#lucille rand

[friend-of-a-cat]

I made some mood boards for my EON guild members. I couldn't not make some for them - I'm an absolute fiend for mood boards.

--- Sage ---

--- Aki ---

--- Elias ---

--- Rand ---

--- Lucille ---

[vintagegeekculture]

Star Trek's "Lost" Main Character

Just when you think you know everything there is to know about the original Star Trek, you learn something new, like the fact someone you barely remember was going to be a series regular. Take the case of "Yeoman Smith," played by Andrea Dromm, a petty officer secretary in "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Everyone knows that Trek had a first pilot with a different cast. But the cast of the second pilot was analyzed more in terms of who wasn't there (Dr. McCoy and Uhura were added only when the show went to series and were not in the second pilot at all), than who was.

One character in particular is easy to overlook as she seemed like just another lowly and invisible crewman, Yeoman Smith. Surprisingly, Andrea Dromm was hired to be a main character on the show.

The NBC publicity materials made for the second pilot mentioned and discussed her as they would Kirk and Spock, and treated her as a series regular, which at the time, she was:

“YEOMAN SMITH, who has drawn the important assignment of secretary to the Captain on her first mission in deep space, is easily the most popular member of Kirk’s staff. A capable secretary and efficient dispenser of instant coffee, she also provides a welcome change of scenery for eyes that have spent long hours scanning the vast reaches of space.”

Almost from the beginning though, it was not to be. Andrea Dromm caused trouble on set because, according to Herb Solow, Gene Roddenberry "hired Dromm so he could 'nail her.'" Trek was in enough trouble, as Roddenberry cast his mistress, Rachel Lee Hudec (aka Majel Barrett), which violated his Desilu "virtue clause." Lucille Ball, embarassed by her former husband Desi Arnaz's well known extramarital antics, insisted on virtue clauses in contracts for creatives.

As for what happened and why Yeoman Smith never ended up being a regular, we have two different conflicting stories. Andrea Dromm said she had to choose between making Star Trek, or making a film, "The Russians are Coming," and she picked the movie over a less prestigious tv show. Star Trek producer Herb Solow tells a different story and remembers that "Yeoman Smith" was one of two main characters who were let go to keep costs down when the show went to series. The other main character fired? James Doohan as Scotty.

After being informed he was fired after the first pilot, Doohan called his agent, the physically intimidating and formidable Paul Wilkins, who convinced Roddenberry to return Doohan to the series. It is not known how this was accomplished (Herb Solow, who's memoirs are the basis of most of what we know about early Trek, was not present, only Roddenberry was), but Doohan had his job back within the day.

As for what would have happened with Yeoman Smith if she had stayed as a main character....who knows? The character of Yeoman Rand, well known for her beehive hairdo, was a replacement for her character, so it's likely that Yeoman Smith as a main character would have filled similar roles in stories, probably beat for beat and note for note. All the same however, it's hard to ignore how much more quiet moxie, no-bullshit stares, and extrovert elan Andrea Dromm projected on screen than the more subdued Grace Lee Whitney. Dromm's character was underdeveloped, sure, but so was Scotty and Sulu at that point, and the characters they eventually became were built around their actors' strengths and warmth. It's not hard to imagine something similar might be done with Dromm, and her character might have gone on very different lines from her replacement.

[hikarielizabethbloom]

One scene in and I've already found Egwene's torture highly disturbing.

Most of the time I can't concentrate on Lanfear's word because I'm distracted (by her) 🤷‍♀️

I too, Moiraine, find Rand insufferable. It's a burden we must bear.

Elayne/Nynaeve is the enemies to lovers I didn't think I needed.

I ship Egwene with Revenge.

All of this remind me so much of the Mordisith's training (Cara, my beloved).

It's funny, because I like Mat, but I also don't care about what happens to Mar.

Alanna, I love you.

Leave Lan alone! Like this man could be loyal to anyone other than Moiraine.

In Lucille's voice 'I don't care for Rand' 🤷‍♀️

I can't wait for next ep. I can't wait to see Moiraine and Siuan happy (for a little while) 😍

Moiraine, making friends everywhere she goes 🤣

Siuan and Lan. Go save your woman (from herself).

I missed Logain! He is so much more interesting than Rand. (I'm sorry, I'm trying really hard but I can't stand him)

I can tolerate Rand more when he is around Mat 🤷‍♀️ The riunion was cute.

Can we keep Ryma and Basan, please?

Tell me Egwene get to kill her.

Nynaeve and Elayne are mending my lanaeve heart (since they barely had 2 scenes together)

I miss Perrin.

Come on, Mat. Not even you can do that!

Oh, poor Mat.

Ohhhh, adorable aunt Moiraine 😍

The wife has arrived!!!!!!!!!! Next ep!!!!!!!!!

Mat, go! And even if you kill him... Oh, Lan and Alanna are there... Surprise!

So I guess we won't keep Ryma and Basan? The way they fight is so hot.

Egwene pour the water. You survive and then you will kill her.

No, Basan. You'll be missed. Poor Ryma.

They held hands 😍

Not the best ep imo but a good one. I can't wait for next week though 🤣

[kingarthurtournament]

Meet our contestants!

Seeding is in progress, the bracket should be done by tomorrow and Round One will begin! In the meantime send propaganda in the ask box!

List of the nominees under the cut:

Adora from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Aragorn from The Lord of the Ring

Ari Helix from Once and Future

Arthur from Code Geass

Arthur from Arthur King of Time and Space

Arthur from Shrek 3

Arthur from Disney’s The Sword in the Stone

Arthur Boyle from Fire Force

Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker’s Guide of the Galaxy

Arthur King from King Arthur and the Knights of Justice

Arthur Kingsmen from Mystery Skull

Arthur Liebowitz from Fairy Odd Parents

Arthur Lester from Malevolent

Arthur Pendragon from BBC Merlin

Arthur Pendragon from Kaamelott

Arthur Pendragon from Seven Deadly Sins

Arthur Pendragon from The Mechanisms “High Noon over Camelot’’

Arthur Read from PBS’s Arthur

Bob from the Minion

Dave Strider from Homestuck

England from Hetalia

Excalibur from Soul Eater

Firestar from Warrior Cats

Fjord Stone from Critical Role

Flynn Carson from The Librarians

Jack and Annie from the Magic Tree House

Jim Lake Jr from Trollhunter Tales of Arcadia

John Uskglass from Jonathan Strange and Mr Nobell

King Arthur Baking Company from real life

King Arthur from Gargoyles

King Arthur from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

King Arthur from Quest for Camelot

King Artorius from Wizard 101

King from The Owl House

Ky Kiske from Guilty Gear

Larry the cat from real life

Link from The Legend Of Zelda

Little Josh from the Josh Figh

Lord Foog 2nd from internet meme

Lucille Kensington from Where the Stars Fell

Magnus Burnsides from The Adventure Zone

Martin the Warrior from The Redwall Series

Merric from Fire Emblem

Mario from Nintendo’s Paper Mario

Peter Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia

Poptropica Player Character from Poptropica

Prince Marth of Altea from Fire Emblem

Queen Elisabeth II’s ghost from real life

Rand Al’Thor from The Wheel of Time

Richard Campbell Gansey III from The Raven Cycle

Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower

Saber Artoria from Fate/Stay Night

Sailor Venus from Sailor Moon

Simon Snow from Carry On

Sonic the Hedgehog from Sonic and the Black Knight

Sora from Kingdom Heart

Stabby the Roomba from real life

Tedros from the School for Good and Evil

The lettuce who outlasted Liz Truss from real life

The little swedish girl who found a thousand year old sword in a lake from real life

The Luidaeg from The October Day Series

Thomas the Tank Engine from Thomas King of the Railway

Wart from The Once and Future King

Zagreus from Hades

[markantonys]

WOT sims shenanigans part 2!

remember how mat and elayne kept interrupting their initial getting together flirting to throw water balloons at each other? well, IMMEDIATELY after rand and aviendha had their first kiss, they ended the conversation so aviendha could do pushups and rand could build a sandcastle. we stan 4 useless bisexuals.

then they went home and fucked woohooed in elayne’s bed because neither of them had a double bed. i’m sure elayne didn’t mind!

elayne and avi got together as well, so the rand/mat/elayne/avi polycule is complete! i moved them all into a new apartment together (now they all have double beds! rip to rand and mat’s bunkbeds in the old household) and rand immediately wished to have a child. if coming down with baby fever one (1) hour after moving in with his partners isn’t a rand move, i don’t know what is.

look how soft 🥺

if one person walks in on 2 of their partners woohooing, or is walked in on by their partner, they don’t care at all. but since mat and avi are the only ones without a romantic relationship, they both get embarrassed if one walks in on the other with rand or elayne (tho rand and elayne do not get embarrassed). there are boundaries in this house that need to be respected, thank you!

i did not realize until looking at them from this angle and in these outfits what Fantastic asses sim rand and elayne have 😳 yes i’m the one who created the sims, but i didn’t pay attention to ass size while i was doing it jkfjg i just picked default body types and did some minor tweaks. i’ve now gone to inspect mat’s and avi’s asses and they’re both flat as pancakes rip

i gave mat the goofball trait which means that he WILL NOT STOP pranking toilets (unless i catch him in time to stop him). half the time he’s the first one to use a toilet he pranked and then gets mad when the toilet breaks. karma.

the Lan Thirdwheeling On Randlayne saga continues:

perrin and faile’s wedding was a hot mess. it started like 4 hours late because i was waiting for rand, mat, and elayne, who never showed up. (at this time i was controlling the other WOT household rather than the polycule household, so i couldn’t make those 3 come to the wedding.) and mat was the best man and elayne the maid of honor 💀 elayne is barely over the line between friends and acquaintances with faile but is still faile’s highest relationship after perrin, which is tragically canon lmao. and rand was supposed to be the flower girl again! how could he dip on his flower girl duties!

during this waiting time, gawyn went to cry under the bedcovers because he was depressed from Fear Of Unfulfilled Dreams and aviendha took a mudbath, facemask and all. clearly she’s been spending too much time with elayne. but what else are you supposed to do to destress from showing up at the wedding of your partners’ friends whom you barely know and then being abandoned there because your partners ditched?

half the guests didn’t watch the ceremony but came running to get cake afterwards. then nynaeve just threw out the whole cake after only a few people had taken slices.

finally, here’s egwene deciding to boogey down right in the middle of perrin and faile’s first dance. (not pictured: perrin dropping faile mid-dip, which gave her an angry moodlet jkfgjh)

date night!

breaking news: mat and aviendha have developed a small romance bar! fascinating. i was playing this household the whole time and controlling their every move yet have no idea when or how that happened. maybe they were in flirty group conversations with rand and/or elayne often enough that it ended up giving them romance points with each other as well. for now i’m thinking i won’t encourage it but i won’t make them friendzone each other either, and instead i’ll just see if anything happens. in the last post i was saying how sim mat keeps trying to seduce people without me telling him to or catching him in time to stop him and he’s gone and done it again! lucille bluth shouting whore out the car window.gif

lan called elayne to say that he was feeling down in the dumps and i picked the “try to cheer him up” option and got this dialogue 🥺 the friendship we didn’t know we needed!

i have a glitch lately where sometimes it doesn’t notify you when a sim’s needs get too low, so rand died of starvation because i didn’t even know he was hungry at all 😭 thankfully, i quit without saving and then immediately fed him when i restarted the game, so he is okay now! can’t believe rand was suffering in silence to such an extreme that he literally died before i noticed anything was wrong. painfully canon!

a few sim days later, the same thing happened to mat! on christmas! while he was holding a plate of food and about to start eating it! gawyn sobbed his eyes out over mat’s dead body while everyone else, including mat’s partners, gathered around to look at the corpse but just kept calmly eating christmas dinner and didn’t care at all. i quit without saving again so mat is alive again, but i’ll never forget that gawyn was the only one who cried over his death djfgj gold star for gawyn

the polycule is engaged!!! i love Love!!! so many proposals! you can see the sun progressively setting because it took so long to do all the proposals lmao. my favorite is elayne proposing to rand while mat dicks around on his phone and avi does situps. tune in in a couple weeks for the polycule wedding! and let’s have a prayer circle for it to run more smoothly than perrin and faile’s, but given the number of ceremonies i’m going to try to cram into one wedding event, i’m foreseeing an even bigger hot mess!

[papermoonloveslucy]

COMPUTER COMEDY

Computers and Robotics in Lucycoms

Although, Lucille Ball never lived to see the miracle of the internet, she was around to see the birth of the computer age. From 1956 to 1986 computers and robotics provided a source of comedy in the Lucyverse!

“Lucy and Bob Hope” (1956) ~ When Lucy disguises herself as a hot dog vendor at Yankee Stadium to talk to Bob Hope, she presses him into service making change for hungry spectators. 

HOPE: “All of a sudden I feel like UNIVAC!” 

UNIVAC (UNIVersal Automatic Computer) was an early computer made by Remington Rand that, at the time, was used mainly for weather forecasting, but later would correctly predict that outcome of the 1956 Presidential election.

UNIVAC was mentioned again in “Chris Goes Steady” (1964). Viv says that UNIVAC “couldn’t have come up with a better match” than Chris and her new boyfriend, Ted.

“Lucy the Super Woman” (1966) ~ Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) installs a computer at the Westland Bank. When it falls on Mr. Mooney’s foot, Lucy has a sudden rush of adrenaline to lift it up. From then on, she has super-strength and wreaks havoc with her new-found power.

To decide where to put the computer in the office, Mr. Vigran (Herb Vigran) feeds it a punch card. Punch cards were widely used through much of the 20th century in the data processing industry. The IBM 12-row / 80-column punched card format came to dominate the industry. Many early digital computers used punched cards as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. While punched cards are now obsolete as a storage medium, as of 2012, some voting machines still used punch cards to record votes.

“Lucy and Bob Crane” (1966) ~ Lucy has a new responsibility at the bank:  running a huge, loud, punch card-driven computer. After the computer sprays shredded paper in Mr. Mooney’s face, Lucy is re-assigned to ‘new accounts’ and must move her things from one desk in the lobby to another.

“Lucy the Matchmaker” (1968) ~ When Lucy wants to find a date for Harry, she visits Select-A-Spouse, a computer dating service that surprisingly matches him with her old friend Vivian.

The comic payoff of most episodes featuring computers was having them short-circuit and run amok!  

Mr. Morton (Dick Patterson) tells Lucy that Select-A-Spouse does not give out names, only numbers. Vivian is #42-26-38 and Lucy’s computer date, Bradley Henshaw, is #74-32-59. Reducing people to numbers was a genuine concern during the initial popularization of computers. 

“Lucy’s Replacement” (1972) ~ Harry gets a computer and fires Lucy, who then gets a job in a typing pool at an insurance company. When she starts to miss Harry, Lucy and Kim sabotage the computer to get her old job back. EXMO-III [Experimental Model #3] was designed by ‘Al Rylander.’ It is established that EXMO is a ‘he’.  EXMO speaks, but his voice is uncredited. 

In addition to its computation skills, EXMO-III also makes coffee!  

Naturally, EXMO malfunctions and squirts coffee and cream in Harry’s face,  thereby fulfilling one of “Here's Lucy's” staple comedy bits: Getting Harry wet! Off screen, Lucy nicknamed Gale Gordon “Old Soggy Crotch”!

Coincidentally, two weeks before this episode aired (but well after its filming in late 1971), the first scientific electronic pocket calculator, the HP-35 was introduced by Hewlett-Packard and priced at $395 (equivalent to more than $2,400 today). Although hand-held electronic machines that could multiply and divide had been made since 1971, the HP-35 could handle higher functions including logarithms and trigonometry.  

“Lucy and the Generation Gap” (1974) ~ At the end of a three-part mini-musical, the Carters are in space sometime in the future, but contending with the same communication problems between parents and kids as they did in the past - but this time with the aid of a space-age computer. 

HARRY: “I’ve got the computer programmed with each of our personality traits and our relationships with one another. All I have to do is push a button and we’ll have the solution to the generation gap!” LUCY, KIM & CRAIG: “Well, push it!”  

As usual, the computer explodes - this time, in space age colored smoke and party snakes!  Welcome to the festive future!

ROBOTS

“Lucy and the Ceramic Cat” (1965) ~ After breaking the original, Lucy must get a replacement of Mr. Mooney’s ceramic cat. The last one is in a window display at Bigelow’s Department Store. Unfortunately, it is part of a display involving a robotic butler played by Larry Dean, a mime who specialized in playing a robot. He also did this on episodes of “Lost in Space” and “Bewitched.”  

“Lucy and the Robot” (1966) ~ Larry Dean returns to play Major Fun-Fun, a robot toy soldier Mr. Mooney buys for his rambunctious nephew Wendell (Jay North). When the Robot falls down a flight of steps and is destroyed, Lucy must take its place.

“Lucy Makes Curtis Byte the Dust” (1986) ~ Lucy's attempt to computerize M&B Hardware results in a a shop full of lawnmowers and with Curtis listed in the obituary column. As a result Lucy returns the computer, but buys a robot named Rupert!  In 1928, British schoolboys built a robot named Rupert which contained mechanical representations of human organs!  

CURTIS: “You know me, always keeping up with the times.”  LUCY: “Yeah, he's almost up to 1956.”

1956 was the same year that UNIVAC was mentioned on “I Love Lucy,” which brings this blog full circle. 

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[ilearhmajeste]

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[karenlacorte]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Tom Thumb A Rand McNally Elf Book.

[42wallaby-way-sydney]

the OCs + name meanings [2/4]

[margokesses]

One of my favorite things in the comics is how luke cage and danny rand named their daughters after each other

[dio-and-lang]

Tales of the Uncaged Finch

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[friend-of-a-cat]

Etrian Odyssey Nexus Guild - Seekers (Maginia Branch)

Here's my main EON guild, named after my EO3/EO2U/EO5 guilds: Seekers! They are my children and I love them. Some of their colours here look a bit different to their in-game portraits because I changed them, but I honestly can't be bothered importing them (I'll probably update this post sometime in the future with art I've made, anyway - I'll also add my guild card later, too). I'm also following my own timeline of events, which I've laid out in this post (EO5 is set right before Nexus in this timeline). Below you will find the gang's portraits and some bios I've written for them!

Sage | She/her | Hero (front line) | 21 years old | INFJ | Capricorn

Sage is the only child of a Lagaardian noble family, and was taught how to wield a sword by her father at a young age - he wanted her to follow in his footsteps as a great leader. Her parents are very overbearing, sheltering her for most of her life, and keep trying to set her up with potential future partners (all nobles themselves, of course), though she's aroace. She left home in order to escape all of this, as well as to learn more about the world and its people, deciding to hop on the flying city to Lemuria and join a guild, begrudgingly becoming its leader and naming it after two famed adventuring guilds she admires.

She’s very determined, dedicated and gallant, always trying to help those in need. She's also good at resolving arguments and solving problems due to her friendly and understanding nature, and often comes up with plans of attack. She's also very diligent in her training, often forgetting to eat or rest due to her intense focus.

Sage loves reading, and, when she's not training, she's often found, alone, with a hot drink and her nose in books of fable and legend. She's facinated by monsters and mythological creatures, and keeps a log of every one she and the rest of the guild encounters (she's also captivated by dragons, and wants to see a real one someday). She also loves cats, and is desperately trying to befriend Vivian's cat, Merlin, who seems uninterested in her (she is very upset by this). She thinks Persephone, the princess of Maginia, is very cool, and looks up to her.

Sage is also extremely tired, and definitely needs a break. Her guild does not allow this, however, as most of its members are very loud and reckless. She still loves them all, though - they're like her found family.

She shares map-making duty with Elias and Rand, and is also trying her hardest to learn how to cook (Rand is an incredible cook, and, as such, has taken her under his wing).

~~~

Aki | They/them | Ronin (front line) | 23 years old | ESFP | Gemini

Aki hails from a small, secluded mountain village on the outskirts of Etria, and grew up with their mother, grandparents, and several siblings. They have a master, who is like a father figure to them, and was taught the way of the blade by him from a young age. They left their village in order to travel, as they wanted to see and experience new things, and heard word of the expedition to Lumuria, hopping on the floating city of Maginia and joining a guild.

They're a massive goofball, and makes friends very easily due to their upbeat and energetic demeanor. They're very loud, and are always the life of the party. They also hold a lot of admiration for Sage, and enjoy sparring with her. They often vie for her attention, and have a friendly rivaly with Lucille, who also does the same. Aki loves and treats their guildmates like family members, and will always, very recklessly, put themself in danger to save them. They want to get stronger, both as a ronin and as a person. They also have heightened senses, and can see well in the dark.

They struggle with reading and writing, but are getting help from Sage to get better at both. They've begun writing letters to their master every week to update him on what's been going on.

Aki loves food and will eat anything and everything, including things they find on their expeditions. They have been poisioned far too many times from plants and fruit they have consumed on their travels, but have not learned from this whatsoever. They're often found training, practicing their sword skills, napping in the sun, exploring the outdoors, befriending both animals and people, or eating god-knows-what.

They're pangender, and are fine with any pronouns, but usually use they/them. They're also ace.

~~~

Elias | He/him | Harbinger (front line) | 26 years old (in human years) | ISTJ | Virgo

Elias grew up an only child of esteemed Celestrian parentage in Sidonia, Arcania. His family always expected great things from him - for him to hone his magic; uphold a sense of dignity and regality; strive for perfection. But even though he was always trying his best to please them, he never could, and they always treated him like he were inferior to them in every way. As such, he became quieter, distant, and more reserved. When he came of age to be seen as more independent, he immediately left, and travelled around the realm, trying to find a place to fit in and call home. Because of the otherworldly and snobbish reputation of the Celestrians, he was frequently shunned by others, but soon found a home in Iorys, where he joined a guild.

He doesn't say much, though is very sarcastic and sharp-tongued when he does. He's very intelligent, observant and quick-witted, and is good at solving puzzles, gathering information, and determining an enemy's weak points. He gets angry when people put themselves in danger to protect him, and would prefer that they looked after themselves instead. He loves his guildmates, both old and new, and considers them family, despite rarely showing it. He's often found reading, researching, meditating, playing solitary Celestrian card games, or chatting to (and cuddling with) Rand.

He's in a relationship with Rand (they got together during the events of EO5), whom he loves dearly, but hates to admit it. The two of them are basically inseperable.

After the events of EO5, which left Elias with a magic blockage (he was previously a warlock), he travelled to Earth with the rest of his guild, settling down in High Lagaard with Rand to recoup and recover for a couple of years. Soon enough, when they heard the construction of the floating city of Maginia was complete, the two of them decided that they wanted to continue exploring, so they joined a new guild and set forth on a new adventure. Elias' magic is slowly returning to him, though weak, but is manifesting itself in different ways, allowing him to control miasma (the bioluminescent kind) and manifest armour so he can better protect his loved ones. He also engineered a magical sythe, which draws magical energy directly from his body via a tubing system when hooked up. He fights on the front lines now, so that no one else gets hurt, and appears quite cold during combat, efficiently mowing down enemies.

He shares map-making duty with Sage and Rand.

~~~

Rand | He/him | Gunner (back line) | 25 years old | ENFJ | Pisces

Rand grew up in a small town in Melas, Arcania, with his mother and four younger sisters, one of whom sadly passed away when he was a teenager. His mother was, and still is, ill, so he would help her out with the cooking, cleaning, shopping, and everything in between. As such, he's a wizz in the kitchen, and makes the best apple pie in Arcania (according to his family and his previous guildmates). He picked up adventuring in order to provide for the rest of his family, as he heard it paid well (it did, and it still does).

He's very laid-back, level-headed, caring and friendly, with a good sense of humour. He loves helping people, and will always try his hardest to make sure everyone is satisfied. He keeps calm under stress, and is good at coming up with plans and strategies for the group - if Sage wasn't already the guild's leader, he probably would be. He often hides his true feelings in order to keep both himself and everyone around him positive, and deflects serious questions with humour.

As previously mentioned, he's in a relationship with Elias, whom he dotes over (much to Elias' dismay) and loves dearly. Rand was badly injured during the events of EO5, and is no longer able to walk properly, having to wear a leg brace. As such, he can no longer fight on the front lines (he was previously a dragoon), and the fact that he can't protect his loved ones as well as he used to eats him up inside. He also frequently has horrible nightmares due to trauma.

He shares map-making duty with Sage and Elias, and does most of the cooking. He's also a budding woodcarver, and whittles little wooden objects in his free time.

He also doesn't drink alcohol, and takes care of everyone else when they get a bit tipsy during a celebration.

~~~

Lucille | She/her | Sovereign (back line) | 21 years old | ESFJ | Libra

Like Sage and Elias, Lucille grew up the only child of a noble family, and hails from the city of Armoroad. Her parents and extended family spoiled her ever since she was born, and she gets everything handed to her on a silver platter, though this never made her haughty or self-absorbed. She was also very sheltered growing up, and doesn't know much about the world or how it works. She heard about the floating city of Maginia during a dinner party with Lagaardian nobles, and begged her parents to let her join the expedition to Lemuria. They, begrudging, accepted, but told her that she needed to travel with a bodyguard. Said bodyguard escorted her to the city, but she convinved him to let her go alone from there on out, stating that she wanted some form of independence. Her parents are not very happy with her.

She's animated, cheerful, slighty clingy, and a massive daydreamer. She's infectiously positive, though some may find her hyperactive and peppy nature a bit grating. She talks a lot, and has a short attention span. She appears frivolous, but is actually quite intelligent, and thinks that it's important to always be her true, authentic self, no matter the audience or situation. She's prone to shopping sprees, and has almost no self-control when it comes to spending, usually impulse-buying useless, though curious, items, much to the dismay of the guild (minus Aki - they love the strange artefacts she brings back to the inn).

She has a huge crush on Sage, oftening vying for her attention, and has a friendly rivaly with Aki, who also does the same. She's somehow unaware of Sage's aroace-ness - though, to be honest, she's unaware of a lot of things, in general. She's happy when Sage is happy, and always tries to cheer her up when she's not (she always tries to cheer the others up when they're feeling down, too). She loves the rest of the guild, and has a sibling-like dynamic with Aki, always bickering playfully with them.

She is also an abysmal cook. Do not let this woman near a kitchen - she will accidently poison people, as she has done many times in the past.

[annaofthenorthernlights]

Lucky in misfortune

I thought I give it a try and contribute a little something to the February Ficlet challenge 2022 on AO3

Prompt for 26: Wrong date

Pairing Kristoff/Anna, modern AU setting

Words: 2337

Read the prompt on AO3

@bad-at-names-and-faces thanks for unknowingly encouriging me to try out crazy ideas 😘

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Kristoff cursed that they had not exchanged any photo of each other before going out on a live date. The emails had been nice and the few phone calls.

Lucille had a nice voice. Other than her job and where she originally came from, she had not outed herself very much. Well, maybe that was more a face-to-face thing. Well, then. Still, he was glad that he didn´t tell anybody about this. Not to think how teasing his family got about him meeting a girl on a blind date. And he could not even believe that he was really doing this… but Sven got at him too many times and Kristoff got fed up with fighting against his friend´s worry of him staying single. Though he did not mind being single… And was Kristoff supposed to follow Sven´s advice…? Well, here he was and guessed that he couldn´t retreat now, could he? He could stil write a message he was still at work.... No, that was a lie and lying was truly a bad base for a relationship…

He wondered what she looked like. Why was he getting nervous? There was no reason to be nervous, it was simply meeting somebody, doing some conversation and seeing how they got along. Right? Right!

And the restaurant chef knew for certain… That knowing grin and too much of understanding a nod when he showed the customer to his seat. That was the worst, sitting down at that table for two, and the place opposite was vacant… Certainly, he was too early…

Kristoff ordered a water to at least have something to hold is hands quiet for a moment.

And suddenly it didn’t matter if there was a restaurant full of people or if he was the only living soul on earth when there was this breathless girl standing before him and reaching out her hand to him, her voice so cheerful and her face all flushed.

“Hi! I´m so sorry for being late. The bus didn´t come so I thought I walk, but then I realised I´d be late so I started running, and then I noticed I started sweating so I rather slowed down to a faster walk as not to get all messy and that´s the cause I am late… please forgive me.”

She stared with widened eyes, such lovely blue eyes and the freckles around her nose and covering her heated cheeks danced like bouncing points upon her still heavy breath.

“Hi.” Kristoff wanted to rise to greet her but she had rushed already to the chair across the table and put off her coat and hung it up over the backrest. She quickly checked on her hair, which was set into a lovely style of twisted braids pinned into a twirled bun at the upper back of her head. The auburn mass of wild locks must have gotten roused by the wind and her rush, and her fingers shakily adjusted some pins while she sat down and then kneaded her hands in her lap.

“Did you wait long? It´s awkward to wait alone and I hate the thought of making you wait on our first…”

“Date?”

“Yeah…” the lovely girl nodded slightly blushing.

The waitress came around and asked if they´d like to order anything else. And the girl across from Kristoff ordered a cherry coke with a glinting smile. Apparently she was a very cheerful person.

“So…” Kristoff cleared his throat and thought hard of starting some sort of conversation, but he noticed that this seemed no problem, when his table partner continued with a gallant question for him.

“Did you come directly from work?”

“Yes, and you?”

“Uhm… no, I had the chance to go home first and get myself ready a bit more appropriate. You know…” she chuckled and rand a slender hand along the base of her hairstyle.

“Well, I hope you don´t mind I didn´t come in suit and tie.”

Her eyes grew wide, and she shook her head feverishly. “Oh no! That´s not what I meant. I just needed some time to gather my nerves… I mean, not that I was anxious coming here, or not liking it… no… I was just… You know…”

“A bit nervous?” Kristoff could not restrain a fair smile upon her chatter which he assumed of the same reason as the one for him being quieter because he simply lacked the words.

She nodded, bit her lips, and then shrugged.

“This is somewhat the first time that I try this you know…”

“Me, too. So… I guess we´re in a fair pool position?”

The bell-like laugh that escaped her throat was something the young man had not heard before and it made him laugh himself. Two grownups, both nervous and then relieved to find out the other was in the same boat…

“Oh, you know I´m so glad you´re saying this because I really didn´t know how to show up tonight. Should it be sportive casual, or sexy naughty? No, that would be so pushy and Elsa, you know, my sister, scolded me for going for something so hot on a first date, so I decided for casual elegant. Do you think that´s appropriate? Oh no, I should not talk about dressing up. Elsa told me a hundred times not to chatter nonsense so much. But I am chattering, am I? I am so sorry…”

She frowned upon herself and kneaded her fingers in her lap and bit her lips. Kristoff wondered if this was even harder for her than it was for him and he chuckled relieved to realise that he was the one to give her some comfort, as if he was an expert on such things and that made him laugh. Upon which his opposite looked up with sparkling eyes.

“No. You don´t bother me with this. And to be fair, I think you´re dressed nicely. The sunflower look suits you. Underlines your shining eyes.”

“Oh… thank you.” She blushed slightly, but seemingly relieved and flustered.

Then crooked her head and seemed to study his features, and she straightened and gestured wildly with her hands, like trying to find some logic explanation to her detection. Was something wrong? What if she didn´t like his looks.

“I don´t know… please don´t mind me saying so, but I have imagined you looking somewhat different, you know?” she blinked at him with a cute smile. “I thought your hair is shorter and more into brown…”

“Sorry if I don´t meet your expectation.”

“Oh, no, no, no! That´s not what I am saying. To be honest, I am… uhm… rather surprised on the positive side. Oh, not that I would have mind if you looked like what thought first, but I appreciate the present prospect.” She smiled genuinely, and Kristoff felt his own face heating up now. Nobody had ever spoken about his features in such a manner.

“Glad you´re not disappointed. I am… uhm… positively surprised myself to mention your own words.”

“Oh… thank you.” And her hands wandered up to check on her hair again, as if she didn´t quite believe this to be true.

“But what made you think I looked different than what you thought?” Kristoff was still curious about her studying efforts of before. Was it a female thing or was he simply unknowing of such matters?

“Well, your photo you sent once, remember? The one where you leaned against your car.”

Kristoff stared at the girl.

“I don´t have a car, and I never sent a photo. You didn´t want us to exchange any pictures, so the surprise would be more tense.”

Now the girl stared.

“You are… you are not… Patrick?”

“My name is Kristoff. And I assume, you are not… Lucy?”

“No… I´m Anna.”

They both glared at each other rather flabbergasted and then, Anna turned all red, covered her face with both hands, and then she jumped from her chair, almost nocking it over. She grabbed her coat and turned around to Kristoff.

“I am so sorry! I will sit… over there… and wait for…”

“Patrick?”

“Yes… and you… will have your date with….”

“Lucy.”

“Yes. Well, have a nice evening and good luck with your…”

“Date.”

“Yes!”

“Thank you, Anna. You, too!”

And then Anna made her way to a vacant table on the other side of the room.

Okay, if Kristoff had thought a blind date was awkward, this was the weirdest thing now… Why had he felt a slight pang at his side when she called him Patrick? They had hardly had what you could even call a conversation. But for some reason Kristoff had felt for a tiny beat of a second that this evening could indeed become very nice.

He waited, reached for his glass and wondered who that Patrick might be… And where was Lucy? This was so stupid now.

His mobile buzzed and he reached into his coat pocket, glancing at the screen.

Lucy had messaged, that she was sorry, but having given this all another thought she doubted this would work. And to be fair she rather told him than letting him sit all night. Wishing him all the best.

And that was the reason why Kristoff assumed it might be easier to stay single. All those fuss around feelings and doubts… It was all so complicated. Well then, he could just as well go home and make a clear statement to Sven that this was all no use for him.

He was about to turn and pay for his water, when he noticed Anna´s cherry coke still standing next to his now empty glass. Kristoff glanced unobtrusively across the room to see if Anna had got company by her date by now and his chest clenched briefly but sharply. She still sat alone, nervously balancing her own mobile in her hands. Was she anxious to ask this Patrick where he was about? After all, she had already been late. According to the plan, Lucy was long overdue to an hour now. And so, this man must be delayed just the same… Poor girl… She looked rather miserable…

Anna sat quite a distance apart from him, but Kristoff noticed out to the corner of his eyes that she had lost her jovial glinting aura. That was a shame! Nobody deserved to get treated that way. Maybe that man had an accident or excused himself like Lucy had? What if he didn´t message at all? That would be the worst and Kristoff felt some anger about such cowardness. But rather than dancing around suspicion, he could just was well be going over to her and ask if she was alright.

He ordered another glass of water, tossed his jacket over over his arm, grabbed both glasses and strolled over to Anna´s table. Sven would be so proud of him… Kristoff realised with a secret smile.

“Hey… “

Anna raised her eyes and blinked at him in surprise. It was not that she had not noticed Kristoff sitting alone all the while, but she had not expected him to come over to her.

“Hey…” Anna glanced behind him towards the table he had just left. “What about…”

“Lucy?”

“Yes.”

“She texted me, informing me politely about breaking up that…”

“Date?”

“Yes.”

“Oh…” Anna lowered her gaze. “I´m sorry.”

Then, she noticed the drinks in his hand.

“Oh, my coke! Thank you. Would you like to sit down?”

She motioned to the empty chair across the table and gratefully took the coke from his hand and the so slight and soft touch of her fingers briefly brushing his was like a warm soothing greeting gesture, secretly to them both.

“Thank you.” Kristoff sat down and adjusted his jacket over the backrest. Turning back to her he watched her for a moment.

“So…. You mind if I ask?”

“You want to know what happened to….”

“Patrick?”

“Yes…

“I called, asking if he was alright. You know, who knows if he got hit by a car and laid in the hospital?”

“And…?” Kristoff tried desperately to hide his hopes that the guy not necessarily was dead, but at least had vanished for some reason. Though he scolded himself immediately upon his selfishness because Anna looked obviously devestated.

“He said he was sorry, but something came in between and then…” she reached for her glass and emptied it with a loud gulp, the unladylike gesture rousing Kristoff´s adoration for that feisty girl even the more.

“There was a noise in the background, and I could clearly make out another girl calling him to come back to bed…”

Now Kristoff almost dropped his own glass.

“Okay… that is… uhm…”

“What I call a bloody bastard!”

Kristoff nodded in response. So totally a bastard. But what now…? And upon spotting the waitress at their neighbour table, an idea hit his grateful mind.

“So… now that we seem to sit here like two remnants… can I at least invite you to a glass of wine? To wash down the sour taste of being dumped?”

Anna´s eyes lit up and she formed the cutest smile the man had ever seen.

“Oh yes! Thank you. That´s the perfect idea! And uhm... to be honest, I feel like getting hungry after all. What about you?” and her heart hammered up her chest upon that bolt question. Elsa had told her not to throw herself at the man first thing… but after all, they had been sitting at the table before and it was over an hour now that they had met, and Kristoff seemed not the sort of guy to stand a girl up while at the same time be literally fucking around.

And did he just blush and smile back at her?

Oh…. She was doomed.

The waitress halted at their table and Kristoff did not take his glance of his lovely table companion when he ordered while he feverishly tried to contain his excitement in a controlled voice.

“Two glasses of wine please, oh, and the menu cards!”

[twentiethcenturymoviesandtv]

Star Trek: Facets of Filmmaking

As it turns out, before Star Trek was fully realized in the form we know today, the show was originally not going to be about Kirk and the Enterprise at all.  In fact, it was going to be about a ship called the S.S. Yorktown, captained by a man named Robert April, on a mission to explore the Milky Way galaxy.  The original concept, still named Star Trek and set in the 23rd century, was loosely based on the Horatio Hornblower novels, and took inspiration from The Voyage of the Space Beagle, the Marathon series and the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.

By the year 1964, when this idea began to take shape, Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek was an experienced writer for western television shows, and was well accustomed to (at the time) television’s favorite and most popular genre.  By 1964, however, Roddenberry was tired of the shootouts, and wanted to do something different, something with a little more depth to it.

Still, Roddenberry knew what the executives, and the public, was used to.  As a result, the first draft of this new Star Trek idea was generalized as a sort of ‘Wagon Train to the Stars’, a formulaic type of show where every episode was a standalone adventure in the continuous exploration of the final frontier: space.

As Roddenberry wrote the draft, a few things changed.  Gone was Robert April, replaced by Captain Christopher Pike, who would be portrayed by Jefferey Hunter, and the rest of the crew.  The name of the ship changed too, to the more familiar Enterprise.  As these changes came about, so too did the true nature of Roddenberry’s dream show: both an adventure story, and a thought-provoking morality tale.

Armed with his script, Roddenberry brought Star Trek to Desilu Productions, (a rather large television production company headed and half-formed by Lucille Ball herself) and met with director of production Herbert F. Solow.  Solow saw promise in the concept, and signed a three-year development contract with Roddenberry.

Star Trek moved into the next stage of development.  Further drafts were drawn up and the idea that would later become the episode The Cage was revised, until it was shown to CBS as part of the ‘First Look’ deal with Desilu productions.  CBS wasn’t impressed with the show, declining to purchase it.  They had another ‘space show’ in development that seemed too similar, a show that would become Lost in Space.

However, another company became interested: NBC.  In May of 1964, Grant Tinker, the head of the West Coast programming department, commissioned the pilot that would become The Cage (which would later be reworked into the episode The Menagerie).  After it was completed, NBC turned it down, claiming that it was ‘too cerebral’, but although this was a mild defeat, Star Trek wasn’t beaten.  NBC still showed interest in the concept, and made the highly unusual decision to commission a second pilot: the episode that would become Where No Man Has Gone Before.

With this came quite a few changes.

Christopher Pike was scrapped as a character, as was the vast majority of other cast members.  Only the character of Spock, as portrayed by Leonard Nimoy, was kept, and of the other cast members, only Majel Barrett stayed, demoted from playing the second-in-command (scrapped due to the unthinkable notion of a woman Commander) to the ship’s nurse, Christine Chapel.  With this new pilot came an onslaught of new, more familiar names and faces: William Shatner as Captain Kirk, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Scott played by James Doohan, and Lieutenant Sulu, (originally a physicist in the first episode, but a helmsman afterwards) played by George Takei.

This pilot passed with flying colors, and with that, NBC added Star Trek to their fall lineup for 1966.

Still, there were changes to be made.  In this first pilot, the ship’s doctor was Mark Piper, played by Paul Fix.  Dr. Leonard McCoy, played by DeForest Kelley, would join the cast when principal filming for the first season began.  Also joining the cast was Nichelle Nichols, playing Lieutenant Uhura, and Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand.  (Whitney would depart halfway through the first season, after being on the receiving end of sexual assault from one of the executives of the show, but would later appear in the film series beginning in the 1970s.)

Besides Where No Man Has Gone Before, NBC ordered 15 episodes to start off the show.  The first episode of Star Trek, The Man Trap, aired at 8:30 PM on Thursday, September 8th of 1966 as part of NBC’s ‘sneak preview’ time slot, received with mixed feelings.  While some papers and reviewers genuinely liked the new show, (such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Francisco Chronicle) others, such as The Boston Globe and The New York Times didn’t.  Variety described the show as ‘an incredible and dreary mess of confusion and complexities’, and predicted that it would fail.

Fighting for position against reruns of previous shows, despite the critics’ warnings, Star Trek won a time slot, and began with decent ratings.  However, it didn’t last long.  By the end of the first season, Star Trek was sitting at 52nd out of 94 programs.

Star Trek was sinking, fast.

But even then, it wasn’t without its supporters.

The editor of Galaxy Science Fiction, Frederik Pohl, offered up his amazement that Star Trek’s consistency remained good, with no drop in quality after its Tricon winning early episodes.  He expressed his fear that the show would be cancelled due to its low ratings, and pleaded with audiences to help save Star Trek, writing letters to prevent its cancellation.

At this time, the only thing that was keeping the show on the air in the first place was the demographics it was reaching.  NBC had become interested in the demographics of the shows it was producing in the early 1960s, and by 1967, was using that as part of the decision making as to which shows got dropped.  

And something about Star Trek’s demographics interested NBC very much: it had managed to attract ‘quality’ audiences: high income, high educated people (primarily males).

As a result, NBC ordered ten more episodes for the first season, and ordered a second in March of 1967.  The network then changed Star Trek’s timeslot, moving it to 8:30 on Friday nights, a timeslot that seemed doomed for failure among the audience that Star Trek had gathered.

The next season, things didn’t seem to be getting any better.  It was at this point that the show added on Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov (as George Takei was working on The Green Berets and was not as available for shooting), although some might have wondered why they would have bothered.  The show’s ratings were still dropping.  William Shatner, expecting the show to be cancelled, began to prepare for other projects.  

Again, the demographics saved the day.

Roddenberry’s initial concept of adventure alongside morality tales intrigued the audiences Star Trek had attracted.  The show had values, values that had to be applied to every situation.  The show was sincere, and serious in its exploration of issues like racism, war and peace, human rights, technology, class warfare, and imperialism, far different in tone and content than the other chief sci-fi show at the time: Lost in Space.  As a result, the show generated a more interested fanbase, perhaps the first true ‘fanbase’ of any franchise in history.  In the end, it was they who saved Star Trek.

By the end of the first season, NBC had received well over 29,000 fan letters.  During the second season, Roddenberry began a campaign to persuade fans to write in to NBC, to support the show and save the program.  Between December of 1967 and March of 1968, NCB had received nearly 116,000 letters from people who did not want to see Star Trek cancelled.  Science fiction conventions, magazines, and newspaper columnists encouraged readers to save what was called ‘the best science-fiction show on the air’.

The fans didn’t stop with letters.  Over 200 students of the California Institute of Technology marched to NBC’s studio in Burbank to protest the cancellation of Star Trek in January of 1968, carrying signs that said things like ‘Vulcan Power’.  They weren’t alone; other groups of students of MIT and Berkeley did the same thing in New York City and San Francisco.

Interestingly, the letters that NBC received were not of the typical ‘fan mail’ quality.

“Much of the mail came from doctors, scientists, teachers, and other professional people, and was for the most part literate–and written on good stationery. And if there is anything a network wants almost as much as a high Nielsen ratings, it is the prestige of a show that appeals to the upper middle class and high-brow audiences.” (Lowry, Cynthia (January 17, 1968). “One Network Goes ‘Unconventional’”. Nashua Telegraph. Associated Press. p. 13)

“The show, according to the 6,000 letters it draws a week (more than any other in television), is watched by scientists, museum curators, psychiatrists, doctors, university professors, and other highbrows. The Smithsonian Institution asked for a print of the show for its archives, the only show so honored.” (Scott, Vernon (February 7, 1968). “Letters Can Save 'Star Trek’”. The Press-Courier. Oxnard, California. United Press International. p. 17.)

After the episode The Omega Glory, on March 1st, 1968, the announcement came:

“And now an announcement of interest to all viewers of Star Trek. We are pleased to tell you that Star Trek will continue to be seen on NBC Television. We know you will be looking forward to seeing the weekly adventure in space on Star Trek.” (“Letters For 'Star Trek’ Hit 114,667”. The Modesto Bee. April 14, 1968. p. 26.)

If this was intended to stop the letter writing campaign, it was a dismal failure.  A comparable number of letters came in to NBC following this announcement, full of thanks for renewing the show for the third season.

In March of 1968, NBC moved Star Trek to another time slot: 10:00 PM on Fridays, an even worse shot than before.  To make matters worse, it was only being seen by 181 out of 210 of NBC’s affiliates.  Roddenberry fought the network to move it to a better time, but he was denied.  Exhausted, Roddenberry quit working on production of Star Trek, remaining executive producer in name only.  The running of the show went to Fred Freiberger, who was with the show as it stood on its last, shaky, legs.

And it was on its last legs.

Star Trek season three was a dying breath, the death-rattle of a show that was being intentionally destroyed by its own network.

To quote Nichelle Nichols:

“While NBC paid lip service to expanding Star Trek’s audience, it [now] slashed our production budget until it was actually 10% lower than it had been in our first season … This is why in the third season you saw fewer outdoor location shots, for example. Top writers, top guest stars, top anything you needed was harder to come by. Thus, Star Trek’s demise became a self-fulfilling prophecy. And I can assure you, that is exactly as it was meant to be.”

It showed.

While I hesitate to call season three of Star Trek a mess, it is difficult to deny that the show was definitely struggling.  Episodes dropped in quality, characters became more exaggerated and less ‘true’. Star Trek stopped filming in January of 1969, and after a total run of 79 episodes, the show  was cancelled.

As a newspaper columnist advised:

“You Star Trek fans have fought the “good fight,” but the show has been cancelled and there’s nothing to be done now.”

Rather incongruous with the image of the pop-culture giant we know it as today, wouldn’t you think?

So what happened?

As it turns out, Star Trek had enough episodes (thanks to the third season) to enter syndication.  Desilu Productions, which at that point had become Paramount, licensed the syndication rights in order to turn a profit, and reruns of Star Trek began airing in late 1969.

In syndication, Star Trek became a cult classic, finding a larger audience on reruns than it had during its original run.  The show, which was airing in the afternoons and early evenings, was attracting a young demographic, and, ironically, Star Trek became known as ‘the show that wouldn’t die’.  By 1970, Star Trek was boosting Paramount’s ratings, and becoming extremely popular.  In January of 1972, over 3,000 fans attended the first Star Trek convention in New York City, kicking off a previously unheard-of trend of organized fan gatherings where they could buy merchandise, meet cast and crew, and screen episodes of the show.  These people, coming to be known as ‘trekkies’, took pride in their knowledge and extreme love for this series, which was becoming renowned for being a smart, heartfelt science fiction show that had been cancelled too early.

17 years after Star Trek was cancelled and started reruns, Star Trek became the most popular syndicated show of all time.  By 1987, Paramount was bringing in $1 million per episode, and by 1994, reruns were still airing in over 90% of the United States of America.

The rest is history.

It has been over fifty years since Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a wagon train to the stars first took flight, and it was a hard battle fought to get as far as it did.  Never before had a show garnered the support and devoted love from a fanbase, never had it inspired such huge leaps and bounds in television and fandom alike.  Never had a television show meant so much to so many, and continued to do so well past its end.

For a show that struggled through a third season, it seems incredible that Star Trek still holds the weight that it does today.  The show that wouldn’t die gained new life beyond the grave, still capturing people’s attention decades after it was cancelled, growing to become one of the best known and best loved television shows ever made.

Against all odds, Star Trek lives on, remaining one of the greatest television shows of all time, for very good reason.

Join me for one last article as next time we take one last look at Star Trek in our Final Thoughts.  If you have any thoughts, questions, suggestions, recommendations, or just want to say hi, don’t forget to leave an ask!  Thank you all so much for reading, and I hope to see you in the next article.  

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More infos on Revival Rounds

After this Round ends we'll have a short hiatus from the main tournament for 4 one-day revival rounds. We will start with the losers of round 1 of the main tournament and work up from there until 4 characters comes on top and join the competition. It will be organised like this:

Round 1: 4 polls of 8 (32 round 1 losers)

-> top 2 of each poll go up (8 total)

Round 2: 4 polls of 6 (16 round 2 losers + 8)

-> top 2 of each poll go up (8 total)

Round 3: 4 polls of 4 (8 round 3 losers + 8)

-> top 2 of each poll go up (8 total)

Round 4: 4 polls of 3 (4 round 4 losers + 8)

-> top 1 of each poll go back to the main tournament for the quarter finales!

All the character have been randomly put into 4 groups and those will only change if characters who already met in the main bracket end up against each other again.

Revival Round 1 will start on May 7th at 8 am UTC.

Groupes under the cut!

GROUPE A

Round 1

Ari Helix (Once and Future)

England (Hetalia)

Wart (The Once and Future King by T.H. White)

King Arthur (Quest for Camelot)

Peter Pevensie (Chronicles of Narnia)

Tedros (The School for Good and Evil)

Jim Lake Jr (Trollhunters Tales of Arcadia)

Round 2

Thomas the Tank Engine (Thomas and Friends: King of the Railway)

Saber Artoria (Fate Stay Night)

Fjord Stone (Critical Role)

King Arthur (Gargoyles)

+ winners of Round 1

Round 3

Jack and Annie (The Magic Tree House)

Adora (She-Ra and the Princess of Power)

+ winners of Round 2

Round 4

To be determined + winners of Round 3

GROUPE B

Round 1

Ky Kiske (Guilty Gear)

Arthur (Arthur King of Time and Space)

Prince Marth of Altea (Fire Emblem)

Firestar (Warrior Cats)

Martin the Warrior (Redwall)

Arthur Liebowitz (Fairy Odd Parents)

Arthur (Shrek 3)

Rand Al’Thor (The Wheel of Time)

Round 2

Zagreus (Hades)

The Luidaeg (October Daye)

Lord Foog the 2st

Arthur Dent (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

+ winners of Round 1

Round 3

King (The Owl House)

King Arthur (Monty Python)

+ winners of Round 2

Round 4

To be determined + winners of Round 3

GROUPE C

Round 1

King Arthur Baking Company

Sora (Kingdom Hearts)

Arthur (Code Geass)

John Uskglass (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell)

Arthur Pendragon (Kaamelott)

Queen Elisabeth’s ghost

Merric (Fire Emblem)

Arthur King (King Arthur and the Knights of Justice)

Round 2

Arthur (Disney's Sword in the Stone)

Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

Arthur Pendragon (Seven Deadly Sins)

Arthur Lester (Malevolent)

+ winners of Round 1

Round 3

Stabby the Roomba

Link (The Legend of Zelda)

+ winners of Round 2

Round 4

To be determined + winners of Round 3

GROUPE D

Round 1

Lucille Kensington (Where the Stars Fell)

Bob (The Minions)

Magnus Burnsides (The Adventure Zone)

Arthur Boyle (Fire Force)

Sailor Venus (Sailor Moon)

Poptropica PC (Poptropica Astroknight Island)

King Artorius (Wizard 101)

Arthur Kingsmen (Mystery Skull)

Round 2

Simon Snow (Carry On)

Richard Campbell Gansey III (The Raven Cycle)

Flynn Carson (The Librarians)

Arthur Pendragon (The Mechanisms' High Noon Over Camelot)

+ winners of Round 1

Round 3

Excalibur (Soul Eater)

Arthur Read (Arthur)

+ winners of Round 2

Round 4

To be determined + winners of Round 3

[markantonys]

i’m only 8 chapters into tsr and there is SO MUCH TO YELL ABOUT

“it would have been good to think she wanted rand al’thor” “for now he only wanted to sit and remember a shepherd named rand al’thor” maybe it was better in the last book with barely any rand pov seeing as he is determined to kill me!!!

lan and rhuarc are both rand’s dads now and they have a crush on each other

everyone @ mat, including me (but they do it derogatorily and i affectionately): lucille bluth shouting WHORE out the car window.jpg

“i think about leaving all the time, but i get these strange feelings. almost as if something was going to happen. something...momentous, that’s the word. it’s like knowing there’ll be fireworks for sunday, only i don’t know what it is i’m expecting. whenever i think too much about leaving, it happens. and suddenly i’ve found some reason to stay another day. always just one more bloody day. doesn’t that sound like aes sedai work to you?” mat looking at his crush on rand: is this aes sedai work? (thom: ok kid. you tell yourself that.)

me: ugh girls don’t just sit around talking about their crushes all day! also me: [always counts the moments when the girls sit around talking about their crushes among my favorites in the book]

elayne pov unlocked god bless!! her thinking “i wish i was as brave as egwene” and vice versa is their equivalent of “rand/mat/perrin are so good with girls, they would know what to do”

speaking of, you just K N O W rand was wishing for mat and perrin when he and elayne were stumbling over their confessions of feelings

rand and elayne are such awkward little adorable dorks i’m going to throw up bless their hearts they’re trying!!! must a romance be well developed? is it not enough to have two precious beans be precious together? “how could he understand that she would keep the feathers because he had wanted them to be a flower?” enough! my heart cannot get any bigger!

i weep every time one of the gang remembers something from the good old days of emond’s field. “he ruled tear? well perhaps he did if it came to that, but she remembered a boy with a lamb nestled inside his coat, proud as a rooster because he had driven off the wolf that tried to take it” grabbed me by the throat and still has not let go

“rand sat in his shirtsleeves, sprawled in a chair with one leg over the arm and a leather-bound book propped against his knee” “mat took a seat on the wide balustrade with his back against a column and one foot up in front of him” kings of bisexual sitting

"[mat]’s laugh reminded her of their childhood. just so he had always laughed when his grandest expectations went astray. just so he had moaned over a splinter in his finger and treated a broken leg as if it were nothing at all” JUST FUCK ME UP FUCK