The Soft/hard Duality Of Vi Is Maybe My Favorite Thing About Her Characterization. It's Evident In Everything

yes it's hot but am i the only one bothered by the mirror image-i-ness of it?

💙CaitVi❤️

omg alpha Mel and omega Sevika. It's coming. Fox will laugh about it.

Let’s break down VI’s fight style!

Hi, I’m a long time mma fighter, blackbelt and weightlifter. Here’s some thoughts about how our favorite girl fights.

Basics first!

Vi was canonically trained by Vander.

She’s often smaller than her opponents.

Vi, like many female fighters in co-ed combat sports, relies on speed.

She’s fast, very fucking fast.

The speed of her throwing motion is immaculate, a quick get in motion. Designed to slip under the guard of an opponent.

She does very well with larger opponents and tends to throw hits in an upward motion, even keeping herself low on purpose.

This keeps larger opponents off balance, either having to bring themselves down to her or lean and throw off their center of gravity.

Vi, throws fast, but her return speed is horrible. Especially when she’s younger.

Her pullback should be twice as fast as her throw. It’s not.

She drops her guard when she goes for a hook, and almost every single time she dodges.

That’s bad, she’s leaving herself open to a lot of bad blows, and over-relining on her speed to keep her clear of hits.

Here we begin to see some refinement in her fighting. That speed is still there, but that bad habit of hesitation on her return is gone.

Her hits are targeted and concise, she’s going for vital organs.

This fight is actually one of my favorites because it’s one of the rare times we don’t see Vi rely on her power/strength. Sevika matches and outpaces her on that.

Interestingly sevika shows the same issue with her guard. At nearly the exact same stance/throws that Vi does.

While I do think Vander handled the brunt of her training, sevika was definitely part of that training. Both women exhibit the same base style, with obvious adaptations over time spent in different circumstances.

This is where Vi differs from both vander and sevika.

This is a incredibly distinctive choice, she’s not only subverting her normal style, but she’s directly contradicting it.

One of the things that allows Vi a leg up is this sudden shift.

She goes from a low level close quarter opponent, who relys on speed.

To a dynamic, light footed, heavy hit opponent.

Absolutely insane choice but it works incredibly well. You don’t expect a fighter to vary their style that wildly.

This is a Vi specific move. She uses this over and over again against almost every opponent we see her take on.

These dynamic blows throw her entire body weight into that hit, as well as keep the opponent off guard.

Her gauntlets didn’t change this!

She not only has increased power behind those hits, but added agility from the strength of the propelling push.

This allows her to grab onto this very effective sequence and use it over and over again with fantastic success.

Vi is not only a good fighter but she’s SMART she knows the game and can play it well. This is someone who knows how to clock an opponents fighting strategy.

Okay final thing. Violet is an incredible fighter but what stands out to me the most, is the story her fight style tells. She was a child fighting with adults for most of her primary learning years. She knows that she can be easily overpowered. She never takes her opponent to the ground because of this. She throws upward because the people she’s fought are always bigger and taller. She relys on speed and targeted hits because she has too.

Mostly, she’s mad. She fights like every blow is a personal fuck you. This is someone who was a scared child that became angry and violent to protect herself.

Not me at my professional job.

I tap the mic. “Most people don’t want to crawl down your chimney and steal your dog.”

the crowd murmurs uncertainly.

“If someone wants to steal your dog,” I continue, “there are easier ways to do that. They don’t have to crawl into a chimney.”

Murmuring intensifies. People stand in their seats and begin to boo.

“People disguising themselves as chimney sweepers and stealing dogs is not a rational fear,” I shout. “Literally anyone could steal your dog. Why make sweeping chimneys illegal?”

“I have a list of chimney sweeps who stole dogs from parks!” Someone yells, throwing a shoe.

“You seriously think no chimney sweepers could possibly ever steal from a home?” Another cries.

“Only a dog thief would even want to crawl into a chimney to begin with!” Says a third.

A single tear rolls down my cheek. They are all so fucking stupid

This is a metaphor

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I love the way Vi is just nomming on that neck like yes please just gobble me up thank you.

vi’s neck kissing… cait’s hand on her chest, caressing her. I CANT DO THIS. i love my caitvi. i need that 3 hr scene footage NEOWW.

(gifs cr: @terrapia)

But wait, now do I have to draw the architectural plans that align with whatever nonsense I've written going down in the kiramman mansion?