Beato: “KEE HEE HEE! Foolish Ushiromiya Battler!! How else could such wicked magic come to be!!”

Ronove:

Round #2 — Match 13 of 21

Fleche von Bergliez

"she feels so painfully young in the worst possible circumstances. all that grief and anger and desperation wrapped up in somebody who is very much not equipped to carry it well at all"

vs. Sylvain Jose Gautier

"SYLVAIN JOSE GAUTIER you are SICK and twisted for being exactly my type i’m sorry i love him so bad. like yes okay the flirting, the womanising, the “i’m so charming and unserious haha” thing is all fun on its own, but the REAL juice is that you can feel how much of it is armor almost immediately. he’s funny and easy to like and says all the right things and then every so often the game lets something nastier or sadder slip through and i’m just done for. because that’s the thing with sylvain!!! he is not just a flirt, he is a guy who has figured out exactly how people see him and has decided to weaponise it before they can do it to him first. insane. delicious. i support men’s wrongs etc etc also i just think he’s one of the most entertaining people in the entire cast. he can bounce off basically anybody. he’s charming, he’s bitchy, he’s smarter than he acts, and when the mask drops a little it HITS. top tier “guy who seems easy to read until you actually read him” character."

"sylvain is just one of those characters who gets more interesting the longer you sit with him imo. like at first you’re like okay yeah funny flirt guy, got it, and then you realise there is SO much bitterness under there lol. and i love that the game lets him be kind of unpleasant about it sometimes!! i think if they’d made him too smooth or too sympathetic right away he wouldn’t work nearly as well also he’s just very fun to watch. he’s got great chemistry with a ton of the cast, he’s got some genuinely funny lines, and he has that specific thing where you can tell he’s way sharper than he wants people to notice. plus i’m always weak to characters who act casual about everything while very obviously having issues the size of a cathedral. sylvain absolutely has that in spades"

Wakaba Shinohara, Nanami Kiryuu, Juri Arisugawa - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire

There it is, a triptych of my favorite duels from each season, and coincidentally my favorite characters.

time to eat!

tender