verycharismaticdragon - Tumblr blog

[verycharismaticdragon]

Web Novel Weapon Tournament Masterpost

Submissions (includes Character List) - CLOSED Feb. 29th, 2024

Tournament Tag: #web novel weapon tournament

Type: Single Elimination with one Wild Card/revival slot

Posting Time: 12 pm CST (UTC-6) 

Start - End: March 6th, 2024 -- April 20th, 2024

Matches with a 1% difference or less will move on together & 1-3% is at my discretion

Winner: A Rock from Lout of the Count's Family

Final Rankings

A Rock from Lout of the Count's Family

Ruoye & E-ming from Heaven Official's Blessing

Xin Mo from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Schedule / Bracket

[Last Updated: April 21st, 2024]

[Photo ID - a completed color-coded bracket for a 5-round tournament. Round 1 is composed of 12 matches, and Round 2 has 6 matches. Round 3 has three matches. Round 4, the semifinals, has two matches where one of the matches includes a wild card opponent. The finals were between Ruoye & E-ming vs. A Rock. A Rock won, marked with a crown. /End ID]

Completed

Wild Card Polls

Rounds 1 and 2 consisted of the eliminated candidates from their respective rounds, and Round 3 was between the winners of Rounds 1 and 2.

Round 1: Winner: Xuan Su & Chenqing

Round 2: Winner: Windmaster Fan

Round 3: Winner: Chenqing

Round 1: Group A - Wednesday, March 6th-13th, 2024

Polls will begin posting at 12 pm with another poll every 5 minutes. The last poll will open 12:25 pm CST

Bichen vs. Xuan Su - Winner: Bichen

Cheng Luan vs. Longcheng - Winner: Cheng Luan

Xin Mo vs. Jiangui - Winner: Xin Mo

Jiangzai vs. Bu’gui/Guilai - Winner: Bu'gui/Gui'lai

Taerang vs. Xue Zhengyong’s fan - Winner: XZY's fan

Suibian vs. Zidian - Winner: Zidian

Round 1: Group B - Friday, March 8th-15th, 2024

Polls will begin posting at 12 pm with another poll every 5 minutes. The last poll will open 12:25 pm CST

Ruoye vs. E-ming - TIE

Little Palace Mistress’s Whip vs. Zheng Yang - Winner: Zheng Yang

Windmaster Fan vs. Shuoye - Winner: Windmaster Fan

Chenqing vs. Rock - Winner: Rock

Tianwen vs. Hongjing - Winner: Tianwen

Yan Zhen vs. TGCF Final Battle Sword - Winner: TGCF Final Battle Sword

Round 2: March 17th–24th, 2024

Bichen vs. Cheng Luan - Winner: Bichen

Xin Mo vs. Bu’gui/Gui’lai - Winner: Xin Mo

Xue Zhengyong’s Fan vs. Zidian - Winner: Zidian

Ruoye & E-ming vs. Zheng Yang - Winner: Ruoye & E-ming

Windmaster Fan vs. A Rock: Winner: A Rock

Tianwen vs. TGCF Final Battle Sword - Winner: Tianwen

Round 3: March 26th-April 2nd, 2024

Bichen vs. Xin Mo - Winner: Xin Mo

Zidian vs. Ruoye & E-ming - Winner Ruoye & E-ming

A Rock vs. Tianwen - Winner: A Rock

Semifinals: April 4th-11th, 2024

Xin Mo vs. Ruoye & E-ming - Winner: Ruoye & E-ming

A Rock vs. Chenqing [Wild Card]: Winner: A Rock

Finals: April 13th-20th, 2024

Ruoye & E-ming vs. A Rock - Winner: A Rock

Third Place: Xin Mo vs. Chenqing [WC] - Winner: Xin Mo

[verycharismaticdragon]

WN Non-Sapient Animal Upper Bracket

["Anti-Propaganda" is NOT allowed. Please be courteous and only give reasons to vote FOR a character.]

The Sable from Qi Ye / Lord Seventh

Submission 1: A precious fluffy boi. Venomous. Was raised by Wu Xi and later sold by his father-- ahem given as gift to Jing Beiyuan. 

Submission 2: The cutest venomous critter among all venomous critters! Squeaky delightful thing with his poisoned teeth and his poisoned claws and his butt! Also, he saves MC's life against an assassin at one point, making him the most adorable (but no less effective) bodyguard of all time.

Important sable information

Little Apple from MDZS

Type of Animal: donkey

Wiki Link

[verycharismaticdragon]

Prelim Poll 25

Propaganda here

[verycharismaticdragon]

WN Non-Sapient Animal Lower Bracket

["Anti-Propaganda" is NOT allowed. Please be courteous and only give reasons to vote FOR a character.]

Demy from When the Third Wheel Strikes Back

Type of Animal: Red panda / Divine Beast

Submission: A little red panda who can control plants, for example making vines to climb buildings! Loves good food despite not needing to eat, as a divine beast. Our transmigrator's most helpful companion, tbh U-U (sentences that would get me k-worded by the transmigrator's bf and gf)

Wiki Link 

Zhuzhi-lang’s snakes from SVSSS

Submission: Good bois helping a good boi 

[verycharismaticdragon]

Some art propaganda 🙏 Please read Copper Coins and fall in love with our bratty dragon and his kuudere boyfriend 🫶

※official art from novel covers and audio drama, collected by coppercoins.carrd.co

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 16

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

Xue Xian- Copper Coins / Tong Qian Kan Shi

Qualifications:

Protagonist of a danmei (Chinese BL) webnovel, in committed relationship with a man by the end of the story. Due to pre-canon injury, he is paraplegic for most of the story, though he slowly recovers his mobility during the course of it by returning his stolen body parts (it may make more sense in context: hes an immortal dragon).

Propaganda:

In short: paraplegic gay dragon :D Longer version: An immortal dragon paralyzed from waist down and stuck in the mortal world after someone attacked him and made off with half his body (dragon body parts all have uses in magic or medicine). Meets an amnesiac monk and they end up going on adventure together to recover lost memories (the monk) and lost body parts (the dragon). Their dynamic is significant annoyances to lovers <3 One interesting detail: though Xue Xian can change forms, his paraplegia remains in all of them, whether he is a paper doll, a human, a big noodle, a smol noodle... (yeah he has big & small dragon forms. that time he turned into a smol noodle and wrapped himself around his future bf's wrist lives in my brain rent-free tbh) Significant part of his drive to recover his stolen bones is to be able to fly again, btw, in his true (big dragon) form. ...To make sure I'm not misleading anyone: he does recover full mobility by the end of the story, BUT his disability is a very significant part of the novel.

Zuko-Avatar: The Last Airbender

Qualifications:

Zuko is sight impaired and has PTSD. Zuko is bisexual.

Propaganda:

Zuko is sight impaired and has PTSD. Zuko isn't queer in canon to my knowledge.

[verycharismaticdragon]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 16

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

Xue Xian- Copper Coins / Tong Qian Kan Shi

Qualifications:

Protagonist of a danmei (Chinese BL) webnovel, in committed relationship with a man by the end of the story. Due to pre-canon injury, he is paraplegic for most of the story, though he slowly recovers his mobility during the course of it by returning his stolen body parts (it may make more sense in context: hes an immortal dragon).

Propaganda:

In short: paraplegic gay dragon :D Longer version: An immortal dragon paralyzed from waist down and stuck in the mortal world after someone attacked him and made off with half his body (dragon body parts all have uses in magic or medicine). Meets an amnesiac monk and they end up going on adventure together to recover lost memories (the monk) and lost body parts (the dragon). Their dynamic is significant annoyances to lovers <3 One interesting detail: though Xue Xian can change forms, his paraplegia remains in all of them, whether he is a paper doll, a human, a big noodle, a smol noodle... (yeah he has big & small dragon forms. that time he turned into a smol noodle and wrapped himself around his future bf's wrist lives in my brain rent-free tbh) Significant part of his drive to recover his stolen bones is to be able to fly again, btw, in his true (big dragon) form. ...To make sure I'm not misleading anyone: he does recover full mobility by the end of the story, BUT his disability is a very significant part of the novel.

Zuko-Avatar: The Last Airbender

Qualifications:

Zuko is sight impaired and has PTSD. Zuko is bisexual.

Propaganda:

Zuko is sight impaired and has PTSD. Zuko isn't queer in canon to my knowledge.

[verycharismaticdragon]

Prelim Poll 28

Propaganda here

[verycharismaticdragon]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 1

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

Yang Xiao Long-RWBY

Qualifications:

She is canonically wlw (has been for years but specifically kissed and got together with her now girlfriend in the latest season) and uses a prosthetic arm and has been shown to struggle with PTSD due to the traumatic nature of losing it during the show.

Canonically had her right arm chopped off, uses a prosthetic. Has PTSD. Is canonically in a WLW relationship.

She has a canon girlfriend and canonically has a prosthetic arm and PTSD

She's canonically sapphic (part of a recently canonised wlw slowburn relationship) and is an amputee (due to events from the 3rd season finale) who wears a robotic prosthetic. She also suffers from PTSD which is explored in the show

Propaganda:

I will keep on submitting Yang to relevant brackets until I die. RWBY has plenty of strengths and weaknesses with writing, especially Yang's recovery arc, but instead of forcing her to push past her trauma and enter the battlefield immediately, we see her struggle with it, take time to process, and not be pushed into repression and when she chooses to wear her prosthetic, chooses to train to ready herself, and chooses to seek out her family and save lives, she isn't perfectly healed, as no one is. The show depicts her having flashbacks due to sudden loud noise, shaking hand the first few times she has to fight for her safety instead of training with her dad, and snapping at friends when they bring up Blake, the person she lost her arm trying to save (who, near immediately after ran away due to feeling she was endangering those she loved, furthering Yang's already present abandonment issues.) It isn't done perfectly but the intentions and general message sent are extremely positive and honest. She struggles less as the show progresses, and there are opportunities to consider herself less for being disabled or "become whole again" but she explicitly refutes these ideas and says that's she's better because of her failures and losses, and isn't any less whole. Her becoming disabled is also extremely tied to her being LGBT, because, as previously mentioned, she lost her arm protecting her then friend and partner, now girlfriend, directly after the villain who cut her arm off told her love interest that he would "destroy everything [she] love[s]. (Camera pans to Yang, he looks at her.) Starting with her." LIKE. He attacked her BECAUSE Blake cared for her so much and Yang ran to her defense blindly BECAUSE she loved Blake so much. When they reunite, they struggle with communication because Yang feels Blake is seeing her as weak, and through several things, mostly a climatic battle against the man who severed Yang's arm, they affirm each other as equals. I can go on but this is already too long. YANG SWEEP!!!!!

Yang lost her arm while protecting her best friend and future girlfriend from said girlfriend's abusive ex. Had a whole arc about learning to live with that loss and dealing with PTSD. Is totally devoted to and in love with Blake Belladonna and is just the sweetest but most badass character in the show.

She's one of the main characters, and just finished a 10 year slow burn romance. Plus, she has both physical and mental disabilities, but is never treated as lesser or incomplete.

Yang Xiao Long was one of the first examples of a sapphic character I ever saw in animated media with her character journey in the show being an iconic part of my teenage years and current young adulthood. The loss of her arm after a traumatic event in the show's 3rd volume was one of the big shockers of the show that nobody saw coming. Since then the show has done an amazing job in exploring both the mental and physical effects of her losing a limb, gaining a prosthetic arm and the recovery journey. Her character also has a major arc regarding handling her PTSD from both this and her past most notably in the 5th and 6th volume. Her character also has a slow-burn romance with her teammate and fellow main character Blake Belladonna which is one of my fave romances ever (it has everything: canon soulmates, friends to lovers, sunshine x grump,battle couple etc..) that has recently became CANON BABIEE!!! There are MULTIPLE characters in RWBY with various disabilities that are handled well in the narrative but i would say Yangs definitely the top FAVE!

Valerie Day-Paranatural

Qualifications:

She is Blind and a Lesbian.

she's blind and sapphic

Propaganda:

Agent Day is a Spectral (a humans who can interact with spectral entities like ghosts and spirits, and possess spectral energy, in her case Pink spectral energy) working for the Paranatural Activity Consortium. Her "Tool" (an object possesses by a weakened spirits that Spectrals can use to host spirits an directly use some form of the spirit's powers) is her cane. Due to the influence of the cane being possessed by her spirit partner, "Venus Guytrap" (a giant talking Venus flytrap that emotes through various marble statues wrapped in its vines), it appears as a green cane with a bouquet of roses at the top. As a manifestation of Venus Guytrap's powers, the cane can fire pink arrows that cause whatever they hit to fall in love with the first thing they see until the arrow is removed. As a Spectral, Agent Day can enter a "Heightened State of Perception" to converse & interact with her spirit in a mental state wherein time seems to move at a slower rate, to the extent that it almost seems to stand still for everything except her and her spirit partner (a phenomenon also known as a "Spirit Trance"). Spirit Trances also create an illusory alteration of the world surrounding the Spectral theme around the Spirit's aesthetics, and cause the Spectral's eyes to glow white, but neither of these aspects really affect Agent Day given that she a) can't see the illusory alteration to the world & b) often has her eyes closed anyways, making it so that no one else would be able to tell if she was in a trance in public so long as she stays still and does not talk while being sped-up relative to everyone else. Thanks to this, she utilizes Spirit Trance to occasionally have Venus Guytrap act as a "seeing-eye spirit" to performing certain actions, like reading off of a menu so that she can order lunch during her date with Dr. Mina Zarei.

i'm no good at propaganda so i don't have a lot to say but i think she's very good and also she made a train kiss someone once. what more could you want

[verycharismaticdragon]

Round 3, Match 4: Cale Henituse vs. Simon Petrikov

Submitted kids:

Cale Henituse: Raon Miru, On, Hong, at least half dozens of wolf tribe kids, maybe more but those are what I can remember on top of my head right now/(idk if Dodori counts?)

Simon Petrikov: Marceline Abadeer, Finn the Human, Fionna the Human, Jay Mertens

Propaganda under the cut!

Cale Henituse:

1. "Well, aside from non officially adopting all kinds of children from dragon to cat tribe to wolf tribe, he also keeps 'adopting' adults? I mean to be his comrades mostly but he also fund them, protect them, make sure they are healthy and happy... that's what adopters do, right? Right?!"

2. "This guy just goes around collecting people like stray cats. And when all comes down to it, he's surprised he is unable to get his slacker life"

3. "I don't know ;-; his kids are powerful, vicious and inherited all of his bad habits but he still doesn't know where they learned how to curse?"

Simon Petrikov:

1. "My guy saw a child (or young adult) in trouble and said ‘is anybody gonna be a supportive figure in their life?’ and didn't wait for an answer"

2. "cant stop won't stop adopting kids. constantly implied that he's wanted to be a dad forever (Marcy, him being so upset about making a little girl cry, calling out the Vampire King on being a bad father, etc) and the realest real to ever real. you agree."

[verycharismaticdragon]

you get to keep the cat

A mirror breaks

[verycharismaticdragon]

Web Novel Weapon Tournament

[Please be courteous in the notes.]

A Rock from LCF/TCF

Owner: Cale Henituse 

Submission: 

[spoilers for chapters 700+] Listen there's nothing quite like having a scene where the protagonist straight up beats the main villain with a rock. A regular, averagely sized rock. And then also chucks the same rock into the face of a literal deity. It was glorious. It was therapeutic. #rocksweep

Additional Propaganda

Chenqing - Wei Wuxian's dizi (MDZS)

Wiki Link

[verycharismaticdragon]

*pointing* thats mah boy!!!!! !!!

Best character surnamed: Duan

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgotten anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

[verycharismaticdragon]

WN Non-Sapient Animal Upper Bracket

["Anti-Propaganda" is NOT allowed. Please be courteous and only give reasons to vote FOR a character.]

Demy from When the Third Wheel Strikes Back

Type of Animal: Red panda / Divine Beast

Submission: A little red panda who can control plants, for example making vines to climb buildings! Loves good food despite not needing to eat, as a divine beast. Our transmigrator's most helpful companion, tbh U-U (sentences that would get me k-worded by the transmigrator's bf and gf)

Wiki Link

The Sable from Qi Ye / Lord Seventh

Submission 1: A precious fluffy boi. Venomous. Was raised by Wu Xi and later sold by his father-- ahem given as gift to Jing Beiyuan. 

Submission 2: The cutest venomous critter among all venomous critters! Squeaky delightful thing with his poisoned teeth and his poisoned claws and his butt! Also, he saves MC's life against an assassin at one point, making him the most adorable (but no less effective) bodyguard of all time.

Xiao Lu from Of Mountains and Rivers / Shan He Biao Li

Type of Animal: Snake

Submission: The cutest little snake who follows the MC home. (MC: you are not a cute puppy! *pets it* *is a snake dad now*) Saves MC's life. Grows a little bigger over the course of the novel. Plays a major role in the finale but that's mega spoilers.

[verycharismaticdragon]

Priest (Author) Character Upper Bracket

[“Anti-propaganda” is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character, and please be courteous in the notes.]

Chang An from Bestial Blade / Shou Cong Zhi Dao 

Submission: 

Just a little guy with a big fuck-off saber. Was sickly from childhood (later in the book it's discovered to be a heart condition), but did not let that stop him from studying the blade. Sleeps a lot when he is not fighting. Beat his boyfriend with a stick that one time (was absolutely in the right).

Cheng Qian from Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect 

"Now, in Cheng Qian's eyes, there were only two kinds of people in this world: people who are no match for him now, and people who will be no match for him in the future."  - Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 38

No propaganda submitted

Sassy child who cares about his found family/sect SO much

The “meanie” from the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”

“No matter how many foes, they cannot bend my will.”  - Cheng Qian, ch.29 

"He believed that when he was alone, he could do anything all by himself. For a lone person, when he reaches the peak of his achievement, he's still alone; when he falls to the depths of the abyss, too, he's still alone. Even if his head were to fall from his shoulders, wouldn't that just be a scar on his body? What was there to fear?" - Ch. 36

[verycharismaticdragon]

Priest (Author) Character Upper Bracket

*Xi Ping fanart volunteered by @stellarish / used with permission

[“Anti-propaganda” is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character, and please be courteous in the notes.]

Han Yuan from Liu Yao

“Unlike us that had a vagrant life, domesticated kids are shy; I have to look after him in future.” - Han Yuan about Cheng Qian

Submission: Cringefail loser(most affectionate) dragon boi. Gone edgy but his family loves him anyway.

The “idiot” from the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”

“our fav -1 braincell kiddo”

Xi Ping from Tai Sui

Submission:

He is literally everything to me. Pure chaos condensed into a single person. Everyone loves him, everyone hates him. He does his best, he doesn't try at all, he beats up monsters with a qin, he brought about the destruction of the entire cultivation world…

Han Muchun from Liu Yao

"Only I, your master, would not detest you, my dirty girl. If it were your first senior brother here, he would have stewed you." - Han Muchun to Shuikeng, Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 29

[No propaganda submitted]

Took some disciples for his declining sect and unexpectedly became a father

(Sharing a picture with Tong Ru because zooming in any further makes it almost indistinguishable. Also, pain.)

[verycharismaticdragon]

Web Novel Weapon Tournament

[Please be courteous in the notes.]

A Rock from LCF

Owner: Cale Henituse 

Submission: 

[spoilers for chapters 700+] Listen there's nothing quite like having a scene where the protagonist straight up beats the main villain with a rock. A regular, averagely sized rock. And then also chucks the same rock into the face of a literal deity. It was glorious. It was therapeutic. #rocksweep

Tianwen - Chu Wanning’s whip (2ha) 

One of three holy weapons possessed by Chu Wanning, Tianwen takes the form of a willow branch whip that can force others’ to speak the truth. It’s half of a branch forged by the god of weaponry, and the other half was made into Mo Ran’s holy weapon, Jiangui

The cause of the iconic “I’ll fuck you to death, Chu Wanning!” line lol

Wiki Link

[verycharismaticdragon]

The way Duan Baiyue is so far behind when he is so silly and pretty and silly... He has pet worms and he helped his boyfriend with so much fratricide and he got his fortune told and got "fate of the empress" and---

okay some official art bribery

Best character surnamed: Duan

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgotten anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here