Season 44, Week 1
Yulie Ahtreide
(Wild ARMs 4)
 
Yulie has always been a kind, sweet and gentle girl. It seems more than a bit unfair to pit her against the likes of Valeria so early, but as everyone knows, the Dueling League Arena is anything but fair. Nevertheless, as with everything else that she does, she'll give it her all. She has an impressive buff and healing package, which may be the key she needs to win this one. Valeria hits exceptionally hard, so anything that can lessen that impact would be a boon. Yulie also has got some solid magic damage that she can use to turn things around to her favor, and linking to the material might be the killing blow she needs to take down the swordswoman. Perhaps we'll see the dawn of a new, harder, better, faster, stronger Yulie!

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After being defeated by a lesbian swordgirl, Valeria finally returns to the Dueling League Arena, ready to prove her dueling mastery against a new, less powerful division. The Falcon Rune master is ready to face whatever odds she is pitted against, though. And her first challenge is a bit disheartening but certainly not too difficult: the Paladienne Yulie Ahtreide is quite a powerful staller, but her terrible physical durability will be her undoing. Against the Falcon Rune's relentless flurry of stabs, Yulie is helpless, being forced into a painful heal-lock. And the minute Valeria lands a critical is the minute the match is over. Such is the way of the battlefield. Valeria's no stranger to tragedy, and this will just be one among the many.


Namagomi
Immediately upon hearing about Kresnik falling ill with a case of influenza, Yulie had no choice. She never appeared to the match, forfeiting so that she could be by her dear brother's side. And so while Valeria was awarded the win, millions everywhere might have been touched by such a heartwarming act of self-sacrifice...

...assuming our story merely ended here.

As it turns out, Kresnik, in his state of sickness, had posted a long, sprawling tirade on his Livejournal, Deadjournal, MySpace, Facebook, and several other blogging accounts, practically excreting angst every second that he was not instead randomly blathering about conviction--in both text and audio formats.

And tragedy immediately struck as this post, in both forms, was used as a weapon of terror, an unknown hacker overriding all forms of telecommunications with the audio and textual formats of these posts, in such that no matter what one did or where they went--whether they tried to change the channel on the television, listen to a radio, or even talk on a presumably secure line, all they could see and hear...was unending angst and ramblings about "conviction".

But it was at least a happy ending for Valeria. After all, she won, didn't she?



...In other news, all access to Sphere corporate headquarters has been denied for an indeterminate period.

Yulie Ahtreide: 18
Valeria: 36