotham doesn't have many places to do so besides gyms or private pools, so he doesn't often.

Jake can likely manage to keep himself afloat and swim across short distances of water (rivers, creeks, etc) but any major efforts would be awkward until he got the hang of it.

Probie can swim. I have it in headcanon that he took lessons as a kid and was kind of pathetic at it for awhile.

Han cannot swim. He can float, and he could stay above water if he had to - but it would be more of the 'survival' mode than swimming for pleasure. There would be lots of dog paddling and flailing.

When Tommy was a kid, his dad threw him into a pool to force him to learn how to swim. So yeah.

It seems unlikely to me that Aradia can swim, because the Alternian ocean will straight up murder you. Also there's no indication that she lives anywhere near a body of water. But, on the other hand, that's a fairly basic survival skill if you ever go near the water, so perhaps she picked it up through schoolfeeding.

Felix can probably keep his head above water if it's reasonably calm, but not much beyond that. It's a really good thing all the water-themed dungeons use (usually handwavey) magic to let the protagonists walk/jump on the surface of the water. Except where they use stepping stones.

Of course Kain can swim. He's a soldier, and while Baron's navy is pathetic (as in, the protagonists had a reasonable expectation of being able to get past it with one ship) he's not going to let a little mundane environmental condition get the better of him personally.

Fluttershy... probably. I don't imagine it's hugely comfortable, what with her wings, but she'd want to have the skill.

I have no idea about Cranky. Probably he does his best to keep the question from coming up.

That's a good question. Most of their canons don't really give much of a hint one way or the other.

Jim could probably swim if the plot required him to. But under no other circumstances.

Borgel is in remarkably good physical shape for a supercentenarian - he keeps active. He probably learned to swim from something with about six more fins than him.

Leela knows how to swim - the forests of the Sevateem would have to contain an awful lot of water. Surprisingly, not all of it is unsafe to swim in.

Kane has been on this Earth for thousands of years. He's witnessed all of human history, run and toppled empires, and cheated death countless times. It'd take more than a little bit of water to kill him.

Atrus...probably, yes. Not really much to say about it.

Tuco is capable of wading across a waist-deep river. Whether he can do more than that is uncertain.

Caius can swim, since by default all characters, creatures, and NPCs in Morrowind are capable of doing so. Even the Flame Atronachs.

Edited 2012-12-14 03:05 (UTC)

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