Hairpin

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.

Hairpin was Nobara's bread and butter. Every fight started with her hammer and nails, driving explosive impacts into opponents at close-to-mid range. Against the Death Painting brothers, the consistent damage from Hairpin strikes softened them up for the finishing ResonanceResonanceExtension TechniqueVoodoo 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 targ... attack. The technique rewards aggression: the more nails Nobara lands, the more explosions the target absorbs.