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Need some help with a technique

Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:38 pm

I've been writing a fanfic and planning to have Shampoo learn a "ki shot" technique, along the lines of Ryoga's Shi Shi Hokodan and Ranma's Moko Takabisha... however, I'm unsure what emotion to use to power it, as the techniques seem to rely on using emotions that are of particular 'resonance' with a person's personality. Can anyone suggest anything for the emotion and, if possible, a name?

For those of you who don't have the foggiest what I'm talking about... the "ki shot" is a generic technique that enables the user to utilise the ki based upon a specific emotion and project it as a blast of concussive force/spiritual energy. Because the ki shot is based upon using emotions, different users create their own different variations of it, because proficiency in its use requires that one be most accustomed to feeling that particular emotion.

Ryoga, the first one to learn the technique, uses the Shi Shi Hokodan, or Lion's Roar Shot, variant, which is powered by his depression. As Ryoga is a melancholic (melodramatic, sometimes) type, accustomed to feeling depressed, this technique works wonders for him and his in fact his favored technique once he learns it.

Ranma, on the other hand, has a much lighter personality, and was thus forced to create his own variant, Moko Takabisha, based upon the emotions he was most used to feeling; confidence, pride and aggression.
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Postby Comartemis » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:49 pm

How about pride? Shampoo's rather proud of her heritage, from what I know of her character...
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Postby lcpoketoon » Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:32 pm

Comartemis wrote:How about pride? Shampoo's rather proud of her heritage, from what I know of her character...


Hmm I think Anger might work better for her. She does have a lot to be angry over an it would fuel her ki shot. Hmm also what are you going to name it? I figured something based off a large cat since the others two are. Maybe call it the Growling Puma Cannon. No idea how to translate it to japanese or chinese.

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Postby Spokavriel » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:54 am

Well those would be ok I guess but look at her mood most of the time in the series. Whenever she isn't plotting to get Airen or glomping onto him she's frustraited. Frustraited at herself at Moose at Great Grandmother or more than those sources combined frustraited at the other fianceés trying to take her Airen.

I'd say Stressed Cat lashout Strike and make it seem like a cross between claws and a whip trailing out the energy leaving claw like gouges similar to Inuyasha's Wind Scar.
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Postby Comartemis » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:35 am

Good call, Spok.
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Postby Southern Cross » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:46 am

Seconded,Spok.
Of course,I wonder what were to happen if Shampoo used the technique to attack Akane...
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