Board Thread:Role Plays (AU)/@comment-24617443-20170525163000/@comment-24617443-20170528190403

I see very strong points on Dalton's abilties, and as such I am here to reply back. But first off, I have overreacted a bit when reading through Dalton's backstory and I still am a since getting taught by other gangsters and his efforts are considered exceptional enough that it "earned him many contacts and favours in the Valean underworld", which still means he's really fucking good.

First off, with the light of Dalton's points regarding his experience, let me first start off that I yet again fail to specify the age Alalā was in when he began training so I may have fucked up there but I'll say that he needed extensive training for around 5 or so years to even be considered a plausible agent.

One of those trainings is in martial arts, and not the kind you'll see in movies rather the more dirty styles of martial arts, and his was primarily the Filipino martial arts Kali, more commonly known in the country as Arnis, focusing mostly on disarming, grappling, and empty hand fighting with lesser focused, but just as important, weapons training.

And though his first assassination was when he was 11 it also means he's actively working as an assassin after that point for three year. Though, again, I didn't specify the kind of targets he goes through because they are varied due to the kind of targets WF would've wanted to be dealt with but I can say for certain that he has fought against other hunters, gangsters, and even deserters (with those deserters even being assassins themselves) from WF as the kill order for his senior and that faunus deserter that Mercury killed in the show has anything to go by.

Also, the suggestion that he can just force  Alalā to stay on the defensive till his aura goes out sounds like bonkers because hindsight. A man trained previously to kill, I don't think that he'll just allow his opponent to do what he wants even behind the prism.

Also, he can just spam explosions after explosions. If you think about it, since his prisms look and act like glass then it wouldn't take that long for  Alalā to try to crack it open. And he wouldn't just waste ammunition neither, as it'd be dumb for him to do so considering his training and knowledge both from WF and from school. If I were him, and I'm not even as smart as he is, I'd try to do the fire-and-ice tactic by making fire smoke and exploding that then finally using ice dust to see if it'd crack.

A fire-dust explosion from a moderately-sized dense smoke cloud is around 5x stronger than an incendiary grenade which reach temperatures of 2,200 °C in an instant and considering that Ice dust creates ice shards upon use and by the name itself I can safely presume that its around 0 °C or less at standard atmospheric pressure.

Dalton may try to prevent the smoke from surrounding him,  Alalā  can just wait in his smoke clouds which he can set his weapon to make dust clouds that'll just overgrow the arena since they last for over 15 minutes and it since its dense it won't go up so it just expands more and more. His visibility would also decrease but  Alalā  can see through the smoke thanks to his semblance as I stated on my previous post (because I completely forgot to add it. Why I forgot to add it? Because it died once and I had to redo everything so I forgot some details). Though  Alalā  will probably sacrifice a full cartridge of the stuff on both shotguns but It'd give him a good advantage against Dalton. Also, consider that only  Alalā  can activate the smoke thanks to his semblance yet again. Oh wait, I forgot it now lasts thrice as long if its affected by his semblance. I literally forgot that I wrote that, lol.

Also, firepower isn't necessary since the point of his twin-shotguns in this situation is to spread the smoke outwards as it becomes sticky when affected by his semblance and this works very well with wind Dust, so if Dalton doesn't come forward,  Alalā  will push it towards him. That, or he will try to approach him without him knowing by utilizing the whole space of smoke to his advantage.