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POV: You are Emet Selch and you are salty as fuark about the WoL's existence.

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Ok maybe instead of using a weapon, her PUG weapon has more wrist support and like.

What if I just let her have Royalguard.

As in the DMC Royalguard.

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She hated it immediately, and still hates it to this very day.

She's never met the guy (gender neutral), but she's already decided she hates them.

I even have a Bad AU where Punchy is so paranoid about losing her "self" to Azem that she goes to the other shards to kill her shards.

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"Your father," mother said, all fondness gone. In its shadow came a tone sour as turned milk, "your father... you're nothing like him, you hear me? You're a sweet girl."

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She saw it coming like half a second before it happened and just raw dogged it. Smelled vaguely burnt afterward.

This is the same woman who will catch blades with her hands to stop an attack and has also shattered one between her teeth and had to deal with a mouth full of little shards.

A non-exhaustive list of characters who inspire, influence and remind me of Punchy in some shape, way, or form. The characters listed are: -Sang-hwa from Train to Busan - Kratos from God of War Ragnarok specifically - The Pursuer from Dark Souls 2 - Tao Saotome from Gokurakugai - Jotaro Kujo from Part 4 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Doom Slayer from Doom - Grimmjow Jeagerjaquez from Bleach - Tsukuyo from Gintama - Steven A Starphase from Blood Blockade Battlefront - The arrogance and belief in his own fighting abilities and prowess of Sun Wukong from Journey to the West - Lady Masako from Ghost of Tsushima - Oerba Yun Fang from Final Fantasy 13 - Kaine from Nier - Baiken from Guilty Gear

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I've been plugging away at this for the past few days, and I'm seriously out of ideas. I don't think I'll ever be able to fill this out in its entirety so I'm just dumping it here like this for now lmfao

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For being the shard of Azem that represents their Anger and Wrath and Rage, Punchy is actually... kind of mild, all things considered?? She gets annoyed easily but she will never yell at you are raise her voice, she will just never give you a bombastic side eye and never gaf about you+

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I think at this point, the Blade's Serenity counts. I can't see her using any other MNK weapon.

There's the Manalis earrings as well, but that was an addition I only decided on post-EW when I saw them and thought they looked nice on her lmao

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Bitch didn't say anything LOL. Just gave Urianger a lil kissy before shoving the device into his chest, button already pressed. She cast gravity in herself (something nobody thought she could do) to reorient herself on solid ground and watched them all disappear.

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She was a tiny little sliver of a thing. Curious in the way children often are, but grew timid when it became clear her father didn't want anything to do with her.

She wanted nothing more than to be just like her ma. And she almost was if not for the scales.

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It's easier to say Punchy's a MNK, but she's actually a 2nd branch of PUG, a new job with a new crystal. I just haven't named it.

Over the years, she's blended other jobs into it just by watching others fight; she has a bo staff for DRG blends and more recently, a RDM hybrid as well.

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Relying a lot on Urianger (moral compass, the basis of her decision making, very clingy towards him in general). It's my lore justification for them travelling apart and on opposing sides in DT MSQ. Post EW she needed to find out who she is.

And she's better for it now.

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She bore it with her patented stoic silence, pretty okay all things considered. But she lingered for a noticeably long time by the edge of the pools when she finally got inside the cenote. The sheer number of jars actually got her.

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Uh. Well. Considering this 👇 and then later on, she also got turned into a leafman for 40 minutes because she pushed her luck with pixies again, it's safe to say she is... Uncomfortable around them.

They're the only beings she's actively afraid of because they WILL fuck u up for fun.

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According to Estinien, who was the only one present when she woke up, it was after her 2 week "nap" after the events of EW. She didn't wake up on the Ragnarok and was out the whole time, so she'd lost a LOT of her muscle mass, looked exhausted, slightly pallid, was noticeably in pain...

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For people who think muscular women are hot, Punchy is 10/10. For everyone else, they don't really think about it. Her personality and presence leaves more of an impression on those people: she's very succinct & brief in general, but it's super noticeable when she's talking business.

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As a lifelong pugilist, she's beginning to feel some tingles in her hands and wrists (leading to chronic pain as she gets older) so as she goes, she might pick up a new job with actual weapons to take the stress directly off her hands.

Maybe.

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Definitely her friendship with Skip, the Amaro from the CUL/ALC Crystalline Mean quests. Nobody saw that coming, and it was the only CM quest she did.

At most people might think it's out of left field for her, and it is tbh, but they otherwise don't react negatively.

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Since it activated during a High Stress Situation, the things she saw were a hodgepodge mix of memories from everyone in the immediate area. To the point where she couldn't tell one apart from the other. She was basically being force fed memory soup and couldn't do anything about it.

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Her da. He grew very cold and distant after Punchy was born because he couldn't understand and was actually terrified of the entity that lurked in her soul (Azem) and blamed everyone but himself. He eventually sold off his wife and told Punchy for years that she abandoned them both.

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For a guy she found lying on the side of the road, Sai has a weird amount of respect and care for Punchy. And that was bolstered further when she took his homesick ass to visit the Steppe (while under her protection, but in a "if u want him, u have to kill me first" way)

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Everybody's different. I really don't vibe with the idea that every shard looks the same. I only want one Punchy, and it has to be OG herself. So to that effect, I handwave it by saying Azem was sundered into Emotions(TMs) and that's why they're all different

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Punchy's is overstim*. Doesn't matter too much whether she's giving or receiving, but as long as someone is squirming and overwhelmed and needs to be gently brought back down afterward (which is actually her fave part about overstim), then she's happy.

*Applicable only to Urianger

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Punchy isn't much of a crier in general, buuuuut under specific conditions, she's let it all out in front of people before. The most notable is after she woke up from a several week long nap after the Zenos fight in Ultima Thule, so the whole welcome back parade didn't happen in EW.

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I'm not sure if it counts, but if it means anything at all, Punchy's father was a Dotharl?

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Emotional (aww 🥹) is when she woke up after weeks of recupe after everything in Ultima Thule and she realises wehh people care. Estinien got to see her cry.

Emotional (😬) is her rage fuelled half sineater transformed attempt on Emet after he shot the Exarch. The Scions were scarred.

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I genuinely didn't think I'd have enough to pull one together, but here we are.

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Sssssoooort of? Early in the relationship (literally after StB MSQ), I said Urianger was the pull out King and he was very concious of not accidentally nutting where he should not.

But then ShB happened, he wasn't in his real body exactly so 0% chance of getting pregnart right?

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Just a firm handshake (provided she likes or thinks she might like the other person enough) and her first name.