NaoyaZenin

Naoya Zenin

The frailest body in the set and by a distance the fastest feet. He fights

unarmed, builds film by never standing still, and spends it on a technique

that cuts one second into twenty-four frames — anything his palm reaches has to

keep up, and what can't is frozen where it stands.

Needs Satoru Gojo,

which is both a character and the shared library. The mod manager installs it for

you.

Skills

| Key | Skill | |

| --- | --- | --- |

| M1 | Zenin Style | Three kicks while held, the last a heel that throws. He keeps his own movement through them. |

| M2 | Frame Lock | An open palm, almost no damage: what it touches is frozen, and a frozen body takes more from everything. |

| M2 again | Shatter | While the palm's glass (or R's) still stands, the same key breaks all of it at once, from any distance, for free. |

| Shift | Trace | Draw a line and run it, hitting everything on the way — wherever you're looking, up a slope or off a ledge. One charge, and every step goes where you're looking as you answer. Answer the letters as they flash; a wrong one seals him in his own glass, and a sealed body takes more from everything. |

| Shift (alternative) | Frame Corridor | A lane of glass laid down the aim, everything in it sealed, then he runs it and breaks each frame on the way. Aimed up, it leaves the ground. No steering. |

| AA / DD | Sidestep | Double-tap move left or move right (A or D by default): a 12 m step out of the way in a quarter of a second, still facing forward. One banked, back three seconds after the last. |

| R | Twenty-Four Frames | The heel brought down: one heavy blow all around him, and everything it reaches sealed in glass, longer on a full film. While it stands, M2 breaks the whole room at once. Rooted while it lands. |

| M5 | Bleedout | One stab the whole way down the line he's looking along, up as well as along. Everything on it bleeds; anything already bleeding hemorrhages. |

| T | Time Cell Moon Palace | Domain Expansion. |

| — | Projection Sorcery | The 24-frame rule, and the film. See below. |

The film

He carries up to twenty-four frames: one accrues for every stretch of ground

covered and every landed blow, standing still spends them back, and being hit

costs several at once — no more than once every half second. Each frame is attack speed and foot speed, and a full film

holds a frozen body longer. That's the loop: run, fight, freeze,

shatter. The strip of twenty-four cells stacked

above your skill icons is the count, lit cell by cell as the film accrues.

The rule

Frame Lock and every other seal of his apply it: a body reached is stuck in one frame

for a second or more, and while it's there everything Naoya does to it hits harder,

and a blow that leaves it at 30% health shatters it (not bosses), as the

game's own freeze does. Anything the game won't let you stun is still held in place, though it can still attack.

Time Cell Moon Palace

Ten seconds, and every enemy inside is slowed to a crawl and billed every moment

against his pace: falling short of it hurts, and so does distance covered.

Standing still costs nearly the most; the cheapest place to be is exactly his

pace. Nothing freezes in the palace, but what his other seals hold pays near the most.

The curse

Die holding at least three quarters of the bar — after the run has spent

every revive it owed you — and two seconds later the vengeful cursed spirit

rises where he fell: a chrysalis with a skull for a face that flies with

Gojo's hands (the cursor steers, jump with a direction climbs, jump alone stops

dead; sprint only adds speed). The hull is the weapon — everything it

flies through takes a blow that grows with the speed — and its only button is

the palace on T, free in death, holding the fuse while it stands. It's an

encore, not a second life: half health, no healing, the rest burning down in

seconds with only kills and the standing palace holding it back. The bar is

consumed in the taking; falling off the map doesn't count.

Everything else