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How we think the fight will go
She knew nothing of these creatures called “vampires,” so Vin had done what she normally would in this situation:
She had asked Sazed.
While he hadn’t been able to tap a metalmind with that word in any of his indexes, the term “bloodsucker” brought up a small religion thought wiped out by the Lord Ruler. The practices were mostly obscure, but unlike many of the hundreds of religions Sazed had dedicated his life to studying, this one hadn’t died out. If anything, it thrived in the thousand years of mist that had covered the Final Empire.
Something about sun.
Further, it seemed to almost have an allomantic bent, with reverence (and hatred) of certain metals. Strange dietary needs and restrictions rounded out the information he had been able to collect.
All in all, it hadn’t really helped her all that much. But a note Sazed had found mentioned something about it being a religion not so much of a god, but against a god.
Which had given her an idea.
The monster strode forth into the courtyard they had agreed to meet in. Already she thought him an idiot, as there was plenty of metal in the buildings to make short work of this vampire.
Yet even she became wary when the thing that emerged looked very much like man—a handsome man with pale skin and long blond hair. An expression of amusement crossed his face even as coins ripped through the air directly at him.
Faster than she would have thought possible, the man dodged the coins, almost as if he were burning atrium.
But he wasn’t, and that was something she knew she had on him.
“No ‘hello,’ sweetheart?” he called across the courtyard. She responded by upending a vial into her mouth, burning the atrium as soon as it hit her stomach.
His future was a blur—an incredible series of possibilities. But if there was a more powerful Mistborn alive, she didn’t know who it was, and although both his body and future-body moved fast, she knew there was no way she couldn’t hit him.
Tossing a handful of coins towards him—making sure to allow them to spread into a cloud of metal—she burned duralumin and iron, pushing the coins as hard as she could. The being’s eyes widened a bit as he realized he was about to be hit no matter what he did, but he paused for only a moment before jumping to his left.
Most of the coins missed him, but two caught him, burying themselves deep into his right shoulder and thigh.
He cursed—and yet stood up.
Vin frowned.
“That all you got? What the hell was that, anyway?” He bent over, picking up one of her coins. “A penny? You tried to kill me with a couple of pennies?” He shook his head.
“You’ve got a lot to learn, missy.”
He walked toward her confidently. As he did, she could feel something strange—a weird compulsion to give up, to give in.
It was almost as if she were being Soothed!
She thought about smiling, wondering if vampires thought that this kind of thing would work on Mistborn. Instead, she stayed still—a little limp, in fact—and it was actually him that smiled.
Yet, as he got closer, he stumbled. Looking down at the wound in his leg, he noticed that it was smoking. Oddly, a quick glance at his shoulder didn’t show the same thing. Still, his hand flew to it, as if there was finally pain where the coin had hit him.
“What the…?”
Vin finally spoke. “These mere coins have been blessed with the prayers of every religion this world has ever known. Surely one of them was enough to hurt an unholy beast such as yourself.”
“But that makes no sense…your gods can’t be the same as my gods.”
“I don’t really understand it, either,” she murmured. She shrugged.
“Which is why I didn’t just use pennies.” She held up a coin, the dim light catching a very silver circle.
The vampire groaned.
“I also dipped them in garlic—just in case.”
The vampire fell to his knees, the poison of the silver and the reaction to the garlic sapping his strength.
She unstrapped an obsidian-blade ax from beneath her mistcloak. Flaring pewter—she moved even faster than the vampire had, swinging the black weapon at his neck.
It was a clean stroke, and his head almost stayed atop his shoulders, until finally it fell to the ground. His body—and her ax—followed.
Vin dropped a coin on the ground and Pushed, her mistcloak trailing her in the night.
Predicted Winner: Vin
NOTE: THIS MATCH ENDS ON THURSDAY, MARCH 17TH, 2011, AT 5 PM, ET
Eric Northman is a character from the Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine Harris; Vin is a character from the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
Eric Northman image courtesy of HBO. Vin image courtesy of Chris McGrath
Now that a couple of my favorites have been knocked out I want Vin to win the Cage Fight championship and be the first female champion! Go Vin!
@Shadow
Agreed. I think that Vin is the only one left in the bracket who might be able to bring down Jon Snow.
These Vin match ups are always the best. Intense, suspenseful, an excellent showing of the powers of both contestants, and an excellent finish. It’s a relief to see that Vin is able to use her powers to her full potential in these cage matches, as is true to the books that she comes from.
I definitely voted Vin on this, but I had to really think about it. I’m pretty sure Eric can fly in some capacity. Stumbling and becoming prone just doesn’t seem to cut it and he’s one very tough guy. I could have seen that fight going a bit longer, and I’m STILL not sure which would win.
I just can’t see Vin coming out of it without a broken neck or bleeding out from wounds.
On the same token she would definitely be prepared for a fight with a guy like this.
Who knows.
This fight could go either way. Eric is very strong and very fast. The only thing in Vin’s books that could match Eric’s speed is a pherochemist who has saved up there speed. Vin’s best chance is to stay away from erick as best she can and throw metals at him. Preferably silver. She should also be burning Atium. Not an easy fight by a long shot, but a fight that Vin can win.
The author of these writeups really seems to have a very thin and loose familiarity with the characters’ worlds.
There was no ‘Last Ruler’ in Mistborn, it was the ‘Lord Ruler,’ and his empire was not the ‘Fallen Empire’ but the ‘Final Empire’.
Is there no one who does even a quick check of these before they’re posted?
@Jason
Possible explanation: the write-ups weren’t written in metal and Something wanted to annoy diehard fans of the books as one last attempt to “ruin” something good?
This is just stupid. Did this person read either/any of the works that these characters are taken from before writing this drivel? It’s not even worth voting on because the synopsis is just stupid. And yes, Dan, Eric Northman can ‘fly in some capacity.’ He only flew from Louisiana to central Texas in about 30 minutes at one point. I’m not necessarily arguing that Eric should win this battle, but the write up would have been better if you’d asked my twelve year old niece to write it instead.
@ Scooter
It’s pretty clear to me that whoever wrote it has a working knowledge of Mistborn, and I’ve watched the first two seasons of True Blood (haven’t read the books though) and Eric doesn’t seem too bad. If anything, he’s more powerful than expected, and the writer did a fairly clever job of power comparison between the two.
This is a good write up.
The only problem I had was the rather random dipped-in-garlic silver coins. I think Saze should have been able to be a bit more specific, like “use silver!” or something. Otehrwise in just kinda did it at random and that’s fairly odd.
Anyway, Vin for the win!
Martin to win the tournament!
Redwall!!
Actually, these two both died in the fight, of extreme emo. Its just that one was already dead, and so wins by default.
If Vin hadn’t come prepared, Eric would have given her a *much* tougher fight. She would have had to use Atium and all her pewter to match Eric’s vampiric reflexes and strength. But I would still give the fight to her.
I liked reading these and don’t want to nerd out to much but a duralumin steel push would of sent Vin flying like a arrow if she didn’t have her self anchored. then it would of killed her if she wasn’t burning/flaring pewter.
Also having Sazed giving her hints wasn’t fair. If so maybe someone could of told Eric some hints, maybe even Ruin himself to balance it out. Seeing as a vampire would most likely fit into ruins domination. I don’t know what the hints could of been other then to let her burn all her metals and be a mortal girl. Or get a hostage and have her burn aluminum. Witch I think he could of used effectively versus Vin. She really is good person
Anyways this is a old post I’m just throwing my 2 cents here. thanks for the interesting read