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Round 5, Poll 7!

Remember, this is an ALT VOCAL tournament. Please don't just be biased towards certain songs/characters.

Never heard them? Look under the cut!

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Stuff about round 5, which will start today! If you'd like details (e.g which alts of a certain character are in this round), feel free to send an ask - I'd be happy to answer! This is formatted the same as the round 3/4 info. Please let me know if I got something wrong.

Who's out?

Miku, Rin, Len, Luka, MEIKO, KAITO, Saki, Tsukasa, Emu and Nene are all gone.

How many alts are left for those still in and which ones? (list under cut for convenience)

Ichika: 1 (Dramaturgy)

Honami: 1 (Umiyuri Kaiteitan)

Shiho: 8 (TTB, Voices, Lost One no Goukoku, Tengaku, Kagerou Daze, 1, Bokura mada Underground, Amanojaku)

Minori: 2 (Tenshi no Clover, Milk Crown on Sonechka)

Haruka: 1 (Shoujo Rei)

Airi: 1 (Momoiro no Kagi)

Shizuku: 2 (Shoujo Rei, Metamo Re:born)

Kohane: 1 (Hitsuji ga Ippiki)

An: 2 (Gekokujou, YY)

Akito: 1 (Alter Ego)

Toya: 1 (Blender)

Rui: 1 (CPDB)

Kanade: 2 (Cutlery, Zamuza)

Mafuyu: 3 (Bug, Kokoronashi, Dokuzu)

Ena: 3 (Cute na Kanojo, MKDR, Totemo Suteki na Rokugatsu Deshita)

Mizuki: 6 (Kitty, Villain, Lower, Venom, IDSMILE, Inochi Bakkari)

This means that Shiho still has the most alts left, followed by Mizuki (6) and Mafuyu/Ena (3).

Another reminder to base your judgement more off of the vocals than anything else. Your opinion of the song can and will play a part, but the vocals are still the most important part.

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Romantic Gestures for Characters 

❥ The “I Know You” Gesture

Your character remembers something tiny. Maybe their partner always peels oranges but hates the stringy bits. So they do it for them, meticulously. No grand speech. Just peeled oranges on a napkin, handed over like, I got you. It’s not flowers. It’s better.

❥  The “You Matter More Than My Ego” Move

Apologies. Vulnerable, awkward, ugly ones. Not performative, not flowers-as-a-bandage. Just a raw, honest “I screwed up. And you didn’t deserve that.” That’s romance with guts.

❥ The “I Made This With My Clumsy, Lovesick Hands” Attempt

It’s not a five-star meal. It might be an overcooked mess. But they tried. They Googled recipes, burnt a pan, and still showed up with a crooked smile and a smoke-scented apology. Intimacy lives in the effort, not the execution.

❥  The “I’m Thinking of You Even When You’re Not Around” Habit

A voice memo left in the middle of the day. A text that says, “I saw this book and thought of you.” A saved pastry because “you love those stupid lemon ones.” It’s in the thought, the noticing. The I-carry-you-with-me-even-here of it.

❥  The “You’re Safe With Me” Moment

Middle of a panic attack. They don’t run, they don’t fix. They sit. Hold a hand. Count breaths. They become a lighthouse in the fog. That’s not just romance, it’s sanctuary.

❥ The “Make You Laugh When You Want to Cry” Trick

Silly voices. Bad dad jokes. A spontaneous dance in the kitchen just to make them smile. Love doesn’t always whisper—it cackles, snorts, belly-laughs until you can’t remember what the fight was about.

❥ The “I See the You Nobody Else Gets to See” Love

Noticing the nervous tic they try to hide. The quiet resilience. The softness behind the sarcasm. Your character sees it all and chooses to love them there. Not despite their mess, but because of it.

❥  The “I’ll Go to the Boring Thing Because You Care” Sacrifice

They hate art galleries. Or jazz. Or your character’s weird book club full of PhD students. But they show up. They try. They listen and maybe even ask a thoughtful question. Not because they suddenly love postmodern fiction, but because they love you.

❥ The “Let Me Take Care of You, Just This Once” Flip

Especially powerful when it comes from your fiercely independent character. When they finally let someone in. Accept help. Rest their head on a lap and let themselves be held. Or be the one doing the holding for someone who never asks.

❥  The “I Want to Remember This” Gesture

No, not just a scrapbook. Maybe it's saving movie stubs, or voice recording a partner’s laugh because it's perfect and might not last. Maybe it's writing a poem they'll never read. Romance often lives in what we keep sacred, quietly.

❥ Bonus — The Non-Obvious Public Gesture

Holding hands in public when your character usually doesn’t. Or kissing their partner’s temple in front of their disapproving parents. Or calling them “baby” when it makes their partner smile like a fool. Public affection isn’t about performance, it’s about pride. Claiming someone. Softly, fiercely.

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Ways I Show a Character is In Love But Doesn't Know It Yet...

This one’s for the emotional masochists writing the slowest of burns, where your readers are screaming “just kiss already!” by chapter twenty... I Love and Hate you... ♥

They compare everyone else to the person… and everyone else comes up short. Even when they’re not consciously doing it. No one’s laugh is as warm. No one’s eyes crinkle that way.

They remember the weirdest little things about them. Birthdays? Whatever. But that time they snorted laughing at a dumb joke? Locked and loaded.

They feel weirdly guilty when flirting with someone else. Like they’re cheating… except they’re not even dating. Or are they? Or—ugh, feelings are the worst.

They notice every damn detail when the other person isn’t around. "They’d like this song." "This smells like their shampoo." "I wonder what they'd say about this weird squirrel."

They use weird, overly specific compliments. Not “You look good,” but “That color makes your eyes look like a storm in a novel I’d cry over.”

They get weirdly intense about that person being hurt or in danger. Like, irrationally intense. "He’s just a friend," they say while planning to murder anyone who makes them cry.

They feel safer around them than anyone else, and it freaks them out. Like: “I’m always on guard. Except with you. That’s... suspicious.”

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WHEN ON PERIOD:

do not crash out

your feelings are NOT valid

do not send that text

don't kill yourself. lock in

do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed

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me on occasion

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sometimes i have the urge to type, speak, and act like a middleaged woman who calls everyone 'sweetie' and 'hun'!

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multishipping final boss

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bury me with my Porcaline dolls everyone i know calls creepy

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id like to share a text message story that i had between my friend and i:

her: *MY NAME*

I THINK I SMUSH AN ORAINISM

MY OWN

me: a fucking what

her: *sends photo of the human body, circling the Intestines.*

this one i think

or my stomach BUT I THINK I BEND IT

me: HO AN ORGAN

her: YEA!

me: "orainism" 💔

her: I tried my best to sound it out man

me: orGAN

RAIN???

RAIN?

WHERE DID YOU GET THE ISM FROM

her: organism

me: ...

her:thats where

me: ORGANISM AND ORGAN ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS YOU DUMBASS

her: WHAT???

me: please

please

on gods green earth

tell me

you didnt think organ and organism

WERE THE SAME FUCKING THING

her: I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE THOSE S ENDING WORDS

me: THOSE S ENDING WORDS???

BITCH YOU MEAN PLURALS?

her: yeah!

me: "yeah!" AHSJGNDJSFVDJEBDJDHBDKDNSBDSKNZX

her: *sends photo of war flashbacks cat*

me: so ignoring the fact your a dumbass

what do you mean you crunched your organ

her: I heard a noise I think it bended

me: yea they do that

her: It was like a pink glob got in half

me: what

what does that mean???

her: *sends video of her drawing a pink blob, drawing a line through it, and drawing two pink globs*

like this

do you understand

me: is that supposed to be the organ

her: yes

me: did the organ tell you that happened?

her: it showed it (???)

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HELLO! 😼