Skill Set Name:Sparking Fist
Elemental Property:Fire and Lightning
Stat Specialization: Offensive - Melee
Skill Set Information:The Sparking Fist is a bare-handed fighting style that focuses on using the spirit and will of the user to fuel conjuration magic that can enhance their body and overcome their opponent. Users tend to be passionate or excited about getting into a fight.
Emotion is a large driving force upon this fighting style's power. It's strength grows with the intensity of the user's emotion and their ability to be honest about and understand their own feelings.
When someone begins using this skill, it can be quite obvious how skilled they are with it as electric sparks or full fledged flames begin appearing around the user. Low-level fighters tend to just have sparks or palm sized flames around their hands, while more experienced fighters will start having their entire arms and legs surrounded in either element. When a true master of this technique uses it to it's full potential, their entire body is surrounded by one of the two elements, making it dangerous to even be near them.
The sparking fist relies on using either lightning or fire to enhance one's attacks, with lightning allowing the user to strike faster and deliver a shock to enemies in heavy metal armor and fire improving the power behind the attacks while delivering burns to less armored opponents.
Because of the need of nothing but their own body to use this style, Sparking fist users can enter a fight the instant that they find their emotions rising and their heartbeat quickening. However, users of this technique often wear themselves out or even injure themselves. Because they let their emotions run wild, they often don't plan very far ahead and can leave themselves wide open if they aren't careful. Emotions such as fear, uncertainty and sadness also dampen the user's ability to use the technique properly and can be used to gain the upper-hand on them.
Passives: Warming touch; the user can put fire magic into the palms of their hands, heating anything they touch to a pleasant warmth and melting away non-magical ice with ease. This will not heat things up to set them ablaze and, if used on a person will warm them as if they were relaxing in a hot-spring.
Self-heating; wielder's of Sparking fist can keep their body tempature at normal levels in any cold environment, but can easily get over heated in hot ones.
Spark ball; by holding their palms towards each other and pushing lightning magic from both of them, the user can create a small ball of electricity, 6 inches in diameter, that creates a flickering light that illuminates 10 meters in front of them, but only 2 meters behind. Breaks if something is put between the users hands or if the user stops holding their palms towards each other.
Skill Set Strengths: Sparking Fist is all about getting in close and overwhelming your opponent with a rapid flurry of attacks fueled by emotions such as joy, excitement, anger and hate.
Defensively, it focuses on hitting enemies in ways to stop their attacks out right i.e. striking a sword user's wrist or arm while they're in mid-swing to make them stop or even drop their weapon.
Or, if such a counter isn't an option, such as a long range attack being used, dodging is a secondary option, higher level users able to increase dodging speed with lightning magic.
Skill Set Weakness: Requires the user to fight bare handed, meaning they cannot wield any sort of weapon.
Has no form of long range projectile attack, making it completely ineffective in long range battles.
If the user becomes depressed or frightened for any reason, all this fighting style's techniques become half as effective.
TECHNIQUES
Technique Name: Lightning Fist
Technique Rank F
Technique Focus Speed
Technique's Duration 4 or until cancelled
Technique Description: Causes the user's fists to be covered in sparks as they fight. Increases the speed at which the user is able to move their arms, letting them throw punches faster than normally possible. When used against enemies wearing metallic armor(s), each hit that lands causes a painful shock. This technique can be upgraded at later levels to affect more of the user's body and increase the speed boost.
+10 Speed while active. 5VP per post active.
Technique Name: Flaming Palms
Technique Rank F
Technique Focus Attack
Technique's Duration 4 posts or cancelled
Technique Description: An open-palm technique, the user's hands an covered in a small orange flame, strengthening their strikes. Can cause 1st degree burns when hitting bare-skin, 2nd degree burns occur with extended touch or repeated hits. Can set normal cloth aflame, though it can easily be put out. Leather requires repeated strikes in the same area to ignite and anything sturdier will simply have some scorch marks without igniting. Can be upgraded at later levels to make flames cover more of the users body as well as intensify flame's heat.
+10 Attack while active. 5VP per post active.
