Questionable Questing

Bob is bob

Nah not magic. Aura, inner power, infusing body with dominating elemental will. Any miracle workers who do non kung fu require physical contact with material

Andy333

Eh tomato, tomahto. Chi, Chakra, Magic, Aura, Shifting, when I call it magic I don't mean wizards or broomsticks, I mean the supernatural system in your story.

Andy333

But this aura how is it affected by the physical body? Does it need some meat to ground it? If you're a full on Borg does that cut you off from it? it is more metaphysical and entirely soul based, and thus with the right training you could trick your mind into thinking your metal bits are your real body and use it uninterrupted?

Bob is bob

It is the soul within the flesh. Cybernetics are discouraged as they can be overloaded if not properly trained to channel the flow of inner life energy containing emotions and will

Andy333

How do you train to combine the two? Just learning how to properly meditate and flow the energy through the new bits? Or is it more spiritual and emotional?

Bob is bob

To align the body of the soul with the substance of the synthetic and integrate it as part of the whole

Andy333

What else have you got going on in this setting? Other than a strange mix of cultivation, self actualization, and body modification. Lol

Bob is bob

Unsure. Narrow focus is best. Elemental mutated beasts could be fun. The main idea is guns and cybernetics and tanks, all these things can't remove the Eternal ways of honor and you have corporate nobility mixing armies of hyper tech soldiers with personal aura power in themselves

Andy333

Would be cool to see corporate honor duels mixed with big events where kind of like Naruto's Chunin exams where they have these big planned out fights which companies, clans, and edgerunners use to show off their talents and raise their reps.

Bob is bob

Edge running inner Ki martial arts colorful hyper violence is the goal

Andy333

Do we have any enchanted weapons? Because the only thing more metal than a chainsaw katana with a hypersonic frequency blaring from it that cuts through anything is if it's possessed by the souls of ten thousands victims of war roaring for revenge.

Bob is bob

Nothing beyond personally infusing a favored weapon over time

Andy333

Making it an extension of your soul? Or carrying your song? Could be cool to have a weapon that literally sings or talks to you as you use it.

Andy333

More pregnant beauties.

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Bob is bob

Extension of soul. Rule is everything is physival contact for aura interaction. Now, you amp up aura and do a soul drowning water punch wave that's fine but it emits from the body

Bob is bob

I love how they ain't dead and Makima in this AU became a yandere harem maker sub for Denji by how she grabs those girls waist

Andy333

Makima's just fundamentally a lonely miserable person. If she had a family or a loved one she probably could be reformed, the only issues is that her powers are so powerful it's impossible for her to learn how to trust someone since it's too easy for her to just force them to like and trust her which means she never properly learns how to trust thus continuing the cycle.

Andy333

But water punch waves? Now I'm just imagining someone emitting beams of light and fire though the air trailing off behind them every time they punch.

Bob is bob

Soul draining dark energy tsunami

Bob is bob

And that's why her reincarnation is Denji's daughter