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Positivity Time!~ || Accepting
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I'm gonna throw you ---
Christ I actually am coming up on blanks here...uh...
I suppose analytical data is my forte with writing. Piggy backing off my description writing, another one I'm very good with is doing research on my muses. Their cultures, the laws of their cultures if they were real, their upbringings, even their fighting styles and whatnot because that stuff just interests me?
For example, when Alpha fights, she is very much all about Iaijutsu and Iaido style, but when you watch her movements, she also shows a lot of hand to hand style. She's a SAVANT in CQC. Once becoming Crimson Weave, the forced ascension to her body, she changed to using a Kodachi and Odachi style combat, using only her Odachi when she truly feels you have earned her full strength, but she still mixes in her melee strikes. But even then, she does other neat things which took me getting my ass kicked for an hour against one of her bosses at different health pools because of different combos were unlocked the further into her fights you get. One being that she actually will strike at you in a swift draw, but then kick off the ground, release her blade, and spin kick it down right into you, before then landing and retrieving it in a reverse strike and sheathe it.
Or such as when in the trailer of her facing off against Vergil, she directly shows with her movement of her eyes that she isn't just 'watching', she's examining his patterns to correct her own strikes to parry and deflect him, but his speed, and strength, is actually more than hers, and it's why she's having issues actually striking back. Yet she's also fast enough and smart enough to see his Judgement Cut pattern to fully dodge the perfect Judgement Cut End finisher, leaping just in time to 'fit' between each strike as she's falling.
I pick up on these little details quite easily I find, even if I only glance at them for a second. Shifts of body, the way a deflect is made, it shows the difference in a true power struggle, or skill difference.
It's extremely fast, but you can see even WITHOUT knowing who both characters are, there's an ocean of strength and skill difference. Vergil stopping her stroke with his sheathed Yamato, and he's not even budging, using a single hand. But the angle of her blade? Alpha behind the camera has actually shifted to a two handed grip on her Odachi: she's putting her full strength, not her power, but her strength into it. She meant to deal a crushing blow, because she saw 'the foe' she was hunting.
She didn't expect him to release his blade like that with his thumb, and it startled her: in a normal case, he just discarded his weapon, because he smacked his free hand up into it to propel it upwards, using the force to also re-angle their weapons, and kicked her in the gut with her movements. He then not only attacks her, but she's having to parry in very awkward angles herself. She's using the hilt of her odachi on the first strike due to being thrown off, while also parrying with a counter attack after his spin, and then clashing with him.
And then the distance the two gain: Vergil relies far more on his speed compared to Alpha. Alpha used to rely more on speed, but since gaining her new frame, she actually fights more with brute force and ruthlessness tenacity, and he already has noticed that. So he sheathes Yamato because it's actually faster and more in his advantage to go for strikes from the sheath and hip, than from being drawn like she is.
It's mind games: he doesn't see her as a true threat, and so he's toying with her. It's why he even gives a sigh and starts adjusting his coat before the fight. Its an act of 'Really? Fine, I'll entertain you.' He doesn't deem her on his par, and you can tell from his body language, his movements, his posture. He's composed, relaxed.
I've always been very good at picking these things up, I guess?