User:Cerberusleuth/Tricky

“	Your fundamentals are flawed. Strong emotions or motivations may lend you immense strength for a time, but those with unfaltering foundations are able to respond to such momentary, explosive power with ease. Furthermore, what keeps such foundations solidly intact is food... This... This is an onigiri, a nutritious food that has been eaten in the Far East since ancient times. I can tell you more about onigiri when we have a free moment. The great thing about onigiri is that they are highly portable and have a long shelf life. One does not need to be concerned about when and where to eat them , and they require no dishware to serve. Consuming one raises one's muscle glycogen levels, essential for a warrior heading to battle. They are also equipped to satisfy an empty stomach. This is because, as the rice cools down, the starch grows resistant, making it harder to absorb into the body. In other words, it's an easy snack to avoid overeating. It's tasty too.	„
	~ Nagoriyuki going on and on about his favorite food.

What do you fight for

Crawl

Background

Nagoriyuki is a playable character in the Guilty Gear series who makes his first appearance on Guilty Gear -Strive-. He is described as a noble vampire samurai who wields a bloodsucking blade.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Nagoriyuki’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Nagoriyuki is a Nightless samurai and the retainer of a man named Kazusanosuke. During the Crusades, he encountered Happy Chaos, who used his powers to force him to do his bidding. At some point after these events, Nagoriyuki paid a vast sum to rent out the basement level of a luxurious high-rise in Illyria, where he spent the next several decades in meditative hibernation. Nagoriyuki is found and awakened by Chaos, who once again uses his binding magic to force him to be his bodyguard, since he is the only person who knows his weakness. During the ensuing events he is forced to fight on behalf of Chaos and I-No, and Chaos also copies the unique properties of his blade to create bullets that slows health regeneration's speed for short periods. His ability to use Gamma Blade surprises Chipp Zanuff during their first encounter. Through these battles, he develops a rivalry with Sol Badguy, telling him his flaws in battle as they fight. However, in their final battle, Nagoriyuki praises him and breaks free of Chaos's control, allowing Sol to defeat him, but sadly have no time to ask him about Chaos' weakness, as Sol is in hurry with US President Vernon E. Groubitz, and the Gear Maker Asuka R. Kreutz to escape from Chaos, but instead, tricking him into being trapped inside the air ship White House's PEOC escape pod and got rid of him. However, when the real Chaos is revealed to still be aboard the airship, and uses the Tome of Origin which fused with Asuka to fuse the former with I-No, to restore the witch's full godlike power, Nagoriyuki is properly freed from Chaos' control. In the final battle against a godlike I-No, he returns to help Sol (now simply a 'human' named Frederick Bulsara), Ky and Axl Low find and expose her weak point, allowing Sol to destroy her with his Outrage cannon. With Chaos and I-No gone, Nagoriyuki's whereabouts are unknown.

Statistics

Tier: 3-B, Higher with Blood Rage

Name: Nagoriyuki, "Noble Vampire Samurai"

Origin: Guilty Gear

Sex: Male

Age: Hundreds of years old

Classification: Nightless/Vampire, Samurai

Status: Alive

Alignment: Lawful Good (Nagoriyuki is a follower of Dandyism, the philosophy of Slayer, which focuses on maintaining a sense of style and dignity when killing an opponent, a philosophy he carries into combat), Lawful Neutral under the commands of Happy Chaos, Chaotic Neutral in Blood Rage (Abandons Dandyism and becomes bloodthirsty and ferocious)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Galaxy Cluster level (Can fight against Sol Badguy and considers him a worthy opponent. Sol Badguy destroyed Justice, who's information density is equivalent to a galaxy cluster), Higher with Blood Rage (Drastically increases his power)

Durability: Galaxy Cluster level (Can tank attacks from Sol Badguy)

Striking Strength: Galaxy Cluster Class

Lifting Strength: Class P (Superior to Anji Mito, who can match large gears stated to weigh around 14 trillion tons)

Travel Speed: Massively FTL normally (Able to move fast enough that his movement can't be perceived by other characters, being superior to Jack-O' Valentine who can fly this fast), Extra-Temporal out of universe (Demi-Humans transcend time and need to downconvert to Planck time in order to exist)

Combat Speed: Massively FTL normally (Can keep up with Sol Badguy, who can keep up with Justice, who can fly this fast), Extra-Temporal out of universe

Reaction Speed: Massively FTL normally, Extra-Temporal out of universe

Stamina: At least Very High (Able to fight extensively, far longer than Sol Badguy)

Range: Extended Melee normally, up to Low Multiverse level with Magic (Magic is stemmed from the Backyard, and alternate dimension of pure information), High Multiverse level through Omnipresence (Exists across infinite timelines)

Intelligence: Genius (Existed for hundreds of years and master fighting in the art of Dandyism. Is the only one alive to know the weakness of Happy Chaos and I-No, and contains information above an infinite number of alternate timelines due to being a Demi-Human)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Usage & Martial Arts, Energy Projection (Able to charge up large blasts of energy), Enhanced Senses (Shown here. Can sense auras), Immortality and Regeneration Negation (Types 1, 3, 6, and 8 & Mid-Godly: His weapon negates Sol's immortality and negated Sol's regeneration when Happy Chaos copied it), Blood Manipulation, Absorption, and Healing (His Blade is described to be bloodsucking, which allows him to regenerate from wounds, similar to Slayer), Magic, Information Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Reality Warping, Fate Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Statistics Amplification, Dream Manipulation, and Dimensional Travel (Uses magic, which is stemmed to the Backyard, a dimension of high density information that is connected to dreams, being able to alter the rules of reality in any way, manipulate fate, and increase power), Null Existence (Type 3), Acausality (Type 4), and Omnipresence (Type 2: Demi-Humans exists across infinite timelines, transcend genetics, physics, and time, lacking IDs and act as a bug in the Backyard, an alternate dimension of information that's the source of all magic and defines fundamental truths), Cosmic Awareness (Contains information on an infinite number of alternate timelines), Berserk Mode (Via Blood Rage), Power Modification (Blood Rage will increase the range of his sword and grant him access to moves, but will restrict other moves at the same time), Soul Manipulation (Able to summon his fighting spirit as an attack), Immortality (Type 1)

Resistance to Time Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, and Biological Manipulation (Demi-Humans transcend time, physics, and genetics), Magic, Conceptual Manipulation, Information Manipulation, Reality Warping, Law Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Dimensional Travel, and Statistics Amplification, Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Matter Manipulation (Doesn't traditionally exist in the Backyard, becoming immune to the magic it grants, and should also resist what it does to those who enter it, which assaults mind, soul, and matter) )

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Standard Equipment

A mask and a blood-sucking Ganma Blade

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Notable Techniques

• Blood Rage: A burst of blood explodes from Nagoriyuki's face as his mask shatters. Deals no damage, only knocking opponents away, and leaves him very open.
• Fukyo: Nagoriyuki moves forward or backward along the ground at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. Increases the Blood Gauge, which, when full, activates Blood Rage.
• Zarameyuki: Nagoriyuki sends an afterimage to attack with a dashing strike. Greatly increases the Blood Gauge.
• Kamuriyuki: Nagoriyuki delivers a high sword strike, then spins around and delivers a low sword strike from a sitting position. Greatly increases the Blood Gauge.
• Shizuriyuki: Nagoriyuki swings his sword in a crescent upward, then downward, ahead of himself. Greatly increases the Blood Gauge.
• Bloodsucking Universe: Nagoriyuki grabs his opponent and drains their vitality. Immediately halts any ongoing increases to the Blood Gauge and decreases it to zero.
• Wasureyuki: Nagoriyuki strikes the opponent with a sudden slash, then rises into the air with consecutive slashes. Greatly decreases the Blood Gauge. He cannot use it in Blood Rage.
• Zansetsu: Nagoriyuki winds up and delivers one enormous strike with his sword. Usable only in Blood Rage and ends it immediately.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Nagoriyuki will use his enhanced senses to sense his opponent, and will attack using his sword that sucks blood and negates immortality and regeneration. He will occasionally imbue his sword with immense energy

Weaknesses: Blood Rage is a double-edged sword, which can restrict a few of his powers and drain his health.

Trivia

Credit to the Guilty Gear Wiki

• Nagoriyuki's name may be an homage to the famous 1975 folk song "Nagori Yuki" (なごり雪?) by IRUKA, originally performed in 1974 by the band Kaguya Hime. The song has been covered by many prominent Japanese pop and rock artists in the decades since it was written.
• Before Nagoriyuki performs Wasureyuki, an image of Gashadokuro appears as a reflection on his odachi; upon finished, a fragment of The Great Wave off Kanagawa appears in the background, and a text appears: 至誠通天 ("shisei tsuuten"), which roughly means "sincerity passing heaven": it is based on a Chinese proverb/precept that made its way to Japanese martial arts in the form of 至誠天に通ず ("shisei ten ni tsuusu"; "sincerity moves through heaven", describing that it can touch/move the heavens), particularly to the likes of kenjutsu and kendou.
• Nagoriyuki refers to his master using the name Kazusanosuke, one of the pseudonyms of Oda Nobunaga.
• When discussing Nagoriyuki's inspiration, Ishiwatari said that he is based on a historical figure; this is most likely Yasuke, a samurai of African descent who was one of Nobunaga's retainers.
• His theme, What Do You Fight For, pays homage to "Come Together" by The Beatles, and its chorus resembles that of "Junkyard Dog" by Winger.
• Nagoriyuki (名残雪?) is Japanese for "lingering snow," a sentimental phrase referring to out of season snowfall during the spring. Likewise, all of his techniques have a snow-term-naming motif, with his Zansetsu being the only named-technique of his written in on'yomi instead of kun'yomi.
• In a special interaction Nagoriyuki can have with Chipp before a match, the two imply that Nagoriyuki had some relationship with Tsuyoshi. In the Story Mode, Chipp is also surprised to see Nagoriyuki using a technique (his Zarameyuki) resembling his own Gamma Blade.
• Nagoriyuki's horned mask bears a strong resemblance to the rabbit-headed minions Happy Chaos brainwashes, with the horns also resembling Happy Chaos' own.
• Nagoriyuki has made a guest appearance in Elemental Story.

Gallery

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  Nagoriyuki in Elemental Story

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