Watching the nervous face of the Voidwalkers, Baiyi remained composed. Don’t worry about her faith in me, guys. She’s not like all of you— she’s docile to a fault. When the time comes, she will use that hammerhead shark plushie.
"That’s hardly the point! You should have been more precise instead of being so vague!" The Scholar cried out in alarm as she watched the battle unfolding through Baiyi’s eyes. Vidomina was dishing out attacks after attacks onto poor Mia, and the girl could only stand there, encased in her protective shield.
"Can you please not dramatize everything? She chose those tactics on her own will, alright? The least you people can do is respect her choice and her way." Baiyi hardly felt bothered looking at how she was doing but instead, he saw a viable approach to winning. "As long as that lady doesn’t cast a Silence spell, Mia could go on dancing forever with her just by her mana supply alone."
You know what this fight reminded me of? Watching two casuals playing fighting games on a console. Like one would be doing nothing but spamming attacks, slapping the entire hand onto that controller (my sister actually fucking tap-danced on the controller. It was the PS1.), and the other one would be just as infuriating by blocking and blocking and being on guard forever (that’s usually me. Look, I can’t tap-dance better, alright?) The game goes nowhere as time trickles down till the timer runs out--if we even managed to remember to place a time limit on our match.
Quite sadly though, most games had the rule that even when on guard, the defensive one would still get chip damage. Nothing made me more panicky than watching my HP drained due to chip damage. So it turned out that, although I didn’t have any hammerhead shark deus ex machina, I had the jealous, brilliant mind of an older sibling.
So I just yanked her controller away, tossed it across the room and as she scrambled to it, I beat the shit out of her character. I might had become the persona non grata of the family for the rest of the day, but you know what? It was worth that smug smile on my face. You can never discipline your younger siblings too hard.