Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-65.94.50.112-20131215233249/@comment-24155619-20140124202843

82.12.156.248 wrote: I wouldn't say he's one of the most powerful. Sure he's certainly the best aura user but that's potential a major downfall. Ren was exhausted after his fight with Tajitu and the Deatlhstalker, his aura seemingly almost depleted. I highly doubt he would be able to fight another monster of that caliber... or any caliber for that matter since Stormflower are just pieces of eye candy...

As for the people who could beat it. Blake probably does know about the Tajitu having two heads. She's quite smart and does her research so it's not unlikely. Weiss could easily overcome it, she has the most powerful semblance seen from any of the students and Myrtenaster is certainly sharp enough to penetrated the KT's scales if Stormfower. She also strikes me as the kind that might know of it's two-headed nature. KRuby, this is another Deathstalker situation where her inexperience and seeming lack of studying becomes. Whilst I have no doubt that Ruby could easily slay a KT, I also believe that she wouldn't know of it's weaknesses or it's second head. The stormflower isnt just eyecandy, the king taijitu is higher caliber than most grimm such as a pack of beowolves or ursi. It has much more armor and just look at the scales, they would probably shake off a shot from the crescent rose any day of the week, not saying I dont absolutely love the rose but those scales are akin to the deathstalkers armor.

Also ren was the one who had to expend the most aura and physical energy. He had to take down a king taijitu, keep up with nora (which should be an achievement on its own) and still be a major part in taking down the deathstalker (pyrrha's weapon couldn't damage it the same way Ren's could). The only person(s) who came close to expending that much energy are Ruby and Weiss (ruby didn't use too much considering weiss was doing most of the work for beheading the nevermore with her glyphs)

Back to who could beat it, I have no doubt blake could, her shadow semblance is enought to curbstomp a lot. But honestly weiss is more of a 1v1 fighter and a two headed snake that acts independantly yet somewhat in synch may trip her up, sure she could freeze one head but she isn't the fastest about doing it either, so she is snake chow if she tries that. Now back to ruby, I just am not sure if she is "intellegent" enough, to come up with a strategy for in on the fly with a weapon more based on crowd control. But I highly doubt Yang could do it. The thing is snakes can function with parts of their spines broken, and sadly yang relies on blunt force trauma which a snake generally can recover from (save a rock to the head). now back to JNPR, no matter how much I want Jaune to be the hero, right now without a proper semblance and no known special power with his weapon to speak of, he cannot handle it. Pyrrha might be able to do it, but her weapons do not strike me as "snake fighter" she seems sturdier, but not powerful enough with a low power rifle or a spear to kill the KT with. I'm actually on the fence about Nora, she use's blunt force trauma yes, but I think she has the sense to blow its brains out...

im going to go off topic and say that JNPR needs themes, Nora's would be Celtic/norwegian, Jaune's would be renaissance-esque, Ren's east-asian, and pyrrha's Roman/greek.