JU-KENSHI (Heavy Blade Skill)

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Ju Kenshi, or Heavy Blade Skill, is a Taijutsu fighting style similar to Kenjutsu in its basic approach to swordplay. However, where Kenjutsu deals with conventional weapons of the katana-sized realm, Ju-Kenshi allows for those strong enough to wield massive blades to do so with style.

Through sheer strength and honed skill, the user of Ju-Kenshi learns with time to steer their heavy blade as if they were wielding a gentle brush, it's tip wet with ink and ready to paint a most elegant picture. While some consider it slower due to its requirement of being charged up first, with proper accuracy, this style can be quite devastating.

Though heavy weapons can be cumbersome in the hands of the inexperienced, a Ju-Kenshi master can make magic out of these otherwise unconsidered blades for practical combat. Unwieldy no more when in the hands of an expert, Ju-Kenshi users and masters are individuals truly to be feared.

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◀ JU-KENSHI TRAITS

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{└ MUCHIKAISAI}MUCHIKAISAI
Type: Minor
Ranks: 1
Requirements: Ju-Kenshi practitioner, Ninja Grade D+

• When a heavy blade is Ignorantly Held, it means you are able to use it perform Jū-Kenshi with nearly any grip necessary, such one-handed, or even reversed, without suffering any added strain or further impairing your mobility or effectiveness.
  

Note: Without this trait, any attempt to use Ju-Kenshi without a two-handed grip will result in the technique failing, thus leaving you potentially open and vulnerable to an enemy counter-attack.

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{└ MUSHUMEHAGI}MUSHUMEHAGI
Type: Minor
Ranks: 1
Requirements: Ju-Kenshi practitioner, Ninja Grade D+

• By employing your heave blade as a Spinner Lancet, you are now able to close the gap with ranged enemies through the precise ranged use of your giant weaponry. After a briefly cocking back the blade, you are able to toss your weapon with such power, strength and speed that it maintains flight at rapid velocities, spinning aerial from end to while while also precisely traveling like a dart and decimating anything it comes into contact with. You can throw up to five (5) meters away, which will give you the chance to reach distant foes and tear enemies asunder, while also having your blade return after, akin to the effect of a boomerang.
  

Note: While the blade will return to the user from where it was thrown, its flight path cannot be altered once launched. As such, if you move and relocate positions after throwing your heavy blade, don't expect it to follow you. If the blade's path is obstructed by something equal in rank, it chance to be disrupted and potentially stopped, and the return effect will be nullified.

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{└ HOSHIUCHIKUDAKU}HOSHIUCHIKUDAKU
Type: Minor
Ranks: 1
Requirements: Ju-Kenshi practitioner, Ninja Grade D+

• When your heavy blade becomes a Shatterstar, it infers you have learned the full intricacies of charging and loading your blade without effort. From now on, your heavy blade will flow like the wind and without hesitation, allowing you to perform your Ju-Kenshi without the need of any charging. You and your blade are finally one, and are thus free.
  

Note: Before you can purchase this trait, you must have learned all default Ju-Kenshi abilities. Removing the charge time does not result in an automatic hit, and that artful dodging and quality roleplay can still lead to a successful evasive attempt by the target victim.

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◀ Ju-Kenshi Ability Moveset

Senchineru Taidenkōgeki (Charged Attack Sentinel)
Rank: D - S
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Cost: Standard
Description: The most basic principal of all Ju-Kenshi techniques, and the reason their enormous blades seem so easily wielded in the hands of a master. One who has learned this technique charges their hands with chakra to lighten the physical strain of wielding such cumbersome weapons, then loads that charge directly into the blade at the moment of attack, drastically increasing its apparent weight, as well as its destructive potential, and lending credence to the title "Heavy" blade skill.

Due to their sheer power, the user sacrifices speed in order to deliver attacks that are incredibly difficult to adequately defend against. Senchineru Taidenkōgeki must always be used first if the user wishes to perform specific Ju-Kenshi techniques, but is sufficient on its own to create intensely powerful basic attacks. Any rank of Senchineru Taidenkōgeki known to the practitioner can be used in conjunction with the fighting style techniques, so long as it is equal to or greater than the technique used.

The charging process can be disrupted when physical contact by anything other than the user is made with their weapon, as the user cannot charge while in the middle of defending or attacking with their heavy blade. While charging, the user must remain still.

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Gekitotsu (Clash Crash)
Rank: D
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Cost: Standard
Description: The user charges their weapon before intentionally striking their opponents blade, using the sudden increase in weight to redirect the force of blocking and parrying maneuvers in order to cause a target to damage themselves with their own weapon. The purpose of this technique is quite literally to overpower an opponent into harming themselves, and can only be used to that end, meaning simple deflection in a direction that would not result in the opponents blade coming in contact with their own body cannot be achieved.



Inkaten (Flash Point)
Rank: D
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Defensive
Cost: Standard
Description: After a brief charge, the user allows the flat side of their massive blade to be loaded with chakra, and pushes back against attacks targeting any vital focal point with great force in order to defend against them. The added weight of the Ju-Kenshi practitioner's strike is used in this manner specifically to break an opponent's grip on the hilt of their sword, to potentially sprain or potentially contribute to the eventual breaking of their hand or leg, etc. and as such, can cause a moderate amount of damage due to the strength of the recoil.



Zankokuha (Brutality Edge)
Rank: C
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Cost: Standard
Description: An upward sweeping slash, where the enhanced weight behind the strike is directed to knock an opponent into the air on contact, as well as setting them up for the next attack. If this attack successfully connects, its effects take place whether the opponent blocks or not, though successfully blocking by the target reduces the knock-up effect slightly.



Sorasetsudanchēn (Chain Severing Sky)
Rank: B
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Cost: Sustained
Description: After a brief charge, the users grips their blade tightly and spins it in place, creating a vicious circle of bladed slash strikes, aiming to hit their opponents all around them - ideally multiple times - as they become a veritable spinning top of destruction, aimed to cut foes completely in half at the waist.



Mukō (Void)
Rank: B
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Cost: Standard
Description: The user slams the full weight of their blade in a downward diagonal strike aimed specifically to drive an opponent into the ground. The flat edge of their heavy sword is used to assist in the pushing motion, causing significant blunt force trauma and a 'knock down' effect, where the victims body creates its own impact crater, severely hampering their next attempted movements.



Wabisuke (The Penitent One)
Rank: A
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Cost: Sustained (how long do you want your opponent's sword to be heavy)
Description: When making contact with an opponent's weapon after the appropriate charge, the user is able to load that charge directly into an enemy's blade, but with a truly awe-inspiring twist. The opponent's weapon, not the Ju-Kenshi user, has its weight affected, making the weapon unwieldy, and as such, all but the mightiest of foes unable to wield their own swords.



Shinkōnohiyaku (Leap Of Faith)
Rank: A
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m)
Type: Offensive
Cost: Standard
Description: By swinging their blade towards an opponent with great force and loading their charged chakra into the very tip of their sword, the Ju-Kenshi practitioner uses this extra momentum to boost a mighty leap towards an enemy twice their base movement speed, crashing their weapon into the body of their foe, with the potential to sprain and break bone on impact if the attack is not properly defended against. This is not an incomprehensibly fast movement; however, but if it can be combined with a distraction, has truly devastating potential, allowing them to close distance between themselves and more mid-ranged fighters quite effectively.



Ōiburēka (Throne Breaker)
Rank: S
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m)
Type: Offensive
Cost: Standard
Description: Holding their enormous blade horizontally as if it were a bat or a club, the user swings with all their might as the loaded chakra courses through the blade allowing its increased weight to create a massive knockback, the sheer force of which can even take opponents who attempt to block the strike off of their feet. This creates a visible shockwave of force which easily sends foes flying, and if used in conjunction with the bladed edge of the weapon as opposed to the flat of the blade, is one of the most deadly techniques in the Ju-Kenshi arsenal.



Rokudenashi-ryo (Bastard Charge)
Rank: S
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Cost: --
Description: Pooling all of their heavy blade damage into one, this skill grants the user the knowledge of how to charge and hold enough chakra to perform more than one Ju-Kenshi technique in succession. This knowledge can be very dangerous, as the cost of use of techniques performed back to back stacks, as well as the total charge time, but given enough opportunity to prepare, this allows for a truly terrifying number of combination moves capable of slaughtering almost any enemy force one faces.
Restriction: This technique can be re-learned to add additional abilities for a combo. Each time it is purchased, one more charge is added. However, each time it is purchased, the EXP cost goes up by one 'S' rank - (i.e. if I want to use three attacks, I learn this three times, so the EXP requires goes, 'S', 'SS', then 'SSS').