Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn/Histoire/SSC2021

SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP (2021) - Qualifying Round (Group Fujita)
During the Qualifying Round of SSC 2021, Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn was in Group Fujita, alongside TooneySA, liam tbh, Cyreides, Laura, and X-Cal. Initially, he expected to go 0-5 in his group. This expectation was quickly defied in the matches he partook:


 * 1) Gentle v Laura: Spyro 2 - Race To 6 Talismans and defeat Crush (WON)
 * 2) GARION MODE Activation 1: Gentle got the Crush's Dungeon Skill Point (Take no damage to Crush)
 * 3) GARION MODE Activation 2: Gentle sat in Autumn Plains and listened to its soundtrack for more than 1 minute (Time was otherwise indeterminate).
 * 4) Gentle v Cyreides: Spyro 1 - Race to 100% Toasty, Dr. Shemp, and Blowhard (WON)
 * 5) GARION MODE Activation 1: While in the Peace Keepers warp room, Gentle forbade himself from going to either Dry Canyon or Cliff Town.
 * 6) GARION MODE Activation 2: As a consequence of not going to Cliff Town or Dry Canyon, Gentle had to go to Ice Cavern. He rescued All Dragons within Ice Cavern, while using the level to otherwise do "gem cleanup."
 * 7) GARION MODE Activation 3: After 100%-ing Blowhard, Gentle rescued Nestor (Not an intended GARION MODE Activation, but done anyway due to being goaded by Charity)
 * 8) Gentle v TooneySA: Spyro 3 - Race to "Save Sheila, Save Sgt. Byrd, and Save Yourself (Save The Game)" (LOST)
 * 9) GARION MODE Activation: Gentle performed the Swim-through-Air Jutsu at least twice in Sunrise Springs; in each instance, he forbade himself from using it to skip into Sheila's Alp.
 * 10) Gentle v X-Cal: Spyro 1 - MrGamesendy Wheel of Fortune (WON)
 * 11) GARION MODE Activation 1: On the first Wheel Spin (or "Quest"), Gentle chose to 100% Misty Bog and Tree Tops.
 * 12) GARION MODE Activation 2: On the second Wheel Spin ("Quest"), Gentle went out of his way to collect 400+ Gems in Haunted Towers alongside the other Quest components ("Get kissed by 3 Fairies and Defeat All Armoured Enemies"). He messed up, else the GARION MODE would've been to collect all 500 Gems.
 * 13) GARION MODE Activation 3: By this point, Gentle wanted to prove he could still attain the third Quest / Wheel Spin ("Break 10 Strongboxes - Locked Chests count"). He was given a ribbing by some of the co-competitors and almost completed the Quest, but time ran out before he could confirm the Quest's completion.
 * 14) Gentle v Liam: Spyro 3 - MORI CALLIOPE Circuit SIDE A (Starting from a save file in Midnight Mountain with 100 Eggs; in no particular order, complete as much as possible within 35 minutes: 100% Agent 9's Lab, Crystal Islands Plane Thief, Crystal Islands Whack-A-Mole, Haunted Tomb Tanks 1, Haunted Tomb Tanks 2, Harbour Speedway Race, Dino Mines Bailey Gang, Dino Mines Sergio, Desert Ruins Krash Kangaroo 1, Desert Ruins Krash Kangaroo 2) (WON)
 * 15) GARION MODE Activation 1: Gentle also collected the Crystal Islands Slide and End Of Level Eggs. The EOL Egg wasn't intended, but gotten to secure no softlock or crashing.
 * 16) GARION MODE Activation 2: Gentle also collected the Dino Mines Dan and End Of Level Eggs. Primarily, the point was to collect Dan.
 * 17) GARION MODE Activation 3: In Desert Ruins, Gentle performed a Scorpion Proxy once. Afterwards, he secured Desert Ruins Andy and Desert Ruins End Of Level Eggs.
 * 18) GARION MODE Activation 4: As Liam scooped (surrendered) and time was about to run out, Gentle promised himself to 100% Agent 9's Lab at a later point, to finish the MORI CALLIOPE Circuit.
 * 19) Gentle v Max: Spyro 1 - Race to 100% Gnasty's World, Excluding Gnasty's Loot (WON)
 * 20) GARION MODE Activation 1: Gentle completed Gnorc Cove without dying.
 * 21) GARION MODE Activation 2: Gentle completed Twilight Harbour without dying.
 * 22) GARION MODE Activation 3: After completing the goal, Gentle went to Artisans and freed Nestor.
 * 23) GARION MODE Activation 4: After completing the goal, Gentle also went to Dream Weavers and cleared Icy Flight.

Ultimately, Gentle went 3-1 in the Qualifying Round of SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP 2021. Tragically, both of his Spyro 1 races against Cyreides and Mowmowclub2 (respectively) were voided as a result of outside circumstances. Furthermore, this situation happened:


 * Gentle won against Laura, but lost to Tooney.
 * Tooney won against Gentle, but lost to Laura.
 * Laura won against Tooney, but lost to Gentle.

These ensuing results necessitated a Triple Threat event:


 * Gentle v Laura v Tooney: Spyro 2 - Starting in Winter Tundra with All Abilities and Metropolis/Cloud Temples already entered to have their portals unlocked, 100% Metropolis and Cloud Temples. The run's End is determined by completing the Mystic Marsh Pencil Orb. As the outcome of the run determined 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place of Group Fujita, a win/loss wasn't as crucial. (2nd)
 * GARION MODE could not be activated for the following reasons:
 * The race was processed as a Solution X. Solution X-es are a special case in and of themselves, resulting from when races cannot be done live on all runners' ends. Between scheduling complications and the way most Solution X races are formatted/edited, Gentle could not retrofit a GARION MODE without his footage being a liability to the editor(s) of the match.
 * From an energy and mentality standpoint, Gentle himself was operating at "less than 50% capacity" due to work obligations taking their toll on him. Crystal Fissure called it a "GARION MODE Dormant," which stuck.

SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP (2021) - Bracket Stage (Austin Block) - Quarterfinals
Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn made it past the Qualifying Round, ending up in the Austin Block.

During the Quarterfinals, he faced off against Keyford in a Spyro 2 race. Having customized the goal to reference a running gag in Games Raced Awfully, Gentle initially agreed to do the NTSC-J version of Spyro 2. However, Keyford wanted to start in Winter Tundra rather than in Glimmer itself. As a consequence, Gentle had to tinker with his "Elora%" goal to be compatible with the NTSC-U version. (WON)

"Elora%" was thus:
 * All Glimmer Orbs
 * All Warp Room Orbs (Summer Forest / Autumn Plains / Winter Tundra)
 * All Speedway Orbs (Ocean Speedway / Metro Speedway / Icy Speedway / Canyon Speedway)
 * 100% Zephyr
 * 100% Metropolis

Because of Gentle's energy being sapped by having to tinker with the goal until it was good enough to be agreed with, and heavy work obligations and scheduling conflicts which resulted in another god damn Solution X, he could not activate GARION MODE in this run. During his end of the race, he vocalized wanting to make some GARION MODEs in honorarium of those who could not make it beyond the Qualifying Rounds of the other Groups.

Disappointed with himself at having to take such initiative to work around a lot of real life complications, and wanting to ensure flaws in ISGP2 were not repeated once more, Gentle refused to do another goal set in Spyro 2 unless it came with the condition of doing the NTSC-J version.

SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP (2021) - Bracket Stage (Austin Block) - Semi-Finals
During the SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP (2021) Semi-Finals, Gentle faced off against Muddy Maestro. The goal was a Spyro 1 "Relic Race" to collect 60 Dragons. The catch was the timer freezing a la Crash Bandicoot: Warped; Green Gems (2) froze the Timer for 1 second, Blue Gems (5) froze the Timer for 2 seconds, and Yellow (10) / Purple (25) Gems froze the Timer for 3 seconds. (LOST)

Eight GARION MODEs Activations were logged:
 * 1) Gentle refused to collect any Dragons in Artisans while collecting the 60 Dragons proper.
 * 2) Gentle revealed that he travelled to The Astral Plane and saw 14,000,605 instances of him v Muddy playing out, and claimed he only won in "one." This counted as a GARION MODE Activation, since it paraphrased a Marvel movie quote which wasn't total ass.
 * 3) In honour of Meteora Girl, Gentle made a GARION MODE where he had to collect more than 2144 Treasure (her final Treasure count during her race against MuddyMaestro)
 * 4) In honour of Fromond, Gentle made a GARION MODE where - after collecting all of the Alpine Ridge Dragons without dying, he announced he was "good at Spyro now."
 * 5) Gentle vocally counted completing Blowhard 100% as a GARION MODE.
 * 6) Gentle warped to Dry Canyon from the Magic Crafters Balloonist, which counted as a GARION MODE as it resembled a tactic common in one of the speedrun categories for Spyro 1 (Vortex%).
 * 7) Gentle ended his Dragon collection in Ice Cavern.
 * 8) After collecting his 60th Dragon, Gentle would allow himself to free Nestor in Artisans after the goal was "completed." This marked his 61st Dragon.

Despite Gentle losing like a total chump, many of the other people in the call vocalized how proud they were of him having made it as far as he did in his first tournament. Gentle accepted his loss gracefully.