Eren Jaeger VS Marie Korbel is a What if? Death Battle by XarXel. It features the Titanshifter, Eren Jaeger, from the overrated Attack on Titan anime, and the last Skullgirl, Marie Korbel, from the underrated Skullgirls fighting game.
Intro[]
Wiz: "Eren Jaeger, Inheritor of the Attack."
Boomstick: "Marie Korbel, the last Skullgirl."
Wiz: "Humans are, in a sense, like coins. They're simple, easy to judge, and come and go as time passes. And, much like coins, humans too have two sides, which they can switch between at even the slightest flip."
Boomstick: "But what happens when one flips the coin too hard? These two happened to have gone through exactly that. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick!"
Wiz: "And it's our job to test their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a DEATH BATTLE!"
Eren Yeager[]
(ANY EXPERT ON ATTACK ON TITAN WILL BE WELCOME TO EDIT HIS ANALYSIS. Like, really, I have not seen a single episode of the anime nor read any of the manga. I'm going off it's Wikipedia)
Wiz: "Long ago, humanity has abandoned the outside world, barricading themselves behind three great walls out of fear of what lurks outside."
Boomstick: "Nah, these fast as shit giants are anything but merely 'lurking'. The Titans are massive humanoid beings, nearly unkillable even against an army, and they derive from eating human beings."
Wiz: "Of course, not all of mankind were stuck in complacency, even forming the Survey Corps, maneuvering soldiers trained on knowing how to take down Titans. And one most determined for freedom and Titan destruction is Eren Yeager!"
Boomstick: "Living in the Shinganshina District with a proper mother father and adopted sister, young Eren strived for freedom from these tall ass walls, wanting to join the Survey Corps just for a taste of that. Even so, he and Mikasa lived peacefully in behind Wall Maria."
Wiz: "That is, until it literally came crashing down by a new Titan, the Colossal Titan. Real original. Smaller Titans terrorize the district, many people evacuated or were tragically eaten, like Eren's mother, which he saw with his own eyes."
Boomstick: "Ah, I'm sure he'll turn out fine. More now than before, Eren waited patiently to become of age to join the Survey Corps, and when the time came, he went through rigorous training."
Wiz: "To properly control the 3D Maneuver Gear, it had to be rigorous, from greatly increasing your physical strength, spatial recognition, to the mental bravery to not panic. Without at least one of these managed, a trainee will actually die."
Boomstick: "It's like signing up for Warner Bros. Discovery! ...Need I say more?"
Wiz: "This shoots cables around and sends you flying around in 360 different directions. While it is possible to shoot the cable to pierce through your opponent, it is mainly for flying around the air at over 227 miles per hour and Titans like... well, a fly."
Boomstick: "Oh, please. Flies are annoying, but they're harmless at best. These Survey soldiers are more like mosquitos to these Titans, if mosquitos had swords. And Eren has slain one himself!"
Wiz: "Unfortunately, even with a team, it wasn't enough against multiple Titans, as Eren's reckless and strong temper has lead him into the belly of one. However, upon seeing the dead or dying soldiers from the Titan's stomach acid, his anguish triggers one little trick his father gave him."
Boomstick: "See, longer ago, Titans were brought into the world by the Source of All Living Matter fusing with a little girl who was hunted for sport. There, young Ymir Fritz became the first Titan, and, well, you know how we humans love to experiment, right, Wiz?"
Wiz: "Well, (fake cough) Eren was given an injection of a Titan's essence, becoming an Attack Titan. With a goal in mind and delivering self-harm, he grows up to 15 meters tall and can dwarf ordinary Titans, and his hand-to-hand combat against even bigger Titans excels in spades, much like how his martial arts can take down humans taller than his normal form."
Boomstick: "Titan Shifters like him can take brutal beatings, enduring an immense explosion far enough away to tank 72 tons of TNT of damage. He's plenty fast with this form, too, with intercepting a cannon ball by transforming. Measuring the distance between him and the cannonball, he'd be moving over 4 times the speed of sound."
Wiz: "For the blows he can't dodge, his Titan body can regenerate from decapitation. In fact, as long as he has his nape, he can regenerate from anything overtime."
Boomstick: "His what!?"
Wiz: "His NAPE. It's the back of a person's neck."
Boomstick: "Oh. Well, this can regeneration can apply to Eren's human body as well, so he won't feel bad cannibalizing himself. None of these are really unique from other Titans, but the Attack Titan has latent abilities themselves, such as precognition."
Wiz: "Specifically, AT users can peer through memories of the future, beit through Eren's own or reading others'. In fact, he can read the minds of others, and even erase their memories or create new ones. Funny, that'd be pretty useful for manipulation. And he'd just get more abilities."
Boomstick: "The Hardening serum - no, it's not Viagra, I checked - grants Eren the ability to harden his skin into crystallized armor, making him more durable and strike stronger. He can reform Wall Maria with his whole body and create rows of spikes. Yeah, that looks heroic... mostly."
Wiz: "He'd gained even more upon eating Lara Tybur, who had the War Hammer Titan, upgrading his Hardening to form actual weapons. What's even better with said Titan reforming from nothing even after Lara's connection was severed."
Boomstick: "Better, or worse?"
Wiz: "Well, better for Eren, but-"
Boomstick: "But we both know that's not what I'm concerned with. Upon learning the truth about the Titans, Eren's hatred for Titans and his temper subsided. In place of that emerged an unnervingly stoic and calm behavior, his intentions becoming all but mysterious."
Wiz: "As if that realization wasn't enough, Eren also learned that after awakening the Attack Titan, he had 13 years left to live. Knowing what the inevitable outcome of the present would be, Eren had been spiraling down a state of depression."
Boomstick: "But he had a plan. The ends were commendable, but he knew the means were unjustifiable. Eren has easily tricked everyone, from Marley, Falco, to even his own father. During his fight against the War Hammer Titan, his quick thinking figured out the location of the hidden user."
Wiz: "He'd take a step further, obtaining all of Ymir's strength. With this much power, Ymir could create the realm of Paths, which is a separate dimension transcending physical space and contains boundless time. This much power on hand allows Eren to form the Rumbling."
Boomstick: "He declares to destroy the world, turning into the Founding Titan, towering the 60 meter tall Colossal Titan 7 times over, and turning all the Wall Titans to end all life not from Paradis. For what purpose?"
Wiz: "Well, so the Eldians, his people revered as horrible by the world, would be seen as heroes, but even Eren doubted they could pull it off. However, they pulled through, with Mikasa dealing the final blow. Following his death, Mikasa and Armin decide to bury Eren's head at the foot of the tree he liked to nap under outside of Shiganshina District, and a small grave is made there for Eren, which Mikasa continues to visit years later."
Marie Korbel[]
Wiz: "In the world of Skullgirls, there existed three Goddesses called the Trinity, Venus of space, Aeon of time, and their Mother. In the ancient times of Egypt, all three existed in the mortal realm, their mere power creating a race from their essence, Theonite, called Parasites."
Boomstick: "However, one human being seeing this power displayed wanted that for herself, so Eliza and her parasite Sekhmet slays Venus and Aeon's mortal forms. Enraged, the Mother not only laid waste to Egypt, but it gave the Earth the Apocalypses for years to come. Geez, ladies, it's just a game. No need to curse it with a virus."
Wiz: "This 'virus' was the Skull Heart. Each seven years, this entity would grant the wishes of women, twisting their selfishness and transforming them into Skullgirls if their desires were not pure. And the titular Skullgirl in the game might've been closest to pure good, Bloody Marie."
Boomstick: "Marie Korbel hails from No Man's Land, a former country the size of a continent that was obliterated from a Skullgirl, as she and her friend Patricia were orphaned to Mr. Hilgard's castle, where no invaders have reached, not even the Skullgirls."
Wiz: "Until they were. Marie and Patricia were sold into slavery by a group part of the Medici Mafia, a crime business controlling much of the Canopy Kingdom, which brutally mutilate Patricia without remorse, something Marie witnessed with her eyes."
Boomstick: "Patricia was luckily rescued by Lab 8 and rebuilt her into the reality-defying Anti-Skullgirl weapon, Peacock, but Marie got the opposite end of the stick. Trying to escape to the nearby village, she ran into the Trinity priest Double."
Wiz: "This shapeshifting amalgamation (shutters) offers the Skull Heart, asking her to wish for a world where she and her friends are safe. Needless to say, she became the next Skullgirl. Luckily, Marie's will resists the Skull Heart's corruption, holding back it's immense power, something Double finds troublesome."
Boomstick: "And for a doomsday device for the world of Skullgirls, the Skull Heart keeps it's priorities minimal. Marie can raise an army of skeletons to fight along side her, throwing legions of skulls and even bring back unfortunate souls like Mr. Hilgard and even Squigly! She can even summon said undead, skeletons, and living shadows to aid her in direct combat."
Wiz: "She doesn't always need the undead to fight off. Other Skullgirls have shown to attack with weapons without movement. Even if she manages to leave herself open, Marie can regenerate from her own bones."
Boomstick: "Valentine had trouble doing any lasting damage on her from the regeneration's speed, and she's dodge automatic gunfire. Hell, she's plenty faster than most characters like Annie, whose parasite, Sagan, can shoot cosmic rays that are nearly light speed!"
Wiz: "On top of all of that, she can form a giant statue she can control like a mech, and fly over New Meridian, raining destruction from oh so high up. However, she's not attacking everyone - not yet. Marie wished to fight back against the Medici Mafia, and with this new power, she could wipe them off the face of the Earth."
Boomstick: "This is most prominent when she broke their tower. Instead of letting the half of the tower fall on innocent people, Marie catches it and throws it across the city in seconds at the Medicis. And not only is New Meridian the size of a country, the Medici Tower is taller than buildings that pierce the clouds!"
Wiz: "The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, is 829 meters tall, but it's not even close to piercing the clouds (1981.2 meters). Not only does the River King Casino pierce the clouds, but it's not even the tallest building in New Meridian, nor is it visible from the city's skyline. The Medici Tower, on the other hand, is the tallest and does pierce the skyline."
Boomstick: "Measuring the part of the building she threw, this would have the kinetic energy of 76 Gigatons! That's 3 times the power of all the nuclear weapons in the world. And this is her holding back!"
Wiz: "A previous Skullgirl, Queen Nancy, once tanked a blast that wasted entire countries into No Man's Land in seconds as a side effect, and she just brushed it off. Marie claims No Man's Land is connected to other countries across the continent, possibly around the world. A blast like that at max would be worth over 600 Petatons!"
Boomstick: "In fairness, the purpose of the Skull Heart has been stated multiple times to end the world. In one ending of Skullgirls, Brain Drain's experiment purged humanity with the power of the Skull Heart, literally doing the job of Venus and Aeon for them! All this... from a JOKE CHARACTER!"
Wiz: "Well, pretty much every woman is after the wish granting power of the Skull Heart; Medici members, a feline feral who became undying, the princess of the Canopy Kingdom, another Wolverine experiment, and even the anti-Skullgirl weapon, Peacock. Quite the reunion."
Boomstick: "Many of the titular roster beating Marie is a result of the many timelines Aeon can see, but it is most ill-fated with Peacock, putting down her best friend to stop the Skull Heart for the next 7 years. An emotionally daunting task, but a job she completed."
Wiz: "Of course, that's only one timeline. In Marie's story, Peacock found a way to save her from the Skull Heart. In trying to send it out of their universe, the Skull Heart was torn apart instead, leaving a remnant behind for Marie to keep her alive and her will free."
Boomstick: "Now she's a playable character for the game's DLC pass! Because EVERY fighting game needs a Fighter Pass! Smash Bros., Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dragon Ball FighterZ, fucking Nick All-Star Brawl!"
Wiz: "A-are you okay, Boomstick?"
Boomstick: "I have a love-hate relationship with DLC. Anyway, Marie's playstyle is essentially being the maid, cleansing the world of her enemies and even vacuuming up their corpses to increase her power like sweeping up dust. In fact, she can spew Dust Bunnies to bite her opponents."
Wiz: "Speaking of help, she still retains the command of her minions. Marie can summon Mr. Hilgard to punch with his Gigan strength or laser the ground to explode. She can summon others to aid her, such as launching her foes upwards or picking her up. Finally, she can summon all the will from and the other Skullgirls into a spirit ball to consume her foes in immense amounts of energy"
It cuts to Wiz and Boomstick in the lab.
Boomstick: "Wow, still retaining those powers without a full Skull Heart? But what were we expecting? The Skull Heart is entirely made of the Trinity's power, Theonite, a primordial crystal so volatile, a cache of this stuff caused a multiverse crisis!"
Wiz: "Billions of universes colliding, tears of spacetime across nearly infinite realities, all from a simple Theonite accident. I'm glad no man can obtain this power, otherwise the world will by at stake by a massive incel."
All of a sudden, a reality bending aura illuminates over the lab, one unnerving to Wiz while Boomstick remains oblivious. Out of the shadows, the Trinity appear.
Wiz: "Holy shit!"
Boomstick: "Who are these chicks!?"
The Mother: "We are the Trinity, forgetful brute. We view this world and it's branching timelines as a mere video game. It makes sense our essence could shake it's infinite realities."
Boomstick: "What the hell are you doing here?"
Aeon: "We found you making this ridiculous scenario with our titular Skullgirl, and we thought we'd add ourselves in."
Wiz: "Well, we've already gone over your involvement at the beginning of this analysis."
Boomstick: "However, you could contribute by answering us this; why only women?"
Aeon: "
Wiz: "Marie always tended to be stubborn, forcing Patricia to stop watching TV, but Marie knew she needed to live, not hide away from the threat of the Skullgirl. The Skull Heart twisted her desperation and desire to help her friends, but she was thankfully freed from it's control."
Boomstick: "Even when the Goddesses were pissed and tried to retain control again, Marie's will was too stubborn. Realizing all the Skullgirls had their wishes twisted to end this world, she frees herself from their influence."
The Mother: "How unfortunate."
Wiz: "The rest of the timelines have her die off by the hands of the playable characters, Peacock included, but in this one, Marie finally turned her true wish into reality! And with the power of the Skull Heart controlled by her own will, there won't be anything to take that away again!"
Fight[]
The fight starts with a handshake, that from an agreement between Eren Yeager and Lorenzo Medici, as the camera cuts to a farther view showing the Medici blimp and Black Dahlia in the Walls of Eldia.
Eren Yeager: "Glad to meet you in person. As a matter of fact, what brings you here in the first place?"
Lorenzo Medici: "Oh, nothing. I just felt ill on a business trip and thought you would help me."
Although Eren trusts this man, he couldn't help but wonder if he's lying. Behind Medici, Eren notices a bright light growing in the distance, while Black Dahlia holds her gun steady knowing what he's looking at. As Eren looks back at the old man, Lorenzo starts sweating and shaking, worried he won't be offered sanctuary if they don't hurry up.
Eren decides to use his connections to Paths to look into Lorenzo's memories. He learns about the Skullgirl and the real reason his "partner" came here.
Eren Yeager: "You brought this 'Skullgirl' here?"
Lorenzo starts panicking, trying to talk his way out of this but stutters to even reason with Eren. His somewhat cheerful smirk drops, leaving a cold stern on his face at someone who just jeopardized the safety of his home.
Suddenly, Eren's arm grows into that of a Titan and grabs Lorenzo like a toy, the cold demeaner look especially menacing now. Eren drops the traitor down the wall inside Eldia.
Black Dahlia: "Smart. Now, there won't be anyone holding me ba-"
A blast of blue flames proves otherwise, incinerating Black Dahlia on the spot.
Marie Korbel: "MEDICI! I WILL DESTROY YOU!!"
Eren fully transforms into the 15 meter Attack Titan, ready to forward air the incoming Skullgirl.
FIGHT!
Eren lands his forward air on Marie and spikes her to the ground. Well, she doesn't hit the ground, as Marie lights up into a ball of energy and swoops up right back to the Titan, smacking him in the chin. She blasts through with sonic speed all around the Titan, damaging his body.
Marie quickly avoids the Titan's right hand from grabbing her, but, as if he anticipated it, she was grabbed by his left hand going slightly slower. As he drags Marie closer to his mouth, steam spews from said mouth as Eren prepares to end her like his mother did. He chomps his teeth down on the Skullgirl, crushing her.
Marie Korbel: "You dare stand in the way of my WISH!?"
However, in actuality, Marie managed to summon several of her skeleton minions to hold back the teeth. Marie pulls out her vacuum cleaner and several sharp knives form a scythe around the head, generating great and dark energy.
Marie Korbel: "Perish!"
She swings the cleaner over her head and splits the Titan's skull with all the pent up energy. She flies out of Eren's mouth, bringing her minions along to deliver a bigger bolt of energy to penetrate through the Titan. After regenerating his head, Eren had little time before the bolt landed straight on his chest. However, the impact was not successful as his pecs become crystallized, bouncing the Skullgirl off his chest.
Eren throws a hook punch at the airborne Skullgirl, launching her across the floor of the Wall, scraping her bones from the momentum. As she slides down, she summons numerous flying bone minions and Mr. Hilgard to attack the Titan. Eren swats plenty of them away, but when he tried to punch Mr. Hilgard, the undead Gigan's own punch pushed back the might of a hardened Titan.
Mr. Hilgard unleashes a laser while Eren was staggered, spreading explosions across his body. However, Eren receives a premonition of Marie flying across the Wall to destroy him from behind. Acting quickly, he catches himself with his left foot, and summons several rows of spike from both sides. This destroys Mr. Hilgard, and as Marie begins to ascend in flight upwards, she flies through several spikes that slow her down drastically.
With his opponent essentially trapped in his spider web, Eren quickly hardens his hands for a double hammer punch to crush the vulnerable Skullgirl. Marie tries violently to escape, tearing her own body apart and sending her flying to town before the impact smashes the spikes. Upon reaching the town, she grows long and giant light blue veins across every building.
She throws buildings right for the Titan, only he jumps towards her and unsheathes sword-like spikes from his wrists like he's Wolverine, pulverizing any building thrown at him. Eren attempts to dice the Skullgirl, but two large light blue hand form and stop his momentum. In fact, a large mech starts forming around Marie, evening the playing field in size.
Marie Korbel: "Perhaps size matters just this once."
A giant vacuum tank suddenly flies and smacks Eren in the face, stumbling him back before the tank returns back behind Marie. Marie holds out her vacuum staff and pulls the Titan into it's grasp. Once he is so, Marie throws him over his shoulder and smashes him onto the ground.
Strategically rolling back, Eren sends a wave of spikes towards the giant Skullgirl, which she breaks through with her vacuum scythe. Marie shoots two giant Dust Bunnies out of her vacuum over the spikes, and tackle into Eren. They attack again from behind, but they ripped an arm and a leg off his body doing so.
Grazing through the spikes, Marie secures an opening to strike the aggressive Attack Titan. However, despite nearly falling over, Eren manages to balance himself and form a war hammer in his hand, with the creation smacking Marie in the chest.
Quickly regenerating his lost limbs, Eren betters his battle stance and spins his hammer around, clotheslining the giant Skullgirl effortlessly. The blow knocks Marie's stone statue's head clean off, reducing it to dust.
Left staggered, Marie struggles to regain balance while Eren swings his hammer overhead, planning on crushing her. However, a shadowy aura illuminates Marie's giant form, and as the hammer strikes, a shadow figure tackles forward from Marie and smashes Eren back into the wall.
Marie slides in and delivers a backhanded punch against Eren, further damaging the wall. She actually does full combos on Eren against the wall, landing various blows from multi-hitting and devastating, digging the Titan further into the wall.
However, Eren suddenly glares into Marie's eyes, petrifying her mind with traumatizing memories. He quickly hardens his skin and tackles the stunned Skullgirl, finally breaking apart her giant form.
Eren punches his crystal fist right into Marie's body, launching her across the city to the other side of the wall. He sprints violently over to the Skullgirl, but he was in for a rude awakening.
Marie Korbel: "ENOUGH!!"
Marie sprouts large blue veins that quickly spread all over the Wall, breaking them into large and small pieces simultaneously. She throws all the pieces at the Titan all at once, crushing him in the center of the city.
Amidst the pile of rubble, Eren, returning to human form bruised and battered, climbs out from under the tons of rock over him. He looks around the former city, comprehending his home is demolished. Marie floats down to finish him off - or so that's the plan.
Marie Korbel: "You were no match for the Skull Heart."
As Marie raises her vacuum scythe above her, Eren left with no other option invades her mind once more, flashing memories in her head she can't tell right from wrong.
Eren Yeager: "Maybe I don't need to be."
Suddenly, a cable from his 3DMG quickly shoots out and stabs Marie through the chest, latching on to the Skull Heart. As it pulls back, it brings Marie closer to him as well. Eren grabs a blade from his left pocket while Marie telekinetically summons his sword in his right to her hand, the two swords clashing on impact.
Marie Korbel: "Really dirty trick invading my mind like that."
Eren Yeager: "Like this wretched doomsday device hasn't infected your mind already. This vile Skull Heart has twisted your will against the world!"
Marie Korbel: "Heh, heh, funny. I can sense your desire to destroy the world in yourself."
Eren Yeager: "Well, it's actually my desire, my choice, whilst this Skull Heart forced your hand to give the world it's destruction!!"
Eren rips the Skull Heart off the cable, barely rendering Marie powerless. However, she manages to get a chokehold on Eren while he puts the Skull Heart out of her reach. Marie's connection to the Skull Heart weakens, her red eyes returning to normal as she starts crying with not only regaining her will, but what will happen to her if this goes on.
Marie Korbel: (weepy) "Please, destroy it! I don't care if I'll die anymore!"
Eren Yeager: (choking) "This accursed thing is too dangerous to be destroyed! I'll send it away to the realm of Paths!"
As he tries to send it away, the Skull Heart screams as it begins crystalizing itself.
Eren Yeager: (in thought) "What!? It can harden, too?"
The Skull Heart explodes, and a bright white light consumes the screen.
Eren wakes up in a white void, finding a piece of the Skull Heart lodged in his chest. He tries to pull it out, but he's interrupted by the presence of the Trinity (& Wiz and Boomstick). Their light shines bright into Eren's eyes, him shunning from them.
Eren Yeager: "Who are you!?"
The Mother: "We are the Trinity, goddesses of this world."
Eren Yeager: "Then why are there 5 of you?"
Aeon and Venus look to their sides seeing the two hosts in the frame. Wiz and Boomstick both nervously walk out of the frame, letting the Trinity continue with their plan.
Venus: "We really prefer women with the Skull Heart."
Aeon: "Yet you have a strong desire, one aligning with ours."
A sudden burst of energy flows through Eren's body violently, as the Skull Heart remnant takes control of him.
Eren Yeager: "You dare turn my will against me!? I won't let you!"
The Mother: "I'm afraid you have no say."
The Mother snaps her fingers, creating an even bigger burst within the Skull Heart fragment, consuming Eren in his entirety.
Marie awakens on the grassy ground, feeling most of her connection to the Skull Heart has been severed.
Marie Korbel: "Wha- huh?"
Looking up, she sees where all that Skull Heart power went to. Eren laughs maniacally as he develops an aura of blue energy.
Marie Korbel: "As if my will wasn't enough, you decide to take his!?"
Eren Yeager: "Oh, please, it's not as simple as that. We both desire the destruction of this world. Whether you die and I succeed in it's destruction, or I die and you become a hero, it's a win-win for me."
Eren continues to laugh maniacally as he initiates the Roaring, causing immense steam clouding the battle ground and blowing Marie back. Once the steam clears, Marie bares witness to the Titan once more, only he's even larger than before, practically piercing the clouds with his presence alone.
The dreadful Titan forms the War Hammer and quickly slams onto the Skullgirl. Marie, reminiscing on her wish to the Skull Heart and the Skullgirls before her, contemplates over her own will and the taken will of her opponent.
Marie Korbel: (in thought) "All the Skullgirls who hoped for a better world, only to have their wishes twisted - everyone who died by your hands, their future cut short - our HOPES, our DREAMS, and our WILL!!"
Before the hammer drops on her, Marie taps into her Skull Heart shard, flowing incredible energy through her body. She shoots her whole body upwards, vaporizing the hammer head on impact. Even her underlings join her in this bolt of energy rising to the top of the Titan.
Marie Korbel: "GIVE BACK WHAT YOU TOOK FROM US, YOU DEPRAVED DEITIES!!!"
Marie and her army swarm the Skull Titan's head, smashing his teeth, burning his ears, and piercing his eye. Eren swats the swarm with an upwards chop, smacking them away. He throws his right fist into Marie, with her holding back the blow like she's pushing a train.
With enough momentum, Marie flings herself on top of the hand and summons Mr. Hilgard. He blasts a laser that reaches from Eren's hand to his shoulder, the line made by the laser causing massive explosions and disintegrate his arm as a whole. Mr. Hilgard dissipates, and Marie carries on flying right for the Titan's face.
As she rushes to take him out, Eren regenerates his arm into a pillar of spikes that ram and pierce against Marie. He lifts his left arm and form a blade from his skin. Eren violently swings his arm sword in an attempt to cut down Marie for good, but she had a trick up her sleeve.
Marie with all her strength raises her hand up, sparking Theonite energy to summon a large bone arm from the sky. This arm rockets down right for Eren, crushing him entirely and sending a shockwave across the Earth that moved clouds, lakes, and mountains.
However, the arm comes undone when Eren just splits it apart through raw strength. Regrowing his arm fully back to normal however, he notices Marie has escaped his literal grasp. He had no time to strategize, though, as an even bigger skeleton hands sprouts from the ground and grabs his whole body. The hand moves across the landscape and slam him into a mountain, then it goes the other way to slam in into another mountain, all the while Marie floats above the clouds controlling the hand like a conductor.
Eren's Skull Titan body hardens with crystals and spikes, not only increasing his strength to fight back against the hand but pierce it until it's nothing but bone scraps. Marie counters this with two enormous light blue Theonite hands, attempting to trap Eren. Unfortunately, he not only holds back the hands with his own, but he gets into Marie's mind.
Marie is attacked with numerous controlling memories playing in her head over and over. Most of them are the words from the Skull Heart telling her commands back when it was whole, some are from the Trinity themselves, and one was the wish she told Double before getting the Skull Heart.
Marie Korbel: "Get out of my head! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!! (SCREECHING SCREAMS)"
With her guard down, Eren escapes the hands and walks menacingly towards the tortured Skullgirl. His hands harden, and he crushes her between them. The voices continue inside Marie's head as she struggles to hold back the hands. Her bones break apart gradually, as if her regeneration isn't enough to survive this.
In her mind, she's trapped in a distorted version of Eldia, face to face with herself - one glitching out between her full Skullgirl self and Eren becoming one.
Eren Yeager (with the Trinity echoing his voice): "SURRENDER, MARIE KORBEL."
The entity brutally punches the lights out of Marie over and over, sending her creaning to the wall. They stomp on her body and grab her by the throat.
Eren Yeager (with the Trinity echoing his voice): "YOU LIVE ONLY BY OUR WILL NOW, OUR WISH!"
But Marie refused to be tied them again.
Marie Korbel: "Never again. NEVER. AGAIN!"
She raises her arms to gather all the Theonite energy she could muster, and I mean all. The ball of light grows so exponentially, it creates a blinding light that consumes the whole distorted world.
Back in reality, Eren comes close to crushing Marie completely, but light beams through his hands. His hands start to crack until they were obliterated by the ball of energy contained in Marie's will. The Titan is flabbergasted, never seeing so much energy threatened against him or the Trinity.
Marie Korbel: "My wish wasn't to end Medici. It was to PROTECT. MY. FRIENDS!!"
The Titan hardens his arms to protect his face, hoping they could survive this. But as Marie screams, she blasts the ball of her will as a beam, instantly atomizing through the Titan's skin and eclipsing the Earth as the beam continues into outer space. In the center of it all, Eren Yeager's human body only shows a cold stern face as he closes his eyes, embracing his end when his whole body dissipates into nothing.
A white light filling the screen slowly silences, as Marie descends to the ground on her knees. She's done it. She's free. But she couldn't stop thinking about Eren, crying at the thought she couldn't save him.
Eren Yeager: (from memory) "Whether you die and I succeed in it's destruction, or I die and you become a hero, it's a win-win for me."
Marie gasps, as she soon realizes he has accepted his fate long before she had killed him. She stands up and looks to the stars, readying her vacuum for what she will do next.
Marie Korbel: "I shall be the last Skullgirl."
Results[]
K.O!
Boomstick: "Wow, that was a flurry of emotions right there!"
The Mother: "Such a shame she became free of our control."
Aeon: "Don't feel sad, mother. They've run this 100 times over, and half of them maintain her devotion to the Skull Heart."
Venus: "Yet the main one shown here wasn't from that half."
Wiz: "It was an artistic choice. Anyway, put of 100 of those times, Eren would theoretically get a win 30% of the time."
Boomstick: "Problem is most of the time, he's outdone by strength. Eren has all of Ymir's strength, which created the timeless and space transcending realm of Paths. That's powerful, but the Skull Heart has that beat."
Wiz: "A cache of Theonite has caused a multiverse crisis, rippling shockwave through infinite timelines. At the very least, it caused billions universes to collide, and the Skull Heart is entirely made of Theonite."
Boomstick: "This would make Marie billions of times, if not infinitely, more powerful than Eren could ever hope. And it's not like he could just steal a piece of the Skull Heart and be even."
Venus: "Of course not! Why would we allow men to harness it's power!?"
Wiz: "It's not a matter of 'would', but a matter of 'could'. Sure, the Skull Heart prefers women as hosts, but with how controlling it is over their Skullgirls and it's undead army which can include men, there's nothing to say it CAN'T use men. And taking power is nothing new for Eren."
Boomstick: "Unfortunately, it's not enough to tie the category, because Marie easily takes speed. Eren may have been 4 times faster than sound, but Marie can keep up with Annie and her parasite Ragan, which can shoot near lightspeed cosmic rays."
Wiz: "To even avoid anything remotely close to lightspeed, Marie could move 2 hundred THOUSAND times faster than Eren can reach. Saying 'harming her and surviving her blows would be hard' is an understatement."
Boomstick: "Honestly, what saved this fight from being completely one-side were the powers and abilities, which is a tie. Both of them had mostly unique powers from eachother, and Eren had plenty to save his hide more than once."
Wiz: "Eren's connection to memories allowed him to predict Marie's attacks, although it's not guaranteed he could considering the speed gap. Luckily, he could also use memories to mess with Marie's mind."
Boomstick: That sounds great, but his main power as a Titan is utterly useless as Marie can just conjure up a giant form herself. Also, their regenerations are so different they're dead even."
Wiz: "Eren's Titan form could match the War Hammer Titan after consuming it's user, which even after the connection was severed, the Titan formed out of nothing to protect it's user. Marie's best showing of regeneration is coming back from mere bones, which is better than Eren's human form relying on his nape, but still not as impressive."
Boomstick: "What evens it out is that she can regenerate just as fast as she fights. Valentine, one of the fastest characters, couldn't do any lasting damage to Marie with out it regenerating before her very eyes. Even if Eren could tear off a limb, he'd just see it literally popping back to normal like nothing happened. Honestly, this Skull Heart thing is pretty broken."
Aeon: "Thank you."
Wiz: "Well, one major advantage Eren did have was experience. He's been fighting plenty of highly trained soldiers and be one himself for years, even turning into an excellent manipulator."
Boomstick: "Marie has managed to fight plenty of foes and actually win, but that's nothing compared to the years Eren has to outsmarting people... in general. And with access to her mind, he'd certainly come up with a plan with taking out the Skull Heart directly. Hell, Peacock managed to do the same, with various success."
Wiz: "Except that plan was a three-women job, and again, it failed successfully. Eren is smarter, but for that kind of plan to work, he'd need to think fast, and while he could in the middle of a fight before, his speed is still outclassed. But one final nail in the coffin was their will."
Boomstick: "Their will?"
The Mother: "Ah, yes. Because the Skull Heart is made to corrupt those who wish their selfish desires on it. And the nail is if the pathetic Titanshifter could resist it's temptation."
Wiz: "Indeed, and the simple answer is no. With Eren's desire to destroy most of the world, it would be piss easy for the Skull Heart to corrupt this and remove any good intent behind it."
Boomstick: "Marie, on the other hand, has been resisting the Skull Heart's control to destroy the world, holding back it's immense power, and considering how massive, that's banaynay!"
It cuts to Wiz and Boomstick in the lab with the Trinity, with the mother trying not to block the TV with her presense.
Boomstick: "Marie just had the strength, the speed, and the will to take down the Titanshifter. Wish this fight had a happy ending. (turns towards the Mother) You know, we could have a happy ending ourselves."
The Mother: "Please, I'm more into your science friend. He could easily pull off Brain Drain's plan without the need for a joke character."
Boomstick: "Man, I can't compete with that!"
Wiz: "T-the winner is Bloody Marie. Get away from me, you Goddess of destruction!"
Advantages & Disadvantages[]
- Eren Yeager
- + Can mess with Marie's mind
- + Smarter and more experienced
- + Better regeneration
- - Weaker
- - Could be corrupted by the SH
- Marie Korbel
- + Infinitely stronger
- + Significantly superior speed
- + Faster regeneration
- + Can resist memory control and corruption
- - Less experienced
- - Skull Heart can be vulnerable
Soundtrack[]
The cover name would be "Titanic Will". The music would have a striking orchestra and haunting choir, hammering in the horror of these warmongers duking out, the dramatic tension treating this fight like a biblical event
The name would reference Marie's theme around will, resisting the Skull Heart's corruption and fighting against it in her DLC story, as well as referencing Eren's nature as a Titanshifter.
The track cover would have the Skull Heart behind the iconic AoT Wall, spreading it's blue flames past it as it's screams echoes past the Wall and shakes the smoked sky.
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Trivia[]
- The connections between Eren Yeager and Marie Korbel:
- They spent their childhood lives in the relative peace of their own country. That peace would soon be torn to shreds and bruned in a funeral pyre, for an ancient monstrosity that has been plaguing humanity since the beginning once entered their homes, took away their families, and left their once beautiful lands in utter ruin, leaving them orphans (Eren used to live with his parents and friends in the Shiganshina District of Wall Maria, until the Colossal Titan kicked a hole in the Wall, causing Titans to break in and kill almost everyone, including Eren's mother, leaving all of Wall Maria a desolate graveyard with countless Titans prowling about. Marie used to live in the city of Rommelgrad, until Queen Nancy, the current Skullgirl, ravaged her home, killed her parents, and created the wasteland that is now known as No Man's Land)
- Their suffering wouldn't end there, for not only did they lose their homes and families, but also had to watch their loved ones be horrifically mutilated before their very eyes (Eren had to watch his mother be torn apart and eaten by a Titan, while Marie had to watch her best friend Patricia be mutilated to near death by the slavers who kidnapped them).
- After this, both would end up gaining an age-old power that once belonged to a queen. One whose husband was a warmongering monster that nearly brought their land to ruin with their efforts to spread their empire's influence. Coincidentally, both kings have similar names with letters F, R and Z (Eren was given the Founding Titan, which once belonged to Ymir Fritz, the former slave and then wife of Fritz, the King of Eldians who once conquered the continent, destroyed Marley and formed the Eldian Empire. Marie gained the Skullheart, whose previous wielder was Nancy Renoir, the wife of Franz Renoir, a warmongering king who developed his kingdom through his war campaigns).
- Both would end up awakening these powers for real after an encounter with a disgusting monster resembling a human (Eren was eaten by a Titan, only to end up transforming into a Titan himself and burst out of the other Titan's body. Marie was given the Skullheart by Double, a shape-shifting eldritch monster wearing the false skin of a humble nun).
- Both would end up using these newfound powers to take revenge on the beings that ruined their lives and took away everything they loved (Eren would use his Titan powers to help humanity against the Titans, and later use the power of the Founding Titan to destroy Marley and the rest of the world along with it. Marie used the power of the Skullheart in an attempt to destroy the Medici as vengeance for what they did to Peacock).
- These powers sadly come with a grave cost (As a Titan Shifter, Eren has only 13 years to live. Marie's mind and soul are slowly being corrupted by the Skull Heart).
- They would attempt to accomplish their ultimate goals with the help of a massive army of beings that were once humans, only to be turned into mindless puppets for their masters to use (Eren used the power of the Founding Titan to turn nearly all Eldians into Colossal Titans to activate the Rumbling. Marie used the power of the Skull Heart to control an army of undead souls).
- Both have a twisted sense of justice, believing that as long as their goal is achieved, all the people and crimes they committed will be justified. It also happens that these goals were entirely centered around their loved ones (Eren wanted to destroy the world for his friends to lead a peaceful life free of oppression against Eldians. Marie wanted to destroy the Medici as vengeance for the mutilation they committed on Patricia, now known as Peacock).
- Both would also end up gaining help from a character who was previously part of a different organisation, only to later defect and join them for reasons unknown. Said villain was also part of another group that worked for the organisation they defected from, only for that group to suffer a crushing defeat earlier in the story at the hands of both them and an ally of theirs (Eren would be joined by Zeke, who used to work for Marley, and was previously a member of the Warriors, who were defeated by Eren, Levi and the rest of the Survey Corps. Marie would be joined by Valentine, a former member of the ASG Labs and their elite force, the Last Hope, only to later have all of her colleagues killed and for her to be defeated by Marie and Double).
- Sadly, their goals would end up never being realized. They would be struck down by the one person they cared for the most, and said person would continue to carry on their legacy, their memories remaining permanently in their hearts (Eren would be killed by Mikasa, who would go on to visit his grave ten years after his death. Marie would be killed by Peacock, who would go on to destroy the Medici mafia in her friend's stead).
- They both have the ability to pilot a sort of massive skinsuit made largely from their bodies (Eren can transform into the Attack Titan, which is connected to his body through special muscles. Marie pilots a stone mech which is held together by the veins sprouted by the Skullheart).
- Both also, while having similar goals, are aiming those goals towards completely opposite sides (Eren wants to destroy the rest of the world and leave a specific group (the Eldians) untouched, while Marie wants to destroy a specific group (the Medici mafia), and leave the rest of the world untouched).
- When Eren gets corrupted by the Skull Heart, it's not a straight forward possession. It's the possession of the Trinity's philosophy aligning with his desires, like Archie Knuckles being possessed by Enerjak.