Thread:Saris Khan/@comment-3403804-20161212005824/@comment-3403804-20161228135335

Toso's resolve is his greatest asset, but Flame as a distinct element and form of power, is, to my knowledge, not. His Will is strong enough to manipulate the world on a certain scale, that is beyond anything even seen in the likes of Fairy Tail. Naturally, I don't question that he can, and acknowledge that fire is created through that sheer resolve; however, when you create Fire you subject yourself and it to its laws; even if his Fire is Conceptual in nature, it is still fire, and Murakaze obviously operates on that plane of influence as well.

If that projectile is indeed fire, then it IS by its very nature a finishing move. Hiromasa's weakness to fire isn't his greatest weakness because its neccessarily difficult for him to deal with, but because any fire that DOES get through is magnified explosively in terms of the damage caused. Like I alluded to in my post, that fire-enhanced onslaught from Toso would have immediately defeated him had it connected. This last burning sun-esque attack? It would've killed him on the spot.

Mastering that weakness, and turning it to be a highly risky, if effective weapon was something he HAD to do, otherwise he would never have been able to get this far. He'd have been felled by an Assassin's Shakkaho long before reaching this point. As for the Casual respect, Hiromasa deciding to utilize Murakaze's true Shikai the way he has, is about as far from casual as its possible to get. At the start of the fight I was uncertain if he would ever use it at all, but Toso turned out to be stronger than anticipated and here we are.