Alright, it's taken a while, but the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament fighters have been decided, the matchups made, and the bracket drawn up!
Thanks to all of you who submitted, even if you didn't get in. Here is the list of fighters, the authors who submitted them, and the stories they come from. Note that a couple of characters were submitted by authors who don't actually own the stories they come from; this is because that the characters were created by the authors who submitted them, but for the purposes of being used in other stories. They are still eligible.
At long last, the list of fighters:
KangTheSpartan submitted Lucario from Friendship is Aura
Loyal2Luna submitted Marr Bell from Doctor Whooves - The Series: Episode Two - Game of Stones
Jonny Derp submitted Rorry/Mirr from A Rising Light
the-master submitted Azzal Kan from Fall of Canterlot
Flying Wingnut submitted Jake Gray from Bloodflow
TundraStanza submitted Tundra Stanza from Nothing Probably Goes on Forever Too
KenSES64 submitted Seth Disarmonia from Spawn of Disharmony, Seth Disarmonia and the Universe Hopping Princess, and More Stories Featuring Seth
Vinetion~R submitted Vinetion Lutin from Three of Me: School Society (Guidelines), Three of Me, Living the Dream, Continuing the Dream, and Life Goes On
Scripture submitted Hunger Pains from The Autumn Tower
That 1 Guy submitted Warfather from Clockwork and Between Blood and Shadows
JJ Malcolm submitted Knightmare from From Nobody to Knightmare
7-4 submitted Ivan from A Broken Peace
Dark Lightning submitted Dark Lightning from Making the Best of It, Moving with the Wind, Continuing the Dream, Life Goes On, The Trotting Dead, Three of Me: School Society (Guidelines), and different sides of the same coin
Blaze Spectrum submitted Joey Subtle from Blazing Muzzles
Io submitted Aoi from The Blue Stranger, The Red Curtain
Blue Breeze submitted Blue Breeze from Continuing the Dream and Life Goes On
Fordregha submitted Jack Khajiit from Through Feline Eyes
Quick Fix submitted Quick Fix from Agents of Discord
Scarlet Key submitted Scarlet Lightning from Scarlet Lightning: Rainbows, Butterflies and Lightning Storms
Barrel-of-fun submitted Ace from Wild Card
totallynotabrony submitted Plymouth Valiant from A Dream and all other stories from the Dreams Series
Ice submitted Ice from Continuing the Dream, Life Goes On, and Three of Me
HoovesLikeJagger submitted Big Lugnut from Robotic Stallion Big Lugnut
RLYoshi submitted Arrell from To Err is Equine
epicdonus1123 submitted Bronze from Bronze, Thunder, and Rain and Snicker
Guardian submitted Jason Parker from The Conversion Bureau: Jaguars
The Psychopath submitted Abstract the Dark from Abstract the dark's revenge
ThePopeMobile100 submitted Sigma from My Little Hitcolt
BronyDJ submitted Shadow Blitz from Three Best Friends & Their Journey in Equestria!
Kapuchu submitted Winterjet, an OC not from a story
Tamara Bloodhoof submitted Ritz Korimere from Griffin the Griffin and Dancing Flames, Cooling Ember
The Fiery Joker submitted Brand Fire from Recasted
That's the list of fighters, authors, and origin stories. Thirty-two fighters, all raring to go!
Here's the matchups bracket to dictate who'll be fighting who!
If the image doesn't load, here's a link to the picture.
The tournament won't commence quite yet, though; we still have the antagonist free-for-all to get through, as well as one more planned battle afterwards. After this, though, the tournament will begin as soon as possible!
Assistant judges, prepare to soon receive messages and get ready to read, make decisions, and possibly decide who wins and who dies. As for everyone else, get ready for a series of battles that will determine which of these thirty-two original is the strongest.
He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!
And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.
So it begins...
Looks like I'm gonna be busy.
You need to have an O.C. death battle, take different OC's and pit them against each other...
Mary sue VS Gary sue?
and other fun OC battles... That would be awesome....
I am surprised that Yah-Shee did not comment on this.
1551786 You don't need to help out with every battle. Just the ones you think you can handle.
I'll explain further in a message.
Believe it or not, ritz s actually tamara's character from her fic, it' sjust that miss ritz debuted n GtG first....
Also, who's tundra stanza?
1551793 Oh, that'll be commented on when the battle comes around. It just seemed out of place right now given how this was just a list of fighters.
Let the games begin...
1551799 Didn't know that actually. Tamara said Ritz only appeared in Griffin the Griffin. I'll fix that soon.
And Tundra Stanza...well, read the story and find out.
Being serious, I haven't read all of these stories yet, so I'm not a hundred percent sure who a lot of these characters are.
Oh I hope Warfather doesn't fail in the first round, I will pray for you my OC
1551798
In the words of myself:
Bring it on!
My Shadow Blitz vs Aoi? Hm, interesting. Can't wait!
i say bring it on!
*sees that if I win and Vinetion wins I face her*
HOLY SHITTTTTTTTT
1551923 *sees that you are ignoring the fact that you have to fight me first*
1551929:
Oh no, I saw that, went to that story and read the discription and was all:..........................
My Tundra Stanza vs. Knightmare?
Yikes! I'm doomed right from the get-go.
Quote: "Fan-tipping-flastic."
Oh, well. As long as the battle is somehow epic I can live with that.
Knightmare is so screwed sincwe we can only use what's been show in fics...
He doesn't reach Griffin levels of badass 'till Endgame except in the re-write, which is horribly incomplete.
And he NEVER reaches Aoi levels of Badass, let alone the far mroe badass Mango Jack!
1551936 are you trying to tell me Kngihtmare is more badass than your guy?
Because I've not read your fic yet and I find that distinctly hard to believe.....
mainly because we're tlaking 'unknown quantities' and we're not allowed to speak with judges about battle strategies and how our dudes and dudettes fight.
1551960
Well... maybe I exaggerated just a bit.
I just assumed that a character from a "Mature" story would be slightly more... bodacious than one from a "Teen" story.
1551975 It's mature because of the Visions of the Future chapter
go and read it.
you'll see WHY It's rated mature.
Knightmare's a musician with a knack for combat. He's, effectively, a 'Bard'.
Alone? He's a tough oppponent who's hard to kill, but hardly a threat against gamebreaking God-mode sues like Aoi and Warfather.
with his band? Or the changeling armada backing him?
THEN you're fucked.
Because, guess what?
Bards POWER UP their allies, making them all more badass.
And keep in mind, my version of Cadance eventually starts dual-wielding GAU-8 Avengers.
So, yeah.
Sicne he's stuck fighting alone, this fight won't be as one-sided as you'd think.
Also. Kngihtmare, being a bard...needs to sing.
like http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=9Rl_gxFSOuY this song....
Why?
.....Because FUCK YEAH, THAT'S WHY!!!
1551984
Ah, okay, that makes more sense.
I'm just hoping to get to Big Lugnut. Vengeance will be mine!
1552012 Yeah. If they were using the revised Future Prologue version, I wouldn't panic.
but the one from jsut as the GGG ends?
Knight's fucked.
Also Stick with me, baby, and I'll make you go far!
Or...
I AM COMPLETE!
or
Nothing ever [ever] happens in this town!
OH! Even better!
Why not HOW MANY POINTS DO I RECIEVE!?
All I cam say is this will be epic. I don't care that much if Joey Subtle loses. I want to read a good fight, that's all.
But say I can say is:
JOEY! KICK WINTERJET'S... um... hindquarters?
Winterjet's up against a pony who was practically born to kill, (it's her special talent) has armour with three centimetres of titanium fused with tinfoil with magic, resulting in something light as tinfoil but as durable as titanium. Also a DMR with armor piercing bullets that can kill a space marine (what Joey is) in three shots(One if aimed at the head). A rate of fire of two rounds per second, a range of 950 m, a clip size of fifteen and five clips carried around. Also a Assault Rifle with forty armour piercing rounds that can kill a space marine in eight shots (Three if aimed at the head) A rate of fire of eight rounds per second, a range of 500m and five spare clips. Winterjet better have some tricks up his sleeve or he's gonna be gunned down!
Also if I win then I'm up against Quick Fix or Blue Breeze. If it's Blue Breeze then I ay win but I'm not so sure if it's Quick Fix.
1552062
Whoa, whoa, whoa? Vengeance? What did I (we, I dunno) ever do to you?
'Sides, Lugnut is the only one up there with any tournament experience.
So let's go. I'll dis-harm your moania... or... your harm will... and seth dissed... and... uh...
Let's rumble.
aaawww i was really hope i get in, but maybey next time
i wonder how asome this fight will turn out
all things considered and simply going off of names in my first major bracket Brand Fire and Tundra Stanza seem like my biggest threats but than when i saw the CGotG characters i already knew they would take this. oh well i i dont mind as long as i win a round or two. I know im not winning so i place my bets on Aoi.
Arrelle is going to Fight?.... well, he was a nice co-host of Death Battle, TIME TO FIND A REPLACEMENT!
1552899 Not Arrell from this story. Arrell from a different story, just the same name.
on another note, lucario as a pokemon is Fighting/Steel. I am debatable between Grass and Grass/Earth in either one type advantages point me :| still lucario throws a nasty punch in that story of kang's
1552929 Well, now I know... AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE!
1552938 There'll be a lot of Pokemon stuff for that battle, trust me. At the moment, I've read all of Lucario's story and most of the stories you're in and even I have no clue who's going to win. This is gonna be fun.
1552150 Hmm... a metal pony? Looks like something my sister Screwball would build. Doesn't matter I'll take you on.
1552062 Breaking character I have to say truthfully I kinda wanted to face Valiant. I don't mind though.
1553006
I just noticed of those stories up there i never mentioned my own story didnt i? weird. Probably shouldn't use that as reference anyways since that's ancestry not current XD
1553033 If it's considered canon to your character, I actually have to use it. If you declare it non-canon then I can ignore it.
1553041
I'm not sure really. It's a recounting of an ancestor, which by rights of magic and fantasy powers your ancestors usually have great influence on your overall power.
In that sense yes your probably should (it's not that long), but you should probably still follow the list i gave you the first time.
1553041 does this mean Kngihtmare's re-written Prologue is canon, as well as his visions of the Future story?????
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"Win or lose, I shall live on, and you, you will crumble to the earth beneath me"
1553063 Alrighty, I'll take a look. Worst case scenario it'll provide some interesting facts for the background of your character.
1553076 Anything related to the character that the character's creator declares canon and has actually been stated in a story is considered canon for these battles. In addition, anything you add to the story before the battle comes out is also canon, so long as it doesn't make your character suddenly intensely OP (for example, suddenly giving him the ability to incinerate whatever he glares at).
1553103 Don't worry about that. If a character changes to super OP before a battle, I'll just ignore their change for the sake of safety. Same thing if they suddenly become extremely weak (an accident causing them to lose all their powers, for example).
1553098 I...have a LOT of writing to do, because some of the sutff he's capable of by that 'After the EndGame' prologue wasn't shown in it and wont' be coming for a long LONG time....
1553123 Hey, think of it this way: if Knightmare wins his first battle, you have 15 other battles until he fights again, so you'd have plenty of time to add more stuff. Plus, even though he's in the first fight, that fight isn't even going to be officially started until I finish the antagonist free-for-all, which should be a week or two. You have plenty of time...just don't make him super OP.
1553140 it's not like I plan on him being able to use all of his posible Summons or anyting
I mean calling up the King of Dragons, legendary sorceress, and a freaking wartrain made of flesh and bones all at once seems much
it's just onna be one at a time....
and yeah....
one thing I definitely wanna solidify are the re-worked Combat Forms, Nyx[both the guitar and the demoness], and Knightmare's spellcastng training.
of which only the combat forms were shown in the original, and not in enough detail to make use of.
1553103 Funny fact: Knightmare DemonBane is considered the WEAKEST of the Chess Pieces. He survives by skill, dumb luck, and common sense.
He's also a friggin' lunatic.
1553181 Weakest of the chess pieces? Apparently you haven't read To Err is Equine yet.
1551790
That's exactly what this chapter is about.
1553203 Apparently you haven't red 'From Nobody to Knightmare'/
Also, your descriptions of the windigoes seems oddly simmilar tot hat of The Nightmares.
Possible offshoot?
Srsly, drop by the chat some dime and I'll let you borrow my straightjacket.
1553218 Oh, I've read From Nobody to Knightmare, trust me. Let's just say that Arrell has all the strength of Knightmare, double the lunacy, and none of the luck. His only strengths lie in his personality and the powers he's slowly learning.
And by offshoot, are you suggesting a crossover?