Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-3045936-20140609045441/@comment-2089817-20140615185341

Well, the way you've described it comes across as making a lot more sense. However, my original statement still stands, I find it implausible.

This curse's entire concept rests upon the idea that the user is able to understand the link between the victim's skills and themselves. I'll use the example of Seireitou and Hakuda again. Somebody of that level has reached a point of Hakuda, through the course of their training and experience, that coupled with their own personal view of everything, which can't be understood by another person on a whim. No matter how strong the sorcerer or how magically adept they are, they can't understand something that escapes general thinking. Seireitou would have transcended Hakuda, reached levels to a point where his craft is a mystery that can't be deciphered by somebody that hadn't gone through similar trials. Even Raian, that knows Seireitou so well and has been so integral in his past, could not comprehend certain aspects of Seireitou's craft or the experience he went through and what he took from those experiences, because he isn't Seireitou himself. It's impossible to see things in the exact same way as any other person and therefore, you can't sever somebody from their past and present selves, deriving them of their craft, without being able to understand things this much. To delve into a victim's history and find the link between themselves and their abilities in such a way can only be logically possible when the user themselves can comprehend those skills. Witnessing Seireitou use... say Muken or Hokoryu, an advanced extension of his craft that only somebody of his level could achieve, would be just as much a mystery to a Kido Master as it would to any other spectator, because it's a craft they can't reproduce through the same method nor explain using the logic of their own craft.

This entire spell makes the assumption that the user can see the world in the same viewpoint as their victim. That they can understand things in the same vein as their victim, to the point of actually severing a bond between themselves and the craft in question. That actually is quite impossible. The only time I'd consider this curse plausible is if, say, one Kido Master tried to curse another Kido Master. Even if they studied their crafts differently and they experienced things differently, the same craft reaches the same conclusions one way or another, and then, this curse could actually have some effect, but it wouldn't be absolute. But a Kido Master could never comprehend the depth of a Hakuda Master's experiences and skills, and vice-versa, which is why this spell makes no sense.