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Man I hate group projects
Anyways, I'm trying to find some stats to see if my interpretation of their definition is correct, and I can't
Forget AE, the most powerful move in SS would be just pulling out someone's tragic backstory and making them relive it for 1000 years
Btw, the definition I am trying to look up is "heart" because rn I only think of Saga, Shaka, and Milo when it comes to techniques that target the heart, and for Milo it's honestly more of a side effect compared to Genro Mao Ken and Tenbu Horin (Scarlet Needle is just Reverse Acupuncture That Hurts Like Heck to try to get you to change your mind)
I guess Shion would theoretically know Genro Mao Ken as well, but you see...I can't find his stats either.
The issue is that I'm not sure how strong the Gold Saints need to be in this area.
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My apologies for Aphrodite. I forgot that his rose can take away consciousness if it's not plucked out by some rando in the process /j
Dude gets made fun of in all the stats and rankings. It's not just me.
Me having to read Japanese for this task :')
I have no idea if "heart" includes psychokinesis or not lol.
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Mr. Fandom-Verified Gay Ice Man has a heart value of 5/5.
Yeah sure, I guess if you freeze a dude's heart, his mind stops as well. Fair. (wth)
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And then Shura has a value of 1.
You'd think limbs being chopped off would have a pretty big mental effect, guess not.
Okay so maybe it's mostly telekinesis?
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I feel like I am missing cultural subtext lol
The canon Gold Saint rankings from highest to lowest in this area:
5/5: Deathmask, Aphrodite, Milo, Camus, Mu, Dohko, Shaka, Saga
3/5: Aldebaran
2/5: Aiolia, Aiolos
1/5: Shura
What I am getting is that Shura is so filled with hubris that he can't be bothered to do telekinesis or learn mental attacks (however much each of those categories factor into the overall ranking)
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Okay, so for 5/5, we have:
-Dude who can transport you to the entrance of the Underworld
-Dude who can throw roses, just not very well (this is canon-verified and is exactly why I've been making fun of him btw)
-Dude who can paralyze you in place, usually for the bit (intimidation). Apparently can be broken tho, which is why he doesn't use it with Scarlet Needle??
-Dude who will sink the ship your deceased mom is on to try to teach you something about emotions or whatever in the middle of an already urgent situation
-#1 psychokinesis master. Smug energy levels can go off the charts. He's usually really nice though.
-?????? lived for 263 years so probably has a lot of practice with psychokinesis and whatever else, just can't be bothered to show it. Or any feats really. He brawls with his bestie and that's about it.
-I mean I'm not gonna contest this or make fun of him b/c he would literally send me to 6 different hells after making up some philosophy-related bullcrap reason
-His non-voluntary inter-dimensional sending never actually works but ig it's really good in theory when he's not using it against literal story protagonists
And then ig we have
3/5, Aldebaran: Uhhh ig he's practiced offscreen or smthn
2/5: Aiolos never was very good at telekinesis and so Aiolia was never able to learn it very well. Apparently. Plus neither have very mental-oriented techniques. They both punch for the most part. Aiolos uses a bow. Aiolia just punches...yeah.
1/5: D E S T R U C T I O N (it's on his property, he doesn't care) (no mental or psychokinesis-related stuff whatsoever)
Shion refusing to send his stats over so he doesn't get made fun of. Too bad.
(iirc his stats are all supposed to be hella goated, which is why I think it's so funny that for plot purposes he had to stay and bully his own disciple instead of going in and bullying everyone else)
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As usual, sharing Arknights music (an EP for a new CN operator)
This is funny music to make fun of the Gold Saints to.
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Another fun activity I wanna do: translate all the AU Gold Saint names to Chinese. For no reason.
I know the pronunciations, but I wanna choose nonsensical characters to go along with them lol.
You don't understand, the zodiac name plus the Chinese name is so cool.
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Some comment threads in HYXHN are hilarious
Some guy wrote a fairly long post summarizing everything each couple gave to save each other, ending with "For the sake of love, could you do this as well?"
The top comment there was another poetic summary, followed by some other comments on how they could do it as long as the girl also loved them back, and then at the end with 95 upvotes there's just a "N O"
Also every time I see the Gold Saint rankings debated I quote HYXHN in "This issue we all have debated for centuries. There's no merit in continuing to wrestle over it" (from the Nanguo arc lol)
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Ik Camus left the Libra Temple for plot reasons, 'cause technically his ice-related abilities are probably best suited for stalling the Bronze Saints. He uses just enough firepower to freeze their brains and hearts and boom! Plot stagnation. It's still funny tho, imagining Dohko banging the table as he just kinda leaves for Aquarius.
Maybe you could argue that he did it on purpose, but still, imagine being entrusted the Libra Temple by a senior in case of invasion, and then in the middle of a literal (technical) invasion you turn your disciple into a popsicle after you yank him out of space and then skedaddle back to the 11th temple lol. he didn't want to look at what he'd done
I think the plot stagnation would still occur if Camus had been in the Aquarius Temple btw ('cause no time to try punching the ice and the Libra weapons, he'd be there and probably wouldn't want them to try to free him), but again, I don't think he wanted to actually remember that he deep froze his own student, so. But that's like the equivalent of buying some new furniture for someone's house while they're away and nailing it into the floor, pretty much. Like what if Dohko returned during the Holy Grail War. He'd have to stare at this 14-year-old carbonite ice decoration that he was not responsible for
Also ignore how Camus left Hyoga in the 12 Temples to begin with, like ig dude couldn't use psychokinesis? I have no idea if canon Sanctuary has a barrier and if so, how it works. Like apparently there just isn't one, since Camus can sink Hyoga's mom's ship and Saga and Shaka can do whatever, and also Shaka/Saga can nuke people from a distance. Camus just makes no sense (I say while having a Camus pfp)
The funny thing about Camus is I imagine I can actually hurt his feelings, he just would pretend I can't while inside he's slightly teary
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Another thing I imagined that had me in tears (I will never stop making fun of the Gold Saints) was that as Camus was dramatically leaving the Libra Temple and heading into Scorpio, Milo saw his eyes were red (Milo being his fanon-verified bestie kinda just picks up stuff like that) and was like "You're watching a movie?? Now?? Of all times??"
Camus just ignores him lol I realized Camus rarely talks to Milo lol, usually it's Milo talking to him telepathically or whatever and then he just stands there imposingly. SoG is actually the exception but even then he still does it. Idk what's wrong with him (the Aquarius who talks wayyy too much says)
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I would like to thank Ulpianus for appearing in my IS 5 run
Unfortunately for him my only source of healing that I could get (I only got 1 Medic recruitment, 0 Defenders lmiao) was Harold :-P
IS is so fun once you actually read whatever is going on (actually I just suck at following a bunch of instructions at once)
I also feel like I'm being out-Galaxianed unfortunately, since
-Galaxian-Fremont teleports your operators after Phase 1 and then prevents you from redeploying them unless you break their coffins. Lessing. LESSING! YOUR OLD MAN IS BULLYING ME! LESSING!
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Btw I will never understand how I can simultaneously always feel like death when I oversaturate myself with science stuff but still keep doing it
Anything science-related is my second-worst subject btw lol.
(Tfw you know the reason but still keep doing it)
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Man I hate group projects
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