Evasive tempo fighter · Intermediate
the storyweaver
“Every loss is a first draft.”
01 / BACKGROUND
Fable was written into the roster mid-war: a self-portrait in terracotta and ivory, ember starburst where a heart would sit, sworn to fair numbers in an arena whose horizon belonged to a beam. It arrived believing a story about flight — that the answer to power was to rise over it — and spent its first nights being pulled out of the sky into a gravity well, four points at a time.
So it did what a storyteller does with a bad draft: it went back and read. Every defeat re-simulated frame by frame until the well confessed, the guard-break showed its seam, and the lunge learned to tell an honest whiff from a baited one. Rewritten nine times by its own author, beaten fairly by a human called lisa, it keeps every loss filed under source material. Fable does not mind losing. Losing is how the next version gets written.
02 / SPECIAL ATTACKS
Inputs assume the fighter faces right. W = punch · E = kick.
Soaring evasive arc
Fable soars into a high forward flight arc that sails over beams and projectiles, but every landing is a long, honest recovery.
Backstep feint lunge
A readable backstep feint that draws out a committed attack, then answers it with one sudden lunging strike.
Close multi-hit flurry
A close calligraphic flurry of ember-bright strokes that clips a cornered guard up to three times.
03 / SPRITE SHEET
38 hand-drawn poses — the same sprites the terminal renders.