Alright FINALLY a match-up where I now very well both character
probably because it was the matchup I suggested.
Well it's my time for simp for Type-Moon lore for like 4 hours that it's what it takes me write all this thing.
First for all for sources about both characters, even if Arcueid get an important update to his power in the remake
Tsukihime - a piece of blue glass moon I will don't have it in consideration mostly since its a work that hasn't finished yet and it lacks a particular element that I wanted to discuss, and of course her Berserker appearence in
Fate/Extra nor her Moon Cancer version recently added in
Fate/Grand Order also doesn't count. So in the end all her sources are:
- Tsukihime (2000)
- Tsukihime PLUS-DISC
- Tsukihime (Manga)
- Kagetsu Tohya
- Melty Blood series (not counting Type Lumina)
In the case of Ryougi it would be the real deal Shiki Ryougi and not her servant version from
Fate/Grand Order nor
Fate/Extra. So the only thing I will have in account would be the
Kara no Kyoukai movies and light novel and Melty Blood.
Alright now let's go for the good thing.
Strength/Physical Attack Potency
Starting with Arcueid let's start establishing that she is a
vampire, but a very different type of vampire even for Nasuverse standards, the denomination for her is
"True Ancestor", in simple words, they are like the original and true vampires with all the good things and any of the flaws, and between a species of ridiculously strongs creatures, Arcueid is
the strongest of them, yet her strength is quite limited in his regular form since she repress herself for evite fall in the madness due her bloodlust. Even then she is still capable to do things like create craters around her path while fighting and kill Nrvsqr Chaos' creatures with ease.
Ryougi for the other hand is a human, an absurdly competent human but she stills being physically a human. She has knowledge in assasination techniques, multiple martial arts and swordmanship but any of this would be a rival of Arcueid with the exception of a special power of her that I would touch later that is the reason why she is so dreaded.
Due her True Ancestor nature Arcueid has superhuman speed, but she isn't quite agile since her fighting style is always "I punch this first before it can punch me". But Ryougi is a completely different story.
Ryougi isn't only very fast (again, in comparison to the regular human), but it's also very agile being able to jumps buildings one after another with grace, her eyes are also very well desarrollated being able to track opponents that are theorically faster than her, and, between all things,
she did this.
Shiki is trained for endure pain and is quite resistent in general, but, has usual, her major debility is that she is a human, while she
heals from a broken rib and an internal organ in a week Arcueid regenerates herself after
being cutted in 17 individual pieces (gore warning in the link) in a night.
Actual Abilities
Well, has I said is don't know too much of this analysis, so I will first for all list what Arcueid can do vs what Ryougi can do.
Arcueid's Abilities |
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Enhanced Senses (most notorious the smell) |
Mystic Eyes of Enchantment
- It gives her the ability to manipule the mind, memory and even soul of the persons.
- It also allows her to indulge physical paralysis to someone.
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Blood Magic |
Marble Phantasm
- Her most notorious ability, basically the power to change reality.
- In her actual state, even if isn't that powerful like the usual she can do things like materialize a copy of the moon.
- One of the most notorious abilities of Arcueid's Marble Phantasm is the summoning of her home, the Millenium Castle Brunestud, basically her liar and even if the combat aplications of this place are minimal, in Melty Blood is used for seal the opponent.
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Backup
- The term was included in the remake, but it was already knowed has an ability she had.
- Probably even more bull**** overpowered than the Marble Phantasm, since basically makes her always stronger than the opponent meanwhile she is on the Earth or the Moon.
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She has some addition abilities, but most of them or doesn't have a combat aplication or are derivatives or the ones already mentioned. Now in terms of Ryougi.
Shiki's Abilities |
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Magical Prostetic Arm
- A gift of the talented puppeter Touko Aozaki.
- Allows her to grab things that are normally intangible like ghosts.
- It also has a secret compartiment that guards a knife.
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Self-Suggestion
- Makes her a combat machine eliminating the "innecesary" parts to only concentrate in combat.
- This skill is particullary stronger when she is using a sword.
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Mystic Eyes of Death Perception
- A.K.A. what allows her to rivalize Arcueid.
- Long-short story she can see the "lines" of death between the things, sometimes even referred has a future sight.
- It also allows her to cut those lines erasing their existence.
- With the help of (SPOILERS) it also allows her to kill abstract concepts like waves, illness, magecraft, and even other Mystic Eyes.
- Though she needs to perceive that things has "something alive" to being able to kill it, for example a phone can be killed since she thinks it has life, but a broken phone cannot be killed since she thinks its "already dead".
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Connection to the Root
Oh boy... I prefer save this for later. |
Someone can think that the obvious advantage is from Arcueid but using has example fellow-MEoDP user Shiki Tohno Ryougi is capable to do things like kills the connection of Arcueid with the Earth thus nullifing her Backup ability or even destroy her Marble Phantasm creations (for not say that are the reason why Arcuid is debilitated in most of the VN story), and that is considerating that Ryougi is far more skilled than Tohno since it doesn't have his mortal illness.
Arcueid must use a percentage of her power to keep herself under control and hold back her bloodlust has mentioned before, something that it isn't relevant to fight since is something that Ryougi can't use against her but it isn't bad to note are her debility to Conceptual Weapons and Reality Marbles, the first would depend of their concept with some of them having a Death concept similar to the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception that has noted before are one of the things that can debilitate if not completely kill her while the second is a type of magic that "rewrite" the world cutting her connection to the Earth.
Main Shiki debility is her human nature, unlike Arcueid she needs to eat, breath and even if her healing is impressive it doesn't match Arcueid's, she also needs to hit her opponent to use her Mystic Eyes properly and also has previously mentioned she has struggles killing things with a complex death concept or an immortal, a category that Arcueid falls. Even if her main weapon is a knife she only can use her full potential with a sword.
In the end I think the winner would be Arcuei-STOP. I think it was pretty obvious since I saved a lot of things under all this text. And is that this two girls have something in common that makes all this analysis 10 times more difficult to do.
Archetype: Earth vs「Shiki Ryougi」
Welcome to Type-Moon where things can NEVER be easy!, let me introduce this two characters again.
Arcueid Brunestud, also knowed has
Archetype: Earth, is not only a True Ancestor, but the manifestation of the
Crimson Moon, what is the Crimson Moon?, well there is a particular phrase in the Type-Moon fandom, "We
don't talk about the Moon", the only thing you need to know is that in the Nasuverse the older a concept is the stronger they are, and the Crimson Moon is probably one of the oldest things in the universe. Archetype: Earth is in easier words Arcueid in his maximum power, any of the previosuly mentioned restrictions are off and she can use all her power, how much she can do?, well, I said that I didn't wanted to use the Remakes for sources since it isn't a complete work and particullary Archetype Earth hasn't appeared yet properly
but, even without her full power she can use an ability called
Event Storage, that unlike the Marble Phantasm that is the alteration of the reality to bring in existence something inexistent or a Reality Marble that is the creation of a world inside the original one the Event Storage is the
complete storage and rewrite of anything in the surface of the Planet. And is not temporaly like the previous two, is permanent. Now apart of this think in all the previously mentioned abilities she has and multiply to whatever the size you want. THAT is her power. Usually the biggest problem of Archetype: Earth is her arrogant personality that makes her underestimate the situations.
「 」, also refered has「Shiki Ryougi」or Void Shiki is the third personality of Ryougi (because yeah she has, or well,
had multiple personalities but I didn't mentioned it before since it wasn't relevant for the analysis), she is the part of her that it's connected to the
Root, in a similar way to the Crimson Moon explain what the root is it would be too complicated and in the end is meaningless, the only thing is necessary to explain is that it's like the regist of everything in the universe and in the infinite possibilities inside it, sometimes Void Shiki is called has the Root itself. Unlike Arcueid Ryougi has a connection to the Root even when the third personality isn't under control and its what allows her to use her Mystic Eyes without falling into madness, but「Shiki Ryougi」can go even deeper, connecting to where all cause and effect begin and everything and nothing exist. She claims the ability to do anything she wishes, as being connected to it makes her an equivocal existence and she have a equivalence to a transcendence of abstract level of existence. She claims restructuring the laws governing atomic matter, going back in time to change the evolution and development of all life, and reconstructing the orders and laws of the world would be easy for her to accomplish. It is not actually changing the existing world, but instead annihilating the old world with a new world. Also unlike Arcueid however, since it isn't Ryougi herself but a personality of her it doesn't have actual control of it and she claimed to don't have any interest in anything due to her omniscience, remaining dormant.
In the end, both Archetype: Earth and Void Shiki are despicted has the stronger entities capable of alterate the universe has we know, who has a stronger control of it is unknown, people could say that it's Void Shiki since she is connected to what it could be considered the source of all itself but the Crimson Moon was sometimes portrayed has a rivalizing force.
Conclusion
In the end I think it would depend if we allow both of them go all out or retain their base power, in the first scenario the veredict is a
Draw, but in the second I think the winner is...
Oh right, all my noms goes for Akuma vs Mr. Karate