The strife meta is my attempt at bringing quirks into the homestuck battle system. I like to imagine it’s a sort of “build up massive attack” that you can use, but only after you reach the TENSION brink.

Think the TENSION from deltarune, but instead of getting it though near misses- you can build up your tension naturally over time in battle, or you can forcefully bring it up though items and/or combo attacks in homestuck, which will make the tension bar grow much faster.

So let’s say Bakugo wants to do one of his iconic moves- the Howitzer Impact. He can’t just do it at will. He will need to bring up tension to the max before performing such a move- which will do much more damage as opposed to the item in the Strife Specibus.

I wanted to bring in the kids quirks into the homestuck au without them muddying up the battle system too much, so I came up with this idea. Idk how homestuck handles their magic in the battles later on, but I thought this was an interesting Idea nonetheless.

I wanted to bring quirks into the homestuck battle system without breaking it or making the Strife Specibus seem useless in comparison, so this was my idea. Idk if homestuck treats their actual magic differently (I’m only on act 3) but this was a silly early game idea for their quirks, as they would have them at the very start of the story to begin with.

Basic weapon

Hajime is a keyblade wielder.

For now I only have these sketches of his keyblade, still thinking about the design. Most likely it will change as story goes on. His keyblade will have a big plus in magic and a small plus in strength. This keyblade is long, the attack can be at a longer distance.

As you can see in the sketches, the keyblade refers to Hajime's real origin (Unversed). But for some reason I'm still not entirely sure about this decision. And yes, the chains also make sense in his design, I think it's not hard to guess why.

Magic

Hajime himself is more like a mage role in the party cause he inclined to magic. Even when attacking with a keyblade, the presence of magic is often noticeable in normal attacks.

In game, Hajime would always have a higher MP bar than HP bar. Therefore, Hajime is more focused on preventing damage and is comfortable for him keeping the enemy at a distance.

Easy to use + high resistance: Blizzard, Thunder, Gravity.

Difficult to use + low resistance: Fire, Aero.

Later, Hajime will show himself as an excellent tactician who can use almost anything around him to his advantage, including the help and strength of his party members. However, Hajime is still more like a lone wolf type of a fighter, so he is bad at supporting party members, but he is already useful in improvement the outcome of the battle in favor of his party through his tactics.

Kind of wish I could have it in a game where I can fight things

Yeah, I know you can fight things in Deltarune, but the game kind of actively encourages you to ACT instead, particularly in Chapter 2 with Snowgrave

Have you been down to one HP with no other allies alive but manage to win the fight? Or just been so far behind and manage to come back to win? Tell me about one of your epic battles where you beat the odds and come out victorious. It doesn't really matter what the situation is but tell me about one of your epic fights while playing one of the Tales game.

I'll go ahead and share one of mine. I was in a fight with Jude in Xillia and forgot to buy gels and life bottles. I ended up having to do side steps lol. I managed to do a bunch in a row and kept my TP through attacks just enough to keep self heal. It took forever it seemed like but I was able to side step into a 3 hit attack to win with less than 80 HP and having to do it just right without getting hit or I had to start over. it was the Jiao, Wingul, and Presa fight, too lol. I actually had two left when everyone was dead except Jude. Luckily with Jiao and the battle system you can run around and if you do it just right Jiao will swing his hammer and he is too slow to recover and you can get hits in. So I had to make sure he was also away from Presa. I managed to pull it off, though. I killed Wingul first before my party died. It was rough after that, though. It was epic and got me amped up, though! Presa, you have to do the run strategy too because of her attacks. You cant just side step or snap pivot with the way she attacks, too. I pulled it off and it was epic!