#Oh also! I voted for Dulcie Collins in prevs poll

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Oooh this looks quite fun! I shall partake. I’m also a bit shy about tagging people but anyone who wants to is welcome to join in!

A couple notes on each of my choices because I have much to say about each of them!

Dungeon Meshi is one of the only pieces of media where I cannot pick a favorite character. At all. I love everyone in the main party + Falin and equal amount and agonised over which character to chose for this poll for frankly too long. Finally settled on Senshi because he’s the most iconic

It was also a little difficult to settle on The Archivist as my favorite character in TMA since the supporting characters are so good, but at the end of the day I cannot resist the incompetent asshole academic who is canonically described as a “grubby Jesus”

I have admittedly been somewhat liberal in what I have interpreted a “character” to be, in my inclusion of real life mathematician Paul Erdős in my poll. However, I stand by my decision, as many would describe him as “a character” in the sense he was quite eccentric. If you don’t believe me PLEASE read his Wikipedia page (or at least the ‘Personality’ section). Seriously it’s one of the few Wikipedia pages I’ve ever read that’s made me laugh out loud uncontrollably. Also - quirks aside- his mathematical work is very cool too! Look up the Erdos Distance problem if you want somewhere to start- mathematicians continue to be chipping away at it in the decades after Erdos’ death. My research advisor once attracted the attention of airport cops after he started jumping up and down with joy in the terminal upon receiving the news that his colleagues significantly improved the exponent of the Erdos distance problem bound. (Honestly he’s kinda a “character” too. )

Okay I now proceed to get even more liberal with the definition of “character” for the purposes of this poll. In particular, the Fourier characters of the cyclic group G = (Z_n, +) are the star blorbos of my thesis. This is because they are QUITE useful for computing the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of any Cayley graph on generating set S of G (specifically, the eigenvalues are the sums of Fourier characters evaluated at each of generators in S). Because they are such blorbos to me and literally called characters, I maintain they deserve a place in a character poll

Okay I finally return to a slightly more… ahem… traditional interpretation of “character” in a fandom context. The fandom in question here is my girlfriend’s D&D campaign, so not much of a broad audience. Which is a shame, because it’s WICKED good. If it was a piece of published media widely consumed on tumblr, the character of Ubiquity in particular would have a firmly cemented status as a tumblr sexyman in the most traditional possible sense. I hate the tragic grease stain of a man so much, but I hate him so affectionately that he’s also my favorite. Anyways, my girlfriend’s campaign has been going for years now, and it is by far the “fandom” I spend the most of my creative energy on thinking about- I could theorise for hours, it singlehandedly cured my art block, and I have multiple dumb AUs living rent free in my mind. All that is to say my girlfriend is an absolute world-building genius and one of my favorite writers

inspired by @1tbls et al— no one tagged me but it seemed fun and I want in

if you want to partake, make a poll with 5 of your favorite characters & tag 5 people

however I get Very Nervous about tagging folks in things like this so if you see this just consider yourself invited to join in