It’s weird because I’m not sure if a move can be lethal without tapping into satsui no hadou, due to what I’ve read from Gouki’s SFZ account. If it can, I would say that Goutetsu created the lethal versions and passed these to Gouki and Gouken, Gouki embraced them, Gouken decided to tone them down to non-lethal for his students. If the only way to make a move lethal is through applying it with SnH, then Goutetsu created the non-lethal versions, passed them down, and Gouki applied SnH to make them deadly. I’m still leaning toward them learning the deadly versions from the start though; it makes more sense with being taught a full-blown ansatsuken (assassin’s style), and more compatible to my readings so far.
HnN stands for Hadouken no Nazo, a Gamest SF Faq paperback released just after SSF2X hit the arcades in Japan, and the only source I’ve found so far firmly confirming the existence of Ojou-san. SSF2X is barely covered in this book, and thus supers aren’t heavily mentioned. HnN does, however, define Goutetsu’s ansatsuken as the list of 6 moves I gave before. I currently assume that supers in most cases are moves developed by the user and aren’t taught; they’re that user’s special signature desperation attacks. I assume this because for the most part in the SF universe supers don’t overlap from fighter to fighter. For the shungokusatsu, I have read that Goutetsu spoke to them about its existence, but I seriously doubt he knew it himself. More about this when I get to the SFZ2 accounts.
Ok, finally here’s Balrog’s account from the SF2 Dash
Balrog from Gamest SF2D
Attachment Towards Beauty
As a boy there was a kind sweet ambience in his rewarded face. Hanging down from shoulder height, an eternally supple blond. As a slender one wanting a wealth of flexibility, that was tightened with a wasteless body. In this way he seemed to be in the sight of men as well as women, now entering the fight and changing into a different person would have the supposition of an advantage?
That man’s name is Balrog. Carrying his body as a ninja and possessing a pointed claw the hot cyclone of Spain. Appreciating only the superbly beautiful things, the existence of ugly things never permitted masked young noble.
His abnormality towards “beauty” to say of course embracing with utmost persistence, a tragic lifetime sent from his mother originating in poured favortism. She being the daughter of a proud distinguished family, for the sake of her ruined house of birth, the miserable woman was made to marry a wealthy but unsightly man and reputable father. From that recoil, regarding what is beauty she would have what came to be an unusually strong persistence. That influence on the couple’s distance resulted in the first and last child, naturally it happened to be Balrog.
For him it would seem that having inherited mother’s pronounced looks it was possibly unfortunate to have been born. Why then consider his mother’s bearing on himself, that which was driven into him when young is the insert of merited appearance. The attachment towards beauty of course.
Prey Pursuing Fighting Young Noble
As for his attachment towards beauty, from the time of childhood interest placed on hunting strengthened at an increasing extent. However with prey in desperation fleeing rather than resisting, it would be powerless before the beautiful and also the strong ones. He was always this type with a trifle superiority complex accompanying with ability while feeling the gun’s trigger. But with the companion growth, truly nonresisting prey came out of recollections. His becoming desire turned to even more resistant prey.
As for his solution to that, pursuing of directly resistant prey, striving, previously having trifled with them he trampled upon the fighting moves he wanted. And for that, more than hunting satisfied his atrocious superiority complex.
Taught during childhood days from Orientals ninjutsu, which ought to be a light wonder, agility combined with the disbursed fluent sequential moves from the body was a phenomenal powering up. With that excess splendor, among his numerous slaughtered prey, absentmindedly he was fascinated by those if only they were standing at their limit. But for such opponents he never once offered sympathy. As the strong are always the beautiful, the defeated are always ugly. He takes the ugly to exist with no merit and such with nothing but meaninglessness.
And so nowadays with his self-beauty confirmed, in order to erase those pigs from this earth, he proceeds with the struggle ready to challenge at places of competition holding fools. To strike firsthand at the filthy prey with a defending claw, for the times of the dirty-looking prey’s returning blood a mask is used to shun it, born is the warrior Balrog, again spending refined moments trembling in delight.
Next time Sagat’s account. And by request, the captions for the “Vega the pimp” pic seen in Eternal’s collection on p.112-113 (English Eternal’s on p.114-115):
SF2 pre-mook:
“Lord Vega, the psycho power’s extinguishing of intensity.” “I’ve lost my astuteness.”
SF2 Complete File:
Fighting wounds still no injury. “I’ve lost my astuteness.” Even in the face of the invincible fighting king, it gradually invites irritation.
You stumped me for a while with this, sano, but in Namco Cross Capcom’s anime intro clip, the mountain or rather the hill doesn’t have “ten” on it, and it and has very little to do with Gouki, maybe only in 2I; it’s read as “dai” or “ohki” meaning “great” or “large.” It’s an actual sight in Kyoto, Japan BTW.
Thanks as always for reading minna-san. :tup: 
