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OK SO this is a google docs pre-formatted yap but i have gotta talk about how Baggs fights because i did a whole fucking deep dive of that thanks to Gald.

Major notes:

The only fic that actually displays Baggs fighting is in R&R, beware for headcanoning abounds. Some heavily formed assumptions on magic as well, diverges canon in this factor

The first thing i would like to note is that Baggs is- Generally, a pacifist. Him actually fighting is incredibly rare. He only actually fights (checks my memory) 3 times, 2 of them as actual mock fights, and 1 in actual battle. He doesn't even show up in that one and just pacifies monsters in the background, ffs. 

This is absolute slander and i will not tolerate Baggs Not Getting Punted on my grounds. Give him the damned plot armor dammnit and pound the fuck into next tuesday 

I know you want to

The current “Canon” in fighting (Or the headcanons, at least)

Baggs will avoid fighting at all costs due to his low LV, ATK, and DEF. He can and will use his hypnosis abilities to defend himself in any given situation in a fight, and he will not willingly go into one without significant protection and/or a near guarantee that he will be safe. Regardless of his protection and confidence, he will keep himself as far on the battlefield from others as possible. He also doesn’t do well alone- He requires a team in the matters of his entrancement, and if the person hes hypnotising isnt worn down and exhausted enough- Or caught off guard- It straight up won’t work on people actively fighting and desiring to get out of his grip. His exhaustion is bad, too- He is set on a timer of sorts anytime he enters a fight, and the longer it goes, the closer he gets to no longer being able to fight himself. If he does get a hold on whoever he has, however- That is the moment he becomes a major threat. He has full access to everything, mind and body- How much force to press onwards, their skills, their powers, all of it. If he gains access to someone incredibly powerful, it’s over in an instant.  

That being said… I do not think his full potential had been really explored? Yes, we had little snippets of his might- Stopping someone much stronger, pulling off an impressive fight with Renata as his entranced peon- But those were 1 chapter and a paragraph of fighting content. I think we can do better than that, yes?

The Fancanon territory (or, what I believe to be Baggs full potential)

COME ON. THE HANDS. They are literally the most PROMINENT PART in his kit and yet they never get used!?? Like COME ON THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD USES FOR THIS First presentation (in my terrible as shit art): Grabbing and directly taking hold of someone, body or soul.

We know he’s a pacifist, but that doesn’t stop him from playing dirty- He will crush someone if he can’t get them to stop- If he has to use a large expenditure of his own power for his guarantee, he’ll do it. This also throws a tie into that earlier canon- If he had the ability to pull something like this, he would not need to rely on other monsters he cannot trust to pull his work off. 

His hands, since they are an extension of his magic, can also apply a trancelike effect, although this is going into heavy fancanon territory, getting based off of theories I will get into in just a moment…

Honorable mentions: Pushing/pulling someone where needed, getting them away, element of surprise, using their distant nature to his advantage, removing other magic without danger from a distance…

animation practice and style experiment w/ @megalommi’s dr baggs