Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-33029670-20190816040049/@comment-25603146-20190831003919

Okay, so looking over Tset's page, a list of all of his general options and what would/wouldn't work well(?) on Zain probably:

- Ikki's Fate Manip.: Zain doesn't have a fate to target, nothing in Omega (the last universe, i.e. where most of the story happens) does.

- Ikki's Slashing of Concepts: Archetype Armiger wielders' selves are armored, inured to attacks against the Archetype by way of their connection to the Akashic Record and therefore resistant to attacks of this nature (i.e. literally every Qliphoth) quite heavily. (This is where the rest of the Archetype Armiger's resistances come from as well: their elemental affinities, their psyches and spirits, etc. are all extensions and aspects of the Self, the core that unites and directs it all.) TLDR: This wouldn't ignore durability, nor pass through any of his weapons seeing as they are saturated with his Archetype as well.

- Edelweiss' Swordplay: From the looks of it, its very similar to how Tessera's wind blade tomfoolery works, and he literally just got done fighting that at the end of Act I, so.

- Desperado Perception/Empathic Manip.: The standard Qliphoth have auras like this, on account of being what it is that they are.

- Fleur de Lys: I don't think a basic debuff attack is anything to stay too wary off, assuming it gets past the Ailment resist even.

- Zantou Gari: Chrono counters this, without requiring he cut the shoulder he'd be using to swing a sword with, so.

- Unlimited Blade Works: So, this is the big one, right? The one thing that basically single-handedly turns this match. I did some looking into, and discovered that the mechanics being [|Projection] are essentially identical to Memoryform Creation/Dismissal. This leads me to believe that, since Gram is retroactively saturated with the False Envoy's Archetype and all manifestations of it (i.e. including his own "Projections", with the Florentine Combat Form for example: being one of his signature Combat Forms, I find it likely he'd be able to catch on eventually), I see no say that Zain couldn't simply dismiss memoryforms of 'his' own weapons, i.e. ones bound entirely to his own self.

Other things:

1: Zain's probably out-skilled, but by how much exactly? Tessera, whom he challenged sufficiently enough to fight seriously more or less from the get-go, had been fighting both in the Material Plane and the Yesod for essentially six continuous millennia prior as a part-time job, and even before that was considered at least competitive with the various Bruce Lees of her age. Obviously, he's not quite on that level at this point, but aside from his age somehow being in the trillions? I'd not be surprised if the gap wasn't as massive as initially imagined.

2: Tset doesn't seem to resist Time Stop, like, at all- if so, it's not listed on his page. Which, uh... yeah, Nephesh would probably just meme the fight if he's allowed to build up the energy to activate a True Self at all.

...also, from looking over by story notes again, I might be forced to run yet another revision, so AAAAAA

In combination with EWtRtW 5 probably not even being close to done with giving Tset some actual showings, uh

I think I'll get back to this in proper later

(Inb4 1-A everything-hax)