Oh god lords, I missed quite the show and since Ixa has answered some of the arguments coming Geats' way, I can take over. If I didn't pick up on all arguments, tell me so that I can, since it's been a long day.
If something is inherently anomalous, such a bullet with the ability to break space and time to make someone explode
Not sure where you got this from. Geats' bullet doesn't really break space and time for explosions, it's literally just explosion manip that all riders have.
The question for verse equalization with Fantasy in ways that Aren't supernatural is "Does it break the laws of reality?" With messing with space and time, the answer is yes fundamentally no matter how you twist it into being tech.
In that case, Geats' luck doesn't fall into any territory that insinuates that it can break the laws of reality. Unlike most of the other characters that have supernatural luck, the showings of his luck are minor compared to them. If it were the case, then Geats would've never lost a fight, died, or have himself split into 4 main attributes of himself by the enemy. At best, it just spawns some outside help, but that doesn't work in vs threads in general. So the next best thing is just the surroundings that aid him in ways that make sense. Like say Ikit's army slips and falls from the mud.
If you want something that does ring the bells of any Aethyr Manip users, it's Geats' innate power of creation that can break the laws of reality. But that's for his later keys, as the encounter arc Geats doesn't have it at all.
I'm afraid having a Warpstone nuke dropping on him that's also High 7-C is a bit above Geats' paygrade. Espeically noting it's Warpstone and you're detonating it anywhere near someone who doesn't resist anything from it. Imagine detonating a Nuke with its radiation multiplied by five and also being corruptive poison to the mind and soul.
Geats can essentially just teleport to the DGP, which is like way far from the battlefield, then teleport somewhere safer and out of the danger zone of those things tbh.
Depends on exactly which teleport but usually a few dozen meters for what Ikit will actually use. Some Ulgu shit does let him turn into Aethyr to dodge shit and whatnot, but he can't properly act in that form.
Yea uhh that's going to take a while for Ikit to reach Geats' location, while Geats can just anticipate and pick up where he's going to TP with his radar and get a good prepared shot of him when he tps or gets out of his aethyr manip.
That's the funny part, in Fantasy usually they don't. Mages in battles either stalemate eachother dealing with the other guy, whether this be from entering a war over control of that bolt of lightning one just shot out or counterspelling eachother into oblivion, it doesn't matter, or catastrophically damage the army on the other side of the field.
Alternatively, one is just stronger than the other and deletes the other one. This is why my running joke with Teclis matches is Power Word: Kill. You do not fight Teclis, he simply deals with you.
Speed is admittedly a little screwey with Fantasy, so by all means Ikit will be upgraded when someone gathers enough light feats and makes a Rela or Rela+ upgrade for everyone worth even a slight damn, but that isn't any time soon lol
Eh, fair enough I guess.
Remember that by SBA they're in Central Park. They'd be right at the edge of that, presumably with a good amount of the army spilling into the city.
Now that I think about it, there's a whole ass forest for Ikit and his bois to navigate through (at least normally) to see Geats. Going back to Kokken, wouldn't her slashes be noticeable, as in those can destroy the trees in her path? Such destruction would be picked up by even the average person. In contrast, Geats' bullet really feels like finding a needle in a haystack, thanks to the forest setting. It kinda doesn't help that fighting in urban settings are his forte, and he'd no doubt be able to make use of what Central Park has to offer. He may even go on top of buildings to better get sniping positions to accurately hit Ikit or his mages. Keep in mind that the danmaku spam is only applicable in his normal revolver mode, which is in the hundreds of meters range, so you'll be seeing sniper more in this match.
One bullet can explode a lot of dudes at once and even if they can see it, the results will be multiple explosions whether the bullet hits or not. This would result in pandemonium, and Ikit and his goons will have to track many explosions and many bullets at once. Not only that, but the explosions and smoke will cover up existing bullets that are active, making it extremely hard to track, especially since none of what Geats has to offer in this key really fits into the criteria of the winds of magic.