User blog:Wassboss/Mercenary Mayhem: Billy-Ray Sanguine vs Oleg Stark

Billy-Ray Sanguine: The Hitman Deluxe, who kills people for fun as well as for money.

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Oleg Stark: The Siegbarste bounty hunter, who is out looking for revenge on those who put him in jail.

Who is Deadliest

Billy-Ray Sanguine


"You people. Always wantin' to die heroic deaths."

- Billy-Ray Sanguine. Sanguine is a hit-man, he considers himself a hit man deluxe, who kills people for fun as well as for money. According to himself, Sanguine used to be a detective, giving up soon after as he kept killing his clients due to boredom. He also states that he has only solved one case, but considers it 'cheating', since he was the murderer. In the fourth book it is revealed that his father is Dreylan Scarab, who was Mevolent's top assassin before being framed for the murder of Esryn Vanguard and arrested. He also has a crush on Tanith Low and when she is possessed by a Remnant, she becomes romantically involved with him.

Powers and Abilities
Tunnelling Ability: Sanguine's primary power is the ability to travel through the ground and other solid objects. He can travel at high speeds through dirt, rocks, brick, basically anything solid by with the earth just seeming to open up in front of him and close behind him as he passes, leaving only a few cracks in his wake. He can carry other other people while moving through the ground and can shove other people's body parts through walls, trapping them. He has also be shown jumping through people, leaving a gaping and bloody hole in his wake.

Proficient in hand-to-hand combat: Sanguine is shown to be a skilled fighter, able to hold his own against other mages and sorcerers as well as other skilled combatants. He often uses his hand-to-hand skills in conjunction with his tunnelling ability to dodge around and surprise his opponents.

Skilled Knife User: Sanguine is also very skilled with small blades such as knives, daggers and his signature weapon a straight razor which leaves scars which never heal. He has been shown to be more than capable of taking on fighters with swords and scythes and coming out on top even with a smaller blade.

Above average speed and agility: Sanguine appears to be quicker and more agile than a normal person although not as quick as other sorcerers. He is able to quickly jump through wall after wall using his tunnelling ability and still manage to accurately swipe at an opponent with a blade.

Immunity to any binding spells or charms: Sanguine, by his own admission, cannot be held by any magical symbols or have his powers bound by any sort of binding spell or object including handcuffs.

Oleg Stark


"Where is he. WHERE IS HE!!!"

- Oleg Stark Oleg Stark is a Siegbarste bounty hunter who was jailed for the torture and killing of the wife and child of a client who failed to pay him in gold. Oleg had arranged a look-alike to appear in a restaurant on CCTV which could have lead to his aquittal but the evidence was "lost" by detective Hank Griffon. After escaping during a medical transfer he made his way back to Portland and began killing the people he felt wronged him eventually leading to him attacking Nick Burkhardt in his home in order to try and locate Hank Griffon. The two met in a quarry and after a brief struggle Oleg overpowered him and was about to kill him when a mysterious person shot him with a bullet dipped in Siegbarste Gift which calcified his bones, killing him.

Powers and Abilities
Super Human Strength: Stark, like all siegbarste, is much stronger than a normal person. He is easily able to overpower humans and has no trouble lifting a full grown man and throwing him. Stark was also said to have broken a man's legs and beaten two others into a coma with his bare hands.

High Durability: Siegbarstes are incredibly durable and they have a dense bone structure and thick skin and this means they are able to shrug off punches and knife stabs and even being shot at point blank range with a pistol. They are incredibly difficult to harm or kill and the only way to properly defeat them is with a bullet soaked in a special type of poison which, if fired from a powerful enough firearm, will calcify the bones, shattering the Siegbarste from the inside. They can also be killed with significant force or suffocation although both of these methods are difficult to achieve.

Extreme Tolerance to Pain: Like all Siegbarstes, Stark has a high tolerance to pain caused by his thick skin and has shown being stabbed and punched with no visual display of pain. Pistol shots have been shown to do enough damage to actually cause him pain and boiling hot water has also been shown to hurt him.

High Determination and Intellect: Siegbarstes are known for their intense grudges which they hold till the grave, most of the time the other person's. Oleg Stark is no different and was more than willing to maim, disable and kill those who wronged him and all who would stand in his way. He has also shown an above average level of criminal intellect and psychological manipulation, attacking the loved ones of one of the people who wronged him to draw them out to fight and knowing how to trick a jury into finding him innocent of a brutal crime (he only got put into jail because a key piece of evidence was "lost").

X Factors
Physicality: Billy-Ray Sanguine=70/Oleg Stark=90

Oleg Stark is your basic powerhouse; he's tall, he's strong and has hard to take down. His Siegbarste physiology makes him a force to be reckoned with and in terms of his physical capabilities he's one of the best around. Sanguine is no slouch but his physical fitness and strength are not much better than an average person and he's nowhere near as powerful as someone like Stark.

Combat Skill: Billy-Ray Sanguine=82/Oleg Stark=65

Sanguine is a very skilled fighter and is more than capable of taking on multiple fighters at once and holding his own against some of the most skilled members of the skulduggery universe, with his tunnelling ability and speed making him a tricky opponent to predict. Oleg Stark on the other hand is your standard bruiser, relying entirely on his strength and durability in a fight rather than any particular fighting skill.

Brutality: Billy-Ray Sanguine= 80/Oleg Stark=95

Stark takes this catagory with frightening ease. He is a ruthless and remorseless psychopath willing to do whatever it takes to get his revenge. He has maimed and disabled innocent members of the public and committed acts of unspeakable violence against those who wrong him and tortured the wife and child of one of his clients because he wouldn't pay him in gold. Sanguine is a hit-man and thus has little qualms with killing a person but his methods are much less brutal and he has shown glimpses of a more merciful nature.

Speed/Agility: Billy-Ray Sanguine= 79/Oleg Stark=60

As previously mentioned, Sanguine is quicker than the average person and his tunnelling ability allows him to travel at high speeds and perform acrobatic jumps from one wall to another, all the while being able to still attack efficiently. Stark is a big man and thus he is not very fast in his movement speed or his attacking speed.

Experience: Billy-Ray Sanguine= 91/Oleg Stark=79

Oleg Stark is implied to have a long criminal past and his previous work as a bounty hunter/mercenary has no doubt seen he face off against a variety of humans and wesen alike. He has shown a criminal understanding and intelligence which one could only gain from having first hand experience but this pales in comparison to Sanguine. Sanguine regularly faces off against powerful sorcerers and powerful monsters and has been around for hundreds of years which easily surpasses the much shorter time that Stark has been active.