Day 14: Spirit

The Solution

The lettered clues indicate various video game characters and concepts that are all represented by Spirits in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. I consider it inelegant to do two SSBU puzzles so close together, but I have to go with whatever puzzle idea comes to me on the day. Anyway, they are given in alphabetical order:

  1. "Any objections, Lady?": ADAM MALKOVICH
  2. Virtual pet for Sonic or Shadow: CHAO
  3. Hinawa's redheaded son: CLAUS
  4. Biggest rainbow eagle in Dream Land: DYNA BLADE
  5. Bounty hunter with Grapple Voltage: GANDRAYDA
  6. Vaguely pig-shaped Demon King: GANON
  7. Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde: GHOSTS (is the name of the SSBU Spirit)
  8. Fire/Flying Johto Legendary: HO-OH
  9. Vehicle for Titania or Macbeth: LANDMASTER
  10. Vanilla Dome boss: LEMMY
  11. Hocotate Freight's worst employee: LOUIE
  12. Distant ancestor of Chrom and Lucina: MARTH
  13. Turns bear and bird into dishwasher: MUMBO JUMBO
  14. Mushroom person transformed by crown: PEACHETTE
  15. Only ghost Luigi likes: POLTERPUP
  16. Red-eyed harpist: SHEIK
  17. Flashlight-carrying parrot: SQUAWKS
  18. Sūryanamaskāra: SUN SALUTATION
  19. Generic mushroom person: TOAD
  20. Mech suit built from cardboard: TOY-CON ROBOT
  21. Creep with an uppercase gamma on his hat: WALUIGI
  22. Vīrabhadrāsana: WARRIOR
  23. Chocolate Island boss: WENDY
  24. The Metroids were engineered as a biological weapon against this bizarre and menacing lifeform: X PARASITE, how about that

The Spirits are all numbered, so you can use those numbers to solve the math problems. The answer to each equation is also the number of a Spirit:

I probably made at least one mistake somewhere. But if you get the right six Spirits, the first letters of their names will spell the answer, EVENTS.

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