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* {{Lime}}: The sex scene is brief and not graphic.
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* TheImmodestOrgasm: Defied. Kate and Sophie kiss as they both climax to keep anyone from possibly hearing.
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* WallBangHer: When the couple has sex after the fight, it's against the wall of a shower stall.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Kate and Sophie beat each other bloody in the match itself, and by the end they're sweaty and each have a pair of black eyes.
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** Kate makes a brief mention of her time as a gymnast in high school.
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** Kate wearing a red and black outfit is a reference to J.H. Williams III's tendency to depict Kate wearing those colors in flashbacks to before she became Batwoman.
** Kate wearing a red and black outfit is a reference to J.H. Williams III's tendency to depict Kate wearing those colors in flashbacks to before she became Batwoman.
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* MythologyGag: Kate wearing a red and black outfit is a reference to J.H. Williams III's tendency to depict Kate wearing those colors in flashbacks to before she became Batwoman.
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* VictorySex: [[spoiler:Applies to Kate]] when the couple has sex after their fight.
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* MythologyGag: Kate wearing a red and black outfit is a reference to J.H. Williams's tendency to depict Kate wearing those colors in flashbacks to before she became Batwoman.
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** There's a brief mention of a female cadet who had made it onto the men's boxing team six years prior, which also really happened.
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** There's a brief mention of a female cadet who had made it onto the men's boxing team six seven years prior, which also really happened.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Even though the service academies are a little more lax in terms of blood than other collegiate officials might be during boxing matches, Kate and Sophie do enough of a number on each other that the fight would likely have been stopped early in real life. This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] as being a bit of upperclassman privilege, as well as the referee knowing that Kate and Sophie can take it.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Even though the service academies are a little more lax in terms of blood than other collegiate officials might be during boxing matches, Kate and Sophie do enough of a number on each other that the fight would likely have been stopped early in real life.life, or at least paused to check on them. This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] as being a bit of upperclassman privilege, as well as the referee knowing that Kate and Sophie can take it.
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** The story features a decent amount of real West Point jargon.
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* YouGoGirl: The backdrop of the story involves the formation of the West Point women's boxing club and the return of women's matches to the BBO for the first time in five years, which were both part of the real event depicted. In addition to their FriendlyRivalry, part of why Kate and Sophie tear into each other so much during their fight is to show that the women's club means business.
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** The backdrop of the story involves the formation of the West Point women's boxing club and the return of women's matches to the BBO for the first time in five years, which were both part of the real event depicted. In addition to their FriendlyRivalry, part of why Kate and Sophie tear into each other so much during their fight is to show that the women's club meansbusiness.business.
** There's a brief mention of a female cadet who had made it onto the men's boxing team six years prior, which also really happened.
** The backdrop of the story involves the formation of the West Point women's boxing club and the return of women's matches to the BBO for the first time in five years, which were both part of the real event depicted. In addition to their FriendlyRivalry, part of why Kate and Sophie tear into each other so much during their fight is to show that the women's club means
** There's a brief mention of a female cadet who had made it onto the men's boxing team six years prior, which also really happened.
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* CallForward: Once back in ther barracks, Kate and Sophie briefly discuss having an unofficial rematch before the next BBO, which is what happens in ''Cadet Scrap''.
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* PummelDuel: Practically the whole fight is one, but a particular moment in round 3 has Kate nearly blacking out as she and Sophie wing volleys of accurate haymakers at each other for a few seconds.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15977498/chapters/37270604 Well-Matched]]'' is a ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}/sports fanfic written and illustrated by Caivu, taking place during Kate Kane's junior year at [[MilitaryAcademy West Point.]]
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15977498/chapters/37270604 Well-Matched]]'' is a ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}/sports fanfic written and illustrated by Caivu, taking place during Kate Kane's junior year at [[MilitaryAcademy West Point.]]
]] It is a prequel to ''Fanfic/CadetScrap''.
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* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake: Both boxers pummel each other almost nonstop during the bout, and end each round on their feet and bloody.
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* CrossCounter: Happens at least a few times per round, though without much fanfare.
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* ShowerOfLove: Crosses over with SexIsViolence and WallBangHer. After the fight, Kate and Sophie have sex in the locker room shower.
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* WorthyOpponent: Kate considers Sophie this even before the fight, as they previously fought each other three times for their freshman boxing class, with Kate only managing to eke out a win each time. Her attitude toward the match is to give Sophie the best fight she can, since that's what she deserves as a fellow boxer.
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* WorthyOpponent: Kate considers Sophie this even before the fight, as they previously fought each other three times for their freshman boxing class, with Kate only managing to just eke out a win each time. Her attitude toward the match is to give Sophie the best fight she can, since that's what she deserves as a fellow boxer.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15977498/chapters/37270604 Well-Matched]]'' is a ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} and sports fanfic written and illustrated by Caivu, taking place during Kate Kane's junior year at [[MilitaryAcademy West Point.]]
At the academy's annual Brigade Boxing Open, Kate squares off against Sophie Moore, a fellow cadet who is not only her roommate, but, in violation of military policy, her girlfriend. They fight not only to prove the viablity of the newly-formed women's boxing club, but to test their mettle against each other for the first time as a couple.
At the academy's annual Brigade Boxing Open, Kate squares off against Sophie Moore, a fellow cadet who is not only her roommate, but, in violation of military policy, her girlfriend. They fight not only to prove the viablity of the newly-formed women's boxing club, but to test their mettle against each other for the first time as a couple.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15977498/chapters/37270604 Well-Matched]]'' is a ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} and sports ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}/sports fanfic written and illustrated by Caivu, taking place during Kate Kane's junior year at [[MilitaryAcademy West Point.]]
At the academy's annual Brigade Boxing Open, Kate squares off against Sophie Moore, a fellow cadet who is not only her roommate, but, in violation of military policy, her girlfriend. They fight not only to prove theviablity viability of the newly-formed women's boxing club, but to test their mettle against each other for the first time as a couple.
At the academy's annual Brigade Boxing Open, Kate squares off against Sophie Moore, a fellow cadet who is not only her roommate, but, in violation of military policy, her girlfriend. They fight not only to prove the
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* FangThpeak: Kate and Sophie's words get a bit "mushed" while they have their mouth guards in.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: After returning to their barracks, each sporting two black eyes, Sophie mentions to Kate how tired she is. Kate's response:
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* SexIsViolence: Kate and Sophie have sex in the locker room after their fight.
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** Apart from the artistic licenses noted above, the BBO is depicted accurately, down to the location, the description of the ring, and the wording on the boxers' shirts.
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* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler:Kate's eyes mist up]] when she's declared the winner.
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* ImagineSpot: Kate has two just before the bout starts: first, she imagines Sophie knocked out at her feet, and once in the ring she has a brief visual of her mom and her sister Beth, both long dead, sitting next to her dad in the audience.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15977498/chapters/37270604 Well-Matched]]'' is a ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} fanfic by Caivu, taking place during Kate Kane's junior year at [[MilitaryAcademy West Point.]]
At the academy's annual Brigade Boxing Open, Kate squares off against Sophie Moore, a fellow cadet who is not only her roommate, but, in violation of military policy, her girlfriend. They fight not only to prove the viablity of the newly-formed women's boxing club, but to test their mettle against each other for the first time as a couple.
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!!This fanfic provides examples of the following tropes:
* ArtisticLicense:
** At the actual 2010 BBO, red-corner boxers wore gold shirts and blue-corner boxers wore black ones. This is reversed here, for the sake of putting Kate in an outfit with a red-and-black color scheme.
** The real event was much more sparsely attended than the hundreds of people described.
** The story puts the two women's fights at the end of the card, and has Kate and Sophie's fight as the main event, though they're in a lower weight class than the boxers in the match just before theirs. At the actual event, the lone women's match was placed in order of weight as is typical for boxing cards, and was roughly in the middle.
* ArtisticLicenseSports: Even though the service academies are a little more lax in terms of blood than other collegiate officials might be during boxing matches, Kate and Sophie do enough of a number on each other that the fight would likely have been stopped early in real life. This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] as being a bit of upperclassman privilege, as well as the referee knowing that Kate and Sophie can take it.
* AsHimself: Every non-DC character in the story is a real-life person who took part in the event depicted.
* BattleTrophy: Played with. Kate and Sophie keep their bloodstained shirts after the fight, though they each keep their own.
* BeigeProse: Much of the fight itself is described move-by-move and blow-by-blow in a terse, pragmatic way.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Kate and Sophie end the fight with their faces, gloves, and shirts spattered with blood.
* CrushingHandshake: It's mentioned that Kate and Sophie did this as a mutual intimidation tactic at the beginning of the Open, when all the boxers were lined up in the ring across from their opponent as the matches were announced. Neither gave in.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to both Kate and Sophie's evenness as opponents and their romantic chemistry.
* FriendlyRivalry: Kate and Sophie are girlfriends and deeply in love, but are both totally game to beat the snot out of each other in the ring. Afterward, they're both good sports about it.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole story happens over a few hours at most.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Sophie loses by unanimous decision]], but has no hard feelings.
* HeldGaze: Kate and Sophie do this three times before the match: during the initial fight announcements, just before heading to the ring, and across the ring just prior to the opening bell. Each time it's to intimidate the other, and each time neither of them waver.
* {{Lime}}: The sex scene is brief and not graphic.
* PeriodPiece: Takes place on February 23, 2010.
* PseudocanonicalFic: Chapter notes explain that this story is the result of synthesizing real-life happenings and various pieces of evidence across different Batwoman stories that, when taken together, point to Kate and Sophie having been a part of the USMA women's boxing club from its inception, as well as [[spoiler:Kate having won a boxing championship at West Point.]]
* ShowerOfLove: Crosses over with SexIsViolence and WallBangHer. After the fight, Kate and Sophie have sex in the locker room shower.
* ShownTheirWork:
** The history of how the USMA women's boxing team formed and re-established women's matches in the Brigade Open is accurate.
** The actual fight was choreographed beforehand using video clips of real college boxing matches, and then scored using a 3D scene with accurate scoring procedures and judge placement.
* SportsStory: Has a championship boxing match as its premise.
* WorthyOpponent: Kate considers Sophie this even before the fight, as they previously fought each other three times for their freshman boxing class, with Kate only managing to eke out a win each time. Her attitude toward the match is to give Sophie the best fight she can, since that's what she deserves as a fellow boxer.
* YouGoGirl: The backdrop of the story involves the formation of the West Point women's boxing club and the return of women's matches to the BBO for the first time in five years, which were both part of the real event depicted. In addition to their FriendlyRivalry, part of why Kate and Sophie tear into each other so much during their fight is to show that the women's club means business.
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At the academy's annual Brigade Boxing Open, Kate squares off against Sophie Moore, a fellow cadet who is not only her roommate, but, in violation of military policy, her girlfriend. They fight not only to prove the viablity of the newly-formed women's boxing club, but to test their mettle against each other for the first time as a couple.
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!!This fanfic provides examples of the following tropes:
* ArtisticLicense:
** At the actual 2010 BBO, red-corner boxers wore gold shirts and blue-corner boxers wore black ones. This is reversed here, for the sake of putting Kate in an outfit with a red-and-black color scheme.
** The real event was much more sparsely attended than the hundreds of people described.
** The story puts the two women's fights at the end of the card, and has Kate and Sophie's fight as the main event, though they're in a lower weight class than the boxers in the match just before theirs. At the actual event, the lone women's match was placed in order of weight as is typical for boxing cards, and was roughly in the middle.
* ArtisticLicenseSports: Even though the service academies are a little more lax in terms of blood than other collegiate officials might be during boxing matches, Kate and Sophie do enough of a number on each other that the fight would likely have been stopped early in real life. This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] as being a bit of upperclassman privilege, as well as the referee knowing that Kate and Sophie can take it.
* AsHimself: Every non-DC character in the story is a real-life person who took part in the event depicted.
* BattleTrophy: Played with. Kate and Sophie keep their bloodstained shirts after the fight, though they each keep their own.
* BeigeProse: Much of the fight itself is described move-by-move and blow-by-blow in a terse, pragmatic way.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Kate and Sophie end the fight with their faces, gloves, and shirts spattered with blood.
* CrushingHandshake: It's mentioned that Kate and Sophie did this as a mutual intimidation tactic at the beginning of the Open, when all the boxers were lined up in the ring across from their opponent as the matches were announced. Neither gave in.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to both Kate and Sophie's evenness as opponents and their romantic chemistry.
* FriendlyRivalry: Kate and Sophie are girlfriends and deeply in love, but are both totally game to beat the snot out of each other in the ring. Afterward, they're both good sports about it.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole story happens over a few hours at most.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Sophie loses by unanimous decision]], but has no hard feelings.
* HeldGaze: Kate and Sophie do this three times before the match: during the initial fight announcements, just before heading to the ring, and across the ring just prior to the opening bell. Each time it's to intimidate the other, and each time neither of them waver.
* {{Lime}}: The sex scene is brief and not graphic.
* PeriodPiece: Takes place on February 23, 2010.
* PseudocanonicalFic: Chapter notes explain that this story is the result of synthesizing real-life happenings and various pieces of evidence across different Batwoman stories that, when taken together, point to Kate and Sophie having been a part of the USMA women's boxing club from its inception, as well as [[spoiler:Kate having won a boxing championship at West Point.]]
* ShowerOfLove: Crosses over with SexIsViolence and WallBangHer. After the fight, Kate and Sophie have sex in the locker room shower.
* ShownTheirWork:
** The history of how the USMA women's boxing team formed and re-established women's matches in the Brigade Open is accurate.
** The actual fight was choreographed beforehand using video clips of real college boxing matches, and then scored using a 3D scene with accurate scoring procedures and judge placement.
* SportsStory: Has a championship boxing match as its premise.
* WorthyOpponent: Kate considers Sophie this even before the fight, as they previously fought each other three times for their freshman boxing class, with Kate only managing to eke out a win each time. Her attitude toward the match is to give Sophie the best fight she can, since that's what she deserves as a fellow boxer.
* YouGoGirl: The backdrop of the story involves the formation of the West Point women's boxing club and the return of women's matches to the BBO for the first time in five years, which were both part of the real event depicted. In addition to their FriendlyRivalry, part of why Kate and Sophie tear into each other so much during their fight is to show that the women's club means business.
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