Luz Noceda vs. Atsuko Kagari

## Description

*These two quirky young witches-in-training have their spells and brooms ready for a Fatal Fiction. Can Luz glyph her way to victory, or will Atsuko snuff out her light?*

## Interlude

Hiro: We often strive to become someone better than who we currently are. And all it takes is sheer determination, even if you lack the power to do so.

**MBStarscream: As long as you don’t give up, soon you’ll get that power one way or another. Besides, not all witches are wicked and have green skin.**

Hiro: Luz Noceda, the realm-travelling human witch resident of the Owl House.

**MBStarscream: And Atsuko Kagari, the Luna Nova Academy student of Little Witch Academia.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Luz Noceda

Hiro: Most may say that it's always best to live your life to the fullest, but no matter what, nothing can stop the inevitable judgment of your peers from bringing you down and taking away what makes you special.

**MBStarscream: Ugh, don't remind me of my college days, Hiro.**

Hiro: Well lucky for you, 14-year-old high school student Luz Noceda can relate. While far from a disobedient child, Luz's energetic and carefree nature made her come across as weird to those around her, much to the worry of her mother Camila, who had just recently lost her husband.

**MBStarscream: Hoping to straighten out her girl for the real world after an incident involving a book report with live snakes and fireworks, Camila planned to send Luz off to Reality Check Summer Camp to prepare her daughter for adulthood. Poor Luz, all she wanted to do is be like us nerds who edit anime clips to music and read fantasy books with convoluted backstories.**

*Luz: But I don't like any of that stuff. I like editing anime clips to music and-and reading fantasy books with convoluted backstories.*

Hiro: But right before Luz left, she made a discovery that would change her life forever: A doorway that lead to the Demon Realm.

**MBStarscream: There, she would meet a small little bundle of chaos named King, an eldritch Owl Worm thing named Hooty, and Eda the Owl Lady, the most wanted and powerful witch of the Boiling Isles.**

Hiro: A fantasical world of witches, demons and monsters was right up Luz's alley, but there was just one problem: She lacked the means of performing magic herself due to her lack of magic background... and because she doesn't have a sac of bile attached to her heart like a witch's.

**MBStarscream: Ew! Well, Luz worked her way around that with good ol' teenage creativity. By drawing her own glyphs, Luz can command the magic that’s naturally around them to achieve the effect she wants.**

Hiro: There are naturally only four glyphs types, but Luz is able to combine the glyphs in order to achieve more affects. Her go-to glyph is a light spell that lets her create one or more small balls of light. Depending on the size of the drawn glyph, it can create a massive flash of light to blind enemies, and when using two light glyphs at once, Luz can fire a concentrated beam of light towards her enemies.

**MBStarscream: When Luz draws an ice glyph, she can create a pillar of ice that's width and height is dependent on the size of the glyph drawn. Said release of ice can also vary in shape; for instance, there was one time where Luz could seemingly make a hull sized glacier.**

Hiro: The ice glyph can also vary in ways such as creating snow or ice sculptures. Additionally, when attached to another object, the glyph will enhance whatever it is stuck to and grant the object icy properties.

**MBStarscream: Next up is the plant glyph, which causes plants to grow at a rapid rate to whatever direction the user wants. Specifically, Luz can use it to tangle and trap her opponents in vines or to swing around like she's Tarzan or something.**

Hiro: Finally, there's fire. When drawn, this glyph creates a ball of fire that can vary based on how big the glyph is drawn, allowing for use as projectiles. Additionally, when attached to an object, the fire glyph will set the object it's stuck to on fire. The fire that is produced by these glyphs is pretty hot, being able to outright melt metal gates.

**MBStarscream: As mentioned, Luz can combine glyphs to make different spells outside of the main four spells she has. Invisibility as long as she holds her breath, hovering to break dangerous falls, sleepy mist, a small fountain of water, a vortex of wind, a monster arm, teleportation, and petrification, Luz has it all.**

Hiro: But Luz wouldn't have to solely rely on glyphs for long. After she had realized what she had wanted most in life - to be understood as a person - her very own Palisman hatched from its egg: A mythical snake shifter named Stringbean.

**MBStarscream: Stringbean acts as Luz’s companion mounted on her own staff, which is capable of flight by riding it like a witch’s broomstick. She's powerful enough to unleash powerful blasts of magic that can casually blow apart stone, and being a snake shifter, she is also able to shapeshift into a variety of different animals, such as a dragon, snake, bat, and scorpion.**

Hiro: Palismen contain their own source of magical power just like a witch's bile sac that operates as a witch's familiar; in other words, Stringbean is the channel to Luz’s magical potential.

**MBStarscream: Her magical prowess has been tested time and time again in and out of the Demon Realm, including challenges against Eda’s sister Lilith, the Golden Guard named Hunter, and the tyrannical ruler of the Boiling Isles, Emperor Belos.**

Hiro: Specifically, in one of those encounters, Luz had to make the difficult choice of seemingly destroying her way home in order to protect her realm from Belos's wrath, resulting in Luz beginning a new journey to discovering a way back to her own realm. On one of those adventures, Luz would actually learn about and meet another human who had traveled to the Demon Realm hundreds of years ago, Philip Wittebane.

**MBStarscream: Trusting a 1600s Puritan pilgrim in finding a way home went as well as you'd expect, which only got worse when said British twat discovered the Collector, an all-powerful like childlike god, before he became, you guessed it, Emperor Belos.**

Hiro: Therefore, Luz and her friends teamed up to put a stop to Belos, who planned to use a spell taught to him by the Collector which would kill all the witches part of a coven on the fabled Day of Unity.

**MBStarscream: It didn't go as well as anyone would've liked. The Collector would be freed from his prison after being betrayed by Belos, and in a sacrifice, King would send Luz and her friends back to the Human Realm with no way to get back.**

Hiro: This wouldn’t stop Luz though, as eventually, with the help from her friends and mother, she would find a way back to the Demon Realm and fight to save it from Belos and the Collector. During the final battle with Belos, Luz was tragically killed as a result of protecting the Collector from one of Belos' attacks... but not for long.

**MBStarscream: Saved from falling into the afterlife by King's lost father, whose body made up the entire Boiling Isles, Luz was granted the last of Papa Titan's lifeforce and brought back with new abilities and a killer new look.**

Hiro: Against Belos, Luz found herself having everything she needed to fully put an end to the genocidal witch hunter. Her magic power is massively amplified, allowing her to naturally draw spell circles without having to use a glyph like Eda, either with her finger or with Stringbean's staff form, creating incredibly powerful spells. She can also create a magic barrier which she can fly in at incredible speeds and teleport with.

**MBStarscream: On top of that, she can also let out a powerful sonic shout too, much like her little brother King, and can enhance her physical strength by summoning glyphs around her body. She's not even fazed by boiling rain while in this state.**

Hiro: Unfortunately, the time Luz has in this form is limited due to being derived from the Titan's lifeforce which at the time was severely depleted by Belos. The form also powers down over time as she uses it. When the form *does* run out, it also means that the Titan's life has run out, so once Luz returns to normal, she won't be able to use her glyphs for magic anymore.

**MBStarscream: Luz has many other flaws as well; she used to be a little bit impulsive, at least at the start of the series. Her headstrong personality has caused her to get into trouble more times than not.**

Hiro: She also has a bad habit of rushing into problems without thinking it through, which includes going against Eda’s rules. This typically results in her only making strategies once things have already gone for the worst and she is in a tight spot.

**MBStarscream: On top of all this, Luz was pretty much a social pariah in the Human Realm, and the biggest reason she wants to emulate her favorite magical heroines is because she hopes a grand destiny will "fix" her. Lack of self-worth also causes paranoia about being disliked or being a burden on others, which, mixed with the desire to do heroic things, makes Luz self-sacrificing to the point of a borderline martyr complex.**

Hiro: Luz also has a tendency to blame herself for things outside of her control. This got especially bad after Luz found out that she accidentally helped Belos orchestrate his genocide of the Boiling Isles. Her shame and trauma over this event were so extreme that she was willing to stay in the Human Realm forever to "make up" for everyone's suffering.

**MBStarscream: But by overcoming everything thrown at her, Luz would talk some sense into the Collector, and put Belos’s reign of terror to an end once and for all. Down the line, Luz would even enroll in the University of Wild Magic and go on her way to becoming a true witch.**

Hiro: Her journey wasn’t always easy and she made many mistakes, but as Luz herself would say, "nada funcionará a menos que lo haga funcionar". Translation? "Nothing will work unless you make it work."

**MBStarscream: Needless to say, she definitely did.**

*Luz: I think I just realized something... I don't know why it took me so long to figure out... the only thing I've ever really wanted... was to be understood.*

## Atsuko Kagari

Hiro: When she was just six years old, young Atsuko Kagari's life would forever change when she saw a magic performance by the famed witch celebrity Shiny Chariot.

**MBStarscream: She wanted to be just like her and so enrolled into Luna Nova Academy to train to be a witch herself. But there was just one problem: She had no magic.**

Hiro: But Akko wouldn't let this drawback stop her. And sure enough, upon landing in the Arcturus Forest, she found the means of fulfilling her dream: The Shiny Rod left behind by Shiny Chariot herself.

**MBStarscream: This baby's able to unlock the Grand Triskellion, a spell capable of granting wishes and changing the world. Along with being able to be used as a normal wand that can cast ordinary spells, it also has unique spells and transformations.**

Hiro: Each of these transformations is achieved by the Seven Words of Arcturus; Noctu Orfei Aude Fraetor turns the Shiny Rod into a bow able to open magic portals, Phaidoari Afairynghor a large axe, Arae Aryrha a large rope tie, Mayenab Dysheebudo a sprinkler that disposes a healing potion, Sybilladura Lelladybura a broom, Lyonne gold streams that can heal wounds, and Phasansheer Shearylla summons the Grand Triskellion in the form of a branch that can be combined with the Shiny Rod to unlock its full potential.

**MBStarscream: When fueled by the entire nation’s belief, the rod forms the Shiny Arc, a massive bow and arrow that, when fired, causes an explosion, and leads into a global spectacle of shooting stars and butterflies. It also restores Yggdrasil, the source of all magic in the world.**

Hiro: Akko's most frequently used spell is Metamorphie Faciesse, which allows her to transform herself and others into various shapes and sizes. She mainly uses it to transform herself into many different animals such as mice, flying elephants, penguins, turtles, partial monkeys, partial fish, and various miscellaneous creatures.

**MBStarscream: Akko can manipulate magic energy in its pure form to perform various feats such as projecting beams or blasts, illuminating her surroundings, simulating telekinetic force by infusing a bit of the energy into a target, and generating solid constructs out of the energy's tangible form. She can also conjure a concentrated bolt of heat radiation that can be used to either obliterate weak creatures and cripple larger targets as a form of combat magic or provide radiation treatment for injured allies.**

Hiro: Flight is admittedly Akko's weakest suit, but she makes up for this by using floating magic to walk on the air via conjured floating platforms that act as sort of stepping stones. Akko is also proficient in restoration magic, being able to restore broken objects with or without aid of Mending Magic Powder to accomplish the feat, no matter the size of said object.

**MBStarscream: But Akko's greatest strength is her immense determination and willpower which allowed her to overcome even the most challenging obstacles. She's faced enormous magic-eating dragons, pressed on to reach Luna Nova despite being trapped in a forest with Sucy and Lotte, rode the wild magic broom Shooting Star during the 1333rd Luna Nova Cup, tried to overcome the polar bear-like guardian of the Fountain of Polaris to know if she could gain the power of stars, attempted to solve one of the most important magic rules after having broken one, overcame the temptation of Blue Moon Abyss' omniscient spirit when the latter offered to grant her desired future, and fought the Noir Rod twice.**

Hiro: The Noir Rod was capable of keeping pace with the Shiny Balai broom and Akko in combat, and its lesser missiles were just barely able to trail behind Shooting Star for a while, putting it at sub-relativistic speeds. Akko herself can go just as fast or even faster than this, as the Shiny Arc's energy blast reached the moon from Earth in about 4.48 seconds. And after fusing with the Grand Triskelion, the Shiny Rod was able to return to the stars and become the Big Dipper in the span of *nine* seconds.

**MBStarscream: But even with all this, Akko still has her flaws. She can be impulsive, reckless, short-tempered, even arrogant and self-absorbed at times.**

Hiro: She also mostly has poor control over her standard magic, and if the Shiny Arc is used in complete anger, it will deem its user no longer worthy. But Akko never let these drawbacks keep her down for long, and she soon became the best witch - and person - she could be.

*Atsuko: I'll work hard to become a witch who can make everyone smile. Because to me, magic is the most wonderful thing in the entire world!*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: Well, Luz out*shines* Akko in territory, but who is the superior witch-in-training?

**MBStarscream: You could say this battle's gonna be *magical.***

Hiro: Trying to outpun me, Starscream?

**MBStarscream: You started it, Hiro. *I'm* only ending it.**

*The Collector's dimension*

A single multicolored Rubix cube and other large toys floated in the seemingly endless void, with a meteor shooting across the starry sky. It was like being in a galaxy with no planets except for an oversized Rubix cube.

But two young witches about to be locked in combat didn't mind that.

One rode in on a magical staff, the other on a broom. Facing each other from the opposite ends of the cube, each girl regarded the other.

The first was of Dominican-American descent, with matching tan skin and brown eyes. Her hair was slightly grown out and curly, and on her head was a floppy, white, pointed, broad-brimmed hat surrounded by a gold coronet. The rest of the girl's attire consisted of white long-sleeved top with flared sleeves and lavender trim surmounted by a dark purple yoke with a gold star in the center, dark purple pants, white boots with black soles and gold buttons, and a green fanny pack. A single scar ran down her left eyebrow as a reminder of a hopeless battle she had once fought.

The other girl was of a slightly pale complexion, with long, straight, chestnut brown hair which reached just below her shoulder blades with matching blunt square side-bangs on the left side along with a section of it tied onto a half ponytail on the back of her head, and large crimson eyes. Her costume was also very witch-like, consisting of a long navy blue hooded tunic, a pointed hat, a body belt, stockings, and long boots.

**Luz Noceda** smirked slightly before pointing a finger at the girl standing before her. "Do not underestimate me," she began. "For I am the Good Witch Luzura, warrior of peace!"

"I don't care *what* happens." Said **Atsuko Kagari** with equal amounts of confidence. "I'll still give it my best shot!" She pulled out a beige medium-length staff, with a golden ornament at the end and seven crystals. This was the Shiny Rod, and Akko was ready to put it to good use.

Let the witches duel begin.

**FIGHT!**

"Eat this, sucka!"

With those three simple words, Luz, with an open palm, activated a light glyph towards Akko, blinding her. Akko reacted by covering her eyes and shouting, just as Luz placed another glyph on the ground that sent a huge pair of vines towards her. When Akko uncovered her eyes and saw the vines coming her way, she turned the Shiny Rod into an axe and, with a vertical motion, sliced clean through them. Turning towards Luz, who had her staff aimed at her and charging up with magic, Akko pointed the Shiny Rod forward and countered with her own beam, creating an explosion that pushed them away.

Akko turned the Shiny Rod into a grappling hook and fired it at Luz, trying to hook onto her, but Luz slammed an ice glyph onto the ground, causing an ice pillar to block it at the last moment. Luz then floated above Akko on her staff and with a cry of "Spicy toss!", released a wave of flames towards her using two fire glyphs. Akko shrieked and blocked the flames with her rod, her hands taking the brunt of the heat.

Luz landed behind Akko and tried to slap another glyph onto her back, but Akko grabbed Luz's wrist and hit her in the gut with the Shiny Rod, knocking her back. Holding two light glyphs in her hands, Luz clapped them together, forcing Akko to shield herself from the blinding light. When Akko opened her eyes, Luz was gone.

"Huh? Where'd she go?" Akko wondered aloud, looking around for the Hexside student. She aimed her Shiny Rod in every direction, looking for any excuse to fire a blast of magic. A vine whip suddenly wrapped around the rod, trying to yank it out of Akko's grip as Luz reappeared, her invisibility glyph wearing off.

"Something tells me you *really* don't need that thing!" Luz said as she and Akko tugged on the Shiny Rod, each fighting for control. "Let go!" Akko protested, but in the process accidentally fired a heat blast at Luz, who barely had time to dive out of the way. Stringbean, Luz's palisman, quickly flew back into her hand and formed her staff, but before Luz could do anything else, Akko was already upon her, swinging the Shiny Rod in axe form at her. Luz barely managed to block with her staff, and they engaged in weapon combat until Luz scored a direct magical hit with her staff, sending Akko flying back.

As Akko tried to recover, she looked up in surprise as the Shooting Star broom flew at her, picking her up, and rocketed at Luz, who flew forward on her staff to meet Akko head on while readying a glyph. Blinded by another flash of light, Akko lost control of the Shooting Star, causing her to get sent into the air as she comically tried to regain control over the broom, before it flew out from under her, leaving her helpless. While she was in the air, Akko looked down at Luz and got an idea.

The Shiny Rod then morphed into an ornate bow as Akko formed an arrow out of magical energy and pulled it back, while Luz aimed her staff up at her. Akko then fired the arrow down at Luz while the human witch of the Boiling Isles fired an upward magic blast, the arrow detonating and unleashing a massive explosion of magic that launched Akko even higher in the air. Akko screamed as she fell towards the checkered ground, only for the Shooting Star to catch her and safely place her on the floor. Akko let out a relieved breath and chuckle as she got off the broom and hugged it close to her chest in gratitude. "Aw, thanks, Shooting Star!"

She then noticed something that made her pause. Several tiny balls of light where Luz once stood floated into the air, the ground scorched by the explosion. Akko watched as the light orbs rose until they could be seen no more. Had Akko... killed her? A sudden feeling of horror overwhelmed her, causing her to fall to her knees. What had she done?

But Akko wouldn't have long to mourn.

She looked up through teary vision to see a purple beam of energy shooting upward near her, lifting a thick veil of smoke as it did. Akko looked forward as a figure stood before her.

Luz.

Only, she now had wolf-like features and sharp claws, with a new giant witch's hat on her head. Luz had been granted the power of the Titan himself.

And she was *back.*

Akko, meanwhile, was stunned. She had to wipe her eyes, washing away her tears in the process, to comprehend what was happening before her eyes. The human she had just killed on accident, who had just been obliterated in a literal explosion, was alive and well in a new form. "H-how can this be?" Akko said, flabbergasted. Luz let out a chuckle in response.

"I told you not to underestimate me." She said almost smugly as glyphs formed around her body. "I am the Good Witch Luz. Child of the Human Realm. Student of the Demon Realm. And warrior of *peace!*"

Luz proudly held her palisman in the air, as it suddenly glowed yellow along with everything within the purple ring, forming a giant light glyph that omnidirectionally destroyed anything unfortunate enough to be caught in its path. Akko screamed and comically waved her arms as this attack headed straight towards her, throwing her miles away from where she stood.

The Shooting Star caught Akko once again as she flew through the air, and once she got her bearings, her face hardened with determination. This fight had only just started. And she *wasn't* going to lose.

"Well, my name's Akko..."

She took out the Shiny Rod once more...

"And I'm STILL gonna give this my best shot!"

...and flew towards Luz at supersonic speed as the Titan-infused human reciprocated.

Shockwaves filled the void as Luz and Akko rammed into each other again and again with purpose. Akko fired a magical arrow at Luz, who caught it in her hand and nonchalantly crushed it before taking in a deep breath and unleashing a sonic shout at Akko, pushing her back. She then enveloped herself in a massive shield, surrounding it with glyphs, and made a dash for Akko, with intent to ram into her. Akko fired another arrow at Luz, shattering the shield, but not without Luz punching Akko square in the face, sending her flying.

Luz then juggled three fire glyphs before tossing each one at Akko, who deflected them all with the Shiny Rod. She pointed it at Luz and fired another heat blast at her. Luz nullified it with an ice glyph and began to construct a light glyph beam spell as Akko pulled back another magical arrow.

The explosion caused by the collision was powerful enough to send both witches flying, with Luz being sent into the Cubix cube, blowing it up. Luz shook the cobwebs out of her head and turned to face Akko, who had... turned into a flying elephant that was charging at her?

"Whaaaaa--"

Luz was so baffled that Akko cannonballed right into her before she could process what she had seen. Once she had recovered, however, Luz spun Akko around and threw her away, preparing to fire another light glyph at her. Turning back to her human form, Akko pointed her Shiny Rod into the air, yelling four words.

"Noctu Orfei Aude Fraetor!"

Upon this incantation being spoken, the rod turned into a bow that Akko promptly used to open a portal behind Luz, who looked behind her. This quick distraction was enough for Akko to tackle them both through it, and the portal closed as quickly as it had appeared, leaving the void empty once more.

*The Knee, Boiling Isles*

A portal opened high above the snowy landscape that had once been the knee of the Titan himself. Soon enough, Luz (still in Titan form) and Akko fell through it and rolled down the mountain, becoming engulfed in a huge snowball until a sonic scream from Luz sent snow flying everywhere... and Akko flying through the air. She slid down the mountain until she came to a stop as Luz started charging up a fire glyph. She sent a large fireball towards Akko, who countered with a Murowa spell and charged up the mountain at Luz. Luz tried to push Akko back down with another sonic shout, but Akko dodged and swung the Shiny Rod at Luz with enough force to launch her up the mountain.

Luz recovered and fired a blast from her staff down at Akko, who used a nullification spell to counter it. She tackled Luz through the air on her broom, leading to the two witches engaging in aerial combat once more, ramming into one another while firing powerful spell after powerful spell. After one collision that was powerful enough to part the clouds, Akko had one thing to say about her opponent.

"This... is... AWESOME! You are the greatest witch I've ever seen! I'll have to go all-out to beat you!" She wasn't mincing words here; this magic, this power, was unlike any she'd ever countered in her young years of studying magic. Luz wasn't nearly as strong as this up until now; in this state, she could easily pass for a student at Luna Nova.

"Hey, you're not bad yourself."

Luz, though flattered, couldn't help but return the praise. And if Akko wasn't even going all-out yet, then this battle could get even more interesting. "Why don't you start "going all-out" right about now?" Akko could read the challenge in those words, and she accepted it without thinking twice.

"Phasansheer Shearylla!"

A branch was promptly summoned, and just as quickly combined with the Shiny Rod. Luz watched as the rod formed a massive bow and arrow, the Shiny Arc. In response, she started charging up another light glyph beam, while Akko pulled back the arrow, both ready to use their ultimate attacks.

"Eat *this*... sucka!" Akko said before she fired the arrow. Luz, in turn, fired her biggest light beam... but the arrow phased right through it as Akko was pushed back by both the beam and the tremendous explosion that ensued. Akko flew away from the Knee and barely managed to get herself oriented in mid-air on her broom. She could see the snow falling off the Titan's knee, with grass, stars and butterflies taking its place.

And once again, Luz was gone. Akko waited to see if she would return again, but a long wait soon gave her a terrible truth.

Luz wasn't coming back *this* time.

Akko closed her eyes as she was consumed by guilt and grief, only speaking in her thoughts.

*I'm sorry, Luzura. You were a good witch.*

The Boiling Isles would be missing its little light, who would now be... watching and dreaming.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: That *certainly* was magical!**

Hiro: Luz admittedly stood a much better chance against Akko in her Titan form, as there wasn't much she could do against her in base. Akko had it all; black holes, time manipulation, life absorption, transmutation, corruption, illusion creation, and petrification, which Luz has almost *died* to before.

**MBStarscream: And that's just scratching the surface of the absurd levels of hax Akko possesses, which is a hundred times more versatile than anything in The Owl House. Luz only has four elemental glyphs which are just discount versions of Aang's powers, invisibility, and a few combinations that only mimics one singular status effect Akko has. But could *Titan* Luz have beaten Akko?**

Hiro: Well, not exactly. Even with near-unlimited magic and drastically improved stats at her disposal, Luz was still outclassed considerably by Akko's own scaling and versatility.

**MBStarscream: Even worse was that Luz's Titan form basically had a time limit, while Akko didn't have to worry about such matters. But some of you may be asking, "Well, since Luz has the Titan's power, who was able to seal the Collector in the In-Between Realm, wouldn't she be able to do the same to Akko?"**

Hiro: Well, let's go over it quickly. First, we don't really have context for *how* the Titan sealed the Collector beyond just 'he did it', so it's unknown whether he needed to prepare to do so specifically, or if it's just a magic spell he was capable of. Regardless, it's unfortunately not really viable for Luz to use in combat. If it does require prep, Luz has no knowledge of what would even go into that, and if it *is* just a spell, Luz has never seen it be performed, so she would not have that experience to draw on. To further add on, it's not known whether it's an instant seal or a prolonged process that Akko could potentially escape from mid-cast. Finally, it's not clear if it was a spell made purely to work on the Collector and others of his kind, or if it would work on any lifeform.

**MBStarscream: So Tl;dr, there’s too many ambiguous factors to really give sealing to Luz as a potential win condition. Well, shouldn't Titan Luz scale to Collector regardless, particularly his feat of moving the freakin' moon?**

Hiro: Potentially, since Titan magic can nullify Collector magic, but Akko could go far beyond this at her fullest potential. When the Shiny Rod was used in anger by Shiny Chariot, it could outright *scar* the moon as opposed to simply moving it, and the Grand Triskelion could not only hold up planets and stars, but host *infinite* amounts of magic, way more than what Luz has learned.

**MBStarscream: Another disadvantage that Luz faces is needing to rely on glyphs, and to combine the right ones together to use the spells she wants. And while she always keeps a big supply of glyphs with her, if she runs out, she can’t perform magic, and would need to draw more glyphs herself in order to use it. Akko doesn’t face that limitation, and while she struggles with magic, she doesn’t need to worry about running out the way Luz does. She can also just use the kind of magic she needs when she needs it, and doesn’t need to worry about combining spells or using more of them or having bigger ones in order to use stronger magic.**

Hiro: Luz's quick thinking, creativity and glyphs gave her a fighting chance, particularly in Titan mode, but Akko's superior magic versatility and scaling put her a step above the savior of the Boiling Isles.

**MBStarscream: This Little Witch just went lights out.**

Hiro: Atsuko Kagari wins.

## Advantages

### Atsuko Kagari (Winner)

* More versatile
* Far higher scaling
* Less limited in magic usage
* Titan Luz, while more powerful than before, was still limited in several areas that Akko could capitalize on
* Luz was reliant on drawing glyphs to perform magic while Akko had no such issue
	+ Glyphs could also easily run out, forcing Luz to draw more