Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-3045936-20140609045441/@comment-3403804-20140615155257

Actually. Sei, what TD5 is suggesting here is perfectly plausible. My understanding is that it's a regression of the subjects very essence, it changes everything about the subject to reflect their prowess at an earlier age. It's basically merging the present With the past and making the past take supercedence. Masters would be affected perhaps more strongly than practioners and experts, precisely because of how their arts have become fundamental to their very essence, or more correctly their spirit. Seireitou, inarguably the greatest Master of Hakuda on the fanon would be so incredibly saturated With the essence of his Craft that it would be quite simple for someone versed in magical and spiritual lore to find this "part" of him.

By attacking this Hakuda Essence, arguably one of the most important facets of his spiritual core. A spellcaster like say, Shigenaga Arma, who happens to be a very skilled practioner of Henkōdō. Could tear into that part of his spirit, find the deeper Connections between it and Seireitou himself and plunge him downward into a spiral which would bring his spirit to a far earlier time. For instance, his body and spirit would be sent several hundred years back in time, to a point where he was not yet a grandmaster, or perhaps even a master. His mind would possess all the knowledge, but with an underdeveloped body he could not perform the same feats he could before. His kicks would be the kicks of someone literally centuries his junior, and who lacked the millennia of experience that he had.

I'll explain with an analogy, it'd sort of be like if you suddenly found yourself inhabiting the body of an infant, yet retained all of your knowledge of martial arts. The small body could not handle the techniques you've mastered in Taekwondo, and would not possess the strength and physical capabiltiies to perform them. The same would be true for Seireitou in this case. He would still be who he is, but he'd be much weaker and his body would possess much less experience. His body would be Whole and appearantly unblemished, but he'd still be crippled by the spell.

It should be noted though, that from what I can tell of this spell, this is quite clearly a powerful curse. Meaning that it's very unlikely that anyone could cast this spell in the heat of combat, as Henkōdō does not follow the same principles of the more combat-oriented kido types. To cast the spell, several Components would need to be gathered and it's likely it would require some external conditions as well in order to work. The most likely condition would be that the caster could only "throw" his spirit as far into the past as their own knowledge of him stretches.

Thus Shigenaga could not cast this curse after all, at least not in any meaningful way. But someone like Raian, who has known Seireitou since his days at the academy could throw his spirit back onto the point when he was an academy student. Which would, unless Seireitou could find a way to break the curse, make him a much easier target to defeat for his opponents.