Season 5, Week 1
Meru
(Legend of Dragoon)
 
The resident Water-alligned PC of Legend of Dragoon, Meru is almost a walking contradiction. A Wingly who's also a Dragoon... a ditz despite being of the wisest race of her world... a mage with the game's strongest Addition. Despite her numerous oddities, however, Meru remains a deadly fighter. Her speed is nothing short of blinding, and her physical is surprisingly decent. She has a Dragoon form and the 250% defence multipliers + status immunity that come with that, along with some healing and an absolutely devastating attack in Blue Sea Dragon, which rivals the dreaded Divine Dragon Cannon. Perhaps most importantly for this fight, though, is that she has excellent magic defence, and Jenova is a mage. Can Meru join her three fellow female Dragoons and tally an RPGDL win?

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Jenova's not too worried coming into this fight. While she may not be as fearsome as her darling little Sephiroth, she's still a nasty fight. Most likely, she'll want to use her Jenova-SYNTHESIS form in this fight just for the HP, instead of her DEATH form, because while fire would wound Meru more, the DEATH form had much less HP. While Bio2 won't be that wonderful when Meru decides to go into her Dragoon form, Jenova still has Absorb to play around with, as well as her physical attacks, and there's always Ultima...


Dark Holy Elf
The day after her match with Jenova, Meru was absolutely furious.

'How completely unfair!' cried the Wingly Dragoon, swinging her hammer around in her rage. 'I'm telling you, I was robbed!'

'Now, now, Meru,' Albert said, staying well away from his fellow Dragoon. 'You have to accept that sometimes, not everything goes your way.'

'Yeah,' said Dart. 'You're not the only one who's had bad luck in the arena, you know.'

'Still!' whined Meru. 'How do you think I feel? Not even knowing if I'll ever get another chance!'

'You'll get another chance, Meru,' said Miranda. 'I'm sure of it.'

'How can you know?' yelled Meru.

'Because the only Enemy Skill you can miss permanently is Trine,' said Haschel in exasperation. 'Bah! Back in my day, everybody knew that!'

'Now, will you shut up?' said Rose. 'One would think you'd lost, from all your complaining.'

'I *still* say I was robbed,' said Meru. 'I got hit with Aqua Lung a half dozen times in that battle, and I still didn't learn it. This Enemy Skill materia I spent our Legend Casque money is defective!'

'You spend... Legend Casque money? Kongol sad. Now he never get out of Light.'

Rose gave an exasperated sigh. 'Meru, free piece of information for you: You need to take damage to learn an Enemy Skill.'

'What's that supposed to mean?' yelled Meru, then glanced at her blue armour. '... oh.'

***

Rose's exasperated sigh was echoed by a fellow Godlike swordsman's, in the FF7 section of the arena quarters. 'Mother, I still don't understand why you decided your LIFE form was the best for that fight...'

'Would you believe me if I said I chose it for its background music?'

Meru: 15
Jenova: 5