The Knight VS Ori

**The Knight VS Ori** is the 1st episode of Fanfare Fights, featuring The Knight from the *Hollow Knight* series versus Ori from the *Ori* series.

## Fight

*The two slash their weapons against each other, Ori's Spirit Edge and The Knight's Old Nail. Ori visible struggles while the Knight stays emotionless. After a bit, The Knight's Old Nail breaks, so they quickly dig their hand behind them to pull out a Sharpened Nail. Ori finds this amusing and chuckles slightly, before being bonked on the head by the nail.*

*The Knight then raises the Sharpened Nail and attempts to stab Ori in the face. Ori catches the nail by its sides, but struggles to push it out of their face. Ori realizes that they are being dragged across the ground, which is caused by The Knight's Monarch Wings. Ori notices that they are heading towards a wall, and realizing what would happen once they come in contact with it, Ori silently screams.*

*Meanwhile, Sein sees Ori being dragged across the ground by The Knight. Sein quickly tries to destroy the wall by charging up, and firing a large laser. The laser destroys the wall the two fighting were gonna make contact with. Ori looks behind them wondering why they haven't died yet, and then realizes what happened. Ori smirks, and then makes a quick plan.*

*The Knight and Ori are about to hit another wall, but Ori gets out of their unwanted position, lands on their hooves on the side of the wall, and dashes in the opposite direction, bringing The Knight with them. As Ori was gliding in the air, they suddenly stop. They realize that The Knight was using wings, which propelled both towards opposite directions. Ori struggles holding onto The Knight's nail, and so does The Knight. Both of their arms have a tear in their skin, splurging out liquid substances from the inside. This causes both of the combatants to fly in opposite directions, hitting tons of walls and creating lots of rubble on the ground.*

*The Knight (back laying flat on the ground) summons a Vengeful Spirit at an Ori running towards them. Ori quickly Bashes through the Vengeful Spirit, both killing it and propelling them faster towards The Knight. As the vessel picked themselves up, the guardian spirit punched them repeatedly and high-kicked them to the air, and Ori Bashes upwards to catch up with them.*

*The two land onto a small platform, and the two fight. The Knight lands a successful hit on Ori, who retaliates with a punch, which also lands. The Knight then swings their nail towards Ori's head, which misses after a duck done by Ori, and the spirit pushes The Knight off the platform. Ori then makes a Soul Link before jumping off as well to catch up.*

*As The Knight is falling, they realize that Sein is shooting light at them off-screen, so the vessel quickly reacts by deflecting the light by using their nail, and swings hard at the final shot, to deflect it towards Ori. The laser lands on Ori's (who's also falling) eye, and Ori rubs their eyes, which are in large amounts of pain. Ori then stops rubbing them, revealing an injured eye that is bloodshot. Now incredibly angered, Ori rushes towards The Knight, spins them around with one hand, and brutally throws them to the ground, while also firing a Light Burst at The Knight.*

*The Knight crashes into a wall, and slowly gets themselves up, before realizing a ball of flaming light is launched at them, and it lands on their head, destroying their shell, and their body, splurging a black liquid everywhere. Ori lands slowly, and sighs, still in pain with their injured eye.*

## Retrospective Analysis (Script)

**Note: The script shown in this section isn't the one said in the episode, it is just what was written prior to the episode's upload date.**

The animation shown isn't that realistic actually… Lemme explain why Ori won. Let's start off with their height. Ori is around 25-35cm tall at a minimum by comparing them with a squirrel, 76 cm at most by using specific flowers in the game and also applying specific conditions. This is much taller than the height of a stag beetle. This is important because it helps compare the Knight to others they fight in their game, so although the Knight is powerful in the world of Hollow Knight, they aren't that powerful in the grand scheme of fiction. Compare this to Ori, who can run at transonic speeds because they can generate a sonic boom. Due to the Knight's tiny size in comparison, their speed is almost always gonna be slower than Ori's. The Knight also definitely can't dodge faster, because in-game, we have both characters be light attacks. In Hollow Knight, the Knight has to aim-dodge the lasers, otherwise they take damage. In Ori's game, when Sein fires attack-light things, the light isn't instant, whereas the light in Hollow Knight is, which gives us a good visual as to each character's reaction times are. There's also the fact that they could almost never dodge Sein's attacks due to comparing them to the transonic speed of Ori's, putting their projectiles at a much faster speed. Oh, and Ori can slow down time, or at the very least react so fast they interpret time MUCH slowly when performing a bash, ensuring the Knight can never get any hits off of them. So even though we showed Ori getting hurt, this is likely not to happen, if at all.

Ori, but more specifically, Sein meant the Knight was beaten in attack power too. Sein is the source of power of the Spirit Tree, which holds in balance the water, wind, and volcano of the entire forest. Compare this to pretty much almost all of Hollow Knight. Yes, I'm aware of the Knight's other forms and stuff like their Lord of Shades, but they could never use that because Ori would blitz them before Ori would enter the Dream Realm, which is the only place where the Knight is ever shown or be able to transform into a stronger form. Even in an ending where they still keep that form in reality, they still needed to be in the Dream Realm to turn into that. Even if the Knight hadn't died in 5 seconds and Ori went to that realm, they could just respawn good-as-new using a Soul Link. Yes, the Knight has a similar thing too. But we haven't yet seen others like the Knight do this last time I checked, implying that it's only a gameplay mechanic, and not a real thing that would happen. Even then, we have already established that Ori can quickly blitz Knight anyways.

Despite both games being pretty cryptic in their stats, my subjective take on these games leads me to believe that Ori has the will to win.

## Trivia

### Production

* The connections between The Knight and Ori are that main protagonists from tight-platforming, slightly dark-themed metroidvanias, and both are made up of somewhat the opposite thing, with Ori being a spirit emitting light, while The Knight is a dark, black vessel. The story of the games are also quite similar, where both of them try to prevent a harmful phenomenon that created a cataclysmic event to a certain place (Hallownest and Nibel for The Knight and Ori respectively, and both try to find stop it. Both are also notably very short characters.
* There was originally going to be an interlude before the fight occurs, but due to editing problems, it was cut.
* The fight was originally going to have music, but it was cut due to the fact that Toasty didn't want music that neither fitted the fight scenes or their games. They also didn't want to have any music from either game to ensure that it didn't seem like there was bias for either series or character.

### Other

* This is the first episode to feature video game characters.
	+ This is the first episode to feature indie game characters.