User blog:Wassboss/Halloween Special: Wendigo (Until Dawn) vs Vampires (Skulduggery Pleasant)



It's that time of year again where I put my scare suit on and crank out a Halloween battle for you to enjoy. In this year's battle we have two of fictions deadliest nocturnal hunters who give you good reason to be afraid of the dark. They are the apex predators, hunting down beast and human alike in a constant search for their next meal and when they do catch their prey they are sure to make its demise as slow and painful as possible. However perhaps the scariest aspect of these two monsters is that they ''used to be us. ''So if you hear something go bump in the night you'd better hope it's not one of these creatures as;

The Wendigo: Flesh eating monsters residing in Blackwood Mountain and the main antagonists of Until Dawn

take on

Vampires: Undead creatures from the Skulduggery Pleasant series, who turn into feral monsters when the sun goes down.

Who is Deadliest

Wendigo


"This says that because the Wendigos are mutated from humans... when they hunt us, they know how to perfectly mimic their prey."

- Excerpt from The Stranger's diary.

Residing on Blackwood Mountain the spirit of the Wendigo was first awakened in 1893 when prospectors started mining the mountain for tin and radium. In 1952 a collapse in the mines caused several of the miners to resort to cannibalism into order to survive which allowed them to be possessed by the Wendigo. The miners were taken into the Sanatorium and treated but eventually turned into Wendigo and slaughtered the staff working there and escaped back into the mountains.

Powers & Abilities
Wendigo Physiology: The transformation from human to Wendigo takes about 30 days and is an excruciating process both physically and mentally. Their skin becomes taught around their frames, their arms and legs grow long and lanky, their spines become disfigured and hunchbacked and their vision becomes entirely based on movement. This metamorphosis gives the Wendigo the following abilities;
 * Superhuman Strength: Experiments done on the Wendigo have shown them capable of lifting up to 750lbs and they can easily crush skulls and rip a person limb from limb.
 * Superhuman Speed & Agility: The Wendigo are also remarkably quick, able to dodge gunshots and flamethrower blasts from close range. They are also incredibly agile and often climb on trees, buildings and other things in their environment to chase after or ambush their prey and are nimble enough to slash a person's throat while leaping at them in mid-air.
 * Superhuman Durability: The Wendigo transformation makes their skin incredibly tough and conventional weapons such as blades and firearms have no effect on them, although a Shotgun blast can knock them backwards. They've even been shown surviving large explosions albeit with their skin being burnt off and leaving them vulnerable to normal weaponry.
 * Teeth and Claws: Wendigo have razor sharp teeth and claws, sharp enough to cut through metal suspension wires with a single slash and decapitate a person.
 * Voice Mimicry: Wendigo also have the unusual ability to perfectly imitate human voices which is uses to lure in unsuspecting victims.  

Weaknesses

 * Fire: The Wendigo's only true weakness is fire, as it burns off their protective skin and makes them vulnerable to taking damage as normal. They also seem to have an aversion to light in general although it does not damage them.
 * Movement Based Sight: As Wendigo's sight is based purely on movement if a potential victim is able to stay still the Wendigo is unable to accurately find their location.

Vampires


"These weren't the vampires she'd seen on TV; these weren't sexy people in long coats and sunglasses. These were animals."

- Valkyrie Cain on Vampires.

Vampires in the Skulduggery Pleasant Series share many similarities with traditional vampires. They transmit their powers by a bite, are physically stronger than a normal human and are functionally immortal. However there are a number of key differences. SP Vampires are essentially just animals and in their true form are little more than feral beasts with an insatiable thirst for blood. However during the daylight they grow a human skin and are able to pass themselves off as a normal human.

Powers & Abilities
Vampire Physiology: Vampires are created by being bitten by another vampire, a process which takes roughly 3 days to complete. During this period they are beholden to the will of the vampire who turned them and act as little more than mindless zombies unless instructed otherwise. Vampires have two unique forms based on whether it's day or night, with their night-form being considerably more powerful, brutal and feral which is the form included in this match. In their nighttime form Vampires have the following abilities;
 * Superhuman Strength: Vampires are shown to be far stronger than a normal person, able to casually lift and toss a full grown man and rip off a persons limbs and this is just in their human form. In there nighttime form they are said to be even stronger however limited appearances of vampires in the books means we can't determine how much stronger. 
 * Superhuman Speed & Agility: A Vampires most prominent physical advantage over normal humans and mages is their speed. Vampires move incredibly quickly, often looking like as a blur when moving at full speed allowing them to effortlessly keep up with running humans and dodge blows in close proximity. Vampires are also described as unnaturally graceful, able to contort their bodies to land perfectly on their feet and leap long distances with a byproduct of this being that they can move silently even without trying.
 * Superhuman Durability: Vampires are very difficult creatures to kill and can shrug off attacks from a baseball bat or an axe as if they were nothing and have been shown surviving a fall from a 4 story building with little more than a limp to show for it.
 * Enhanced Senses: Vampires have a keen sense of taste and after they taste the blood of a person they are able to locate them no matter where they go and also possess incredible hearing, able to hear a persons heartbeat.
 * Claws and Teeth: When in their nighttime form Vampires grow long claws which are sharp enough to decapitate a person with a single swipe. Their teeth also become longer and more jagged for ripping out the flesh of their victims and drinking their blood.

Weaknesses

 * Salt Water: All vampires, have an extreme allergy to salt water and coming into contact with it will cause their throats to constrict and suffocate them.

X Factors
Stealth: Wendigo=85/Vampire=70

Wendigo nearly always stalk their prey for a little bit before they choose to attack, often waiting for people to become isolated or trying to pick out a weaker target and so rely on stealth quite heavily. Vampires move silently naturally and are capable of being undetected but they rarely apply this to combat or when hunting prey, rather they just attack head on and without any though of sneakiness.

Teamwork: Wendigo=10/Vampire=45

Despite being completely feral when transformed Vampires have still be shown hunting together when in their night forms in a pack and have even been shown working with and obeying the commands of non-transformed vampires. Furthermore while they may occasionally fight if caged together their deeply ingrained vampire code means they will never harm one another when transformed. The Wendigo meanwhile nearly always end up fighting whenever there is more than one of them in the same place, often to the death. They will generally focus on available prey rather than each other if it's in the vicinity but even then they just seem to get in each others way and never work together to take down prey.

Brutality: Wendigo=100/Vampire=95

Both Wendigo and Vampires are vicious predators with no qualms about ripping their prey limb from limb but Vampires are motivated simply by instinct and don't cause needless suffering. Wendigo are much more sadistic and seem to enjoy toying with their prey before killing them and allegedly even like leaving their victims alive while devouring them.

Miscellaneous
All Vampires will be in their night time forms.

Battle takes place on Blackwood Mountain.

Battle is a Five on Five.

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.