Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27123758-20191202204135/@comment-36846645-20200206010449

I focus more on acrobatics cause i'm showing they aren't linear. Both offensive and defensive they wouldn't be easy to beat. Not just slash, block, slash block, x1000 (Sometimes to make life easier). Like when Athena kicked off her shield doing a backflip to block an attack from the front, while also trying to land on the person behind her with her backflip. Or dodign a decapitation by doing a backflip with your hands and pulling their away with your foot as you finish.

Just showing they aren't linear, and can move from any position. The basic stuff doesn't land in my verse unless there is a speed advantage or someone slips up i guess. They can fight without being flashy, but if stats are the same it would probably stalemate. The acrobatic stuff makes them hard to read, cause at any position, they can move. Like if someone came at Remia from the front and the back, let's say she blocks the first guy but he somehow grabs her arm or swords preventing her from defending from the back, she can just jump up, catch the sword from the guy behind her with her feet and flip him over or something. So it's not just to be fancy and entertaining, but it does show valid skill, if every character is not linear like that.

It just gives them that flexibility. Not saying her way would be the only way of dealing with that situation. i guess it's about being hard to read. The goal is to hit your opponent. So you try to be as mixy as possible in order to achieve that. That's why they would all be doing spins in between slashes, doing backflips, front flips, tkd kicks, etc. It won't be as simple as block this dodge that (Unless you are faster), cause they do a lot of crazy shit you gotta watch out for. And obvsiously this stuff is not easy to do, requires massive skill to do these in a fight. Especially doing it perfectly at that. That's why it's not done irl. I wanna see someone jump off a shield to block from the front while doing a backflip mid air, to try and land on someone's head behind them. That requires strict timing, precision and awareness. That's why i care about mostly that. Timing cause you have to do it right, precision cause you can't be off by even the slightest, and the awareness that you even have to do it this way, exactly like this, in this little time. It def takes supernatural skill to do any of the things i listed.