[Now, both combatants likely pictured this going differently in their minds. Both combatants likely pictured themselves as gaining the upper hand, or hands in Mari's case, grappling with the other party and generally looking pretty cool in the process. Both combatants likely pictured this, but what really happens...]
@#$%!
[...is that they just sort of smack together, instead, limbs slipping all over the place, wings tangling, foreheads colliding, roughly equal strength canceling itself out and thus fizzling into nothingness. Gilgamesh crumples into a heap on his side and groans. He's vulnerable, definitely, and he doesn't even spare a single look to how Mari fared.
He's just dizzy and in pain possibly whimpering a little, how embarrassing. That was not pretty cool. That was like the definition of all things uncool happening at once.]
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@#$%!
[...is that they just sort of smack together, instead, limbs slipping all over the place, wings tangling, foreheads colliding, roughly equal strength canceling itself out and thus fizzling into nothingness. Gilgamesh crumples into a heap on his side and groans. He's vulnerable, definitely, and he doesn't even spare a single look to how Mari fared.
He's just dizzy and in pain possibly whimpering a little, how embarrassing. That was not pretty cool. That was like the definition of all things uncool happening at once.]