So... I'm fairly sure that Ars Magna counts as shaping. We have Integrity Protection Prana, meaning that at least his first attack against us should fail, and it's not like he'll have time for another. Worst case scenario is, of course, him seemingly killing / maiming Kuroko, and us snapping before such change can be undone.
It should. Worked much the same on Touma. First few attacks got dispelled, then he switched to just shooting shit.
What are our goals here, anyway? Aisa we definitely want to befriend, and possibly enlighten later (special rare abilities in our minions / friends? Yes, please).
Aisa just wants to live in peace. Her power disgusts her.
In principle, getting Aureolus Izzard could be very useful too, and it's not like we haven't recruited people who did bad stuff before. And I would at least feel ok about risking him exploding if / when we enlighten him.
Aureolus Izzard reforms later in Index canon. He realizes the depths of his hubris and basically walks the earth in atonement.
He eventually rescues/recruits Fiamma of the Right after Touma punched the crazy out of him and Crowley kicks his ass further for petty reasons. They form the league of reformed villains and generally focuses on preemptively taking down people who are like they used to be.
Turns out a supervillain is also really good at hunting down villains.
Befriend? Sure, Misaka could always do with more friends. Enlightening her probably isn't a good idea however. While I don't remember Index too well from my skimming of the Deep Blood Arc Asia just wants her power to go away. She doesn't like that it constantly draws in vampires only for them to die as a result.
Aisa wanted her power to go away yes. She's actually seen that some of the vampires are decent people, but the moment they get in range of her they turn into mindless monsters who disintegrate the moment they touch her blood.
At first glance Kiyama and Aureolus seem similar but then when you compare them:
- Aureolus is trying to save one person instead of many.
- Aureolus is wanted by the Churches with little chance of a pardon.
- Aureolus turns murderous when he finds out his methods were useless instead of repentant.
- Aureolus murdered people for his goal instead of simply incapacitating them.
Point one isn't so bad, point two is something we could deal with, but three and four seem are unacceptable.
1) To be honest Misaka is not innocent of this herself. If Kuroko was under the same curse she wouldn't have done much less. Probably would have stopped before the murders though.
2) Canon Raildex, IIRC the church recruits him into the deeper blackops stuff they do.
3) It's a Conviction Limit Break of sorts, actually. Remember, Ars Magna requires significant self-directed mind control to achieve the sheer mental focus needed to imagine and materialize phenomenon. He entered a self-mindfuck loop, which Touma could punch him out of. The problem
4) Noting that most of the dead people came back to life when the Ars Magna was dispelled.
5) Misaka and Touma, the ones on the mission, are unwilling to kill. And he is undeniably skilled.
Solar aspected essence might blunt the "attract them" aspect of her power. Or at least give her some control, if her power works as an esper ability. At the very least, it would bump her up the esper classification ranking, which would land her more money and allocate more resources to figuring out / improving her ability.
FYI, she doesn't want a higher ranking. Her power is Technical Level 0 - Unprovable and undetectable phenomenon occurs when superspeed vampires blitz her and then just vanish. Same as Imagine Breaker. It's not technically an Esper effect.
3 might be a psychotic break or something (I forget, why did he become such, anyway? What was he actually going to do?), and might be prevented here.
Answered above. Autohypnosis. Ars Magna requires absolute mastery of will to produce controlled phenomenon rather than random chaos...which is obviously impossible.
...impossible to people who are unwilling to use mind control magic on their own mind.
4... Well, Kiyama would have killed people, it just didn't get that bad. She was lucky, I believe.
Partial counterpoint. Kiyama indeed had a risk of death in her stunt, but she did it out of raw absentmindedness. Aureleous rationalized it as "I needed a few thousand people chanting this to make it work, and they will die horribly, but it doesn't matter because I can rewind their death and their memory of death with Ars Magna anyway".
There were no lasting consequences, but he was...basically a Kihara born on the Magic side, with good intentions.
...Actually, quick fact check. I think sending Saten to guard Index might be a bad idea, as she's guarded by that flame spirit summon.
IIRC, Stiyl needs to be there to control Innocentius at present.
Not sure though. He probably won't use a thousand degree fire summon to defend an ignorant Index inside a building, because theres a very real risk of accidentally killing Index instead.
It could just as easily be grabbing them by the arm, or tapping them on the arm, or clapping their shoulder...
Somewhat, but Kuroko always grabs people by the hand for friendly/non-combat teleports.
Aside from the one time she changed Misaka's underclothing for swimwear with it.
