The 42nd Gecko

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@KoL Funily enough, I think the only person with a decent air matchup vs Eve would be Apia, which would require a Bananas only fight. So, Atarah'll probably say something like, "Do we even have anything aerially visible we care about since we're all underground?"

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@KoL That would be an interesting way for the fight to begin.

Portal to Eve's flight path:
Atarah: AUUUUUGGGGH! *falls past Eve and impacts the ground*
Eve: What the hell was that?

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Atarah

"Gyaaah! How'd these guys get behind me?" Atarah recoiled to the side in shock as zombie after zombie surprise attacked them. "I mean, I've got a technique that senses opponents and everyth-" CRUNCH "-ing?" Atarah looked down at the source of the noise to find that the decapitated zombie head Ghelgath had separated from its body had bitten down on her ankle, or what passed for an ankle on a harpy. The only apparent effect was shattered teeth, as the zombie might as well have been biting into a boulder. Made of Adamant. But it nonetheless clung to her, even as she started hopping around the room shaking her foot. "Get off get off get off!" Regardless of her flailing, and the bone shards prying free from the zombies ruined jaw, it refused to give up. Finally, Atarah simply plunged her foot into the floor, smashing the head against the rock.

Finally regaining her "cool", Atarah calmed down and addressed the question, "Wait.. You want to know my name? Haha.. This is it!" Atarah literally danced for joy, jigging in place a bit. Someone actually wanted to know her name? And these looked like bigwigs! Atarah's joy in moving up the world was plainly visible. Then, striking a "dramatic" pose with both hands held high clenched in fists, she declared, "Tremble before the mighty Atarah! Oooh, and this is Serah, it's great to meet you! What's your name?" Her probably practiced in a mirror proclamation quickly stopped as she introduced the blob nestled in her feather with googly eyes and held her hand forward to shake on the meeting and ask Apai's name. "I didn't mean to be rude about the bees or ice, I just don't know why we're all going underground. Is there something important that we can take advantage of down here?"

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Sapphire Pink

Fluffy Woof

"Owoo! Safe!" Sapphire threw herself onto her stomach, in some strange parody of penguin locomotion, arms forward. Her goal was to just barely manage to smooch the skeleton's fractured skull that Farris had just smashed with a shield, before the eldritch light of undeath left its eye sockets. Unfortunately, she could not seal lips in time with all the ones Saef's disciplined squads gunned down with their tight fire lanes.

"Mmm... This is no good at all, you guys are killing.. er, life-ing? Redeadicating? all the food... But you can't not or else they'll eat you.. Hmm.. No worries, I'll just eat somewhere else! Good luck you guys!" Sapphire set about thinking for a moment, her pointer finger tapping against her lips, and tail swishing lowly, before she boldly declared her new plan that apparently took so much thought and effort to achieve with finger held triumphantly skyward. She then promptly wandered off to find her way underground, following her nose that told her where to find the restless dead.

Sapphire Pink herself descended into the catacombs, seeking out greater and greater concentrations of the undead, still wrapped in sparkles that seemed to shield her from the deleterious effects of their touch, as her weightless flitting avoided their increasingly lethargic blows. As she gathered more and more energy from first kisses, and then slight grazing touches, eventually, wisps of pink could be seen (all the more standing out in the dark catacombs that Pink was a literal beacom within), floating from adjacent tombs she hadn't even entered to join in Sapphire's nimbus of energy she was building up. The more and more energy she gathered, the faster and further she could gather it from. Soon, she was the center of a hurricane of the these threads spiralling around her, draining from the rich psychic energies of this place even as Victoire drained its rich soil.

~~Undead "Smooched": 1 Ghost, 1 Skeleton, a Couple Zombies, and .1% of the Catacombs Undead~~

Atarah

"Alright, Serah! Let's show 'em what we're made off!" Atarah smiled, fangs bared wide (why did a bird have fangs? Chalk it up to demonic influence), and Serah gave a slight squeek in appreciation. She surveyed the battlefield, ready to rush forward and give battle! The explosions out there looked lovely!

Then, looking behind her, she noticed every demon worth anything that she could see had decided to descend underground instead of joining the fray. "Er, um.. I guess that's fine too. I mean, I could be said to be a specialist, in underground combat." Atarah's smile seemed a bit less enthusiastic, with a few twitches at the edge of her lips. Then, she gave up the facade entirely and sighed. "Fine, we go underground and do sneaky spooky stuff.. I'm sure we'll get to dramatically pop from underneath the ground later.. Like Hell bursting forth from the pits." Atarah gave Serah a little pat before following the other demons underground. As a zombie reached for her, she halfheartedly caught its skull in her talons and then smashed it back through the stone slab it had pushed aside to reach her, and back into its coffin, now sans intact skull.

"So, you guys got a plan? I can imagine the vampire can do neat stuff with the dead, but can you guys do neat stuff with them with ice and.. bees?" She asked Apia and Ghelgath.

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Miyu

Happyverse

"Wow, it looks smaller from the outside." Miyu commented as she took in the grand sight of the Nexus and Jorm.

Noticing that Helena's word had been true, that she had been able to bring the Daimyo with her by sheer force of will, she flitted herself into its hand, letting her have a seat on her ride down. "How's my little mech doing today?"

"Status fully operational."

"Great. First thing I'm doing when I figure out how things work around here is granting you sentience. Let's see how that works out!" Glancing over to view the other people who had come along. Ananta and some kids.. ~I think I sent her a heated rock once?~ And a girl with a mech. Well, heh, that was kind of funny. "Hey ho, I don't suppose you're a scientist?" Miyu waved at the other girl.

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@KoL The key to it is that the magnetism is due to "corrupted magic", meaning holy or anti-magic backed attacks penetrate right on through. Aka, it's another in my series of "Angels that are actually good at fighting demons (Pink), Demons that are good at fighting Machina (Atarah). So, yes, it can EXACTLY be penetrated by magic, like Omega's being a ghost or Victoire's bat form.

It also works specifically against metals and lasers, so, if you want to punch (unless you're made of metal), hit with wood (because your bonesword), use fire, excetera. There's a ton of physical attacks that penetrate it. It does grant her extreme resistance (not outright immunity) against a very common subset of attacks for machina to use, but most of the Angels who use swords have holy enchantments on them. And a not insignificant amount of Machina use holy swords too, actually (Shizuka, Grafdakka, Bonesword). Granted, the actual toughness of her skin works against everything, but in the Nexus, being tough will only prevent you from evaporating into a fine mist when hit, not necessarily save you from damage.

As for the the To Go Even Further, I think it would work at full strength on someone within melee range, and then drop off pretty heavily over about 25-100 meters. It's meant to draw off the energy of people she's fighting with/against, not allow her to hide in a corner and siphon energy from the whole battlefield.

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@Inner Demon If you were in the discord, you would note the conversation we had about all the similarities between harpies and saiyans.

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@Inner Demon Behold.

Atarah

"Me and Serah'll show you the true power of effort!"

Name: Atarah
Title: Has not earned one.
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Hell
Race: Dodo Harpy Demon

Personality: Atarah has three primary loves.
Serah, her one companion and friend, through everything she has been through. Even if Serah never actually says anything and just looks around with her googly eyes. If Serah was at risk, Atarah would be putty in the hands of whoever held Serah. No matter how much Atarah says she wants to be the best, and prove herself, and that she's an independent birb who don't need nobody, especially stupid other harpies, she still couldn't bear to be parted with Serah.

Maximum Effort, a fight's not a real fight unless you're giving it your all! Atarah knows she's not strong enough to be taken seriously by the Nexus, practically nameless. But that's only who she is today. She has faith that she'll burst through her limitations and show the world the power of her effort. She just knows someday she'll be taken seriously, and have a cool title that people will whisper to themselves in fear as she dramatically strides into the room.. Oh, wouldn't that be lovely?

Flight, no matter how much she pretends she's fine how she is and proud of her body, the fact that she can't fly in the skies burns in her heart. She has plenty of nightmares of finally being able to fly, only to suddenly fall.

History: Born and raised in captivity, Atarah was a slave who, unlike the rest of her kin, could not fly to try and escape the harshest punishments of their masters. She could only crawl in the dust and hope it would hide her. When she saw their feared masters, she could not help but feel jealous of the fear they inspired in her? Wasn't she like that? Between her flightlessness and her desire to be like the demons who enslaved them, Atarah wasn't exactly good at making friends with the other harpies, but she made one, Serah. Serah had tasted the freedom of the sky, but had her wings clipped after her first attempt at escape. Together, they tried to survive. But they didn't. Serah died.

Rather than having faith in some stupid male harpy who was supposed to be so great and save them, or some Deva who was supposed to take care of everyone who prayed to her (fat load of good that had done Serah), Atarah was determined to climb her way up in the nexus. She voluntarily joined the "foreign legion" of slaves who were used as cannon fodder in battle. She was not as good as she thought she was. Amidst the broken bodies of the damned, Atarah barely kept her mouth above the river of blood. Machina artilery and weapons had literally materialized out of thin air and light and pounded the slaves into the dirt, to clear the field of those who were not real fighters.

While not as strong or great as she thought she was, she was still stronger than those other slaves by sheer determination and she rose from the corpses after the battle had passed over her. Only to hear a little squeak. Turning her head, she found a little bouncy ball of a demon struggling to keep its head above blood level. It had apparently been shielded from the blasts by the body of an emaciated dragon that had served as a mount for the fortunately ill-fated "sergant" of the slaves. Unable to pass by the only other survivor of the group, Atarah took in the little googly eyed squeeking thing. She presumed it was some kind of demon, as it had demonic energies. And she named it Serah.

When Syphax "rescued" all the harpies by sheer luck, Atarah was enraged. Serah hadn't come with her. Tearing towards the demonic lands as soon as she was back in heaven, Atarah did not stop until she had clawed her way back into hell and found Serah again. She swore they'd never be apart again, and was so sorry that those mean angels had stolen Atarah away from Serah. She'd show those stupid harpies what she thought of anyone who would tear Atarah away from her REAL family.

Powers:

Soft Shadow Style- This "creatively" named style is Atarah's anti-Hard Light and Nanomachine technique. These constructs are machina staples, and Atarah has trained specifically to be be able to punch through them. She sends out a pulse of demonic energy which corrupts nanomachine code, and creates and marks weakpoints in hard light. Upon then hitting with another attack, this style shoots energy through the fracture points of an impact with a weakpoint, disrupting hard light into regular light. Against other stuff, it just lets Atarah know where her targets are after she lets out a pulse.

Serah, the Earthshaker Lance- A tiny little bouncy ball of a demon, Serah is capable of transforming into a earth moving lance, capable of causing localized "earthquakes" (with video game physics), burrowing through the ground with rapid speed, and small scale earth manipulation apart from those specific applications. But most of the time she just nestles in Atarah's cozy chest feathers, as any sort of extended exertion is beyond the baby demon(?).

Rare Earth Skin- Atarah's skin and feathers are pretty brutally tough, and not just physically, but also possessing demonic energy fields that work via corrupted magical magnetics to deflect or diffuse metal and laser based attacks. Unfortunately makes her vulnerable to magnetic fields in return, and she has accidentally deflected herself right off a machina airship when she wasn't paying attention. Just another way in which the Nexus, for all the gifts it has granted her, refuses to let her fly. She developed this power after Serah started nestling in her feathers, and it seems to be getting stronger all the time.

Maximum Effort- Dime a dozen physical boost at the cost of energy/life limit ability. Atarah really wants to win, and she's willing to put her body beyond her limits to achieve that.

To go even Further- Atarah's true power is to able to steal extreme effort. She thrives off people pushing themselves past their limits, including herself, a psychological obsession that has manifested a latent reality warping power. When someone uses an ability that has a significant stamina, reserve, charge up time, or life or what have you cost, such as Maximum Effort, Atarah spontaneously gains stamina/life/excetera equal to half of the resource spent. This doesn't do anything against normal attacks or such, only abilities that truly push someone past their limits. Thanks to how math works, this doubles the duration or power (depending on how Atarah allocates her power) of Maximum Effort. Which could be truly frightening if she was a powerful race instead of a harpy. Instead it just kinda maybe sorta gets her on par.

Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyRK2GI_T7I

@KoL@Banana@TheWindel Look good? I'd like to bring Atarah into the battle if Eve'll be. I was designing her before the battle was revealed, and I haven't snuck any powers in to specifically help with this battle.

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Maybe I'll use the second for her banners, but the first for her chat text.

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I like the second one better for this little gal, but I think the first is more readable?

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@The 42nd Gecko Nice post m8. I like Pink's character so far.

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Thanks, my woofs seem to go over well.