[@RyuShura], I got no issue with wondering or belief, just there is a little bit of a jump from "war gets handled differently" to the whole "this class might receive a permanent ban (from where? by who?)" or the national representation stuff, which I don't think us D-and-under ranked kids need to be too worried about. :P As for stigma...

I mean, your Tablet Power is some kind of terrible death-mask of government interest and mine involves a literal Monster under not-exactly-the-strictest control. We're basically in the Cleaver boat. But is that even a bad boat? Is what we do within the confines of social arena really an issue for greater society? I figure in a world where learning to fight with magic powers is not only normal but [i]esteemed[/i], a berserker probably [i]isn't[/i] like a football player who talks about breaking the rules, it's probably normal enough, right? A football player breaking a bone is doing something Not Football; Ranked fights are [i]fights[/i].

Here's MY presumption: Ranked fights maybe have a mechanism in place to avoid lethality, or maybe people are just more chill about killing, 'cause we're not exactly swinging around foam weapons, any of us. That is, the kind of reaction people would have to a bloodlust-y knife wielder probably isn't too different from someone with a bazooka or a big sword or a ghost dinosaur or, you know, anything. The bloodlust is incidental to the actual potential for violence, which we all share. So I figure there's an adaptation either in the world or people's mentalities to work with that. [@Redward] for the truth of things, of course. :P

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Well, if social class ends up determined by combat skills, I wonder what would be of a goody two-shoes, boring, everyday girl such as Aria?
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Perhaps she is like Murderer Cinderella...but I don't know, I like her suite for combat. I figure we're all about equally skilled in combat, yeah? And in general. We're all PCs, we oughtta have rough parity. Do you really feel like she's boring?