User blog:Wassboss/Morioh's Magical Mystery: Skulduggery Pleasant vs Yoshikage Kira

It's a deadly game of cat and mouse in today's battle as Morioh's hand collecting serial killer matches wits with the Skeleton Detective. Can the Skulduggery crack his toughest case yet and bring a vicious killer to justice? Or will Kira elude his grasp and continue to live his quiet life? It's up to you to decide as;

Yoshikage Kira: Serial killer with a hand fetish, striving to blend into the crowd and live a quiet life.

takes on,

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Skeleton Detective, former soldier with a murky past and legendary reputation.

Who is Deadliest.

Skulduggery Pleasant
"I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering."

- Skulduggery Pleasant

Skulduggery Pleasant is an Elemental and a living skeleton. Originally a normal human sorcerer, Skulduggery was originally killed at the hands of Neferain Serpine who lured him into a trap by murdering his wife and children. However Skulduggery was later revived through unknown means but with his skin and flesh gone leaving behind only a skeleton. After the war he became a detective for the Irish Sanctuary and which would lead to him meeting his future partner Valkyrie Cain.

Equipment

 * Handgun: Skulduggery carries two Smith & Wesson revolvers with a six round magazine.


 * Armoured Clothes: Crafted by Ghastly Bespoke, Skulduggery wears armoured clothing. Made out of strong leather like material, it helps cushion the damage from punches and kicks and can stop strikes from blades, blunt trauma instruments and even provide some protection against small arms fire.
 * Handcuffs: Skulduggery caries a pair of handcuffs which he uses when making arrests. As well as restraining the arrestee's hands it also acts as a magic dampener to prevent mages from accessing their magic.
 * Magic Detection Powder: When investigating a crime scene, Skulduggery sprinkles powder over the location in order to determine whether magic was used or not.  

Powers

 * Skilled Elemental Magic User:  Skulduggery is an elemental, meaning his magic focuses on control of the elements. The elements and some of their uses are listed below;
 * Fire: The flashiest and most used of the four elements. Elemental sorcerers create fire by generating friction, usually the snapping of fingers, and use it for various purposes. These include from creating fireballs, creating barriers of fire and fireballs can be focused into more concentrated flames which can be used to cut and carve.
 * Air: Air magic is the most versatile and, at times, the most powerful of the four elements. Air magic is the easiest to learn with most sorcerers learning this first. Uses of Air magic includes pushing and pulling towards or away from the sorcerer, squeezing and crushing objects, holding a person in place, creating a powerful wall of air to block an attacker, creation of whirlwinds, reading disturbances in the air, depriving people of air, containing an explosion within a sphere of air and can be used to buff up a users punching power by encasing their fists with a layer of air.
 * Earth: Earth magic was at first, and for a very long time, thought to be last resort defensive magic. However it has since been shown to have some offensive prowess as well. The main use of earth magic is to turn the user into an unbreakable stone statue but the length of this transformation is unpredictable and could last any length of time, from a couple of years to several centuries.
 * Water: Water is the most rarely used out of the four elements . When the user is submerged in water, water manipulation can be used in a similar way to air manipulation. Uses of Water magic includes walking on water, enhancing swimming ability, firing a stream of water as a projectile, creating a wall of water, manipulating water vapour in the air to create small rainstorms and the manipulation of ice or snow.

Individual X Factors

 * Skilled Hand to Hand Combatant:  Skulduggery is an extremely skilled unarmed fighter and regularly bests some of the toughest mages in hand to hand combat, can fight multiple skilled opponents at once and has shown himself able to beat other members of the Dead Men without much trouble.


 * Skilled Marksman: Skulduggery is a master marksman and is able to consistently get lethal shots and head shots when in combat even when under fire and can even wield both at once without a decrease in accuracy once managing to head shot someone despite being literally ripped apart.


 * Skilled Detective: After the War, Skulduggery went into detective work for the sanctuary and has honed his skills to become their top and most effective enforcer. Skulduggery can scan rooms almost instantly when walking into them to find clues and can digest and recall complex schematics and maps with only a glance. Skulduggery is also skilled at reading faces with enough skill to judge a persons mood and whether they are lying or not.

Yoshikage Kira
"I want to show that woman the true Yoshikage Kira. I want her to hear how I feel deep inside. That I want to take your slender neck into these hands and strangle you to death."

- Yoshikage Kira Ever since he was a child, Yoshikage Kira has strived to have a peaceful life. He works as an office worker, makes sure he is well rested and healthy and makes a point to never finish above third in any competition in order to not stand out. But under this seemingly normal facade, Kira is actually a serial killer who murders women and collects their hands which act as his 'girlfriends', until they begin to decay whereby Kira discards them and goes off in search of a replacement.

Powers

 * Killer Queen: Kira acquired his Stand when he was 18 after his father pierced him with an arrow given to him by a disciple of DIO. Naming it Killer Queen, it manifested itself from his desire to leave no evidence behind from his killings and allows Kira to disintegrate the bodies of his victims through use of explosives. It's powers include;
 * Bomb Transmutation: The primary ability of Killer Queen is to turn any object it touches into a bomb, ranging from doorknobs to coins and even people. Killer Queen detonates the bomb by pressing it's thumb onto it's hand, the same way as if it were pressing a handheld detonator. If a target has touched the charged object when it is detonated the charge will travel through their body before exploding silently, destroying them entirely and leaving behind no trace, not even clothing or personal belongings. Alternately, Kira can blow up the charged object itself. Kira can also control the blast size and strength of the explosion, ranging from only effecting the target to creating an explosion powerful enough to damage nearby environmental objects such as walls and floors, although a larger object must be charged to have a larger explosion. However Killer Queen must touch the object or target with it's hand in order to charge it and it can only create one bomb at a time, so if Kira charges another object then the previous object will lose it's charge and become harmless again. Since the bombs are similar in effect to incendiary bombs they cannot be detonated without the presence of air.
 * Sheer Heart Attack: Killer Queen's secondary bomb takes on the form of a miniature tank like contraption. Sheer Heart Attack seeks out whatever the warmest thing in the vicinity is, usually the body heat from an intended victim and hones in on the target until it makes contact at which point it will explode with a blast radius and power relative to the heat of the target, leaving behind no evidence just like the primary bomb. Furthermore if the explosion triggered by a non-human source it will continue to seek out as many targets as possible until a human is destroyed by the explosion. Sheer Heart Attack is indestructible but can be effected by the effects of other Stands, with all damage received or status afflicted upon it being transferred to Kira's left hand. Sheer Heart Attack is completely autonomous and requires no input from the user once it has been activated, effectively giving it an unlimited range and allowing Kira to activate it and leave it to complete it's task. However in order to deactivate Sheer Heart Attack prematurely Kira must physically return to the area and retrieve it. The main drawback of Sheer Heart Attack is that it always prioritises the warmest heat source which means it may not always hone in on the intended target first.
 * Physical Capabilities: As well as it's various bombs, Killer Queen can also fight hand to hand with an opponent and is able to punch and kick rapidly, even briefly able to fight on par with Crazy Diamond. However as Kira abhors and avoids fighting wherever possible Killer Queen is noted to be quite lethargic and slow to react in close quarters combat.
 * Stray Cat: As well as using his own Stand, Kira also makes use of another Stand user called Stray Cat, which is a sort of cat plant hybrid which he keeps in Killer Queen's abdomen. Stray Cat's main ability is Aerokinesis which manifests itself in the form compressed air bubbles which can be fired at high speeds. These air bubbles are powerful enough to knock someone unconscious or to enter their veins and block blood passage. These bubbles can also be used in a defensive capability, creating a bubble to block attacks aimed at Stray Cat and by extension Killer Queen and can also be used to bind an opponent. Kira charges the air bubbles that Stray Cat uses in order to make them more lethal and he can control the bubbles once they've been fired, enabling them to fit through gaps and hone in on an opponent.

Individual X Factors

 * High Intelligence: Kira is a highly intelligent and meticulous individual and has been able to get away with his murders for over 15 years, even before gaining Killer Queen.When forced into combat Kira is able to come up with strategies on the fly and is quick to figure out the limitations and strengths of the various Stands he ends up against. He has also has a good grasp of mathematics as shown during the battle against Josuke where he was able to judge the trajectory of his air bubble bombs accurately despite not being able to see them and knows the blast radius and power of the objects he charges.
 * Manipulation Skills: The main reason Kira has managed to escape capture and remain completely unsuspected is because he is an expert manipulator. Kira is able to present himself as a quiet and unassuming figure and takes meticulous care to never stand out from a crowd, even deliberately finishing no higher than third in any competition he's ever entered. Kira is also a fantastic liar and actor as shown when he almost fooled Josuke into thinking he was a terrified bystander and more prominently after taking the identity of Kosaku Kawajiri where he was able to mimic his handwriting and personality to the extent that he could fool all of his co-workers and wife.
 * Brutality: As a serial killer Kira obviously has not qualms with killing people but this brutality extends far further than his victims. Kira is willing to murder anybody who threatens his quiet life without the slightest hesitation whether they be men, women or even children. Kira is also capable of extreme violence such as butchering all of Remei's family and brutally stabbing her in the back or beating Koichi to death just for humiliating him.

M.O
Kira murderous urges coincide with the growth of his fingernails and the longer they get the greater his urge to kill. Kira specifically picks out women with attractive hands and stalks them until they are both alone whereby he uses Killer Queen to blow them up with the exception of their right hand. Kira will sometimes get his victim to cut his fingernails before killing them to further satisfy his urges. Kira then keeps the hand on his person and treats it like a normal person, showering with it, giving it gifts and even taking it out in public for romantic drives and meals. However once the hand starts to decompose Kira disposes with the hand with Killer Queen and the cycle continues.

Battle Notes
Skulduggery Pleasant doesn't know about Stands and has no idea who Yoshikage Kira is. However being a mage it is assumed that Skulduggery can see Stands.

Yoshikage Kira has no idea about Mages, the Sanctuary or Skulduggery Pleasant.

Kira is disguised as Kosaku Kawajiri for this battle.

Kira will be assisted by his father, Yoshihiro Kira, for this battle. Yoshihiro will act as surveillance for Kira, reporting back to him with news on Josuke, Jotaro etc or anyone searching for him. However he will not be able to assist him directly either by using his own Stand or creating Stand Users to go after Skulduggery. Yoshihiro does not initially know about Skulduggery.

Skulduggery will have limited assistance from the Japanese Sanctuary. While they will keep him informed of their own investigations and are able to provide background information they cannot directly assist in his search aka providing supplies or physical assistance. The Japanese Sanctuary has no idea who Yoshikage Kira is.

Win Conditions
Skulduggery Pleasant

Arrest or Kill Yoshikage Kira

Yoshikage Kira

Evade Detection

Avoid Capture

Kill Skulduggery Pleasant

The battle does not necessarily have to end in the death of either Skulduggery or Kira. Only one win condition must be met in order for either warrior to win the battle. Story It's the summer of 1999 and the Japanese Sanctuary is in crisis. A string of disappearances have rocked the magical community in Japan, with several high profile and influential female sorcerers vanishing without a trace. Under increasing pressure from both Japanese mages and the international magical community, the Japanese Sanctuary has officially launched a nationwide investigation. In an attempt to solve the mystery quickly, the Irish Sanctuary has offered the assistance of their top detective, Skulduggery Pleasant.

Yoshikage Kira is stressed. His new identity as Kosaku Kawajiri is full of complications and he finds himself unable to maintain his usual stress free existence. His new wife is overbearing, his son suspects him and he can feel Jotaro and Josuke closing in on him. His murderous urges are spiralling out of control and in the past month alone he has killed four women for their hands.

The race is on for Skulduggery to crack the case but can he discover the grisly truth behind the disappearances or will Yoshikage Kira continue his rampage?

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