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Round 1, Match 22

Andrew and Ashley Graves (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley) vs Belzedar (The Belgariad)

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Andrew and Ashley Graves

Both ate their parents after breaking into their new home. Also there's some demon summoning they did, literally selling their victim's souls to the demon they made a deal with. Notable quote from Ashley: "We offer you that guy's soul!"

Ashley - overall a horrible person, implied undiagnosed sociopath who threatened her brother's girlfriend, emotionally manipulates and actively provokes her brother, recently began murdering people she doesn't like, cannibalizes people she murders.

Andrew - enables his sister's worse habits (when he thinks it doesn't involve him), uses plausible deniability by blaming his sister for his actions (despite the fact that he had the freedom to ignore her ideas in many cases), also a cannibal.

Belzedar

They turned traitor against their adopted brothers in a war of gods and magic.

It's suspected in universe that before their betrayal was know, they convinced one of their brothers to commit suicide.

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Round 1, Match 16

The Hargreeves siblings (Umbrella Academy) vs Ledroptha Curtain (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

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The Hargreeves Siblings - Viktor Hargreeves, Luther Hargreeves, Allison Hargreeves, Diego Hargreeves, Klaus Hargreeves, Ben Hargreeves, Number Five

they love each other but they don’t like each other. they’ve ended the world like three times. two of them had an incestuous relationship. they don’t notice when one of them gets kidnapped. they have cool superpowers tho. i love them dearly

Ledroptha Curtain (Brother of Nicholas Benedict)

He tried to take over the world and erase freewill because when he was a child his twin got adopted but he didn't

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Round 1, Match 21

Uru Somezuki and Saito Sejima (AI: The Somnium Files) vs Illumi, Killua and Alluka Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

Poll Runner's note: I've decided to put the Somnium Files character portraits under the readmore, along with their propaganda, to avoid spoilers.

Propaganda under break. Spoilers for AI: The Somnium Files, AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative, and Hunter x Hunter

Illumi, Killua, and Alluka

They're from a family of assassins, and Illumi is EXTREMELY abusive. He tells Killua that he's incapable of having friends because he and their father raised Killua to be an assassin and only judge whether people were able to be killed. He even threatens to kill Killua's new friend unless Killua gives up on their friendship and stops trying to become a Hunter (since this is happening at the Hunter Exam). Even after Killua leaves his family, Illumi's voice rings in his head telling him to run away from situations, something that weighs EXTREMELY heavily on Killua.

Getting into more spoilery things: It's later revealed that Illumi placed a magic needle inside Killua's head which is where the voice came from, trying to convince Killua to abandon his friend to die and save himself in the process, which is somewhat implied to be in preparation for him to ultimately come back and be an assassin for the family

AND ALSO the two of them have a little sister Alluka, who Killua desperately wants to protect but who Illumi wants to kill because he sees her power as dangerous. I'm not going to go into the details of the power, but Illumi also misgenders Alluka constantly and barely sees her as a human being. Ultimately Killua even says that if Illumi keeps treating Alluka like that he won't consider Illumi his brother anymore, with the undercurrent that family members aren't allowed to kill each other, which means Killua is threatening that he can and will try to kill Illumi if he keeps mistreating their sister!!!

As for their other siblings, Milluki is shown whipping Killua as punishment after Killua stabbed Milluki. Kalluto and Killua have never interacted onscreen but Kalluto is trying to get his brother back, which may or may not be Killua? Meanwhile Killua doesn't seem to care about Kalluto at all… ouch.

SPOILER WARNING

Somnium file spoilers under Alluka

Uru Somezuki and Saito Sejima

SPOILER WARNING

Two sons of a corrupt politician who both ended up being serial killers despite being raised entirely separately from the other. Their little sister, raised in yet a third environment, grew up to become a Twitch streamer. The two genders: serial killer and gamer girl.

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Round 1, Match 18

Adam and Eve (NieR: Automata) vs Dys and Tangent (I Was A Teenage Exocolonist)

Propaganda under break. Spoilers for I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

Adam and Eve

important context: they are both machines. eve was cloned…ish? from adam (after he got stabbed to death (not permanently) ~10 minutes after being born) to protect him. also, they were born/created in the tail end of the android/machine war.

SO! eve is incredibly codepedent with adam, to the point where after adam dies (permanantly, after eve was created) he tries to destroy the entire world, iirc? of course he fails and ends up being killed. adam, however, doesn't even see eve as his own person— ie, he sees him and eve as pretty much the same person.

there's also a neat thing in the anime adaptation, where eve dies (permanently) to protect adam, he grieves a lot, and ends up trying to destroy the world like eve did in the original game.

tl;dr: robot sibling codependency 🎊

Dys and Tangent

Dys weakens the human colony's walls and lets aliens in to destroy all humanity on planet Vertumna unless player character stops him. His twin sister Tangent massacres the whole (alien) Vertumnan ecosystem unless player character stops her.

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Round 1, Match 21

Uru Somezuki and Saito Sejima (AI: The Somnium Files) vs Illumi, Killua and Alluka Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

Poll Runner's note: I've decided to put the Somnium Files character portraits under the readmore, along with their propaganda, to avoid spoilers.

Propaganda under break. Spoilers for AI: The Somnium Files, AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative, and Hunter x Hunter

Illumi, Killua, and Alluka

They're from a family of assassins, and Illumi is EXTREMELY abusive. He tells Killua that he's incapable of having friends because he and their father raised Killua to be an assassin and only judge whether people were able to be killed. He even threatens to kill Killua's new friend unless Killua gives up on their friendship and stops trying to become a Hunter (since this is happening at the Hunter Exam). Even after Killua leaves his family, Illumi's voice rings in his head telling him to run away from situations, something that weighs EXTREMELY heavily on Killua.

Getting into more spoilery things: It's later revealed that Illumi placed a magic needle inside Killua's head which is where the voice came from, trying to convince Killua to abandon his friend to die and save himself in the process, which is somewhat implied to be in preparation for him to ultimately come back and be an assassin for the family

AND ALSO the two of them have a little sister Alluka, who Killua desperately wants to protect but who Illumi wants to kill because he sees her power as dangerous. I'm not going to go into the details of the power, but Illumi also misgenders Alluka constantly and barely sees her as a human being. Ultimately Killua even says that if Illumi keeps treating Alluka like that he won't consider Illumi his brother anymore, with the undercurrent that family members aren't allowed to kill each other, which means Killua is threatening that he can and will try to kill Illumi if he keeps mistreating their sister!!!

As for their other siblings, Milluki is shown whipping Killua as punishment after Killua stabbed Milluki. Kalluto and Killua have never interacted onscreen but Kalluto is trying to get his brother back, which may or may not be Killua? Meanwhile Killua doesn't seem to care about Kalluto at all… ouch.

SPOILER WARNING

Somnium file spoilers under Alluka

Uru Somezuki and Saito Sejima

SPOILER WARNING

Two sons of a corrupt politician who both ended up being serial killers despite being raised entirely separately from the other. Their little sister, raised in yet a third environment, grew up to become a Twitch streamer. The two genders: serial killer and gamer girl.

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Round 1, Match 15

Akio Ohtori and Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena) vs Tom and Jake Berenson (Animorphs)

Poll Runner's Note: Tom and Jake are a tricky entry. Most of what we see of "Tom" is actually Temrash 114, the Yeerk controlling him. I decided to include them anyway, an evil alien that's controlling your brother feels close enough to me.

Propaganda under break. Spoilers for Revolutionary Girl Utena and Animorphs.

Akio Ohtori and Anthy Himemiya

TW for incest

WHERE TO BEGIN. Major Utnea spoilers, but take a brother and sister who have been alive for god knows how many centuries, one keeps the other enslaved as the Rose Bride so she can be living bait for "Princes", meanwhile he does an incest on her at least once a week. She mostly goes along with things for complex story reasons and aids him in this vast conspiracy to lure in people with the potential to be "a True Prince" to help them bring about a vague conceptual Revolution. Anthy will disguise herself to manipulate the ghost of a dead genius, but get pissed when Akio makes moves on her future gf, but she can't do anything to him so she takes out her anger on a different character by turning said character into a cow. Like seriously this isn't a shallow victim blaming thing the series is all about deconstructing that idea. She does try to get satisfaction in petty ways because that's the only power she has and ultimately she finally walks out on him to go find her gf in the Real World. There's also their movie versions where he drugs her so he can assault her, but when he realizes she's awake and was willing to let him do whatever, he has a tantrum because that makes her not a pure woman and he stumbles off the balcony to his death. Then his ghost(?) tries to crush her and her gf in a giant mobile car wash, so her gf turns into a car and they eventually lounge naked and kissing down the road to the future.

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Akio is a groomer and a rapist and he does not make an exception for family.

Tom and Jake Berenson

Tom is controlled by a yeerk. He is working to enslave humanity against his will. Jake is a child soldier, and at the end of the series makes his (also a child soldier) cousin Rachel go on a suicide mission to kill Tom, which she succeeds in.

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Round 1, Match 17

Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian (MDZS/The Untamed) vs Rei Asaka and Fukiko Ichinomiya (Oniisama E)

Poll Runner's Note: Sorry for the late post everyone, somehow it didn't show up. I don't know if Tumblr ate it or I accidentally deleted it from the queue or what.

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Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian

People like to look at them as tragic bittersweet siblings, personally I believe it stops being any kind of sweet when one leads a siege to kill the other, blames him for their sisters death, tortures and attacks people for reminding him too much of the other and takes advantage of his greatest fear. I think that all kind of overshadows the sacrifice Jiang Cheng made for Wei Wuxian when they were on good terms. The way Wei Wuxian defends Jiang Cheng early in, and the way fans write him defending Jiang Cheng sounds eerily like someone describing an abuser, "That's just how he is" " he cares for me really" type stuff. Their biggest issues seem to stem from Wei Wuxian not choosing to be Jiang Cheng’s servant, like his bio father was for Jiang Cheng’s, because he wanted to help people, and because Jiang Cheng’s father treated them very differently while his mother used that to cause conflict.

Also Jiang Cheng is homophobic and Wei Wuxian is queer.

Rei Asaka and Fukiko Ichinomiya

I don’t even know where to begin. the suicide pact? everything fukiko does to rei throughout the series? the obsession and hate they both have towards each other? most normal sisters ever

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Round 1, Match 20

King Richard and Prince John (Robin Hood/English history) vs Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII (Egyptian history)

Propaganda and history lesson under break.

King Richard and Prince John

Richard goes off to fight in the Crusades and John plots behind his back to steal and exploit the kingdom!

Poll Runner's Note: That's the Robin Hood legend, and there is some truth to it: While Richard was off on the crusade, John locked up Richard's chancellor Bishop Longchamp, set up his own royal court, and declared himself Richard's heir, over Richard's choice of their nephew Arthur (age 4). He even tried to have Richard declared legally dead so he could claim the throne (he had in fact been taken captive by the Duke of Austria and was then held for ransom by the Holy Roman Emperor). John left his wife to marry the King of France's sister so he'd support his claim, and basically started a civil war which lasted until Richard finally returned home. And that meant paying 100,000 pounds of silver in ransom. Everyone had to pay 25% of their property, on top of additional taxes.

Richard "forgave" John, in that he didn't have him killed and just confiscated most of his land, but he still officially declared his "hate and malevolence" towards John for over a year.

After Richard died five years later, John introduced yet more taxes, including England's first income tax. Why? To pay for a war with France to get back all the land that was lost when John asked the King of France to help him defeat Richard's supporters. A problem he himself caused by fighting with his brother!

Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII

You know

Poll Runner's Note: I sure do, and now I'm going to tell everyone about it! Ptolemy XII, their father, had five children: Berenice, Cleopatra, Arsinoë, Ptolemy XIII, and Ptolemy XIV. Berenice had usurped Ptolemy XII's rule and was executed when he regained power, making Cleopatra his eldest living child. In his will, he declared that when he died Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII should get married and reign as co-rulers of Egypt.

Ptolemy XII died when Cleopatra was about 18 and Ptolemy XIII was 11, and right from the start she was not interested in this co-ruler business. She started leaving his name off documents, leaving his face off the coins, and generally acting like she's the only ruler in Egypt. Unfortunately for her, Ptolemy's guardians weren't keen on being demoted from "power behind the throne" to "glorified babysitter", and they deposed Cleopatra and forced her to flee to Syria, where she raised an army and started a war against her brother. It didn't go well for her, and things were looking bad for her until Julius Caesar showed up with his army.

Caesar was 1) Already mad at Ptolemy's advisors for killing Pompey who he'd wanted to spare and 2) famously a huge slut so Cleopatra was pretty easily able to convince him to restore her to power.

It's at this point Arsinoë shows up with her army. She joins forces with Ptolemy XIII, declares herself Queen Arsinoë IV, and beseiges Cleopatra and Caesar in the palace complex. For five brutal months, they battled through the city. The fires are said to by how the Library of Alexandria was lost, which is probably a legend but it was still devastating. Ceasar himself almost drowned while fleeing Arsinoë's forces at the Battle of Pharos Island.

Finally Caesar's allies show up with their armies, and Ptolemy drowned trying to flee across the Nile while Arsinoë was taken prisoner. She was brought back to Rome as part of Caesar's triumph, but her life was spared and she lived out the rest of her days at the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. This was about five years because Cleopatra later persuaded Mark Antony to have her murdered right there in the temple.

Cleopatra married her youngest brother Ptolemy XIV, before finally poisoning him so she could make her son Caesarion the new Pharaoh.

Cleopatra was at least partially responsible for the deaths of all her siblings except the one her father killed, and the struggles between them were devastating for Egypt and caused a lot of suffering. These are some legitimately awful siblings.

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Round 1, Match 18

Adam and Eve (NieR: Automata) vs Dys and Tangent (I Was A Teenage Exocolonist)

Propaganda under break. Spoilers for I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

Adam and Eve

important context: they are both machines. eve was cloned…ish? from adam (after he got stabbed to death (not permanently) ~10 minutes after being born) to protect him. also, they were born/created in the tail end of the android/machine war.

SO! eve is incredibly codepedent with adam, to the point where after adam dies (permanantly, after eve was created) he tries to destroy the entire world, iirc? of course he fails and ends up being killed. adam, however, doesn't even see eve as his own person— ie, he sees him and eve as pretty much the same person.

there's also a neat thing in the anime adaptation, where eve dies (permanently) to protect adam, he grieves a lot, and ends up trying to destroy the world like eve did in the original game.

tl;dr: robot sibling codependency 🎊

Dys and Tangent

Dys weakens the human colony's walls and lets aliens in to destroy all humanity on planet Vertumna unless player character stops him. His twin sister Tangent massacres the whole (alien) Vertumnan ecosystem unless player character stops her.

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Round 1, Match 20

King Richard and Prince John (Robin Hood/English history) vs Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII (Egyptian history)

Propaganda and history lesson under break.

King Richard and Prince John

Richard goes off to fight in the Crusades and John plots behind his back to steal and exploit the kingdom!

Poll Runner's Note: That's the Robin Hood legend, and there is some truth to it: While Richard was off on the crusade, John locked up Richard's chancellor Bishop Longchamp, set up his own royal court, and declared himself Richard's heir, over Richard's choice of their nephew Arthur (age 4). He even tried to have Richard declared legally dead so he could claim the throne (he had in fact been taken captive by the Duke of Austria and was then held for ransom by the Holy Roman Emperor). John left his wife to marry the King of France's sister so he'd support his claim, and basically started a civil war which lasted until Richard finally returned home. And that meant paying 100,000 pounds of silver in ransom. Everyone had to pay 25% of their property, on top of additional taxes.

Richard "forgave" John, in that he didn't have him killed and just confiscated most of his land, but he still officially declared his "hate and malevolence" towards John for over a year.

After Richard died five years later, John introduced yet more taxes, including England's first income tax. Why? To pay for a war with France to get back all the land that was lost when John asked the King of France to help him defeat Richard's supporters. A problem he himself caused by fighting with his brother!

Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII

You know

Poll Runner's Note: I sure do, and now I'm going to tell everyone about it! Ptolemy XII, their father, had five children: Berenice, Cleopatra, Arsinoë, Ptolemy XIII, and Ptolemy XIV. Berenice had usurped Ptolemy XII's rule and was executed when he regained power, making Cleopatra his eldest living child. In his will, he declared that when he died Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII should get married and reign as co-rulers of Egypt.

Ptolemy XII died when Cleopatra was about 18 and Ptolemy XIII was 11, and right from the start she was not interested in this co-ruler business. She started leaving his name off documents, leaving his face off the coins, and generally acting like she's the only ruler in Egypt. Unfortunately for her, Ptolemy's guardians weren't keen on being demoted from "power behind the throne" to "glorified babysitter", and they deposed Cleopatra and forced her to flee to Syria, where she raised an army and started a war against her brother. It didn't go well for her, and things were looking bad for her until Julius Caesar showed up with his army.

Caesar was 1) Already mad at Ptolemy's advisors for killing Pompey who he'd wanted to spare and 2) famously a huge slut so Cleopatra was pretty easily able to convince him to restore her to power.

It's at this point Arsinoë shows up with her army. She joins forces with Ptolemy XIII, declares herself Queen Arsinoë IV, and beseiges Cleopatra and Caesar in the palace complex. For five brutal months, they battled through the city. The fires are said to be how the Library of Alexandria was lost, which is probably a legend but it was still devastating. Ceasar himself almost drowned while fleeing Arsinoë's forces at the Battle of Pharos Island.

Finally Caesar's allies show up with their armies, and Ptolemy drowned trying to flee across the Nile while Arsinoë was taken prisoner. She was brought back to Rome as part of Caesar's triumph, but her life was spared and she lived out the rest of her days at the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. This was about five years because Cleopatra later persuaded Mark Antony to have her murdered right there in the temple.

Cleopatra married her youngest brother Ptolemy XIV, before finally poisoning him so she could make her son Caesarion the new Pharaoh.

Cleopatra was at least partially responsible for the deaths of all her siblings except the one her father killed, and the struggles between them were devastating for Egypt and caused a lot of suffering. These are some legitimately awful siblings.

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Round 1, Match 14

The Seven Sisters Colleges (Real Life) vs Zeus and Hera (Greek Mythology)

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The Seven Sisters colleges - Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley

The "seven sisters" my ass. One of them is actually a coed school, one doesn't exist, and the remaining 5 are wildly expensive. Evil ass colleges. I just want to go to a women's college, not pay one million dollars. Heartbreaking.

Poll Runner's Note:

Zeus and Hera

Do I need to explain

Poll Runner's Note: I'm surprised the rest of Cronos' children aren't here, or the next generation of Olympians. That whole family's a mess.

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We're well into Round 1, and it's time to start thinking about scheduling Round 2.

I've been thinking of just continuing posting polls daily. We already know what the first matches of Round 2 are going to be, and personally I get bored of waiting for the next round to start when I follow tournaments. But it does mean Round 2 is going to be interleaved with the wrap up post for Round 1 and the last matches are going to be listed as "TBD" for a week.

I've also thought about using the week to post some Dishonourable Mentions, siblings that didn't get submitted but maybe could have been in the tournament. Like Prince Edmund and Prince Harry from Blackadder, Dave and Bro Strider, the Bluth family, the Borgias, the Largos from Repo!, etc.

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Round 1, Match 19

Percy Jackson and Polyphemus (Percy Jackson) vs Mercer and Gage (The Silt Verses)

(Mercer and Gage art by @thedoublepp)

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Percy Jackson and Polyphemus

Points to the part in Sea of Monsters where Polyphemus threatens to snitch to Poseidon like he did with Odysseus and Percy’s like good luck buddy I’m dad’s favorite

Mercer and Gage

Mercer and Gage are two fairly young people who have been failed by the systems in place. They’re a pair of orphans who have been working to birth a god and are attempting that through their hunting. They get hired by a politician to kill a few other gods, which results in them spending several months traveling up and down the countryside, razing entire towns and killing worshipers of whatever god they are hunting at the time, going so far that the politician who hired them asks them to chill out a bit because now they’re just killing voters. Over time, Gage grows to hate the hunt and longs to do something more with their life, while Mercer grows angry that their sibling is drawing away from her. She tries to push Gage to keep going, and reluctantly they do. When the politician instructs them to stop hunting the god they’re currently after, Gage tries to tell Mercer to stop, but Mercer refuses because she believes that after they finish hunting this god, their goal will be accomplished. Seeing that Mercer will never stop and Gage will never be free of her, Gage decides to kill her.

Poll Runner's Note: I also really liked this drawing by @caimitos. The detail of Gage having the dog's jaw at the bottom of their hood is really cool!

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Round 1, Match 16

The Hargreeves siblings (Umbrella Academy) vs Ledroptha Curtain (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

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The Hargreeves Siblings - Viktor Hargreeves, Luther Hargreeves, Allison Hargreeves, Diego Hargreeves, Klaus Hargreeves, Ben Hargreeves, Number Five

they love each other but they don’t like each other. they’ve ended the world like three times. two of them had an incestuous relationship. they don’t notice when one of them gets kidnapped. they have cool superpowers tho. i love them dearly

Ledroptha Curtain (Brother of Nicholas Benedict)

He tried to take over the world and erase freewill because when he was a child his twin got adopted but he didn't

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hey! quick question, if we submit propaganda for a set of a siblings through asks, will you include it in the poll that they're in (like, add a screenshot of it onto the poll or something)?

Yeah I'd post the ask and update the propaganda or add it to the next poll or something

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Round 1, Match 19

Percy Jackson and Polyphemus (Percy Jackson) vs Mercer and Gage (The Silt Verses)

(Mercer and Gage art by @thedoublepp)

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Percy Jackson and Polyphemus

Points to the part in Sea of Monsters where Polyphemus threatens to snitch to Poseidon like he did with Odysseus and Percy’s like good luck buddy I’m dad’s favorite

Mercer and Gage

Mercer and Gage are two fairly young people who have been failed by the systems in place. They’re a pair of orphans who have been working to birth a god and are attempting that through their hunting. They get hired by a politician to kill a few other gods, which results in them spending several months traveling up and down the countryside, razing entire towns and killing worshipers of whatever god they are hunting at the time, going so far that the politician who hired them asks them to chill out a bit because now they’re just killing voters. Over time, Gage grows to hate the hunt and longs to do something more with their life, while Mercer grows angry that their sibling is drawing away from her. She tries to push Gage to keep going, and reluctantly they do. When the politician instructs them to stop hunting the god they’re currently after, Gage tries to tell Mercer to stop, but Mercer refuses because she believes that after they finish hunting this god, their goal will be accomplished. Seeing that Mercer will never stop and Gage will never be free of her, Gage decides to kill her.

Poll Runner's Note: I also really liked this drawing by @caimitos. The detail of Gage having the dog's jaw at the bottom of their hood is really cool!

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Round 1, Match 13

The Sanderson Sisters (Hocus Pocus) vs Velvet and Veneer (Trolls 3)

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The Sanderson Sisters - Winifred, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson

Witches just trying to kills some children and live forever in their evil-witchy ways. Also they are enemies of Winnie the Pooh!

Poll Runner's Note: I Put A Spell On You

Velvet and Veneer

They kidnapped and tortured/nearly killed an innocent troll just to become famous, constantly mistreat and belittle their assistant, and are generally selfish people. Velvet is shown to mistreat her brother throughout the movie too, like forcing him to change who he is and rejecting his ideas. Also they committed tax evasion.

Poll Runner's Note: Sweet Dreams + Fame + Watch Me Work