r/whowouldwin • u/GuyOfEvil • Jan 23 '24
Event Character Scramble Season 18 Round 1A: Siege
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The Character Scramble is a long-running writing prompt tournament in which participants submit characters from fiction to a specified tier and guideline. After the submission period ends, the submitted characters are "scrambled" and randomly distributed to each writer, forming their team for the season. Writers will then be entered into a single-elimination bracket, where they write a story that features their team fighting against their opponent's team. Victors are decided based on reader votes; in other words, if you want people to vote for you, write some good content. The winner by votes of each match-up moves on to the next round. The pattern continues until only one participant remains: the new Character Scramble champion, who gets to choose the theme, tier, and rules of the next Scramble!
The theme of Character Scramble 18 is Secret Wars. Round prompts will be based on scenarios and setpieces from the original Secret Wars comic, as well as some other classic Marvel stories and scenarios, but will primarily be flavored by each participant being placed on one of two massive teams that will battle it out for supremacy.
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Round 1A: Siege
Your team now finds themselves on Battleworld proper, and figures their first order of business is the establishment of some kind of base.
Luckily for them, this isn't particularly hard. After a short walk, they find themselves looking down at a gleaming megafortress nearly the size of a city. It's almost too good to be true.
Almost, anyways. Just as easily as you found the base, somebody else found it. Be it a splinter faction from your team or an advance party from the enemy team, they want to take control of it just as much as you do. Complicating the matter even further, the base is host to an automatic drone defense system, which is currently primed to shoot anything that moves.
At the heart of the base lies the control panel for the defense system, and whoever reaches it first will be able to reconfigure the base to protect their allies and attack their enemies, giving them control over an extremely valuable and defensible staging ground. You had better make sure the people that reach it first is you.
Round Rules:
Fifty Four And A Half Pentagons, I'd Estimate: Whether you make it a futuristic superfortress or a hut at the top of a hill, this round should feature some kind of strategically important location that your team is capturing
Welcome to Doombase: The round should also feature you fighting the enemy team for control of the base. If you're facing somebody on the opposite superteam, then they're trying to take the base for their team. if it's somebody on your team, perhaps they're trying to create a splinter faction, or perhaps they just really don't like your team and don't want to let them in. Why they're fighting for the base is totally up to you.
Normal Rules:
The Second In A Twelve Part Crossover Series: Although the Guest Pool on the roster only includes unscrambled characters, you will, at all times, be allowed to write any characters in your pool as guests for the round, including characters on other people's teams. Full lists of characters on Team Secret and Team Wars can be found... on those links.
The Marvel Way: It's a comic book, the good guys always win out in the end, or if your team is the bad guys, they'll get to win out in the end, just this once. Even if your characters have only a small chance of victory, write that small chance happening!
In an All-New All-Different Costume: You are absolutely encouraged to write your characters gaining or losing equipment/abilities/injuries/sanity. However, your opponents are not expected to keep track of these in-story changes and vice versa.
Amazing! Astonishing! Uncanny!: Give a brief summary to introduce your characters at the start of your post. Be sure to mention things like powers, personality, history, just stuff that the average reader should know before reading.
Round 1A will run from 1/22/24 to 2/15/24. 11:59 CST.
Character limit is 5 full length Reddit comments, or 50k characters.
While it is fine to go a little bit over, anything that far surpasses this limit will be disqualified. This limit does not include intro posts, or analysis of the matchup.
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u/Artemisia846 Feb 15 '24
As Fate lay upon the ground, she knew that she was dead.
The wounds themselves were superficial… But she had been running on fumes for day after day. She had enough to put up a compelling fight, and perhaps even enough to stand up. But she wasn’t entirely sure that she wanted to. In one blow, the woman had ended all her hopes. Liliana Vess wasn’t in any position to be granting favours anytime soon and there was no way she could get to Cereza with four magical girls in her way. Sage would stay dead forever. She cradled the replica soul gem close to herself and watched as she ebbed back and forth in life.
Metropolis tried to calm things down, as he always did. He was all about moderation and community, to a sickening degree. She was slipping too far out of consciousness to hear the words. Nothing but a psychic communication from Liliana.
“It wouldn’t have worked anyway.”
“I’m sorry?”
“I lied to you. Nothing can bring back the dead. Not truly. I tried it with my brother, and not even Kyubey could achieve it.”
“Why… Why tell me! Couldn’t you have let me die with hope?”
“Because I know something you don’t.”
Liliana grew quiet and Fate filled herself with rage. Who did she think she was? Where did she get off on this suffering! Why would she take what little hope remained to her?
And her soul gem finally turned black.
It was the space between death and life. All that Fate could do was sit in the endless void and think.
Nothing she could do would be good enough. Not even Liliana could have brought back Sage. Nothing she could ever do would be good enough. That was always Alicia’s role. Alicia was the perfect daughter, the one that her mother doted all their attention on. Fate had been left with less than nothing, the eternal disappointment…
Nobody in her life had ever shown her any kindness until Sage had appeared. Like a flash of light in her darkness, Sage had appreciated her. Respected her. She had stood up for her at school, with other magical girls… Even in front of her mother. The day that she had moved in with Sage was one of the best of her life.
If Sage couldn’t be in the world, then there was nothing left worth saving. Nothing worth preserving. She felt the resonance with the false soul gem that Liliana had given her. It might not have held Sage’s soul, but it held her essence. The closest she could ever get to it. They would be joined… And they would burn the world together.
The house exploded in a burst of energy as for the first time in this reality, a terrible sight set itself upon the city of Denver. A domain the size of the entire city began to form as wraiths swarmed and it became night. Stars lit up the night sky and meteors began to decimate the city as a network of buildings formed into one great observatory, broadcasting the city's doom to every television set inside the domain.
For the first time in this reality, a being of raw unfocused power laid its eyes upon the world, as the soul of Fate Testarossa prepared to lay waste to it. A meteor the size of a city came cascading down to leave nothing in its wake.
Nibiru, Witch of Destruction.