Season 38, Week 2
Rhapthorne
(Dragon Quest 8)
 
Rhapthorne is back after getting destroyed by that accursed Aeon Summoner back in Season 31, and this time, he is going to kick some emo ass! Heat as Vritra might be crazy-obsessed with the girl with the angelic (or, rather, blasted annoying, but who's going to bother telling emoboy that?) voice, but what can this fiery demonic beast do to a demon that is larger than a house and capable of destroying countries by rolling over in his sleep? Nothing. No amount of tentacle action nor angst will keep the giant bastard from making Heat suffer for all of his sins with his double attacks. Even a bold, rash bishounen really can’t realistically beat someone as grotesque and devilish as the masterful Rhapthorne! Stupid dime-a-dozen prettyboys. They can talk game, but in the end? Superior power and strength will always dominate over their ineffectual wills and even more ineffectual offensive capabilities.

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Bearing the power of The Enveloper, Vritra, Digital Devil Saga's second Godlike entrant in the RPGDL is ready and willing to rend, slaughter and devour all foes in his first showing in Godlike. Hopefully, Heat won't fill up on his first opponent; after all, that much lard can't be good for him to eat in one sitting! The Lord of Darkness' magic is useless, as Heat guards against Rhapthorne's most powerful spells, including Magic Burst. With his arms protecting him, Heat can stop Rhapthorne's flabby arms or balls from striking him. Unfortunately for the Fat Bastard, he can't say the same about Heat - Tarunda, Sukunda and Rakunda will make his offense fearfully potent in comparison to Rhapthorne's, including the infernally ferocious Inferno Roar. Backing up his offense with sterling resilience that Rhapthorne can only dream of, Rhapthorne's ass (however large it may be), as Heat would say, is his.


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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Heat and Rhapthorne arrived at their arena, with the physically strongest of the DL towing the EGG and the Dark Citadel behind them. The two combatants proceeded to have a little spat over the greatest sources of their respective powers.

"You have to hunt down a sufficiently magical ruin and devour the whole thing? No wonder you turn into such a fatass." Heat smirked.

"LOOK WHO'S TALKING!" Rhapthorne boomed back. "You're the one who needs a device used to communicate with gods to be of any worth. Without it you're just the kind of ordinary, weak demon who would grovel at my feet, serve me, and be good for nothing but smashing godbird eggs!"

"Did... did you just compare me to GEMON!?" Heat jumped into the pool of fluid contained in the EGG. "THAT INSULT WILL BE THE LAST MISTAKE YOU EVER MAKE!" Rhapthorne, for his part, began to absorb the dark citadel and its dark energies with the appropriate dark ritual of darkness.

And so began the most boring race in RPGDL history, with two monsters trying to see who could more quickly go through the motions of drawing out their ultimate latent powers. The judges all did the whole "fall asleep" deal, as did all but 5 members of the crowd: A shiny bird, a mute guy, a foul-mouthed bandit with a cockney accent, a charming knight templar, and a trampily dressed sorceress with a whip. Shrugging to each other, Guv, Yangus, Angelo, and Jessica hopped on Empyrea's back, flew up to the still transforming Rhapthorne, did some hocus pocus with the Sage's staff then beat him into lard. Why'd they do that? It's just programmed into them.

All heat had to do to win once he was done turning into Vritra was wake up the judges with a freezing torrent of spit, then point to the mess in front of him with a tentacle.

"AND BY THE WAY, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE FEET TO GROVEL AT."

Rhapthorne: 16
Heat: 34

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Tentacles against blubbery mass!

A fight from nightmares, a terrible, horrible brawl that pierces the very soul with horror and disgust!

There was only one thing to do with this match!

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"Why, oh god no, no, why!? Why do we let the Profound Darkness judge things? Why!?" Kuja wailed from the judges box, as he watched the horrifically unesthetic match.

The oiled tentacles.

The smooth glistening curves of Rhapthorne.

The mud.

Oh god the mud.

And the whipped cream. And the cherries. And the thongs oh no the thongs why in heaven no.

The match was not aided, asthetically, by the front row fairly simultaniously vomitting into the arena.

The arena seats were similarly unaided by everyone else doing the same thing.

The Profound Darkness merely smiled.

Ultimately, the only one left standing to judge the "match" was the Profound Darkness, who, on the basis of liking tentacles more, ultimately gave Heat the win.

Rhapthorne's disgusted by her taste.

Heat, in an effort to wipe away the horrific stigma of this match, simply posed for a calendar in his human form, in a similar situation.

The net result managed to restore his reputation. But at what cost to his dignity?

Probably not much. After all, he put up with Sera all that time without eating her. He's pretty practical about handling idiots.