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Before RPG I am a fighting game player. Not tournament worthy, but I love the genre more than any other type of game. So I'm often taking inspiration from things like Fatal Fury and KOF, or 3d fighters like Virtua Fighter and Tekken.
Virara is a martial artist from a foreign land and as such would probably move and fight very differently than the actual way the Monk Class portrays the character in-game. She is the unofficial inheritor of a comprehensive style merging multiple forms of unarmed and armed combat from Doma and Othard, but her learning of it is incomplete. Her master was a rather infamous assassin from a similarly infamous martial arts school raised during the conquest of Doma by Garlemald.
The unarmed form would probably look really similar to Baji Quan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%81j%C3%ADqu%C3%A1n) Baji tends to focus on short strikes with the elbow and knee and linear application of force, with some judo/aikido-esque joint manipulation and throwing in there as well. If you have seen Akira Yuki in VF you know this style, but generic forms and postures from it appear in everything from Yun/Yang in Street Fighter to Gato in Fatal Fury/KOF.
I feel it is ideal for a person of short stature as full extension of the limb is not necessary and it utilizes efficient distribution of body weight and center of balance that is easier for a stockier, less lanky person. I think that a lalafell, being naturally fast and dextrous, can avoid getting "outboxed" because they are able to easily get inside another person's guard. They have a low center of gravity, given their shape, which aids in being stable. Their small size makes grappling awkward for them, but also for an opponent. Also, since they leap so high, perhaps they have strong stomach and leg muscles, which are key to Baji's "explosive" force. It's all excuses of course, but that was my reasoning. XD This is not to say that the style is made for her, but it could explain why she was taken as an apprentice.
Not an exact copy; it would be exaggerated and capable of impossible things, like launching foes much bigger than herself or ki whatnot, but visually the postures and forms should look similar. I kind of like to use those things sparingly. When it comes to fight scenes, exaggeration is fine, as long as it is very clear might is within the person and not some supernatural force; creativity, training and conditioning are what helped them triumph, maybe a little luck. In actual practice, the style Virara uses is far more improvisational in nature, so there are a lot of unorthodox leaping or diving moves taking advantage of her powerful jumping ability. Gato, that I mentioned before, from Fatal Fury, did this as well.
Before RPG I am a fighting game player. Not tournament worthy, but I love the genre more than any other type of game. So I'm often taking inspiration from things like Fatal Fury and KOF, or 3d fighters like Virtua Fighter and Tekken.
Virara is a martial artist from a foreign land and as such would probably move and fight very differently than the actual way the Monk Class portrays the character in-game. She is the unofficial inheritor of a comprehensive style merging multiple forms of unarmed and armed combat from Doma and Othard, but her learning of it is incomplete. Her master was a rather infamous assassin from a similarly infamous martial arts school raised during the conquest of Doma by Garlemald.
The unarmed form would probably look really similar to Baji Quan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%81j%C3%ADqu%C3%A1n) Baji tends to focus on short strikes with the elbow and knee and linear application of force, with some judo/aikido-esque joint manipulation and throwing in there as well. If you have seen Akira Yuki in VF you know this style, but generic forms and postures from it appear in everything from Yun/Yang in Street Fighter to Gato in Fatal Fury/KOF.
I feel it is ideal for a person of short stature as full extension of the limb is not necessary and it utilizes efficient distribution of body weight and center of balance that is easier for a stockier, less lanky person. I think that a lalafell, being naturally fast and dextrous, can avoid getting "outboxed" because they are able to easily get inside another person's guard. They have a low center of gravity, given their shape, which aids in being stable. Their small size makes grappling awkward for them, but also for an opponent. Also, since they leap so high, perhaps they have strong stomach and leg muscles, which are key to Baji's "explosive" force. It's all excuses of course, but that was my reasoning. XD This is not to say that the style is made for her, but it could explain why she was taken as an apprentice.
Not an exact copy; it would be exaggerated and capable of impossible things, like launching foes much bigger than herself or ki whatnot, but visually the postures and forms should look similar. I kind of like to use those things sparingly. When it comes to fight scenes, exaggeration is fine, as long as it is very clear might is within the person and not some supernatural force; creativity, training and conditioning are what helped them triumph, maybe a little luck. In actual practice, the style Virara uses is far more improvisational in nature, so there are a lot of unorthodox leaping or diving moves taking advantage of her powerful jumping ability. Gato, that I mentioned before, from Fatal Fury, did this as well.
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