The Character Scramble is a bloodmatch tournament where people compete to analyze unique matchups and scenarios and write the best story they can. At the beginning, everyone submits characters that meet the guidelines, then those characters are randomized and distributed evenly. From then on, each week there's a new writing prompt for everyone to follow. At the end of the week, everyone votes for who they think should advance, until we have our winner at the end. The winner at the end of the tournament gets to choose the theme, tier, and rules of the next scramble, along with a sweet custom flair as their reward. The current theme is based on the mobile game Fate: Grand Order, and the current tier is anywhere from 2/10 to 8/10 DCEU Wonder Woman, using only feats from her standalone movie

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Pairings and Road to Redemption

How must it feel to be the villain in histories eyes? Well, evidently the foundation you’ve found yourself working for doesn’t care. After all, you completed your mission, right? You’ve made the world a more stable place by keeping the timeline in check. In that way, you’ve done a good thing. Or at least that’s what they’ll tell you, if you ask. They’ll also tell you you’ve gained full liberties with the foundations facilities and ammenaties, for as long as you’re on the premise.

A kind gesture, perhaps, but it’s not as though it keeps you from your “job” longer than it did before. And sure enough, in time, you are called upon again. You know the drill, ensuring timeline accuracy and all that. Couldn’t be worse than that last job, right?

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692

Your team comes to face down in the dirt. Well, most of them do. Your servants do. Your master, however, awakens elsewhere. They awake imprisoned, guarded by the enemy servants. And beyond them, the enemy master. And beyond THAT, an angry puritan crowd calling for the public execution of your master. A call that no one seems particularly keen to put a stop to.

But worse than that is another member of the opposing team. A shadow of a familiar face all too keen to reduce your master to ash and cinders. And it’s not as though your servants are all that close, or your master equipped to handle this level of oposition. Perhaps it’s best time you laid claim to a helping hand of your own…

Normal Rules

Who Art Thou: Look at all these obscure characters in the scramble! Give a brief summary of your characters in your post. Be sure to mention things like powers, personality, weaknesses, just stuff that the average reader should know before reading.

Crit Happens: The Scramble is a game, and in the end the player always wins the game. This time the player is you, champ! That means that when your write your story, your team always comes out victorious. Even if the odds of you winning are 1 in 100, explain those odds in the analysis and then show us that 1 miracle run.

Unfamiliar Arms: Characters are assumed to be at the same power level they started the tournament at at all times. To clarify, this means you would not be able to loot Wonder Woman of her lasso if you beat her in a previous round, or otherwise gain a competitive advantage based on anything that happened in a previous round. This is to aid your opponent in research of your character.

Thou Art My Master: Such powerful servants and such fragile masters, how could the master hope to survive? Well, they had better, at all costs. If the master dies, all their servants go with them. So like it or not, your servants might have to put in the extra work to protect the master. But those command seals on their hand are a powerful tool...

Due Date: February 13th: An extra day to research your new pal, and then a week to get some writing. Don’t disappoint me this time!

Round Specific Rules

Round Goal: Race to the Rescue!: There’s no time to waist! Your Master is going to be executed! You gotta save ‘em, even if it means kicking everyone’s ass to do it! (spoiler: it does)

Standing at the Alter: But it’s not just the enemy master and their servants, no no no. They’ve gotten themselves a shiny new Alter servant. Essentially, a darker, more malicious, more ruthless version of one of YOUR servants. Or maybe they’re nice and friendly, if you’ve already got dark malicious servants. Who’s to say?

Oh yeah, I guess it’s also Pick-Up Round: Well, well, it’s finally time for that long awaited adoption. And in the spirit of the Gacha Game we’re based on, you get to choose any servant OR master you want!... From the very small list provided! Y-Yay!?

Fluff Goals

Heroes of the Compound: As your list of accolades grows, so does your standing with those you work for. What kind of information can you get out of them? What can you learn about all this historical mucking about? And what about this… Holy Grail?

Meet The New Guy: If your master somehow summoned up a new servant, how did that go? And if your servants formed a contract with another master, how’s the old master going to react? Fun fun fun.