Skin would go bulletproof right before it hit.

[ no one's tried to shoot him in the real world as of yet, but it happened plenty in soviet nightmare land. however - ]

I got hit by a car a month or so back. The whole side that the bumper crash into went metal, but not my face where I hit the ground. [ so the minor injury wasn't covered, but the thing that would've caved his ribcage in was. it seems like a thing activated alone only by a truly lethal threat.

not the same in the dream, there he'd had more control, but it didn't stick. something really starting to annoy him. ]