^^Agreed, will be interesting to see how they turn out in the end.

Day 5:

Match 5, Bracket 1: Snake

Match 5, Bracket 2: Krustacean

Match 5, Bracket 3: Sapheera

Snake

Krustacean

Sapheera

my vote goes to

snake

KRUSTACEAN

SAPHEERA



nice job everyone

Eternus

Krustacean


Sapheera

Crab People! Crab People! Taste like Crab, Look like People!

South Park has ruined my brain.

Eternus

Krustacean

Sapheera

I love Eternus' alternate costume, though the primary is bland. Many of his moves are derivative of already existing moves, but ultimately I sided with him.

I've been a fan of Krustacean since the reveal, and I'm actually surprised to see others voting for him frequently. The character is so silly at times and I have gotten very tired of extremely serious characters... Plus, I quite like the description of his alternate costume. That fatality with the cauldron is probably my favorite fatality so far.

On the subject of Sapheera.... Adored her costume, and that she "scattered to the winds" in her ending. This is a character whose concept I adore, but the story is a little on the weaker side in my opinion. A lot of her special moves are designed to hinder the opponent as opposed to outright attacking them, and I like that, though I think the individual uses of each move should be elaborated on. Maybe some explanation of how holding her victims to the ground as opposed to suspending them in air was key to her fighting style... Like, can the "Sand Tornado" hit an airborne target that the "Sand hands" could not? Otherwise it seems like having both is a little unnecessary, because immediately after using "Sand Hands", she could simply use a pop-up to have essentially the same effect as "Sand Tornado"

You know, in any other situation I'd have probably voted for Black Widow, who was pretty well done, but I am totally swayed in favor of the Krab man in this case.

Thanks, all the same, Harle!

That reminds me, I need to go watch Futurama.

*dies*

Simply the best picture I've ever seen.

Zoidberg is my hero.

1. SNAKE

2. BLACK WIDOW- though i do think you need to edit the moves list as she has too many options.

3. SAPHEERA- Lots to like about this character though I like others am not too fond of the naked look or the changing of canon but none the less she gets my vote

Intrestingly my character Malice was to end up finding out she was the bastard sister of Sindel and she would take Mileena as her own daughter and they would both make claim for the Edenian throne, but I droped this as it would be dependent on both Sindel and Kitana being alive for the next game, I still see this being the case but its not importanat part of her story for this game.

Match 1: Eternus

This one was tough (though not necessarily for good reasons). I originally saw Eternus has a knockoff of Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, and one of the ninjas, but the more I thought about him, he's actually pretty cool and would probably be fun to play as. His story is great, and that sort of makes up for some of the lack in originality.

Snake is about average when it comes to this competition, but I didn't care that much for his look, story, or fatalities.

Match 2: Krustacean

Krustacean is obviously a joke character, and I don't care for him at all, but he wins by default since Black Widow went over the 8 special move maximum (though I didn't care much for her at all anyways).

Match 3: Greyia

These two were about even, and while I don't really like changing the canon up so much, Sapheera's story and overall gameplay appealed to me more. That being said however, I just couldn't get over the canon being changed (which again goes against the rules of the competition). And yes, the canon is changed. The canon has always been that Kitana is the daughter of Sindel and Jerrod; there's no grey area there. Also, Sapheera has no X-ray and only one fatality.

So Krustacean and Greyia both win on technicalities.

So again:
Match 1: Eternus
Match 2: Krustacean
Match 3: Greyia

I've gotta say, this completely made my day. What started as a meaningless word, uttered simply as a throwaway gag at a Burger King a couple months ago, has become a motivator on the internet. My eyes are literally welling with tears, and the cockles of my heart are warmed.

Eternus
Krustacean
Greyia

Bracket 1: Eternus

This was a very, VERY difficult choice for me. Both of these characters have ninja-archetype costumes, with Snake's primary being too easily confused for an alternate Noob or Smoke. Snake's alt -- the Reaper outfit -- is sinister but cliche. Eternus's story seems to have much more impact than Snake's. As for specials, Eternus seems to lack a unifying theme: fire, telekinesis, invisibility, Hands from Hell, swords -- is there anything that this guy can't do? Snake's moves stick to a strong and interesting theme, but it almost seems to me that he doesn't quite live up to his potential. There's probably a lot more that can be done with a vanishing blade than simply throwing it at your enemy two different ways; I can imagine much more lively combo setups for Eternus than Snake. Maybe describing how he incorporates the blade into his fighting style would help fill in the picture. Fatalities... none of them really "sang" to me. Eternus's first one is interesting but reminds me too much of Noob's Babality to take it seriously. Eternus takes my final vote with a stronger story and more interesting gameplay, but Snake scores big points because I'd rather see his vanishing blade techniques in an MK game.

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Bracket 2: Black Widow

Hoh boy.

Krustacean is hilarious, and his parody of an X-Ray move is brilliant. "Puts them back together like nothing happened?" I guess it saves his victims the trouble of doing it themselves, like when people have to grow a new liver after Sub-Zero freeze-crushes theirs, so he can do it again in Round 2. Deadliest Katch Fatality is awesome. All that being said, I don't see Krustacean actually being in the game. The Moon Sigil move, for one, would be too unpredictable to build an effective strategy around it. Moon Walk would be a very slow teleport and would be easily anticipated and punished by the enemy. Peench probably should have been classified as a stun move -- kind of like he pinches you by the nose and holds you there squirming for a sec before he launches the next combo; enhanced, he holds you by the nose and tickles you with his krabby appendages. That would be hilarious.

I have two chief complaints about Black Widow. First, to call the black woman Black Widow might seem to a lot of people like a bad joke or worse, an insult. Second, for being the deadliest close-range fighter in the clan, she does astoundingly little close-range fighting; half of her specials are variations on the throw-a-clone-at-the-enemy theme, and the sheer number of variations might make her a chore to play. She has an interesting story; the Shirai Ryu seem to have drawn the short straw on story development whereas the Lin Kuei nearly has too much. I'm concerned, however, about what would happen when Scorpion sees her at the tournament and realizes that his whole clan is not dead? It would throw his whole story out of whack. In her ending, the names of the other survivors seem to go a little overboard with the theme, and it all sounds a little too Kill Bill, and it seems strange that all nine of the survivors were women, and is Frost the same Frost we know from MKDA or someone else? That threw me off a little. Energy-charged sais are trademarked to Mileena; electric nets are trademarked to Cyrax and seem very out of place in her moveset.

If Black Widow makes the next round, her Powers and Alternate Costume info should be fixed. They seem to be from a different character.

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Bracket 3: Sapheera

Sapheera wins marginally. Both of these characters directly contradict the game's canon: Greyia seems to come from a completely different storyline where Shinnok is dead and Greyia, not Blaze, is supposed to be the instrument of preventing Armageddon. I think that's what's going on, anyway.... I'm not sure what makes a "Story Mode Ending" relevant unless you're building an entirely new MK game around this fanfic scenario, but in any case the story doesn't seem to fit with the existing canon, before OR after MK9 rebooted it. This is just... something else. Sapheera's story breaks everything we know about Kitana, Sindel, and Shao Kahn. Kahn has always been a ruthless SOB and threat to all realms; it was his invasion that made him an enemy of Edenia -- not a silly misunderstanding that could have easily been resolved by the royal Koroner showing up and saying yes, Sapheera did indeed die in childbirth. Also, Kitana's already been adopted out once in the canon; making her twice deceived as to her own origins is pushing it to soap opera proportions.

These characters seem to be built around their stories, leaving gameplay and other elements relatively underdeveloped, so I don't have much to say about the rest. In the end my decision came down to this: Sapheera with her sand abilities and *maturely* seductive flair (she scores much higher than Mileena in my book) would add a lot more to the MK universe than the world-stomping robot boss.

Day 5

Match 1: Snake-had me at fatal organ shish kebab. good ending, ok moves.

Match 2: Krustacean lol. actaully good cosutmes and moves. Black widow kool too but Krustacean's a better fit. Liked the claw shooting thing. but mostly it was the moon cheese.

Match 3: Sapheera-Well devolped and thought out story with plausible ties to MK. Her story does go against MK "canon" story, but so does MK's "canon story" haa. I see her goin far, and a fitting element that has not been used in Mk yet.

Snake
Krustacean
Sapheera

Thanks for your feedback, very much. I really wish I could put more character development into Snake, but I gave him a limited time slot for me to work on. There is much more that I can still put into him, and it struck me big time after I submitted the character. I just hope that people can see that potential within my character.

@umbrascitor: Royal Koroner sounds like an awesome kharacter. Maybe another KaK.

Is the next round ready yet?

Vote totals falling off a little guys, let's fix that. The results for Day 5 will be up in about an hour and a half (or so). But I wanted to keep the rounds starting around this same time, so here we go.

Day 5:

Match 6, Bracket 1: Oksana vs. Malice

Match 6, Bracket 2: Shoulen vs. Erzhära

Match 6, Bracket 3: Hana vs. Merrick



FIGHT!

Malice
Shoulen
Merrick

Great job to everyone this round.

Malice (as an aside, both of your time lines are a little off. Oksana can't be younger than Kitana if she was born before Onaga's assassination. And Malice couldn't have been discovered by Kitana because she was too young to remember her real father when Kahn invaded.)

Shoulen

Merrick

Bracket 1: Oksana

I loved the kharacter koncept and story ending.

Bracket 2: Shoulen

Completely original IMO.

Bracket 3: Merrick

Again, I loved the character.