Bonus Cycle Submissions prior to the Tournament
(Yawarakai-Te Masamune) Tender Hands Masamune
Rank: S
Type: Weapon
Chakra Cost: N/A
Damage: N/A
Description: A beautiful katana forged by the master swordsmith, Masamune. The blade has a suguha style hamon with brilliant, light colored steel, polished to a mirror finish; the handle wrappings are white, surrounding a wooden handle of mahogany, with the tsuba of the sword depicting a complex pinwheel like pattern. Forged with the purest of materials in serenity by swordsmith who had achieved Zen, Yawkarakai-Te is flushed with natural energy, augmenting natural energy, and Dokkōdō techniques for those who can use them.
(Seichō) Growth - Yawarakai-Te enhances the power of Natural Energy that flows across the blade, such that Dokkodo techniques used by its wielder increase in such a manner that they gain Elemental Superiority to anything they were previously neutral to, and any Elemental Weakness they had instead becomes Elemental Neutrality.
(Shizukesa) Tranquility - Yawarakai-Te is heavily attuned to natural energies, and passively draws natural energy into itself. While not to the level of those who practice Senjutsu, this offers a powerful effect to the blade: Kenjutsu and related field techniques can become imbued with these energies when performed by the wielder of Yawarakai-Te, allowing them to be treated as Dokkodo techniques for the purposes of effects that affect or modify Dokkodo techniques, by adding 10 chakra to the cost of the technique to do so. However, this chakra does not enhance the technique in question beyond simply allowing it to be utilized as a Dokkodo technique.
Note: Yawarakai-Te's abilities that affect Dokkodo techniques only function if its wielder is capable of using said field and wielding the blade.
-Removed World completely to comply with the last check.
(Juuchi Yosamu Muramasa) Ten-thousand Cold Nights Muramasa
Rank: S
Type: Weapon
Chakra Cost: N/A
Damage: N/A
Description: An exquisite katana forged by the master swordsmith, Muramasa. The blade has a midare style hamon with dark, black colored steel, polished to an inky finish; the handle wrappings are black, surrounding a wooden handle of white oak, with the tsuba of the sword depicting a complex pinwheel like pattern. Forged with the purest of materials in feverish dedication by swordsmith who strove to forge a sword capable of cutting god, Juuchi Yosamu is highly attuned to the soul, and augments Ronin Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques for those who can use them.
(Shigeki) Stimulation - Juuchi Yosamu's highly spirit sensitive blade, crafted in such a manner that it sought to cut god, augments the cutting power of Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques such that Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques used by its wielder increase in such a manner that they gain Elemental Superiority to anything they were previously neutral to, and any Elemental Weakness they had instead becomes Elemental Neutrality.
(Teitai) Stagnation - Juuchi Yosamu's spirit seeped blade has a heavy presence, which offers a powerful effect to the blade: Kenjutsu and related field techniques can become imbued with these energies when performed by the wielder of Juuchi Yosamu, allowing them to be treated as Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques for the purposes of effects that affect or modify Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques, by adding 10 chakra to the cost of the technique to do so. However, this chakra does not enhance the technique in question beyond simply allowing it to be utilized as a Spiritual Kenjutsu technique.
Note: Juuchi Yosamu's abilities that affect Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques only function if its wielder is capable of using said field and wielding the blade.
-Removed Dedication completely to comply with the last check.
Both Approved, made edits. Removed the note regarding it’s health as it wouldn’t be able to have that much health either way and applied a rank, it’s health reflected by the damage the rank can put out. Also added notes regarding the extra chakra use, noting it to simply be spent during the conversion and does not factor into the effective chakra cost of a technique.
Attempting to consolidate Muramasa and Masamune into one sword, as - with some time to dwell on them - they seem kinda...underwhelming for two separate swords. I just made a sword that was essentially the base of the two swords together, and put "Spiritual Kenjutsu" and "Dokkodo" together.
(Tsukihime) Moon Princess
Rank: S
Type: Weapon
Chakra Cost: N/A
Damage: N/A
Description: A magnificent katana, crafted by the blacksmith Emiya Shiro, forged of broken fragments of the Ten Thousand Cold Nights Muramasa and Tender Hands Masamune. The blade has a gunome style hamon, with pale, light-blue colored steel, polished to a glassy finish; the handle wrappings are a dark purple, surrounding a wooden handle of dark oak, with the tsubasa of the sword depicting a complex pinwheel like pattern. Forged from the fragments of masterwork pieces crafted of the purest materials by master swordsmiths, Emiya Shiro worked the broken blades into marvelous, harmonious whole; the melding of these two blades into one resulted in a blade attuned with "all of creation", in harmony with the pure and impure world; both nature, and the soul. Wielding Tsukihime augments Ronin Spiritual Kenjutsu and Dokkodo for those who can use them.
(Kenshin) Dedication - Tsukihime's hallowed blade, crafted in such a way to reach all of creation, augments the cutting power of Ronin Spiritual Kenjutsu and Dokkodo techniques such that techniques of those categories used by its wielder increase in such a manner that they gain Elemental Superiority to anything they were previously neutral to, and any Elemental Weakness they had instead becomes Elemental Neutrality.
(Shizukesa) Serenity - Tsukihime's balanced blade sits wholly in the scheme of the universe, unwavering on the edge of the pure and impure. This confers a powerful effect to the blade: Kenjutsu and related field techniques can become imbued with these energies when performed by the wielder of Tsukihime, allowing them to be treated as Spiritual Kenjutsu or Dokkodo techniques for the purposes of effects that affect or modify those fields, by adding 10 chakra to the cost of the technique to do so. However, this chakra does not enhance the technique in question beyond simply allowing it to be utilized as a Spiritual Kenjutsu or Dokkodo technique.
Note: Tsukihime's abilities that affect Spiritual Kenjutsu and Dokkodo techniques only function if its wielder is capable of using said field and wielding the blade.
Approved
Black Blade Flow referenced here. This technique cannot be approved if Black Blade Flow is not approved (since its based on it).
(Rōnin Seishin Kenjutsu: Shin Kuroiha Nagashi) Ronin Spiritual Kenjutsu: True Black Blade Flow
Type: Offensive/Supplementary
Rank: S
Range: Short
Chakra: 40 (+10 to Technique Chakra)
Damage: N/A
Description: A Ronin technique created as a further extrapolation of the principles found in the Dangerous Strike technique, and based upon the Black Blade Flow technique, a spiritual shockwave that does not interact with other techniques, and passes right through them, unless they are also spiritual in nature. The user can extend this effect to other Ronin Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques by adding 10 chakra its cost. Doing so causes the techniques used to take on an appearance like a calligraphy stroke, thus the name, and even simply moving the sword leaves what appears to be a trail of ink in the air. Highly offensive in nature, this aims to use Ronin Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques to hit through the opponent's defenses and strike at them directly, causing techniques empowered by True Black Blade Flow to do Spiritual Damage to the enemy if they would not normally, instead of physical, if they land.
Note: Useable three times, and remains active for four turns per activation. Only during this window can the +10 Chakra augmentation be done to Ronin Spiritual Kenjutsu techniques.
Declined, see note on Black Blade Flow.
(Suigetsu) The Moon Reflected on the Water's Surface
Type: Offensive/Supplementary
Rank: S
Range: Short
Chakra: N/A
Damage: +20 to Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu Techniques
Description: A mark of a true master swordsman, Suigetsu is referred to as a form of Zen reached by the master swordsman Yagyu Munenori. Swordsmen capable of this skill not only deliver frighteningly devastating strikes, but they are almost impossible to read. This allows the swordsman to perform two chakraless (Zero, N/A, etc) Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu techniques in the same timeframe, as long as they wield two swords, even if a technique would normally require the use of two hands to deliver. This allows the wielder to "hide" one technique within another, like a reflection of the moon hanging beneath the true moon in the sky, on the surface of the water.
Note: This is a passive skill, active at all times.
Note: This allows the user to use two chakraless Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu techniques in one moment of timeframe, though they still consume a moveslot per technique, as per normal.
Declined, this can already be done normally; you’re already able to perform two techniques in one timeframe if they don’t utilize chakra. “Hiding” them in the reflection of one another wouldn’t justify a damage increase either.
(Note, this is not Fifth Force, Daigo-Zei, but a very similarly named technique)
(Daigo-Sei) Fifth Zenith
Type: Offensive/Supplementary
Rank: S
Range: Short
Chakra: N/A
Damage: +20 to Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu Techniques
Description: A powerful skill developed by Musashi Miyamoto, known as the one "Unrivaled Under the Sun." Swordsmen capable of this skill can freely intermix their Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu into each other, such that one could combine techniques into a greater whole. This combination extends to only a chakraless (Zero, N/A, etc) Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu technique with another chakraless Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu technique, or a single chakra-costing Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu technique; an example of this would be using the Samurai Sabre Skill in the midst of the Sword Barrage Technique to seamlessly interweave attack and defense, and combine techniques in ways so as to make up for the weakness in one technique with the strengths of another. This reflects the name of Musashi's personal sword style, the Niten Ichiryu, or "Two Heavens as One".
Note: This is a passive skill, active at all times.
Note: This allows the user to mix two chakraless, or one chakraless and one chakra-costing, Kenjutsu/Bukijutsu techniques into each other, allowing for more freedom when using these techniques, to expand on the range of what could be accomplished with one technique alone. The techniques still consume moveslots and timeslots as normal, but allow the techniques to interrupt each other and then resume, to allow the techniques the best chance at landing.
Declined much like above, this can already be done and the justification isn’t enough to warrant a damage increase.