Season 25, Week 4
Chisato Madison
(Star Ocean: The Second Story) 		 
Dark mistress of Behind the Scenes, Chisato is a journalist you don’t want to tangle with. With a fierce temper and powerful, bone-wrecking martial arts, Chisato isn’t about to let some obnoxious brat stop her run for the championship. Rising Dragon and Tear Gas will tear the sluggish, frail Palom in two, making him a perfect afternoon snack for Penance. Fuelled by her determination to win - and the determination to shut up creepy talking skulls and clumsy octopi - Chisato will bring her childlike competition down for the count.

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 There's a certain irony in Palom's success this season. The bratty little charmer's faced nothing but young, pretty women so far. All have fallen before the strength of his magical attacks... not to mention his (poor) attempts at charming them! While the bratty Mysidian mage lacks a certain mature charm, he does have a bevy of status attacks and high-end damage spells to crush his opponents with. Chisato's no different from Rinoa and Louise, lacking protection against Palom's attacks. It'll be another quick fight and victory for the little Black Wizard that could.

SageAcrin
Fisticuffs, blackmail, loyal(?) servants(?), blackmail, machinery knowledge, blackmail, verbal abuse, blackmail, Chisato has access to a lot of useful options in battle.

Did I mention blackmail?

However, her opponent is an innocent child.

Okay, perhaps not innocent.

Actually, that's the problem, you can't blackmail someone whose flaws are known to all.

However, there's always an alternative.

As Chisato showed by pulling out Porom's sordid record of assault, accessory to theft, poaching endangered species of monster, accessory to murdering multiple Godlikes in planned cold blood, accessory to airship piloting without a license, accessory to violating Lunarian airspace without proper clearance, loitering in narrow, public passageways and truancy.

A good reporter can put a spin on anything, even a hero's life.

Palom, when confronted with this, misunderstood, laughed, and told her to go ahead and release the info.

Actually, Chisato blackmailed him with not releasing the info if he showed up at the match.

Palom forfeited.

Chisato promptly sent the info to Porom and told her that her brother wanted her to release it to the public in exchange for throwing the match, and that she'd need something to persuade her to not. Porom, desperately, talked with the Mysidian Elder, who agreed to help her.

And that's the story of how Chisato ended up with her own private Lunar Whale while going on to the finals, and how Palom ended up hanging upside down by his underwear in the middle of an arena on an exceedingly high pole.

Ahhh, sibling rivalry. It's so precious, isn't it?

Chisato Madison: 55
Palom: 51

Lurking Registered User
Chisato pulled out her pencil and went for a tried-and-true strategy: blackmail!

"So tell me, is it true that you secretly still sleep with a teddy bear?" inquired Chisato, pencil at the ready. The audience tittered.

"I dunno toots, is it true that you use that pencil for **** and *****?" replied Palom, causing an audience-wide gasp, and several wolf whistles from Zidane and Sheena, among others.

Reddening somewhat, Chisato swore not to let the little brat get the better of her on the slanderous journalistic front. "So what's this I hear of you having a sister complex? Inquiring minds want to know!" The audience went dead silent, except for a wolf-whistle from Albedo, who was quickly pummeled by nearby spectators.

"Nothin' to that rumor, but is Leon telling the truth when he says you secretly collect Claude doujinshi?" replied the child mage. The crowd became boisterous again, concealing Leon's bunny-shoes-fueled escape. Guido leaned over the railing waving some papers.

"Why-a you a-no a-say you were interested in that kind of a-stuff? I gots some a-good a-stuff for you a-right here! Awk!" Guido yelped as some flaming cards embedded in his face.

"Now that that's dealt with..." growled Chisato as she turned back to face Palom, just in time for a Flare to the face.

Palom may have won the match, and a possible internship with the Enquirer, but it didn't come cheap. Albedo began hounding him for dating tips, Leon used his room as target practice for Extinction, and the Zidane Society unanimously voted to give him an honorary membership and keeps dragging him off on *horribly* ill-fated panty raids. Sometimes it's better just to lose...