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Revolution (RWBY Planeswalker Blake)

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There's also the spell Unexpected Fangs, which gives target creature +1/+1 and lifelink and doesn't involve any sacrifice or death. Depending on how lifelink works (can Blake enchant herself/her weapon with lifelink, does it activate if she hit's a Grimm, would it boost/replenish her Aura, etc, etc) that's some evidence of a very potent way Blake can improve herself with black without doing any sacrifice/death stuff. Probably, I guess, I have no real idea how this works.

draconas said:
If Qrow is any indication, aura also grants a high resistance to poison.
He was exposed to a poison that ate through stone, and fought it off better than a normal human fighting off normal scorpion venom.
According to a quick search, signs of scorpion poisoning normally show up within a few minutes and reaches peak severity within 5 hours, so his symptoms were heavily delayed.
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His Blood Alcohol Level saved him.

Edit: Also, the art for Unexpected Fangs doesn't even involve Vampires, it's has two animals fighting each other. So it even avoids all the Undeath themes.

I'm not exactly expecting her to figure out or learn that exact spell, but it does show that Black has the potential to avoid death, undeath, sacrifice, etc, etc. Maybe, depending, obviously.
 
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I assume the sacrifice is the person you're hitting's life to replenish your own. Or to be more accurate, Lifelink in this case ties into another of Black's themes: consumption.
 
SolipsistSerpent said:
I assume the sacrifice is the person you're hitting's life to replenish your own. Or to be more accurate, Lifelink in this case ties into another of Black's themes: consumption.
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Yes black is easiest when you have an enemy to feed off of. The trick is avoiding making enemies just because it is convenient. It is a bad/easy habit to fall into.
 
Hmmm wonder if Blake was underestimating the mages especially when told they can take far harder hits then normal people. But I kinda expected it, huntsmen kinda have an elitist attitude that even the most humble have. probably due to just being them physically superior in every way possible. Wonder how long that lasts. Hopefully before she meets a dragonslayer cause there durable and thens them. Unless she's thinking of them like hunntsman that bring its own problems too due lethal hits are just that lethal.
 
Unseelie said:
Aura reduces body hair? In general or is it based on personal preference?
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Blake has no idea. Whatever the cause, there's far more of it on the new plane compared to Remnant.

(Incidentally, that's one of the aforementioned "I'm turning animation quirks into plot points and you can't stop me" targets. :V )
 
...I did not expect this to be questioned. I probably should have. :p

Unseelie said:
Doesn't Fairy Tail have the same quirk though? A lot of the cast is showing their chests, arms, and legs, and I'm pretty sure none of them have visible body hair.
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I mean, at that point I'd be attacking pretty much the entire art style for anime and manga rather than just rationalizing some of RWBY's quirks with "A wizard Aura did it." Be glad that Remnant citizens at least have noticeable noses in this, unlike in parts of the source material ( :V) :


King Arthur said:
His Blood Alcohol Level saved him.
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nobody can tell me no if i decide to make this quest canon :V
 
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pressea said:
Blake got incredibly lucky running into sympathetic strangers twice in a row, huh.
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The people of Fairy Tail tend towards being villains or good, and most of the assumedly neutral just don't get screen time, making it seem like a world of good, dickish, and evil, with the good being the most populous.

Aura will do its best to make all scars heal as best as possible, and it also does a good job of keeping you from getting them in the first place, seeing as it can be held up like a force field or flashed up to take hits.

There isn't any real in-universe reason that you can't apply any sort of Buff that would go on creatures onto yourself or any Planeswalker you might summon to assist you. It's a card game with set and heavily defined rules, otherwise it wouldn't work. Moving it into written format involves a lot of 'Ah, so it would work like this' where stuff like Card Draw effects are basically Haste effects that give you short bursts of accelerated perception, Discard is mental attack on your perception or consciousness, Mill is also mental attacks but on your memory rather than your active mind, and you have to make a lot of it up as you go along.

Since Planeswalker isn't 'spending' spells and they're not going to forget something just because they cast it, it means you don't need 60 cards to duel, you just need a lot of mana and one good attack spell. A pissed off Red Mage throwing about Inescapable Blaze would be very scary, but luckily now that there's no turns Blake can actually dodge or attack them while they're casting.
 
BlackCoat13 said:
The people of Fairy Tail tend towards being villains or good, and most of the assumedly neutral just don't get screen time, making it seem like a world of good, dickish, and evil, with the good being the most populous.
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I generally convert a setting into something coherent, consistent, and relatively realistic before actually using it in a story. In other words, just because neutrals don't get canon screentime doesn't mean that they don't exist in this quest.

(Because they do. Even stuff like the tendency toward adventuring is remapped to "because coherent cultural influences" instead of "because anime.")
 
Alivaril said:
Be glad that Remnant citizens at least have noticeable noses in this, unlike in parts of the source material ( :V) :
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Alternatively, that's just how light works on Remnant (which is truer to the nature of the quirks). But then Blake would have been weirded out by everything and everyone looking unusual or she would have had a light-bending aura around her, weirding out everyone else. Or both.

Also, Wikia doesn't allow hotlinking.
 
Alivaril said:
...I did not expect this to be questioned. I probably should have.
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You absolutely should have :p

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Not sure what you mean, she has a nose in the picture even though it might be confused with dirt on the screen :V

But seriously, I really don't understand why something would count as animation quirk for one world, but not for the other.
 
curiosity said:
Also, Wikia doesn't allow hotlinking.
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Ah, oops. Fixed then I hope.

Unseelie said:
But seriously, I really don't understand why something would count as animation quirk for one world, but not for the other.
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Most of RWBY's (earlier, unsure about later) character models tended not to have little details like "muscles," "freckles," etc. Clothing covered it up pretty well, but limbs were often just smooth expanses of the appropriate skin tone without additional details. Fairy Tail and the anime art style actually have more details, especially when dirt, scratches, etc. from fighting are taken into account. It's even worse when you contrast the 3d models vs the 2d art style: it's just easier to notice uncanny valley aspects with the 3d.

Part of describing things is spending a frickin' long time looking at them, and if I have to notice then so do all of you :V

EDIT: Alternatively, "because I said so Aura." It was easier and more fun to say that animation oddities were caused by Aura preventing harm and other such effects, and it maintains in-universe consistency for some other stuff, so. Might as well. :p
 
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Unseelie said:
Doesn't Fairy Tail have the same quirk though? A lot of the cast is showing their chests, arms, and legs, and I'm pretty sure none of them have visible body hair.
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Most of the main cast of the show are wizards, which means for the purpose of this quest that they do have Aura. I get the impression that Elda's not quite sure what our whole deal is but has picked up on the fact that we're not exactly a run-of-the-mill wizard, or even if she thinks we are, she knows we don't want to draw the kind of attention we'd get [due to lack of experience / not having a guild / whatever reason].
 
Ferretshock said:
I would argue that that is an artifact of the frame story of the game (or at least the old frame story. Dunno what the new one is, or if they bothered with one). Namely: players were planeswalkers conducting proxy battles as demonstrations of skill and power.
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Yeah, that's roughly how it's framed these days too, last I checked.
Ichigoblade22 said:
Hmmm wonder if Blake was underestimating the mages especially when told they can take far harder hits then normal people. But I kinda expected it, huntsmen kinda have an elitist attitude that even the most humble have. probably due to just being them physically superior in every way possible. Wonder how long that lasts. Hopefully before she meets a dragonslayer cause there durable and thens them. Unless she's thinking of them like hunntsman that bring its own problems too due lethal hits are just that lethal.
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Dragon Slayers are by no means the only incredibly durable mages around. Erza has taken a lot of punishment and stayed standing, and she's not a Dragon Slayer. Power and durability seem to go hand-in-hand in FT. The only reason why most Slayers of all types are durable is because few, if any, of them could be considered weak magicians.

I am both amused and bemused that we're having a discussion about art styles right now.
 
Part 2 of Chapter 6, Spark's Haunted, has been sent to betas. I'm trying not to rush said betas, though - there won't be a vote until part 3. Part 2 will have a poll for where readers want skill improvements to be listed, however.
 
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Nixeu said:
Dragon Slayers are by no means the only incredibly durable mages around. Erza has taken a lot of punishment and stayed standing, and she's not a Dragon Slayer. Power and durability seem to go hand-in-hand in FT. The only reason why most Slayers of all types are durable is because few, if any, of them could be considered weak magicians.

I am both amused and bemused that we're having a discussion about art styles right now.
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I say your half right as their dose seem to be increased durability with more power but Erza is by no mean a good example that woman is a monster and everyone acknowledges that she is way more powerful then she has right to be for her age. The reason i consider the slayers to be more durable then the average mage is due to taking on some of the characteristics of the art beyond actually using the scales or dragon force. The two combined makes them a pain in the ass unless you exploit a Weakness they have.
 
Nixeu said:
Dragon Slayers are by no means the only incredibly durable mages around. Erza has taken a lot of punishment and stayed standing, and she's not a Dragon Slayer.
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Well the thing is that Erza is

Kinda half dragon/dragon slayer.

Her mother was a dragon when she gave birth to Erza.
 
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