[Against a humanoid opponent with weapons, Maria puts up a much better fight. Her weapons are balanced so that her blows tend not to have much weight behind them, only her own strength, and her parries involve deflecting more than blocking. On the other hand, her style resembles Ronnae's in a reliance on acrobatics and momentum. She's also amazingly aggressive -- a surprising number of her counters rely on whipping the blades around fast enough to make an opponent worry constantly about an attack from the blade they're not engaging, and she has a rather alarming habit of stepping into an attack to rob it of momentum and leverage.]
[If she'd been using her triggers, it might have been a closer contest.]
[The superior strength and skill she's facing decides the spar, though. It's not long before one too many hits lands her on her backside, one gunblade spinning across the floor.]
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[If she'd been using her triggers, it might have been a closer contest.]
[The superior strength and skill she's facing decides the spar, though. It's not long before one too many hits lands her on her backside, one gunblade spinning across the floor.]
...you really are good...