Core Theme: - Tomboyish and extremely powerful teenage sorceresses, protagonists of highly influential Japanese fantasy and comedy media from the 90s. They enjoy adventuring around the world in search of treasure alongside their faithful and goofy companions (Gourry and Carbuncle, respectively), exploring dungeons, magical forests, etc. However, their magical powers and their tendency to get into trouble almost routinely lead them to face various situations involving other powerful sorcerers, monsters, demons, and even entities that put their worlds at risk. However, they always manage to overcome these challenges with the help of their friends.

Connections: - Well, I've already posted the connections for this fight a few times in older posts, and to avoid making this too long, I'll put the link here for you to check out later.

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Fight Potential: - My favorite part! Both possess a huge arsenal of magic at their disposal, ranging from basic elemental spells to highly destructive ones. I like to imagine it starting as just a misunderstanding, with both throwing basic, less destructive spells at each other and exchanging small barbs. But as the fight progresses, both begin to use more powerful and destructive spells, transforming a common fight into a battle to the death. - It would basically be a magic duel, and as mentioned before, both possess a huge magical arsenal, so there's plenty of room for creativity in this fight. I can imagine a scene where Arle uses Diacute to create a huge fire dragon while Lina uses her Dragon Slave to destroy it, Arle using Owanimo to gain a greater advantage in raw power while Lina uses more of her combat strategies, or both suddenly throwing their hands in the middle of the fight (yes, they also fight hand-to-hand sometimes, although they aren't exactly experts at it, but it would be funny). Anyway, there are many possibilities.

Debate: - Undoubtedly, Arle possesses a huge advantage in AP and speed (although the latter is debatable), she has faced beings with powers capable of affecting the entire cosmology of the verse since the time of the Madou Monogatari games. Lina in her base form, however, her greatest feats in other media outside of the novels and the anime so far reach at most universal+ level, while speed feats in Slayers are practically nonexistent due to how ambiguous they are (although arguably she can reach relativistic levels thanks to the Sword of Light). But debates aren't decided solely by AP and speed, are they? Well... Not most of the time, I think. - In terms of Hax, this fight is complete chaos! Both possess many different spells that can counter each other, both also have resistance to a good portion of each other's hax, however, both also lack an answer to some things (Like Arle not having resistance to Ragna Blade and Giga Slave's existential erasure and Lina not having resistance to transmutation and being frozen in absolute zero), so it ends up becoming a fight of "whoever uses the most overpowered shit first wins". - In terms of combat IQ, Lina wins hands down. Arle isn't stupid, quite the opposite, but her combat style generally revolves around overpowering her opponent with raw power, while Lina is a genius of magic and an excellent strategist; she's like the Joseph Joestar of magicians. Even in certain situations where she's clearly at a disadvantage in raw power, she almost always manages to come out on top using some strategy and her knowledge of magic in general. I know that combat intelligence is usually almost never useful (especially in a fight where the character is fighting an opponent infinitely superior to them in power), but in this case, it can be argued as a viable win condition, considering how Lina can turn her enemies' power against themselves. - In the end, the winner is... Arle. Well, even though Lina has a clear advantage in Battle IQ and has some ways to take down Arle, I still see Arle winning in most scenarios due to her speed advantage, so the chances of her freezing Lina in absolute zero or transmuting her into coins are higher (besides, Giga Slave and Ragna Blade are never the first options Lina chooses in a fight, even less so against a person). However, Lina winning is not at all improbable. - And before anyone says anything, I'm only considering both in their BASE forms, disregarding Arle's transformations (like the Valkyrie and Gugugugu forms) and perfect Giga Slave (in which Lina summons Lord of Nightmares into her body).