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Me who doesn't know the difference: Maybe.

It would be a bamboozled.

@Corty Blue balled.

It's gonna be about how menacing low tier cultivators are to mortals >_> and showing how getting started in the first place is hard af.

thing is that means I have to actually research martial arts since I can't bullshit things with chinese magic, so I kind of called the idea off as soon as it came.

You can bullshit your way. Wuxia is not about real martial arts.

You can do it without research. Fake it until you make it. Worked for me

It's funny, but Kung Fu Panda is a good example of wuxia fights.

@SaliusGebel The "Wu" in Wuxia literally stands for Martial Arts, but I know what you're getting at. I could always have pull a "your body was poisoned and your meridians are fucked up by needles". But my perfectionist side won't be satisfied

HOLY SHIT IT WAS SAILUS AND NOT SALIUS ALL ALONG?!

It is Salius. No, this is not gaslighting. Trust me.

Eh tbh it's a physically outmatched MC going up against superpowered druggies, I don't think regular martial arts would be useful. I just have to use google-fu when appropriate

@SsemouyOnan No, not that. Wuxia is about flashy martial arts. Not about practical MMA, or practical HEMA. It's about "pure" martial arts. And "pure" martial arts are flashy, and useless. So you can come up with whatever you want, since "pure" martial arts don't have simple but effective moves like, for example, jab or kimura lock.

This is a HEMA fight.
This is a Wuxia fight.

flashy martial arts are still martial arts and have basis on the real thing. And straight-up fights with full choreography aren't what I want to write anyways, if I ever wrote them they would be ended in a few moves

To clarify: It's a matter of preference, I enjoy watching things like HEMA and Kali, so I want to incorporate them in my writing instead of over-the-top fight scenes. That's basically it

As an American my favorite martial art is owning a gun

It's the other way around. Practical martial arts are based on flashy ones.

Also, if you don't want to write fights with full choreography, you don't want to write wuxia. Simple as. Wuxia is not a pure historical genre. It's a low fantasy. And warriors in Wuxia are not simple humans. They are superhumans.

Nah and I refuse to elaborate, thank you for your time anyways

I'm not saying you should like this, or write that. Don't take me wrong. I'm just saying, in my opinion, HEMA is not Wuxia.