Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

Author’s Note:

While Andes isn’t necessarily evil, he’s definitely not in the right here, after all, he’s someone who’s trying to scam an old lady for her money instead of doing honest work.

While both he and ayzee get around the rules a bit in battles, for Ayzee, she needed to actually put effort into her tricks for them to work, and it was more about outsmarting her opponents, that’s why she still got people’s respect, even from opponents she defeated. But for Andes, he was doing it in a way that, he could gain huge advantages that ended the fight without him even lifting a finger, it’s bad sportsmanship at best, and outright cheating at worst.

Hiring 3 people to fight Ayzee was just unfair. Same with summoning a strong abomination to fight for him. And dislocating Ayzee’s shoulder is unnecessarily cruel, since he could just knock her out, like how boxers do in real life (with the counting to 10 thing). In fact the first time he punched Ayzee out of the blue was his attempt to knock her out cold and finish the fight early, but he forgot that he couldn’t punch as hard as he used to. He got inpatient and decided to go the dislocation route instead. Again, he’s not “evil”, but he didn’t care about Ayzee’s wellbeing, and he didn’t really fight with honor at this moment, he just wanted to defeat her as fast as possible, with whatever that works.

I also wouldn’t blame Eda for letting Ayzee to participate in the tournament. It’s the same mama Eda who had no problem with Luz and Amity fighting in the Bonesborough Brawl. In fact, the no-attacking-with-magic rule was specifically add to make the battles in fight coven safer compared to the old sport. The thing about Eda is, she doesn’t like to restrict people with tons of rules, and people also follow the three rules with common sense for years, in previous battles Ayzee was always in a safe environment, until Andes decided to make it dangerous. And Mama Eda tried to stop the battle once things go downhill, but Ayzee refused to back down.

And for why Ayzee insisted to keep on fighting, besides the obvious reason that she wanted to protect Eda from being scammed, she also has a serious hero complex(which will be explored in other comics later), if she sees something’s wrong, she has to stop it. That’s why she ignored eda’s advice of backing out when things go south. Also she followed the teaching of the fight coven seriously, “stand up for themselves even when the odds ain’t with them”, plus she was a fan of Andes, whose catchphrase was “I’d rather lose doing my best than win effortlessly”, there’s no way Ayzee would want to back down in this situation.

Sorry for the long comment, just wanted to states how I intended to portray the characters, I know it’s not always a successful attempt, “what’s in my mind” vs. “what I actually wrote”, that kind of stuff. But I hope it clear things up a bit.

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