Questionable Questing

With light chi users they believe in trying to be as precise as posible and use as little chi as possible, since the more chi you use, the more emotions you need, and the more you risk losing control. So every movement they decided, every style, centers around moving as little as possible, breathing as slow and steady as possible, and staying absolutely calm at all times.

And the absoulte masters of it can so entwined with their bodies and chi, that they time their blows to the beating of their heart which they purposely try to keep at a steady rate. They way the move and they way they fight it almost looks like a dance it almost seems choreographed. And they've master the art of disrupting someone's chi and literatly using an enemies power and emotions against them.

Perfected strings for combos and counters

Their entire fighting style is really based on grappeling and using someones weight aginst them, and they try to avoid punches instead preferring slaps, kicks, or jabs. With chi those jabs are strong enough to shatter brick, so it doesn't really make that much of a difference, but with light chi users they see a bloody fist as a sign your losing control and its why they avoid it.

I'm seeing hooking and leading into strikes and kicks with a focus on circular motions

Yep that's what i'm thinking, along with leg sweeps and trying to shift someone's center of mass.

Parries to redirect the weight and motion of blows and other tricksy use of Kung Fu to control how someone's body flows.

Now what is Dark Chi?

Dark chi is swords combined with the anything goes style martial arts. Dark chi is all about overwhelming attack and overwhelming resillance. Its getting face first with you enemy and starts swinging hard and fast so they can't react.

Is Dark Chi shouting a lot? And I see a lot of grappling to smash and tear here

They flair their chi in a way no light user ever would, basically announcing their intentions, emotions, and beliefs in every blow, while also in a lot of the stronger users that raw emotion turns into elemental attacks that act like a cloak aroud them when they attack. With many of their weapons becoming more like lances and area of affects weapons rather than the sword or spear they where before.

Its shouting, screaming, bleeding, and in a lot of cases fucking their way to the top with many secs seeing fights between a couple to be one of the rawest forms of emotional intimacy you can achieve, were despite being angry enough to hurt someone you still love and respect them anyway. lol Basically their a bunch of lunatics, but their honest about it which makes it more endearing.

I'm hearing impassioned speech or evil monologues is a lore supported power up method

Ever read Breaker? Sounds very Black Heavens and Earth

Do Light Chi users also use weapons?

You know senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Revengeance? He acts the exact same way a lot of dark chi users would. Lots of speeches, lots of screaming, and lots of hyping yourself up. A lot of their fights are more like wrestling matches than a real one.

Big super moves for Dark Chi users but what is the drawback vs a Light Chi user's techniques?

Light Chi user's do use weapons, they are just a lot more practical about it. A dark chi user will pull out a two foot club and started swinging, while a Light chi user will first show his katanna as a warning and then click it open when engaged again.

Plus Light chi users also see a weapon as an extension of yourself and your emotions so they have a lot of rules and ritual's surronding it, with a key one being never use a weapon you don't know how to use so a lot of light chi users only stick to one weapon at all times.

While a dark chi user see's a weapon as a tool and believes in the advantage of having every tool for the job, and will throw a whole bunch of random shit at their enemy's with out a care if they know how to correctly use it or not.

If your going to have Stand Auras, do they play a big role in the higher level of Chi battles and how do Dark and Light Chi aura avatars differ?