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Not necessary though; I'm guessing you're using Oriana's [short hand] grimoires as the example? In her case, she had intentionally set the thing to trigger with the slightest indication of a magical casting but I suspect most artifacts would require more than just a simple touch to activate. Or to put it in another way, simply being in contact with any form of magic wouldn't trigger an 'allergic' response; otherwise you should see that reaction whenever anybody touches say Fake Mitsuki.
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2012-07-03, 17:03 | Link #945 |
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What do you think of magic based on the Filipino amulet (agimat) and the legend of Taro Urashima?
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Well he did talk to the invisible thing that comes out when he loses his arm in volume 22. That might be just the invisible thing though. Hopefully we'll find out more about his power in NT5 cause he's with Orellus and Fiamma now.
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Say, sure Mikoto can do anything with her Electromaster ability, including but not limited to creating iron sand whip swords. So in the event that she has to get down and dirty (though unlikely, as she usually spams lightning attacks from long range), can she reliably use it?
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It's nowhere stated that she knows how to "use a sword".
And from the manga/anime it looks like she just "swings it around". There isn't any hint of her using some proper stance, so she would not be thrown of her balance while swinging it, nor any proper aiming nor anything that would imply she ever practiced with swords. She also wasn't mentioned to be enroled in any Kendo clubs/lessons (or something like that). Ofc. you might find many contradicting information regarding this, mostly thanks to her "desperate" fans, that sometimes praise her to that extent it gets ridiculous. This is an old quote from her wiki, that was already deleted (not by me) Quote:
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2012-07-16, 08:33 | Link #952 |
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Touma street fighting is on a very good level, it is stated he can somehow predict his enemy moves, Tsuchimikado said (about Touma) he don't know if Touma is able to read their aim field or have any power or if he is just used at fighting.
Misaka is only better than your average joe because she does like to fight, the light novel states it is not unusual to find her challenging and entering random brawls. But because of her powers she is not very good at hand to hand combats. Even so she is able to take down and lock people who don't know how to fight at all, even bigger targets than her, as you can see in the Shopping Mall Demonstration where she applies lock moves.
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Tsuchimikado is trained martial artist for what I remember about him. Not just being a descendant of Abe no Seimei and a great omyouji practitioner. He has lots to show than that. A double spy is what he called himself right?
Touma with all the fight he ended up fighting ended up being a training for him. Well experience is a good teacher and he got lots of it in various ways.
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In Vol. 9 Accelerator also speculated that Touma can read changes in AIM field, with his example Touma subconsciously noticing changes in AIM. Just from memory, Touma has more trouble fighting magicians than espers, though it could be due to the facts he fights more magicians than espers.
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I guess he have more problems with Magicians because they have more tools for the job, and more of them know about Kamijou power. Like, Misaka can't directly attack Touma, she could throw something heavy using magnetism but in this specific case she don't because she don't want to actually kill him. But for an esper that have never seem someone simply negate a thousand bolts without any kind of equipment, they would be kinda shocked to see their powers not working and not able to quickly think of something else. But for a magician, like Styil, it is not unusual for some of their spells to be useless, even the first time he found Touma he didn't had any tool for dealing with him but he was able to understand that something was negating his power so he could do something about it by using an indirect source of power. (Innocentius) Kinda like how Accelerator could have just throw things at Touma until he died but was so shocked that his power didn't work that couldn't think straight.
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Actually Magicians would get just as easily confused with his ability, before him there's no such thing as a complete negation of their power, everything follows a theory and so they wasted concentration trying to figure it out.
Stiyl didn't use Innocentius because he thought it could counter it; Stiyl used Innocentius because it was his Ace-in-the-hole, his strongest spell.
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Him smiling while Kamijou was going for the hit was proof enough that he knew exactly what he was doing. Magicians are used to their spells being blocked or useless, because that is all there is to a magician fight. You analyze their spells and then creates a counter, by which point the enemy is supposed to have something else to play. I think the most esper-like magician is Richard and his Laevatein, he was so proud of his spell that he didn't actually have anything else. Because he was so sure his enemy couldn't counter it he didn't have anything else to play. Actually, not like he didn't had anything else. Like most Espers who could user their power in other ways, he was just too used to using the same thing. Magicians are all about having the right tool for the job, unlike espers who have a main tool for everything.
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Because magicians expect their spells to be countered by enemies, they accumulate a great amount of different spells, so when their spells are countered, they won't be a sitting duck. Besides, when it is possible to learn multiple spells from one magic system, which are useful in different situations, why shouldn't they? Espers are more resourceful since they only have one ability. If telekinesis isn't working, they can't just switch to another ability, they have to change their use of ability depending on the situation.
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