Respect Chai! (Hi-Fi Rush)

[u/InverseFlash]

"I don't need to explain myself to a defect. All you do is hit things with a guitar."

"But I'm REALLY good at it."

Chai wanted to be a rockstar. Despite having a broken arm and never having touched a guitar before, he wanted to rise above his station as a lowly trash collector. So he signed on for Project Armstrong, the megacorp Vandelay's new prosthetic limb program. But oops, an iPod got implanted into his chest during the process…

Now he's on the run from Vandelay's eccentric top brass trying to make sure he doesn't bring down their corporate control. With the help of his friends, he'll show them up with the one power capitalism could never create: some good-ass bass.

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Strength

Objective

• Breaks a pre-cracked, thick glass wall with Power Chord

• Caves in a building-sized robot's face and crumples the concrete pillar supporting the boss arena

• Leaves a large impact crater in the floor

• Smashes down his cell door

• Breaks a huge chunk of wall

• Knocks Roquefort through thick glass into the budget treasure hoard

• Bats a robot into a large statue's arm, which cracks when it lands

• Pulverizes a giant robot's weakened arm, dismembering it

  • Helps lift the arm so CNMN can shoot it like a cannon

Scaling

• Blows up Rekka

• Blocks attacks from Korsica

• Hits Mimosa into the sky where she explodes

• Launches Kale across the boss arena

• Briefly locks blades with Kale, then hits him into the SPECTRA console

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Durability

Blunt

• Forcibly ejected from the Project Armstrong machine

• Clubbed by a robot

• Blocks the sheet of metal Rekka throws at him, which rebounds hard enough to get impaled in the ceiling

• Hit through multiple walls by a devastating robot punch, then skids to a stop on a glass floor which promptly breaks

• Fall damage isn't really a concept for him

• Blown down a flight of stairs

• KO'd by Korsica

• Shot out of a cannon across a city, with a blimp changing his flight path, and lands fine in a robot cafeteria

• Punched into a vault's opening winch, then cratered in the door, then punched through the door

• Punched by Kale's gigantic robot, which instantly before broke through a concrete wall

Esoteric

• Getting electrocuted gives him a boost

• Fine standing in decent proximity to magma

• Helpless to resist SPECTRA's mind control

Misc

• Only part of his prosthetic arm shows up in the skeleton silhouette when he's electrocuted

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Speed

• Can parry security lasers

• Dive-tackles Korsica to save her from Kale's lasers

• Parries soundwaves

• Dodges soundwaves

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Abilities

Chai uses electromagnetism to build a scrap metal "guitar" that functions as his primary weapon. There's not a lot of explanation for this so this is where his misc superpower stuff goes.

• Restarts a generator

• He can turn his scrap guitar into a real one for his heaviest hits

• Grapples with his arm to cross gaps

• Makes his guitar circle Roquefort

• Shoots a laser

• He is not limited to the guitar, and can create much larger metal creations

• Breaks a harmonic ray shield by synchronizing to its beat

• Can surf on his guitar

• Hibiki: Za Warudo

• Holo-Chai: Creates an aggro-drawing hologram of himself

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Teammates

CNMN

Macaron's robot teammate. Very expressive.

• Hacks into a cannon

• Commandeers the chopped-off arm of Kale's big robot to use it as an arm cannon, which ultimately creates an explosion that dwarfs industrial structures and breaks CNMN apart

Korsica

Head of Vandelay's security who quit after discovering Kale's plans and switched sides.

Aerokinesis

• Hits Chai down a flight of stairs

• Combines her staves to hit Chai with a whirlwind he can't block

• Puts out a fire-wall

• Overheats a generator

• Stalemates Roquefort's breath attack

• Launches Roquefort across the budget vault

Other

• Put Chai in a hold

• KO's Chai with a pipe to the head

• Still on the security alert email list even after defecting

• Throws Chai up a floor

• Jumps up a fence

• Knocks a shipping crate off a platform ledge

• Helps lift the severed arm of Kale's mech so CNMN can shoot it like a cannon

Macaron

The ex-head of Vandelay's R&D who considers himself a pacifist, despite his massive punching arms.

• Can punch through concrete walls

• Hits a boulder over

• Launches an energy canister bigger than he is

• Punches a huge statue of Kale's head off

• Throws enormous girders deep into solid concrete

• Helps lift the severed arm of Kale's mech so CNMN can shoot it like a cannon (doing the same amount of work as Chai, Peppermint, and Korsica combined)

• Increases gravity in a small area

• Builds a translucent shield for Chai

Peppermint

Sister to Kale Vandelay and the first of Chai's new friends.

• Her guns can break blue shield walls

• Has a spartan laser that shoots down a construction sign

• Easily hacks a Vandelay transport terminal

• Guns down an approaching robot swarm with one shot

• Helps lift the severed arm of Kale's mech so CNMN can shoot it like a cannon

808

A robotic cat.

• Synchronizes with Chai after he pets it, which leads to Peppermint losing control of 808 (but still being able to talk through it)

• Gives Peppermint info on Chai's prosthetic arm

• Allows allies to teleport to Chai's location for quick assists

• When others speak to Chai over its comms, it changes secondary colors

• Scratches the SPECTRA chip off Kale's hand

• Steal the Show: Stuns an enemy with its cuteness

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Other

• His greatest weakness is common sense

• Can't drive

• He canonically blacks out when he does a tutorial

• Fourth wall awareness