User blog:Battlefan237/Battlefan kicks out the Halloween parade ! Kayako Saeki vs. IT/Pennywise the Clown

In the wild realms of horror fictions, malicious forces of evil and fear have a tendency to be tied to a certain placed. Standing outside these cursed places, observers may find nothing out of ordinary. However, upon entering, the observer will be plunged into a whirlpool of terror. From then on, horror and despair will be injected into the observer's soul, slowly rotting every aspect of his life until the very last bit of his/her sanity is whipped away,forcing him/her to become yet another victim of the devilish being lurking within the haunted zone. Today we have two of the most iconic horror villains that choose a certain place as their main base. Kayako Saeki, the vengeful spirit of a Japanese housewife that terrorizes everyone that dares entering her household; IT, a lovecraftian being that plagues the small town of Derry located in the center of Stephen King's creations.

Kayako Saeki
"When someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage... a curse is born. The curse gathers in that place of death. Those who encounter it will be consumed by its fury."

- The opening text of the Grudge

"Croakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!"

- Kayako Saeki's standard 'battle cry'

Kayako Saeki (佐伯伽椰子 Saeki Kayako) is a character in the Ju-on horror franchise.

Grown up neglected by her parents and isolated by her classmates, Kayako developed anti-social behaviors and hatred toward human nature. When attending university, Kayako temporarily fell in love with a man named Kobayashi. However, after the accidental death of her parents and her graduation, Kayako married Takeo Saeki, a man who seemed to care about her feelings and showed kindness to her. Years later they had a son named Toshio.

Their family life was happy at first, slowly restoring Kayako's faith in human. However, all the things changed when Toshio attended the primary school where Kobayashi worked as a teacher. Once again encountering Kobayashi, Kayako fell in love with him again and wrote about her feelings in her diary, which was discovered by Takeo. Feeling cheated, Takeo became extremely angry and even came to suspect Toshio being the child of Kobayashi, in this way, Takeo beat Kayako and Toshio to death(Kayako's jaws were broken during this incident).

After being brutally murdered by her husband, Kayako became an Onryō(Japanese incarnation of demons) due to the painful and torturous nature of her death. She killed her husband with her demonic power and continued to reside in her residence in Tokyo, controlling the ghost of her son and husband. Whoever enters her resident will fall into her curse and be terrorized by her vengeful spirit. No matter where the victims go, Kayako will always succeed in tracking them down and either scaring them to dementia or murdering them in gruesome fashion.

Depicted as a pale woman in her 20s with broken jaws and blood-stained clothes, Kayako's demon form allows her to maintain the powers displayed below. Due to the Grudge being one of the scariest movie in history, I won't be showing any clips here in order not to upset certain viewers. For people interested in the stories related to Kayako or feel like more info is in need, check it out here.
 * Teleportation: Seen in every movie when she haunts people who entered the house . Examples being The Grudge (2004) when she appears in a bus window, she also appears at the foot of a stairwell to Susan Williams and then moments after appears at the top of the stairwell trying to get through a door; in The Grudge 2 she appears in a photograph, which turns into a reality portal, with Kayako climbing out of the it.
 * Illusions: She has the ability to make her victims hear sounds that aren't actually present: a dog barking in Ju-on: The Grudge game and Matthew's voice on the intercom of Susan's apartment to lure her. She even assumes Matthew's form; Matthew by this time being dead. In The Grudge 2 when she assumes Eason's form she also makes every photograph in his darkroom resemble her face. She makes more illusions throughout the series (most of them are from her past).
 * Possession and Shapeshifting: Kayako can assume other human forms, usually those of her recent victims: i.e. assuming the form of Matthew Williams just before killing his sister Susan, another notable example being Trish Kimble in The Grudge 2. In Ju-on: The Curse 2 she possesses Yoshimi Kitada and kills her husband. To achieve this, she can either possess the human she'd like to control or directly shapeshift into the form of the designated human, the latter of which is only limited to her recent victims, meaning that she can only shapeshift into those that are murdered by her recently.
 * Sentient Hair: Kayako's primary weapon is her hair. She firstly uses it to kill her husband and to strangle, blind, stab (i.e. grab a kitchen knife or any sharp utensil) or bind others. To make it sounds familiar, check it out here. The hair possesses superhuman strength, flexibility and length, as seen in the movies that the hair is capable of lifting up multiple grown men and strangling them to death with ease. There was also a scene in which Kayako stretched and scattered all of her hair across the room, coloring the ceiling in black. Another thing to bear in mind is that the hair can magically adjust its length. When not in use, they remain in normal length on Kayako's head, and when used they can magically grow to various length. The maximum length is unspecified, but purely judging from the films it is limited to the width of a living room, approximately five to six meters.
 * Electrokinesis: She has the ability to make power switch on (for the purposes of this battle) and go out. In the house she sometimes make the lights switch. in The Grudge 2 she turns off the TV when Eason sees her on the TV. She also blacked out the card reader in The Grudge 3 so Dr. Sullivan couldn't escape her.
 * Telekinesis: As an Onryo, Kayako possess the ability to telekinetically move objects or people around, to the point that it is violent and often lethal (either tearing up people or breaking their bones).
 * Reality Manipulation: Kayako can not only kill people on the spot but also send them off through portals into other dimensions/realities. Examples include The Grudge when she drags Susan into her own bed and pulls her into the Underworld and The Grudge 2 when she drags Miyuki into a mirror never to be seen or heard from again. She herself can also travel through the portals and appear out of nowhere. Apart from this, she's capable of altering the reality (space and time) around her household, which is indicated by the fact that her house survived being burned down and one of her victims heard bangings noise in the house the night before his murder, which was later revealed to be the result the dead body of the victim himself lifted by Kayako's hair banging the wall, suggesting that Kayako slightly messed around with the time.


 * Magical Control over her house: Kayako has control over her old residence with her magical power. For example, she can turn on or turn off the lights, taps, tv sets and other stuff in her house without moving toward those devices.
 * The Onryos of her son, her husband and some of her previous victims:Many other ghosts also wander around the Saeki Residence in demon forms. The most notable among them being Kayako's son Toshio and husband Takeo. Toshio takes the form of a Japanese boy with blue skin and black eyes, while Takeo is a man armed with household improvised weapons with his face dotted with blood spots.Both Takeo and Toshio demonstrate traits of above-average strength and endurance, but are not capable of showcasing other magical or superhuman powers and can be fended off or overpowered by stronger opponents. Some of her formal victims also reside in the house in demon forms, but these demons are usually not as strong and majorly function as jump-scares/ cameos in the film series.
 * Electronic Device Malfunctioning : Kayako is capable of controlling electronic devices around her even when she's not in her household. Example being when she murdered the security guard at the corridor inside a huge apartment building in Jun-oh 2, the security cam malfunctioned and failed in recording the entire crime.
 * Immunity to physical damage : Most physical weapons without magical features like knives or blunt instruments are not capable of hurting Kayako. However, bear in mind that these weapons can make impact on her and slow down her pace, or knock her over. She can also be punched or lifted if the attacker is lucky enough not to get tangled in her hair. In one movie (I can't remember its name) a character used fire to keep her at bay for a while, but failed to stop her in the end. However she's not immune to attacks launched by magical creatures---as seen in Kayako vs. Sadako, she can be hurt and eventually destroyed by Sadako ( the video tape girl from the Ring), an equally powerful vengeful spirit (both of them died in a magical explosions and got merged into a conjoined entity later on).
 * Intimidation: Being a demon, Kayako is notorious for her unsettling appearance (just google her name and check out the pics). Apart from her look, she's also known for making eerie, cough-like snarks with her broken jaw, creeping the hell out of the residents in her house and the audiences.

It
"Float? Oh yes, indeed they do. They float! And there's cotton candy... They float. They float, they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float too."

- It to Georgie

IT is an ancient monster and the title character and main antagonist of the 1986 novel the same name (and subsequent television and film adaptations). It is a shapeshifting creature known as a Glamour and is billions of years old. Although it lived on planet Earth for years, it originated in a void/dimension outside the regions of space known as the Macroverse. Since its true identity is unclear, due to its shape-changing abilities making its real name and species unknown, the creature is just named IT.

However, the creature is packed with shapeshifting power and prefers taking the form of a circus clown, even nicknaming himself as Pennywise the Clown .

Residing in the fictional town of Derry, IT awakes once in twenty seven years and terrorize the town's population, mainly targeting the children, luring them into death traps, scaring them with its magical abilities before devouring them.

It demonstrates the following powers and capabilities, for people interested in stories related to this demon, check here.
 * Lower-tier Omnipotence: IT has an immense amount of power with only Maturin being its equal and only Gan its superior.
 * Shapeshifting: IT can transform into any kind of being, including forms that may not be physically possible or exist in reality. This ability is not restricted by space or uniformity, as IT can appear in multiple places as multiple beings. When transitioning forms, its body becomes an orange amorphous goo. Shapeshifting appears to exert energy, as when IT is injured, it reverts to a giant spider. However, this form is only the closest the human mind can understand to its true one and not exactly what the children see. IT also has limitations on its appearance depending on who is seeing it and how afraid they are. For example, when Bill and Richie enter the house on Neibolt Street, Richie sees IT as a werewolf while Bill sees it as Pennywise, instantly realizing that "this is the clown that killed Georgie". However, the novel states that IT must obey the laws of its form. This means that IT possesses the vulnerabilities of whatever form it take when shapeshifting into other entities, such as a vampire's vulnerability to sunlight or winged leeches obeying physics of flight.
 * Illusions and Reality manipulation:IT seems to have no limit to what illusions can be created, but primarily uses them to instill fear, which means they must be realistic enough to do so. These illusions are physical (they can be touched and last beyond any given amount of time) and can include smells (such as popcorn or rotting corpses). Also, IT can make its illusions visible only by certain people. Sometimes, when the victim sees through the illusion, they will cease to exist (although this may be the will of IT). However, one must see through the illusion perfectly. It can also alter the reality around Derry to fit with the illusion. It can also travel through dimensional portals, such as photographs and videos.
 * Invisibility: IT can appear (usually as Pennywise) to only certain people and stay invisible (in both sight and sound) from others. This is seen in a few instances, like when adult Beverly encounters Pennywise at her former home or when adult Ben Hanscom encounters it in the public library. This suggests that either A) only those aware of IT's existence are able to see them when invisible or B) IT can control who to appear visible by will. When it helps Henry Bowers escape Juniper Hill, one of Henry's cellmates and a guard witnessed it being next to him. However, other magical creatures and entities might possess the ability to bypass this power. Whether Kayako is capable of doing so is up for debate.
 * Immunity to physical damage :While IT is clearly not invincible, it can heal at superhuman levels, but the rate tends to vary for unknown reasons. In the 2017 film, IT is stabbed through the head with an iron spike. This disorients but hardly kills it, as it is able to retreat into the sewer. In the novel, when IT manifests as a bird, Hanlon hits the bird's eye and feet with broken tiles, the bird retreats. When Bill and Richie encounter IT as a werewolf, it can almost instantly regenerate after being shot in the head with a handgun. IT is not a true physical entity, thus cannot be killed or harmed by conventional means. The Ritual of Chud is the only known way to truly harm and kill it. However, as seen in both films and novels, special items such as silver bullets and magical attacks can harm or even kill the entity (temporarily destroy, to make it precise, because it's heavily implied in King's other works that a being like It can't really be wiped out completely and might as well be alive in other dimensions or realities after the story of the novel).
 * Telepathy: IT can detect emotions and memories of an individual, though apparently not thoughts. It uses this ability to exploit fears, but also to implant thoughts. IT can also communicate through the mind, as seen with adult Richie Tozier (in the library) or adult Henry Bowers (at Juniper Hill in the novel). This ability also applies to magical creatures, considering It's long feud with magical residents of the Marcoverse.
 * Mind Control/Possession: IT can control the minds and actions of a person or several people simultaneously. This is demonstrated by affecting the minds of Derry citizens (at least those with weaker wills) to make them indifferent about any terrible events that they see. Evidence suggests that this control does not extend beyond Derry. The text also suggests that IT can erase memories or knowledge. Also, IT takes control of Norbert Keene's body to get Eddie to leave Derry.
 * Teleportation : IT can teleport to any location within Derry. However, it cannot seem to leave the city. This may be because, as Bill says "Derry is IT" and "IT is Derry."
 * Chlorokinesis (plant manipulation) : When IT, in the form of a leper, encounters Eddie, it touches several plants and causes them to die. This is not an illusion as the effect persists long after.
 * Telekinesis: IT can make inanimate objects fall, float around, and or behave supernaturally without touch. This includes locking doors and adjusting electronic devices.
 * Weather Control : IT may be able to affect the weather in Derry's region. On more than one occasion when the Losers face it, the weather changes into a thunderstorm (most notably at the final confrontation which actually results in the devastation of Derry's downtown region).
 * Claws and teeth : In its clown form, IT is packed with razor-sharp claws and teeths.
 * Superhuman Strength : IT can tear the heads and limbs of human bodies with extreme ease, either with arms or mouth (as Pennywise or any humanoid form).
 * Superhuman Speed : Bill notes that IT can move at extreme speeds, claiming that it was way faster than an "express train".

X-factors (Kayako - It)

 * Durability:100-95.
 * Strength:70(100 with hair)-90.
 * Endurance:100-85.
 * Speed:50(100 via portals and magic)-90(100 via portals and magic).
 * Intelligence:70-85.
 * Experience:75-95.
 * Creativity:85-100.
 * Brutality:100-95.

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