Saturday, January 12, 2019

What I would hope a SM vs CCS DB to be like

This is the kind of thing I would hope an SM vs CCS Death Battle would look like. It's still a bit too long (hopefully some of it can be conveyed in sidebars) and I don't really have Wiz and Boomstick's voices down but there you go


Wiz: Magical Girls. These champions of magic use magic to save the world…
Boomstick: …with the girliest powers possible. Sailor Moon, the soldier of love and justice
Wiz: and Cardcaptor Sakura, heir to the great Clow Reed.
Boomstick: He’s Wiz and I’m Boomstick
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
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Wiz: A self-professed crybaby, a clumsy coward with poor grades, no one ever expected much from 14 year old schoolgirl Usagi Tsukino…that is until one day when she, running late for school ran into a mysterious cat with a crescent moon on her forehead. A cat known as Luna. Luna seemed like a normal cat at first…except that night she spoke.
Boomstick: …That’s not what normal means.
Wiz: *exasperated noise*
Boomstick: Luna revealed that to Sailor Moon that she was a Sailor Senshi, reincarnations of ancient warriors dedicated to protecting the universe from evil forces.
Wiz: She, along with the other Sailor Senshi on the Earth were given the mission to find the “Moon Princess”
Boomstick: Surprise Surprise, turns out she was also the moon princess all along. Hey wiz, why is the Moon Princess so important anyway.
Wiz: Well all Sailor Senshi use something called “Sailor Crystals” as the sources of their power. The Moon Princess was said to have the Silver Crystal. You see Sailor Moon’s sailor crystal was not just any sailor crystal. It was actually the “Mabaroshi no Ginzhuisho” or “Legendary Silver Crystal”, a holy gem containing INFINITE power, capable of warping reality and giving complete dominion over the universe.
Boomstick: …What the hell?! Infinite power? So she can just do anything?
Wiz: Notttttt exactly…while the silver crystal’s theoretical power is infinite, it’s bound to the user’s heart, meaning that the more emotion they feel, the more power they can summon from it.
Boomstick: So she’s like a girlier version of the Hulk? Sailor Moon Smash!!
Wiz: In a sense. The power of the Silver Crystal might help explain Sailor Moon’s somewhat variable power level, capable of fighting a living evil universe and almost dying against a balloon one season later.
Boomstick: Luckily even without the little rock of plot convenience, Sailor Moon has a number of items to help her.
Wiz: Her hairpieces amplify her hearing and amplifies her crying to be strong enough to shake a building. Her tiara can be used to shoot a blast of moonlight capable of destroying shadows, or can be thrown for her famous tiara throw capable of turning monsters into moon dust with a single slice.
Boomstick: And this was only scratching the surface. Her next attacks were far more insane. Her   Moon Healing Escalation, a magical light capable of restoring whole worlds and destroying a monster made of darkness covering the whole Earth.
Whiz: Her Moon Princess Halation shoots a blast of light capable of destroying a black hole, creating an explosion visible from the edge of the solar system.
Boomstick: Holy Shit!
Whiz: Her Moon Spiral Heart Attack…
Boomstick: Are you just making up these names…
Whiz: And it’s super form the Rainbow Moon Heartache…
Boomstick: You’re just making up these names, aren’t you?
Whiz: create a heart based projectile capable of destroying a dimension trapping Sailor Moon.
Boomstick: Her Moon Gorgeous Meditation attack traps opponent in a spinning rainbow kaleidoscope dimension that probably makes them really sick like a bad carnival ride.
Wiz: Her Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss attack…
Boomstick: You are definitely just making up these names!
Wiz: as well as it’s stronger form Silver Moon Crystal Power Therapy Kiss create waves of light capable of attacking other dimensions, and equaling the power of Sailor Galaxia, the most destructive Sailor Senshi, who can obliterate planets just by pointing at them.
Boomstick: But of course her real threatening attack is her Sailor Moon Kick, which…is just a kick. Sometimes a pretty bad one (anime scene of Usagi and Chibiusa trying to kick Fisheye and go flying past)
Wiz: Usagi’s strongest advantage is her love and empathy that lets her understand her enemies and turn potential enemies into friends. By the end of the series she had an endless love for the whole universe, even Chaos, the source of all evils. And it was this love that allowed her to unlock her ultimate power, that makes all the others pale in comparison.
Boomstick: Oh what is it this time? The Silver Crystal Light Love Moon Happy Fun-Time Super Special Awesome Mega Friendship Blast Surprise?
Wiz: Actually it’s The Lambda Power.
Boomstick: Oh…that’s a lot less impressive sounding.
Wiz: It might not sound that impressive but the Lambda Power is something else entirely capable of restoring the entire cosmos. It’s so powerful because all Sailor Crystals’ powers are aspects of it. Meaning that it can give the powers of all the other sailor senshi. Control of the Elements, regeneration from having her soul melted down…
Boomstick: …control of space and time, reality-warping, creating waves of death on a cosmic scale…
Wiz: Super-Intelligence, super-speed running, super strength, psychic sense…the list goes on. Fitting given there are hundreds of billions of star systems in the galaxy alone, let alone the billions of galaxies in the universe. Just a single burst of the lambda power destroyed Chaos without Usagi even trying too.
Boomstick: Though even without the Lambda Power she’s done some absolutely insane feats. She’s survived a black hole, LEAPT into orbit, flown across the galaxy in seconds and saved the universe on multiple occasions.
Wiz: At the age of 14 she was made Queen of the Moon and at the age of 22 she was elected Queen of the Earth and turned the Earth into a harmonious utopia of immortals protected by the Silver Crystal. All this might make her sound invincible right? Well…not quite…you see Usagi is…
Bomstick: incompetent. She is clumsy, a crybaby, a coward, bad at school, naïve, gluttonous, lazy…
Wiz: the list goes on. By her own admission. Also while Usagi’s love is her greatest strength, it’s also her greatest weakness. She often shows mercy and forgiveness on her enemies and doesn’t have the anger to use the full force of the Silver Crystal.
Boomstick: However, threaten her loved ones and she’ll punish you in the name of the moon.
Sailor Moon: I’m the pretty suited Sailor Senshi, Sailor Moon! In the name of the moon, I will punish you!"
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Wiz: Young Sakura was just a normal girl…
Boomstick: …outside of being descended from the strongest sorcerer to ever live Clow Reed! Do you ever know what normal means Wiz anymore?
Wiz: Well…. outwardly she seemed like a normal girl. That said one day she journeyed into the family library and opened a book holding the 52 clow cards. Immediately these cards, holding the 52 clow spirits scattered freed. This began her adventure to re-collect the 52 Clow cards again, turning them into her own Sakura cards. And with the help of her friends….she did.
Boomstick: Within 2 years, Sakura reclaimed the cards and turned them into her Sakura spirits and can use their abilities. These cards range from capable of destroying the world to being less intimidating to what I ate from breakfast.
Wiz: The 52 original cards are arranged into a hierarchy. At the top are Light and Dark and right under are Fiery, Earthy, Watery and Windy.
Boomstick: It’s the “y” at the end that really shows they have authority…each of these have cards related to them and are grouped together.
Wiz: The Watery can control water, including the entire ocean. It’s associated cards can rain and snow, can make wood grow, can freeze things, and can create a mist that dissolves matter on contact
Boomstick: The Hell? Ermm…Fiery can create a fire large enough to evaporate the snow covering a town in one burst and it’s associated cards can create arrows and energy bolts, make Sakura a fighting master, give her super strength, clone her, make her briefly intangible, or create a sword so sharp it can cut through a warp in spacetime.
Wiz: Windy is capable of creating winds strong enough to slow an elephant’s descent and is the card group Sakura has most affinity towards. The cards associated with Windy can create a magical song or steal a voice and can let Sakura fly or run at super speeds fast enough to outpace any of the other Sakura cards.
Boomstick: Earthy can cause earthquakes capable of threatening cities. It’s cards can control sand, create a magical seal, a nigh-impenetrable forcefield, reflect attacks, can create a looping reality, can force someone to tell the truth, trap someone in a maze dimension, and worst of all….create enough flowers to bury a city. Oooohh
Wiz: The Dark can cause darkness enough to darken the Sun and other stars. It’s cards can create illusions, erase things from existence, switch peoples’ minds, send people to sleep and control dreams, freeze time and create a magical silence only magic noise can penetrate.
Boomstick: The Light can make the sun shine through the Dark. It’s cards can create matter from nothing, make something grow or shrink, make things glow, send someone back in time like Tracer from Overwatch, create a shadow capable of controlling all shadows and growing the size of a city, and make sweets. Man after reading all that I could really go for a card capable of making beers!
(Wordy section. Cards with lesser impact or no impact on fight should probably be a sidebar)
Wiz: Together the 52 Clow Cards hold power equal to Clow Reed, who was so powerful that he could warp every dimension with just a stray thought and knew everything that would happen in the future save for love.
Boomstick: Know everything huh? Then does he know (enter some joke here like licks to get to center of a tootsie pop, how they get cream in twinkies, etc. )
Wiz: (Answer Potential Answer here). That said Sakura held a power inside her stronger than even the Sakura cards. Sakura’s greatest strength is her hope and optimism; she always believes that things will get better no matter what.
Boomstick: This was put to the test when she fought the Nothing, a card with negative energy to equal all the other 52 cards. The Nothing had erased from existence all of Sakura’s friends and family.
Wiz: That said Sakura realized that The Nothing was only trying to embrace things because it was lonely and showed it love, turning it into her ultimate card The Hope, representing Sakura’s endless hope restoring everyone. Given that Clow Reed himself put all his power into the 52 Cards and Sakura was able to transform a card equal to all of them by herself, that officially makes Sakura the strongest sorcerer in her multiverse.
Boomstick: Yes….THIS is truly the face of ultimate power.
Wiz: Don’t be fooled by appearances. Despite her….less then intimidating appearance, Sakura has down some incredible things.
Boomstick: She’s tough enough to survive magical blasts from Yue, a card guardian with the power of half of the Clow Cards and is magic resistant enough to resist the magic of the strongest mages of her time like Eriol and Fei Wang Reed. When Fei Wang Reed was going to destroy and recreate the entire multiverse to his will, Sakura managed to counter it, with a little help from her boyfriend Syaoran, and their clones.
Wiz: She’s fast enough to dodge lightning without the Dash and is smart enough to capture cards with card combinations thought to be impossible and intuitively grasp the elemental advantages of the cards without instruction. She’s also capable of using her Sealing Wand to seal spirits as Clow Reed did, and can use multiple cards in combination to exponentially increase the amount of effects they can have.
Boomstick: And if she wasn’t such a pushover…I mean nice girl, she could use her full power and become like Clow Reed, capable of warping all reality with a thought and knowing the future aside from love.
Wiz: Yes but that touches on her weaknesses. Sakura, while an incredible mage, is still at heart a normal human girl and not a fighter.
Boomstick: Yeah she doesn’t have much combat experience, and still needs to eat, sleep and breath like a normal person. See Wiz? That’s what normal means.
Wiz: Ughhh. Anyway while Sakura’s hope is her greatest strength, it’s also her greatest weakness. She can be rather naïve and impulsive, prone to just trusting that things will work out. She is also rather prone to trying to make friends rather than fight.
Boomstick: Still, if someone insists on a fight, they will massively regret underestimating the great sorcerer Cardcaptor Sakura.
Sakura: Key of Clow, power of magic, power of light, surrender the Wand, the force ignite. Release!

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Fight Scene here. There are a lot of good counter options. Some of my favorites are Moon Twilight Flash counter The Shadow, Ultrasonic Crying counter The Silence, The Loop or the Mirror counter Silence Glaive, and the Sword cutting through the spacetime warp of the Silver Crystal. That said both have like a million options and plenty of counters for each other. Really can go wild here.

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As I don’t know which one of the two DB would pick, I provided answers for both sides.

If Sailor Moon wins:
Boomstick: Woah! I can’t believe that just happened.
Wiz: Both Usagi and Sakura could both access absolutely insane levels of magical power capable of wiping the other out of existence, and both would hold back on each other at first.
Boomstick: The winner therefore wasn’t determined by the extent of their powers, but the variety of their powers and the nature of both characters.
Wiz: Sakura could combine two of her cards to create a new magical effect. This creates exponentially more effects then could be otherwise. This equation is called a factorial. If you include The Hope that’s 53 cards, meaning the total number would be 53 times 52 effects equaling 2,756 card effects.
Boomstick: Meanwhile Sailor Moon could use the power of any of the Star Seeds. Even a low end estimate of 1 per solar system would mean that’s hundreds of BILLIONS of magical effects from the hundreds of billions of star systems in the galaxy.
Wiz: Let alone the universe. That’s million times of times the amount of magical powers as Sakura.
Boomstick: In addition, Usagi was just more geared for actual combat then Sakura was.
Wiz: Sakura hasn’t actually been in many fights and is not much of a fighter. While Usagi was not certainly not anyone’s first choice as one, she grew into her role as a Sailor Senshi, a soldier of the stars, and has fought opponents of her own power level many times. Her powers as a Sailor Senshi were suitably more combat-based then Sakura’s more general powers.
Boomstick: Also while Sakura can use incredibly powerful magic, she still tires out like any normal person, made especially evident when she struggled to transform the Clow Cards because of the energy cost.
Wiz: Meanwhile Sailor Moon uses the Silver Crystal, a source of infinite power, keeping her capable of fighting forever.
Boomstick: (Enter Pun here)
Wiz: The winner is…Sailor Moon.

If Cardcaptor Sakura wins:
Boomstick: Woah! I can’t believe that just happened.
Wiz: Both Usagi and Sakura were incredibly powerful, incredibly versatile, and had many counters to what the other could throw at the other. As such the winner required a close look at the details.
Boomstick: Usagi had a lot of powerful attacks, but Sakura had a very strong defense against magic thanks to her battles with Yue and Fei Wang Reed.
Wiz: While Usagi could win via a physical attack, this is not something she’d consider fast, and Sakura’s shield defended her for a while. Conversely Sakura is a more tactical and thought to use Silence to keep Usagi from casting spells, The Little to reduce her magic and illusion to create her fears and scare the famously cowardly Usagi. While none of these would hold Usagi forever, they provided Sakura with enough time to counteract Usagi’s advantages.
Boomstick: While Usagi’s Silver Crystal might have infinite power, Usagi is used to fighting eldritch monsters from other dimensions… and still wants to spare them. It would be hard for her to muster enough emotion to use the Silver Crystal’s full power against a cute spellcaster like herself.
Wiz: Exactly. And while Usagi could regenerate from the lambda power, nothing stopped Sakura from sealing the Lambda Power itself away. Or just erasing it from existence like Clow Reed could do with a different law of existence.
Boomstick: Sakura was just too smart, too resistant, and too…cute for Usagi to beat. (enter pun here)
Wiz: The winner is…Cardcaptor Sakura

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