User blog:Jackythejack/Robin vs. Elodie: Royal Smackdown

Strategists, influencers, skilled sword users, and over the top uses of magic, these two women are the jacks of all trades, but which one will come out on top and reign supreme in this battle? Only one way to find out!

Robin - Strategist to the Ylissean Kingdom and the Heart of Grima

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Elodie - The future queen of Nova, who discovered her lineage as a Lumen and took up magical arts.

Robin
Robin is the daughter of a wicked man named Validar, who was part of a religious sect that would worship the Fell Dragon known as Grima, who would bring about destruction and chaos. Validar's plan was for Robin to become the Heart of Grima, and become a vessel for the dragon. Robin's mother refused this fate for her child, however, and took her daughter and left Pelgia, where Validar took up residence.

Robin's mother would raise her in silence, and Robin would become a very studious member of society. She practiced magics, studied various tactics and even picked up swordsmanship during her time as a simple civillian. Then, one day, the future version of Robin, who had become one with the Fell Dragon, tried to insert her memories into Robin from the past. However, the Mark of Grima on Robin's hand was too weak to allow such thing to happen, so instead, she received amnesia.

Later on, she would wake in a field, with the prince of Ylisse, Chrom, standing over her alongside his sister and bodyguard. After a short adventure, Robin proved her tactical prowess and she was recruited into the Shepards, which would lead to her eventually taking down the Fell Dragon once and for all, with the help of many friends along the way.

However, just because Robin is known for commanding others to attack, doesn't mean she can't defend herself. Let's take a look at some of her abilities.

Magic: Going to be rounding up magic into one, simple category here. Robin has many magical spells at her disposal, some of them a bit more powerful than the last, certainly, but there's a general theme that follows them. Robin has access to electric spells such as Thoron and Arcthunder, fire based spells such as Bolganone (Which creates a splash of lava close to the opponent), and wind based spells, with the most powerful one at her disposal being a spell known as Rexcalibur, which would encase an enemy in ice before causing the ice to shatter due to highly strong winds. It's one of the strongest spells in Robin's arsenal.

Robin is very powerful with her magic, being able to shoot streams of fire, create tornados or even make electric explosions. She can make explosions or walls of fire and create dust clouds as distractions with her wind abilities. However, as versatile as she is, the main problem with her various magic is that they don't last forever. Each spell tome has a limited number of uses until they are considered to be practically worthless, though, let's not have that bring us down. Onto the next weapon.

Leven Sword: This is another weapon that is imbued with magic. A blade made of steel, the Leven Sword allows Robin to be capable of attacking people up close, and even far away if she feels it necessary, as she can use the sword to call down a bolt of lightning from the clouds above and absolutely devastate anyone who stands in her way. Robin can weild the blade with just as much skill as she wields her own magic.

Silver Sword: A basic, simple sword that can be used if all else fails. This is one of the strongest normal swords that Robin can get her hands on, and it's useful is Robin is pushed into a corner. However, the sword isn't all that durable either.

Elodie
'''WARNING: This contains spoilers for the Visual Novel Long Live the Queen. If you plan on playing the game, skip to the weapons or something.''' Born under the king and queen of the kingdom of Nova, Elodie's life is a little more tragic than one would expect. Elodie's mother had been killed tragically, by the foreign king known as Togami. Ever since the death of her mother, due to inheritence ruled in the Kingdom of Nova, she was forced to be the successor to the crown, with her coronation less than a year away. At the age of fourteen, she must learn all the skills to become a proper woman, and a proper queen, at that.

Later on in the game, she will discover that her family had a lineage. They were part of a group of people known as Lumen. Lumen, in her universe, are magic users who's power comes from a crystal that they keep from within themselves, which is passed down from generation to generation. Elodie comes from two Lumen, making herself very adept to magic and being able to learn it quickly. She was also quick to learn things such as economy, military strategies, and how to fight with a sword.

For the sake of this battle, we will be going down the Lumen warrior path for Elodie, where she learns how to fight and strategize, and also learns how to use her magical powers to their fullest. Elodie, eventually, faces Togami in a one on one duel and, through her own quick thinking and trickery, is able to defeat the skilled and intimidatingly powerful foreign king. Shortly after, Elodie would have her coronation and become Queen of Nova.

Elodie is a very skilled Lumen, and a very skilled fighter. Let's take a look at some of her abilities.

Lumen Magic: Lumens such as Elodie are naturally adept in magic, of course. Lumen magic allows Elodie to have insane amounts of versatility with her spells. Her sense of magic is very incredible, as she can sense other lumens without them even having to leave a magical signal/signature, and she can detect when a spell is casted, and what it is meant to do. She can also tell when a weapon is enchanted and meant to cause magical damage.

Her defenses against magic are off the chart. Being resistant to the light and the dark, she is able to stare into the sun for long periods of time without going blind, and see in perfect darkness. Elodie is also resistant to different hot and cold temperatures, and can set up shields to be able to block attacks completely, though the shield takes much energy out of her, so she can only reasonably activate it in little flashes.

As for weilding magic against enemies, Elodie is just as versatile. She can create beams of light to blind enemies or banish shadows, can create little discs of light that fly through the air and cut into others, can direct light through a staff to burn items, can cause some to become panicked, confused, or enraged, and can even cause illusions that are so potent that they can confuse even the best magic users, and she can turn invisible by bending light around her. She can even incinerate people who are not well defended against magic with a wave of her hand. Now, with her magic abilities out of the way, let's take a look at something else.

Light Sword: ...okay, I lied. This is the last magical item on the list. The Light Sword is a spell that Elodie can use that...well, allows her to create a sword made out of light. With this sword at her side, Elodie is stated to be able to cut through not only flesh, but stone as well. It is a powerful weapon if put at close range, however it's not known if it can shoot out beams of light like how Elodie can do with staffs. Elodie's swordsmanship, however, is impressive, as she can defeat trained military men and even match assassins in combat if she needs to.

Royal Scepter: While it doesn't have much for offensive capacity, except maybe for bashing someone over the head, Elodie can enchant the object with magic and is able to use it to shoot out beams of light. She can use this to burn others into a charred up crisp if she feels like it, but other than that it's use as a weapon isn't practical. She's much better with swords.

X-Factors
Experience:

It isn't any surprise that Robin has quite a bit of experience going for her. Her times fighting alongside Chrom and the Shepards have given her quite a handy bit of experience against a multitude of opponents, such as magic users or even just simple swordsman. Because of this, Robin knows her way around the battlefield.

Elodie, when going down this storyline, doesn't have nearly as much experience, as most of her fighting is done near the end, closer to her coronation, where she fought and defeated the foreign king Togami in a close fight. This isn't exactly a simple feat, however, considering that Togami was an incredibly powerful and far more experienced opponent that Elodie happened to beat, but she still lacks much proper experience outside of learning.

Intelligence:

When it comes to Intelligence, Robin is an incredibly smart woman. Being a bookwork from a young age, she's capable of coming up with complex battle strategies, to the point where she can sum up an opponent's weapons and strengths simply by looking them over. She's cunning and quick on her feet, as a strategist has to be to be able to adapt to any battlefield.

Elodie, however, is just as intelligent. It doesn't take her long to pick up on most of the skills she needs to become a queen, picking up on quite a lot of the skills over the course of several weeks. She's able to learn the complex economics of her country, has gained a wide understanding of warfare as a whole, and her skill in magic is almost unrivaled. She's as smart as she is skilled, with quite a treasure trove of knowledge in that head of hers.

Versatility

Robin's spells, surprisingly enough, lack a lot of the versatility you'd expect them to have. They're basic elemental skills at best and, while they might be able to work on a battlefield where complex spells wouldn't be the norm, she doesn't have anything overwhelmingly useful when it comes to tactical uses. However, Robin can keep a cool head in most situations, which allows her to come up with versatile plans.

Elodie has versatility on lock, however. With the ability to sense magical auras or when a spell is used, being able to shoot discs made of light, spawn magical shields around her, create magical swords, and even create illusions that can actively move and fight back against her opponents, she has a wide arsenal of spells she can use to put an end to her opponent for good. Though she doesn't always have such a cool mind to think up these plans, she has shown more complex thinking in a battle situation when facing off with Togami, where she used an illusion to "fight back" against Togami so she can sneak behind him while invisible to kill him.

Voting and the Battle
Voting ends when I say it ends yada yada. Probably will end sometime next month, but either way, let's talk about the scenario of the battle.

Robin and Elodie meet at the outskirts of a battlefield when they both decided to go out on a mission to scout out enemy forces (The kingdoms of Ylisse and Nova will be at war). Identifying each other as important enemy figures, the two make battle The victor can win through either incapacitating an opponent or death.