Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25814498-20150505201606/@comment-5780397-20160303224200

Pigzillion wrote: Alright, breaks over. Now I need to make you cry:

I'm quite fond of this ability, and you're right to be proud... Sort of. After all, I'm afraid that taking "inspiration" is gonna have a few points removed for plagiarism. Joking aside, I think that the basic concept of this ability is brilliant, though the devil is in the details. For instance, a 3 hour time limit on the life-span of the marbles can have a fairly large impact on the strength of the ability, and an unnecessary one in my opinion. Think of Knov's Hide and Seek for example, which you said inspired you for the Sub-Hatsu. While he doesn't seem to use it in any over-power way in the show, have you thought about how deadly it actually is? Once you're in there, you don't get out unless he says so, meaning that an ability such as your own may not need a crutch as large as you have described. Still, Nen is highly dependent on the users mental state, so if you think it to be unfair it'll probably impact your hatsu in a bad way.

Other than that however, it's quite fantastic, so I suppose I can give you an A-(since I'm a stingy bastard).

Questions

What do you mean by time doesn't flow inside the marble? Does it mean that if I was for instance, about to poke one of your sulking devils with a stick and didn't notice the bubble in time, the next time I am freed I would experience no change whatsoever? Basically, would I still be about to poke it with a stick only to find I'm staring at a brick wall, or wherever I am when I am freed from the marble?

I'm having some trouble understanding the Horror sub-hatsu. I understand the concept; while normally the entire body would be trapped inside the marble, only part of it is in this case resulting in some form of mutilation or bodily damage. But what I don't understand is how it works in practice. Scream makes sense because after knov created a portal, he makes it so that it suddenly ceases to exist while the subject is caught between two dimensions, thus separating their body parts. But with Horror, what is it that stops the body part from coming out of the bubble whilst it shrinks? Does it suddenly solidify or something?

Thanks for the critique! You're probably right about the duration, but perhaps I should set a limitat to the number of marbles... and no, I do realize how powerful Knov's ability is. Especially Scream, it's basically invincible.