#firefist (juli + kai)

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-# At the same time

onyx bough
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It’s perfect

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It’s her Estelle fangirl reflexes kicking in.

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-# I don’t think Estelle hate hates Kai but im simplifying their relationship to explain

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Damn...

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Did you watch Madagascar

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it’s like this one scene

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The iconic, “Sugar honey iced tea” scene

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Honestly, i remember almost nothing from that movie

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Where in context Alex reunites with his pal after they were stranded but remembers he was pissed at Morty so he starts chasing him

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I personally, would love to see Juliette and Kai lovingly running towards each other—followed by Juliette preparing to dash him into oblivion and him running away

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That would be very silly

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Why didn't he just evade and become elusive, he could've easily avoided the dash punch KaiShrug

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he wanted to hug Juliette

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Also

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I am claiming this as being the first to headcanon that they all can just become elusive like ghost even outside of the ring

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Imagine

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Startling someone and they become clear

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Transparent

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And it’s just a normal thing in the osverse

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yeah it’s a bad habit I have of typing the same thing twice, my brain works weird

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anyways

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Surprise birthday parties would be so great

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“Surprise” and the door entrance is empty there’s no one there

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And then a few seconds later “pop” back into existence

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You couldn’t even hide being scared of something

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Imagine movie theaters when a scary scene shows up and for a few seconds. It looks like all the seats are empty

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Even cooler is that things go through you when you’re elusive so you’d also just fall through things

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I imagine the osverse doesn’t have roller coasters

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Though I’m assuming it’s more of a natural thing rather than intentional like in the game

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immediately making this about Kai and Estelle do you think Estelle and Kai turned transparent the first time they reunited after Estelle lost? I know she left after losing but I think it’d be quite a shock to see an old rival take back the stage

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But also

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Being elusive must be a godsend to people who don’t like physical contact—anyone tries to put an arm around you and they’re just feeling air

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Which makes it even better when someone who says they hate it doesnt go elusive (now in the context that they can control it) it means they’re totally lying

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Cough cough Kai pretending he hates how physical and close X and Juliette are with him but he never goes elusive

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Wonder if not being able to be elusive is a condition that exist in the osverse like a gene that doesn’t express itself ratio_checksnote

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or being extremely elusive is a sign the gene is expressed too much

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that would be cool too

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Poor Drek'ar having to use space age technology to turn invisible only to find out everyone already could do it.

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Oh—I didn’t even think of that

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ether osverse is simply filled with more evolved beings or its the former where they can’t do it on command and Drekars technology is the ability to do it at any times

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However making it instead that drekars race is actually way behind the os verse would explain why no one seems to care that he literally came from space and isn’t from their planet—and playing sports with them

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maybe it’s just common

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I mean when they have more pressing matters that can’t be explained with technology—like Obscura or Juno it checks out

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i think in drekars case it pulls from a different energy source

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cuz like

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he can go elusive as well

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But he goes faster in his skill

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That’s another possibility

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it’s different but still very fun to think about

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Security must be terrible though

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What even would be the point of locked doors if people could just phase through walls

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Me who wrote an entire dissertation on what a Xeno Cloak is

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Yea "Elusive" as a concept is definitely a logistical nightmare if capable of being used as an actual ability by regular people.

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Also could go terribly wrong if it’s not something that can be done on command but I’m assuming it excludes things like walls and the floor just to make sense

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They aren’t 100% elusive but things phase through them

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I never really thought of incorporating the specifics of it as a mechanic into the world, though the larger idea of "in-game Corestrike elements contrasted with outside functionality" is definitely something I've thought on.

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Most notably characters with magical abilities and to what degree that have control of freedom over their utility.

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Oh I’m just a big fan of doing stuff like that

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What they're allowed to use it for in the field of play vs everyday life

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and why it's different

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if at all

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I reckon there’s a lot more limits off the field and it’s sports like corestrike where they get to have those abilities enhanced

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Because we know people like era are super valued outside of core strike (think back to Rasmus including her as one of his research subjects in he lab) there’s a lot of ways to apply their abilities functions to tech but it’s more dangerous instead of era just being able to comfortably use her skill in the games

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Maybe the more valuable/magical a person is the more careful they have to be in everyday life

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I actually assumed the reverse. Magic individuals were always in my eyes presumably low enough in number that any sort of regulation on their abilities would be a tenuous moving against individual rights at best (this is a contentious topic regardless of the number). Whereas in the Corestrike field proper players would have their magic limited by regulations for player safety, fairness, or both. Either through rules and an honor system with penalties or actual technology to dampen magical effects.

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Seeing as era was also bullied-called a “witch” it may not be as common to even have said abilities

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Especially more more unique abilities

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Still very nice to think everyone has a little something—even if it’s just going ghost for a few seconds

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I guess they’d have to undergo some type of testing to differentiate if someone had significant powers or not—it’d be easy to chalk up a skill like X’s as him just being a strong guy if they had no way to measure it

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But yea, that line of questioning comes up when you have stuff like "Era shrunk her bullies to the point they became chibi could fit in the palm of her hand. So why isn't she doing that in a match?"

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Is she stupid?

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Not neccessarily, you just need a reason why she can't.

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The game never provided us one, but that's why we're here

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Well she still does shrink them but the comics make her abilities seem a lot more powerful—and permanent and because we do have cooldowns on skills it’s pretty easy to make the transition into the notion that their skills and abilities are limited on the field to a certain extent

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Like Kai shoots fire out of his hands and hasn’t burned anyone yet

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there’s nothing permanent about the injuries besides getting knocked off the stage

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And I mean Zentaro uses a literal sword

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And slashes people

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And Drekar with his gun

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Some very obvious limits placed during the matches

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that make lethal things—not lethal

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Indeed there's a dire need for suspension of disbelief involved in the core gameplay. It's just a matter of how that's accounted for in the actual game universe.

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Which is a really interesting question, because the existence of that technology and the question of if it's applied outside of Corestrike is a big deal.

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It's also something that would unquestionably get political in-universe, because technology capable of controlling the potency or abilities of individuals without their consent in any capacity is uhhh... yea.

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True—but we know that where they are based in is very much huge on the whole core strike thing “athen city?” So perhaps rather than having limits on a wide scale this are is simply an exception because they hold the sports in that area

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I reckon unless the government is highly corrupt there’s no problem just making people sign consent forms or just having it be known that upon entering—your powers will be inhibited to some degree

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Yea, I'm not trying to imply an outcome one way or the other. It's a larger question I have no idea how I'd even go about answering.

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I'd assume technology like that being involved in a sporting event is very easy to make understandable via contracts for players/staff/arena audience

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It's the matter of "if this technology is so effective why isn't someone trying to put it everywhere?"

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That creates the complicated questions

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To be fair it is a futuristic world it probably is to some capacity but it would be very interesting to have someone use it on a grander scale—because it has some very dangerous but cool implications

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It’d be very easy to attack a city with everyone ooc and it could possibly have actually occurred at some point

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But again—not anything we’ll find out in the game itself unless their new one gives us more info which I doubt

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Yea, grand scale worldbuilding would be sick, but is not something I have my hopes up on. Especially if Byte Breakers turns out to be the next Ody project as from what little I've heard on that game's narrative concept it's uhhh... Well I won't get into it.

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It must be pretty hard however to actually block off abilities or at least costly—if there was players could simply buy a machine to inhibit their opponents abilities

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It’s not really a priority to many except for a select few

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I would however—appreciate it

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My thoughts exactly.

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In the meantime, I will simply have fun with having the creative freedom of imagining whatever I want to be canon until stated otherwise

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I do however hope they give us new description for the characters since they are the same, it’d feel lazy if their summaries were the exact same

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Always nice to learn a bit more about a favorite character

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Would love to learn specifics about what Zentaro went through on the road before he reached Ahten, or more about Drek'ar's society, or Estelle's previous team, or what business Finii's parents are actually involed in, or- yea you get the idea.

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Unfortunately that’s for us to ponder and for the ody team to never disclose

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Like the moment she realizes she's actually into Kai it drives her up the wall and she's all "Why did it have to be him?!"

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Every time she sees him she wants to hug him and then strangle him and then hold his hand and then punch him in the face y'know?

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Ah I accidentally deleted everything I was writing

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Coming to terms with it must’ve been so painful—Juliette must have felt like she was betraying Estelle so badly, and Kai must’ve felt like he was going against everything he said (but of course love prevails)

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Huge fan of julikai being a very obvious parallel to Romeo and Juliette

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Rejoice!

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omg!

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sillies by tomodachi fate

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Who do we set Era up with now

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She has feelings for X

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nah, mako

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nah, me

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daweeewewa the sillies

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Awwwww

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YEAAAAA FIREFIST ART!!!!

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dawswawawa

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the weweeewas

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Seeing this made me miss them

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Also @lilac minnow needs to see this, though since he’s the firefist fanboy he probably has already

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THIS IS SO CUUUUUTE LETSGOOOOOO OMG