User blog:BeastMan14/Joel vs The Man



Tonight, on Deadliest Fiction, two ruthless survivors of the apocalypse clash in an all-out deathmatch!

Joel, The survivor of the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis plague that takes a young girl on a country-spanning journey in an attempt to cure the disease!

VS

The Man, Survivor of an unknown apocalypse and grieving widower that will do anything to protect his son from the dangers of the world!

We will be testing their weapons and their skills to answer the ultimate question...

WHO...IS...DEADLIEST?

Joel
"Lyin' on the couch watchin' Sunday football. That... greasy smell of a downtown hot dog. 4th of July, family barbeques. The sound of a plane flying overhead. Just one peaceful night; a clean conscience — all gone..."

- Joel

Bio: As one of the survivors of the fungal-based Cordecyeps disease that turns humans into mindless wandering monsters, Joel has lost everything in the world he cares about, from his daughter Sara, who was killed by the military when Joel attempted to escape the initial rioting, to his brother, Tommy, who angrily demanded that he and Joel never see each other again after Tommy joined the terrorist group The Fireflies. 20 years after the outbreak, Joel works as a smuggler alongside his close friend Tess, bring both legal and illegal items in and out of the safe zone. After a run-in with a weapons dealer named Robert who tried to have Tess killed, the duo discovers that he sold the guns belonging to them to the Fireflies. After Tess kills Robert, they are confronted by Marlene, the leader of the Fireflies, who promises to return Joel and Tess's guns if they smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl immune to the infection to Fireflies at the Capitol building, where they will create a cure for the infection. Out of options, Joel and Tess agree.

Fighting their way to the Capitol building, Joel and Tess bond with Ellie, who tells more of her immunity to the infection and interaction with the Fireflies. When the group arrives at the Capitol building, they discover the Fireflies inside dead. Hysterical, Tess reveals that she was infected, and that Ellie and the cure were her only hope. Before Joel can calm Tess down, the military arrives, with the intention of killing the group for escaping the safe zone. Tess stays behind to buy Joel and Ellie time to escape, demanding that Joel get Ellie to other Fireflies so her death won't be for nothing. Honoring his friend's wish, Joel agrees to take Ellie to Tommy, who knows the whereabouts of other Fireflies due to his past membership of the group.

The Man
"I'm not going to let anything happen to you...I'm going to take care of you...I'm always going to try and be here for you...and I'm going to kill anyone who touches you."

- The Man, to the Boy Bio: A survivor of a post-apocalyptic world that was struck by an unknown apocalyptic event, the Man is attempting to take care of and protect his son, referred to as the Boy. His wife, distraught with the state of the world and the hopelessness of their situation, killed herself sometime after the Boy was born. The duo of father and son finds themselves aimlessly wandering around the wasteland that is the world as they try to find a way of staying safe for short periods of time from bands of roaming cannibals, bandits, and various other threats. When all else fails, the Man keeps a revolver with only two rounds in it, for the purpose of killing himself and the Boy to prevent their suffering should they be captured by one of many roving gangs of cannibals.

At some point in their travels, the Man and the Boy stumble upon a mansion being used as a home by cannibals. The cannibals return unexpectedly, and the Man, having already used one round of the gun on a bandit, plans to kill the Boy in order to save him from whatever the cannibals have in store. However, the Cannibals are distracted by some of their captives, and the two manage to escape.

After run-ins with various individuals like a blind man and a thief that the Man leaves for dead, the Man is attacked by a mysterious archer, who shoots him in the knee before the Man kills him with a flare gun he scavenged from a boat he found on the coastline. Badly injured, the Man teaches the boy to do whatever it takes to survive, and dies. Distraught, the Boy considers committing suicide with the revolvers only round, only for a family that had been secretly following the Man and the Boy out of concern for the Boy to appear and offer the boy the chance to join their family, assuring him that they're the "good guys."

Joel
Starter Weapon: Taurus Model 66. A single-action revolver with 7 rounds per clip. Joel will only have one clip at the battle's start, but he will be able to find more ammo as the fight goes on.

The Man
Starter Weapon: Smith & Wesson Model 10. A double-action revolver with 6 rounds per clip. In the battle, the Man will only have two rounds at the start of the battle, though he will be able to find more ammo as the fight goes on.

Expendable Weapons
Weapons that will be laying around the battlefield for either warrior to use. In the case of the melee weapons and grenades, they can be improvised with any materials the two can find.
 * Shiv: A small, improvised knife that can be used 3 times before breaking. Can be crafted.
 * Pipe: A metal piece of plumbing that can be used 9 times before it breaks, can be crafted.
 * Hatchet: A small handheld axe that can be used 5 times before it breaks. Can be found on the battlefield.
 * Machete: A 12-inch long blade, the Machete can be used 3 times before it breaks. Can be found on the battlefield.
 * Orion Flaregun: A single-shot, breech-loaded, 12-guage gun that launches, you guessed it, flares. While it's not normally used as a weapon, in the apocalypse, anything goes. Can be found on the battlefield.
 * Mossberg 500A1: A shotgun with a pump-action fire rate, a range of 40 meters, and 6 rounds per clip.
 * Colt Defender: A handgun with 7 rounds per clip and a semi-auto fire rate. Can be found on battlefield.
 * Bow and Arrow: Self-explanatory. Can be found on the battlefield.
 * Winchester Model 70: A hunting rifle with no scope and a range of 500-1,000 yards. Can be found on the battlefield.
 * Smoke Grenade: A non-lethal grenade that opens into a massive cloud of smoke, obstructing the sight of people in the smoke. Can be either found on the battlefield or crafted by either warrior.
 * Nail Bomb: An improvised explosive filled with nails to increase damage and lethality of blast, the weapon will be found in the area and is able to be crafted by either warrior.

X-Factors
Joel vs The Man 90-Experience-65 While they've both been scraping out a survival in their respective apocalypses a long time, Joel has been doing a lot more fighting than the Man has against more coordinated and deadlier opponents like the Fireflies, the Hunters, and the various forms of Infected, while the Man has just faced groups of bandits.

90-Brutality-90 When it comes to survival, neither warrior is really willing to hold back if it means protecting themselves, or more importantly, the ones they care about. From brutal torture to leaving a man for dead with no clothes in freezing temperatures, both have committed their fair share of atrocities in the name of survival.

90-Creativity-70 Joel's a smart thinker and on-the-fly maker of vital equipment like shivs and health kits, which has a lot to do with the fact that he has more logistics at his disposal. The Man isn't quite as big on making things, nor is he a smart improvised planner

85-Stealth-90  While both warriors rely heavily on stealth, what tips it in the Man's favor is how he relies on stealth more than Joel does. While ammo is sparse for Joel, he can still fall back on his hand-to-hand and weapons in the event of a fight, while the Man simply doesn't have the firepower to take on a group of bandits, vastly preferring to hide and stay away from threats.

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