Board Thread:Role Plays (AU)/@comment-24617443-20170624224213/@comment-29264888-20170628231214

Because this experience thing is the biggest factor at the moment, I'll explain why she can be on par with Egil. Sanuye was someone who already began her training at the age of five and spent rigorous hours of training per day. Once training and school was done, she would continue to increase her education and intellect by spending her free time increasing her mental capability with academic books. Since academic books usually aren't catered toward the very young, she had the talent to actually understand and learn from the texts.

''"Even ater a defeat during her sparring matches with her parents or siblings, she would continue to train until the brink of exhaustion." ''

Sanuye comes from a family known for their loyal service as the sword and shield to another Uroboros Family, who I will say is long standing and notably wealthy. This would mean that Sanuye is going to be born with the responsibility to protect another, and would have to risk their own lives to ensure they live. Considering this fact, it wouldn't be odd to see Sanuye's sparring matches to be very intense that would even include life and death situations. If Sanuye couldn't push her limits and release her mental restraints of trying to save herself, she wouldn't deserve the responsibility she was expected to hold. However, she is someone who likes intensity and wants to make her parents proud, so she did, succeeded and excelled the expectations.

Including to this, the sparring matches were with her parents and siblings, meaning she has trained against opponents young and old, scrawny and muscular, to skinny and fat. Each opponent would have their own set amount of experiences, skills, styles and abilities; some of them would probably match Egil's own abilities if they faced him. This would mean that Sanuye initially has a similar amount of familiarity and experience against people like Egil. Egil may have faced people like Sanuye plenty more times, but she in return understands how Egil's kind works too.

With all the training and situations she's been exposed from such a young age, it wouldn't be wrong to say that she can equally match and combat with Egil's mental and cognitional capabilities. She can understand just as fast as Egil.

I have to say this again, with experience you can accumulate knowledge. However, Sanuye doesn't need an extra decade or two of knowledge to equal or beat Egil, she simply needs the specific information to fight him. The information needed to understand Egil is knowledge that can be gained at a young age as well, not just when you're old.

And simply because Sanuye is a student doesn't mean she's automatically weaker than a teacher. Even at her young age, she's already considered to be the best and is a leader to a certain unit within her affiliated group. Just to say, the group  is known for their extensive range of services, including the supply of highly-skilled security personnel, state-of-the-art monitoring equipment, immediate response units and secure prisoner transportation.

When she joined her group, she was given apprenticeship with their former leader, an elder who is older and probably more experienced than Egil. Under her instructor's tutelage, they are what molded her into the best and leader she is, further explaining her high level and capability against Egil.

She only became a student to protect her charge. Though joining a huntress academy exposed her to a much wider world, it didn't mean that she realized how unskilled she was compared to others. She simply only realized there was so many things (mainly excluding fighting) in the world she hasn't explored.

(I also forgot something here. :P )

To Side's arguement, I thought we assumed both were equal in terms of swordsmanship? I may have thought wrong, but... Taking information from what I said above, Sanuye was already training with the sword at the age of five. Despite still continuing her training till her current age, she has done enough to be on par with Egil's own skill, even if he was top 5 at Beacon during his time. Egil was only top 5 because people recognized that he could do something that others could not replicate or effectively counter. Be that as it may, Sanuye does have the ability that his previous opponents did not.

Sanuye can counter act Egil's semblance with her own. You're thinking of Sanuye's semblance on a macro level, but she can do things on a micro level as well.

You may surprise her by deflecting her attacks the first few times, but once she gets the understanding, she can use timing and prediction to avoid them or outright overpower them. She can simply apply more power into an interupting glyph, cancelling out it's effects and allowing her to bypass it. However, doing this would waste more energy than simply avoiding it, so this wouldn't be optimal way to use her semblance unless absolutely necessary. Yet again, this is still a way she can get through it.

And even if you use spring boards or a glyph that can trip or send her flying, she'll use her semblance to expel power at the glyph's opposing direction to cancel out the forces. She could do this on a mirco level when it comes to straight sword fighting. The moment he sends a glyph to interupt a sword strike, she'll speed up her attack to move faster than the glyph's appearance, or she'll oppose the interupting force with her own.

Your semblance won't be as effective if you can't control her movements.

And something I also forgot to mention. Though the detail is small, she is also trained in hand to hand and is equally as strong as with her blade. Even if you manage to stop her weapon attacks or disarm her, she can surprise him with grappling, punches and kicks. If she gets a good grip on Egil, he wouldn't want to use his semblance unless he wants to be sent flying with her.

If you do manage to disarm her, it's possible that she could have gravity dust in her disposal, so she won't lose her weapon so easily.