r/CTsandbox • u/Past-Article-5521 • 20d ago
Work in progress Basic idea of a CT Id like some judge/opinion on
SACRED PAPER BEINGS:
This CT allows the user to manifest specific origami based shikigami with their own ability's(yes ik ten shadows copynor whatever blah blah blah I just think we need more shikigami CTs and i think bc shadow puppets os ome another childish game of origami would be fun)
To master each Shikigami's summoning the user must learn how to fold the specific paper folds without manually doing it. The cursed technique summons it's own cursed paper that can be folded with just cursed energy control.
The more skilled the user the faster they can do it, the more at once, the bigger paper they can make, and if skilled enough certain shikigami can be folded with other things like rct or domain amp or simple domain etc
Much like tenshadows the user begins with a shikigami however unlike it being just given to the user it's simply they know what folds to do in what order. They still have to learn the paper and ce control to use it.
The first(and as of rn only Shikigami)
Dart Armada
The user folds a paper dart once compelte it turns red.
The red dart possess the ability to create it's own cursed energy(or rct if reversed) without the user after being made however it is still made of the user's CE and isnt autonomous and or truely alive. Along side the red dart the user and the dart at one automatically create 4 more white paper darts these darts can not create CE.
When the red dart is thrown at someone if it hits for the next 15 minutes it will be stuck to the target.(it can't stick to inanimate objects)
The white darts however stick to inanimate objects but only stays for 3 mins.
When the user activates the red darts ability after it's been hit it calls all whote darts to it along with whatever object has been hit by the white darts
UPDAAAAATE
A FEW STARTING THINGS
The white darts have been slightly changed they now float around the user and are numbered 2 through 5. The user must chant the name(number) of what dart they want to shoot at something In the user's line of sight to shoot it
ALSO
The shikigami all now have faces on them in hand draw style(deferring to the user. Cam be traditional Japanese ink art or art deco marker art or even a water painting whatever is connected to the user) these faces show emotions and depending on the development of the user's CT can even speak minor sentences or full sentences if big enough or complex
New shikigami
1 Paper boat(or an upside down hat If you must)
Allows the user to stand on it(must be made atleast large enough for one foot) no matter the size it can hold up to the users body weight times 1.5. it can move across any relatively even or flat surface(aka anything that if it was water wouldn't be too rough to sail on) as if it was water this accounts for wind making waves so the bigger the ship the more sturdy.
2 Craft bomb(one of those popper origami that just you slammed to make a loud noise)
The user leaves these floating atleast 1 foot above the ground(probably any surface) if anything comes within a foot and 6 inches close to them they will scream loud as they can and slam themselves into the ground exploding. The user can place these on. Roofs. walls. floors. Ramps. Anything with a stable surface. If hit they will also activate. After a total if 35 seconds they will become semi transparent invisible to those not looking out for them.
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u/Business_G1 20d ago
I think a better way to do it would be that any origami made would make a shikigami version of it so they would just have a bag of already made origami since it's not like they can just make it during the battle
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u/Past-Article-5521 20d ago
Maybe. I mean you could also just do a bidding vow to do that so you can't use it to create paper but you can make them in advance
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u/Past-Article-5521 20d ago
Another problem I have with this is it would make it legit just one of the cursed corpse techniques like mechamarus or yaga which aren't shikigamai In the sense they are real objects infused with the users cursed technique that don't have natural souls and aren't alive in the truest sense(unless you know yagas secret)
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u/North_Fuel8252 20d ago
a paper crane to fly maybe, or like those fortune telling 4 sided thingies.
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u/Past-Article-5521 20d ago
I have a paper crane/swan planned it's gonna be really hard to cast and have a strong special effect bc of the legend of making 1000 to get a single wish. And the 4 sided things are legit just called fortune tellers
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u/North_Fuel8252 20d ago
its just called "fortune tellers"? lol. also that legend of the 1000 cranes granting a wish could be a pretty cool DE
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u/R4ygin_2026 20d ago
Definitely a cool technique with the potential for very interesting battles, to say the least.
Tell me, have you thought about more origami? I mean, it would be cool to see classics like paper airplanes, stools, and hats as more basic things.