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Any ideas why Masquerade wore a breastplate? Confused me so much as a kid and no books or media ever called it out

I imagine it was used as padding, like that used in ~80s jackets that had super wide, exaggerated shoulders.

The broader shoulders are less like Alice's natural build, and is essentially a very understated but easy way to make Masquerade look even further away from, in fact, being Alice. It could, additionally, mimic a more muscular build for the same purpose.

#bakugan #masquerade #ask the tsuri #this is semi related. You know how when people think of victorian corsetting they think.. #.. of tightlacing because 'their waists were so small!'? it's because they padded out the hips and chest #It's an illusion to reach the ideal shape (proportional to the person). it only made the waist look tiny in comparison. the reality was.. #.. the waist wasn't tiny. That's what I'm imagining is the reason for the breastplate #either that or it's being used like a binder but. look I don't bind. or have a want to. but I can't imagine the breastplate he has is.. #.. comfortable for that purpose 'v';;. thus I think it's more likely for padding. and it's not very squishy so it would mimic a shoulder #at least better than a soft pad that you could squish #do I tag for Alice???

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do you have a favorite bakugan from the reboot

For reasons along the lines of Champions of Vestroia, I have a particular soft spot for Barbetra.

#darkus barbetra got to diamond first and was consistently my frontliner #Her wings look good in diamond #bakugan #bakugan champions of vestroia #ask the tsuri

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Leonidas’ existence continues to prove that you can take a little negative energy sprinkle powder and make an all new person. But the games are non canon...

Kind of, but not quite. The souls aren't given the negative energy ball Hal-G creates in the intro sequence, nor a sprinkle later on. More accurately, it appears they're resonating to its existence out of a combined, restless fury, culminating in one death dragon.

Leonidas was not given any negative energy by an outside source (unless you count Vladitor sacrificing himself to revive Leonidas, at which point theoretically he does, but it doesn't change him), nor was the doom dimension, beyond the natural amount an attributed bakugan appears to naturally have (unconfirmedly appears to be stronger within the ventus-subterra-darkus triad.)

#on the topic of being non canon. not only did they not get a Jp dub. but the sheer timing for it to be canon? #everything pre haos tournament is pre delta dragonoid. everything during and post haos tournament is pre Dan finishing his trial #so it's impossible to fit in canon without major retcons or rewrites #and that's what fanfic's for #I might've misinterpreted the ask. hopefully not? but reading it again I might've #in other news. Dia's first time having to deal with the cat cone of shame #she's doing well #bakugan #ask the tsuri

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shun: *throws all his bakugan off the ventus arena when you fight him* also shun: “if leonidas even looks toward evil, I’ll be there to stop him”

He's speaking as if the games work as the anime do. He can get power drained real easy in my experience.

#He has hubris in the first game. as does everyone else who decides Leo Evil before even meeting him. Guys he's a baby dragon #bakugan #ask the tsuri #Don't feel like tagging him properly for this one ngl

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ohh the bakugan video games what console do you have it on?

I have my copy on the wii for both of the games with console options.

#bakugan #ask the tsuri #ah. the wii remote. such responsive #sometimes it selects a shot which I'd have to go in a different direction to the one I went in to select #power shots horizontal. normal shots verticle. except for when you have a special. then normal is down only #I cannot tell you how many times my wii thought the power shot I was after was a normal shot. ridiculous #there's at least two games that were ds only: Battle Trainer and Rise of the Resistance. neither of which I have

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Bakugan took one look at Pokémon and said “Oh, we can do that but are monsters will be in balls from the start”

Iirc, in episode 11 BB (at least in English,) Marucho mentions Ventus is weak to Aquos as the reason why he should fight Shun instead of Runo.

In Bakugan (videogame), aquos and ventus have no correlation. Instead, aquos and pyrus are less effective on eachother's stages (more effective on home stage,) and the same is true of ventus and subterra.

In DoTC, a game that has a functioning weakness-strength system that isn't dependent on stage, Aquos is instead weak to Ventus, dealing less damage against them and taking more damage from them.

What I'm getting at is they also removed the fire-water-grass effectiveness system, but they love to make it exist.

#bakugan #ask the tsuri #unclear if it really was taken from pokemon or if the concept happened to be unintentionally very very similar #but god one of these series can't make up its mind on how attributes/types correlate to each other #ventus is strong and weak against the same attribute but only if the context implies weakness or strength. also subterra??? #sorry this difference has driven me up the wall for ages. this isn't helped by battle planet ventus being green subterra

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ah yes, shadow realm, american censorship was the real antagonist

Death: easy to understand what the end result is, morbid, a definite end

Shadow Realm: mysteriously vague, what even does it entail other than being a realm of shadows, unclear if it is the end or not wouldn't you like to know Weatherboy

#ask the tsuri #honestly the uncertainty of what would happen to you in the shadow realm is the scary part of it #you know what death means. but you absolutely don't with the shadow realm. death? fun carnival that lost power to its lighting system? #who knows!! I think both are equally good it just depends on the situation #kind of like how I like dub GX and dub Zexal but cannot stand dub ArcV #I might need to make a blog for ygoposting at this point. unclear

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Big question; does Shun have ninja throwing stars??

Probably in reserve; Shuriken need a lot of spin when thrown, unlike his regular kunai, after all. Most situations he finds himself throwing some form of sharp, bladed metal tend to be precision shots, which are harder to perform with objects that need spin.

#shuriken are good for ripping and tearing. not so much piercing. because there's no guarantee it'll pierce on the point #and not just lodge itself into something at a weird angle. kunai are designed for the stabby though #bakugan #shun kazami #ask the tsuri #hi I have an actual art tablet now. it's screen is bigger than my laptop's godbless

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another card game hell you say? what this time?

The cousin of the doom dimension, the shadow realm.

#I'm aware it's a dub only thing dw #Ask the Tsuri #The Forbidden Archetype post was. a big contributor to my initial interest in investigating it #but also. friend's hyperfixation managed to grab me. And for once I have not slipped out of its grasp within a month or two #In case shadow realm doesn't ring any bells: I'm talking abt ygo

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What if Naga got sucked into the Infinity Core instead of the Silent Core?

Whilst I do think Vestroia would fuse in the same way it did with the Naga'd Silent Core, and some bakugan would go beserk all the same, this does change things. Monumentally, in some cases.

For one, it throws the Silent Core to Earth instead, and theoretically makes Masquerade either a protagonist, or a well intentioned antagonist (unclear if the doom card, which sends bakugan to the doom dimension to grow Hydranoid's/Naga's power, would be used by him.)

(Very theoretically this would lead to an "Everyone except Masquerade have doom cards, and it's treated like if ygo dm gave everyone millenium items to play shadow games with. Also casuals don't really use them" situation, which frightens me.)

This change would also cause Joe's death, because the inverse (the infinity core is thrown to Earth) is what healed him of his illness.

It additionally means that whoever has Wavern can theoretically use her to brainwash people (the Silent Core's powers lie within control after all.) This generally (it could be Dan only because of Drago, but that doesn't mean much when Wavern isn't pyrus) means the Battle Brawlers; a 14 year old, a 13 year old (the one I least trust with the power of mind control), three 12 year olds, and an 11 year old.

TlDr; it kills Joe, and potentially makes everyone else have a time only matched by whatever the hell early ygo villains were having. Masquerade probably changes alignment, and there's a potential protagonist change now that I think about it.

#bakugan #ask the tsuri #smaller tldr: shit's fucked #This might be time to mention that I've been dragged into another card game hell and it's consuming me unfortunately

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any head cannons on the white ones (naga and waverns species)

I took this to mean the attribute category, rather than the species (since they appear to be Dragonoid off-shoots.)

The white ones, ashen ones, attributeless, what have you, are the bakugan equivalent of sun-bleached. They do have an attribute leaning, but they don't look the part at all.

Any white ones pre Dragonoid Core got absorbed into Vestroia (the planet.) This does not prevent them from appearing mid botched evolution though.

Their forms are generally weak, and have a rough time evolving because they're prone to just. exploding.

Some bakugan call them ghosts. It's also considered bad luck to meet a white one as a result, because the most infamous was directly related to the doom dimension.

Very easily influenced by Trap Bakugan, given their capability to change the attribute of their allies. Some are weaker than Trap Bakugan in terms of G Power.

Some white ones get absorbed by their closest friends, on purpose no less. Typically they act as an addition to the G Power pool a bakugan has, or even to strengthen their friend's senses.

There has been at least one human who absorbed a white one. This was not on purpose, and occurred during Naga's invasion of Earth. The effects haven't been noted just yet, mostly because the human in question is doing their damndest to hide it.

#Bakugan #Ask the Tsuri #Attributeless #I don't know how to tag the attribute ngl

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if the mote doesn’t get absorbed masq grabs the sledgehammer then chase is it around

Sledgehammer really only works if they're already a mask.

#probably gets put in a jar instead. mote jail #bakugan #negative energy motes #ask the tsuri #using a hammer on a mote that isn't a mask is like trying to hammer air really

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what would happen if a mote grabbed onto alice when masq was off her face

It either gets absorbed by Masq, or it just bounces off.

#bakugan #Ask the Tsuri #Negative Energy Mote #probably makes a squeaky toy noise when absorbed

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Alice clearly keeps Masq in one of those invisible cartoon pocketsTM But I do remember in EP39 when Alice vanished the mask went with her, so maybe there linked in a way

(Answer uses context as discussed with Negative Energy Motes. Sorry if this wasn't to do with that.)

I'm not surprised it disappears with her, given it is assumedly a parasite. It's attached in a roundabout way.

The Bakugan Invisible Pockets really can just hold entire other people, huh.

#bakugan #ask the tsuri #negative energy motes #this makes me think of the prototype designs. Masq had so many pockets he was nearly made of them

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Do what Naga says Masquerade or be smashed with a sledgehammer

Thankfully he's too strong (more specific: the urge to keep the mask is too strong) for Alice to manage that.

That won't stop others, though.

#bakugan #negative energy motes #ask the tsuri #where does Alice keep Masq anyway? she doesn't have pockets to put him in

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so how does one destroy a mote the first that comes to mind is positive energy but what about destroying the mask itself

Dropping it works, depending on the material.

If the mote's control is weak enough, you'll be able to smash it with a hammer. Motes with more control do actively make their host take care of the mask, ensuring it's not damaged (beyond damages mid battle, of course. It's harder to prevent that.)

Shattering the mask makes the mote either hibernate (large piece of the mask is still intact), or inert (shattered into tiny pieces). Putting a hibernating mote back together wakes it up, whereas an inert mote stays inert - you can wear it, and appear completely different, but you won't be controlled into being someone completely different.

Healing someone using an influx of positive energy, a la Wavern healing Joe, doesn't exactly destroy the mote, as much as detach it from the "healed" host and forces it to hibernate. If the mote was later transferred to another viable host, it'd wake up again and continue as before, albeit with someone else.

It's also very unlikely for a "healed" host to get a new mote; the remaining positive energy is too much (until it fully dissipates, of course.)

#bakugan #negative energy motes #ask the tsuri #if you have a mote that's shit at their job you can kill them with a hammer basically

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so if the top ranked players has succeeded against the brawlers would they have become hosts to the masks in the basement as well?

Assuming that they'd be rewarded for loyalty, and that the masks are indeed motes in a physical form, probably yeah. They're strong enough in a battle to be useful/useable soldiers for Naga's purpose.

#bakugan #negative energy motes #ask the tsuri #the idea of the motes got a lot more complex huh