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[fallen_stage]

Seeing as I'm taking OU Kuja, this guy is ridiculously overpowered. So this will be two-fold.

First up is his boss-strong magical abilities, such as Flare, Meteor, Holy, etc. For every fight, I'll link to this post so we can hash out the circumstances and what's alright.

Second, Kuja is able to withstand a Megaflare from Bahamut - an attack that can destroy a city - point blank with only a scratch on the head. This means he's a Made Of Iron godmodding bastard. Again I'll link for any altercation, but feel free to pre-emptively say "don't do this to me" or "my character would negate this". 

Lastly, since Kuja has dealt with and manipulated souls and their by-products, he can sense them on some basis. By default I'll have it be just be "yep you have a soul", and if he concentrates within contact, he can tell how strong someone's emotional capabilities are - are they filled with rage, sorrow, joy? How strong? That sort of thing. So, if you want to opt out or make it stronger - say, to the point of personal identification - that's fine, too.

Comments

[terrificmachoemperor]

1 - Kanji from Persona 4, so he's had his share of bosses. I have him already knowing all of ihs fighting skills, so he's over level 80 at least. His Persona allows him to also resist the Electrical attacks. The game makes him the biggest HP guy, so he's not the human bulldozer tank for nothing.

2 - Kanji would definitely put up a fight anyway because party members and IRON WILL in any RP game haha sob.

Soul: Kanji's emotional capacities are a bit complicted - in the game a big deal was made about Shadows which are a part of themselves going out of control and Kanji's was pretty much EMOTIONAL OVERLOAD (also totally gay haha).

Kanji is all about passion. Passion for his friends, passion for punching, passion to protect those he cares about. Because of the events in the game, he;'s also self-accepting for who he is, and can use a Persona in battle. He's also fought against another occupant in the tower, Izanami who was the final boss in the game. Due to this, be believes in the power that humanity and just a few people together and change the world. You know...hero stuff.

He also like super fluffy things and sews, cooks and cleans the house, things that he has been more accepting about himself, but still cause him slight embarrassment, because of the fact he's a 6 feet tall guy who looks like he could kill you with one glance..now sew you something.

Whatever his soul is filled with (perhaps rage right now becaues of Kuja), it's always turned on to 11.

[fallen_stage]

I actually do know about P4, but I liked your summary! PASSION! sounds about right for him.

As for practicality.... Alright, Kanji could most likely not be smushed by Kuja, ehehe. I think in dealing damaage, Kanji would be strong enough to have to deal with, but not a total beatdown. Kuja needs a party, after all...

[busstopsign]

HELL YEAH manly fighting at it's finest. Kinda. Kuja get a new wardrobe.

[fallen_stage]

Oh I don't think a fistfight will hurt Kuja much... sob ;u;

No never. He has a skin quota to meet. =|

[busstopsign]

IT WILL STILL BE MANLY REGARDLESS.

[swordofzero]

For Suzaku Kururugi (swordofzero), Shion (savedbyasong), Taiki (notagiraffe) and Romeo (myblueskies)

1) Suzaku has a live on Geass which means that if he is close to dying his body will do anything in its power to make him live (for someone as powerful as Kuja that would most likely be run away if things got too tough).

Taiki has two demons that protect him though again that would probably be- getting him out of the way.

The other two have no way to defend against these sort of attacks.

2) Again Taiki's demons - Gohran is one of the most powerful demons in the 12 Kingdoms and though Kuja is probably more powerful, if it ever got to a fight it would at least be a decent one! Though he wouldn't fight him unless Kuja had tried to hurt Taiki.

Soul: Taiki: He is a Kirin and has a soul that is pure light/benevolence. It is also filled with a lot of self doubt and worry.
Romeo: Is human and his soul is mostly joy and determination. He is the type of person who would do anything for his friends, no matter what the consequences to himself would be.
Shion: Also human and his soul is mostly kindness, though there is a darkness there. Fear, worry, protectiveness. For the most part the darkness is very faint and something that even Shion is unaware of.
Suzaku: Human and his soul contains a lot of self hatred. Determination as well, and sorrow. There's quite a lot of anger there as well, against himself as well as against the world. Suzaku wishes to die to atone for his sins and that is probably something that can be sensed.

I am fine with Kuja being able to sense my characters souls etc.

[fallen_stage]

Very thorough! =3 Thanks a lot. Hopefully Kuja won't have to fight Taiki any time soon, ehehehe.

[myblueskies]

Heh, Taiki cannot fight unless directly ordered by his king so unless Kuja attacks him first he is safe from demons!

[temptestament]

1. Hello fellow boss-level godmode! Allen here can teleport, turn intangible and put up indestructible force fields (not to mention one of his alternate forms with the auto-shielding feature), so he'll be able to take it.

2. He would probably shrug off Allen's normal attacks, but he can also warp space if he needs to and has a couple ways of dumping an enemy's defense.

3. Feel free to notice he's dead and pretty much just a soul. On the emotions side, he has strong determination but also significant ammounts of regret and sorrow.

[fallen_stage]

All the boss-level godmodes up here. XD

Quick question though: how does the space warping to dump defense work? =oa

[temptestament]

That's a separate ability, sorry XD; He fights with lots of status effects and usually dumps a few debuffs on his enemies before he actually starts attacking.

[fallen_stage]

Oooh, I see. Kuja's normally immune to everything but Slow and Darkness... do you want him vulnerable to Allen's debuffs?

[temptestament]

Nah, he just uses standard status effect stuff. He does have a few that don't have equivalents in FFIX, though, if I recall correctly. There is no status effect there that causes people to take any damage they deal, right?

[fallen_stage]

Not unless it's a spell bounced by Reflect (and Kuja's Flare Star isn't affected....).

So, maybe Kuja isn't immune to status that doesn't exist in FF9

[temptestament]

Sounds fair. And likewise Allen wouldn't have any defense against status effects that don't exist in Xenosaga, like berserk.

[viditlibertas]

For most of my guys, none of this is a problem because they are squishy not-very-good-at-fighting (at least at Rox's canon point, and when Phillip is not in Kamen Rider mode) and probably would not completely be able to hold their own against him.

However, then we have Alcor, who is a star from space sent to wipe out humanity. Then he decided they were really cool, what with their free will, and has been protecting them ever since. His true form is really where he's hax, and he's been nerfed from accessing it, but he still poses one problem.

He is an attacking beast if he wants to be, just he usually doesn't. He plays fair during battles, but the second something becomes deadly he turns on the Almighty attacks. In several cutscenes he does lethal (almighty) damage by snapping his fingers, but that's been nerfed down a notch as well. So, basically, he is a glass cannon in his current form. He can't beat Kuja, but he may be able to try for about six turns. I guess this is just a warning? Trust me, he'd really rather not fight, ahahaha.

Also I'm not sure if he'd have a proper "soul" either due to the above, so that's on the fence.

[fallen_stage]

Duly noted! I think he could at less severely injurt Kuja, but we can discuss that if/when it comes up. XD

[servessithis]

1 - Vicente can withstand most magical attacks, but he's never seen anything the likes of Holy or Flare. Despite being a vampire, I don't think Holy would be more effective than normal against him, since his strain of vampirism isn't affected by holy magic.

2 - Vicente is mostly made of iron too, so this is cool.

3 - His soul is black as can be. He's an evil bastard and completely unashamed murderer.

[fallen_stage]

Oh, #1 is good to know. I'll keep that in mind. =3 Aw crap now I'd like to test out #2. XD; Like, they could really throw down.

[vipassi]

1 - Mukuro's another living weapon and one of the stronger things in his canon; the powers he's most comfortable with are a bit fragile in that, as long as the victim believes the illusion, he can godmod pretty horribly, but if they're struggling against it in terms of "this isn't real", it burns a TON of power and is iffier... but considering the relative levels of what he's been up against, if they do fight he may not be able to get past the "Made of Iron" bit without dirty tricks.

Perfectly fine with sensing his soul, too; he can be a damn moody bastard underneath the CEEB restraint, and he's generally...guarded, in the sense of "he expects the world to be out to get him and is prepared to be out to get it right back", and while it's not "current pain", there's a lot of scars...and potential to be preeettty damn volatile.

It's also probably weirdly fragmented and going to jag weird depending on what Path he's using, since he's not only got the boundaries between "current self" and "other lives on the cycle" busted, but he's almost ALWAYS leaning on/drawing on one of the others. He won't feel entirely human and it'll usually be either divine or demonic, and it's probably odd enough to stick out and be identifiable.
And no, that "weirdly fragmented" ISN'T natural.

[fallen_stage]

Dirty tricks.... Okay so if we really need to get around it, we have an angle ^^

Hmm, I think I'll need to ask you a bit more about the cycle over AIM.

[nightmareofdivinity]

So uh. Final boss meet final boss. I think we're cool on the damage front.

He's pretty much filled with rage and sadness at this point... 8(

[infernoandhearth]

My character is also pretty godmode, being a god (Loki). So he can stand up to a lot? But I guess he'd be unlikely to fight Kuja anyway. two of his big attacks sound fire-based, though! Which would pretty much do nothing to Luke, seeing as he is, er, the Norse god of fire.

Luke is pretty flighty, so he's not really filled with any one emotion, other than the will to have fun and find everything amusing? He probably has a soul I...guess? I don't know how to define soul in his canon.

[fallen_stage]

Well, Flare and Flare Star are actually non-elemental... Still, good to know. ^^

A soul.... think of it as his individuality? And his memories. That which marks him apart from others, I guess.

[infernoandhearth]

Well, if either of them cause a big fireball, it will work out to the same thing, haha.

So yes, he does, then, have a soul! And if you want to make it really obvious to Kuja that Luke's a god, that's cool too.

[fallen_stage]

They're more like a colorful explosion, or pure energy.

Oh, okay! Cool. Kuja's reference will be all "okay this guy is like an eidolon/summon". I mean, Odin certain is one. =B

[infernoandhearth]

Aha! That might be more difficult.

Ooh, he knows an Odin? That's Luke's bro!

[fallen_stage]

Well, Odin's an eidolon that Kuja extracted from Garnet's head, so her mom used him to destroy another country's capital.... yeah... oh and he rode in on Sleipner =B

[infernoandhearth]

8|

/patiently researches

Wow, that's complicated and completely different from Luke's canon in every imaginable way, hahahaha. But his baaabyyyy.

[fallen_stage]

Yeah... eidolons are weird. Poor Sleipner!

[warriorscribe]

Re: the really strong spells - Sure, have at. They might break off three or more pieces of his armor. Maybe all of them. It's of note that Enoch's armor will always protect him at least once - even if an attack will remove all five stages of his armor and he has only two left, those two will break off and leave him unarmored without the attack killing him. So Kuja would have to hit him at least twice to get him. (And even then he can recover some...that's the tradeoff for being relatively fragile in comparison to someone with a proper HP system.)

Also Holy might do very little if any damage to him. He may even absorb it, who knows.

Enoch...Enoch has a very tired, but resilient soul. Kuja will probably be able to get a sense of his strong piety (though to a god he wouldn't know) and perhaps a feeling of loneliness or loss. He's basically human, but has a small hint of being angelic to him. Whatever that might mean to Kuja. "Ascended human" might be the best bet here.

[fallen_stage]

Ah, I get what sort of HP system you mean. =3 Hehe, absorb Holy, huh? should be fun.

[warriorscribe]

I'm still not sure about Holy, but I know it won't be effective against him. I'm thinking it'll be null or resist, since he's still pretty much human and not an angel yet.

[fallen_stage]

Ah, true... I think as-is, either it'd do very little, or nothing.

[warriorscribe]

As long as it sounds good to you! The game never actually has you fighting against a holy source so it's all up to headcanon.

[fallen_stage]

I am all up for headcanon ^_^ as long as we can both agree, right? We can chat more if it comes up.

[inheritedlight]

For boss-strong magical abilities, man, Kairi has been there before and she's managed to come out of it fine, albeit sore, exhausted and spent if they're really tough bosses. But, she has a ridiculously high defense thanks to the accessories she wears.

Kairi will fight tooth and nail if need be, so feel free to use the godmode stuff if it's needed.

Soul: Kairi's soul is stupidly strong thanks to all the stuff she's been through and her being the Keybearer. The same goes for her heart, even if it has remnants of darkness thanks to her brief stint as a Heartless, but beyond that, it's really strong.

The biggest thing about Kairi is that she helps everyone and is a hero. She's gone through some tough times, however she still comes out strong no matter what she faces.

BEYOND THAT, go ahead and just do stuff. B)

[fractus_animus]

... I thought I answered this?????

ANYWAY REPLYING FOR:

Minato Arisato | Persona 3 [AU - Strega!verse]
Link | LoZ: Ocarina of Time [AU - genderswap]
Legion | Mass Effect 2 [OU]

He can do everything with anyone. I'm fine with whatever. I don't think anyone could stop him except... maybe Legion, since he has shields and is a tank? But still, I doubt that. However, Legion might be a bit spotty in the "sensing things" department, since it/they are a gestalt entity of programs and a robot. It does have emotions--I'm just gonna say he'd be unable to pinpoint them right away. :) Synthetic, and all.