User blog:SPARTAN 119/Rena Ryuguu (Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni) vs Fuminori Sakisaka (Saya No Uta)

Rena Ryuguu, a girl from Hinamizawa, Japan stricken with a local disease that caused her to commit several murders

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Fuminori Sakisaka, a university medical student driven insane after an automobile accident caused him to change the way he sees the world around him, and further destabilized by an encounter with an otherworldly horror

WHO IS DEADLIEST?!

=Combatants=

Rena Ryuguu
Rena Ryuguu is a girl from Hinamizawa, Japan, who lived in Ibaraki prefecture for a period of time, until she went on the rampage around her school, smashing windows with a baseball bat. Rena's rampage was caused by an illness local to Hinamizawa, the Hinamizawa Syndrome, which manifests itself in violent behavior, delusions, paranoia, and eventually suicidal behavior in severe cases. Higurashi takes place through several story arcs, each with a different retelling of of the plot, some featuring Rena as the murderer and some as the victim. Rena's preferred weapon is a machete-like tool, called a nata.

Fuminori Sakisaka
A character from a dark, 18+ Japanese visual novel, Fuminori Sakisaka was medical student at the University of Tokyo who sustained brain damage during an auto accident, causing hallucinations resulting in him viewing the world as covered in blood and gore and people as horrific monsters shaped like amorphous, tentacled blobs of flesh. Fuminori is further destabilized when he meets a "girl" who introduces herself as "Saya". Saya appears normal to Fuminori, while in actuality she is an extradimensional alien creature similar in appearance to what Fuminori sees humans as. Under Saya's influence, Fuminori commits a number of murders and begins engaging in cannibalism after he discovers his taste for human flesh.

=Weapons=

Nata (Rena)
A Nata is a Japanese knife similar to a machete, with a blade with an appearance like that of a machete. Rena's nata is unusual as it has a point on the edge of the blade. Note: Because Rena's nata is pictured her main image, I will not include a pic of the weapon.

Woodcutting Axe (Fuminori)
When Fuminori decides he needs a more potent weapon than a butcher's knife, he purchases a long-handled woodcutting axe. Fuminori notes that Japan has laws restricting the length of knives, but axes such as the one he purchases are perfectly legal, and with a few feet of the knives in the store.

119's Edge
Rena's nata, because it has a larger lethal surface area, and is deadly at closer quarters, while if one gets inside the range of the Fuminori's axe's head, he cannot use it effectively.

Metal Pipe (Rena)
When she is attacked and does not have her nata with her, Rena picks up a section of metal pipe about 1.5 to 2 feet in length and bludgeons her attacker to death.

Butcher's Knife (Fuminori)
Fuminori commits his first murder with a butcher's knife. The knife appears to have about an eight-inch blade. Fuminori is pictured holding the knife in the main image, so I will not add a separate image.

119's Edge
Fuminori's butcher's knife for its greater likelihood of scoring an instant kill. =X-Factors=

Explainations

 * Agility: In her fight with series protagonist Keiichi Maebara, Rena is shown to be capable of making quick, rapid strikes with her nata, Edge Rena.


 * Brutality: While Rena has shown herself to be capable of partially splitting a person's skull with her nata and bludgeoning someone death, Fuminori has stabbed his victims to death with a butcher's knife and then eaten their flesh, Edge Fuminori.


 * Killer Instinct: In the later arcs of Higurashi, when she is attacked by the ones responible for the events in Hinamizawa, Rena actually avoids using lethal force, preferring to use the blunt back end of her nata. Rena generally kills only when she is under the full effects of the Hinamizawa Syndrome. Fuminori, on the other hand, shows no issue with brutally murdering and consuming his victims. At one point, he notes that, as he sees people as monsters, he sees himself as slaying a monster, rather than murdering a human being. Edge Fuminori


 * Intelligence: While Rena is an average teenager in a rural village school, Fuminori is a medical student at the University of Tokyo, considered the be the best university in Japan, giving Fuminori the obvious edge in intelligence.


 * Psychological Health: While neither of the combatants are exactly mentally healthy, Rena's Hinamizawa Syndrome only significantly effects her in the disease's later stages. Fuminori, on the other hand, has been driven to severe mental illness from the combined effects of the automotive accident and Saya's influence. While this may improve his killer instinct and brutality scores, it may also effect his judgement, Edge Rena.


 * Physical Strength:  While Rena unusually strong for her age, being able to deliver a punch capable of knocking down her similarly aged peers, and can outfight a boy of her own age in a fight with improvised weapons, Rena is still a teenage girl, and while she may be on a more equal footing with Fuminori, Fuminori still takes the edge.

Battle ends Thursday, Sept. 29th.