Nasakebukai Hato
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Nasakebukai Hato is Love Aiko's quincy cross.
The silver outlined cobalt blue cross that once adorned her bracelet has since been reworked into a white fingerless glove that covered little more than the main body of her hand. Inset into the back of the glove is the cross that had been with her as long as she can remember. Light sky blue lines sprout off each of the four points of the cross and wrap around the hand. Hey meet up again creating an oval in the palm of her hand. This design was purposely.
Powers and abilities
Siege Weapon: The trick here is that there isn’t one, these arrows aren’t special, they don’t have any hidden abilities they are simply exponentially more powerful than your average quincy arrow. Each bolt is around half an inch in diameter and a foot long, the spiritons so densely packed that the core of each arrow is much darker than the actually colour of the spiritons that make it. It is a weapon designed to punch through any armour that it may come across and leave a wound on those who feel themselves safe and protected wherever it may hit. The only blessing is the sheer time it takes to form each bolt which dramatically decreases rate of fire.
Tokunoki Redirection: The shield that quincy can form are capable of absorbing the energy that impacts it. Since Aiko has spent most of her time trying to perfect this particular skill, at the expense of others, she has managed to harness some of that power. For every attack that impacts a solid shield she can siphon a quarter of that energy and store it to form a single bolt. This bolt is outside the normal rate of fire restrictions and she can store up to three ‘quick release’ bolts. When an equivalent amount of energy has been absorbed (Aikos Reiatsu Control and Weapon skill combined) has been gathered she can release 1 quick release bolt.
Strengths
High Impact: Due to the sheer amount of energy that it takes to form each bolt the impact and damage from each one is much greater than that of a normal quincy arrow, capable of punching through tough armour and causing significantly more damage than your standard arrow or bolt. These bolts are especially adept at punching through armour. To represent the sheer strength of the Cheiroballista Aiko’s Reiatsu control is added to her Weapon-skill for determining the power of the bolt.
Ranged Accuracy: Nasakebukai Hato being a crossbow type has near pin point accuracy up to 300 yards, after which accuracy drops dramatically and due to the forces exerted on the bolt once released it will start to deteriorate after 310 yards and completely dissipate after 350 yards.
Tokukonki Redirection: Capable of absorbing energy of enemy attacks to form up to three quick release bolts.
Weaknesses
Formation Time: Due to the sheer density of spiritons required to form Nasakebukai Hato and each bolt it takes exceedingly long time to form the bow and each individual bolt. To form the bow takes a couple of minutes, the equivalent of three or four posts IC.
Rate of Fire: Each bolt takes about 20 to 30 seconds to form, meaning it can only realistically fire 1 bolt per IC post. Also the creation time for each bolt increases as spiritons in the area get used up meaning after the first 5 bolts it takes two IC posts to form and fire a single bolt and after 10 it takes 3 IC post, meaning she can’t waste a single shot. This may differ for areas of high and low spiriton density. At Senrei Glove however, she has focused on reducing this weakness. If at any time she goes for two posts longer than the minimum without firing a bolt she can draw spiritons closer to her to restore the ambient balance. If she fires 4 bolts and then waits for three posts to fire another she can then fire 5 bolts once more at 1 per post. If she fired 9 bolts at the current rate and then waited for four posts she be back at the point where she could fire 5 bolts at a rate of 1 per 2 posts, if she waited six posts then she would have fully restored the balance. At the final stage she has to wait five posts to restore 1 bolt per 2 posts rate and seven posts for the 1 bolt per post rate.
Recoil: The sheer amount of force that is used to launch each bolt takes a toll on her arm, this isn’t too great at this level but, she has to make sure her arm and shoulder have necessary support not to cause her damage before firing a shot which makes firing off reckless shots not only wasteful with the limited number of bolts she can potentially form but, potentially damaging not just in combat but, in her real life where the lives of others may depend on her having full use of her arms.
Tokukonki Redirection: Though she can create and store quick release bolts the rate at which the energy can be stored is fully dependant on the opponent’s strength.
