dear everybunny, please answer so i can continue to get to know u better:
which of these gives you feelings of power? maybe you don't necessarily love fighting, but if you have to, how do you want it to go? also note: i'm not asking what your actual skillset is, just what you'd like it to be.
type a: you want to overwhelm. whether it is through sheer force, through being unmoveable, through being overwhelmingly fast, through the power of rage, through the power of love, you want to present a threat that your opponent simply can't answer, whether they know it's happening or not.
type b: you want to know. you wish to simply understand what your opponent is doing, why they're doing it, when they're doing it, and counter as a simple matter of efficiency and of course. whether through parries, casual dodges, or presenting attacks that you simply know they are not looking out for.
type c: you want to outmaneuver. fighting is more about performance than destruction to you, and you want to show your opponent something they've never seen before. you want to physically be somewhere your opponent didn't expect, and get there in an interesting way. if you parry, it is more about the dance and about flexibility and adaptability than it is about knowing exactly what your opponent will do.
type d: you want to prepare. you're not actually looking to be the strongest, fastest, most adaptable, or even necessarily the smartest person in the room. you want the battle to be won before it begins, because you knew ahead of time how it would go and stacked the cards in your favor beforehand. whether that is through trap-setting, weird niche tool/spell preparation, or studying an opponent beforehand to learn their exact weaknesses.
type e: you want to win before the fight actually starts, but not through planning. because there simply won't be a fight. you're not really interested in the whole 1v1 dynamic. you'd much prefer to bait someone into thinking that one is happening, while you accomplish something somewhere very else. or, you'd prefer to simply assassinate them from the shadows before there is a fight.
type f: you want to confuse. you want to knowledge gap your opponent to the point where you are not even fighting the same fight, and you don't want that to change. you want your opponent permanently in the dark. you want to do something they have no means of interacting with, because they don't even know what it is. this is usually high-tech, high-magic, or psychic types, but you lot are clever and have other ways too.
