Wick's Not Aghast in DEATH BATTLE!

                                  

Jack Wick of House Lilimfair

Jack Beloved was created by David and Max Kinne, it can be read on its own website, Tapas, ComicFury, and Tumblr

Welcome back to the blog! This is the first time in a while that I've dedicated a blog to a character I previously spoke of in a potential matchups section. If people are interested, I could potentially combine Wick and his opponent's blogs with an added verdict section to determine the debate. Regardless, I hope you enjoy this one as a standalone blog.

Background

"No one gets to decide for you what’s right. The truth is something you feel. It whispers if you listen. You stuck to your convictions despite what it cost. That’s… beautiful. If your people cannot respect what you know in your heart to be right, then you’re better off without them."

The empire of Korveil is on the brink of disaster. A plague known as curseweed has spread across the lands, draining the life from soil and killing all crops nearby. Who's to blame for this wretched weed? Apparently the ghasts of Umbrora, which Korveil is at war with.

Ghasts are a race of horned humanoids that harbor powerful magic. Not many humans have seen them, but they've achieved boogeyman status. They have sharp claws, frightful faces, they even gobble up souls for breakfast. Ghasts are believed to be nothing more than fiendish monsters that delight in peoples' terror.

However, if a human were to actually interact with a ghast, they'd quickly learn that everything I just said is a sham. They aren't responsible for the curseweed. In actuality it's a natural phenomenon of intense grief and pain outliving the deceased and manifesting as a blight that spreads. With how often humans raid ghasts, curseweed spreads like wildfire.

Ghasts aren't monsters at all. They have cities with a thriving culture, priding themselves on their archives, universities, opera houses, and exotic tea gardens. Ghasts don't eat souls, but rather feed on negative emotions to convert it into helpful magic. There may be nasty hearsay surrounding ghasts, but they're as complex and empathetic as humans. Case in point: Wick.

Wick is a ghast that directly serves under the Umbroran Queen Astralis as her jack. She entrusted him to keep their Well of Magic safe, and she couldn't have picked a better candidate. Wick was appointed the Rune Singer by the royal court of Umbrora, which means he's able to weave complex spells to life with his commanding voice.

His people know Wick as a zealous soul with a healthy ego. Wick is passionate about lyrical theater and was a thriving opera singer prior to his appointing. However, for personal reasons he has given up public performances.

Humans on the other hand are only exposed to a more bitter and menacing Wick. The war robbed him of many things, his old home included. Humans are stubborn in their hateful views of ghasts, so why should Wick be any different? All humans are nothing more than fear-mongering  murderers with no honor… or so he thought.

One day the worst case scenario happened: the Korveilian Vanguard stormed Umbrora to destroy the Well of Magic, believing that will erase all curseweed. Even if his beloved city falls, Wick ensures the Korveilians will never lay a finger on the Well by sealing it with a spell and fleeing into the night. Wick is the only one able to undo the spell, so the hunt for him begins.

Wick tries to hide, but he's ultimately caught and bested in a fight. However, he wasn't beaten by a soldier or bounty hunter, but a simple countryman named Sam.

Sam is a humble guitarist, but is part of the lowest social caste in Korveil. As the son of a deserter he was labeled a Fettered, and Fettered are treated like outcasts. If he captured Wick, he could prove himself to the imperial army, join their ranks, and be recognized as a Citizen Apparent so he can marry his sweetheart Bethany. He proved his doubters wrong by bringing Wick to the Vanguard to take him prisoner.

Wick is as callous, spiteful, and uncooperative with humans as Korveilian would come to expect. With how unpredictable he is and how many escape attempts he makes, the soldiers assign Sam to handle him. Despite everything he's come to learn of ghasts, Sam thinks it’s possible to talk things through with Wick, but everyone shoots him down.

Sam is the only person who treats Wick with an ounce of respect. Wick has no reason to trust him, but when he’s exposed to the radiance of Sam’s soul when he plays guitar, he catches on that the Vanguard is no place for an endearing soul like his. This was the start of a relationship that would change the course of the war between humans and ghasts forever.

As Wick and Sam conversed more, they'd become exposed to each other’s perceptions of each others’ people. Wick educates Sam that the humans are the ones who came to steal from and conquer his people. Umbrora actually used to be part of Korveil, but then humans started stealing magic they needed to live, so they secluded themselves.

While Wick marks his word he'll kill Sam once he finds a means of escape, he starts to sympathize with Sam when he learns of his mistreatment because of his Fettered status. He may be a human, but that treatment is inexcusable no matter the race.

Wick is ultimately escorted to the Korveilian ruler, the Ascended Lord Ember, who forces Wick to work tirelessly to undo his seal on the well. Wick begrudgingly agrees to assist when he learns his Aunt Winter is being held captive and threatened.

Seeing Wick abused so much troubles Sam, and the only thing that can soothe his nerves is Sam’s guitar playing. It worked enough to help him complete spell, but Sam's nerves aren't quelled after learning Ember lied about letting Wick live after breaking the seal.

Sam worked his whole life to reach this recognition from the Vanguard. If he turned a blind eye to Wick and let him go, he'd have to kiss his chances of becoming Citizen Apparent goodbye. As much as he tries to put his lifelong goals above all else, doing what it takes to win war and shove his kindness aside, Wick sees right through Sam. Sam's aura isn’t so easily influenced. Deep in his heart, Sam would never do something so cold-blooded.

Wick also gazed into Ember's soul and saw that something was wrong with it. There's something bigger going on beneath the surface, and tries to sway Sam to question everything he thought he knew. Finally, Sam throws away everything he worked for to free Wick and take the completed runes with them. They weren't able to free Aunt Winter, but she was able to direct them to where the other ghasts are hiding.

Now that they're on the run together, Wick and Sam grow closer. For the first time in his life, Wick was taught there are good humans after all. He owes Sam his life, and for that he acts warmer around him. They still banter and argue, but they're on better terms. However, when Sam takes interest in Wick's musical background, he vehemently refuses to sing in front of Sam, neither for performance or casting spells.

Still, in spite their differences, Wick is starting to fall for Sam.

He reassures Sam that he did the right thing after he freaked out about the potential consequences of freeing him. If people admonish him for doing good, then they don’t deserve him. This includes Bethany, who Sam’s convinced would never love him for who he is if she learns of his betrayal. This frustrates Wick, angry that Sam accepts the world’s treatment of him. If he wants to be loved & respected start with himself.

After avoiding soldiers and fighting bounty hunters, they arrive where Umbrorans are hiding, along with Queen Astralis. When Sam is totally distrusted by Umbrorans and sentenced to death, Wick vouches for him and fights for his safety. Unfortunately it doesn't take long for the Vanguard to unmask and raid their hideout. Wick helped everyone escape and stayed behind to assist Astralis, but he couldn't save her.

Wick snaps and takes on humans by himself, but it's still not enough. He's rescued by Sam in the nick of time and takes his injured body back to the only place he can think of, his home village.

Sam brings Wick to Bethany to heal him, who reluctantly agrees to hide the two. It doesn’t take long before their cover is blown, but Bethany’s chief mom agrees to let him stay for labor due to the curseweed leading to starvation.

Bethany treats Wick like a monster, a thing that should be killed as soon as possible. She attempts to convince Sam to turn him to the Vanguard to regain his honor and be married. Wick was right, Bethany wouldn’t accept him. If that’s all she cares about then she isn’t the one for him.

It's at this point when Wick and Sam grow close enough that Wick is comfortable with divulging why he refuses to sing.

Wick was assigned female at birth. He always felt like there was something wrong with him. He could never explain this feeling to his family, not having the words to. And how could he? His body was perfect to them. They couldn't understand that wasn’t him. He felt confused, alone, and trapped, and his family took notice. They tried looking for answers in music, and found it.

Wick fell in love with opera and everything surrounding it. It kept him from despair. Singing gave him strength to pretend he was himself, but nothing more. Despite becoming prima donna, sorrow still gnawed at him. Queen Astralis saw through him, knowing deep down this isn’t who he is. Her words inspired him to magically change his body to suit his true self.

At last Wick felt whole, but there was a cost. His voice changed, no longer suited for prima donna, no longer suited for opera, so he chose to become rune singer instead.

Sam argues he shouldn’t give up his dream just because his voice is different. However, opera demands perfection, and Wick isn’t that anymore. Regardless, if music’s the thing keeping him going, he can’t leave that behind.

Their breakthrough is cut short when Bethany tattles on Sam. The village is convinced Sam’s under Wick’s thrall, but after Wick exposes himself to protect Sam, they see their relationship for what it is. They're now aware that ghasts aren’t unfeeling monsters.

Sam makes progress to convince people that things aren’t as they seem and tells everyone where curseweed really comes from. This prompts Bethany's mom to give Wick a chance to prove himself by getting rid of the curseweed. Wick isn’t willing to help with how terribly they’ve treated Sam, but Sam convinces him. Not only that, but he persuaded Wick to use his voice to erase the curseweed.

It was this act that led to Wick being treated like a savior, much to Bethany's disapproval and jealousy. She still doesn't accept him, especially when she notices sparks between Wick and her man. This resentment comes ahead when Wick went past his magic limits, leaving him at death's door. He needs raw magic to cure himself, and Bethany expressed to Sam it's better to let him die. Sam saved the village after all, not him.

This was not only the nail in the coffin for Sam's romance with Bethany, but it's at that moment Sam realizes Wick matters more to him than her now. He's in love. Not only that, his time with Wick inspired Sam he’d rather be a musician than a soldier.

Sam takes Wick away from his village to reach a magic area in Vanguard territory. It's risky, but he'll do anything for Wick at this point. Wick's feelings are confused. Before Sam came along he hated humans, but now it’s more complicated. That’s the one thing he despises about Sam. In spite of that, after replenishing Wick's magic, the two finally confess their love for each other…

Unfortunately their intimacy is interrupted by the Vanguard. When they escape to the village, they're led to a trap thanks to Bethany. The whole village was labeled traitor and captured. Thankfully Sam & Wick’s stunt convinced Sam’s former warmaster Andreas they can instantly banish curseweed, so there is hope.

It's eventually revealed Lord Ember knew this whole time ghasts aren’t responsible for curseweed. She simply wants their magic for herself. Lying only serves the truth that it’s a kill or be killed world. Ember made sacrifices to be ascended, and she’s magically mangled under her mask.

Thus, Wick and Sam are brought to Umbrora, completely overrun by Korveilians, to force Wick to unseal the Well of Magic. While there isn't much hope left for his people, he at wants to ensure the safety of those he cherishes. Wick makes an attempt on his own life to get their attention, saying he’ll only cooperate if they do in fact spare Sam and his aunt and not hunt them afterwards.

This is as far as the story goes right now. Only time will tell if Wick can end this cycle of strife and suffering for good.

Experience and Skill

Wick was an accomplished and well-trained jack prior to the story's beginning. He's highly knowledgeable of magic and its limitations, far more than humans normally comprehend. For his delicate and precise weaving of magic with his voice, he was an easy shoe-in as Queen Astralis' Rune Singer and guardian of the Well of Magic.

He's also a skilled fighter, able to take on multiple soldiers at once thanks to his magic. Still, that doesn't mean he's invincible. Sam was able to take him down all by himself and hordes of enemies tend to overwhelm him.

Equipment

Necklace

Wick's necklace was given to him by his aunt Winter. It helps him track other jacks, pointing in their direction.

Abilities

Aura

Ghasts can see humans' auras, the expression of one's nature and the light off the flame of the soul. He can tell a human's emotions just by looking at their soul. This also lets him see the true nature of one's soul.

Emotion Draining

This leads into how Wick drinks emotions to grow stronger. Humans' souls burn brighter than other creatures', making them exceptionally strong. However, it puts a strain on their lifeforce if it isn't tempered. Thus, ghasts absorb the heat of the aura—usually strong negative emotions like fear and sorrow—to convert it into helpful magic that increases their own strength. When accompanied by Sam, his boisterous aura boosts Wick's power, especially while playing his guitar.

Darkness Mimicry

Wick can transform into a shadow, able to scale along walls and move through cracks. His body becomes intangible in this state. If he makes physical contact with someone before transforming, he can take them in his shadow at the cost of burning even more magic.

Claw Growth

He was de-clawed after being captured, but his claws can be regrown with magic

Magic

Wick is mostly proficient in runes. Spells are like ideas. Aura is the voice he uses to speak them. Runes are a dense and direct way to word that idea. A spell’s power doesn’t come from the symbols, rather their performance. For this reason, Wick's at his strongest when he casts spells while singing (which he will refuse to do under most circumstances). Drawing runes i.e. Owl House works too.

One of the applications of his magic is that he removed Sam's fettered band, which can only be magically separated from its owner.

Death Spell Seal

Wick performed this spell through singing. He casted it on the gate to the magic well to cause anyone to be instantly reduced to a skeleton upon contact. This spell is meant to last for centuries, so undoing it requires specific runes.

Darkness Empowerment

The more darkness he's surrounded by, the stronger his magic is.

Large Size (Type 0)

He can turn into a giant if he has enough magic energy.

Mind Manipulation

Wick once transferred runes into Sam's mind so he could perform them in song.

Portal Manipulation

This is thanks to a rune given to him by Astralis.

Smoke Manipulation

Fwoooosh-

Mending

Wick used a rune to fix a guitar.

Body Magic

Using magic to change one's body to reflect their truest self isn't unheard of in this world, it simply took a while for Wick to realize it's something he's longed to use for a while.

Curseweed Removal Spell

Wick can get rid of curseweed by setting the pain trapped within it free, revealing the hidden truth and healing it. In unveiling the truth it creates figments of what transpired to cause such grief out of aura. If these figments attempt to thwart the Wick in the process of casting, he can use his singing skills to surround himself with the spell's magic like a shield. Of course, Sam's guitar skills amplify its potency.

Illusions

The extent of illusions that's been showcased is masking locations, like hiding this tunnel.

Light Magic

Ironically he can weaponize one of his greatest weaknesses. He makes a bright light that momentarily blinds anyone in the area.

Techniques

N/A

Feats

Overall

• Protected the magic well from humans with a death spell
• Helped the Umbrorans escape from raiding Korveilian soldiers
• Rid Sam’s village of curseweed
• Magically removed Sam's Fettered band

Strength

• Scarred Sam with his claws
• He sent soldiers flying in his giant form

Speed

• Reacted to a crossbow arrow

Durability

• He and Sam fell off a cliff
• Shot in the back by an arrow

Scaling

• Sam blocked an arrow with his guitar
• Sam was given a black eye
• Andreas blew a hole through a wall with an explosive
• Andreas shot a hole through Astralis after she turned gigantic
• Astralis vaporizes people

Weaknesses

• Can’t use his powers when light is present
• Bringing a passenger with him when turning into a shadow burns up too much magic
• His more powerful spells consume a lotta magic. If he pushes his body past his limit with powerful magic, not even Sam’s music can help. He requires wild magic to return his strength.

Matchup Potential

Natani vs Wick (TwoKinds vs Jack Beloved)

(thumbnail by Vibe Check)

Vibe Check

I already discussed this matchup in length in the Natani blog, so I'll link that here. Still, I'll sum up the main points from that blog here.

Connections: Both are magic practitioners who enter an enemies to lovers relationship with an outcasted soldier their race is as odds with. Both struggled with their gender identity, but are now fully comfortable in their bodies after transitioning (a contrast is that Wick had found confidence in his gender identity prior to the story's start). Their transitions are the result of magical means. Despite the beef their races have with each other and their rocky beginnings, now they both look past the stigmas surrounding each others' races to protect them no matter what.

The main crux of the fight dynamic is Wick using his aura and emotion sensing to verbally piece together who Natani is throughout the fight, which frustrates the wolf. It all could build up to Natani making a proud declaration of himself and his identity, making for a emotionally driven storyline. By the loser's passing, both would have a good sense of who the other is and relate to them.

Add in the diverse magic power exchanges and clashing personalities, and you've got a really standout fantasy fight.

The winner is Natani hands down. Wick has some deadly and haxy spells that can easily end the fight like death magic, but he doesn't have the stats to keep up.

NEXT TIME ON WCAB… whenever I feel like it

Let Sua Cook in DEATH BATTLE!

                                  

Sua, the Strongest Chef in the Dimension

Peace Restaurant was created by tyang and SeowooSeowoo, it can be read on Webtoon

Welcome back to the blog! It's been a WHILE since I've last covered a manhwa character, hasn't it? It's been over a year in fact! I've looked forward to covering this one for a while, so I hope you enjoy it! Take a wild guess how powerful this chef is, I don't think you're ready for the answer.

Background

"Everyone just wait here for a sec. I’m going to feed you to the fullest today."

One fateful day, the boundaries of the universe were obliterated. Pockets of space shattered into gateways to other dimensions, and their inhabitants became jumbled with Earth's—particularly in Seoul, South Korea. Demons, knights, robots, kitsune, and many others suddenly found themselves on this blue planet, and resources weren't enough to go around.

There was a period of war and mayhem, leading to the destruction of Seoul. Even after the war ended two years later, Seoul is still a dangerous place. It's in constant threat of warlords, kaiju, and dragons, not to mention the occasional squabbles between worlds. It isn't all doom and gloom though; one person who made grade strides to return Seoul to a peaceful place was a chef named Sua.

Sua is the owner/manager/sole chef of Peace Restaurant, an eatery that serves people from all dimensions. It's one of the few neutral grounds left in Seoul, quickly cementing it as one of the most important buildings in the capital. It attracts all kinds of folks, even legendary heroes. While her restaurant alone can’t bring global peace, she hopes that people across dimensions can come to understand each other when they dine together.

Sua is busy as a bee running the business all by herself, and she enjoys staying active. She goes on excavations in abandoned grocery stores to collect usable ingredients and tools, and often uses inter-dimensional ingredients as part of her dishes. It's a successful business, but rent always looms over her head.

She's a cheerful go-getter who's kind, polite, and considerate. All she wants is to spread harmony, and what better way to do that than unite everyone by feeding them! Sua is a peaceful and warmhearted lady, but she's no pushover. If someone enters her restaurant to cause trouble and threaten the safety of her patrons, she won’t show any mercy.

Sua isn't just well known for her delicious food, she's the one who singlehandedly ended the Great Dimensional War in the first place. When all armies in Seoul were united against the common threat of the dimensional dragon Nhēdhuk, Sua chopped off the giant beast's tail, cooked it, and served it to everyone just to advertise the official opening of Peace Restaurant.

Sua is unexplainably powerful, able to slice apart gigantic monsters with a kitchen knife without breaking a sweat. It's made her allies with all dimensional factions and their rulers, even the less morally upright ones like the demons. This also brought more unsavory attention to her restaurant—people more interested in the secret to her strength rather than her cuisine.

She often finds herself entangled in conflicts involving various nations and planet-threatening foes when all Sua wants is to run her restaurant and cook. She's a chaos magnet, so the dimensional lords want Sua to use her strength to become a protector instead of running her restaurant. Suffice to say, life has become hectic for her, especially after recruiting her first ever co-workers… who both happen to be living threats to peace in Seoul.

Belial, the violet power-hungry newborn demon king, and Nhēdhuk, the very dragon that threatened Seoul two years ago, agreed to serve her. After having his teeth kicked in by her, Belial begrudgingly chose to work under her to find out how she became so strong and overtake her. Despite what Sua did to Nhēdhuk, Peace Restaurant is still considered a neutral ground, so she wanted to work for Sua if it meant she could help regain her lost power.

Under her guidance, both Belial and Nhēdhuk genuinely turn themselves around, giving up their yearning for power in order to do the right thing.

Taming Nhēdhuk and the Devil King only furthered that belief that Sua's presence and power is a threat. Plus mention her mysterious past only adds further suspicion on her. No one knows anything about the chef prior to opening her restaurant or how she became so strong. That would start to unravel when Sua's most powerful foe enters her life once again.

For a while he's known as That Man, but in reality, he's Sua's evil brother Mua. Mua is just as powerful as Sua, while sporting busted magical abilities like time stops. He's the one responsible for the collapse of Earth's dimension, and plenty of other shit throughout the manhwa.

He desires to instigate war once again and eventually rule over everything with an iron fist. He believes the power he and Sua possess should be used to lead the world rather than intermingle with lesser beings, and wants his sister to join him. If she doesn't he'll take her power for himself.

So what makes Sua different from these 'lesser beings'? For starters she and her brother aren't biological humans. The siblings are made from the power of the Yggdrasil Tree—the living multiverse—by an unnamed organization. They were created as vessels that can store dimensional energy to use them to conquer the multiverse.

While the group were mostly destroyed by a resistance trying to preserve Yggdrasil, what they weren’t able to erase was their sentient weapons. Both vessels were jettisoned into entirely different dimensions in the process and became self-aware. Sua wound up on Earth, where she was sealed away for thousands of years.

She'd eventually be discovered and freed by the leader of the counter-organization, who was actually the original owner of Peace Restaurant. In the past Sua was much like her brother, a cold and authoritative being with a warped view of peace. However, the woman taught her to bring peace through understanding, respect, and food of course. For a while Sua was happy working alongside her best friend, up until her death when the dimension collapsed.

Sua has come a long way since her inception. She seeks to return her and Mua’s strength to Yggdrasil, considering it's because of this power that the world is in chaos and Sua's friend is dead. Before that, she and her allies have to stop Mua from doing any more damage to the dimension.

Sua's fight against Mua is a long and drawn out one when he absorbed Yggdrasil's power and became a god. He'd grown too powerful for her to keep up and ensure her friends' safety. That's when God himself shows up and offers Sua their power… which she'd only be able to absorb after crafting the perfect dish made of ingredients from all dimensions…… which has to be cooked for a whole week.

Sua doesn't have time for that, and God's basically echoing Mua's obsession with perfection. Nothing perfect exists no matter which dimension, so she fucking whacks God against Mua to force him to absorb them in her place. Mua’s body couldn’t contain that power, making him vulnerable enough to destroy once and for all.

With Yggdrasil alive and powers returned, she took it upon herself to reconstruct the dimensions, meaning everyone was return to their rightful worlds. Half a year later everyone’s doing fine, though everyone who developed abilities lost their powers—Sua included. That's totally okay by her, power is what led to Mua's dominion after all. Life is seemingly average again, at least until Sua receives a surprise visit by Belial and Nhēdhuk.

Even without her strength she’ll continue running restaurant and carrying on her best friend's will.

Experience and Skill

With her sudden appearance, the power dynamic in Seoul completely shifted. For someone seemingly so mundane her reputation skyrocketed, which quickly put Peace Restaurant on the map as a mecca within the city.

Sua has wiped the floor with the world-threatening dimensional dragon Nhēdhuk, decimated the week-old demon king Belial, and made both of them her wage-slaves. She easily beats foes with thousands upon thousands of years of experience like the dragon goddess Tiamat. In her fight with the Great Sage, she fought a thousand copies of him and quickly figured out the real Sage wasn’t there the whole time.

She fought the demon lord of greed Baal, who has the power to enforce rules in a given area anyone inside is forced to follow. He even ate the Forbidden Fruit that let him absorb the malice of all previous demon lords harnessed from invading worlds—even absorbing Sua’s strength and using all the souls of his followers… and he could barely put up a fight against Sua holding back.

She defeated her brother Mua, who’s comparable in strength while possessing a boatload of absurd powers like time stops, being able to regenerate from nothing, and teleporting.

She's much smarter than she lets on, though that should be expected with how business savvy she is. She became highly successful in the cutthroat unregulated Namdaemun Market where people can only enter if they have rare goods.

Equipment

Frying Pan

She can use this frying pan… as a dying pan! It has the utility of also being a blunt weapon for smacking demon lords around.

Kitchen Knife

This knife can slice through beings 100x her size.

Spatula

I'm surprised there aren't many characters that weaponize spatulas.

Butcher Knife

Functionally the same as her kitchen knife, but used for butchering.

Frying Basket

She once used this to redirect a powerful beam attack. I figure at the speed she was weaponizing it, the beam wouldn't have shot through the gaps.

Magic Swiss Picnic Knife

This knife is a gift from the dimensional lord Rio. Not only is it foldable, but it can summon the four lords to her aid.

Abilities

Wind Manipulation

She can hit her pan so hard that the force causes a typhoon. She’s so precise with her winds that used them to perfectly set a table and sat everyone caught in her typhoon down at each of them.

Dimensional Energy Manipulation

Sua's defining aspect in combat is her unfathomable strength. Sua is so strong because she’s a being made using Yggdrasil the World Tree's power, capable of weaponizing the very dimensional energy that makes up the world.

Spatial Manipulation

Via just… punching holes through dimensions…… sometimes REALLY big holes………

Dimensional Travel

Although she can’t enter dimensional cracks to enter different worlds, she can split dimensions (more on that in techniques) to create her own dimensional gate between worlds.

Longevity

While she hasn't been as active in the world as Mua, she shares her brother's longevity. She can still be killed and is called a mortal by God, so she isn't immortal.

Energy Manipulation/Absorption/Concealing

If Sua’s power is stolen from her, she’s able to hide backup reserves accumulated from all the work she’s done from running Peace Restaurant. She cashes in the rent she’s been gathering for two years to gain even more power. This…… can be explained.

Over the course of running Peace Restaurant, she took the energy of her customers all forms of payment, and converted them into dimensional energy. It was all stored within her bear hairpin. She had to maintain the energies absorbed from different worlds so they don’t disperse, so she had no choice but to work nonstop for two years straight. This power isn’t something Mua is capable of absorbing.

Self-Sustenance (Type 1)

Space breather.

Resistances

• Absorption resistance: Her body rejects being absorbed, even while unconscious.
• Mind and memory manipulation resistance: When Mua attempted to absorb her, he took a deeper look into her mind to eliminate the moment she changed her ways. Even though he was viewing her memories, Sua SENSED him inside them and fought back, forcing him out of her head.

Techniques

Chop-Up

That's a lotta slashes……

Dragon Throat Cutter

Self-explanatory!

Shredder

Using her picnic knife, swipes so fast she makes slashes from wind pressure that block attacks. It even works against souls.

Dimension Splitter

Sua's Dimension Splitter is when an enormous amount of dimensional energy is concentrated and sent out as a powerful slash in the material world. When Baal trapped her with him inside the Forbidden Fruit, which is considered its own subspace separate from reality, Sua was able to slice a hole in it. This is described as splitting the dimension, which people just aren’t normally capable of in this verse.

Peace Restaurant Finisher: Fillet Finisher

After being hit deep into the ground, Sua performed a 360˚ slash with two knives. This attack sliced a perfect circle around the entire Namdaemun Market area, lifting the massive chunk of land off the ground. This effectively filleted Baal of his power source.

Shaver

She slashes so efficiently that she… shaves her opponent’s head mid-battle.

Spank

Sometimes words just isn’t cutting it with really stubborn foes, so she gives them a an old-fashioned spanking. Not even thousand year-old dragons are spared from it.

Dimension Destroyer

Sua breaks a hole through dimensions through her opponent’s body, BFRing it into another dimension and leaving their head behind. This contains way more energy than DImension Splitter—it’s powerful enough to destroy space itself.

Cosmology

The multiverse is contained within Yggdrasil the World Tree. Its very existence supports many dimensions, AKA universes, from collapsing. Yggdrasil is a living being who considers herself the nucleus of the system. If she were to die, all dimensions propped up by her would collapse. An innumerable amount of dimensions exist within Peace Restaurant's multiverse. It hasn't been confirmed whether it's an infinite or finite amount.

To stop Earth's dimension from collapsing, Yggdrasil used up her remaining strength to combine several in tact dimensions with Seoul.

Who created the World Tree? God, of course. They created Yggdrasil after all dimensions collapsed together.

Every material world is made up of particles called dimensional energy, which is hundreds of times stronger of energy sources.

There are boundaries between every dimension, which are made up of dimensional energy. The space between them are dimensional gaps, often inhabited by eldritch beasts called dimensional creatures. Yggdrasil doesn't maintain gaps between dimensions, but she can banish people to one to be ravaged by the creatures residing there.

Dimensional gates also exist, which can let people pass through other dimensions. Some dimensional gates like the entrance to Jungrang-gu can destroy an entire universe if non-dragons attempt to enter it.

Feats

Overall

• Cut off the tail of Nhēdhuk the dimensional dragon, which nearly brought Seoul to extinction and threatened three separate armies, all by herself. She made soup out of the tail.
• Easily defended her restaurant from the up and coming demon lord Belial. She forced him to help repair the restaurant afterwards.
• She stopped the knights and demons from interfering with Belial fixing her restaurant.
• Defeated Upi, who helped build his city’s AI goddess Minerva and weaponized the city of Yongsan’s limitless supply of energy accumulated over 10 years. He absorbed her core, making him absurdly powerful.
• Peace Restaurant became the most popular sellers in Namdaemun Market in a short time, nearly monopolizing all food sales.
• Easily mopped the floor with noble dragonist Boreukani trying to take over Dongdaemun.
• Sua figured out how to pass through the dimensional gate/barrier to the dragon dimension Jungrang-gu without blowing up her own dimension in the process by creating her own dimensional gate.
• She beat Tiamat, the mother of all dragons and destroyer of dimensions, by spanking her.
• Proved herself the Great Sage of Dowonhyang’s test to take the heavenly peach.
• Bodied God.
• Sua destroyed her brother Mua once and for all.

Strength

• Killed numerous giant Nhēdhuk dragons
• Shook Seoul just by smacking Belial with her frying pan
• Diced up this GIANT monkfish that was about to gobble up two kaijus
• Can make typhoons
• Sliced a bunch of giant Odin Crows
• Deflected Upi’s beam, which blasted far from Earth. It’s stated to be enough energy to create a supernova (star level)
• Punched Baal inside a building, causing it to crumble
• Sliced and lifted the entire Namdaemun Market area
• Was trapped by Baal in a subspace separate from reality where he could fight her using all of the Forbidden Fruit’s power…… and she STILL beat him
• Destroyed the Forbidden Fruit weaponized by Baal, which is considered its own subspace dimension
• Sua punched Mua so hard, the force opened a hole into another dimension bigger than the Earth. Comparable to the dimensional cracks that occurred naturally, giving uni credence. (At the very least universal, possibly uni+/4D)
• Cracked Mua’s hand in an attack that took out almost the rest of his body
• Made this giant fuckoff energy attack
• Can destroy space itself with Dimension Shatter
• Destroying Mua's body created a gigantic beam that could be seen from space

Speed

• Caught Percival’s hammer toss. It was thrown so hard it smoked on impact. Sua catching it cracked the hammer
• Caught the knights and demons in a typhoon, set down a bunch of tables, and seated everyone in three seconds
• Deflected Upi’s beam, which blasted far from Earth.
• Bent over backwards to dodge this soul-ripping skull attack
• Moves faster than lightning, practically teleported away

Durability

• Completely unaffected by Belial's MCB-sized blast
• She was punched across Seoul
• Was hit by Baal's giant serpent
• Withstood Mua blasting her with dimensional energy, overwhelming a volcano
• Mua punched through her to absorb her power
• Survived being launched into space by Mua's attack

Scaling

Belial & Nhēdhuk

For how busted her loyal employees are, Sua is simply way stronger than them

• Belial conjured a huge cyclone
• Belial destroyed a roof as he flew out
• Belial's punch created a massive beam
• Belial blew through a large portion of a mountain
• Belial somehow moved and shrunk the moon
• Belial swiftly flew into space
• Nhēdhuk created a giant crack in the ground
• Nhēdhuk's fight with another dimensional creature “shook” the dimensional crack they were in, and could be felt from Sua’s side.
• Nhēdhuk beat a giant mech, causing a giant explosion that destroyed the barrier covering the city. That mech was able to handle over 100 kaiju-sized monkfish
• Nhēdhuk broke out of a small artificial sun created by Upi (not actually star-sized)
• Nhēdhuk held the entire Namdaemun Market on her head
• Nhēdhuk caused volcanoes to erupt, before making them all blow up at once when releasing her power
• Nhēdhuk paved through multiple mountains

Allies

None of the pictured characters do enough to be featured in the scaling section LMFAO

• Ars shot up this massive beam
• Gillian dodges lightning
• Luria easily traveled across Yggdrasil. Gillian did the same with Luria’s remaining power. Simply flying around her has the potential to disrupt her dimensions, comparable to stirring her insides
• Luria was forced to absorb all life in numerous dimensions, which caused Yggdrasil's roots to rot.

Villains

That Man and the rest™

• Upi bisected a tall building
• Upi can shoot 20 billion volts of electricity
• Upi wrecked city and the barrier surrounding it
• Upi made a giant beam that shot through clouds
• Baal shot a blast that created a straight line of destruction, and blew a hole through a mountain in the background
• Baal used is powers to erect a giant castle
• Baal shot this giant beam through the sky after eating the Forbidden Fruit
• Baal consumed the Forbidden Fruit, which gives a demon strength to "transcend all dimensions." The previous demon lord that ate the Forbidden Fruit was shown dwarfing entire milky ways, and it took the combined efforts of all dimensions to kill him. Although Baal never fought at that scale, it should be mentioned.
• Tiamat's true face was larger than a planet (before splitting herself into parts, though Tiamat reabsorbed them during her final fight)
• Tiamat used Yggdrasil to create a dimensional dragon. Sua’s brother did say she can use its power to make worlds and places for dragons to live. It doesn't mean making dimensions, just creating a dragon that can travel to and steal other dimensions.
• Yuna wrecked a building and caused an explosion by stomping
• Fafnir made a giant mushroom cloud
• Bluey can create afterimages when flying
• Mua splattered Barbara into a bloodstain
• Mua is the one responsible for Earth's dimension falling apart
• Mua caused the dimensional rift in Seongbuk-gu to fluctuate, unleashing a giant beam
• Mua caused the world to start collapsing
• At the same time Yggdrasil tried to absorb him and restore the timensions, Mua absorbed her power and became the god of the multiverse

Weaknesses

• Sua has her limits, namely being unable to cross through other dimensions without making her own dimensional gate. She employs Nhēdhuk to do transdimensional jobs for her.
• Not a skilled swimmer
• She’s inexperienced in training staff, so Belial and Nhēdhuk get into mischief from time to time
• Isn’t immune to power absorption—at least her original power not stored in her hairpin. After Mua absorbed almost all her strength, her hair dimmed.

Matchup Potential

Sua falls into the ballpark of deceptively powerful characters like Saitama, though there's likely a more fitting option for her than him. A matchup that easily ties to her culinary passions or her backstory as an almighty being that could've gone down a darker path had her heart not been swayed would be ideal.

NEXT TIME ON WCAB… whenever I feel like it