Mahouka [LN/M] - Character Speculation/Theories: Lina

[Kairin]

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[nosaer]

Even Tatsuya himself admitted that Lina could've got him. she didn't, but it was a very close fight between 2 people not trying to kill each other...and if you look at it that way, then He hasn't fought a top notch magician who actually was trying to kill him.

[Echizen777]

Tatsuya was at complete disadvantage against Lina there. Gram Dispersion was useless, her attacks too fast and he needed to stay concentrated so that he could bypass Parade. Even six shots of his Decomposition only made thin holes on her. Makes me wonder why Lina didn't use Parade against Miyuki. She can even maintain it under her ZI...

[Ophis]

Originally Posted by Echizen777

Tatsuya was at complete disadvantage against Lina there. Gram Dispersion was useless, her attacks too fast and he needed to stay concentrated so that he could bypass Parade. Even six shots of his Decomposition only made thin holes on her. Makes me wonder why Lina didn't use Parade against Miyuki. She can even maintain it under her ZI...

Tatsuya's intention was to just make thin holes on her, not decompose her whole body. Lina didn't use Parade against Miyuki because that would be useless. Miyuki's specialized in wide area magic, Parade only prevents Lina's Eidos to be direct targeted by magics like 'Mist Dispersal' and 'Rupture'.

[kazakiri]

Originally Posted by Echizen777

Tatsuya was at complete disadvantage against Lina there. Gram Dispersion was useless, her attacks too fast and he needed to stay concentrated so that he could bypass Parade. Even six shots of his Decomposition only made thin holes on her. Makes me wonder why Lina didn't use Parade against Miyuki. She can even maintain it under her ZI...

The reason Tatsuya didn't use gram dispersion on Heavy Metal Burst was to avoid the plasma dispersing

Spoiler for Gram Dispersal and Heavy Metal Burst:

As her first shot had reduced his right arm to cinders, he interrupted Gram Dispersion in order to avoid receiving greater damage; if he destroyed the information that coalesced it into a beam, the plasma would disperse. He had lost from the moment the beam had started coalescing, and if there had been wider dispersion of plasma when she fired then Tatsuya probably wouldn’t have just lost only his right arm; as much as half his body could have been burned away. Of course, even if it was, his body would probably be instantly restored; however, that had become his winning move and without the sleight of hand with his right arm, he wouldn’t have been able to launch a surprise attack.

From the beginning of the bombardment he had to avoid interfering with Lina in order to curb consecutive damage by using the extra time to construct how the ‘path’ was created. Even if he followed the path of the shot by the shockwave it produced, without a doubt he would have been given enough damage to hinder his counterattack.

[Echizen777]

Originally Posted by Ophis

Tatsuya's intention was to just make thin holes on her, not decompose her whole body. Lina didn't use Parade against Miyuki because that would be useless. Miyuki's specialized in wide area magic, Parade only prevents Lina's Eidos to be direct targeted by magics like 'Mist Dispersal' and 'Rupture'.

He didn't want to kill her so he aimed for specific points to knock her out. 4 shots managed to do thin holes, meaning that 2 were nullified and 4 made only thin holes instead of a big one like contrarily to Blanche's minions. Lina's barrier us THAT strong. Parade would have been useful because it is an enhnced DF and DF is the classic CM to prevent event modification/magic. Even Shizuku's DF could nuliffy some of Miyuki's attacks. And according to V9 there areonly 2 ways to break it. It would have been extremely useful.

Originally Posted by kazakiri

The reason Tatsuya didn't use gram dispersion on Heavy Metal Burst was to avoid the plasma dispersing

Spoiler for Gram Dispersal and Heavy Metal Burst:

As her first shot had reduced his right arm to cinders, he interrupted Gram Dispersion in order to avoid receiving greater damage; if he destroyed the information that coalesced it into a beam, the plasma would disperse. He had lost from the moment the beam had started coalescing, and if there had been wider dispersion of plasma when she fired then Tatsuya probably wouldn’t have just lost only his right arm; as much as half his body could have been burned away. Of course, even if it was, his body would probably be instantly restored; however, that had become his winning move and without the sleight of hand with his right arm, he wouldn’t have been able to launch a surprise attack.

From the beginning of the bombardment he had to avoid interfering with Lina in order to curb consecutive damage by using the extra time to construct how the ‘path’ was created. Even if he followed the path of the shot by the shockwave it produced, without a doubt he would have been given enough damage to hinder his counterattack.

Yeah, so it was useless and given the speed of her attacks he would have never been able to nuliffy any
beam with Gram Demolition, without taking in account how hard it would be to counter Lina's attacks. The parasites were using self acceleration and superpowers in the spoilers.

[Ophis]

Originally Posted by Echizen777

He didn't want to kill her so he aimed for specific points to knock her out. 4 shots managed to do thin holes, meaning that 2 were nullified and 4 made only thin holes instead of a big one like contrarily to Blanche's minions. Lina's barrier us THAT strong. Parade would have been useful because it is an enhnced DF and DF is the classic CM to prevent event modification/magic. Even Shizuku's DF could nuliffy some of Miyuki's attacks. And according to V9 there areonly 2 ways to break it. It would have been extremely useful.

The size of Lina's wounds were the same as the guys from Blanche. Tatsuya intended to just make the holes thin, why make them bigger? The size of the holes had nothing to do with Lina's barrier.

Parade just alters and disguise the user's Eidos. It does not protect the user from physical attacks. For example, Parade cannot protect the user from the cold air produced by Niflheim.

[Echizen777]

Ophis: The holes were microscopic and only 4 managed to bypass it. Miyuki's cold wind is formed by magic so by preventing event modification, you are protected. Parade is even better than DF.

[Ophis]

Originally Posted by Echizen777

Ophis: The holes were microscopic and only 4 managed to bypass it. Miyuki's cold wind is formed by magic so by preventing event modification, you are protected. Parade is even better than DF.

The size of the holes was the intended result. I don't get what you're getting at.

DF prevents your Eidos of being altered by magic, it does not prevent you from receiving magical attacks.

Vol 9 Chapter 7

Unfortunately, I simply don't have the skill to cast area effect magic.

Tatsuya himself said that area effect magic would had work.

[CatRules]

Originally Posted by kazakiri

The reason Tatsuya didn't use gram dispersion on Heavy Metal Burst was to avoid the plasma dispersing

Spoiler for Gram Dispersal and Heavy Metal Burst:

As her first shot had reduced his right arm to cinders, he interrupted Gram Dispersion in order to avoid receiving greater damage; if he destroyed the information that coalesced it into a beam, the plasma would disperse. He had lost from the moment the beam had started coalescing, and if there had been wider dispersion of plasma when she fired then Tatsuya probably wouldn’t have just lost only his right arm; as much as half his body could have been burned away. Of course, even if it was, his body would probably be instantly restored; however, that had become his winning move and without the sleight of hand with his right arm, he wouldn’t have been able to launch a surprise attack.

From the beginning of the bombardment he had to avoid interfering with Lina in order to curb consecutive damage by using the extra time to construct how the ‘path’ was created. Even if he followed the path of the shot by the shockwave it produced, without a doubt he would have been given enough damage to hinder his counterattack.

Which supports the claim "Lina's casting speed is faster than Gram Dispersion"

Since he acknowledged the threat of HMB, he would have prevented the magic sequence from completion IF HE COULD. In this case, he didn't decompose magic sequence because decomposing it now would have made thing worse. If he's really faster than Lina, he should have decomposed HMB when the its magic sequence was still in constructing period but the fact that his only option is to decompose its already completed magic sequence or not could be implied that Lina's casting speed has surpassed Tatsuya's Gram Dispersion.


P.S. but why we are discussing this? shouldn't this go to Visitor Arc or Character Power threads?

[novalysis]

Originally Posted by CatRules

Which supports the claim "Lina's casting speed is faster than Gram Dispersion"

Since he acknowledged the threat of HMB, he would have prevented the magic sequence from completion IF HE COULD. In this case, he didn't decompose magic sequence because decomposing it now would have made thing worse. If he's really faster than Lina, he should have decomposed HMB when the its magic sequence was still in constructing period but the fact that his only option is to decompose its already completed magic sequence or not could be implied that Lina's casting speed has surpassed Tatsuya's Gram Dispersion.


P.S. but why we are discussing this? shouldn't this go to Visitor Arc or Character Power threads?

I think Lina deserves her own character thread, personally. She's one of Tatsuya's peer mages that posses a threat to Tatsuya.

[Echizen777]

Originally Posted by Ophis

The size of the holes was the intended result. I don't get what you're getting at.

DF prevents your Eidos of being altered by magic, it does not prevent you from receiving magical attacks.

Vol 9 Chapter 7

Tatsuya himself said that area effect magic would had work.

She asked him if he could have not locate her and attack and he responded thay he can't use. AOE magic. Tatsuya didn't even locate her. He used a non magical attack to hit the true body. It was said that her Parade can even stay under Miyuki's ZI. This is another proof that AOE don't necesarily work. True AOE can be good if you attack in an area where the dummy and the true body are located but thz attack power will decide everything. DF is the classic CM, magic attacks work by altery the information body of the target. To prevent it, you use DF and you are safe but it's useless against normal attacks. Tatsuya's magic worked perfectly against Blanche. Against Lina 2 were nullified and 4 stuck to her limbs until they managed to dig microscopic holes. Had it worked perfectly, she would have lost consciousness nonetheless.

[Lucarion]

Here's my theory: Lina will play the Judas Iscariot of the 12 Apostles. And will find herself on the side of Satan(Tatsuya) and Cocytus(Miyuki).

[IceHism]

2nd fav girl. She better appear again. She is too cool not to.

[Lucarion]

Originally Posted by IceHism

2nd fav girl. She better appear again. She is too cool not to.

Indeed. She's guaranteed another appearance. You don't write a girl this awesome only to cast her away after just one arc. She'll play a major role in the future.

[Lucarion]

OK, I just discovered something awesome.

Sirius is intimately tied to the Shiva mythology. I'm going to look more into this and see what it may have to do with the story, but for now here's what I have:

1) Shiva is the lord of Sirius.

2) The star Sirius is the star of Shiva.

3) The black dog(Sirius) is just a much as symbol of Shiva as the White Bull (Nandi). And accompanies him in his wrathful aspects.

There's a little more but I'm having trouble phrasing it right. Anyway, I think it's worth looking into. (Actually, this might partially explain her Kali connection, because Kali is a wrathful aspect of Shakti(Parvati) and the black dog, Sirius, accompanies Shiva only when he's in his destructive mode.

[guestuser]

Originally Posted by Lucarion

OK, I just discovered something awesome.

Sirius is intimately tied to the Shiva mythology. I'm going to look more into this and see what it may have to do with the story, but for now here's what I have:

1) Shiva is the lord of Sirius.

2) The star Sirius is the star of Shiva.

3) The black dog(Sirius) is just a much as symbol of Shiva as the White Bull (Nandi). And accompanies him in his wrathful aspects.

There's a little more but I'm having trouble phrasing it right. Anyway, I think it's worth looking into. (Actually, this might partially explain her Kali connection, because Kali is a wrathful aspect of Shakti(Parvati) and the black dog, Sirius, accompanies Shiva only when he's in his destructive mode.

hmmm now that u say this this kind of made me think lina and tatsuya will go on a full blown war with country no a slaughter of a country or Continent

[renuac]

Originally Posted by Lucarion

OK, I just discovered something awesome.

Sirius is intimately tied to the Shiva mythology. I'm going to look more into this and see what it may have to do with the story, but for now here's what I have:

1) Shiva is the lord of Sirius.

2) The star Sirius is the star of Shiva.

3) The black dog(Sirius) is just a much as symbol of Shiva as the White Bull (Nandi). And accompanies him in his wrathful aspects.

There's a little more but I'm having trouble phrasing it right. Anyway, I think it's worth looking into. (Actually, this might partially explain her Kali connection, because Kali is a wrathful aspect of Shakti(Parvati) and the black dog, Sirius, accompanies Shiva only when he's in his destructive mode.

Oh, very interesting! Well I guess this confirms Lina's coming back as Tatsuya's ally - maybe during some kind of large-scale conflict?

[Ophis]

I think it would be nice to see Tatsuya going to the USNA on a mission to help Lina. It would be refreshing to see Tatsuya infiltrating a foreign nation.

[Chris38]

Originally Posted by Ophis

I think it would be nice to see Tatsuya going to the USNA on a mission to help Lina. It would be refreshing to see Tatsuya infiltrating a foreign nation.

Unfortunately, I doubt that the Yotsuba / Japanese military / government will let Tatsuya do something like that.

Especially, if his reason for traveling aboard would be something that is going to further mess up the delicate balance that the Mahouka world was in ... before Tatsuya 'accidentally' killed one of the 13 Apostles...