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Oh forgot to mention. The author says yes, heh.

I know it's been over two years, but what ever happened to this? Authors lost interest?

Well, this was a fun little rabbit hole for me to inexplicably stumble down. It's a shame that this project was never finished (and that, consequently, the various authors behind it and its combatants never properly revealed themselves), but what's there was a lot of fun to read through. I'm always gonna get a kick out of some well-written fight scenes, you know what I mean?

My compliments to everyone who worked on this!
:)

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Gotta say, Arika is badass as f***, but if I had gotten here on time, I totally would've voted for Hoax. I would've loved to see what her insanity would have done in a later fight.

Strangely enough, I kinda feel the same way about, of all characters, Rocky. Arcanum was definitely the more fleshed-out and compelling of the two (a notion several other commenters seemed to have echoed), but I found the griffon's faux bravado and holy-crap-I'm-so-out-of-my-league-right-now-isms pretty entertaining in and of themselves. I certainly wouldn't have minded seeing the guy bumble his way through another round or two.

Oh well. Not much I can do about it, especially half a decade after the fact.

…That being said, if I had been around when the voting was open, I regret to inform you that I probably would've voted specifically to brute-force a matchup between Arika and Kakumei. Sorry about Hoax.

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Well I think enough time has passed for me to reveal myself because I’m sure this is never coming back, or at least not with these characters ;)

I was Motor Mind, granted I was terrible, but I was also in high school at the time. I’m glad to have worked on this project, even though I was technically the first loser, lol.

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Sorry it took me a hot minute to reply, but gee, thanks for coming out of the woodwork! For what it's worth, I probably would've voted for Motor if I'd been around at the time, but apologies if that's the kind of belated praise that only makes you cringe at your past self. :P

Out of curiosity, is there any chance you remember whom any of the other combatants' creators were? I did some brief digging after I first read this story, and all I could figure out was that unicorn investigator Gray Tiercel belonged to Peregrine Caged himself, lone batpony representative Alcauto belonged to Sasha Nein, and that the users Hope and Blazer both contributed characters they neglected to name.

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I remembered we had a google drive page with the authors, but it's just real-life names. 3 possible scrren names, DarkPhoenix, Orbiting Kettle, and The Tricondon, were there but I'm not sure if those are also Fimfiction names.

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I just searched them up, and all three names seem to line up with on-site users who created their accounts prior to the story's initial March '15 publishing (assuming they aren't just coincidences). Of the bunch, only OrbitingKettle looks to still be active; DarkPhoenix last logged on in March '22, and [The] Tricondon hasn't been on since June '17.

Either way, thanks for the info! I'm assuming that Doc doesn't say which combatants the names/users created?

EDIT: In other news, just double-checked some things; Kaf_Kraked_Poni once worked on a (sadly incomplete) series of artworks of the combatants, and a DeviantArt user going by anonion2 left a comment on Motor Mind's implying that they created Trailblazer/Surefooted. Progress!