#there are a LOT of other problems with this bracket btw i just didn't want to mention everything else

[weirdgirlshowdown]

i've seen people talking about it, but none of the posts are getting much traction, so i'd like to say something here where i have a bit of a wider audience

i'm seeing that the schrodinger's gender bracket [the one that everyone was clowning on for including emperor belos from the owl house] includes a lot of characters who are canonical transgender women [gwen stacy from spiderverse] or just transmisogynistic caricatures [chihiro fujisaki from danganronpa] and honestly i find it really disgusting that they're being either misgendered [in the first case] or praised [in the second] by their inclusion in the tournament. from the sheer amount of characters included it seems like this probably wasn't done out of intentional malice, rather just including every submitted character, but if that's the case it's an extremely irresponsible way to run a bracket. irresponsible at best and intentionally transmisogynistic at worst. from mod to mod, you should not have done this.

please don't harass this mod, by the way. instead, if you're ever considering running a tournament of your own, i'm begging you to do what they didn't and be responsible with the characters you choose to include, especially if the poll is about any kind of marginalized demographic. thanks goodnight

[original-character-championship]

Bracket B Round 1

Poll 32

Felix (@oopsie0503) vs. Luna (@goblinoid-wretch)

127. Felix (@oopsie0503)

He/They

They're my favorite traumatized transgender homosexual little creature. He is so tragic. He is such a kind little soul who wouldn't hurt a fly, he just wanted to be accepted for who he was! His family didn't accept him when he came out as trans and he was in a horrible place when the God of the Sun came along and told him he could give them a better life. Of course when a God, respected and worshipped, offers to give you the life you've dreamed of, you'd take it. Then a lot of really shitty stuff happens to him, I won't get into it here because some of it's really sensitive but you can find all his lore on @lux-loquitur plus some other characters from his lore. He's got two kids, and he loves them both unconditionally even if they are both in some way direct results of his trauma. He gets betrayed by his husband (Moon) who saved him from his abuser, (Sun) and he ends up trapped in a 'star room', or a depiction of his last movements which were so confusing and tragic in so many ways that they ruined his afterlife. He is stuck here for centuries, unable to interact with any of the objects in the room including pictures of his daughters, as well as himself and Moon. He can't figure out why he'd killed him, it's lost on him. Slowly he goes insane, his mind snapping, until he is summoned by Moon after the God finds a strange orb (which the universe itself may or may not have had some role in delivering). Felix, now the only Lux to ever visit the living realm from the afterlife, is more powerful than even the God of Creation, killing Sun, his abuser, and taking on the position of God of the Dead and the Stars.

Felix is a part of a species called the Lux, with dark skin, freckles, a long tail with a tuft of fur at the end, and long pointed ears. His eyes are a vibrant electric blue, matching with the glowing bits of his antenna. His hair is cut halfway down to his neck and is a dark brown. His usual attire consists of a crescent moon choker, a sleeveless crop top, and a pair of dark blue shorts and an arm band depicting hearts. After death he comes back as a spirit (and eventually becomes the god of death) and he is a slightly opaque, vibrant blue. His eyes are a dark cyan and parts of him which once gave off light are now dark. His death wound on his neck as well as his mouth and nose bleed for centuries. His arm band depicts broken hearts and he is able to have either a wispy, genie like body or legs as he pleases.

128. Luna (@goblinoid-wretch)

She/her

I have put her through enough goddamn trauma for both iterations of her life. She has suffered through capture by the faux-SCP Foundation of my universe, had like maybe five years worth of time with her brother before he got killed because she let her guard down for a second, spend maybe another year trying to come to terms with this (with the support of her girlfriend <3) before she was forced to kill her girlfriend (</3), then got like a week to start processing all of this before the end of the universe.

AND THEN THE UNIVERSE RESETS BECAUSE THE CORRUPTED GOD FRAGMENT (there are 3 creator fragments btw) ABSORBED ANOTHER ONE OF THE FRAGMENTS AND MADE A FLAWED AND NONSENSICAL REPLICA OF THE OLD UNIVERSE!!! So now Luna has to deal with inexplicably working for the Foundation after escaping as a D-Class equivalent years before while being haunted by a strange anomaly that she can never remember (her brother acting as a guardian angel). She gets a different girlfriend this time around, who is also helping her through her problems, but because it's the Foundation where everybody has to have something wrong somehow, the girlfriend is intrinsically linked to an exploitative demon that takes control occasionally, exploiting the weaknesses that Luna has shared to further damage her mental state. She also has to cope with their weird hollowness left over from the unresolved feelings pre-universe reset, so there's that.

She just desperately needs a win right now. She's got the anger of a poorly-adjusted teen trapped in the body of a 20-something year old, a theoretically biting wit that often fails her whenever she's trying to make any sort of clever remark, and a seeming curse of absolutely horrendous luck.

She has been my main failgirl-poor little meow meow-scringo for the better part of 4 years now after countless character developments (she started off as the child of two fnaf ocs when I had a brief intersection between interests in fnaf and scp and she just stuck around forever) and I just desperately want her to have some kind of award before I spring the third universe reset on her (sorry luna).

Being demonic in nature, she has dark grey skin, black eyes, and red pupils. Her hair is white, as is her brother's, and she dyes it with orange streaks. She has two horns that break through the hair which extend about three inches out from her forehead and curve. Each horn comes to a slightly curved T-shape split, where the arms of the T extend about an inch below and five inches above where the horn sprouts. Her blood is blue, a color which comes through when she blushes. She has acne scarring on her face across her cheeks and her nose, as well as down her back and on her shoulders. She also has several scars from various battles on various parts of her body. She has a fairly muscular build, though when she initially returns from the Foundation she is somewhat malnourished. She stands at approximately 5'7, a good 7 inches shorter than her brother (a fact that he teases her about regularly), and weighs about 164 pounds.

In the initial timeline, she always wears a black jacket with grey faux fur that her brother got her when she showed up st his doorstep immediately after escaping, which she continues to patch up and wear to this day. She tends to wear cargo pants (for more pockets), sneakers, and t-shirts of various designs, though while going off on missions under the guidance of the fragments she tends to don her old Foundation jumpsuit (inexplicably - she seems to have fond memories, or may be wearing it because of a promise.) Her hair is fairly unkempt,  and tends to fall over her left eye.

Post-reset, she wears her hair pulled back in a low ponytail to keep it out of her eyes. She uses makeup to hide the acne scarring on her face. What she wears changes depending on her mission, but most of the time while she's on the job she wears a black two piece suit with a white work shirt, black dress pants, black dress shoes, and a black tie (the standard uniform for agents within the site where she works.) Her casual wear tends to be the same as pre-reset: t-shirt, cargo pants, sneakers. She also wears a black hoodie as opposed to the pre-reset back jacket, as her brother technically never existed post-reset. The hoodie still makes her feel remorse and nostalgia, though she can't quite place why.

[arabian-batboy]

You want a redemption for the man who canonically left his other daughter Nyssa and the family she made without him in fucking concentration camps? The man who abused all his children and doesn’t see Talia as a rightful heir because she’s a woman and had to die for his daughters to take over the League? Am I missing something???

I think you're blowing things out of proportions, my post was mostly about Talia, hence why I added "and I guess Ra's too" between brackets afterward.

Ra's getting a redemption arc was never something that I wanted or was even rooting for before, but this new take on him was surprisingly much more entertaining than any of his other modern-appearances and I personally wouldn't mind it sticking around. I would have had a huge problem if he got a redemption arc before Talia did, but it seem like both of them are getting them at the same time, so I'm cool with this and if he didn't get one, then I will also be cool with that (I just care about Talia getting one)

Also Nyssa and the whole Death and the Maidens offensive plot-line happened in the mid 00's, just 2 years before Talia's character butchering, so I personally don't like to take it into account because when you look at Ra's first appearances in comics you will realize that just like Talia, his character has been gradually demonized into a one-dimensional maniac killer over the years. It obviously wasn't as bad as what happened to Talia, since unlike her, Ra's was supposed to be a villain from day one, however he was never supposed to be an irredeemable monster up until maybe the 90's/00's. So technically this wouldn't necessary be giving him a redemption arc rather than just bringing him back to his original roots.

Basically if Harley can kill innocent children for the giggle and still get redeemed and treated like a princess by DC, then I don't see why (original) Ra's, who may have done a lot of problematic things but for an actual good cause, can't get one too (don’t pull the “she was emotionally abused by The Joker” card on me btw, Ra’s was a perfectly normal guy before the green-magic-soup melted his brains, so he can claim insanity as much as her)