Vampire Hunter D-- powers and feats?

[Lord of Nonsensical Crap]

Hi there,
This is just out of curiosity (and partly for RP-related purposes): what are the full powers of Vampire Hunter D (since looking at the Rumbles board gave me the distinct impression that his Wikipedia article doesn't include everything). Is it true that he has an anti-regen sword? Plus, any noteworthy feats of his?

Thanks.

[Robotech Master]

It's the novel version of D that seems to have far more impressive feats than his anime counterpart. Most of his feats are feats of speed--not movement over long distances per se, but reactionary moves and the speed of his sword. Such speed feats include:

*Throwing a wooden stake so fast that it catches on fire in mid-flight; the vampire it is intended for catches it, throws it back just as fast; D catchs it easily--all of which happens so fast that none of the humans observing the incident even knew that the stake had been thrown.

* Seals a man's familiar-containing jar with thrown needles, probably a half dozen of them, while he is carrying on a conversation with said man, and the man never saw him throw them.

* Could see and track (and even count) the individual spheres of two shotguns worth of buckshot, and subsequently knocked all of them out of the air with a weed that he pulled out of the ground.

*The most controversial of all: A section in the third novel describes one of D's foes as make a strike with his weapon at the speed of light, and D both sees the attack and dodges it.

* Blocks lasers with his sword or absorbs lasers through his hand.

* Dodged a lightning bolt *while* halfway submerged in water, *while* wrapped up in the tentacles of a sea beast. In the process of dodging he pulled the whole sea beast out of the water and into the air with him.

As for the anti-regen thing, it was stated in the first novel that vampires could not regenerate from the wounds inflicted by his sword because D's swordsmanship somehow prevented regeneration, but it didn't have anything to do with the sword itself. This is never explained beyond that. Later novels introduce foes who *can* regenerate from the wounds caused by D, but they are experiments, usually vampiric experiments in super-longevity that were done by Dracula himself.

[Lord of Nonsensical Crap]

Aight, thanks. That helped out a lot.

[Sean Whitmore]

Sounds like I gotta check those books out...

In the anime, D is also a pretty powerful telekinetic/telepath, defeating the final enemies in the OVA and movie with relative ease. (Though in typical anime fashion, he had to take a lot of punishment and get really, really angry first)


SEAN

[Robotech Master]

The novels supposedly develop D's psyhcic battles. We've already seen a little bit of that in the first few novels, but it is supposed to increase in a few of the books where he starts to catch up with Dracula and his experiments, and Dracula tends to 'test' him mentally as opposed to physically from what I've seen.

[Sanagi]

*The most controversial of all: A section in the third novel describes one of D's foes as make a strike with his weapon at the speed of light, and D both sees the attack and dodges it.
Yeah, seeing something that's moving at the speed of light is kinda difficult to do...