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Originally Posted by Sackett
1: That was bad writing. Please provide justification for how that could possibly work.
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Spoiler for Light Novel:
Accelerator's reflection is a trained ability (contrary to what Ilidisor said), but it's on the level that it's a reflex.
He can't easily turn it off because he does it automatically (unless he uses the chocker, but that goes with the rest of his abilities). He would need to retrain his brain to do so. As it is, it requires an effort to modify it. He probably can turn it off altogether with a greater effort, but who knows how much power that could take?
For the examples you gave Ilidisor, against Amai it was suppressed from using all his concentration on LO. Think about how you would normally raise your arms to protect your face from an incoming object (a reflex all right), but you might not be able to do that if you have your hands occupied at the time.
Now, on his fight against Amata, it took him a while to understand how he was able to hit him, with little time left he tried to modify his reflection on the go, but Amata predicted his changes... ok, that might be a bit deus ex, but it's not that bad since Accelerator was under a lot of pressure there, I'd say he could have some tells that Amata knows (though I don't think something like that was mentioned).
About the breathing, he doesn't turn it off for that. Air is one of the things that he excluded from the reflection, along with visible light, when he trained the ability. So he doesn't turn it off to breathe (it's those exclusions what Kakine tried to take advantage of during their first fight)
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Originally Posted by Sackett
2: This franchise is infamous for its horrible writing. Have you tried to actually read the Light Novels? They are quite possibly the worse written books I have ever read. Show don't tell is regularly violated, the structure is awful and mind numbing, the plots are full of holes and filled with reams of scotch tape. The Sisters Arc is one of the few decent plots.
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I think that's an exaggeration, but I won't say that writing is perfect.
Nonetheless, that's no excuse to put a dark glass on everything and think by default that the narrative is bad and whatever you don't agree with is the author's fault. You could at least make an effort to read carefully and try to understand those parts before passing them as defective.