#vapaad

That being said this is training mode so possibilities have to be limited for the general health and well being of poor padawan Depa.

He appears again as a blur, and she sees the purple glow of his saber arcing toward her before she even hears it ignite.

Instinct burned into her muscles from training is the only thing that makes her move. While her thoughts are trying to process what is going on she's dropped low, skirted backwards but also with the direction of the blow so that he would have to over extend to track her movement.

Her treacherous brain finally catches up, and she calls her saber from her belt and ignites it, pulling up into a universal block because her master has all but disappeared from her field of vision again, feeling more like an afterimage with how her eyes can't track his speed.

The glowing arc appears again, swinging in at a slightly different angle than she was positioned for but it takes a fraction a second to adjust-

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I'm in a constant struggle between the more philosophical and more brutal sides of the form so... Sorry if this changes tone rather quickly

The most that most Jedi learn of Vaapad is that it is a method that channels one's "darker" emotions, anger and aggression, into power for the light.

That is not entirely true, in its most basic form, Vaapad does not turn your emotion into power. That is of the Dark. No, Vaapad turns it into energy. It takes the power of your emotion and changes it, filters it until the feeling is gone and only the drive behind it, the adrenaline and focus, remain.

But that is the first principle of Vapaad, the one Mace has taught to tens of young Jedi struggling to find balance. If it were the only one then perhaps all Jedi would be able to master the form. The second principle is the one that skirts the line of darkness, the one that turns a Vapaad user from an opponent with a healthy mental state to an overwhelming warrior. The second principle is turning feeling into power.

Feeling, not emotion. Emotion is fleeting, can come and go with just a thought. Feelings, however, are a product of environment. The second principle of Vaapad thrives on creating an environment of feeling frustration, anger, or fear in the users opponent(s), feelings that bleed into the force. The user feeds off of it, channels it with the first principle and sustains or escalates their own ferocity which in turn creates more fear in the enemy. Until the user is simply too powerful to stand against.

It's effective, every sentient being feels fear when facing danger. It's deadly, because if the user gets lost in the loop of using their opponents fear, they will not come back until there is no more fear to feed off of. When the opponent is dead.