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Syndra had just finished clearing up some of smaller void when a voice caught her attention. Her eyes narrowed at the stranger as she looked her over. She had never seen this person but whatever energy she gave off was enough to make her uncomfortable.

She turns, mildly surprised, and simply raises an eyebrow in the shadows of her helm at the newcomer. 

Well, it was certainly rare to encounter a mortal woman that was taller than she was by such a healthy margin. And what a lovely hair colour. She approves.

;; come on and slam and welcome to the fam.png (that’s really what I saved it as it’s not even a joke)

Yess! Another Post on Alpha Strike Mechanics at Least Somewhat Related to the Question!

//If the Wuju practitioner tried to Alpha Strike through something with magic absorbing properties, then they would most definitely not appear afterwards, and from their perspective they would literally just meet a painless, formless death.

  But that’s never the way it works. The Alpha Strike is a dangerous maneuver that can and has killed even historical Wuju Masters in the past. Though immaterial during its duration, every action taken during the Strike is tallied up and accounted for, and the effects of that action are applied when the Strike is done. For instance, if you use the Alpha Strike to move from one place to another, your feet may still feel as if they have run the maximum twenty-four meters (seventy-nine feet) of a four chain Alpha Strike.

  (MATH EDIT: And then I remember in theory the maximum length of an Alpha Strike is forty-eight meters - one hundred and fifty seven feet - if the target that Yi Strikes to dies, then he goes on to Strike three more targets at optimal distance from one another. Then he has to travel the same distance back because if the target of a Strike dies, then it spits you back out at the origin of the Strike. This means, roughly at maximum, Yi can potentially travel at around 143 miles per hour, or 230 kilometers. Terminal velocity is 122 miles, and the best source Wikipedia says that the fastest roller coaster in the world can launch to 150 miles.)

  However, if you were to plunge your sword into someone, then imagine it from a more realistic perspective. Imagine a human being being thrown at someone at speeds so fast they become a blur, and then them coming to a complete x miles to zero, in zero seconds, stop. You break your arms off is what happens, if the force of it doesn’t immediately turn you into a fine red mist that sprays all over your opponent.

  There is an acceleration debt that all Wuju practitioners must take into account. This is why Yi relegates the Alpha Strike to a situational teleport ability, rather than something used to harm. He cannot afford to lose an arm just because he took, or thought, a single misstep. (also because the Alpha Strike is waaay too OP out of game and I needed to nerf it)

  But Yi Mun! Someone asks probably, He’s going to come to a sudden stop regardless. Why does it matter if he’s stabbing someone or not?? To which I say… that is fair. If you suspend your disbelief a bit I think it does make sense though. Think of it like I’ve said. You have to pay an acceleration debt in order to use the Strike. So if the actions you do during the Strike can happen within the Strike, and then bring Yi back to the same state of acceleration after it is done, then it is fine. If he is still accelerating when the Strike is done, then its not fine. So going from standing, to standing somewhere else is fine, but going from standing to half way through cutting off someone’s head will break both your arms off.

Talon couldn’t believe they were being insulted like this. The thought of attacking her just to make her shut up ran through their mind. But it was just that, a thought. Instead, they stay silent until her slew of insults slowed, and look up at her with a cold stare. “Do you often go around looking for assassins to belittle and ask about their social life? Or do you cut to the chase and just outright ask to be stabbed?” Though they keep their menacing tone, Talon moves their hand away from the blades and fold their arms in front of them again.

//I’ve always thought this to be an impossible AU, given that Yi’s lore and general experience in life relies so heavily on his thematically Asian base. However, giving it thought while I peruse what to have for brunch I like this concept for an OC even XD

“Forever Strong? I’ll show you Forever Strong…”

Yi is born to an upstanding, or at least known, Noxian house. One with a notable history with the military. Perhaps even, given Yi’s multi eye look in canon, they could be a family with links to The Raedsel Guard(Whether they are canon or not still is another topic entirely), perhaps even holding the last name Raedsel…

If we go with the whole Raedsel connection, then it is easy to see where the tragedy of Yi’s base lore comes in. Yi would have been born in a time when the Grand General of Noxus was still Darkwill, and Zariv Raedsel(what we might assume is the great great etc. grandfather of the clan much like how Wuju has a long history) was not a big fan. He tried, in fact, to usurp the title of Grand General from Darkwill, but Darkwill had him executed and claimed Raedsel’s squad for his own. Perhaps Darkwill tolerated the presence of those carrying the Raedsel last name… until Yi (who wouldn’t be called Yi but you know) started making waves with his martial power.

Threatened by the latest Raedsel boy, Darkwill has the entire family executed while Yi is off fighting for the Noxian side of the Ionian Invasion. News gets back to him, and he deserts the Noxian war effort to travel home ahead of the news that he is now a traitor to the cause.

With his family slain, Yi falls off the grid, much to the annoyance of the then Grand General (Who would perhaps be deposed by Swain during Yi’s stint of hiding). He lives in the Noxian slums and underground, training and learning more than he ever could as a cushy military brat. Perhaps he meets a young street rat who takes the places of Wukong in this AU (or is Wukong just AU’d) and he learns that Noxus is inherently corrupt, and that the ideal of ‘Only the strong survive’ is bullshit.

💛: Loves them platonically.

💝: Looks up to them as a role model.

<333333 Doh you! Thank you so much~ I love you too C: Also why not tell Newb >O> tell that boy to come out I wanna give him a hug!

The Last Unicorn (1982) starters.

The assassin doesn’t react to her question right away, continuing to glare from under their hood for a moment. Lowering their folded arms, they rest one hand on a blade, the other one moving to push their body away from the wall. They didn’t move after this, finally opening their mouth to answer her question.