Oh yeah, one of the funniest revelations that come with Qiubai’s eventual playable release and Files is that, once she arrived at Rhodes Island, a few people enthusiastically asked her for her attack names, which greatly confused her. For reference, Qiubai is a professional, dedicated wandering swordswoman from Yan with a strong sense of justice, so RI Operators expected her to have flowery, dramatic names for her martial techniques, much like Ch’en and Mr. Nothing do. The result?
“What in tarnation are you talking about?”
This is immediately followed by the confirmation that Wuxia in fact exists in Terra:
So basically, Rhodes Island is huge into Wuxia (I mean, they do have movie superstar FEater in their roster), and Ch’en and Nr. Nothing are dramatic chuuni freaks specifically, but otherwise, no, actual Yanese swordsmasters aren’t going around yelling forty-word long attack names. And then comes the next reveal: Qiubai’s swordsmanship is actually just extremely pragmatic and not at all Wuxia:
She doesn’t seek beauty or elegance in her style, she Gets The Job Done. Because she actually fought for her life a lot of the time, no aesthetics, no superfluence, just actual, honest-to-Sui swordswork.
Basically, Rhodes Island expected her to bust out Judgment Cut when they heard this stupidly good swordswoman was coming on board, but then they test her and she’s just
And the thing is, it works really well because she IS insanely good with a sword, just, using actual pragmatic skill instead of Wuxia supermoves. She is Not A Wuxia character in terms of her fighting style, despite being otherwise a Wuxia As Hell character in terms of concept, as this wandering swordsmaster that strikes at injustice, usually by lakes and rivers.
Which is extra hilarious when you consider she was named after Dugu Qiubai, a character known as the Sword Devil from Wuxia novels who was so Wuxia that he could use sword techniques without a sword.
“Qiubai, are you going to use your Three Tragedies One Sever Sword Of Pilgrim’s Gratitude Slash technique!?”
“W-what? No, I’m just going to defeat the enemy by disarming them, don’t be weird about it.”
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I hope my worries are for nothing and that the reason why recent AK designs seem to be leaning more heavily towards Generic Fantasy is just because we're currently in areas where that's The Look.
Although... what does it say about the countries that the outfits are supposed to look generic and uninspired? Is it truly the fault of Higashi/Yan/etc.? Or is Hoshieve no longer being the art director a warning sign of things to come?
Early AK designs had so much drip and a lot of it favors techwear. Please bring back the techwear.
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Big Bulk release~
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It's the last day of 2022 and the new year is just a few hours away now~
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BIG bulk release~~!!
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