What makes Chiaki's intuition all the more interesting is she almost never has the upper hand. She is not particularly strong, she has no command of magic. All she is armed with is one bladed weapon, years of Samurai training, and her brain. She can win fights only because she knows through training what would be the most debilitating attack to open with. Often that opening attack is verbal, and demoralizing.

Note that it does fail her sometimes, if she encounters someone who is really insane and unpredictable. Her psychic sense only shows her the most likely possibilities; but if someone is insane, they're prone to suddenly changing their mind and taking the least likely. Once she fought someone who simply tackled her and began strangling her, and she had to resort to animal instincts for self preservation, biting and kicking her way out.

Of course she's also difficult to fool twice, so that liability won't last too long.

Another weakness of hers is the same as Jedi from Star Wars: She is prone to making much more rash decisions if she is emotionally involved. When she's in love with someome who's being harmed, or if it's a kid she knows, or she is very angry, for instance.

Also her psychic sense can work against her sometimes, because it's at its sharpest when she takes rash action without planning, and when she is highly stressed. It preserves her, but as you can tell by now, it frightens her to use it as its full potential, when she is also in the most danger. So it helps her the most when she is most afraid to use it.

Someday I guess she'll find this perfect zen point where she is able to physically and mentally push her psychic gift to its potential reliably, and then she'll really be dangerous. But then again she might not want to, because she feels like doing that would sacrifice her humanity and compassion.





Speaking of Chiaki, she likely has several lawyers but nobody thinks to ask her for a reference...