Survival of the Fittest

Greetings and joyful salutations! Welcome to Justanothergrunt's Actene's Sonasaurus' Brodie-001's Distant Tide's and 's Survival of the Fittest, where the denizens of Halo Fanon pit their creations against one another for fun until a single victor remains! Seeking to answer the time-honored nerd question of "who would win in a fight", SotF enters the myriad participants in a last-man-standing deathmatch outside the regular flow of time, space, and canon. Around almost as long as the site itself, SotF allows new and old users to see others write about their characters in an unbroken string of action sequences (usually ending in their grisly deaths).
Survival of the Fittest is currently open for character submissions for Season 8, between July 1st and July 14th, 2024. The submission rules and format are below, and any and all users or passerby are encouraged to put forth their dear creations as more meat for our grinder. Additionally, established users may volunteer as guest writers to pen a few posts in the season as their time permits by getting in contact on the hosts' talk pages within the same timeframe as character submissions.
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==Season 8 Rules==
===Submission Guidelines===
#Users may submit up to 5 characters for the season.
#Character submissions must have an article or Minor Characters page entry linked to reference. The article should not have any outstanding issues present (such as NCF or other site policy templates) or be marked with the Humour template.
#Character submissions must be from a canon species.
#AI and Forerunner ancillas are permitted, though what means are available for them to combat other participants may be up to the writers. They may be intentionally paired off against other AI-type characters, or given automated defenses or other measures to engage physical opponents. This will not affect the odds of a combat's outcome.
#Weapons and Equipment included in your character submissions should be something they might typically carry into combat or for defense. Likewise, they should be canon or fanon equipment with articles of their own for reference. Scarab guns (unless your character is an actual Scarab) and HAVOKs are out.
#Look forward to your characters' deaths. Only one comes out of this at it's end. The vast majority will lie in the corpse piles, but you'll get to enjoy their struggle against it. Your character will die, but what sort of death will it be?
===Writing Guidelines===
#Posts should be around 750 words in length. This ensures each character gets a fair showing, prevents favoritism in sprawling posts, and keeps the season from being bogged down in waiting for long posts to complete.
#Each post will include two or more characters in combat. The survivor of these conflicts is determined randomly, most often by a simple coin flip. The relative power a character of their type should have over another is not considered for this purpose. A Grunt with a Fuel Rod Gun might just be lucky enough to kill multiple SPARTANs—that's part of the fun of SotF.
#Writers will read the Personality, Traits, or equivalent section of the article (if present) for characters they write for to attempt an accurate characterization. Though encouraged, they are not required to read through the entirety of the article. Many on Halo Fanon are several hundred thousand bytes, and previous seasons have seen over a hundred characters submitted.
==Season 8 Submissions (OPEN)==
==={{Name|YOUR USERNAME HERE}}===
====[[Character Name]] (as article link)====
[[File:PICTURE NAME HERE|right|200px]]
*Description: (One-sentence description of character)
*Origin Year: (The time in their life being pulled from)
*Age: (Origin Year minus Birth year; unless cryostasis has affected it)
*Weapons: (A typical loadout they might carry, preferably linked)
*Equipment: (Their typical equipment, again linked)
{{Clear}}
====[[Character 2]]====
[[File:PICTURE NAME HERE|right|200px]]
*Description: 
*Origin Year: 
*Age: 
*Weapons: 
*Equipment: 
{{Clear}}
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====Erin Coney====
*Description: A dark-haired, eager young assassin ready to eliminate whatever mark her handler needs to advance ONI's goals.
*Origin Year: 2499
*Age: 23
*Weapons: , 
*Equipment: 
====Erin Coney====
*Description: A jaded mission handler with experience obfuscating bureaucracy and overseeing SPARTAN teams, powered by instant coffee.
*Origin Year: 2559
*Age: 46 (due to extended cryostasis periods)
*Weapons: 
*Equipment: , 
 
====Sidonus====
*Description: A male Jiralhanae with black fur, his tongue removed.
*Origin Year: 2554
*Age: 43
*Weapons: 2x , 2x Incendiary Grenades
*Equipment: Stalker combat harness, 
====Chur'R-Ren====
*Description: A Shipmistress with pale orange skin and neck-plates varnished black.
*Origin Year: 2555 
*Age: 25
*Weapons: 1 , 1 , and 2x 
*Equipment: Energy-shielded Shipmistress' combat harness, one .
==Previous seasons==
*Season 1 (2007-08) [COMPLETED]
**Body count
*Season 2 (2008-09) [CANCELLED]
**Body count
*Season 3 (2010-11) [CANCELLED]
**Body count
*Season 4 (2012-13) [COMPLETED]
**Body count 
*Season 5 (2014-15) [CANCELLED]
**Body Count
*Season 6 (2016-17) [COMPLETED]
**Body Count
*Season 6.5 (April Fools 2019) [COMPLETED]
*Season 7 (2019) [CANCELLED]
**Body Count
==Related==
*Previous SOTF Champions
*Halo Fanon:Celebrity Deathmatch