Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-24384232-20141211031805/@comment-24384232-20141212190120

Yet that clearly isnt the case when you consider any character we've created in the last year Sei. We have gone so far beyond the realms of the physical because of what we want to see and accomplish with these fighting styles. Before we continue I will tell you why I want to do this. I can not speak for you, but what I want to see out of Hakuda and Zanjutsu is more.

I have grown weary of seeing these poorly written action sequences that people refer to as techniques. Where they just describe a scene of the action taking place. Where they run fast, hit the enemy from the behind, dash to the side and do a series of quick cuts. That is considered the standard for zanjutsu and hakuda technique creation and I find it monumentously boring.

The thrill and excitement of the fight, reduced to petty three liner descriptions. There is no awe, no wonder or cunning in the attacks. Its just... so and so punches the opponent. Static. Limited. Uninteresting. This is not an epic clash. This isnt even a stock pokemon match of back and forth attacks. This is a schoolyard brawl, portrayed by clumsy actors who barely know the blade edge of a sword, let alone how to do a proper punch.

When I read an action sequence for a series like this, I want the words to paint a picture of the animated action sequences we live to see. I want to be able to visualize the awesomeness, the power and prestige of their fighting skills. I want users to look back at their fights and think, "That was fuckin epic, lets do another".

But... I can't. Because everyone see's it and think, its fine. Yeah they have their uses, but they lose out when things get interesting. I can't because people do not think outside the box of what they have seen. I can't because no one else see's combat the way I do. As this amazing and dynamic story unfolding before our eyes. Where the heavens roar and the earth shakes, and all is still but the two fighters as they battle. I want to change that. I want others to glimpse the beauty that I see in combat. Sadly, such an endeavor seems all but impossible.

There is no disagreement on what magic can do. It has little limitation beyond the creativeness of the mind using it. But martial arts? Restricted. Limited. Painfully restrained to the bounds of physical reality. And for no other reason, because people simply can not see it as anything else.

Whats truly depressing is that I've read this kind of combat before. I've seen it done in fanfictions. This desire did not arise in a vacuum. It arose because I have read it and experienced it. I know it can be done. Whether it can be accomplished here or not... that I do not know.