He himself isn’t that fast physically… his wires however move at the speed of light besides his wires he is pretty much an above average human, if you can get the drop on him, or deliver a decent blow he’s screwed as he is all offense. The reason he could strike through the barriers is his wires are made of energy, and thus if he applies a certain amount of energy into said wires he can pierce the fields though this also applies if someone can deliver a equal or greater amount of energy they could in fact disrupt his wires.
You should have broken it into two posts lead Jacob in more. As when its one post, especially one block of text its instantly implied that everything is happening right after each other. Breaking it into a first post and then a response means each thing is happening at a relative time. As a player to be a sadist you need to draw it out. You need to attempt to get the optimum amount of suffering or at least emotion from each action in which you wish to be a sadist in. When being a sadist on a role-play you can’t afford long posts that jump through interactions or it ruins the experience and effect.
As an answer to why a sadist wouldn’t use a gun.. Please refer to the most commonly known and most bad___ sadist in Gotham city and he whom is acting as your avatar the Joker… the joker used knifes for a reason… their much slower… using a gun you shoot someone… your going to end up killing them rather fast… a knife… you could deal a few thousand slits first… wouldn’t kill them… if its only skin deep… still going to hurt like ____.