New Ability: Flashcry

[Tahoshi]

Ok. This ability was used by Soifon and Yoruichi in the series. I am now attempting to come up with a ruleset for it. Please, let me know if you come up with any ideas (PM is good) or suggestions for how my rules may be improved.

Ok, first off... This ability cannot be used in Bankai. Shikai is its limit. Also, it can only be used by wielders of fist-like weapons. Soifons suzumebachi was a very short blade, so it was effectively just an extension of her fist. Wielders of swords cannot use their weapon while using Flashcry.

To be able to perfect Flashcry, you need a BASIC (before bonuses) Melee skill of 60, and an accompanying Kidou skill of 40. Kidou of 30 can be used, but it will be imperfect, and not give the full ability bonus. If you have Melee below 60, then you CANNOT use flashcry. This should go without saying, but sword specialists cannot use flashcry, as they cannot use their swords.

Now, for the said ability bonuses.

If you only have 30 in Kidou, then you get a 10-point bonus to your Martial arts skill. This is your kidou fusing with your body. If you have Kidou of 40 or more, then you gain 20 points to Martial Arts. Rest assured, i will be improving my kidou to 40 at my next opportunity.

Abilities:

Cancel. If your kidou is higher than your enemies attack skill, then you can use your Flashcry to cancel any enemy attack. This doesn't always work if your flashcry is imperfect. While your kidou is fused with you, you cannot cast any spells. Doing so will end your Flashcry. it is purely a boost to your martial arts skill. Don't worry about this ability being overpowered, as anyone under Captain level would have to sacrifice points in every other skill to be powerful enough to use this ability at full strength, and Captains would only just make it (like me). Captains kinda Pwn anything weaker than them anyway, so this wouldn't make that much difference, especially with the power and abilities of peoples bankai.

It will never last forever. You take more damage when using this, because of the strain it puts your body under. Treat every point of damage as 2 points while using this skill. If your reiatsu drops to half normal level, you lose your Flashcry, and cannot use it again until you have replenished your reiatsu.

I can't think of anything else... so please help, those of you who have seen Flashcry

[Sir Razgriz]

This might not ever actually apply, but...

In the event that two users of flashcry (e.g. Capt. Tahoshi and one of the rogues I oh-so-badly want to turn into hamburger) were to duke it out, an attacker could have their attack canceled out in a manner identical to canceling out a kidou (read: pump an identical amount of reiatsu, spinning the opposite way, on the point of contact). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that this puts both the attacker and defender out of their flashcry state, and thus forces them to re-instate it. This is, however, still useful to a defender as a last-ditch method of not being dead.

[Tahoshi]

That would be a hell of alot of reiatsu in the case of Tahoshi, he has one of the highest levels of that stuff in the game so far

But technically, you can cancel out an attack using Reiatsu anyway... it just uses up your Reiatsu. In the case of Flashcry, i think it would cancel out both users Flashcry... but yeah, that would be a last ditch attempt, cos using flashcry would use up reiatsu like... Squaresoft use up FF7.