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Excellent. Balance and body awareness in general were part of his training.

Selina has the balance of a gymnist and dancer, as well as someone who has taught themselves parkour.

Rand/Tybalt is both fae and a cat, your argument is invalid. Canon actually makes a point of how those with human blood trip and stumble a lot, whereas those fully fae never do so.

Ethan trips and slips as often as any normal person might. Unless his guns are out and he's readying for a fight.

Quinlan is a retired jedi, your argument is invalid.

Jess has spider-like agility, your argument is invalid.

Hank is a mutant with superior balance and agility, your argument is invalid.

Andrea has the balance of someone who had done a lot of martial arts training.

I'm sensing a theme here...

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The Master of Ceremonies has excellent balance. He not a trained dancer, but he's very light on his feet and tends to perch on narrow spaces and edges like a little imp. (Seriously, I've seen the Broadway show, and I'm always like, omfg plz don't fall.)

If Phoenix's balance is any indicator of Yugo's, Yugo has great balance, and can perch in high places with no fear whatsoever.

Sherral has good balance - he's spent enough time on airships that he's pretty good with adjusting his footing to a) Stay balanced, and b) Look appropriately officer-y as he does so.

Wan does a lot of free-running in a pre-industrial city with pretty much no safety precautions, if he didn't have good balance, he would have probably cracked his head open and died by now.

Gordon's is ridiculously good, because otherwise he wouldn't have made it through canon alive. I gave him a background in downhill bike racing to account for this.

Shephard's is all right, but it's nothing spectacular. Neither is Medic's or Ellen's.

Varric, Stacker, and Santo all have very solid, very firm, no-you-move stances; while they can be nimble if necessary, their balance is more of the unmoving variety.

Edward Kenway is, if canon is to be believed, quite capable of climbing the main mast of any ship in the Caribbean and running along the more sturdy bits of the rigging with cutlasses in each hand just so he can jump down at somebody particularly annoying and land on them swords first, so yeah, there's that.

Autor's balance is terrible. He regularly trips getting off of his carpet, and hopes no one sees.

Tahno can do flips off the side of the probending ring and come up with a water whip with relative ease.

I'm not sure about Alana, but I have a feeling she's rather graceful, given the confident way she walks.

Gene - depends how much he's had to drink. Sober, he's fine, and even occasionally graceful (and also sometimes really not.) But he's rarely completely sober given that he carries three or four hip flasks on him at all times, so he can be a bit off. Drunk, he's all over the place. Completely legless, he regularly falls off things.

Javert - given that he spends so much time walking along the ledges of high bridges and buildings, I would say excellent.

Valjean - ...Valjean is basically a gymnast. Canonically he's as flexible as you can get, he climbs like a monkey and is a crack shot with a gun. I mention this last because his hand-eye coordination is also obviously excellent - stick all this together, I'm going to bet his balance is perfect.

Bruce Wayne - well, Batman. So.

Bruce Banner - as himself, average I suppose. Entirely capable of losing it on occasion. He runs a lot, but he's no athlete, so balance isn't something he regularly works on (though having said that, he's done martial arts and Tai Chi, so it's probably not bad). As the Hulk...well, does that fella look like he's going to fall over a lot? No, he's fine.

Courfeyrac - average. He's just a guy, and one who spends a fair amount of time sitting around drinking at that. I expect, like Gene, his balance is directly in proportion to how much wine he's consumed.

Robin - yep, excellent. He's an archer, and he's never not active. He's coordinated and aware of his surroundings, he can keep his feet.

Pearly - is, canonically, the clumsiest of clumsy men. He can't walk through a door without smacking his head on the frame. He falls down stairs a lot. I have no idea why this is, and canon does not explain. :\ But yeah, his balance is terrible.

So all Eric has to do to get back at Pearly is push him down a flight of stairs.

*cackling*

Sorry not sorry.

*grin* Pearly needs no help to fall down stairs! He can do that all on his own.

Yrael has excellent balance and grace. Whether that is one more side-effect of his long imprisonment in cat-shape, or whether it comes naturally as a Free Magic creature of great power, or both, the world may never know. (likely both)

Sunshine has normal human balance, which comes with occasional but not frequent clumsiness when she's tired or not paying attention. She is getting better, however. General better fitness and training have helped a lot over the past few years.

Zelgadiss, thanks to his own training and combat background as well as his augmented form and abilities, has great balance. He's not quite at the level of Amelia's comfort with perching on the tips of flagpoles, but he can easily hold his own in a magic-and-swordfight while balanced on a thin wooden beam above a deep pit of uncertain death.

Pam wears six-inch high stiletto heels. Her balance is fine.

Enjolras isn't superhuman or a highwire artist or anything, but it's quite good. He's canonically athletic and a really really good fighter, but although we see him demonstrate good aim and coordination, he doesn't go parkouring around like Valjean or anything.

Thor's is excellent. Dude, he's Thor. We see a lot more of him doing solid rooted stances than scurrying around narrow places like a squirrel, but I'd be willing to bet he can do okay at the latter if he needed to; he's pretty agile. Rooting to the ground and refusing to budge is more his strength, though.

Cosette is able-bodied and can be reasonably graceful, but she's never had call to cultivate good balance or lots of athleticism. I'm gonna go with solidly average.

Trowa is a highwire artist and trapeze artist. Which he learned onscreen in canon, very fast. He has canonically done a backflip off a speeding motorcycle and landed on a clothesline, and that wasn't even in the circus ring; that is Trowa's idea of a sensible way to end a chase scene. So, uh. HE'S GOT GOOD BALANCE.

River also definitely has good balance -- she's an ex-dancer and an extremely acrobatic fighter, and she's got psychic super-soldier conditioning... stuff. Her balance isn't quite as ridiculous as Trowa's, but it's up there.

Regan's more in the Cosette-to-Enjolras range: she used to ride horseback, she's pretty athletic, she enjoyed dancing in a much more casual way than her daughter, but she never really specifically cultivated balance beyond that and now she's got several more decades of age added on. So she doesn't trip over thin air more often than most people, but she's also not the person effortlessly avoiding all obstacles without seeming to notice them.

Clare is pretty close to Trowa in the ridiculous balance sweepstakes. Claymores have a very wuxia kind of fighting style in a lot of ways, and they've been trained out of the amount of excess unnoticed motion that most people do. Add in super-strength and super-speed and leaping about, and yeah. She's the bounding-from-rooftop-to-rooftop kind of fighter.

Mirai's balance is generally on the clumsy side, part of which might be exaggerated for the sake of keeping up appearances. When focused, her balance usually doesn't falter. She's quite aware of her surroundings and how to move her body around them in this state. So you end up with someone who can flip over a fence with ease but trips over a broom, depending on what's going on.

Lucas is generally balanced, the only exception to this being running straight into banana peels. (Which the player doesn't have to do, but why wouldn't you want to see it?) This is only getting better with his millicanon PK Teleport/4th Dimension Slip ability.

Mia and Lohengrin are close to the same level, Mia ranking just below Lohengrin. It's more necessary for Lohengrin's style of combat, but Mia understands its importance in keeping her alive long enough to cast spells.

Amascut is a cat-themed goddess. Yes, she is afraid of cats, but that doesn't unbalance her. She stays balanced in a mechanical physics sort of way, at least. The poem about her origin implies she was born to bring balance to the world, so there is that too. Mental balance is a big NOPE.

Fairy Fixit is up in the air most of the time so she doesn't need much of a sense of balance. She probably never developed an excellent sense of physical balance, and she constantly wears a hat over her antennae which sort of dulls her sense of balance, I imagine. If she wants to do something that requires delicate motion and acceleration sense the hat comes off. I'll say that she isn't a klutz but she is still a bit of a pushover with the hat on but her balance improves greatly with the hat off.

The Zanaris fairies were one of the 'balanced' species invited to populate Gielinor, but that is more a character alignment thing. It looks like they refused anyway, for the most part.

Evil Chicken is the proverbial rooster that laid a square egg on top of a pitched roof, maybe? Nah, probably not.

Most of them aren't falling over all the time - yes, I said most, Giovanni, I'm looking at you - but the ones I have who are exceptional while still being human-possible are Gavroche and Ichabod.

...Gavroche was a tiny parkourist, okay, and London is as full of ledges and roofs as Paris. And Ichabod... well, he can leap behind a wall to shield himself from an explosion he caused and make it look graceful.

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Asami's fighting style includes a lot of jumps and ridiculous flips (as in, flipping over someone on a moving motorcycle-ridiculous, or apparently fighting someone on top of a moving train ridiculous), and has also spent a lot of time climbing and racing around sometimes tricky terrain (e.g., the Future Industries factories, and sometimes just Republic City), so her sense of balance is pretty amazing. She's also just generally both physically and mentally poised and centered. Katara also has a good sense of balance, but she tends to rely more on being grounded than Asami would, and so wouldn't be quite as sure on her feet if that ground is disturbed. She also has ways to block and deflect attacks that a non-bender doesn't, and so doesn't have to rely as much on dodging and jumping.

Will is… not clumsy, and when it comes to his physicality he's generally sure-footed. But mentally he's a lot more of a mess – when he stumbles or otherwise loses balances, it's usually because in his mind, he's not where he should be. He usually actually acts better under pressure, because stress and adrenaline tend to keep him focused. But on a normal basis I think he can come off as kind of uncoordinated or graceless, because his mind is generally being pulled in a lot of directions at once, and that affects his sense of space and physical motion.

Elle has been trained to be physically capable and coordinated, but it's not something that necessarily comes naturally or instinctually to her. She's above average because she maintains her training, and isn't really clumsy anyway, but she's definitely not a gymnast and prefers to have both feet on the ground whenever possible.

Marceline can float so screw it.

I'm glad you didn't face plant this morning!

Ibani is a Sith, so I'm going to steal the description of Quinlan and say 'your argument is invalid'. ;-)

Kreyu has quite good balance, although I suspect being able to change your shape at will helps a bit with that. Or would it make it harder to learn to balance? I'm not sure. *ponders*

Annabelle Newfield is the offspring of an acrobat and a contortionist and her 'powers' and her powers with athletics and weapons make the laws of probability curl up in a ball and cry. So, yes, her balance is exceptional.

I, on the other hand, walk into walls entirely sober and sometimes trip over absolutely nothing at all.

Jay and David are very balanced and good at staying in their feet. Jay especially also has a gift for falling in just the right way to turn it to his advantage.

Minx is a runway model and is use to walking in stupidity big heels on very smooth surfaces however if distracted she can trip and isn't quite as aware of her surrounds as she should be.

Oliver is a good fighter and fairly light on his feet.

Diaval is a danger to himself and others.

Clementine: Possesses a dancer's sense of grace and balance. Still manages to be bad at running and falls over herself a lot.

Dixie: Good to decent, and poised.

Pinkie: Clumsy, can and will fail tail over teakettle but is so speedy you'll never notice.

Juliet: Average balance, average sense of grace.

Eponine: Again, average balance.

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