User blog:Jackythejack/Ember Mclain vs. Mettaton: The Popularity Contest

















Ladies and gentlemen good evening! Great to have you all out here! Now, let me cut down to the chase here, lovelies. Now, we can all agree that fame can drive a man crazy, yes? Everyone wants to be in the spotlight for one part of their life, even if it's only for a few seconds. Some people live for their chance at stardom, they thrive on the fame, and for these two deadly warriors, they fight and kill for it!

Ember McLain, The teenage rockstar antagonist of Danny Phantom

vs.

Mettaton, the sole actor and stare of the underground.

In this fight against those who want all to cheer there name, who is deadliest?

Ember McLain
Not much is known about Ember before she died, as her only apperance in the series was her being a ghost and all dead and stuff, hence the reason why she's an antagonist in Danny Phantom. While the show itself doesn't go into her backstory, the directors of the show did reveal a bit of her backstory, and it's truly a tragic one.

Ember was once the unpopular girl at her high school, who dreamed of becoming a rock star. One day, a boy asked her out to the movies. She waited all night for him to show up, telling herself that he was just running late. Morning would soon arrie, though, and he still didn't show up. Ember finally decided to head home.

When Ember went home, she immediately fell asleep. Normally that'd be the end of a story of teenage heartbreak, but it doesn't end there. Her house was suddenly, mysteriously caught on fire. Ember was too tired to wake up from the flames due to staying up all night, and she died in the flames, whic was where she had gotten her name, Ember. Now, as a ghost, she fulfills her dreams of being a rockstar.

Ember would soon find herself becoming an antagonist of the half-ghost half-human, Danny Phantom, and let me tell you, they'd have some interesting fights, considering how Ember works. So, let's not skip a beat and get right into her abilities.

Abiilities:
Ghost Powers: As Ember is a ghost, you'd expect her to have abilties that you'd associate with a ghost, which you'd be correct about. These abilities range from flight to to invisibility to intangibility from physical attacks that dont harm the sole. On top of that, however, she also has teleportation, where she appears and disappears in a cloud of purple smoke, or in a hair-flame tornado.

Guitar: Her guitar is her main ways of attacking things, but it is not normally used as a physical weapon, though it can be used as a sword in close quarters combat, or a flying board even though she...already has the ability to fly. Anyways! Ember's guitar has a little knob on her guitar which selects a type of beam to shoot out, or what kind of music to play. One plays hypnotizing music, one is a love spell, one is for a flame attack, one is for a skull beam (a beam in the shape of a skull), one is for a fist shaped energy beam, and another is just a generic sonic wave.

Chanting Empowerment: The main gimmick about Ember McLain is that she gets more power the more often people start chanting and cheering for her. The more people who cheer for her, the bigger and stronger she gets, and the hotter her fire hair becomes, which can be used as a weapon by the way. It got to the point where she could easily overpower Danny when the whole world was cheering for her, though she could still effect him with simply an entire town cheering for her. The only problem is that a horrible enough sound (Bad singing included), bascially anything that gets people to stop cheering mindlessly for her will make her less powerful and will stop her progress dead in its tracks.

Pyrokinesis: This isn't really much of a power and it's just one of her weapons. She can use her fiery hair as a weapon and whip people with it. It's nothing special, but it is something interesting to keep in mind. She normally relies on her guitar for attacking others, however.

And with that being siad, those are her powers out of the way. A varying arsenal for this rocking ghost. Though, let's take a look at her opponent next.

Mettaton
What do you get when you have just about one star in the underground that everyone adores because they...really have no one else to like or dislike when it comes to acting? Why, you get one egocentric, psychotic robotic actor, that's what you get! Introducing Mettaton, the star of the underground and entertainer of all monsters worldwide!

With a mechanical body built by the lovely royal scientist Alphys, Mettaton has quite the metallic physique to flaunt, as you can tell from the title card. With that being said, they weren't always the metal hunk that they were. At one point they were nothing but a metal box, with edges instead of curves. That is, until a little human by the name of Frisk comes by and flipped their switch, bringing out their true lovely form! However, a fight ensued and the form was thoroughly trashed, but that's besides the point! What is on point is the fact that mettaton has an array of abilties to get through, and so it's time to dive right into this, darlings!

Abilities
Robot Physiology: A bit of an expected set of abilties are they not? Being a robot gives you a certain amount of perks that do you wonders in a fight. Being a monster just gives you even more! One of the biggest perks of being a robot is that you are pretty resistant to things such as heat, as long as it's not too hot out to fry your circuits, of course! On top of that, Mettaton can be shown fighting even with their limbs blown completely off. Even if they lose their arms they're still kicking, quite literally!

Monster Physiology: This one is a bit more interesting, however. The culmination of a monster's being is all in their SOUL, and it's what is destroyed when you kill a monster. Now, Mettaton's own SOUL hides within a little chamber around his stomach, and it only normally gets out when Mettaton tells it too, which is...more often than you think. But, monsters are also able to attack someone's SOUL directly, as they do with Frisk, so monsters can clearly attack SOULs, and therefor likely things such as ghosts as well.

Mini-tons: Mettaton isn't the only robot on the stage. Well, technically he is, but there's more than just one of him! While on the stage, Mettaton can fire an assortment of miniature mettatons down at his opponent to rain hell upon themm, normally taking the form of hearts with the letter M on them, which deal damage to whoever they touch. This can cause a little bit of a hard to dodge bullet hell situation going on.

Arms and Legs and Chainsaws - Oh My!: Mettaton has a lot of situations where he can just use his arms and legs as weapons, as well as his signature chainsaw. While he hasn't actually used the Chainsaw in battle, it's very clear that he's not afraid to do so, and it should likely target the soul like his other attacks. Despite only gaining a body with arms and legs, Mettaton already seems to be a master at using them, and can dish a lot of dangerous or hard to dodge attacks from these

Disco Ball of Death: This one right here is rather self explanatory. While not having an actual name, Mettaton spawns a disco ball from the ceiling and it literally shoots lasers down onto the target and their SOUL, which is more than a little problematic for them.

Electricity Manipulation: A very simple thing to explain. Mettaton can fire electricity from his SOUL as well as from his finger in his basic Metatton form, so it's likely he can do the same in his Mettaton EX form as well. Though, even then he can still shoot a bullet hell of lightning bolts down onto his opponent.

X-Factors
We won't actually be comparing the X-Factors with numbers this time but instead we'll simply be telling you what a combatant is capable of in a particular field.

Endurance: Both of the combatants are filled with stamina, with Ember seemingly having a slight healing factor, or it may simple be because she's a ghost and they don't get wounded for very long. Either way she can recover from attacks very quickly, especially when she gets cheered on by the crowd. Mettaton, on the other hand, will keep fighting until literally all of his limbs are gone and he is forced to shut down. Even if you aren't trying to openly kill him he will keep fighting you until he's almost compeltely wrecked physically. He can fight without his limbs connected to his body just as well as he does normally.

Versatility: Both combatants have extremely versatile movesets, with each of them having long range and close ranged attacks with the use of Ember's guitar, with it's many ranged beam attacks and it's short ranged use as a sword, and Mettaton, with his Mini-tons doing the work for him and his chainsaw and metallic physique doing most of the work in an up close fight. Mettaton does have more moves when it comes to attack patterns, however.

Charm: There is a certain amount of charm that needs to go into this fight considering how Ember works as a combatant. Both sides need to keep the audience on their side if they're expecting to pull out a win. Ember can easily control a crowd to cheer for her, and play some rocking music to boot, but the spell is easy to shatter by simply doing unplesant noises. Mettaton, meanwhile, has a certain charm to him wherever he goes, and never misses a beat to appeal to the audience and spice things up all in the name of entertainment!

Fight Conditions
The voting ends whenever I feel like it, just getting that out of the way.

The fight takes place in the Underground, during one of Mettaton's live performances, so both can get an opportunity to have the audience cheer for them on the stage. This is not a fight to the death, as no audience wants to see that, and instead, it's a fight to domination, to see who can best the other while putting on a smile for the camera. There will still be fighting and bloodshed, of course, but it's not going to be fatal. Only an utter domination of their opponent will do.