Talk:Power of the Sea Dragon

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After the latest episode, it seems this ability is mostly allowing the user to have a masterful control over water and granting them gills. While there is one more episode to go of this arc, I have doubts we're going to get any further explanations as to what this ability is going to be classified as. I don’t know what changes you guys think we should make of this page. I doubt anyone is going to agree to classify it as a Kekkei Genkai or Hiden. OmegaRasengan (talk) 09:49, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It's definitely not a kekkei genkai; Funato are not inherently born with it, they go through a ritual. To me it seems akin to the Jashin ritual Hidan went through to get his powers. FoxfireBraixen (talk) 12:18, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure it should be listed as a kekkei genkai either, but that is the closest thing we have on it. The ritual to awaken to power is not that different conceptually from having to experience the strong emotions necessary to awaken the Sharingan or the MS. It's not as if non-Funato can go through the ritual and get it as well. Them ritualising the triggering process does remind me of the "kill your best friend" rationale the Uchiha came up with, when the thing that triggers MS is the emotion, not the actual deed. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:19, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, no. Not as far as we know anyway. Sharingan is a genetic composition awakened by an emotional trigger, both of which would fall under what we know a Kekkei Genkai is (essentially a genetic mutation). The Funato being dumped into the ocean and a magical sea dragon giving them powers would fall more into the mystical region, not a genetic one, which is why I compared it to Hidan/Jashin. Even if the dragon chooses people based on their genetic disposition, it still uses an outside source as a crux to awaken the powers, which basically eliminates any possibility to it being a kekkei genkai to the definition that we have available to us, unless of course it's stated otherwise. FoxfireBraixen (talk) 18:03, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I never got the impression that the sea dragon was an existing, outside force that granted them the power, like a patron deity. The dragon aspect of it just seems like how the power manifests. Unlike Jashin, there's no clear aspect of a mythology around it, or worship, or creeds associated with it. There's just how the Funato trigger the power, and then nothing they do or say gives the idea of anything resembling a faith around it. Whenever this power has been spoken of, it was always in the context of it being awakened, not given or granted. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 19:11, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * During Ikada's ceremony, Araumi specifically states "show us your power", which would strongly imply it's something innate like a Kekkei Genkai that has been mythologized, rather than a granted power.--Ref2renced (talk) 17:14, 10 September 2022 (UTC)