#Exocolonist Nomination

[manaquartz]

Water.

Idk man I’m sleep deprived so I have nothing else to say.

[ppenguinpperson]

you cant convince me that nomi hasnt done this pose before!! i know that they have... i Know it !!!!

[kakajoju]

Nomi-Nomi!

I bought Exocolonist over the winter sale and they're my favourite character.

My first ending was destroying the Array lmao, Things were kinda crazy.

[biscuit-bucket]

inspired by my recent art

[daffodilcaptain]

its them!!! the!!!

[hedgehogoftime]

Teenage Exocolonist Kids: How would they be as Jedi?

Sol: Our nonbinary icon is THE Jedi, especially after Transcendence. Goes on a long multi-lifetime journey to learn to accept there are things they cannot change and tragedies they cannot avoid is PEAK Jedi story. Definetly Master/Councilor material

Tangent/Tang: Eh, Tangent would probably not be a very good Jedi when it comes to active duty. She struggles with empathy which is a core Jedi value, but I think Jedi training would help her come to terms with her identity in a very helpful way. Definitely a more "stays at the Temple and researches/debates" type Jedi than one who goes out on active field work.

Cal/Recalcitrance: My gentle, plant-loving pacifist husband is PRIME Jedi material! Definitely head of the AgriCorps and teaches the younglings about cool plants from across the Galaxy on his off days. Man is literally great for the role of a Jedi. He's a Master, but probably not on the Council as he has no patience for politics.

Nem/Anemone: Eh... I do not think Nem would be a very good Jedi. Too angry, too attached to the memories of her loved ones. Relaly I see her more as a nat-born soldier or a light-aligned Bounty Hunter who works with the Jedi, but doesn't really get them. Not to say she's bad, but if she were trained as a Jedi she'd probably Fall at some point. However, I do think she'd make her way back to the Light eventually, with help. But, I don't see my girl as a very good Jedi.

Dys/Dysthymia: Dys would be a good Jedi... but only in certain circumstances. Definitely a Jedi Shadow, but with how he fails to get along with others I can't see him doing traditional Jedi things. However, he does have an instinctive knowledge of letting go. But, I do see his inability to feel fear as a detriment. Jedi train to overcome their fear and at in spite of it, but since Dys can't feel fear, i feel he would be missing a key piece of Jedi education. Not good.

Marz/Marzipan: Marz, actually would be a GREAT Jedi! Granted, not a very conventional one, with her love of the spotlight and drive to succeed, I see her as the Jedi's Liason to the Senate, as one of the few of the Order with a head for Politics. This lady would have the Senate and the Media eating out of her hand, giving the Jedi a sterling reputation. While she struggles with passion in some cases, I think she could easily overcome it!

Tammy/Aspartame: Did someone say Creche MasteR? Because this lovely lady is a Creche-Master! She would not only be great at caring for the Younglings, she's treasure every moment of working with them and readying them for the journeys ahead. And is Definetly secretly a Master and a badass, she actively chooses not to kick people's asses. Peace and love, baby.

Vace/Olivaceous: Not a good Jedi. At all. Too proud, too full of ambition and vainglory to hack it as one of the Servants of the Republic. Probably a Mandalorian, honestly, and a neutrally aligned one. If he were to become a Jedi he would fall. Period. He's too much like Anakin, too focused on his own glory and power to understand the Jedi Way.

Nomi-Nomi/Nomination: I'm...honestly at a loss, here. I think Nomi would make a very... weird Jedi? But a good one, probably? They're definitely kind and compassionate enough to be a Jedi, but they struggle with attachment so... probably a mid-ranked Knight who's a Smash Hit with the Younglings. Probably the first Jedi Twitch Streamer.

Rex/Basorexia: Honestly? Rex'd be a good Jedi. No in-depth explanations here, just vibes. Definitely Jedi material

[snowixii]

MY SILLY IS HOME AND THEY ATTENDED SCHOOL AS MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT CREATURE ..../j

Ignore the small ass water bottle i lost my big insulated one :(

[norman-smsl-guidancecounselor]

Hmm it’s been more than a month since I was regularly playing I Was a Teenage Exocolonist and I am just now appreciating the aro&ace characters being beacons of passion and empathy under a violent regime.

[just-some-guy-joust]

Were there any characters you were surprised to see nominated?

There was a Katniss Everdeen submission BEFORE there were any Primrose submissions which was wild to me. Sol from I Was A Teenage Exocolonist was also a pleasant surprise, shoutout to the singular IWATE fan that seems to be following me I'm blowing you a kiss. "Any character introduced in a prequel that doesn’t exist in the first installment". Lonan, who is my OC and not even the one I'm putting in the tournament. Ganondorf from The Wind Waker, not one I ever expected but whoever sent that was so right actually. The entire cast of Bad End Theater.

[alloarocharactershowdown]

Pre-Redemption Round Nominations

Hi! Vi'm back again with tournament updates.

The (maybe first) Redemption Round will add 8 characters to Round 3. The characters competing in this Redemption Round will be the 32 who lost in Round 1, and everyone will get a chance to nominate who they think should continue on.

In addition to this, vi will be adding one additional character to the available choices for nomination. This character will be chosen from the characters who were submitted to the tournament but did not make it in.

Vi have already chosen nine of the characters you will get a chance to vote on, based on either evidence or strong support of the headcanon. Vi have not chosen the tenth one yet though. The poll below shows the characters vi did not choose for possible nominations. One of them will join the other characters to possibly be able to enter the nominations for the Redemption Round.

All that being said, here are the characters who have a chance to join the polls to decide which character will be added to nominations for the Redemption Round. Sorry if this is all confusing ha ha 😅

Hinomori Shiho (Project SEKAI), June (Avatar: The Last Airbender), Kim Theerapanyakul (KinnPorsche), Kojiro Nanjo (Sk8 the Infinity) Mai Zen'in (Jujutsu Kaisen) Mello (Death Note) Retired Hunter Djura (Muted) Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop) Tangent (I Was A Teenage Exocolonist) Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

[hottestnonhumantournament]

Competitor Reveal!

I had initially only wanted to include around 64 characters but with all the submissions I got I wanted to try to include as many as possible and as many different kinds of nonhumans as I could! But I also kept it to 3 characters max per media/franchise and also tried to include both popular and lesser known characters/media. I still ended up with a bigger bracket than I intended-- I'm very sorry if a character you nominated didn't make it in! But I hope you'll all still enjoy the competition and maybe even discover some new characters/media you haven't heard of before! Here is the list of the competitors! Creating the actual bracket and the graphics will take me longer so please be patient with me! In the meantime feel free to make propaganda if you'd like, even if you don't know the match-ups yet I'd love to see why you think your favorite nonhuman(s) is the most attractive!

Venom (Marvel) Dahlia Aquino (Monster Prom franchise) Milo Belladonna (Monster Prom franchise) Aaravos (The Dragon Prince) The Beast (Beauty and the Beast) Hordak (She-Ra) Hexxus (FernGully) Gabriel (ULTRAKILL) Louis (Beastars) Death (Puss in Boots) Cybersix Frankenstein's Monster Agent Smith (The Matrix) Terminator Warper (Subnautica) Minotaur Castiel (Supernatural) Superman Aziraphale (Good Omens) Crowley (Good Omens) Lucifer (The Bible) Jesus (The Bible) Glados (Portal) Fjord (Critical Role) Sylas Briarwood (Critical Role) Planerider Ryn (Critical Role) Curie (Fallout 4) Nick Valentine (Fallout 4) Magdolene (Awful Hospital) Enjou (Genshin Impact) Midnite (Mario Rabbids) Yautja (Predator) Xenomorphs (Alien) Godzilla Tiamat (D&D) Spock (Star Trek) Worf (Star Trek) Bowser (Mario) Thrall (Warcraft) Thrawn (Star Wars) Legion (Mass Effect) Aria (Mass Effect) Tali'Zorah (Mass Effect) Sauron (Lord of the Rings) Gimli (Lord of the Rings) Legolas (Lord of the Rings) Alucard (Castlevania) Bigby Wolf (Fables) Poison Ivy (DC) The Count of Monte Cristo (Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo) Dream (Sandman) The Corinthian (Sandman) Bast (Sandman) Sesshoumaru (Inuyasha) Paintbrush (Inanimate Insanity) Bubbles (Questionable Content) Vash the Stampede (Trigun) Pei (The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet / The Wayfarers) Sissix (Wayfarers) Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) Jabe (Doctor Who) Silas (The Graveyard Book) Mad Sweeney (American Gods) Genie (Aladdin) The Tin Man (The Wizard of Oz) Robin Hood (Disney) Magnus Bane (Shadowhunters) Mazikeen (Lucifer) Geralt (The Witcher) Petrichor (Saga) Gwendolyn (Saga) Prince Robot IV (Saga) Nick Hoult (Wan Sheng Jie) Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns) Madhouse Mike (Cryptid Crush) Oz (Cryptid Crush) August (Cryptid Crush) Shirou Ogami (BNA) Funtime Foxy (FNAF) Montgomery Gator (FNAF) Roxanne Wolf (FNAF) Radu Basanko (Blades of Furry) Symbiosis (I Was A Teenage Exocolonist) Slenderman

[mad-scientist-showdown]

Just out of curiosity, I'm pretty sure she won't make it to the bracket, but did anyone other than me nominate my girl Tangent from I Was A Teenage Exocolonist?

From “I was a teenage exocolonist”, there were 2 votes for tangent and 1 vote for instance!

[ppenguinpperson]

nomi my best friend nomi <333

[dreamerinsilico]

For the ask game! 🌹and ❤️

🌹What's a small fanbase you're a part of? How small are we talking? Pillars of Eternity is still pretty small as a fandom in general, though we got a decent bump with PoE 2: Deadfire's release. If we want to get micro-level about it, though, I haven't found a lot of fellow fans of my main ship, which is F!Watcher/Iovara.

Fandoms I'm in that aren't big on Tumblr but are much, much bigger in the wider gamersphere are Crusader Kings and Frostpunk (and I've gotten Yuletide fic for CK3 and it was fucking delightful).

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is also getting some love in fic exchange circles, which I'm super excited about, because it's a great game with so much fic potential.

Oooh, I know, the Wayward Children novels, by Seanan McGuire. I love those books so fucking much and they are practically overflowing with transformative fandom potential, so I really want to highlight them as something more people should get into. I've also written fic about them. (second one is a Hannibal crossover)

Also-also, @serindrana 's novels, prominently including The Luminous Dead, which is my favorite of hers I've read. Love that I see it pop up in exchange nominations sometimes and maybe someday I'll also write a thing.

❤️Ship that you could write 100 fics for

I... well, considering my entire body of work is under 100 fics, I'm not really sure there's a good answer to this.

But in the spirit of the question, if perhaps not the practical realities, my Hannigram brainworms are many and intense, as they have been since 2018. I also kind of miss my Overwatch fandom days, because Mercymaker (Mercy/Widowmaker) is a ship that has a wildly optimal balance of canon supports the fact that they have some kind of history together but like, doesn't otherwise say anything about it. More-or-less ditto Reaper76 (Reaper/Soldier 76), except with extra history.

I dunno. I'm not really the kind of writer who can spin up endless scenarios for one ship; I'm more of a "I want to write one or two specific things with this ship" sort of author with a side of "when my blorbo is sufficiently relatable I will work out my own issues on the page with them, possibly a lot of times" (this is what happened with Will Graham).

[melodiaemfrp]

gil here! there muse isn't working out so i'd like to from Nomination from I was a teenage exocolonist. their song was Tidal Wave by Owl City and they were staying in Pavilion 11. if this needs to be confirmed my contact is @stalwartmirage on twitter.

Hello Gil!

You got it! NOMINATION has been dropped for you!

𝄞 SCRIBE ANDANTE

[hirokiyuu]

so i've been writing a looooot of exocolonist fic that probably won't get published as like. longer stuff? but some of it is really fun so i wanted to throw it at least on here for some people's viewing pleasure wwwww

so have this dys+sol/nomi! a little bit of dys>sol but this is mostly just abt kids being stupid and also friends! please enjoy >:) mild spoilers for nomi's romance route

i like to dance real fast; 650 words

“Dys.”

Sol’s face is deathly serious, which means whatever this is about is going to be stupid as shit. He always looks delighted whenever he’s talking about the Gardeners or the Array -- seriousness is reserved solely for bullshit colony drama. “Dys, I’m going to ask you a question, and I need you to not laugh at me, okay?”

“Fine,” says Dys. In his heart he’s out on the Ridges, sitting with Sym under the stars as they talk about anything and everything. In reality, unfortunately, he’s here. “What.”

Sol whips out his holopalm. “Okay, so you saw Nomi’s post, right?” He’s whispering, leaning his head in, and despite himself the crush Dys has been trying to bury for years wiggles a little from under the dirt. “Do you think…. Did the other person in it look like me?”

Dys very heroically does not roll his eyes as Sol dumps a shovelful of dirt on Dys’s feelings himself. It’s not so hard to get over someone who's this obviously in love with someone else. Still, in the spirit of friendship and also getting Sol to leave faster, Dys dutifully opens his own holopalm up to squint at the picture again.

The photo Nomi took of the drawing isn’t great. The lightning's off and the angle’s weird, which means Dys can only make out two figures: clearly-not-Sol and maybe-Sol-maybe-not. “I dunno,” he says, but at Sol’s pleading look gives it another closer squint. “If it’s not you, who else would it be?”

“Rex,” says Sol, instantly, face falling a little. “And I get it, y’know? He’s nice and cool and they’ve been friends forever, but… maybe I have a chance anyways, right? I mean, they, y’know, danced with me on my birthday and everything…?”

In the most embarrassing display Dys has ever seen in his life, yeah. Both Sol and Nomi had seemed happy, though, grinning at each other as they did their weird noodley wiggles. Another shovel of dirt, there: if Sol expected him to do that Dys would just die instead. He gives the picture another squint. “I’d say it’s more like you than him.”

“Really?” Ugh. Dys needs more dirt; the smile Sol gives him is small and unsure and brilliant despite that, red dusting his cheeks. “That’s… that’s good. Okay. Yeah. Yeah! Alright, I’ll, um… I’ll talk to them about it, I guess? Thanks, Dys.”

Sol reaches out and squeezes his hand. Dys really needs more dirt. “Okay,” says Sol, and then stands up, punching his hands in the air. “Okay! I’m gonna… I’m gonna do it! Okay!”

Stars above. This is kind of embarrassing to watch, which is good for burying his feelings and bad for his mental health. “Good luck,” says Dys, who means it mostly earnestly but also a little because he’d like this whole thing to be over as soon as possible.

“Thanks!” says Sol, without looking over, still red as he looks down towards where Nomi’s no doubt standing with Rex. “I’ll see you later, Dys, thank you for the help!”

With that he’s off, striding back down into the colony with a determined look on his face. Cute, Dys thinks, but not in the way that hurts. It’s just sort of… nice. To think that Sol and Nomi might date. That they might make each other smile like they did last Quiet, two idiots together who he does, despite himself, care about.

Well… maybe it's a little lonely, too. Dys sighs, flips open his notebook again until he finds a blank page. Too bad he's not on expedition for another few days: he wants to be out there again, walking with Sym through the wilderness. For now, though, he'll have to content himself with memory. 

He clicks his pen and presses it to the paper. Nomi’s kind of nuts but he can agree about one thing: there's something sort of cathartic about drawing your feelings, and so alone on the hill, as below him Sol finds his happy ending, he contents himself with sketching Sym’s face.