Quote Originally Posted by Augury
I'm also quite interested in seeing what happens with Galatea. The point about her still using her yoki to fight slipped my mind - that certainly makes her incompatible with the 7 if they're going for any sort of stealth approach.

I like the way this fight played out. It's pretty much a clue-in to how Riful can be defeated, since her "outer form" is probably just a larger, tougher, and more powerful version of Agatha. Before, it was like "okay she's just this mass of wires, how do you kill her?"
I see absolutely no issue with Galatea joining the 7. Tabitha uses nearly exactly the same techniques in sensing her opponents, and she uses zero Yoki just like the other 7. In that same way, the only reason Galatea could be found at all was because Miata never uses Yoki, she instinctually finds her opponents. She functions and fights by sensing Yoki, but the only technique requiring her to use a little Yoki is the "nudge" she used against Duff. However, that usually only works on the lowest denominator (or in Duff's case, the dumbest) of Awakened Beings and regular Yoma. Agatha thwarted the ability fairly easily. Tabitha is good, but even she can't compare to the God Eye. Galatea would be welcomed into the 7, she just wouldn't be able to know that any of them are there

As for Riful, she and Agatha are nowhere near the same structurally. Agatha was a body with demonic hair that she coiled and coiled into her little platform, and her quote-unquote, "true form." As this chapter illustrated, Agatha actually had a human-shapely...err...shaped body. Riful's true form is exactly what Agatha was pretending to be, all ribbons. I suspect from the attack of 3 and 5 (of Clarice/Miata's generation) revealed the total extent of Riful's body. "Riful" exists in all portions of her ribbon-like body, and you'd have to destroy it all at once to actually hurt her. She mentioned something towards that effect. If the two had followed-up, they might have wounded her a tiny bit.

Something like Clare's Awakened form, under her total control, and slashing with her Flash Sword techniques, but using bladed arms long enough to compare to Riful in size would probably kill her.