The Gladiatorial Meme!

[steahl]

Gladiatorial Combat Meme!

Who doesn't like fighting? Characters, players, the heat of battle is a great place to gather CR! So we bring you the crowd. The rush of the scene, the thrill of battle or the sated daze of boodlust. Version 1.0, bring it on ladies and gents.

This meme may contain triggers
(also may be processed on machinery that has touched allergens be warned)

• Basic RP courtesy rules apply
• Post with character/canon/preferences (starter optional)
• Tag and be cool to one another
• Those with powerful characters/insta-winners may choose to be limited in some way. Power repression collars, fields around the arena, battle gods saying 'uh no' what ever!

Location, location, location!

1. Space/Alien planet: Just what it sounds like folks. You woke up after the worst hangover of your life and you weren't in Kansas any more!
2. Rome: Who doesn't like the classics? Welcome to low tech and brutally unfair!
3. Criminal Underground Games: Could be in a city, could be in an abandoned barn, what matters is that it's illegal as hell, makes a profit of your pain, and the not-so-upstanding citizens pay through the nose to watch two guys with bats go at each other in a razor wire cage.
4. The future: This is legal, somehow! You may be a criminal with the option to fight your way to freedom, you may be the next best thing to a bleeding celebrity!
5. On TV: None of this shit is real but you put on a hell of a show!
6. Mix n' Match: Or choose your own adventure! Be creative little buggers!

Situations!

1. One-on-One: Fight your way to the top! Easy huh? Except when your opponent is, well, not a push over.
2. Group Smash!: It is all of you guys vs. all of those guys! Team up, smash things, repeat until your hammer breaks!
3. Fresh meat/Training: You've never seen the main arena, you arrived and you've been down in the training grounds since! You may be the newest punching bag, you may be a rising star, you still have to bow down before the arena winners!
4. Matinee special!: Nobody takes you seriously, you end up in fights against the local Nuns After Prayer club with weapons like rubber chickens and foam bats!
5. I'm an apprentice!: You arrived in the latest shipment of arena slaves but let's be honest you have arms like wet noodles and they'd feel bad sticking you in the arena. You are now apprenticed to the arena healer/doctor/sawbones/weapon smith whatever!
6. Decompressing: Life is hard as an arena combatant, sometimes you just have to unwind in your chambers under/around the arena.
7. Blue Plate special: There's just something about a strong fighter...you may be a rich patron purchasing a few hours of time with a gladiator, you may be the paid for combatant, have at?
8. Spectator:You are in the stands, lucky you! Do you know the person on the field? Did you bring a friend to watch the blood being spilled? (it's okay we understand the appeal)
9. Monster Mash!: Sometimes people just need to see others torn apart by vicious monsters. Lions, tigers, mutant gila monsters, they have teeth and claws and such and you have...hands. Lucky you.
10. Death Match: Oh my, can you kill? The match isn't over until you do. Two on two, one on one, are you hard enough to follow through?
11. Choose your own!: Same as above, have at and wreak havoc!

Comments

Spartacus | Spartacus: Blood and Sand

[bringerofrain]

(Clearly in all things he's the gladiator. Different rolls for different strokes.)

Gannicus → Spartacus Series

[dimachaerus]

(Because how could I not?)

2?

[pryde_and_grit]

[Indeed!]

The postings for the next match were up and the crowd above was already going wild. A group match, wonderful. She hated having to depend on someone new to watch her back. Still, nothing for it but to hunt down her new 'partner' and look him over.

Wherever the hell he was anyway.

Kit Pryde | X-men Evo AU AU AU | OTA

[pryde_and_grit]

Orihime Inoue | Bleach

[leekspins]

[Definitely unsuited for actual combat, but totally available for healing, spectating, or any other miscellaneous role you need!]

Khemrys ~ Tales of the Witchworld 3 ~ OTA

[homeless_pard]

She waited, quietly, by the doors with her basket of herbs, needle, thread, bandages...all the things such as she was allowed for the succor of fighters. Her herb knowledge before coming here had nearly trebled in application, but she could do some good. Even here, in all this, she soothed some hurts, offered some aid.

Perhaps she was grateful to be on the sidelines, perhaps not...but now, now, she could not look. She hid shifting eyes behind dark hair and waited for the call of a battle ending.

[itachi_san]

Most battles ended in death, but there were some who just refused to die, even when they were dying.

Itachi Uchiha had once fought for sport as a champion. But after the massacre, as a criminal, he fought for his life. Over time, his body began to weaken with disease, and even Itachi had to admit that soon, there was going to be a battle that he would not survive.

This, in all likelihood, was supposed to be that battle. But he was still alive when they threw his broken, bleeding body to the sideline... Just barely.

Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow | MCU | OTA

[unmakeme]

[[OOC: I'm fine with all options. Will fade-to-black or play out smut, whatever you're more comfortable with. More than willing to have her fight and kill. Her morality is grey, and if she's fighting for her life, she's fighting hard.

I don't mind if you want to tag in actionspam, but I'll be tagging back in prose.]]

3-2, maybe Natasha infiltrating a badguy ring?

[queensbane]

This is very much not legal. It's bloodsports for the pleasure of drug merchants and thugs, people whose decisions decide which faction gets to win control of their country for a week or two.

Alice has to pay the rent somehow, and she'd rather sell her body for violence then for other things. The stakes are always against her, and she's got a friend in the crowd who wagers her money on the incredibly high stakes against her. A little slip of a malnourished girl should not be able to make a dent on a trained man twice her height. Most of them think they're there to see her humiliating, brutal defeat.

Alice has been doing very well on the wagers.

"They don't usually put four in at once." Alice doesn't look particularly pleased about having to pair up with this newcomer. She doesn't look like much, but then again neither does Alice. Books, covers, etc. She idly swings her crowbar. "Will I have to babysit you?"

Kazuo Kiriyama // Battle Royale

[gottakillemall]

[:-D]

ahem--3/1 for canon? y/y?

[1950]

[ So it's nighttime now. Mitsuko has no idea which "zone" will be officially sanctioned off tomorrow morning. In some way that makes her a sitting duck. But she's afraid to venture too far out onto the island. What if she wanders into the wrong zone and gets her head blown off by the RFID collar? That aside, there's some loony walking around with a machine gun...and all she has to her name is this lousy sickle. ]

[ She draws a rattling breath. She darts from the shelter of the pine trees. Walks quickly across rubble-strewn streets. There's no way she's sleeping in the forest. She'll break into a house, find a bed. Maybe rig the doors, somehow, so she'll hear it if anyone comes in after her... ]

[ A small house. Windows unlit. Of course--you'd have to be an idiot to light the windows. Mitsuko pushes open the front gate. Jams her sickle into the western-style front door to tear it off its hinge. ]

Leonhardt Victorion | Anarchy Reigns | OTA

[cybrid]

Saft | original character | ota

[whitescalesbigmouth]

5 But you're the apprentice!:

[darkhonour]

So you're the fresh meat huh? [Dark Leonardo does not look impressed. But one does not survive the arena by dismissing someone so quickly, time to see what this girl is made off.]

Catch.

[There's a six foot staff flying though the air towards you Saft.]

Kain Highwind | Final Fantasy IV / Dissidia 012

[dragoon_pride]

[He'll be in a gladiator role of course.]

Alice Liddell | Alice: Madness Returns

[queensbane]

[Tiny girl is stronger than she looks. No sex, please.]

Thorin Oakenshield | The Hobbit | OTA

[sonof_thrain]

[...]

Healer here to...I unno, offer support?

[homeless_pard]

"You seem puzzled," she offered quietly as she was passing out mugs to those slotted to fight this day. "I swear there is nothing in this brew to hinder you, it is but a brace against the coming events."

Tyrell Badd | Ace Attorney

[tasteoftruth]

[Could be fighter, could be the old dude that trains the young'uns.]

Oliver Queen → Arrow

[unrecognizable]

(Most likely the gladiator)

Sherlock Holmes | BBC Sherlock | OTA

[improbably_true]

[[may possibly be a gladiator - judo certified, and all - yet also suitible for being a master/trainer, etc.]]

[stripedbiceps]

[This is pretty much canon for him, so...men only for shipping things, and Cyuss here is definitely a seasoned gladiator. Ask if you have any questions!]

Katia Vega | XCOM: Enemy Unknown | OTA

[squadsight]

[She's not a close-quarters fighter, but if you want to tag in, go nuts! Open to anything the RNG can come up with.]

Ruka Tsuchiya | Revolutionary Girl Utena | OTA

[forged_miracle]

E-123 Omega | Sonic the Hedgehog | OTA

[enjoys_plan_b]

Uther Doul | The Scar | OTA

[schroedingers_swordsman]

Travis Touchdown | No More Heroes | OTA

[jerkitout]

[Wow...this is surprisingly a lot like home.]

Location 3, Situation 2

[ragemode]

[ Yeah, no shit.

The trouble with being a gun for hire is that when nobody hires your guns for a while you end up going hungry. More importantly, you end up going thirsty - Rubi's supply of whisky was at a dangerous low, and if she needed to dip her toes in the garbage pool to make a few extra bucks it was no skin off her nose at all. It was supposed to be a pretty simple event, in her eyes anyway. One against one hundred, her against a hundred goons that didn't know a bad idea when they saw one.

But then they decided to team her up with this weirdo, and tripled the number of enemies. Because, you know. That's fair.

There was no hiding her sneer as she twirled one of her revolvers on her fingertip, not giving her "partner" even a passing glance as she stared down the growing crowd of corpses-to-be. ]

How many can I put you down for?

Nat Bruenner // Highlander OC

[jurisimmortalis]

Rachel Grey | X-men AU | OTA

[futures_of_ash]

Music Meister | Batman

[hypnotic_patter]

[He can't fight for shit, but every match needs to have an announcer.]

Claire Bennet ❤ Heroes

[some_kinda_hero]

(( She's so totally a gladiator. Please to be bearing with only 15 sad icons. ;_; ))