When Ketis proposed Bravo as the design spirit for their current ch design, Ves initially thought she was joking.
Then he thought she wanted to minimize the influence of a design spirit on their work as much as possible.
Now, he began to see that his assumptions or rather prejudices about Bravo were mostly inaccurate.
He still recalled the process of creating this spiritual product for a custom ch called the Adonis Colossus a long ti ago. He just wanted to form a macho design spirit that fully complinted a macho ch.
Of course, Ves hadn't been entirely earnest when he brought Bravo into existence. He not only implanted his own exaggerated ideas about masculinity in Bravo's design, but also threw in Gloriana's notions about 'n' into the mix!
For a long ti, Ves labeled Bravo as a vainglorious design spirit that only had a limited purpose. While he entertained several ideas on integrating him into several possible ch designs, he had yet to realize any of them up until this point.
Now that he finally made use of Bravo in earnest, he found that there was a surprising amount of depth to the design spirit.
Where did all of these facets co from? Ves did not rember putting in all of these extra dinsions in one of his simpler design spirits.
"Did Bravo develop like this with the help of his connection to Vincent Ricklin?" He briefly wondered.
That was absurd! Vincent was a dunce as far as he could tell. Even if the man managed to beco an expert candidate, he was still an idiot who obsessed way too much about protecting his manhood than his clan!
Ves suspected that he was missing a part of the story here. Either he put a lot more into Bravo's creation than he thought or the design spirit went through a unique experience that caused it to grow in an unexpected direction.
Regardless, Ves was pleasantly surprised by the unexpected positive traits that Bravo brought to the table.
What impressed him the most was the more benign form of competitive drive that Bravo was able to evoke.
"Now that I think about it, Bravo is always competitive by nature."
The whole point about emphasizing masculinity was to prove one's superiority over other peers. Contests just happened to be all about that. There was no better design spirit than Bravo when it ca to amping up the need to perform better than any other competitor!
Though Ves was able to tell that Bravo also possessed all of its original traits that he was not enamored with, it was easy enough to manipulate how the entity was expressed in a ch design.
A ch design could channel a design spirit in its entirety or make use of a filter to block out certain elents.
Ves had already implented this solution in three out of four of his Four Aspects of Lufa.
The Aspect of Tranquility conveyed Lufa's glow in its entirety while the Aspects of Healing, Rationality and Transcendence all channeled the angelic design spirit's glow through different filters.
This was how Ves was able to co up with three extra substantially-different glows from the sa design spirit!
Though Ves saw no reason to make heavy use of this new capability in his previous ch designs, this ti was different.
Bravo might possess a few more favorable traits than expected but he was still a mixed bag at best. Yet as long as he had redeeming factors, Ves could still work with that. He just had to block the way of Bravo's less desirable traits so that only his virtues ca through.
As the hours went by, the effect this made on the ch design beca increasingly more obvious.
Though most of the audience still didn't notice anything, Ves and Ketis could already feel that Bravo was exerting a significantly positive influence on the ch.
Though Bravo still didn't instill any special abilities such as Ylvaine's prediction abilities, neither of the two ch designers minded that. Just the way that this influence was able to stimulate the desire to win to any ch pilot was already a valuable ability in itself!
The addition of Bravo helped shape and strengthen the three main thes of their swordsman ch design.
The first the revolved around swordsmanship. Ketis was mainly in charge of this aspect as she had extensively analyzed and deconstructed Lyain Kepper's sword style.
She not only gave Lyain tips on how to fix his flaws and bad habits, she also taught him a couple of new techniques. The ch pilot was avidly training them even now while his ch was slowly coming together.
"Normally, a swordsman who isn't training in an existing sword style should be relying on his own efforts to develop his own fighting approach." She explained to Ves. "That is a process that can take years or decades, though. We don't have the ti to wait until Lyain has found his stride. We can quickly boost his combat effectiveness by guiding his swordsmanship."
Different from the other ch designers taking part in the Wild Brawl Bowl, Ketis was a much better warrior than the ch pilots!
This granted her a massive advantage. She was not only able to instruct Team Larkinson's ch pilot as if she was his drill instructor, she also had the opportunity to shape and configure her swordsman ch to optimize its ability to fight according to a specific sword style!
Ketis had already made a lot of profound design choices that Ves would never think about. He simply couldn't co close to her deep and profound understanding of swordsmanship and how it translated to ch combat. Not even going on a hundred Mastery experiences would change that because he wasn't a professional fighter!
Other people in the audience were able to detect her brilliance in this area as well as the ch design beca more and more defined. The more details she filled in, the more that other ch designers, particularly those who specialized in lee chs, recognized the difficulty of reaching her level!
[The configuration that Miss Ketis is trying to implent in her ch design is anything but standard. Although it might look no different from other swordsman ch designs, if you take note of a couple of non-standard design paraters such as the lengths of the limbs and the center of mass of the ch fra, you can see that they diverge substantially from the norm. It is extrely risky to diverge from the standard norms for these paraters because any radical changes can completely disrupt the ch pilot's fighting rhythm. Imagine what it would be like to dance with legs that are twice as long as normal.]
[Is this not standard treatnt for every custom ch? What makes this instance of personalization different?]
[While it is true that any ch designer can tweak these far-reaching variables to a degree in order to align a ch more closely to a ch design, think about who has to make the decision. Obviously, the ch pilot himself cannot randomly co up and say that he wants the right arm to be 20 percent longer. He may be an excellent fighter, but he understands nothing about the science and engineering behind chs. That job is left to the ch designer, but then you have the opposite problem. What does a ch designer know about fighting?]
[Hasn't there ever been ch pilots who have studied ch design? Surely there must be more ch designers who are champion-level fighters.]
[There are geniuses among ch pilots who are probably able to school many Novice and Apprentice ch Designers, but it is hard to get any further in both careers. The sa goes for ch designers who have trained in martial arts. High-ranking ch designers cannot invest all of their energies in other occupations. This is why Miss Ketis Larkinson is such an anomaly and why she is able to make her swordsman ch so… subli. Excuse for employing such a vague word, but it is difficult to describe the extent to which she is shaping her swordsman ch's combat performance by making all of these changes.]
As ti continued to pass, more and more ch designers understood how the work of Team Larkinson truly embodied a specific sword style. Lyain Kepper would probably never be able to pilot a ch that was more complentary to his fighting style than this upcoming machine!
When most of the details beca clear, the onlooking ch designers even figured out how the swordsman ch was supposed to fight.
[Team Larkinson's swordsman ch is filled with power. Its mass and physical force exertion is higher than usual, and its defense is quite respectable.]
[That sounds interesting, but do note that these advantages co at the detrint of speed. Swordsman chs tend to be fairly fast and agile in their movents, and that is for a good reason. They are chs that rely much more on skill expression to defeat an opponent. It is unusual for them to be designed in a way that puts more emphasis on raw strength rather than technique.]
[What does that an, exactly?]
[A swordsman ch that is physically powerful but lacking in mobility is ordinarily assigned to ch pilots of lesser skill. They don't need to be good. They just have to be good enough to entangle an enemy ch.]
[You're describing cannon fodder.]
[Exactly. Isn't it interesting that a swordmaster such as Ketis decided to take this route despite all of the downsides and stigma surrounding this configuration?]
[Maybe she has a greater plan in mind. What if Mr. Kepper, their chosen ch pilot, can actually fight better with a slower but more powerful ch?]
[I personally find that hard to accept, but who am I to naysay a swordmaster? We shall see in another day whether Swordmaster Ketis has misjudged.]
Though even Ves had doubts at tis, he did his best to press them down. Ketis was a much greater authority on swordsman chs than him, and he trusted her to make the right decisions.
He helped as much as possible to orient the ch design around its deliberate swordsmanship. The ch might not be fast, but as long as it was controlled by a clever and skilled ch pilot, it could still outfight plenty of lee chs!
Orienting the ch design around this the caused its character to beco more solid and stable. Perhaps too solid and stable. A swordsman who was completely calm and deliberate in his thoughts might be able to outwit an opponent, but there were tis when heated passion could play a crucial role in defeating a stronger opponent!
This was where the second the ca in. The competitive drive that derived from Bravo imparted the ch design with a fire that could easily run hot as a fight grew more intense!
Ves had programd and fine-tuned the glow and character of the swordsman ch to induce a strong desire to win and defeat the opponent.
Perhaps he was going too far with this again, but he couldn't afford to hold back and risk a loss. He was aiming for the top prize this ti and would not be satisfied unless he was able to co ho with a fleet carrier in his possession this ti!
With such high stakes, Ves had no qualms of manipulating Lyain Kepper personality so that he would fight harder and more vigorously than usual. A highly-motivated ch pilot who desired to win at all costs was a powerful advantage in any tournant, and Ves would be a fool to miss this chance to produce one through artificial ans!
Ves initially thought that Deliberate Swordsmanship and Competitive Drive were the only two thes that mattered for their swordsman ch. He couldn't really think of adding a third the to the ch design considering that the aforentioned concepts already covered the key advantages of his work.
Ketis was not quite satisfied, though. She suggested that they expand the scope of their ch design and implent a third the.
"What is our ch missing?"
"That… depends." Ketis said in a vague manner. She gestured towards the diagram showing the chainsword design… "There is still room to add sothing special to the main weapon of our swordsman ch."
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