Like swimming or biking, becoming proficient with a weapon also takes work. Not just time, but dedication and effort. Gae Buidhe is far from a normal weapon as well. It's a Noble Phantasm. Among those, it's unusual to see one so passive actually. That's the only reason why you, a regular human, can use it in the first place.
[Even when Noble Phantasms get ranked down, as Ken's Gae Buidhe has, it's still a Pretty Big Deal. Not a unique occurrence, by any means, but still rare.]
With a more typical Noble Phantasm, even a Heroic Spirit would typically have to at least call its name, and that's with weapons and abilities directly tied to their being that they had for much of their previous lifetime. So the first thing to understand is that even with a passive one like Gae Buidhe, you should not underestimate the effort that goes into mastering its unique ability, nor rush things.
You'll reach your goal quicker than they did, thanks to it being a weapon even a human can use, but it takes time to make a legend. Try to understand its nature and the relationship between it and yourself.
Oh. Yeah. I figured it would take a while... I'm just trying to figure out why I can get it to work sometimes and not at other times. I thought that might help me figure out how to use it better.
[Good. She was getting to address that, but she wanted to be sure he understood that much first. And even if he already had, it's worth the emphasis and reminder. When you've had something for a while, it's easy to forget.]
Describe what was happening, in the instances you pulled it off without the incantation.
The first time was when we were trying to clear out that dark room together and one of the shadows went after you and I got it before it could get you.
[There's a noticeable pause before he sends more.]
The second time was just now. Yukio was being attacked by a shadow version of Minako. Someone else got him out of there and I took her down.
I just wanted to do as much damage as possible, as fast as possible, so I could end it quickly. I didn't want it to heal and I didn't want her to suffer.
Okay, I'm already sensing an obvious theme here, but there was a shadow version of someone? Were they captured or something?
[She'd heard from Rita and Sanji and just about everyone before her that that can happen and it's why you shouldn't go alone, but it was starting to sound like an old wives tale. It hadn't happened to anyone since she'd arrived, at any rate.
She'd remained oblivious to anything that happened to Frisk this whole time, amazing.]
[...she doesn't really have more to offer on that topic, if she's heard of Minako at all it's only by mentions from Ken. She doesn't care enough to pursue the subject further for someone she doesn't know, but it is disheartening to hear the Queen can turn them into Shadows if captured. Rin doesn't think Ken would lie about that.
The mage sighs, not that the phone picks that up in this mode, and slowly types out another response.]
I won't bug you further about that, but the correlation between that time and this one is clear as crystal to me. It's your emotional state.
My emotional state? ... So it's not something that I can really control all that well right now.
[He's well aware that he doesn't have a great handle on his own emotions. That... ugh. At least it doesn't take much time to speak the incantation, but it's still something he'd rather not have to do.]
I guess making it more reliable will take more practice...
[Not that something like that is surprising to him.]
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Like swimming or biking, becoming proficient with a weapon also takes work. Not just time, but dedication and effort. Gae Buidhe is far from a normal weapon as well. It's a Noble Phantasm. Among those, it's unusual to see one so passive actually. That's the only reason why you, a regular human, can use it in the first place.
[Even when Noble Phantasms get ranked down, as Ken's Gae Buidhe has, it's still a Pretty Big Deal. Not a unique occurrence, by any means, but still rare.]
With a more typical Noble Phantasm, even a Heroic Spirit would typically have to at least call its name, and that's with weapons and abilities directly tied to their being that they had for much of their previous lifetime. So the first thing to understand is that even with a passive one like Gae Buidhe, you should not underestimate the effort that goes into mastering its unique ability, nor rush things.
You'll reach your goal quicker than they did, thanks to it being a weapon even a human can use, but it takes time to make a legend. Try to understand its nature and the relationship between it and yourself.
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Describe what was happening, in the instances you pulled it off without the incantation.
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[There's a noticeable pause before he sends more.]
The second time was just now. Yukio was being attacked by a shadow version of Minako. Someone else got him out of there and I took her down.
I just wanted to do as much damage as possible, as fast as possible, so I could end it quickly. I didn't want it to heal and I didn't want her to suffer.
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Okay, I'm already sensing an obvious theme here, but there was a shadow version of someone? Were they captured or something?
[She'd heard from Rita and Sanji and just about everyone before her that that can happen and it's why you shouldn't go alone, but it was starting to sound like an old wives tale. It hadn't happened to anyone since she'd arrived, at any rate.
She'd remained oblivious to anything that happened to Frisk this whole time, amazing.]no subject
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[...she doesn't really have more to offer on that topic, if she's heard of Minako at all it's only by mentions from Ken. She doesn't care enough to pursue the subject further for someone she doesn't know, but it is disheartening to hear the Queen can turn them into Shadows if captured. Rin doesn't think Ken would lie about that.
The mage sighs, not that the phone picks that up in this mode, and slowly types out another response.]
I won't bug you further about that, but the correlation between that time and this one is clear as crystal to me. It's your emotional state.
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[He's well aware that he doesn't have a great handle on his own emotions. That... ugh. At least it doesn't take much time to speak the incantation, but it's still something he'd rather not have to do.]
I guess making it more reliable will take more practice...
[Not that something like that is surprising to him.]
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What you want is to harness that feeling without letting it show on the outside.
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[He never expected it to be easy, but...]
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[And should be, initially, given the danger it represents.]
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... I'm not exactly the best at that, and I know it.