Sensing Marvels: QQ Version (A Marvel Quest)

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[5] Karin Murphy
[6] Female
[5] Chicago
[4] Chi/Ki User (tie with psychic broken by author preference... cause its Murphy!)
[5] After the vision (miscount in previous post, my bad. Tie broken due to verity and because of the last post)

If there is complaints about the tie breaks let me know.

First snip within 3 days

 

[X] Karrin Murphy
[X] female
[X] Chicago
[X] Chi/Ki User
[X] After the

EDIT: Ah, didn't see the vote close. Oh, well. Matches what I was swapping to, anyways.

 

[x]
--[x] Spunky clothes and vibrant colors
[x] Go about your day normally, you didn't feel that off

I don't want to be a total Dredsen Files spoof so i figured we should go with something completely different.

 

You guys have 2 days from the post to vote, just to let you know.

 

[X] Neo-Chan

 

12 hours before voting closes!

 

[X]Plan Neo-chan

 

Voting Closed!

Winning Result!

[3]
--[3] Spunky clothes and vibrant colors
[3] Go about your day normally, you didn't feel that off

Will still accept votes up two hours from now.

 

We need one lethal style, one submission style, and one spiritual style.

EDIT: In other news, there is an unconfirmed SB crossover in last chapter.
2ND EDIT: Careful, the Judo Wikipedia page has trolls.
3RD EDIT: Is my understanding correct that the first choice has to come from the first four, and the second and third have to be chosen from the remainder?
4TH EDIT: Aikido is best if we want a spiritual focus, Jujutsu is going to focus on submission, and Karate is going to be the most offensive and (hypothetically) damaging. Judo will be a balanced approach. Are we a mystic, a guardian, or an assassin?

 

The first choice needs to be from the first four after that it doesn't matter.

 

[1] Akido
[3] Kali/Eskrima
[2] Krav Maga

[x] Excited! You like going camping with the family!
[x] Head home, get your homework done and try to work on blending the Martial Arts you know

I figure we can use Akido as our soft fighting style for when were fighting big time bruisers with super strength and endurance like Rhino or the Abomination, we can use Krav Maga when we want to take out people like Black widow or Spider man, and we can use Kali for when ever we may need to use a weapon of some kind.

 

[X] Judo

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[X] Muay Thai

[X] Other: Professional Wrestling!

[X] Excited! You like going camping with the family!
[X] Go to your last dojo/gym and ask for a Spar.

(This is a comic book world. Pro wrestling is not only probably real, there's probably chi techniques based on it)

 

Aikido because it disables and has a deeply spiritual side which will help us down a hypothetical Chi Wizard route, Kali because Neochan knows what he's talking about (I agree with Neochan far too often.), and Karate because it has the best non-armed knockout fighting style. I was in Karate for a little while. Got all the way to first-degree brown belt. I still remember some of the pressure points. Changed Karate to Krav Maga because Jeet Kun Do seems too focused on methodology which is the purpose of Aikido.

[1]Aikido
[2]Kali
[3]Krav Maga

[X]Excited! You like going camping with the family!
[X]Head home, get your homework done and try to work on blending the Martial Arts you know.

 

Just in case you guys didn't know, our SB character is a British Brendan Urie look alike named Alexander whose a genius in an undecided field at the moment.

 

[1] Akido
Spiritual style. Soft style, so we don't have to worry much about the body being trained. Philosophical. Can maybe eventually lead into Chi Warrior stuff.

[2] Kali
Very practical style, the weapons focus means it can be used across all 3 bodies without issue. I figure most situations where we're swapping bodies will be when shit is bad., so I picked a style that reflects that.

[3] Jeet Kune Do
Less an outright style, more a philosophy of fighting. Think of it as a well guided mix of MMA emphasizing mental flexibility in battle. Not quite the spiritual focus of aikido, but with Be Like Water we can possibly push into something like "One With the Universe". Not as practical as Kali (still being body rather than weapon focused) but it emphasizes combat realism, economy of motion, and (as said before) mental flexibility in battle.

It is a good style on it's own, and should serve as very good bridge between our other two styles. If this doesn't fuse well, I don't know what will.


[X] Excited! You like going camping with the family!

[X] See what your friends doing after school.

 

Alright it seems like we agree overall that having Aikido and Kali is a good idea, its on the third option that we seem to have a problem. The reason I think Krav Maga is the better out of the options for the third choice is because it perfectly fills in the missing spot on our 3 styles. Akido fills in the spot for spiritual focus and soft takedowns, Kali fills in the spot for weapons use of just about any kind and Krav Maga is absolutely perfect at quick, efficient and hard takedowns. While Karate is a solid style it doesn't have the focus on real world situations like Krav Maga or Jeet Kune Do. I don't really have any major arguments against Jeet Kune Do, I can tell you from experience that both Krav Maga and Jeet Kune Do are just about equally effective in combat if you apply them the right way.

 

[1] Aikido
[2] Ninjutsu
[3] Jeet Kun Do

Just short of anything goes

[X] Excited! You like going camping with the family!
[X] See what your friends doing after school.

 

Isn't JKD simply a series of philosophies about finding our works best for you, and mixing/refining what you already know while improving your fitness? Could be wrong. *goes off for research*

 

12 hours until voting closed

 

Changed vote. Jeet Kun Do seems interesting, but it really seems like it's essentially the collected practices of Bruce Lee. I don't know enough about Jeet Kun Do to make a good judgement. I don't really know enough about Krav Maga, either, but some basic research implied to me that Krav Maga is much more established. Not only that, but Krav Maga is taught to the military. Maybe it's petty to say that "everyone's doing it, so it's good." but in this case the fact that militaries have trusted themselves to Krav Maga and not Jeet Kun Do is what tipped my decision.

EDIT: I also thought that the balance principles that are central to Jeet Kune Do are also present in Aikido in lesser amounts. I figured that area is at least a little covered already.

 

Voting close..... Wait a second... We have two ties!

[4]Aikido
[3]Kali
[2]Krav Maga
[2] Jeet Kun Do

[5] Excited! You like going camping with the family!

[2] Head home, get your homework done and try to work on blending the Martial Arts you know
[2] See what your friends doing after school.

Things in italics need a tie breaker, otherwise I'm going to have to do it/get creative.

6hour extension

 

[X]Aikido
[X]Kali
[X] Jeet Kun Do
[X] Head home, get your homework done and try to work on blending the Martial Arts you know

Wish granted.

 

I point you to:

From the, admittedly little, I've read it's also helped form good bits of MMA. That said, I chose it because it was more framework and philosophy than a style. Trying to successfully fuse 3 different styles is going to be a bitch an a half, with JKD as a bridge It's more like two styles with a preexisting base to build off of.

Also, Kali covers the most important parts of Krav Maga (Vicious, practical fighting) and has more refinement behind it, even if it's less hand to hand. For the times we are without a weapon (and can't make one) Aikido will fill in.

 

The thing about that though is that with JKD we have a sever lack of a hard style which would severely limit what we an do against certain people. Besides if the vote to practice mixing them is anything to go by we should be able to figure out mixing them without JKD so really we would be giving up an entire 3rd style just to mix 2 styles a little faster.

 

Eh, we're going to be jumping bodies, so it's not worth getting a hard style since we won't always have the body to support it. Aikido, like judo, will let us redirect our opponents strength, so it isn't too much of an issue.

Unless you're worried about sheer physical strength? Ki enhancement and magic should take care of that. and it gives both characters something to work towards.

 

Im more worried about the fact that against certain types of opponents a soft fighting style just wont cut it, as for the whole not being strong enough thing that's what the ki enhancements for. Besides i think your Beverly underestimating how brutally effective Krav Maga is theirs a good reason that many military train their special forces in it. Akido just isn't practical in some situations theirs a good reason highly trained marital artist like having another style to fall back on, and when you get right down to it Kali's hand to hand stuff just doesn't cut it.

 

[X]Krav Maga

 

Normally that would make sense, but...

It's implied we already have spent a significant amount of time blending styles.