FFVII CHARACTER SMACKDOWN - The Neutrals Championship

fancy

pants
AKA
Fancy
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FIN!!

This marks the end of round 1-7!

Spectators (and the audience!*) have 24 hours to cast their votes (either by posting in this thread or messaging me privately) for the champion that they have been swayed to stand behind. Your judge is...

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solo player sab

At this time, spectators and audience members are allowed to post their thoughts on the match. Players are NOT ALLOWED to counter any of these comments with new arguments or to continue ‘battling’ in general. Any attempt to do so will count as an automatic loss for your team. Players are free, however, to pay compliments to your opponents and such. ^^

Players!

If you’d like to opt out of participating in the next round, tell me so now.. Otherwise, I’m going to assume you’re still playing and you’re going to be reshuffled into a new team.

In General

If anyone (players, spectators, audience, anyone) has any feedback, questions, or concerns regarding the rules, please post that in the master thread here. It’ll be easier for me to keep track of/find your feedback this way for future reference. Thank you!

Any non-participant who’d like to be shuffled into a team, please say so now.




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InterfaceLeader

Pro Adventurer
It was a slow round (I was on a plane and then jetlagged to death, sorry!) but I think your posting the clip from Rocky Horror Picture Show was a stroke of genius :)
 

fancy

pants
AKA
Fancy
^Right, which was why I thought now would be the time to take a break if any. I noticed that the momentum of these rounds has been slowing down bit by bit anyway, but the 24 hours of dead air was something of a red flag for me :P.

The usual recess might last a bit longer as I’d like to hear everyone’s opinion on it before I reroll teams. Should we go forth with the fortnight break or do we wanna try to pull through two more rounds of this game? Again, the players make the game, but if there are some who’ve lost enthusiasm and need a breather, let me know! :)

Thanks for everything! Oi, and glad to have you back in the fold, Ergo!

EDIT: NINJA’D! Agreed, the time warp was one of my favourite bits. It’s uncanny how much Noppo looks like Riff Raff. I hadn’t even considered that when I photoshopped him looking “civvie” :P
 

Channy

Bad Habit
AKA
Ruby Rose, Lucy
I wouldn’t mind a break tbh. If others are still good I can step out for a round.
 

fancy

pants
AKA
Fancy
The Vote

I’ll update this post as more folks vote. There’s about 7 regulars, so the first side to get to 4 is the direction we’ll go.

2 - Break
4 - Going 2 More Rounds
 
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Clement Rage

Pro Adventurer
I'm not sure it's fatigue so much as 'who the hell is Noppo?'

My vote is keep going, we can wrap up Round 1 closer to Borderlands kicking off (which better be good, Fancy! *shakes fist*)
 

fancy

pants
AKA
Fancy
ROUND 1-7 WINNER

Thank you to spectators and audience members who voted!

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VICTORY GOES TO TEAM MOOGLE
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✧・゚: *✧・゚:*FancySycamoreTree*:・゚✧*:・゚✧


  1. BforB
  2. Channy
  3. Clement Rage
  4. Ergo Proxy
  5. Fancy (will spectate or play if neccesary)
  6. Joe - spectating (when he has the time)
  7. InterfaceLeader (on weekends)
  8. LicoriceAllsorts
  9. solo player sab - spectating

Let’s push through these next two rounds. Recess will last a little longer as to give players an opportunity to step in or step back!
 

fancy

pants
AKA
Fancy
Battle Post: ROUND 1-8

Round 1-8

Your Teams...

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Ergo
FancySycamoreTree
LicoriceAllsorts


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Clement Rage
Minato
Channy


Your Champions...

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VS
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The Location...

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Old Man’s House (Kalm)

Beautiful Girl - A stunning resident of Mideel...
Are you ready Team Chocobo?


Pilot - A man of the skies training under the watchful eye of the one and only Cid Highwind...
Are you ready Team Moogle?


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The countdown begins when the first team player posts!
 
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Clement Rage

Pro Adventurer
The pilot is a trainee in one of the most stressful jobs imaginable, in some of the most stressful conditions imaginable. Not only is he serving under Cid Highwind, never a man to suffer any fools, he's also piloting a fugitive vessel, where any mistake could be fatal. The Highwind has no ground crew to make repairs, if he messes up, it's game over for everyone.

And he pulls this off flawlessly, no matter what crazy stunt the party asks of him. Fly directly at the giant WEAPON? Sure thing. Oh, you want to do that again. I gotcha, boss. Land in the crater itself? Done. Ram Sephiroth's barrier? Done! He's a little shaky at first, but grows in confidence over the course of the game, and loyally returns to help the party after getting permission to leave, finally qualifying as a pilot to cap it all off.

Against this tough, loyal, brave man, who do we have? A beautiful girl from Mideel. That's nice, but the world is full of beautiful girls (and I mean literally using the same character model) What stands out about this one that can help her here?
 

fancy

pants
AKA
Fancy
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CLEMENT RAGE SAY WHAAAA?!?!

Let the record show that the battle phase of Round 1-8 was initiated by Team Moogle on 30th May, 21:33 GMT.

All players have until...
1 June, 21:33 GMT
...to sway their spectators.

Here's a link to a time zone converter in case anyone needs it.

Best of luck!

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Beautiful girl #metoo.

If there's one thing our Beautiful Girl, or B.G. for short, knows how to do, it's fight off men. She's been doing it all her life.

It started in the kindergarten playground, when boys used to trip her up, pinch her, and pull her hair because they 'liked' her. She got in trouble when she defended herself, so she learnt to be cunning: she got her own back when the grown-ups weren't watching, in ways that wouldn't leave a mark on them, but ensured they left her alone.

It continued in middle school, when she floored a boy who snapped her bra with a swift left uppercut to the jaw. She got suspended for a week, but it was worth it.

We can never know for sure one way or the other whether she was one of Zangan's pupils, but we do know that he travelled the world teaching girls and boys the art of self-defence, and if an opportunity like that arose, B.G. would certainly have taken advantage it, since she had need of it.

She's got mace in her pocket and can remove a man's eyeball with her car keys.
 

fancy

pants
AKA
Fancy
RIP Pilot, he seemed like a cool guy...

*cracks knuckles*

Hello spectators, my old friends. Now, I know what some of y’all might be thinking today.

Smfh, here comes Fancy with the photoshop...

Nah. I got something even better for you lovely folks.

I have science.

Please take a look at my opposing champion here.

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As his name suggests and as my opponent, Clement Rage, has pointed out… he’s a pilot. Now, what does the title ‘pilot’ entail? Sharp navigational skills, yes. Stress (doubly so under a man such as Cid Highwind), yes. What else? Long, long hours spent suspended in high altitude.

Do you know what happens to the human body as it ascends high into the air? Well, as air pressure decreases, the volume of gases increase. This means that whilst the pilot is in flight, the pockets of air in his ears, nose, stomach, and throat have expanded. Not only that, but he’s in a state of generalised hypoxia or a deprivation of adequate oxygen supply.

Now what happens when you take a human body that was suspended high in the air and suddenly land them on solid ground (in this case, the Old Man’s house in Kalm)?

I’ll give you a hint: something not very nice happens. That’s what.

When the Pilot suddenly finds himself in the middle of a stranger’s home, the last thing on his mind is gonna be, ‘Where the hell am I?’ or even, ‘Hey, that chick is kinda hot…’ It’ll be, ‘BY THE PLANET, I'M DYING’ because he’ll be suffering from explosive decompression. Contrary to what the term suggests, the Pilot would not explode on the spot, but he would be at high risk of lung trauma as the air around him has decompressed faster than the rate at which air can escape his compressed lungs. The pockets of air aforementioned would POP, leaving the Pilot disorientated, dizzy, and discomforted. The poor man would likely start gagging with the sudden desire to throw up the lunch he was refused by an extra surly Cid Highwind. There would be an explosive pain in his muscles and joints. He’d be jet-lagged to all hell. His nerves, already shot up by long hours under the disapproving gaze and mouth of Cid Highwind would snap after suffering this sudden and devastating trauma.

This is the opponent that BG is supposed to take on?

Assuming that she doesn’t knock him out completely cold after being startled by his sudden wheezing and woozy movements (‘Is this druken creep coming onto me???’), she might instead have to watch on in horror as the man contorts with pain and a lightheadedness so overwhelming, he’s knocked himself out cold by the laws of nature.

SAD.

Guess that means BG is the winner.

Uh… yeah.. there she go again. MC Fan-C comin’ at ya

I recognise that this a sad state
I’m sure the Pilot’s great
But his ass is bound for bad fates

Strugglin’ to breathe air as he lands
Somewhere on foreign lands
As BG looks on tryin’ to understand

The man ain’t drunk, it’s decompression
Due to his quick recession
From flying the skies to feelin’ ground oppression
Shit, would you look at his expression?
As he’s faced with the end of his life knowing ‘No more Cid Highwind lessons’.

We know this battle is a quick one
I'll let the fates run
No need for violence, just decompression
BG looks to be so done.
Without lifting a finger, you know this girl's beautifully won.

I recognise that this a sad state
I’m sure the Pilot’s great
But his ass is bound for bad fates.

His final home is the ‘Kalm House’
Become food for the plant louse
As BG walks away from trouble that rouse-d

Word to ya family.
 
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Roger

He/him
AKA
Minato
It only takes one look at the portrait my insidious counterpart provided to see the obvious oversight to her claim. Even in the event that our pilot is catapulted from the air to the battle site at high speed, given no time to acclimate himself before start of combat, he would still be connected to his Captain by headset. There will be no falling unconcious with Cid Highwind shouting directives into the dutiful pilots ears and even if he did, Cid would surely shout him awake before the Beautiful Girl dares come near the source of the noise.

As my opponents say, the Beautiful Girl only has all the laws of nature and self-preservation instincts honed over many years supporting her in this fight.

The pilot has this.


There is no contest, the pilot will survive no matter what is neccesary to do so, the stakes are higher then B.G can even fathom.
 
Referee! Foul! Unsporting!

Cid's far more likely to cuss the pilot out and give him a painful ribbing for getting into a fight with beautiful girl ("Buddy, that ain't what girls are for, don't you know nothing?") than he is to talk him through the fine art of how to punch a lady into unconsciousness. In Before Crisis, after the Tiny Bronco was stolen Cid could barely keep it together long enough to talk down the Turk who ended up flying the plane, and Cid loved the Tiny Bronco more than he loved Shera even.

Do you think he'll have the patience to coach the Pilot through a meaningless smackdown of NPCs, when he and the other main characters are right in the middle of the crucial mission to stop the Huge Materia falling into Shinra's hands? Nah, Cid'll just drawl, "Good riddance to bad rubbish. Varmint didn't know his port from his starboard anyway," and take the helm himself.
 

Lestat

He/him
AKA
Ergo, V
I'll probably end up setting feminism back a decade or so with these comments so apologies folks.

Ahem to further expand on my lovely colleagues already stellar argument for BG let's talk about sex shall we?

The pilot is a middle aged man flying the skies with a bunch of eco terrorists fangasming over captain Cid. Placed in a cosy little room with a beautiful is gonna result in the pilot not being able to walk straight, talk right or think about anything other than docking his own plane in her hangar.

That said our BG is smart, beautiful and knows how to use her feminine ways. All that's required is a bat of the eyes, maybe a slip of the dress from those blockwork shoulders and she will have the pilot eating out her hand.

Even the locale of this battle fits our BG perfectly. Having materialised in a strange place she sees the pilot, he gawks stupidly and starts to drool. Looking over at the couch she spots our fav old timer setting fire to pictures of a chocobo rider she can't quite make out. He stares back in awe, he sees her young eyes filled with hope then noticed the letch drooling over her. The old man spring to action like neo in the matrix and stabs the pilot in the neck before sharing his stash of werthers originals with BG.

All roads lead back to our young heroine being the victor!
Search your heart, you know it's true.
 

Roger

He/him
AKA
Minato
With all respect to the beautiful girl's looks, let's not crazy. No one left the Highwind at either Cloud or Cid's prompting, our pilot was looking down at Tifa rocking Cloud's world from the airship like everyone else the night before Meteorfall. It didn't distract him from his mission, or render him inoperable of talking to her normally afterwards.

As for the Captain leaving his friends and crew to die based on them wasting everyone's time on meaningless NPC brawls, tell that to Scarlet's left cheek.
 
Aw, come on, BG isn't going to kill the Pilot. All she has to do is render him defenceless.

Of course Cid wouldn't leave Tifa to die, she's a Main Party Character. She's not replaceable. Pilots, on the other hand, are two a gil.

But in any case, if the pilot has to rely on reinforcements, then the pilot isn't the one winning the smackdown, is he? Cid would be the one winning. I mean by saying the Pilot has to call in Cid, you're basically saying he can't win on his own.

Thanks for admitting that.

weekendroastchicken.ashx
 

fancy

pants
AKA
Fancy
And even if we pretended that Cid would waste his time interfering in the matter, it isn’t as though the pilot would be in a position to take any advice that the Captain could possibly offer him in this scenario. He’d be too busy trying not to die to death what with his lungs basically collapsing from trauma. By then, BG would have already knocked him flat on his ass and he’d be worn down to get up. He’d probably welcome the rest—piloting is already a highly stressful job. Piloting for a bunch of band of skilled killers who are also stressed out whilst trying to keep out of reach of a megapowerful company with an army sounds downright exhausting. Piloting for a band of skilled stressed killers whilst keeping out of reach of a blood thirsty company with an army under the mentoring of Cid Highwind must be close to death itself.

You should maybe consider retiring, o’ lowly Pilot.

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Roger

He/him
AKA
Minato
Sure, ref. You yourself posed to us the scenerio that Pilot is taken to this makeshift arena mid transit.
Cid, his pilot having gone AWOL in the middle of taking them to their destination, with a means on communicating on hand is gonna save his breath and quietly take over the person's duties or go back and hire someone else without taking steps to let the guilty party know his feelings on the matter. Yeah, he's a true stoic our Cid. Not at all likely to give someone a piece of his mind.

No. Our pilot will receive prompt instruction to "GET THE &*%$ BACK TO WORK" and will take far more care to meet his Captain' needs then his ailing lungs, or taking the time to admire the beauty of the lady in front of him. And if that lady is in the way of him doing so, as indeed fate has led her to be, he will take her down.
 
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