Sixth Match
"What happened to you? Did you pick a fight with a blackberry bush?" Aodhan chuckled as he prepared to square off with Grimm.
"Nothing quite so sweet," Grimm grumbled. "So, you're the grappler?"
"I'm capable of more than that," Aodhan grinned. "But I do prefer something more blunt to claws."
"Good," Grimm nodded. "I'm in no mood for more scratching." Without another word, he began the fight. Aeronwy's furious frenzy hadn't given Grimm much chance to display his skills and he tried to remedy that in his match with Aodhan.
Aodhan was thoroughly enjoying himself as the Waebre warrior tested his limits. Grimm never stayed in one spot for long, bobbing and weaving as he looked for a way to overpower the Blade warrior. As Aodhan fell into a rhythm of blocking jabs and punches, Grimm began to change his angle of attack to a more circular motion, and Aodhan of course continued to face him.
Slowly Grimm began to speed up both his attacks and the circling. After a few moments, his plan paid off, and Aodhan lost balance from trying to keep up. Grimm pounced, knocked Aodhan to the ground, and quickly confined him in a lock.
"Do you concede?" Grimm demanded.
Aodhan wriggled for a bit, but found himself fairly well immobilized. "Begrudgingly."
Grimm was declared the winner and he released his opponent. Aodhan bowed his head to the victor and exited the ring.
Aeronwy whistled, visibly impressed with Grimm's victory.
"A 'sure win for his next opponent', eh, Winny?"
"He's a bit tougher than I gave him credit for," Aeronwy replied with a strange grin.
Notes & Commentary
September 14, 2017, Thursday
Sixth Match
One more match, and this tournament is over!
On the back of all my artwork I log the dates I spent drawing it. (Except commissions.) This illustration had 12/11/17, 01/14/18, 02/18/18, 03/02/18, and 03/04/18 stamped on it. Yikes. Three months. Man, something's gotta give...
There's a webcomicker who is much more consistent about updates than I currently am, and I really enjoy their stories, but, oh my goodness, even though each page of the main story comes out every week and the secondary story comes out every two weeks like clockwork, it only shows the characters doing a few things at a time! A character moves two steps forward, on the next page they look at three different people, next page a couple sentences are exchanged, and so forth. Argh! That's an awful lot of work on the angles, coloring, and blending for so little content. A few years ago a webcomic buddy told me JAD had a relatively fast-paced storyline. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but I'm starting to see what he meant. Even at the snail's pace I'm working at, when I do update, I'm getting as much done in one update that they're managing in five or more. 
Characters - Aodhan - Grimm - Aeronwy -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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