Season 38, Week 2
Duke
(Suikoden III)
 
Duke has faced a barrage of powerful enemies in his time: an angsty Wind Rune user, hordes of toughened mercenaries, and even Elaine’s face without makeup! Do you think one puny little girl could stop one man who has lived through so much pain? Sure, Maya may have healing, but she’s so frail that one stiff Lightning spell should be able to take her out anyway. And if that doesn’t put her down for the count, Duke always has his trusty physical. With his rival Geddoe competing in Heavy, Duke is going to be sure that he won’t lose to such a sorry opponent. Such a dishonor would make him the laughingstock of Caleria for months!

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Maya's more than capable of standing toe-to-toe with Middle's finest and winning. With her Origin Rivas at her side, Maya's not lacking in combat prowess or enough healing to survive nearly indefinitely against any foe. A casting of Gospel allows her to stand tall against even the strongest of Godlike's attacks. Of course, Maya doesn't need healing or support spells against a foe as inept as Duke. With the right armor, Maya can greatly dampen the power of Duke's lightning rune, and with his's only worthwhile offense out of the way, Maya can simply build up to a devastating Mystic Art and end this fight in an instant.


Dunefar
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood with Miss Maya!

Hi everyone! Isn't today lovely? I feel good about it, don't you? Good! Today's story is a special one. It's about how you shouldn't be mean to other people and about the dark thing called jealousy. For you see...

Long long ago, there was a man named Duke. He was a nice man with a big sword at first. But one day he met another man named Geddoe. Geddoe was quick, Geddoe was strong, Geddoe made Duke so angry! It wasn't fair, he said. So he got mean and started to train harder. He tried using a Lighting Rune to keep up with Geddoe. Whenever they met Duke acted mean to him and tried to be cruel. This made Geddoe sad, but he tried not to feed into it. But one day Duke took it too far, caught up in all his bad feelings. He said he was going to win while Geddoe 'gets beaten up by that old emperor!' That just wasn't nice, boys and girls!

He'd finally pushed Geddoe too far. That dark, nasty thing called anger was created by all the jealousy Duke showed Geddoe. With that, he calle don his special True Lighting Rune sent Duke far, far away. Duke's in a better place now, where there's no jealousy, anger or competing in Week 1 against me. But that's a story for next time, boys and girls. I'll see you later!

Duke: 12
Maya: 38