Cerberus Cup 4th Round: Azalea vs. Whatever

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Cerberus Cup
Fourth Round

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After a furious round of fighting in the fourth round, only six combatants remain out of the original twelve. Everything is on the line in this round, as only two of the combatants remain undefeated. The next round could have five remaining warriors, or we could be down to our final three. All that is known to the warriors remaining is that the fourth round of the Cerberus Cup has begun!

Posting Order Whatever, then Azalea

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[atrb=style, background: #111111; border: 5px solid #99983E; border-radius: 10px; opacity: 0.8;] As the Heartless moved back to the ring, he was thinking about the previous three matches. First against the Keyblade wielding demoness or whatever she was. She had so far been a curious opponent, only her poisonous attacks hurted like crazy. Although, she seemed to try and tell him to contro, his powers more, which he had no idea on how to do. No matter, he shrugged, knowing even randomized one should be capable of handling it. All he had to do was get used to it and work with whatever he gets, one could prepare for anything and he had shown to be capable of timing his abilities now. Knowing how long a certain weapon would be 'unavailable' and so on. His second opponent had been a realy quick fighter, throwing attack after attack in a spree without pause. He had been impaled by spears during that fight, the two light-giving blades or whatever they were had seemed annoying weapons to fight against as well. His last match was against the tailed boy, which really had seemed like the longest fight and it had been more as fun than total slaughter. The Heartless wondered what sort of person he'd get as his fourth opponent, not like I can read the board to see how things stand anyway. He shrugged as he walked onto the arena and looked to the other side. Slowly, he lifted a hand and used his ability to create a weapon. Rings started to shape, so he immediately moved up his left hand as well and gripped rings that just shaped, then he stretched the Spiked Chain between both hands before shifting a bit sideway. He moved his hands a bit to get on the right side of his hands the larger portion of chain while holding the end of the chains at the left side. Let us see how things'll go, he thought with a small smile and tilted his head to see whether his opponent had arrived. The Cries of an Item d5 ~ 3: Spiked Chain: Four posts active.

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WORDS ;; 340 || TAGGED ;; Azalea || NOTE ;; Mèh, little short, sorry...

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[atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: #2F2F2F; border-radius: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 30px 5px 10px 0px;] GAINST THE TIDE ❝ ANOTHER STORM YOU'RE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE. UNDER THE WAVES WE'RE SINKING LIKE A STONE. ❞

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true][atrb=style,background-color: #EDEDED;][atrb=vAlign,top] █ Azalea grumbled to herself as she entered the area. She couldn't believe that she'd been hit with her own Charm spell. It was frustrating, but she needed to shape up to be able to fight her battles more efficiently. She had won her first two matches because the 'whistle' was blown before it finished. The last one Selena had just toyed with her. This meant that she had failed at recruiting the dark clad woman to join her in changing the future. As she walked into the Colliseum, she realized someone was already there. The young blonde smiled at the man as she entered. "Oh! Hi!" She said happily as she waved at the man. He seemed quiet as she tilted her head at the man. Her eyes moving to the man's choice of weapon. 'That's odd...I've never seen anything like that before. I need to keep my distance.' "Let's have a little fun with this!" She giggled, quickly summoning up her own keyblade. She spun it briefly in her hands before taking off in a run towards the man. "Hope you don't mind me starting!!" As she got close enough, she swung her keyblade in a horizontal motion from her left to her right. Actions OOC: I will be a little slow until Friday where I will be able to post more readily! Sorry! Finals are killing me!

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[atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: #2F2F2F; border-radius: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 30px 5px 10px 0px;] GAINST THE TIDE ❝ ANOTHER STORM YOU'RE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE. UNDER THE WAVES WE'RE SINKING LIKE A STONE. ❞

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true][atrb=style,background-color: #EDEDED;][atrb=vAlign,top] █ Azalea had charged in hoping to gain the upper hand. However, it didn't turn out that way in the end. Her keyblade swipe seemed to be successful as he blocked it with his little chain. She didn't realized what was going on until she noticed that he had hurt himself in the process. She'd have to make sure the boy was alright. Her concerns were tossed on hold as the heartless wrapped his weapon around her own and pulled her forward. The blonde was surprised, not expecting this type of attack. The creature spun and pulled her forward. With her forward motion already in play, she felt herself stumble. However, in the this movement, she lost grip of her weapon before Whatever dismissed his weapon and punched the young girl in the face. Azalea stumbled backwards and fell backwards onto her bottom. Both of her hands went to her face as she spoke up. "Ow ow ow!" She grumbled, looking up at the man with tears in her eyes. "That hurt..." She stated, working on stumbling back up to her feet. With a simply movement of her hand, she resummoned her keyblade back into her hand before staggering back to her feet. The keyblader touched her nose, a frown on her pretty face. "You could have broken it... and here I was worried you hurt yourself." She pointed out, quickly pulling her right arm back and throwing her keyblade towards the heartless, using her Strike Raid. Actions

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Strike Raid - 1 Post

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[atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: #2F2F2F; border-radius: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 30px 5px 10px 0px;] GAINST THE TIDE ❝ ANOTHER STORM YOU'RE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE. UNDER THE WAVES WE'RE SINKING LIKE A STONE. ❞

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true][atrb=style,background-color: #EDEDED;][atrb=vAlign,top] █ Azalea wasn't happy with the looks she had received from the man. It was almost like he didn't believe she was this pathetic. Well, she was a lot tougher than the man was giving her credit for. She was going to prove that she deserved to be in the tournament and that she didn't just win because her opponents had bailed out. Her Strike Raid had missed it's mark and had returned to her hand after Whatever quickly backed up. He had summoned a gun into his hands and it took her a second to realize what it was. "Oh shoot!" She stated, not realizing the irony in her statement as he shot at the young blonde. He had managed to dodge both parts of her attack. Some of the people she had fought didn't realize it boomeranged back. She moved quickly to the side, presuming he was going to shoot at her. However, Whatever did not attack and simply put distance between the two. The woman decided to take advantage of this distance and cast two of her status ailments at the same time. She brought her left hand to her lips casting Charm, blowing a kiss towards the heartless. She followed up with a Blind. The keyblader wasn't sure if it would work, but it was worth a try at the very least. "I wonder why he didn't attack me..." She asked herself, starting forward a bit to close the gap, hoping one of her abilities worked. Actions

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Strike Raid - Useable
Charm - [#@rand#=13.551530206343159%@]
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Time is up! The judges' decisions will be posted here as soon as we have a verdict on the round!

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Azalea has won the battle and both will proceed

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Damage Dealt Whatever took damage from himself and I think Azalea's keyblade strike when he tried to catch it with the Spiked Chain. This damage is a lot greater than Azalea taking damage from being punched... but then again, Whatever's strike to the face was the only attack he gave to her, so she really didn't have the chance to be a good sportswoman and take any other hits. It's these reasons why I feel Azalea is the winner of this category.

Realism Here I felt Azalea was more realistic than Whatever, to be honest. Only because the way that Whatever dodged Azalea's Strike Raid was a bit... unrealistic. Sorry Yazoo, but when Whatever went into freefall and went sliding back at the same time... the sliding back part sounded like it was impossible to do without an ability. And Whatever also forgot to check Azalea's Strike Raid and respond to it that it also returns to her hand like a boomerang, instead of being summoner back to her hand like in the games. That's why I feel Azalea also wins this category.

Creativity Whatever wins this one simply because Azalea just threw out her abilities without any creative style whatsoever, whereas Whatever tried to be creative with catching her keyblade and pulling it away to disarm her, and even the strange backwards freefall/sliding motion that I felt cost him realism. Despite this, Azalea won both categories above, and that with her status effects at the end as well as Whatever's randomness to summon things like Berserk on himself I felt would have eventually hindered him and cost him the fight. So I feel overall the winner is

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Damage Dealt And once again we continue the theme of low-damage battles in this tournament. This was hard to choose, but I’ll rule Azalea the winner of this one. The chain spikes were definitely painful, yes, but on the scale this universe works on I feel the punch might potentially surpass it. It was really close though.

Realism The reviews before me have gotten into this as well, so I won’t waste too much of your time, but that dodge man. I think I see what you were going for, but the way it went down didn’t feel completely natural to me. Like, it could easily have worked, just maybe not in the way it happened this time. Azalea.

Creativity It’s basically just consolation points, but Whatever positively dominated this section. He handled the fight with all kinds of finesse and did everything in his power to get an edge over that keyblade. This stood out from Azalea just tossing attacks willy-nilly.

Azalea

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Damage Dealt I honestly didn't see that much damage other than the punch Azalea took to the face and when Whatever seemed to take the strike with his chain when he tried to take the keyblade from her. I would imagine that the damage done to his hands from his own spiked chain is worse than a punch to the face since it would be difficult to get a firm grip on any of his weapons in the future if there were cuts in his palms and fingers if they weren't healed quickly enough to prevent further damage.

A broken nose can get fixed and the pain is usually instantaneous with the impact thus easy to get over with unless they're a sissy with pain. It doesn't effect the fight in the long run [unless somehow the break somehow obstructs breathing so that's another issue altogether].

There weren't any other offensive attacks other than these two so I feel like I'm comparing the two to apples and oranges. [Whatever]

Realism This is a bit difficult to decide but I would have to agree that the sliding motion was a bit much. Perhaps it was the description of the move that makes me back up, reread the action and question how would he fall backward without basically falling on his back. However, the only way I could imagine how that would work is that when Whatever took a step back and then let himself bend backward in a limbo-like motion with the falling description was meant for his upper-torso and not the rest of his body. I'll give this to Azalea since the description of this action wasn't very clear. [Azalea]

Creativity This is where it shows more clearly that Azalea is still green in her experience with fighting with that keyblade whilst Whatever had used his previous experience with keybearers to know that he should be avoiding contact with the weapon at all especially since he was aware of how painful keyblades are especially considering the fact that one of his previous opponents happened to have a poisonous keyblade of her own.

Azalea's battle style is bland and too straightforward. I was mentally facepalming at the fact that she announced her own attack at the beginning in which in reality that would get yourself hurt as it proved so at the beginning. Whatever was prepared because of that announcement and used it to his advantage, ending with the punch to her face. Sorry Azalea but Whatever gets this category. [Whatever]

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