User blog:Jackythejack/Dan Hibiki vs. Ika Musume: Big Goals, Little Skill



We all have ambitions in life, you know. We all have goals that we want to accomplish, and generally speaking we'll try to go through whatever we can to try and accomplish these goals. It just so happens that some people...don't really get that far, and they sorta just fail. A lot. These two warriors, while capable, can't seem to catch a break in the slightest, but perhaps they'll find victory in this one fight.

Dan Hibiki, the creator and master of the Saikyo Ultimate Style, and the buttmonkey of the Street Fighter franchise

vs.

Ika Musume, a complete squid girl and messanger of the sea that is dead set on invading the surface and making humanity bend to her will.

In a fight against the losers, who will finally get themselves a personal win?

Dan Hibiki
Dan's journey had started with tragedy and only gets worse from there. His father was a great man by the name of Go Hibiki, and he was a rival of a man named Sagat. One day, Go gouged out Sagat's eye and in retaliation Sagat had beaten him to death. Afterwards, Dan had sought revenge on Sagat, and trained to become a fighter...and then he was promptly kicked out of the dojo he was training at once the sensei learned of his motivations of revenge.

However, never one to let life bring him down, Dan developed his own form of matiral arts, which involved his old teacher's training method and some Muay Thai. He called is Saikyo-ryu, "Strongest style". Nevermind that it was one of the most inefficient fighting styles out there. With his new Saikyo style, he went out to go find Sagat, fight him...and win! ...but Sagat had let him win because he felt bad for Dan.

After his victory against Sagat, Dan went to find his own dojo, where he'd teach Saikyo style. Afterwards the dojo ran out of money because Dan did no advertising for it. After barely qualifying to enter a torunament, and a few other victories, Dan proves himself to be semi-competent at best, which is good enough to get yourself a spot in this fight!

Of course, as a martial artist, Dan sure knows a lot of fighting techniques...right? Let's take a look.

Abilities:
Saikyo Style: Saikyo style is a strange mix of multiple fighting styles, Buraiken, Muay Thai, and unprofefssional Ansatsuken, but Dan also combines it with various taunts to get his opponents off guard to leave them open for powerful hits. While there's nothing really wrong with it in theory, it's weak in practice. There's a reason why Dan needs to get them to lower their guard. Saikyo style is a very weak form of fighting, and it relies entirely on an opponent who would drop their guard. If you have an opponent who is on edge, odds are Dan isn't getting a good hit in.

Ki Manipulation: Dan, similar to his former classmates Ryu and Ken Masters, is able to manipulate the force known as Ki, which allows him to release blasts of energy from his hands known as Hadokens. However, because of Dan's training being cut short, he has...very weak ki blasts. They're strong, that's for sure, but Dan can't hold a candle to those such as Ryu and Ken, or other members of the cast as a whole, in fact. His Hadokens do provide a good range attack, however.

When it comes to abilities, Dan admittedly doesn't have much going for him. But let's see how his opponent compares.

Ika Musume
Imagine the state of the world's oceans right now, polluted and contaminated by the humans that live on the surface. Doesn't the mere thought drive you crazy? Wouldn't you want to be able to do something about it? Well, that's exactly what Ika Musume, known in her English translation as Squid Girl, wants to do! Armed with her tentacles and a flurry of abilities, she went up to the surface, surfacing on a beach in Japan, and began to invade the surface!

...then she ended up destroying the wall of the Beach House Lemon, and shortly after went to attack the owners of the Beach House to make it her base. After being stopped by the superhuman owner Chizuru, Ika Musume was forced to work at the Beach House Lemon so that she could repay for the wall. On top of that, she was able to live in the house of the Aizawa's. Her journey from that point on was based on random tasks as she adjusted to surface life, but she never gave up her goal of invading the surface, even when making friends with these humans.

However, a squid girl has to have an interesting amount of abilities, yes? Let's take a look.

Abilities:
Tentacles: As you might expect from someone of her species, Ika Musume has tentacles that she can use to fight others, and they are incredibly versatile. She has ten of them in total, allowing for many things that she can do. They have a surprising amount of range, and they can reach levels that easily dwarf most common buildings. Her tentacles are easily as long as a football field, and likely longer than several of them. Her tentacles are her main way of doing anything. She can use them as legs, create structures out of them, whip them around constantly as a forcefield, and restrain others or grab things with them, which is something she commonly does. Her tentacles are also capable of regenerating, and while it's normally a slow process, if her life is in danger, her tentacles will grow back suddenly and protect her.

Squid Powers: This is more of a category than it is a specific power. Ika Musume has all of the powers that you would normally associate with a squid, and, well, it's a lot. While her clothes and hat can regenerate just as well as her hair, her more impressive powers are biological. She is able to spit out ink at high speeds, light up in the dark, which has been said to be even brighter than sunlight, and, by adjusting the bracelets on her arms, she can change her weight to be as heavy as two hundred pounds, and possibly heavier, or to make herself light enough to fly just by flapping her tentacles. Her wieght is stated to be able to go anywhere between 0.0005 - 20,000 kilos. If that's not heavy, I don't know what is. Though, her squid physiology does come with a weakness. If her hat is ripped off her head, she'll die. Thankfully, the hat can regenerate quickly, and it's not easy to pull off.

X-Factors
Once again, no X-Factors with numbers. We'll just be comparing certain traits that they have with each other. We'll be focusing on the standard X-Factors of Skill, Intelligence, Versatility and so on.

Skill
Dan Hibiki is, well, he's a fighter, at the very least. He's the master of the Saikyou style, though that really doesn't mean much as he himself had made the style, so he has to be the master at it, no matter how good he is. He's also the only practicioner, so there's not really any competition for him to best. Dan has shown himself to be competent enough to at least hold a candle to some of the Street Fighter cast, but he's massively outplayed by those like Sakura and likely even Blanka.

Ika Musume is not a fighter at heart. While she went to the surface to invade, fighting isn't in her blood, so to speak. She'd much rather give a halfhearted attempt to scare before doing anything else. She hasn't shown much in terms of skill, especially compared to Chizuru, who is just about the only one she could actually have a fight with. Her main battle tactic is restraining, and...that's about it.

Intelligence
When it comes to intelligence, Dan has some, but not a lot. He's smart enough to come up with his own fighting style, but it can hardly be called his own when he snagged it from a dozen different sources along the way. He also hasn't shown anything super intelligent during those times in his stories, either. In fact, his inability to run a dojo due to him not advertising or paying his bills, and his sheer lack of anything impressive that he's done give off a vibe of below average intellifence.

Ika Musume, meanwhile, is smarter than you'd think she is. While she is completely clueless when it comes to things such as the surface world, she's quick to adapt to her environments, such as how she adapted to her new surface way of living. She's able to easily solve complicated math questions at a glance, and she was able to learn English and speak it fluently within the course of a few hours.

Versatility
Dan doesn't have a lot of versatility going for him. He has taunts, he has punches and kicks, and then he has his ki manipulations with his hadoken, and that's about it. Unlike the rest of his companions, he doesn't have anything inherently supernatural or different about him, and is rather barebones about what he does and who he is.

Ika Musume is incredibly versatile, but not all of it is related to fighting. She just has many versatile abilities at her disposal like her ink shooting and her ability to create what is essentially a forcefield around her with her tentacles. Her increasing and decreasing weight also allows for massive variety and surprises that her opponents may not expect.

Training
Dan has had barely any training whatsoever. I say barely because he has actually had a little training. He was a student alongside Ryu and Ken, after all, but before he could really get into the meat of his lessons, he was kicked out due to his motivations of learning the martial art. Afterwards, he was essentially self taught. He took a look at certain martial arts styles and decided to incorporate them into his arsenal, but he's never had any training besides what would essentially be a rookie course.

Ika Musume, meanwhile, has had no training whatsoever, and the only thing she's really had that gives her a killing instinct is her life under the water, where she would have to hunt for food and survive. Though, her life under the water is generally kept unknown, so it's difficult to say how much of a predator she was under the surface, but she's also had to watch out for sharkes and killer whales as well, as they are her natural enemy and she has much experience with them.

Experience
Dan has pitiful experience. In canon he has been through hardly any fights, and he tends to win them out of sheer dumb luck or...straight up pitty. He relies on letting someone's guard down, after all. The biggest fight he's won in his life was because Sagat had felt bad for him, and all the other fights were rather minor. There's a reason why he's the butt monkey of the series.

Ika has little to no experience when fighting humans, but arguably more experience when figthing off animals. She's rather skilled in fending off humans and protecting herself, however, as she's able to use her tentacles to smack people away from her if they're attacking her or just trying to hug her. She's had to fend herself off from a human more than once. One time she even had to fend herself from too humans. Howver she'd only had one real fight, and that was with Chizuru, and that only lasted for a few seconds. Though it is said she could win if she got serious...

Fight Conditions
Votes end whenever I feel like it.

Fight takes place on the same beach as the Beach House Lemon, and both combatants have randomly ran into each other, not knowing a single thing about the other. Just know that chaos is going to ensue.