Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-5778280-20151022012026/@comment-5778280-20151023014136

It seems I really have been looking at Hakuda all wrong. If the object is to make a craft, unique to myself, then I shouldn't worry too much about what I shouldn't and should implement; in the end, it'll be something unique to Kosa. If, by any means, my current understanding is correct, do you think a martial arts based around fire is possible? I see your fire bending-like article, and I envision something similar to what I want to achieve, but I have another way to go about mine. You see, friction creates heat, and flame manipulation is basically just a higher degree of heat control. Through the use of friction, in martial arts, I want to be able to give birth to flames; I don't want to have to rely on actually having Kosa generate his own from resonance.

I've taken to calling this Hinoyo (like fire). Combined with my Taekwondo and Taekkyon (which I still haven't learned enough about to comfortably dip my toe into explaining), I want to be able to generate flame with kicks and the like. My pursuit of a higher degree of power, for Kosa, is mainly due to this. I want to invoke some form of transformation that goes beyond the basic increase of Douhaku, and take his Hinoyo to a higher degree. I want a style of heat-based martial arts that I can call my own. Hell, nothing fancy, really.

Ah. Sorry to have gotten off topic there. Anyway, as for the knuckle dusters? I could look into it, but Kosa was originally going to combine telekinesis with his Zanpakuto to make up for his mediocrity in Zanjutsu. In disposing of Shikai and Bankai, he has no actual need to pursue the craft (at all). Though, would learning about Zanjutsu as a means to disassemble it be against a Martial Arts? Would disarming techniques be Hakuda, or Zanjutsu? I know it's obvious, but it involves weapons (in the end), so I'm kind of confused. In the end, though, I want Kosa's main focus to be Hakuda, even if he draws a little something from the only other two fields.