A New Challenger Approaches!

[Eliza Lacrimosa]

1. Ferret, Ferret, in the sand, who's the fairest in the land?

2. What was your inspiration for th'Warrior ferret?

3. And, since we're asking about backstory, how'd Rath come to be a fighter?

[Revel]

Revel

1. But of course!  Although he'd make sure to give himself much bigger slices than Birch.
2. Hm... probably House. 
3. To the milkman.  His milk is delicious, after all.

1. That's going to be one big pizza! I was hoping we could spread Birch evenly across the top, but if you want a slice bigger than she'd fit on...
2. CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, or CSI: Oasis?
3. Which milkman? Dan, Stan, or Jackie Chan?

[Erethas]

Does he have a secret identity?
Does like dancing in on a moonlit night in a tutu? *thinking of Stardust*

[Jarrtail]

Does like dancing in on a moonlit night in a tutu? *thinking of Stardust*

Somehow, I doubt it.

[Deadtail]

Were you planning on doing anything more with the "vision" from your application?

[Stonewall]

I was just thinking: Rath needs a really cool finishing move. Any ideas what it would be? And it's name?

ONe idea I had was he grabs the opponent by the scruff of the neck, tosses them in the air, and while the opponent in is mid-fall, Rath brings the axe down vertically, smashing them into the ground and chopping them in half at the same time. I don't have a name for it yet, though.

[Rath the Whirlwind]

Sneaky Damask

1. I think the only lady he came closest to having any sort of real affection for was Revel.  He saw Eliza as annoying and bossy, and the other two females were his arch enemy and a near-dead slave.

2. I suppose you might call it dark.  He was a bit of a "street rat ferret" when he was young, and his morals were gray at best.


Eliza

1. Myself, of course!  Chicks dig the scars.

2. I wanted to make some sort of fighter, and I couldn't recall ever having seen a "prize fighter" type character in one of these contests.  The idea for the scene in the app formed soon after, and I warmed up to him remarkably.  Also, his character was a bit inspired by a line from the song Go With the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age:
"I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live."

3. So, take unpleasant footpad/thug Rath, who's got a bit of a knack for fighting, but is really little more than just a common criminal.  He stole something from a gang of vermin thieves and got the snot beat out of him for it.  However, a fighter happened to have been watching the tail end of that struggle, and noticed a lot of potential in Rath.  He had the ferret healed, and trained him to focus his strength.

Rath himself eventually just got tired of killing for its own sake... and then got tired of killing for other beast's sakes, and that's where we get our ferret as we saw him at the beginning of the story.


Revel

1. Well, Rath IS quite particular about his pizza.  I suppose he could accommodate just a little in this case, though :P
2. Definitely CSI: Oasis
3. I'm sorry, I'm afraid any information on the milkman's identity is confidential.


Erethas

1. There are some who know him as.. Tim?
2. "Somehow, I doubt it." ~ Jarrtail.


Deadtail

1. Possibly. 


Stonewall

YES!  And I need to think about it more, so I'll post it later. That one is awesome, though. 

[Keane]

If you knew all the answers and could give 'em to the masses, would you do it?
What's your favorite mixed drink?  What's Rath's?
If Rath were cast in West Side Story, what role would he play?!

[Bellona Littlebrush]

1. What's your battle music of choice?

2. What's Rath's ideal lady-friend?

3. Honor or honour?

[Opal]

If you knew all the answers and could give 'em to the masses, would you do it?

<3 <3 <3

1. What is your favorite kind of soup?
2. What's cuter, a ferret or a platypus?
3. Who framed Roger Rabbit?

[Venril]

1.  If Rath hadn't been pressganged onto the ship, and had just continued on his way, where would he have gone and what might he have done?
2.  If you hadn't died, what sort of ending would you have liked for Rath?
3.  You know how I got these scars?

[Eliza Lacrimosa]

Rath, who are you?

Who aren't you?

Why aren't you those people?

[Rath the Whirlwind]

To be honest, I've always seen Rath's "Final Attack" to be similar to Hakumen's from Blazblue
(2:40 in this video, if you don't feel like watching the whole thing.  You really should, though!)

Keane

1. No, no, no, no, no; are you kidding?!
2. Hrm... I'm not really sure if I have a favorite, to be honest/boring.  I'm partial to a bunch of things.  Rath, however, would insist on having coconut involved somehow.  Bless him.
3. Maria!  No, I kid.  He'd be...
Um..
I forget the individual characters >_>
I guess he can be the Tybalt equivalent, 'cause Tybalt was awesome AND died! :D


My My My My My WHOO! (aka, Bellona)

1. Decisive Battlefrom Final Fantasy Tactics
Whenever I hear this song I think of Rath.  The bit from 0:30-0:36 in particular, because its very simple and yet menacing at the same time.
2. I don't think he has an "ideal" female.  And I'm not just being lazy!  He's just never stopped to think about the possibility of settling down.  I suppose if he were to ever meet a female fighter, he might think differently...
3. I might as well go with honour.  Because spell-check is anti-British spelling, and I must fight the system.


Tara

1. Clam chowdah!  From Bah-stan.  Where you pahk the cah in the hahvahd yahd.
2. Ferret, of course.
3. Quincy.  

[Rath the Whirlwind]

Double-post?  Can I really do this?

Venril

1. He might have gone on to become some sort of mercenary or bounty-hunter, before realizing that he really just wants to protect others.  He's really sort of like a "vermin" paladin, almost.  He might decide to go after only dangerous woodlanders who've been killing lots of vermin. Then he would still fight, and he would get to fight only skilled opponents, and would be doing the world a favor.

2. Rath would have come out of the desert realizing that he has already made a difference in at least a small part of the world and will be remembered... and that's only the start.  Depending on who else was alive, he might see them safely home before going on his own way.

3. As long as it doesn't involve making a pencil disappear...


Eliza

1. I'm just a ferret.
2. I'm not not a ferret.
3. I JUST WASN'T BORN THAT WAY, OKAY?! *sob*

[Sycamore]

What were some other post titles you were planning?

Please, please, please say, "C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!"