User blog:Wassboss/The Power from Within: Valkyrie Cain vs Jotaro Kujo



It sometimes feels like we have a Guardian Angel looking over us, keeping us in check and protecting us from danger. In today's battle, while neither of these two teenagers would consider their "protector" a Guardian Angel, they often step in to help them out in combat, going above and beyond what is required to put down a threat. When these two world breakers come face to face and their protectors are sent into the fray, there can only be one survivor;

Valkyrie Cain: Descendant of the last of the Ancients, destined to destroy the world as Darquesse.

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Jotaro Kujo: Teenage delinquent and Stand user, out on a journey to save his mother from the clutches of DIO.

Who is Deadliest

Valkyrie Cain


"I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you."

- Skulduggery to Valkyrie.

Valkyrie (or Stephanie as she was originally known) was just a normal girl until her uncle died suddenly and she found herself thrown into a world she never knew about. Taken under the wing of the Skeleton Detective, she later discovered that she was descended from the Ancients, the first ever magical beings and has gone on to save the world on numerous occasions from stopping crazy cultists, to vampires and even literal gods.

Equipment

 * Armoured Clothes: Crafted by Ghastly Bespoke, Valkyrie Cain clothes are made out of strong leather like material which helps cushion the damage from punches and kicks and can stop strikes from sword, scythes and even protect against bullets. Valkyrie's clothes consists of a standard (but still armoured) pair of trousers and a tee-shirt with the coup de grâce being a leather jacket which covers most of her torso and arms. Valkyrie also wears a pair of steel toed boots and armoured gloves.

Powers and Abilities

 * Skilled Elemental Magic User: Just like her mentor, Valkyrie's chosen discipline is Elemental Magic which is the manipulation of the elements. However unlike Skulduggery and other elementals Valkyrie only has a very basic grasp of this type of magic due to her young age and her general impatience means she does not have the time nor inclination to learn either Earth nor Water magic and so her abilities are limited to the following; Creating Fireballs, creating sparks of fire, pushing and pulling objects or people towards or away from herself and holding a person in place.


 * Skilled Necromancy User: As Valkyrie has not gone through the Surge (a reportedly painful magical transformation wherein the users magic is locked to a specific discipline) she also dabbles in Necromancy, the power to harness the energy of the dead. Valkyrie stores her power in a ring which she wears on her right hand. She can harness this energy for many purposes including; making shadows into solid projectiles which can be used as blades, can be fired as jagged shards from a distance and can be used as tendrils to grab onto an opponent. Valkyrie is a much more skilled Necromancer than she is Elemental but on the downside all her power in contained within her ring and if this was to be removed she would be unable to call upon her Necromancy powers.


 * Skilled Hand to Hand Combatant: Valkyrie has been trained by some of the most gifted unarmed combatants in the skulduggery pleasant universe and is trained in Kenpo Karate, Muay Thai, Krav Maga and Capoeria. Valkyrie has shown herself more than capable of holding her own against and even beating sorcerers decades and even centuries older than her with notable feats including defeating a vampire in its night form, beating Tanith Low and fighting multiple skilled mage simultaneously.


 * Skilled Acrobat: Valkyrie has shown herself to be superhumanly agile and frequently incorporates throws and flying kicks into her combat style. She is also a skilled free runner, able to outmanoeuvre unnaturally graceful vampires and other sorcerers across difficult terrain.


 * Darquesse: After discovering her True Name, Valkyrie was able to call upon this part of her personality for use in battle. Valkyrie retains her normal necromancy and elemental powers however they are increased to a much higher level and as such was able to perform more powerful techniques such as flight or shadow walking. Darquesse also has superhuman strength easily enough to crush skulls, break bones and destroy boulders. Darquesse also possesses an extremely advanced healing ability and can heal from severe wounds such as losing limbs, crushed bones and damage to vital organs although complete destruction of the brain would kill her before she could heal the damage. Darquesse tends to take over automatically when Valkyrie is in danger of dying as Valkyrie never gives into Darquesse voluntarily for fear of losing control.

Jotaro Kujo


"I beat the crap out of more people than I have to. Some are still in the hospital. There’s plenty of teachers that got on my bad side and never came back to class. And, hey, I make it a policy not to pay if I don't like a meal. But even a guy like me can spot evil when he sees it!"

- Jotaro to Kakyoin. At the age of 17 Jotaro was possessed by an "evil spirit" and after brutally injuring a gang of men who attacked him he voluntarily handed himself over to the police and refused to leave his cell out of fear of what he might do. He was later talked into leaving by his Grandfather and would find himself caught up in a journey half way across the world into order to save his mother from the clutches of a century old adversary.

Powers and Abilities

 * Star Platinum: Star Platinum takes the appearance of a man with black wavy hair and has the same build as Jotaro and has purple skin.
 * Superhuman Strength: Star Platinum possesses immense strength, being able to throw a Jeep carrying four men and a girl out of the path of an 18-wheeler with one hand, later pulling the same Jeep out of a canyon with only a car as a counter-weight, and destroy large artificial diamonds within seconds.
 * Superhuman Speed: Star Platinum can catch a bullet fired at point-blank range, and throw thousands of powerful punches within seconds.
 * Self-Preservation: Star Platinum possesses the awareness and reaction speed to protect Jotaro in many instances that he himself seems unaware; halting a bullet he experimentally shoots at his own head; protecting him while frozen by DIO's Time Stop; and reviving him from near-death by directly pumping his heart.
 * Enhanced Eyesight: Star Platinum utilizes eagle-like eyesight throughout Stardust Crusaders. At some point, Jotaro, with Star Platinum's eyes, could see across a desert for four kilometres, as well as identify meaningful details, such as a specific type of fly in high-resolution images. It can also follow a card shuffle performed by a professional gambler, subsequently recounting the entire new order of the deck.
 * Star Finger: Star Platinum can suddenly and forcefully extend his middle and index fingers to a length of one or two meters, allowing it to perform sneak attacks and stab opponents from afar.
 * Time Stop: Discovered during Jotaro's climactic battle with DIO, like The World, Star Platinum is able to stop time, with an absolute limit of five seconds. Jotaro describes the execution of this ability as exhausting, and he requires a varying length of rest before he may freeze time again.
 * Above Average Strength and Durability While most of the time Jotaro let's Star Platinum do all the work, he isn't afraid to get his own hand dirty. He is strong enough to knock a grown man off his feet with one punch and support the full weight of another man while acting as a bridge of sorts. Even as a child Jotaro was able to lay down a vicious beat down on a grown man. On the durability side of things Jotaro is able to take a lot of punishment and even getting a ceiling fan embedded in his shoulder got nothing more than an annoyed shrug.

X Factors
''*Note: Separate ratings will be given to Star Platinum & Darquesse where necessary. ''

Training: Valkyrie=84/Jotaro=50 

Valkyrie has received several different forms of both magical and combat training from countless powerful mages and is trained in use of four different martial arts alone. Jotaro on the other hand has no formal training and any combat skills he has picked up are purely self taught.

Experience: Valkyrie=78/Jotaro=75

If this was Valkyrie at the end of the SP series then she'd easily take the cake but at this point in her timeline she hasn't fought the same level of opponents she would later come across. That being said she still has five years of fighting much older and experienced mages under her belt. Jotaro may have only actually had 50 days of combat but the some of the Stands he has faced are not only incredibly powerful but also has skilled users behind them, most notably DIO, which makes up for his much briefer combat period.

Physicality: Valkyrie=80(Darquesse=85)/Jotaro=83(Star Platinum=88)

As a result of all her training Valkyrie is pretty much at the peak level of physical fitness for a teenage girl and is noted to be quite tall for her age and can perform demanding physical feats regularly. However she is still only a teenage girl and it has been shown numerous times that a normal grown man can generally overpower her. You just have to look at Jotaro to see that's he's a supreme physical specimen with a lot of muscle mass and standing at 6'5, making him a formidable physical opponent. Darquesse and Star Platinum both greatly boost each of their strength and durability (although Darquesse doesn't actually make Valkyrie more durable just insane healing).

Brutality: Valkyrie=68(Darquesse=100)/Jotaro=80

Jotaro was a particularly violent individual even before he got his Stand and is more that willing to severely injure or straight up murder some of the Stand users he comes across. Valkyrie on the other hand tries to subdue her opponents non-lethally wherever possible, in fact she basically has a mental breakdown when she finally does kill someone. Darquesse on the other hand will gladly kill anyone, innocent or not, with glee (but that's to be expected when you're destined to destroy the world).

Intelligence: Valkyrie=70/Jotaro=82

Jotaro is remarkably calm under pressure and  is aware of his environment and capabilities; and he uses this to outsmart many of the stand users he finds himself up against. A notable example is his fight against N'Doul where he used Iggy's stand to transport himself through the air to stop him detecting his presence and even throw Iggy at him to distract him so he could get in close to use Star Platinum. Valkyrie on the other hand relies mostly on Skulduggery or other mages to come up with plans and her brash nature and general impatience means she doesn't always think things through.

Voting System/Notes
This will be set between Death Bringer & Kingdom of the Wicked for Valkyrie and just after Stardust Crusaders for Jotaro.

In order to be counted in full, votes must be at least 5 lines long or have been done in an edge format.

Anything less than 5 lines but which is competently argued and thought out will be counted as a half vote. I will inform anybody if their vote is considered a half vote and allow them to amend it to bring it up to a full point.

Irrelevant votes will not be counted at all.

I reserve the right to award a vote as half or discount it entirely for reason not mentioned here if I feel it is applicable.