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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The Final Round pits the teams of /u/Voeltz against the team of /u/TheMightyBox72. Let's do this.

It was finally time. No more chores, no more filler, no more running amok of time and space. After their time in what could be the earliest point of history, your team returns to the facility to a surprisingly mellow reception. What do they have to be worried about? They now hold the apple, a direct roadmap right to The Holy Grail. Despite how urgent one would think, the facility and its staff gives you all the time in the world before your final mission. Any last minute bonding, team building, strategizing, romance, any unfinished business in this time, now is your chance. Because once you’ve gotten The Grail, everything will change.

And so once they’ve hooked up the thingies to the doodads and configured the Apple to the cosmic GPS, the facility leaves the machine running. A gate into an age untouched, hitherto lost to time and locked away as a mere myth. When your team is ready, the gate is open for them to step into the last task of the organization. This time, no instructions would be necessary…

Camelot, Briton, 537 AD

No surprises this time. Your team awakens, together, in a secluded cabin outside the city. As they get their bearings, the sounds of a mighty battle can be heard not far from where they now stood. Beyond the first of many rolling hills marched two great armies. The first headed by the Knight of Treachery, Mordred, and the second by a face familiar to your team, the Saber from so long ago, King Artoria Pendragon. Both armies number grander than any seen in your teams travels, and it is not only the number of their knights that stands out about each army. But with each of them sides fantastic beasts, wicked sorcerors, weapons and artifacts whispered of in legends…

And yet the Grail is not among them.

However, upon further inspection, one side does seem to possess something the other is sorely lacking. Those beach bums from Parodox Paradise! They were here too!? And they were warrinng out there? Why? Well you certainly weren’t going to get any answers sitting around, so it was time to kick ass! Kick enough of it, maybe you’d get some answers...

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: Literally Right Now

Round Specific Rules

Round Goal: Fight the Fight, Win the War: Well, those “rivals” of yours are already throwing themselves into the mix, might as well join in. Maybe they know something you don’t, right? Either way, this war’s going to be a bloody one, and it won’t end until

The Mighty Must Fall: Hawkeye, Luke Skywalker, Dokuro-Chan, The Crimson Chin, Stocking Anarchy, Vamirio, Marshall BraveStarr, Stella, Danzo Shimura, and Pfle. No less than 10 Heroes enter the battlefield, and until Five have been slain, there’s no chance of the emergence of-

Time and Place Unknown

The Holy Grail. The Omnipotent Wish Granting Device. Fueled by the destruction and the deaths of ‘Heroes’, by blood and by battle. Once the battle of Camlann has drawn to a close does the Grail Appear, offering itself to whichever master(s) remain alive. A single touch is all it takes, whisking the remaining heroes into a world of their own design. Into a vision of their greatest, truest wish coming true. Perhaps how they’d always imagined it, or perhaps the grail unveils unto them a sinister truth of its own design. Whatever they may see and whatever they may hope, when the vision fades and the heroes find themselves on some distant battlefield, long after the fighting has stopped, only one truth becomes apparent:

Highlander Rules: There can be only one. Sure, the Master is guaranteed a wish so long as their heroic spirit lives, but only one such spirit can claim its wish. How can such a weighty decision be made? Will it even be made at all? Is the heart’s greatest desire worth more than the comrades that must die to fulfill it? And now that all is said and all is done, now that The Grail is in hand, do they really need the master anymore?

Flavor Rules

The Facility On Your Side: With no rush into the battle for the grail, how will your team spend the free time? Will they spend it at all? Or is it right back into the thick of things?

I Know Them…: Woah, it’s those guys from the beach! What are they doing here? Why are they here? What’s going on with that?

I Don’t Know Them: But wait, what about this mysterious facility you’ve been working with. What do they want with The Holy Grail if the wish is only good for one of you? Why are they doing all of this in the first place?

Faces of the Age: Artoria Pendragon, Mordred Pendragon, Morgan le Fay, Merlin, The Knights of the Round, Queen Gwynevere, some of the greatest and grandest heroes throughout history all gathered on the planes of a great battle between Father(?) and Son(?). How, if at all, will they factor into your tale?

Finals Voting Form: Voting ends in One Week (Saturday Morning, The Twelfth)