ImportantNobody

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@ImportantNobody
Here you go. Research is key, my friend.

Edit:
A list of SWORDS instead of just other weapons.

@LeeRoy

I suppose it depends on point of view, but practically any sword on the list could just be viewed as a katana, just like if you add on an extra two inches to an arming sword or change the hilt slightly, some people can claim it's an entirely new types of sword while others would just say, "no dude, that's an arming sword." It could also be that google images/wikipedia are just posting picture of katana instead of the other japanese swords because they don't know the difference, or they just feel and look more different once you get your hands on one. Some of the chokuto likely wouldn't be mistaken for a katana while other pictures claiming to be chokuto looks just like a straight version of a katana (which I can see why someone would say it's a different sword even if just a straight version being the only difference, but from my point of view it would be kind of nitpicking). Could be the more modern ones are just borrowing too much from the katana look while still claiming to be the different sword that indeed looked more different in the more ancient past. Well, the ancient swords were made vastly differently as well.

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@ImportantNobody
People always forget that the Katana wasn't the only sword the Japanese ever used.

@LeeRoy

I know they used plenty of other weapons but in terms of swords I actually don't know of any others besides what's basically a really big katana and a really small katana.

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@ImportantNobody
Maybe he's just a soldier.

@LeeRoy

I was thinking some high tech soldier could be cool indeed. Not decked out here though. The plot twist is they are horrible with a katana. One day he swung so bad that the blade broke and hit himself so he has a scar.

He could have some underlings in his unit and one could fight here in his place. He's sort of a coward, actually. :P

Or another plot twist, she's actually far better than him but just humors him because he's her elder/superior. XD And double plot twist, he knows but never admits it. Triple plot twist, she knows he knows.

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For this battle I should come up with a character who's Japanese...who's not based on samurai or ninja! *insert dramatic chipmunk

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@ImportantNobody

How about her power doesn't come immediately but slowly blossoms over time. Then she can reluctantly team up with Donny in the 2v2 match without being too strong yet.

@Doc Doctor

She'd only team up with him if she knew getting his trust is the only way to kill him. This is unlikely as she could make it 3 versus 1 without having to put up with him.

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@Doc Doctor, how about an origin story for the fist full of iron fist or whatever fight. Your attack succeeds and electrocutes them, but during this time Rakkan's blood mixes into the woman and gets all science-y mixed into her DNA thanks to the electricity flowing through her. She gains some of Rakkan's power but some alterations and electricity thrown into the mix, so she can send the gooey blood out and have an electric current run through it to cause it to violently explode. Seems like an awesome power, sending out a bunch of droplets, use electricity, and watch dozens of explosions rip through the area!

She'd be an antihero that mostly leans on the side of good but vigilante justice. Unfortunately for you she's be a higher tier than our two current fighters so would defeat him pretty easily unless taken completely off guard. Of course at the moment she'd be practically dead so couldn't kill him then. Maybe some of Rakkan's lives on in her thanks to the mix, although can't gain his own body again or be conscious most of the time.

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I am Divinity, and I approve this message.

Also, anyone willing to fill the last two slots for a 2v2?

@Divinity

I could (although group fights rarely work for me).

I am going slow on my other posts but taking on this won't make me any slower so don't worry.

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@ImportantNobody
The sound wouldn't be traveling faster if they spoke faster. Just their mouths. But if they were talking at supersonic speeds they would be producing sonic booms with their lips.

@LeeRoy

I'm thinking if they have to create sonic booms to speak then the words turn incomprehensible due to compression of the sound waves so you'd have to physically slow down to sub sonic speeds for the words to hit you and still make sense. My characters would likely have enchanted communication necklaces or whatever to speak into that communicates instantly across any distance to eliminate this problem and other uses, of course.

Funny picturing someone sonic boom talking and sounding like gunshots/whips. You could create an intelligible language out of different sonic boom noises, but English I think not. Maybe I should have an alien race for my scifi setting communicate via sonic booms. XD some communicate through color and pheromones. That subverts the trope of scifi stuff have tons of blinking colored lights on panels because that's actually their long range communication, devices detecting color changes of them and transmitting it.

Edit: for talking is a free action, perhaps someone has the power of tropes so compels individuals to stand there listening to his monologues rather than attack. He has many powers that should be fun. However, strong will can break some of the tropes.

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@ImportantNobody
Kanitah never spoke while exceeding super sonic speeds. That was because he'd outrun his words and the impact would be lost.

If they sped up the way they talked, it would still be the same tone. Since it's the same vocal chords.

@LeeRoy

Unless he "Fus Roh Da"'d it and has his words turn into a sonic boom that smack people like a brick. XD By outrunning the words, wouldn't the words come out but just not move as fast as him unless the vibrations can't leave his mouth and get too compressed (which could be solved by running backwards so the sound waves do come out but stretched out? Huh...). Basically, could he speak and move so fast that he will hear himself speak again once he stops. The answer should be yes.

Usually when audio is speed up it goes much higher pitch. Are you saying that, perhaps, this is a flaw of recordings so if it was strictly vocal chords talking faster it would still sound the same?

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Random shower thought. Suppose two people are fighting faster than the speed of sound while talking amongst each other, which means they'd also be talking super fast to keep up with their reactions. Would it be possible for the air to "keep up" with their vocal chords to produce coherent speech or would all the vibrations get mumbled together due to being too close to each other as the words smash together. Or perhaps they would have to draw out their words, so instead of saying their special attack "Laser Blast!" he would go, "laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-" for a matter of seconds. And also their breathing might be messed up horribly, like how they'd get the air to draw out all their words. Well, I doubt they'd be hyperventilating during the battle. Technically it would be the same amount of time drawing out from their perspective as it would for people observing, so it would take no more air, just seeming like it's drawn out thanks to their perspective.

Also, I wonder if they'd sound high pitched to outsiders or not even able to be heard.