User blog:Jackythejack/No Normal World Anymore: Katniss vs Rick Grimes

People are generally living fairly normal lives. You wake up, eat breakfast, and do what you have to do to survive, even if you live in an impoverished state or some random place in the middle of Georgia. However, sometimes an event can happen that'll shatter everything you thought was normal, and send you on the way of becoming something more, something like a hero. Ladies and gentlemen, no matter what, a hero will be taking their first win here.

Katniss Everdeen; The Girl on Fire, who became a symbol of revolution in Panem after participating in the Hunger Games

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Rick Grimes; Former sherrif who, after waking from a coma, found himself in a world full of zombies, and was thrust into the role of a leader.

Katniss Everdeen

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The world of Panem is a little strange. Taking place in the ruins of a United States after some unknown event have happened to destory society, the remains of America was split up into thirteen districts, all focusing on one major resource, and all of them having their own economic status. Katniss came from District 12, the District presumably in the Appalachians that focused on coal mining. Though, it was also the poorest district in the entire nation of Panem, as well.

Panem was also known to hold a yearly competition known as the Hunger Games, used by the government to demonstrate just how much power they have over you. Two children, one boy and one girl, between the ages of 13 to 17 is picked at random to represent each district. They will then be put into an arena to fight the children from the other districts in a fight that would only end in death. When Katniss' younger sister, Prim, was chosen, Katniss volunteered as tribute instead, and joined the Hunger Games alongside a boy named Peeta.

Over the course of the Hunger Games, she'd be forced to fight for her life, barely surviving, and slowly gaining feelings for the boy named Peeta, after they cheat the system of the Hunger Games and let both of them win. Afterwards, Katniss would participate in the Hunger Games once again before becoming a leader of the rebellion against the government, uncovering the thought to be destroyed District 13, and the rebellion that resided there, and imprisoning President Snow, all the while being alongside Peeta, who she would eventually marry and have children with. The bow is Katniss' signature weapon. Even before she was a part of the rebellion, or before she even joined the Hunger Games, she had been taught how to use the bow. Before the chaos that started in her life, the bow was only used for hunting, and she was taught by her father how to use it. The bow she uses in the Mockingjay, when she joins the rebellion, is a custom made, military-grade bow. With even a normal bow Katniss is able to shoot an arrow hundreds of feet into the air, and is deadly accurate with it, but we can get to that later. The knife that Katniss uses is a serrated knife, with the blade seeming to be around seven to ten inches in length, but it's hard to tell for certain. It has a nice grip on it and is useful for stabbing and slashing, but Katniss more often than not doesn't resort to getting up close and personal with her killing.
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Rick Grimes
Rick Grimes was originally the sheriff of King County, Georgia. One day during a shootout in a different county, who's sheriff's department he was assisting, he was left critically injured, almost dead, and had to be admitted into the hospital. Little did he know that this would change his life forever. After going in and out of the coma for a couple of days, then when he finally woke up, he would be in a completely different world altogether. A world where the dead are walking the earth. Violent, hungry, bloodthirsty undead who would kill anything in sight.
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Rick went home shortly after he discovered this, going home to get his wife Lori and his son Carl so that they can get to a safer place. This is far easier said than done, however, as the world was now filled with walking corpses and crazed and violent survivors who would be more than willing to kill you if it furthered their own goals. The world would be testing him constantly, and one can only wonder how much this one man could possible handle... The most iconic weapon that the sheriff uses is a revolver, which is identified as a Colt Python. It's a weapon with six bullets in the chamber, and has a pretty good range to it, coming in at around 200 yards. The gun itself takes .357 magnum rounds and can pack quite a wallop. There's a reason why it has been made for around fifty years, after all. Good ol' reliable. The one handed axe, while maybe not looking exactly like this, is still a weapon used by the zombie killer known as Rick Grimes. The weapon is capable of cutting up far more than trees when in the hands of a skilled survivor. Looking to be over a foot in length, the weapon is useful for when a Walker, or an aggressive survivor, gets too close for comfort.
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X-Factors
Physicality Katniss, while still a teenager, has shown some impressive physicality when she's really pressed up against the wall. She can take attacks from and deal damage to superhuman mutts, which are mutations that are generally just mixing two animals together. On top of that, she was able to hold her own against someone who was trained to fight for her entire life. Not only that, but she's fast enough to dodge knives thrown at her and several attacks from holograms Rick is also pretty physically capable. He is incredibly strong, not only being able to beat a Walker to death with his bare hands, but he's even capable of tearing someone's throat out with only his teeth, and he can easily beat someone to death, or the brink of death, with his hands should he ever feel so inclined to do so. He can also easily take punches from most people, even surviving certain explosions that sent him flying.

Experience

Katniss' Experience, once you start getting into the nitty gritty of it, is a bit difficult to determine. She's fought in two total Hunger Games, with one forcing her to kill for survival and the other being a bit kinder on her. She's fought against actual people, has fought against mutts and other types of animals, and, during the rebellion, she's fought against the government, who are armed with guns, and with a bow she's had years of experience. However, it's difficult to tell how long the rebellion lasted for and how often Katniss found herself on the field of battle.

Rick, meanwhile, has quite a bit of experience himself. He was a sherrif before the world had practically ended, after all, and because of this he likely has experience apprehending criminals and using that gun of his. During the zombie apocalypse he would only get better at fighting, killing groups of Walkers with some impressive headshots and even fighting those such as the Governor or Neegan. He's been through several harsh winters, a cannibal camp, countless walker attacks, and even went up against a Walker horde that was in the thousands and killed all of them.

Training

Katniss was originally not trained much at all before or during the Hunger Games. Her training prior to and during the Hunger Games was mostly how to survive and how to forage for food, while ocassionally being taught how to use the bow more efficiently, but it was stuff she generally knew already. With her joining the rebellion, however, she was given proper training, which one could argue would rival that of a military's training, given that District 13 was very militarized.

Rick was trained to be a sherrif before the world ended, but that was around where his training sort of ended. The most that you can get after the world ended was learning how to shoot better by those who may or may not know what they're talking about. However, his actual formal training in being a law enforcement officer is better than some of the people that Rick either encounters or fights.

Accuracy

Katniss is crazy accurate with his weapons when she needs to be. Not only can she already shoot arrows hundreds of feet into the air, but she can also easily shoot an apple out of a pig's mouth when it was a few dozen feet away, in a room full of crowded people. She's also able to easily kill a bird while it is in flight, can purposefully graze a bag to make it's contents fall out, and is able to out-archer a holographic archer before it could even attack her. Her quick draw is also impressive, not taking her long at all to put an arrow in the bowstring and firing.

Rick's accomplishments can also be marvelled at, considering that some of the stuff he does is pretty absurd. He often scores headshots on his opponents with his trusty Colt Python, which is already impressive when you consider that a revolver may not always be accurate. He's also able to shot the individual fingers off a person in pure darkness with his same Colt Python, and it's not like he was close up. It was a good twelve feet away from the man. One of his most recent feats was him accurately shooting an explosive that was surrounded by zombies while he was several dozen feet away.