Questionable Questing

I guess it would depend on how strong and widespread ki using is? If anyone with sufficient will power and the right exercises could use it then I could totally see the government integrating it into the standard training program for new soldiers, which could be a cool story idea.

Sometime after the 1960's after Vietnam and you have a bunch of angry young men who don't really integrate back into society very well joining various street gangs and bringing their superpowers with them. Would be a handy excuse for why your setting has eight foot buff gangsters in funny costumes casually throwing cars at each other. lol.

Or you could have ki be this hidden away thing and use the masquerade as an excuse for why the world and politic's isn't super different thanks to the introduction of superpowers.

I never do real life based. Question I think might be Ki as emotion based but can you control your emotions mixed with what concepts you build your Ki around. What ideas fuel it.

Actually, funny enough, in street fighter lore there's psycho energy, which is the strongest ki power anyone can get and its basically just embracing pure emotion and rage, which at the expense of all that power drives you insane using it. Only one in the setting crazy enough to use it was Bison. But you could probably have something like that in your setting.

A lust and sadism based energy?

Different energy types with different levels of side effects?

Ki is emotion based like you said, so different emotions having different powers and effects could be cool.

Level of emotional intensity. Male the super sayian forms come with personality alterations and extremes.

Mind breaking degradation, mixed with slavish bloodlust, fused with self objectifying lust creates a potent Ki that can be marketed and harnessed.

Sounds like a pretty cool system to play with. You know funny enough I actually had my own street fighter idea that I scrapped awhile back.

It was your usual Self Insert, but the twist was it was either going to be into Chun-Li or Juri Han and onto of dealing with the dysphoria of a new body, new set of memories, and practically super powers on top of all that. They newly made person is in the real world, or an alternative version of it too avoid rule 8 stuff, and has to deal with the whole world of cardboard thing from being the only superhuman.

The idea behind it was the character slowly growing into a M Bison tyrant as they accidentally stumble into the criminal underworld because of their powers and as they felt with that they would take over and it would slowly corrupt them. Basically show how real life superpowers would effect someone mentally.

SI is a plague but I'd be curious to see you do corrupting a school of Ki fighter girls with complex characters and motivation s behind it even as the girls are enslaved and collared and brainwashed.

Or a street fighter girl into ruining and corrupting other street fighter girls

Would you prefer a male or futa tyrant?

Well that idea I had was going to have him? her? Shit I'm just going to call the MC Chun Li, makes it less complicated. Open up a self defense course and slowly teach a watered down version of chi, she's capable of to her growing army.

With the idea being she makes friends with a prostitute and when that prostitute gets in some trouble with her pimp and Chun li saves her, being the inciting incident into the criminal world and Chun li starting her self defense school. Which slowly grows into a personal army as she slowly takes over all the sex work in the city. Maybe gets herself a harem on top of it. The usual rags to riches types of SI story.

Except the twist I mentioned about the growing corruption, in the process of all that the mc starts to get angrier and more ruthless as her emotions start messing with her chi causing a nasty feed back loop like you would see with the Sith in Star Wars, where using the dark side is addicting so is using more darker chi energies.

I like this idea. I would abort SI as the stain against God it is, and explore the idea of things like Psycho power and how the fuck do you not know about the Dark Hado? https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Satsui_no_Hado What does it mean to be corrupted? does it mean your evil? What's the difference between negative traits vs a bad person?