Rivals of Aether

Rivals of Aether

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Awatsu

Description
Deep in the heart of Aether lies a hidden mangrove forest. A beautiful place, teeming with lush flora, colorful fauna, and crystal clear water.

A certain creature resides within, acting as a guardian spirit to the creatures that call the forest home, protecting it from any dangers which dare encroach.

However, when a mysterious purple blight begins withering the roots of the trees, and when familiar creatures emerge corrupted and twisted, the only way to save the forest may be to embark on a journey to cleanse the source of this new evil...

Play as Awatsu, the saponaceous serpent! Use the power of soap to slide into victory!





Create bubbles using specials or normals, and use them to your advantage! Knock bubbles at foes for extra knockback and damage, or jump on them for extra height! Detonate them with neutral special or jab3 for maximum damage!

Bubbles are easily destroyed by enemies, popping at the first sign of a hitbox. Counter this by creating as many bubbles as possible!

- Small bubbles do not deal knockback, and do a small amount of damage
- Medium bubbles deal moderate knockback and damage
- Large bubbles deal high knockback and damage

If three bubbles of either tiny or small size get close enough, they will merge into a larger bubble!













Recovering
Use a combination of down special and up special, jumping off the down special bubble and medium bubble that forms after using up special


Chain Explosions
Use bubbles close to each other to detonate them in a chain


NAir Bubble Dragging
NAir as the ability to drag bubbles along during the move. Try catching opponents in the middle as well!


Active Ignition
Send a bubble through an explosion to activate the nitroglycerine within, causing it to explode as well!


Dash Attack Cancels
Cancel dash attack into up strong OR forward strong for a little bit more distance




Jab1->DTilt->FAir
A basic combo that also generates a medium bubble


UTilt->NAir->UAir
A grounded to aerial combo


BAir->Large Bubble Hit
A basic way to knock large bubbles into foes


FTilt->FStrong
A basic roll catch option utilising fstrong's long active frames


UTilt->UAir->USpecial
An aerial combo with kill potential off the top blastzone


NSpecial (side)->Merge Explosion
A method of creating a large explosion immediately using two medium bubbles


DAir->Large Bubble Hit
A ranged spike using a bubble



Programming, Animation, Trailer, Music:
- Selrate
Twitter
YouTube
YouTube (Music)
Soundcloud[soundcloud.com]
Discord: selrate

Sound Effects:
- Pumodi[jeffbriceaudio.com]

Character Art:
- Kat

Beta Testers
Sirc, Krispy, Mallow, Mothra, JPEG Warrior, Nyazure Dreams, ArtistOfSeer, Samuel, CauseImAPilot, SnowKnight, Wattmelon, Succ, Flasher, Zhryl, Jetie, Soka, CAMaera, GrenadesInSpades

A huge thanks to Sirc for being a consistent voice of positivity throughout the project, and contributing many late-night playtests and code support.

Another big thanks to Mothra for weighing in on a lot of game mechanics and pushing the character to it's limits.

Other Mods:
Check out my other characters, Tenru and Monarch!

Character Discord:
You can talk with me about this or any other of my character's on my discord![discord.gg]


Thank you so much for trying out Awatsu! The idea for this character was in my head since before Monarch was finished, but it wasn't until the Rivals of Aether 2 Character Creation Contest[aetherstudios.com] was announced that I had the motivation to make them. This character was me taking all the lessons I'd learnt from the previous two characters and finding the best way to apply my skills to creating the best possible character, rather than pushing myself as far as I could go. It was a lot of fun to make, and this continues to be a great community to be a part of!

If you liked this mod, please consider giving it a favourite, like or award!




75 Comments
Moonlit-Shade 17 May @ 8:46am 
I guess I forgot I had this one, but I just rediscovered it and this is genuinely one of the coolest characters I've found on here. Super fun, super cute, and reminds me of venom from guilty gear
MeanToast 11 Mar @ 7:32am 
i also like how you made a combo guide so my brain doesnt fry to pieces lol
MeanToast 11 Mar @ 7:30am 
i get why this was dan's favorite entry, very smooth animations, cool and adorable design (its a cat snake for god's sake!) very satisfying to play as, and overall very cool, hope this guy gets added to rivals 2. Despite not winning the contest.
Sleepy Nuigurumi Amalgamation 30 Sep, 2024 @ 8:35pm 
Try Pressing "Backspace" to text search in WS chracter selection.
gshr00m2001 30 Sep, 2024 @ 7:06pm 
cant find her my game acts like she dont exist
tailsboom1992 20 Jul, 2024 @ 8:53pm 
Hopefully they can add Awatsu to Rivals 2 later on despite not winning the contest. It reminds me a lot of Mizutsune from Monster Hunter, which is my favorite monster in the series lol. Congrats on the honorable mention, and hopefully this isn't the last we've seen of them!
S.I.L. 13 Jul, 2024 @ 8:31pm 
Just uploaded another GIF of me labbing Awatsu. I had to speed it up a bit to fit the whole juggle into 5MB; but you get the point. Not sure if that would have worked on a real player; but the training dummy is at least programmed to tech. I'm assuming it could still work; but whatever. It was fun.
S.I.L. 11 Jul, 2024 @ 8:25pm 
crud, *of ME smothering* not my. Sorry, I've been typing up these reviews for mods almost all day lol
S.I.L. 11 Jul, 2024 @ 8:24pm 
making* not kaing... dunno what autocorrect was thinking there-
S.I.L. 11 Jul, 2024 @ 8:24pm 
I gotcha. I figured you'd say something like Ori squeaks based on their taunt sound. I imagined them sounding sort of like a baby whale singing. Y'know, that melodic, almost echoing sound.Occasionally my mind imagines them kaing sounds that resemble some Pokemon noises. I like the idea of them not talking, I just wanted to hear from the creator. As for any gameplay of mine, I uploaded a GIF of my smothering a CPU with bubbles at the ledge. I seriously have an insane amount of fun with them. Thanks for making such a great character!


(Also, nice profile pic. Minish cap doesn't get enough love.)