#bracket 1 round 5

[the-ultimate-tournament]

Bracket 1 tags held here

[xkcd-bracket]

xkcd bracket

I'm staring at the "doctor" section, and I can't help but feel like I've forgotten someone.

Welcome to the xkcd bracket! Based off of comic 1529, this bracket contains many people† with confusingly similar names (at least to Randall).

† not all items are people.

Rounds will be posted at 5 PM MST daily for rounds 1 and 2, and every other day after that.

Round breakdown:

Round 1a is the matches from the upper left branch.

Round 1b is the matches from the lower left branch.

Round 1c is the matches from the upper right branch.

Round 1d is the matches from the lower right branch.

Round 2a will be what remains of the left side.

Round 2b will be what remains of the right side.

Rounds 3-7 will not be further subdivided.

Results:

(This is the image I used for re-counting the bracket, and realizing there really should just be 7 rounds. Yes, it was made in paint.)

[thecrackshipawards]

Isako Toriumi from Persona 3 x Sadayo Kawakami from Persona 5 vs Elias Bouchard x Peter Lukas from The Magnus Archives

Propaganda for Isako x Sadayo:

there's a comic about them where Sadayo is a sexy maid for hire and Isako is figuring out that she's gay and just have you seen the comic aaaah fail teacher yuri

Propaganda for Elias x Peter:

Take one glance at the big boy man audio, they literally talk like a divorced couple. we all know peter is elias’s sugar daddy, whats more to love in the eye guy x lonely guy

[ultimate-character-design]

The 2nd Character Design Tournament

Please remember to vote for characters solely based on their design, rather than which character you are more familiar with or like more!

*One of the characters in this bracket is considered a spoiler for: One Piece

*Additional warning for spoilered propaganda for: Monkey D. Luffy

Cool Spot | Cool Spot 1993 Console Game & 7Up Logo

“It's so simple it's sort of genius. The 90's were a different time.”

Monkey D. Luffy (Gear 5) | One Piece

“Freedom. That is the design philosophy behind this character.”

“Really good union of Luffy's original classic character design and the new gear 5 elements. His already cartoony personality and fighting style is enhanced by the ability to make himself bigger and make his eyes pop out like wile e coyote.”

*Spoilered propaganda for: Luffy | One Piece

“Luffy, completely shattered from his fight against the oppressive Kaido, finally awakens the power of the Sun God Nika. Most transformations are about power, despair, and rage. But this is about creativity. This is liberation. This is joy. This is why he is the reincarnation of Joy Boy.”

“Luffy's bouncy cloud hair really works to signal Nika/Joyboy's dynamic personality.”

[misrepresentedmorallygrey]

PROPAGANDA

Goro Akechi

have you seen this man. the fandom doesn't seem to grasp that he can have a "good" goal but still go about it absolutely the wrong way. he's not baby but he's not evil incarnate either, he's just 18. being 18 is just like that

People who are like "he's an irredeemable psychopath who became a serial killer just because he has daddy issues" piss me off. People who are like "he's the only person who ACTUALLY cares about the Protagonist and all of the Protagonist's other friends are fakes and users" piss me off even more. He's a foil for the entire main cast. He has faced all of their traumas with none of the support. He believes that he's responsible for his mother's suicide, and that he's unlovable. He was abandoned by everyone. He made some bad decisions when he was like 14, and his abusive father manipulated him into being a hitman. He lies all the damn time, so you can't really tell when he's being genuine or not. He's a double agent who befriends you and then tries to kill you, believes that he's succeeded, and shows absolutely no remorse. He dies to save your life (and then gets sorta resurrected and then dies again to literally save the world). It's complicated! He's complicated!

Gwen Cooper

God forbid women do anything. Gwen Cooper is a classic victim of fandom misogyny, a complicated kinda fucked up female character who is ultimately a hero, and people act like she’s the antichrist because she’s about as fucked up as every other man in the cast. Gwen’s main crimes are cheating on her then-boyfriend (with another male lead character who weirdly does NOT get any hate for participating in this affair) and having a very emotionally intimate and sexually tense (but never actually sexual) relationship with Jack Harkness, who also has a boyfriend in Torchwood (this is the classic “she’s getting in the way of our ship!!!! Situation, despite the fact that Gwen and Jack literally never do anything together and Gwen is never anything but supportive of Jack’s relationship); perhaps Gwen’s most morally grey action is confessing adultery to her boyfriend and then erasing his memory when he reacts poorly, but I must stress that this is about on the par of the shitty things other men in the show have done (hide dangerous aliens in the secret base, sacrifice children to dangerous aliens, use alien cologne that makes people want to fuck you in a way that is at best DUBIOUSLY consensual, etc). Meanwhile, Gwen also gets hate for things that are NOT morally grey, namely, being an outspoken woman with a strong moral center. She is the HEART of her secret organization, she is the MORAL CORE, and because that means she has the AUDACITY to criticize her male coworkers, she’s a bitch. There are over 100 works on ao3 tagged “gwen cooper bashing,” and even more untagged that bash, demean, belittle, or simply ignore the existence of THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE SHOW!! Gwen bestie you’re so fucked up and I love you and I need more people to appreciate that.

Gwen is a paranormal investigator who accidentally joined the worst polycule on Earth. The Torchwood fanbase (especially the one at the time) really hates/hated her, despite the fact that her coworkers were equally as bad if not much worse than her. Maybe she did a bit of cheating and maybe she’s kind of mean but have you considered: she’s the most beautiful girl in the world, she’s a bad bitch, and I love her? God forbid women do anything

[girlygirltournament]

Bracket 1 - Quarter-Finals

Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura) vs. Momoi Satsuki (Kuroko's Basketball)

More information under the cut!

Sakura Kinomoto: She is a magical girl and wears pretty dresses.

Momoi Satsuki: She's got long pink hair, she wears cute skirts, literally put on a whole bikini just to go visit her crush

Propaganda and Propaganda and Propaganda and Propaganda by @aomine-in-gensokyo

Propaganda and Propaganda by @catonatrain

Propaganda and Propaganda and Propaganda and Propaganda by @art-of-firefly

[white-guy-energy-swag]

green nerd showdown round 1 battle 6

FUTABA SAKURA from PERSONA 5 vs RALSEI from DELTARUNE

PROPAGANDA

FUTABA

Look at Her she is The Green Nerd Everything about her is Green and Nerd and Green Nerd. Her jacket, her thief outfit, her Persona; Necronomicon, her chat icon, the list goes on. She also infodumps to those willing to listen (and especially those who Do Not Want To) about Featherman; An In-Universe Tokusetsu show ala Power Rangers. She's also an international hacker

Computer nerd

RALSEI

He knows a lot about magic and even made a big handbook for the player to use

This guy composed an incredibly long manual for combat that the main character can't even read because it's too dense. He's the ultimate people pleaser, but also has a very internalized sense of how things are meant to be done. Susie mentions that he'd be a massive teacher's pet if he were in the light world.

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Bracket A Round 1

Futaba Sakura (Persona 5) vs Moira O'Deorain (Overwatch)

[worstvideogamesong-poll]

Worst Video Game Song Tournament - Round 1 Match 6

Rivers in the Desert (mito Remix) - Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight

VERSUS

Birthday Cake - Jet Set Radio Future

FIGHT!

I would recommend listening to as much as you can of each song before voting, but how you choose is up to you! Remember to be civil in the tags and replies!

Propaganda under cut:

Rivers in the Desert (mito Remix):

"yeah we completely ruined lyn's voice in this so she sounds like shit drop it"

Birthday Cake:

"Every time this comes on i have to mute the tv. It’s so bad i’ve been playing jsrf for fifteen years and i’ve hated this song for every second of it"

"HELP IT'S SCREAMING AT ME"

Feel free to add more propaganda in the tags and replies, or send it to me in the ask box and I'll try to share it as soon as I can!

[bestfattsong]

ROUND 1, BRANCH B, FIFTH POLL

[the-ultimate-tournament]

Bulbasaur (pokēmon) V.S Doyelstown, Pennsylvania

[teamthunderdome]

ROUND 1

QUARTER 2 - FIGHT #8

TWO TEAMS ENTER. ONLY ONE CAN LEAVE.

YOU DECIDE.

(Please reblog for a larger sample size, or to spread your team's propaganda)

[madscientistshowdown]

PROPAGANDA

Mandy & Billy:

There's no way in hell it's romantic, but it's there. Mandy tricked the Grim Reaper, Death himself, into being their best friend (servant) forever using the dumb trick (vicious assault) that Billy taught his geriatric hamster.

Erina & Toshiro:

Erina bosses Toshiro around and tends to be reckless while Toshiro is a big-ass worrywart for everyone’s safety, his included. Once he joins Erina’s rebellion cause he states that he is going to stay at the base as a housekeeper as he doesn’t want to fight and stuff. Tbf his coward tendency is actually a trauma response and Erina’s recklessness has bitten her in the butt but a malewife is a malewife (SPOILERS FOR TACTICA BEYOND THIS POINT) Yes Erina and Toshiro are technically the same person (the former being the latter’s manifestation of his desire to rebel) but Erina’s personality is based on a girlboss Toshiro met in high school that he might have a crush on so

[most-enchanting-magical-girl]

[hubrisbracket]

Hubris Bracket Side A Poll 4: Takuto Maruki (Persona 5) vs Hannibal Lecter (NBC Hannibal)

Propaganda below (may contain spoilers)

Takuto Maruki

He just wants everyone to be happy and for no one to have to suffer either in the past or future and he will warp reality to make it so. Not a good therapist. Uses his perception warping powers to make a grieving teenager believe she is her dead twin because she wished she had died instead.

Hannibal Lecter

kept fucking making cannibal jokes and feeding body parts to the fbi like nobody would fucking notice. prescribed his patients murder. framed will graham for murder and then later will manipulated him into turning himself in

How could he be LESS hubristic??? He makes multiple comparisons of himself to god when talking about murder. Oh, yeah, and he KILLS PEOPLE AND FEEDS THEM TO THE FBI. and he gaslighted a man then that man turned around and manipulated him into going to jail

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1C, MATCH 11 OUT OF 16!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure:

It technically doesn't play a Cinderella role despite its name, rather it has Fairy Godmother-like abilities. However, its name is still Cinderella so I think it counts.

Persona 5:

[Mod's Note: Warning for Persona 5 spoilers]

Her Persona is Cinderella. Her story is about disguising herself as another person to gain acceptance.

Her persona is Cendrillon, the French name for Cinderella and the name of an opera based on the story, and it mirrors her arc in the game. When you boil her down to the essentials, she essentially made a wish that was granted by her....... fairy godtherapist to go from pauper (bland and talentless depressed Sumire) to princess (her dead sister Kasumi, bubbly, personable star gymnast). As far as she sees it, even, it's this transformation that helps her 'get the prince' (read: befriend the protagonist). Why should she win, though? Umm because she's my baby my angel my sweetie my cherub specialist character in fiction and most important girl in the universe. Out of love in your heart for me, tumblr user [REDACTED], vote for her.

GOD I LOVE HER SO MUCH ok ok ok everyone here's my autism. Major spoilers as you get closer to the end btw! - She has three personas, in order they go: Cendrion, Vanadis, Ella. The first and last are taken from Cinderella, with Cendrion being the german name for Cinderella, and of course Ella just being a shortened form of Cinderella. - She does gymnastics, although a lot of her phantom thief design is heavily based off of ballet as well! In particular the black swan mimicking the white swan, and while of course that's not cinderella, it does remind me of how Cinderella was treated in the beginnings of the story - Cinderella and her both have major sibling trauma! It's a huge point about her character. Major spoilers, but she pretends to be her older sister Kasumi for most of the game; the sad truth is that she's in fact the younger sister Sumire. She's pretending to be her older sister because she can't deal with the trauma of that day she ran out into traffic and her sister got hit instead of her. (It does not help that her therapist uses eldritch god powers to gaslight her into thinking she is her sister.) - They're both pretty and also I love sumi so much she's everything to me. unironically the character of all time NOT FOR PROPAGANDA but for mod: image because it can be awkward to find one: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UyOsg26GnZU/maxresdefault.jpg also!!!! if you're interested in not potentially spoiling people you should call her Kasumi Yoshizawa. If you aren't worried about that though and want to be accurate, Sumire Yoshizawa is better. Or just call her Violet because that's her codename!

Initially introduced as Kasumi, she is a dorky and sweet first-year student who looks up to the protagonist as a mentor and eventually joins the Phantom Thieves in figuring out the fake reality they're trapped in. However, it's revealed that she's actually Kasumi's sister Sumire, who was always stuck in her more talented sister's shadow and yearned to be Kasumi. Unfortunately, she got her wish when her sister died saving her and her therapist brainwashed her into believing herself to be Kasumi. With help from the protagonist, Sumire realizes she was holding herself back and breaks free from her false identity, embracing her true self and rebelling against the hollow utopia. Her initial Persona--an embodiment of her true self--is Cendrillon, and her third tier ultimate Persona is Ella.

Sumire dosen't just pretends to be her dead sister, she was brainwashed into believing to be her by the final act's main villain/her fairy godfather figure, because that was her (misguided by trauma) wish as she believed that her sister was better than her. The final acts has a lot of 'making wishes come true' theme that connects her to Cinderella even more, also she does have a bit of 'save by the prince' thing going on with the game's protagonist