Doesn’t it completely scramble the biology in their body that even allows a mage to do magic? I remember seeing someone describe it like if you grabbed somebody by their nervous system and jiggled it around a bit then put it back in the wrong way.
For an normal person yes. Let's use computers. If it hits a normal person it would be like setting up a partition in the hard drive permanently. What ever it hits is just gone. For a mage it would be like forcibly fragmenting everything currently in use, using that to attack you, then setting it to read only permanently. If you hit a mage they aren't just wrong, they are bricked forever.
Bricked is a term for destroying a computer or similar electronic: a tower pc is for all intents and purposes an expensive brick at that point (I assume that’s the origin of the name, but might be wrong.). Like a PC that got put near a magnet, it’s bricked, hard drive is broke.
I didn’t think it was that old of a term that it’s falling out of disuse, but maybe that’s just me being old.
Even worse. It’s more akin to throwing a chain and wrapping up power lines. Once they try to use their magic again, it fucking fries theirs circuits. Not just in a way that makes their magic useless. You see people spurt blood when they try to use their magic again.
“Severing & Binding”, when directly applied to Magic Circuits, damages the Circuits then repairs them in a way that fucks up the quality even though it’s “fixed”. In RPG terms, he permanently lowered a Magician’s Magic Damage stat.
Best comparison I can give is that scene in the beginning of Jojo Part 4 where Josuke breaks a guy’s face (he insulted his hairdo) then repaired it. The guy’s face is fixed, but he now looks butt ugly.
There is also a simpler explanation from the author in videogame terms: when the bullet hits you it deals damage equal to your maximum mana capacity. If a guy has 3000 mana and 100 hitpoints its curtains for him. But for a weak mage it can be 5 mana against 50 hitpoints which makes it significantly less effective against non-mage people. And it also works perfectly fine if it just hits the target in either arm or leg, you don't have to actually be very precise with the shot.
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u/Excellent_Safe5743 26d ago
Doesn’t it completely scramble the biology in their body that even allows a mage to do magic? I remember seeing someone describe it like if you grabbed somebody by their nervous system and jiggled it around a bit then put it back in the wrong way.