NobaraKugisaki

Nobara's technique works through nails, a hammer, and straw dolls, simple tools with complex applications. The direct combat form, Hairpin, drives cursed-energy-loaded nails into targets that explode on impact. The ranged form, Resonance, transmits damage through a voodoo-like connection using a straw doll effigy containing the target's biological material. The combination makes Nobara dangerous at multiple ranges through completely different attack vectors. Opponents who stay at distance to avoid Hairpin might already be connected to a straw doll. Opponents who close in to prevent Resonance eat nail explosions. The technique is tool-dependent, lose the hammer and nails, and the direct combat drops off significantly. But Nobara's willingness to improvise (including driving nails into her own body) means the tools rarely matter as much as the user's pain tolerance.

Nobara drives a cursed-energy-loaded nail into a target with her hammer. On impact, the nail releases a burst of cursed energy that does damage beyond the physical puncture. Each hit is both a stab wound and an energy explosion: a two-for-one that makes her hammer strikes disproportionately dangerous for their apparent simplicity.

Voodoo at its most literal. Nobara drives a nail through a straw doll containing a piece of the target, blood, hair, anything organic, and the damage transfers directly to the target's body regardless of distance. The target gets hit by cursed energy strikes with no warning, no projectile to dodge, and no way to block. Resonance is devastatingly effective because most opponents don't realize they've provided the connection medium. A drop of blood splashed during combat, a severed hair, that's all Nobara needs to establish the link.