Now I'm certain many of us have noticed the parallels between these two and wondered... "who is better?"

Both have a Snake totem thing going for them, both were child prodigies, both seek revenge against the place they grew up in, both are nearly immortal, and both have a rather pedophilic obsession with certain effeminate boys in their respective stories.

So who would actually win in a battle to the death and which is actually superior as a character in a literary sense?