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So for the sake of transparency, I'm gonna post here. I am going to argue firstly that an instinctual scream will not stop the momentum of the attack, nor will it blast me/Celtar backwards, rupture eardrums, knock me out, etc. Your character has been wounded and you've used a decent amount of the Force while I've used a push. I'll accept being pushed backwards but given momentum (as your character is tired but relatively the same size (but a bit more frail than my character) and the fact that my blade hit its mark (which would, I'd argue, further disrupt your own attack) as you were going for your scream of desperation, your character is at least incapacitated.
Even if the tip of my blade pierced your chest as I was pushed away (arguing that its not but this is for the sake of discussion), it's being ripped out as I'm pushed away from you. If it's entering your chest cavity from the left and I am being pushed directly back, it's going to at least open your chest cavity up, if not (and this would be likely) cut into your lung. While you don't have to worry about a tension pneumothorax, you would be down one lung. Having tended to patients with only one working lung due to being shot or stabbed, they didn't really feel like fighting much more after that.
Edit: In the first sentence of your post, you stated that "Even with some of his arm burning from the edge of Celtar's lightsaber. His seething hatred for the Jedi made it easy to call upon the power of the dark side of the force to him" meaning that my lightsaber has already entered your character's arm. You stated that it allowed you to call on the Force but in the time it takes you to register pain (it's not instant, definitely not given the adrenaline you cited) and call on the Force a short time later (your second paragraph), my lightsaber is still moving into your chest as you've written that it has hit. I'd argue that it would be more deeply embedded into your chest (by the time of the scream) that you would at least suffer severe damage that, while not fatal, would put you out of the fight, as I also argued above.
Given that, I'm all for that scream being a side effect of that damage (you being out of the fight) but only to the effect that it'll deafen and daze Celtar (like a stun grenade/flashbang that goes off near your head) rather than blast him back, rupture eardrums, etc.
Even if the tip of my blade pierced your chest as I was pushed away (arguing that its not but this is for the sake of discussion), it's being ripped out as I'm pushed away from you. If it's entering your chest cavity from the left and I am being pushed directly back, it's going to at least open your chest cavity up, if not (and this would be likely) cut into your lung. While you don't have to worry about a tension pneumothorax, you would be down one lung. Having tended to patients with only one working lung due to being shot or stabbed, they didn't really feel like fighting much more after that.
Edit: In the first sentence of your post, you stated that "Even with some of his arm burning from the edge of Celtar's lightsaber. His seething hatred for the Jedi made it easy to call upon the power of the dark side of the force to him" meaning that my lightsaber has already entered your character's arm. You stated that it allowed you to call on the Force but in the time it takes you to register pain (it's not instant, definitely not given the adrenaline you cited) and call on the Force a short time later (your second paragraph), my lightsaber is still moving into your chest as you've written that it has hit. I'd argue that it would be more deeply embedded into your chest (by the time of the scream) that you would at least suffer severe damage that, while not fatal, would put you out of the fight, as I also argued above.
Given that, I'm all for that scream being a side effect of that damage (you being out of the fight) but only to the effect that it'll deafen and daze Celtar (like a stun grenade/flashbang that goes off near your head) rather than blast him back, rupture eardrums, etc.
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