Talk:Twenty-Fifth Baam/Abilities and Powers/@comment-47.138.224.21-20170115063141/@comment-5693502-20170117220812

That's exactly what I'm saying. If a tree = manipulating shinsoo with/without a contract, then the branches = shinsoo control styles, i.e. you can't have a style without first having the basic ability to manipulate shinsoo (contract or no contract). Karaka's shinsoo control style and Yu Han Sung's shinsoo control style are world's apart in their application but both manipulate shinsoo with a contract. In the same vein, Shinwonryu is just an application of shinsoo, this time, without a contract.

Using another car analogy. The car is shinsoo. The Guardian allows you to get in the car, but you have to learn how to drive it yourself. In the case of an Irregular, you get in the car and you learn how to drive it all by yourself. Learning a way to drive the car, in a specific style would equate to learning a specific shinsoo control style (none of which is possible without first learning how to drive/manipulate shinsoo).

In the same way that Baam has used multiple baangs for a technique like Dragon's Breath, here he used a single baang for Shinwonryu. I'll tell you what the baang did using Baam's own observations of the technique when the GoG was demonstrating its use: "The shinsoo is all being sucked into one place, it's absorbing all the shinsoo around it and blowing it up". Pseudo-black hole, in that the technique absorbs and compresses shinsoo to one point, and then a nice big explosion afterwards (obviously black holes don't explode, but they do the first bit). You can see Shinwonryu's effects when Baam used the technique against the giant Crystal Shards.