#tidaltournament

[graviconscientia]

i wanted to do the whole fit but i am doing wedding stuff/packing (not my wedding but AAAAAAA) alas. anyway.

here's the fearsome lady redglare, pumped to actually compete and impress everyone in her social circle. armed with multiple blades, a little bit of leather armour (arm braces and some sort of undershirt), and the willingness to tear a man's throat out with her teeth, advoca doesn't have great odds of winning, but she's going to have fun!

i don't see her getting much further than the halfway mark, unless she keeps facing off against sword users. no way she's beating a gun. or a clown on a mission... i can see her getting k.o.'d by someone with psionics, but that troll is going to have a terrible time the entire time with her!

is she getting banged up? for sure. is she going to be mad that someone said her boots were ugly during trash talk? yeah that too. but she's there to filet a couple people (no killing. she'd be horrified if there was lasting damage from her.) and to stab. incapacitate for sure.

she will absolutely be blowing kisses to sefoni's box, but that's because she brought @crepuxulum and @twotiime2 and the most important thing is that they think she's the sexiest competitor. not the best, not the scariest, but the most charming and most kissable fighter. literally imagine her doing heart hands after each fight. some poor olive got their shit rocked and there she is, bleeding from her leg sporting a black eye, yelling I LOVE YOOOOOU 💖💖💖 but also boy is she gonna play that crowd.

advoca has always fought in a style similar to proteus from sinbad: legend of the seven seas in less formal/non-training settings. (start around 1:15!)

also. no afterparty, just saying hello to people she knows, saying goodbye to those same people, and leaving with her kissy guys to go pass out in her living room on top of them 💙🩵🖤🤍

[crepuxulum]

⬆️ man who Could Not be more excited to watch his girlfriend fight until she blacks out and isn’t tearing holes in his shirt from anxiety, totally

[coralcalypso]

> A livestream feed appears on the dashboard. For all those not present at the arena, the tournament itself is being broadcasted from multiple different cameras with commentary provided by a familiar sounding clown off screen.

> All action/descriptions of tournament posts are able to be known through this feed.

[equiuszahhak]

Tournament

You weren't going to participate this time. What would be the point? Last time you did your best to put on a show. You used all of your best designing skills to make flashy gear for yourself. You took down all your opponents easily in a display of skill, prowess, and your own personal power. And everyone shit on you for it. Your fights got called boring. People commented on how you were too powerful. How the tools you designed were cheap tricks. And when you saw the new tournament? It was clear the rules were designed specifically against you. They practically called you out by name. You hadn't even been sure you were invited to the party until a few days before. You were, according to her, the last person invited. At least you weren't forgotten completely. Of course, it wasn't as if you were having an easy time of it lately. From your numerous failures, which people did not fail to bring up time and time again.. To the stunning rejection you were still reeling from. You had not felt this melancholy in sweeps. You couldn't not show up, of course. Advoca was fighting, you had to see that, even if she had quietly refused to accept your offer of gear. Of course she wouldn't want it. You'd only ruin the fun. You always ruin the fun. It was best for everyone if you just made your appearance. Said happy wriggling day to the girl of the day, then kept to yourself where you wouldn't fuck anything up again. Where you wouldn't ruin the jovial spirits of everyone. No one seemed to notice.. Except Jade. You could see her giving you that glare of hers. It was clear she saw something was up. She seemed to be spending her time with Jack. You.. Didn't really want to be anywhere near him, right now. Not after what happened to Jill. The topic would be broached. You didn't know how to feel about any of that yet. Not the topic for a party, anyway. Still, she seemed bothered.. In a concerned way, but didn't leave Jack for you. You didn't expect her to. You turned your attention back to the happenings on the field, trying to distract yourself from the thoughts. From thinking about what joys could be going on elsewhere, without you. Before you knew it, Jade was there with you, dragging you away. She seemed determined to make you have fun. You loved her.

[embellishedbookworm]

Jill: Be sad you missed it.

It's not like you really understood what was going to happen at the thing, or even knew if it was a good idea for humans to go, but you had been curious about this thing Sefoni was hosting. Throwing? Hell, you weren't even sure what the right verb was.

But you had gone and done something that, in retrospect, was very dumb. It's not like you had planned to go out for vengeance, and you had DEFINITELY NOT planned to get hurt, but getting hurt basically ruled out any going anywhere, and thus, your curiosity was off the table.

All you could do was sigh. It probably wasn't like, the end of the world to miss this thing, but still. What could have been?

Well, now you'll never know, because of the choices you made.

Frankly, it had been a long time since you'd really had consequences of your actions. Things tended to go your way so much, that to some people it could look like you were just lucky.

But you knew better.

Luck didn't get you into situations, after all. You did.

And that was actually a problem.

[therealslimstrider]

dirk tournament

entering in the tourney again, same outfit as last time. puts his hair up

using the same sword he got stabbed with which some people go nuts for and others get pissed

doing the same as last year where its more about him avoiding attacks and getting quick knockouts; avoiding killing and going for incapacitation

flashstepping is not a god power so it's getting used. dancing around dodging / manipulating his opponent

his hair gets loose in a particularly intense fight and his opponent grabs him by it and flings him around a little; he slices it off with his sword and beats the shit out of whoever telling them to yield; they dont so they die. bye bye, sword through the face i think

goes up against dave and they fight as hard as they can without fucking up the arena or killing each other. dirk yields; too sore to keep going

gets cleaned up and his hair cut properly for the afterparty. he said everyone keeps seeing me as femme i have to butch it up again

probably gets harassed by both fans and sore losers from last year, and has a hard time not drawing a minor crowd around him; goes home early-ish from social fatigue

[carcinogenuine]

karkat tournament moment

hiding under a cloak/cape type thing and not sitting up in the box - trying to stay in crowds of non-alternian aliens unless he knows them personally

if your character has a sensitive sense of smell sorry. the blood.

hitting every single food stand that looks appealing. idk who's paying but he figures it out. he will satiate his period cravings

sitting like right next to where the arena exploded and when he collected himself he's like ok..... i go home now.................... and passes out on the couch

[two2day]

Wriggling Day tournament! Captor is..

Having a great time! More people should hold tournaments, they're a great way to spend excess energy!

His weapon is a metallic bō staff, though he only uses it if the individual he's up against is also armed.

Throughout the tournament he keeps his psionic use limited to things such as telekinesis and sensing the space around him as he's not brought his cane into the arena– and for most of it, he sticks true to that!

He was simply far too lured by the siren song of a beam struggle, and attempted to use 🤏 just a smidge to fire back

(Ft. @coralcalypso )

Unfortunately his output has a hair-trigger and he wound up decimating half the arena! Whoopsie!

He's so embarrassed about it he just drops out after, the float away of shame..