Well, this match will include Ren Fujii, the protagonist of the visual novel Dies Irae , against Reiji Yoshino, the protagonist of the visual novel fortissimo EXS//Akkord:nachsten Phase.
You can find some nice guidelines on Reiji in previous threads, and he will be used in his state before the final battle of his visual novel.
Now some guidelines on Ren who, I believe, has never been used here. Ren is really physically strong. At weaker levels than those he is normally, he can get his hand crushed under a good weight of concrete and only feel numbness. Normally, he is the kind of guy who makes holes in solid walls involuntarily, doesn't need to eat, cannot get poisoned, doesn't need oxygen... His regular opponents, the Longinus Dreizehn Orden, are physical city busters who have tanked bombings during World War II, are supersonic and can move faster than the human eye can see, can swat bullets out of the air, and Ren is able to fight on even terms and kill them. His physical abilities should be on par with them, given that he is not seriously outmatched unless he fights against the upper echelons, who are on another whole level.
Now a rundown on his special abilities (I'm going to list some of their feats, of course not all of them):
Assiah- Basic level of attack. Ren can launch completely invisible slashes with his Guillotine, which are able to slash the heads of full grown men off without any kind of resistance.
Yetzirah-The materialization of his Holy Relic and weapon, the Guillotine. The slashes are a lot stronger than those in Assiah, able to instantly destroy the Relic of an LDO member and instantly kill one by beheading her. Furthermore, all blows dealt by the Guillotine damage the soul of the enemy.
Briah- Eine Faust Overture- The materialization of Ren's desire, applied to the world like a new law via reality warping. This speeds up Ren's personal time so he is a lot faster than his opponent.
Briah- Eine Faust Finale- The complete opposite of the above. This causes the surroundings' time (including opponents) to slow down. It also transforms Ren and gives him more Guillotines (a lot more). He comments that, for each attack an opponent makes, he can make fifty thousand.
Well, and to balance more things (given what I've read about Reiji), Ren gets the abilities of his Legion for this match (which he shouldn't be able to use, given the version of him I am using). All the abilities of his Legion are as they normally were, not amped to conceptual level. This are the ones he gets:
Malignant Tumor Apoptosis: From Shirou. Nerfs any "supernatural" down to normal human levels.
Briah- Midgard Volsunga Saga: From Machina (Goetz Von Berlichingen). With this ability, anything that gets hit by his punches dies instantly.
Briah- Csejte Ungarn Nachtzehrer: From Rusalka. His shadow extends in all directions. Anyone who touches it has his movements restricted (Even breathing can be stopped). The shadow can be manipulated to become shadow giants.
Ren has, of course, the following restrictions: He cannot use Atziluth. And, of course, we are using Ren before reaching Atziluth in Dies Irae, not Ren as Yatou Tenma in Kajiri Kamui Kagura.
Begin!
Last edited by trexalfa on Apr 5th, 2015 at 09:49 PM
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Hmm, interesting match. And I had just been considering making another thread with Reiji too, but this is good.
That said, damn, it's a tough match for Reiji given the more broken abilities Ren can use such as Machina's ability.
That said, from which point in the Fortissimo series is Reiji from for this thread? Is this him from when he beats Odin in the original game, from when he beats Ryuichi, or some other point in time? Just want to make sure here.
That also said, if from when he fought Ryuichi, then in terms of sheer destructive force, he has Fenris Wolf, which would outmatch any pure destructive attack Ren has, though he has Machina's ability to counter it. And does Shirou's ability only work on supernatural effects from supernatural objects or from people themselves? If so, then Ren could probably negate Reiji's Da Capo.
If not though, then with Uroarbrunner, Reiji could use it to keep up with Ren's movements no matter how fast his Briah could make him unless he really starts surpassing lightspeed.
I was thinking about Reiji as he was in the versus Narutoverse thread, that version. This is actually the best way I found to make a balanced match, without it being a stomp one way or the other.
Malignant Tumor Apoptosis works on people too, it's its main function.
Now that you said so, Ren's Eine Faust Finale, no matter how time was slow down, wasn't able to make him keep up with Schreiber, whose Briah "Niflheimr Fenriswolf" makes him always faster than his opponent. So that's a limit.
Actually, I severly doubt Overture can make Ren reach lightspeed.
Last edited by trexalfa on Apr 5th, 2015 at 11:57 PM
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Ah, the one I made. Okay then.
I see. Does it work indefinitely, or only for a finite amount of time. If the former, then Reiji's Da Capo is useless if Ren keeps using it. Though his physical abilities should be enough to give Ren trouble anyway.
Alright then. And you said they're supersonic in movement speed, right? Just exactly how fast was Ren at his fastest shown outside of his Aztliuth? Because Reiji is still plenty fast to dodge attacks from Momiji's magical weapon and in general have some pretty damn good reflexes.
I've seen Reinhard using his Legion's abilities without chants, but the time Ren used Beatrice's Briah in combat, the chant was shown being done by Beatrice herself (this is from a video, I'm not that far into Dies yet). So I think it's safe to assume the legionnaires do the chant while inside Ren.
To use his own Briah though, yes, Ren is going to be chanting parts of Goethe's Faust. However, there's no rule he must stand still. For example, otherpeople showed the ability to use theirs while struggling to overpower the enemies' weapon.
Well, Reiji won't be slown down to that degree, but still he would be a lot slower under Finale's influence, while also a lot slower from Ren's perspective when Overture is active.
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Hmm, well if Reiji could somehow interrupt the Legion's chant, then he could probably stop Ren from using pretty much half of his arsenal right then and there.
Even then, Reiji is fast enough to at least react to Ryuichi when he's in Turbulence Mode so Reiji is at least two whole classes above supersonic speedsters like Ren, so the slow down effect is going to have be pretty damn significant to really even things out.
I think a pretty safe bet for Ren would be Csejte Ungarn Nachtzehrer to stop Reiji Flat, then use Malignant Tumor Apoptosis and Eine Faust Finale to even his chances at harming Reiji, and finishing him with Volsunga Saga. All in all, Reiji is faster and much more destructive than Ren due to Fenris Wolf, and they are pretty even in terms of hax in this match. The chant of a legionnaire would be pretty difficult to stop, since they are just souls inside Ren.
One question, any Fortissimo character that would be able to fight evenly with a god from Shinza? The series sounds really uber.
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True. Unless Da Capo can somehow reset them chanting. Even if not, Da Capo Enhalt could probably render him immune to most attacks due to how it works.
Shinza? Maybe. Odin for sure could put up a good fight against a lot of fictional characters, but not sure about other Fortissimo characters...
...True. That's actually a really clever way to get around most things.
Shinza Banshou is the series Paradise Lost, Dies Irae and KKK belong to. I was asking about the gods who are the real heavy weights. Incidentally, Ren becomes the second most powerful god in the story during KKK.
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Yep. And Reiji is a creative enough fighter to try using such a method. Not to mention with Uroarbrunner, he could probably predict when they're going to start chanting and prepare in advance.
Ah, okay. Confused Shinza with something else. Hmm, aren't the characters there more powerful than the DI characters for the most part?
I am not versed well enough on Paradise Lost to speak for it. But for the most part, KKK characters are many, many orders of magnitude above baseline DI characters, because most of them are gods (Gudou Gods in particular). However, the top end of DI's cast is vastly above KKK's regular cast. The upper tiers of KKK are much stronger than DI's though (and with upper tiers I mean, like, two people).
Yeah. Thanks to much fighting, Yatou has a Taikyouku Value big enough to wipe the floor with everyone below Hajun. Hajun's Value scales to that of the enemy and surpasses it. He can only be defeated by targeting a very specific weakness.
Ren, Reinhard and Mercurius Values in DI: 90+
KKK's cast average values: 60+
Yatou's (Ren in KKK) Value: 100+
Tumor. It can get confused with a god's Apoptosis, but it is another concept. Habaki, one of KKK's main characters is this Tumor. You have to remove Tumor to defeat Hajun. I have not read even one bit of KKK yet (planning to read it once I finish Dies, it's actually shorter), so I cannot explain in much detail.
According to a poster on comicvine (I can't post links but see if you can find it)
Hajun can stalemate omnipotents or it takes an omnipotent to beat him. What do you think?
Bullshit. Apart from the fact that I don't think true omnipotence exists, "omnipotents" cannot be stalemated. Hajun is as close as you get to being one, though.
Sorry for double posting but, elaborating on that, Hajun is also not omnipotent by the single fact that he has a weakness. But, if you do not target it, there's a 99,999999999% chance that he wrecks you.