#redandbluebracket

[redandgreenpoll]

Welcome to the Red and Green Duos Poll!

Hello, anyone who sees this! I wanted to try my hand, since I was inspired by the lovely @redandbluebracket‘s idea. Now with different colors! I’m not too used to this, but hopefully I can get some traction!

Poll progress is listed in my bio.

Below I’ve included the link to the google form I made to submit characters. You don’t have to give a reason why, but it would help! You have to include the two characters and the media they’re from. Green and pink counts, red and teal counts as well. I would love to see this get a lot of responses, but who knows.

The cap is undefined, because I don’t know how many people will see this, if any at all. It’ll be a 16 slot bracket with less attention, and 32 with more.

Rules:

1. Fictional characters only.

2. Don’t skew the data. Submit as many pairs as you feel up to, but only submit each pair once.

Rules may be added if I get enough submissions!

THE GOOGLE FORM IS NOW CLOSED.

Feel free to ask me if there were nominations for your favs, though! I'll be tallying everything up, so look out for any updates.

THE OFFICIAL LINEUP IS HERE!

https://www.tumblr.com/redandgreenpoll/710010767139880960/the-official-lineup-is-here

ROUND 1 HAS BEGUN!

All round 1 polls will be tagged with "R&G round 1" so look for that. And remember: this is simply a favorites competition, due to the lack of specific criteria. Just vote for the one you like the most!

[colortournamenttournament]

@redandbluebracket vs @redandgreenpoll

[ultimate-poll-tournament]

R1: @redandbluebracket VS @aro-culture-competition

[smad-lesbian]

More chansaw propaganda because Y E S.

"Do I really have to wear this?" Veronica asked as she looked at the too short skirt adorning her.

"Please, I'm not letting you go out there looking like a homeless person". Chandler scoffed as she grabbed Veronica's cheek tilting it to apply the blush.

Veronica adverted her eyes from Chandler. Fuck, she was pretty. "Look at me". Chandler said, her voice low, making Veronica follow the command with no protests.

"Sorry". She mumbled, the soft brush running along her face. Chandler merely hummed.

Chandler leaned closer, trying to get a better view. Veronica felt her face burn at the proximity. She resisted the urge to gulp at the position.

Not soon after Chandler was done. "Finally, you looks acceptable, come on let's motor". She said casually as if she just hadn't given Veronica a heart attack.

Shit.

Veronica could barely focus the rest of the day her attention always on Heather Chandler.

Oh.

OH.

You have to be pulling on her dick.

[nofr1lls]

'light and l aren't even red and blue'' YOU KNOW NOTHING YOU ARE NOTHING SHUT UP.

[autopsycak3]

jsut once let us feel some relief, some happiness, something that isn’t lost hope

[burgerlabs]

currently sitting with the red-blue-bracket-battle blog open rn like those mfs who stand outside voting booths at 5 am

[died-but-not-dead-tournament]

I came to the realization a while back that for some reason at least one character in every piece of media I ever hyperfixated on has died and come back to life at least once, so I figured why not pit them all against each other!

Rules:

the character must have died and come back to life

No real people or characters from Harry Potter

Feel free to submit multiple characters, but please don't nominate the same character more than once!

You can submit multiple characters from the same piece of media (each as their own nomination)

While the "tell me more" question is technically optional, the more you ramble about them the better! Provided information will be used in the tournament as built-in propaganda :)

Robots are allowed if they are treated as sentient beings in the source material and/or have a dramatic and emotional death scene

Use your discretion if time travel is involved, things get complicated (I was including examples but it got too long, so rule of thumb- if it feels like A Death in a significant way then you're probably good, as long as it's the same version of the person that comes back)

I can do what I want, this isn't super highly structured and professional- seeding method, number of contestants, etc. will be determined once submissions are in

I'll be busy this week, so you have until Sunday, April 23 to submit nominations to this form! (Update: the nomination period has ended- thank you to everyone who contributed to over 900 submissions!)

Inspired by @the-ultimate-tournament, @fakedmydeathtournament, @number-two-tournament, @blorbopoll, @redandbluebracket, @greenguysummit, @character-of-all-time, and all the other tournament blogs!

[sleepsmackdown]

Is your favorite character tired? Do you want to wrap them in a warm fuzzy blanket and give them a nice pillow?

If so, this may be the tournament for you!

We all have a favorite character, one that needs a nap so bad you start yawning as soon as they show up, and in this tournament we decide who's more deserving of those coveted twelve hours of uninterrupted sleep.

Qualifications:

To qualify, their eyebags don't need to be deeper than your wallet- in fact, a tiredness from lack of sleep is not required at all!

For example: take Percy Jackson. Since he was twelve, he's been going on countless quests for the gods, and he's about to go on another one because he needs three gods' approval- for college admissions. He's so tired of their bullshit, which means he qualifies!

(Or Link- you've been dragging him out of bed (literally) to go fight Ganon for years.)

Tired of someone else's bullshit = tired from lack of sleep

Of course, this doesn't mean you can't submit characters who fall asleep standing- it's encouraged, rather. I want the mental image of someone literally half asleep beating up someone wide awake.

Rules:

No real people or mcyt characters

If I see anyone being mean to anyone else, I will be blocking you. This is a silly tournament- treat it as such.

Link and Percy, my above examples, are not automatically getting in. If you think they deserve it, submit them.

If anyone wants to make propaganda or anything, just make sure to tag me so I can reblog it

The form will close March 22 (coincidentally, my birthday)

FORM CLOSED EARLY BECAUSE OF A LOT OF SUBMISSIONS

Inspired by @mad-scientist-showdown @redandbluebracket @autismswagsummit @white-boy-bracket @besttship @ultimate-poll-tournament

[redandgreenpoll]

Miku is turquoise for the love of god. She made Minecraft for you and this is how you treat her

[colortournamenttournament]

@redandbluebracket vs @redcharacterbracket

[best-green-character]

Best Green Character Tournament

Welcome to the best green character tournament!

This blog is inspired by the many awesome brackets/competitions on Tumblr, such as @bluehairpronounsbracket, @ourple-battle, @battleofthepurplebitches, @ultimatepinkgirl, @pinkhairswagtourney, and @redandbluebracket.

Nominations are now closed.

The winner of the Best Green Character Tournament is Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender!

More polls based on previously submitted characters coming soon!

Please be kind to other participants and myself. This competition is just for fun!

Links to Current Polls and Original List of Rules for Character Nominations Under the Cut

Rules:

Fictional characters only please (no real people)

Please don't submit the same character more than once, but nominate as many different characters as you'd like

Characters should be closely associated with the color green (green hair, green skin, and/or usually wears a green outfit)

[smad-lesbian]

CHANSAW PROPAGANDA GOOO,

TW: Child death, suicide, self hatred, self esteem issues

The pain was too much to bare.

Veronica's eyes scanned the gravestone.

"Heather Chandler"

1971-1988

Beloved daughter, sister and friend.

A stray tear fell from Veronica. "I'm so fucking sorry". She knew it wasn't enough, nothing will ever be enough to make up for what she did to Heather Chandler.

Nothing.

The damage was done. She killed her. She killed a teenage girl, she was only 17, what did a 17 year old do to deserve such a fate.

Veronica had no one to blame but herself. She joined the Heathers purely for selfish reasons, she manipulated her best friend, she killed people, she trusted him.

She let his rage and anger at the world ruin her's. She believed he loved her enough to stop.

Jason Dean may have died. But the scar he left on Veronica's world would never heal.

More tears hit the ground. "Fuck, I'm so, so, sorry." She cried like a small kid who had just been yelled at by her mother.

But tears did nothing. It didn't bring Heather back to life. It didn't bring the, "Stop crying pillowcase" That would flow so smoothly out of the goddess in red.

It didn't do anything but tell the earth meaningless apologies.

[lancer-league]

LAMERS AND GAMERS, ONE AND ALL, WELCOME TO THE LANCER LEAGUE

That's right everybody, it's time to have tumblrs favourite lancers duke it out in the arena

To start let's make sure we're all on the same page

What is a Lancer?: put simply, a Lancer is character who serves as a foil to/contrast their leader. They must be part of a group of 3 or more.

Ideal lancers are generally kind of an asshole, jaded, snarky, more morally grey than the leader and often oppose the leader. While these are great none are strictly necessary. They can be stoic, part of the bad guy team, or even a half Lancer half leader with another half Lancer half leader. Characters can Lancer and be lancered by multiple people. It's unlikely I'll accept real people or Ocs so unless you can bring a great, long argument for their inclusion so if you can't then don't bother

Usual brackets style, a series of one-on-ones, progressing through several rounds. Fighters will mostly make it to round 1 based on number of submissions(spaming is negative submissions) but when theres equal submissions remaining I'll chose based on how convincing your descriptions are.

@ing for broadcasting:

@number-two-tournament

@lovableassholestournament

@fuckable-old-man-battle

@eyepatchbracket

@mad-scientist-showdown

@autismswagsummit

@blue-character-brawl

@the-ultimate-tournament

@fakedmydeathtournament

@redandbluebracket

And I ran @sexyman-sillyguy-battle a while ago

Icon is from OSPs youtube video on lancers which can also give you a good idea of what a Lancer is.

[ultimate-tragic-couples-showdown]

Welcome to the ultimate tragic couples showdown! This is a competition with the goal of determining the best tragic couple in fiction. Hosted by @perilouspelicans

RULES FOR SUBMISSION:

• Must end in tragedy, or at the very least, ambiguity

• No real people

• No mcyt

• Couples do not have to be canon

• Any amount of people is fine! Poly couples are more than welcome

• No MCU, but comic or non MCU depictions of marvel characters are fine

• Yoohankim from ORV and Jonmartin from TMA will automatically be included. Orpheus/Eurydice will also be automatically included, but please feel free to submit specific depictions of them

Bracket will likely be 32 people, unless otherwise stated

Submit here:

Inspired by the lovely blogs such as @powerpolyculeshowdown, @it-its-swag, @baldguy-fight, @catgendershowdown, @autismswagsummit, @disability-swag-summit, @aroaceswagcompetition, @qpr-competition, @nonbiney-swag-competition, @i-need-to-fuck-that-old-man, @fictional-malewife-tournament, @creaturething-bracket, @ultimate-yellow-bracket, @lesboyswagcompetition, @purpleandyellowshowdown and @redandbluebracket! :)

[circlique]

Color Theory in ATLA/LOK: Korrasami Bonus Round

Welcome back to Color Theory in ATLA/LOK! Today’s bonus installment is in honor of the person in the redandbluebracket poll who said “korrasami wear red and blue, but aren’t red/blue coded.” Oh, you dear soul. Please watch the show before you drop such a cold take next time (trust me, you’ll thank me, korrasami are a treasure).

In case ATLA/LOK’s base color-coding by nation/bending wasn’t enough for you, please read on to see why Korra and Asami are undoubtedly “red/blue coded!”

From ATLA, there is a clear effort by the show’s creators to color-code characters based on their nations of origin. Fire gets red, air gets orange/yellow, water gets blue, and earth gets green. Since Korra is from the Southern Water Tribe, so she wears blue. Asami is the descendant of Fire Nation colonists, so she wears red. Pretty simple, right? But this is only surface level. Admittedly, ATLA’s color coding was a bit more in-your-face than LOK’s. By LOK, the nations have started to intermingle a bit more, so the color coding is more subtle, less obvious, but still there. Color theory is important, or we wouldn't be here. This is tumblr, after all.

Let's start with Korra. Korra has been a talented bender from a young age. She was just a toddler when she showed a propensity for bending more than one element, cementing her identity as the Avatar. As a result, being the Avatar has been a huge part of her identity nearly as long as she can remember. She was raised in a compound in the Southern Water Tribe, isolated from most of the rest of the world as she completed her training. She was raised with the idea that she was destined to be the Avatar, the world’s hero.

Imagine her surprise when she travels to Republic City, a melting pot of cultures of all four nations, and finds that things aren’t quite hunky dory like she'd imagined. One of her first encounters in the city is with an Equalist, a nonbender demanding equal rights and the end of oppression by benders. Korra has never encountered anything like this before. A person demanding protections against benders? Korra is the Avatar. She’s the bender. She’s never seen bending as a problem. Her identity is being threatened. 

What colors represent the equalists? Gray…and red.

From the moment Korra meets Asami, there’s some tension between them. Some of this is because of the (stupid) love triangle between Korra, Asami, and Mako. Asami wears a lot of black, because Republic City is a melting pot, and as a result of this, many of the characters who live here wear more muted colors (Mako and Bolin, for instance, wear gray, with accents in their respective bending colors).

But Asami also wears red. She’s a nonbender. And later on? Her father is revealed to be supporting the Equalists. Originally, Asami was intended to be an Equalist! But Bryke decided she worked better as an ally than an enemy. Anyway, it just goes to show, as a nonbender represented by the color red, a color also worn by the Equalists, Asami is what Korra could be fighting against. The scene where Hiroshi Sato invites Asami to join him in fighting the benders? Where he holds out the electric glove to her and she takes it?

She could be like them. She could be an enemy.

But she isn’t.

In the end, she sides with Korra, but if we just want to go based on color theory? The tension was there, undoubtedly. At that moment, Asami was very, very red-coded.

Back to Korra. Her self-identity is wrapped up in being the Avatar, and she is suddenly faced with a world that doesn’t need, and in some cases, outright rejects the Avatar. What is she, then?

In western cultures, blue often represents authority and security. In eastern cultures, it often represents spirituality. Both of these are the essence of the Avatar in ATLA/LOK. With time, Korra’s character arc comes to revolve around what it means to be the Avatar, and, in particular, her spirituality as the Avatar. Blue is featured heavily in both ATLA and LOK in scenes involving spirits and spirituality. Some good examples would be Aang joining with the ocean spirit in the Siege of the North, Aang being represented by blue as he tries to overcome Ozai and remove his bending, the Spirit Portal that Korra opens in season 2, spirit projections being represented as blue, and Raava’s colors being white and blue. 

Over time, Korra’s overarching character arc comes to be about finding her place as the Avatar in a world that seems to not need her and becoming the spiritual bridge between worlds. Korra was not a spiritual character in the slightest at the start, so for spirituality and the color blue to be so heavily featured in her character? How can you say she isn’t blue-coded?

In fact, the only time she doesn’t wear blue? It’s during Korra Alone, when she’s undercover in the Earth Kingdom trying to “find herself.” When she’s ready to be the Avatar again, she wears blue.

Back to Asami. We’ve already talked about how she represented the possibility of being the enemy of season 1, in a way. She acted as the bridge between “the enemy” and “the ally” through her color representation. But what else? Red already has some very strong connotations in both western and eastern cultures.

In western cultures, red is excitement and danger. It can be adversarial. This has been represented already in Asami’s somewhat antagonistic casting as the opposing part of a love triangle and her almost-involvement with the Equalists in season 1.

But it can also be love. Even as early as the love triangle days, Korra admitted Asami was pretty and elegant. The seeds were there.

Furthermore, in Eastern cultures, red represents luck and happiness. Where is Korra more happy than when she’s faced with a challenge? Asami presents and encourages these challenges for Korra. She offers Korra a chance to learn to drive, something Korra has never done and is eager to try. Where Mako held Korra back and argued with her, Asami supports and encourages her. She doesn’t shy away from Korra’s intensity or warn her she could get hurt. She stands next to her and asks what she can do.

And their arcs? Mirrored, in a way. While Korra has to learn what in means to be the Avatar, and has to hurt to realize how other people are hurting, Asami practically loses everything. Her company, her father, Korra. While Korra becomes steeped in her blue, Asami becomes steeped in her red.

So, when Korra is at her lowest, she confides in Asami, the only person she feels understands her. The only person who matches and encourages her intensity, her passion, without holding her back. The red to her blue.

No wonder Korra fell for her.

That’s it for now. I hope you’re enjoying these so far! I’m obsessed with colors, and I’m sorry (no I’m not).