Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-18812574-20151213025639

Yo Sei! So I’ve been trying to work on Cang Du (even though that may not be apparent from my wiki edits, heh) and I am sort of stuck when it comes to his martial arts mastery. I’ve talked with Void about this to some length before, but I wanted to get a second opinion from someone who is familiar with martial arts as well. Basically what I’m trying to do is figure out where to start. So far I have the five animals of Shaolin for his spirit weapon, but now it’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty and figure out the specifics.

I was thinking of using a certain style of kung fu or something as a starting point. This is what I did for Hein and it worked out well, however Void said that I should try to steer clear of “style” as it would be limiting. But if that’s the case then I’m not too sure where I would begin. From looking at the pics in the manga, he seemed to have focused on aggressive, wide movements with heavy offense and not-so-heavy defense, mainly focusing on leg-work. Here’s some pics, maybe I’m totally off here, but I was wondering if you knew which style this most closely resembles:

But beyond that, I wanted to incorporate Wing Chun into his style of fighting. For three reasons: first, I was originally inspired to “adopt” (for lack of a better term) Cang Du because he showed up on page and I went, “OMG, Bruce Lee!!!” which obviously it didn’t turn out that way but you can dream, no? Second because Wing Chun is badass, at least from the small bits of it that I’ve seen. Third because, I figured after Cang was cut down and almost killed by Jugram, he probably became more cautious about the way he fights. That injury left both a physical and mental scar, in other words, and nowadays he would be much more concerned about defense and protecting his core. At least that’s the route I’m going for atm. I know Wing Chun is more redirection as opposed to hard defense and what-not, but I liked the fact that it tends to keep everything relatively close to a person’s center of gravity. Plus, without I-the Iron, Cang might have to adjust some things to compensate for the lack of his schrift, although I imagine he could use Blut for the same purpose, at least marginally.

So I guess to sum up, my questions are these: What would you suggest when it comes to his style, how would I-the Iron (when he gets it back, I am planning on that anyway) affect the way he fights, and how does a Quincy fight differently than a Shinigami? (Spiritual martial arts vs. Hakuda, if there’s a difference, in other words… I suppose.)

Anyway, any help is much appreciated, as I am extremely stumped. 