Thread:TrashMan/@comment-2089817-20131025201010/@comment-2089817-20131026041617

I'm not saying I know better than Kubo, don't go flying off the handle. My point is that no writer is perfect, not even Kubo. He has created an extremely broad universe that allows for an almost infinite spectrum of analysis and interpretation. So much so that the way he openly has expressed his characters isn't always perfect. The same can be said for fan made characters. There could be a person out there that could probably handle my Seireitou character better than I can. Kubo isn't perfect and has even SHOWN this in his writing by making characters act in ways different than they have been depicted to act, showing very inconsistent characteristics. But even so, I respect his story enough to not change anything he has established. Instead, I merely interpret what he has written in my own way and I write my stuff accordingly. In my viewpoint, Yamamoto is far stronger than Kubo has portrayed, and there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever.

Furthermore, if you really read that RP, like you are suggesting, then you would know two major things about it before making comments like "In that roleplay, no one even touched him. Yes, I'd call that overpowered...or cheap." The first being that during almost the entire RP, everybody attacked Seireitou as if it were a beam spam battle; throwing wild attacks again and again, hoping they will magically work. Seireitou was designed to be a veteran warrior of the Hakuda arts, having mastered them to the point of making the martial arts supernatural and transcendent. He can't be hit through conventional means, that is the point. That isn't cheap whatsoever. They should be coming up with a smart strategy to strike Seireitou, and then it would work. And the second thing is when the opponents actually DID do something intelligent, I fully accepted the move and responded accordingly. The Quincy character Asumu used the Ransoutengai ability to wrestle away control of the massive energy construct generated from the foolish energy attacks thrown at Seireitou, via his, as you called it, "manipulation of paths" technique. And in doing so, with this ingenious method, he managed to disable Seireitou momentarily, allowing for another character to deliver a successful assault. Which DID happen. And me, being the responsible roleplayer, acknowledged this excellent move and responded appropriately, showing that Seireitou was indeed struck.

Not ALL of the weaknesses of a character are supposed to be on their page, openly explained. Where's the challenge then? You might as well decide ahead of time who the winner of a fight should be. No, we don't conduct ourselves that way. It is their job to figure out the weaknesses, that's the point of this, otherwise it becomes meaningless to RP unless you're collaborating on a pre-planned story; which this fight wasn't. If they manage to discover a plausible method to counter one of my character's techniques, such as how Asumu manged to do with Sei's Hokoryu technique, then I will acknowledge this and properly accept it as a weakness to the attack, which I did in-story. It's not cheap to come up with a technique that is seemingly invincible and force people to actually THINK how to fight against it instead of just submitting to a beam spam DBZ-esque fight where everybody just shoots laser beams and hope it somehow works. All techniques have weaknesses, even the ones you consider "cheap", but you have to be intelligent enough to figure them out in order to overcome them. I'm not going to hand them to you on a silver platter.

Now, the reason why I'm even continuing this discussion is because you did not only say Seireitou was overpowered. If that was the case, all I would've said was "I respect your opinion, but I disagree with it. We probably have different definitions of power." But no. You know what you said? You said, and I quote: "Serously. I cannot comperehend how you thought this was a good character." Basically, what you said was the polite equivalent of saying this character is shit, you must be some special kind of idiot to think this is good work. I do not take kindly to being told this after all the thought and work that was put into this article; specially when it was said by some new user that has yet to write anything on here of any real merit.