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I'm going to be putting up the submissions form next week.

I am, however, gojng to say in advance that characters who made it to round 3 last time cannot be submitted. I am willing to do bonus polls at the end, probably with lyney (blog theme), mello (second) and cloud (winner), but they cannot be submitted.

I will also say that I am including an optional question on the submissions, that was not there last time, for the fandom and character tags. You don't have to put them there, but it helps me, and may give your character a fairer shot.

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straight people are no longer allowed to use the word twink. people calling any shit twink right now. 9 times out of 10 they're objectively not a twink. you either mean gay man, feminine man, a trans man, or you're just saying that because you can't say faggot

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[ID: a drawing of yzma from the emperor's new groove pointing at kuzco saying "I want that twink obliterated" /End ID]

honestly i never thought the phrase “i want that twink obliterated” was like a sexual thing. like when i read the phrase i imagine “a meteor like the one that killed the dinosaurs is summoned from the heavens and hits the twink in question” type situation

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Just to check if my concept of twink is right. A think is a slim/ skinny men with an usually androgynous or femme appearance. Making the current winner of the pools not suited for such due to his large shoulders and muscles?

Definitions vary slightly depending on who you ask, in that some get a lot more specific than this, but this is generally correct, yes.

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I brushed over it a lot in this because it wasn't at all related to the final, but honestly the "he's straight but" tag was especially frustrating to me because. I can't help but feel like it's just homophobia. Like, just say what you mean, we all know what you're trying to say. To me, it always reads as the sort of homophobia I grew up around in primary school, just with different words.

I've had like four different people ask me to talk about my thoughts, and they aren't really limited to the results, as much as they are to a lot of submissions, and I think its a great time for me to bring this back:

[ID: A tumblr post by me, @ fictional-twink-bracket, from November 10 2024, which says "I don't think some of you know what a twink is but its okay. I forgive you". The tags read "This isn't supposed to be mean or something. Also nearly all of them are being included anyway. Even if they aren't quite what I would consider a twink"/End ID]

And I feel it extends very much to the final as well, because honestly, there are sometimes where I feel like some of you use twink to mean "a bit faggy", which like, I feel like that about a lot of characters, its just, that doesn't automatically make them a twink. or. Whatever was going on with that one "he's straight, but" tag that was on one of the polls (crazy thing to put on the twink polls btw guys). Or sometimes its just. Of course he looks boyish. He's like 14. But the first part is honestly how I feel about cloud having won, because honestly, I don't even think he's a twink to be completely honest. Which. Might be controversial to say after he just won the polls, but. Idk.

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i do agree that Cloud is a twunk at best (he carries a BFS for fuck's sake!) being 5' 8" might've had something to do with it.

but to me, it was the frequency of "vote Mello or else" additions that activated the good ol' Pathological Demand Avoidance and made me not vote for him in almost all the rounds.

That's fair tbh. I voted against mello in like every round except the final because a lot of people who wanted him to win were annoying me.

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Tbf I think a lot of people just voted Cloud out of spite bc Mello took down a bunch of popular characters

This is also true, but so did Cloud, plus like, Cloud was already very popular in rounds before that.

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If there's one thing I've learnt from your polls it's that a lot of people don't actually know what a twink is. Cloud winning a competition he isn't even qualified for 😭

So true !!

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Honestly kinda wish James had beaten Cloud in the semi-finals so that my beloved Mello could’ve been beaten by a proper twink

I was kind of hoping that James would win the semi-final as well tbh

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Does that mean Mello is the true winner in your heart op-chan?

Honestly, I don't even like mello, I just think that like, if you're going to call either of them a twink, it makes more sense for it to be him I think.

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dude you are so right about people not knowing what a twink is. Like, I love Cloud as much as the next guy but he's a twunk at best

So true !!

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I've had like four different people ask me to talk about my thoughts, and they aren't really limited to the results, as much as they are to a lot of submissions, and I think its a great time for me to bring this back:

[ID: A tumblr post by me, @ fictional-twink-bracket, from November 10 2024, which says "I don't think some of you know what a twink is but its okay. I forgive you". The tags read "This isn't supposed to be mean or something. Also nearly all of them are being included anyway. Even if they aren't quite what I would consider a twink"/End ID]

And I feel it extends very much to the final as well, because honestly, there are sometimes where I feel like some of you use twink to mean "a bit faggy", which like, I feel like that about a lot of characters, its just, that doesn't automatically make them a twink. or. Whatever was going on with that one "he's straight, but" tag that was on one of the polls (crazy thing to put on the twink polls btw guys). Or sometimes its just. Of course he looks boyish. He's like 14. But the first part is honestly how I feel about cloud having won, because honestly, I don't even think he's a twink to be completely honest. Which. Might be controversial to say after he just won the polls, but. Idk.

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As most of you are already aware, Cloud Strife is the winner of the first fictional twink bracket !!

Final

(PT: Final)

Propaganda

(PT: Propaganda)

Cloud Strife

Almost every men he interacts with either grab him/his waist or make innuendos at him (from randoms NPCs to the main antagonist of the game). He also look very dashing and convincing in a dress.

Mello (More under the cut)

it would be really fucking funny to get the guy with 'inferiority complex' as his special stat to Specifically second place

After blowing himself up to escape the cops, he starts living together with his childhood best friend again. One of his main traits is that this 'best friend' is the only person he wholeheartedly cares about.

There's a very conventionally attractive woman in the series who flirts with him on a few occasions. Despite being very intelligent and charismatic, he doesn't seem to understand when women flirt with him

forgot to mention in jy Mello propaganda that his best friend is called Matt

Despite not being Christian, he wears two rosaries and a cross on his belt at all times and has a cross around his gun (the same gun as in Romeo and Juliet). He also has a wallet chain made out of fake skulls and a skull pattern on his belt because that bitch wants so badly to be scary when he's like 120 pounds.

[Correction: Mello is likely Christian, specifically Catholic. see here]

Mello's death was intentionally left ambiguous, but one of the strongest theories is that he was so busy apologising to his male "best friend"/roommate for getting him killed that the villain killed Mello while he was distracted.

Even when he's a millionaire who has the Los Angeles Mafia at his beck and call, he says himself that his primary goal is earning the respect and approval of a boy he hasn't seen in six years. Obsessed much?

When he loses his millions and all of the Mafia members except him die, leaving with nasty injuries, it takes him like a week to track down his childhood best friend Matt and they move in together.

He admittedly feels very guilty over ordering the death of beloved DILF Soichiro Yagami, with one of the main reasons cited being that he thought his grey hair was "just too cute".

Mello ends up literally dying for a boy he claims to hate.

LOOK AT THIS SHIT. HE WAS IN THE MOB WHEN THESE WERE TAKEN. MF WAS 18-19 AND HAD MAFIA MEMBERS WITH GUNS AND BLOODIED HANDS RUNNING AROUND SETTING HIM UP FOR THESE PHOTOS. The guy in white on the bottom left is Near, Mello's arch rival who he is absolutely obsessed with, so of course he's in the graphic. Look at this NONSENSE

My man was sluttily licking his fingers and shit and flirting with the US president whilst... threatening to start World War 3.

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I see what you there with that Mello prop ^_- Good job

what did i do again

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I see what you there with that Mello prop ^_- Good job

what did i do again

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Final

(PT: Final)

Propaganda

(PT: Propaganda)

Cloud Strife

Almost every men he interacts with either grab him/his waist or make innuendos at him (from randoms NPCs to the main antagonist of the game). He also look very dashing and convincing in a dress.

Mello (More under the cut)

it would be really fucking funny to get the guy with 'inferiority complex' as his special stat to Specifically second place

After blowing himself up to escape the cops, he starts living together with his childhood best friend again. One of his main traits is that this 'best friend' is the only person he wholeheartedly cares about.

There's a very conventionally attractive woman in the series who flirts with him on a few occasions. Despite being very intelligent and charismatic, he doesn't seem to understand when women flirt with him

forgot to mention in jy Mello propaganda that his best friend is called Matt

Despite not being Christian, he wears two rosaries and a cross on his belt at all times and has a cross around his gun (the same gun as in Romeo and Juliet). He also has a wallet chain made out of fake skulls and a skull pattern on his belt because that bitch wants so badly to be scary when he's like 120 pounds.

[Correction: Mello is likely Christian, specifically Catholic. see here]

Mello's death was intentionally left ambiguous, but one of the strongest theories is that he was so busy apologising to his male "best friend"/roommate for getting him killed that the villain killed Mello while he was distracted.

Even when he's a millionaire who has the Los Angeles Mafia at his beck and call, he says himself that his primary goal is earning the respect and approval of a boy he hasn't seen in six years. Obsessed much?

When he loses his millions and all of the Mafia members except him die, leaving with nasty injuries, it takes him like a week to track down his childhood best friend Matt and they move in together.

He admittedly feels very guilty over ordering the death of beloved DILF Soichiro Yagami, with one of the main reasons cited being that he thought his grey hair was "just too cute".

Mello ends up literally dying for a boy he claims to hate.

LOOK AT THIS SHIT. HE WAS IN THE MOB WHEN THESE WERE TAKEN. MF WAS 18-19 AND HAD MAFIA MEMBERS WITH GUNS AND BLOODIED HANDS RUNNING AROUND SETTING HIM UP FOR THESE PHOTOS. The guy in white on the bottom left is Near, Mello's arch rival who he is absolutely obsessed with, so of course he's in the graphic. Look at this NONSENSE

My man was sluttily licking his fingers and shit and flirting with the US president whilst... threatening to start World War 3.

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i'm going to be so honest i think cloud is going to win solely because our work here is done (getting mello to second place specifically)

i have considered this, but. Who knows ig.