#almost companions

[companion-showdown]

Who do you most wish had become a companion?

this tournament was suggested by @intodarknes under the title Best almost/could have been companion way back in February

Now, @dw-companion-bracket ran a similar tournament back in March which is why I have changed the title question so we're not just running the same tournament again

So without further ado

GRAND FINAL:

Li Shou Yuing vs Jenny

SEMI-FINALS:

Rita vs Li Shou Yuing WINNER: Li Shou Yuing

Chantho vs Jenny WINNER: Jenny

QUARTERFINALS:

Rita vs Narvin WINNER: Rita

Petronella Osgood vs Li Shou Yuing WINNER: Li Shou Yuing

Chantho vs Irving Braxiatel WINNER: Chantho

Luke Smith vs Jenny WINNER: Jenny

previous rounds under the cut

ROUND 4:

Rita vs Missy WINNER: Rita

Cameca vs Narvin WINNER: Narvin

Petronella Osgood vs Sally Sparrow WINNER: Petronella Osgood

Rosita Farisi vs Li Shou Yuing WINNER: Li Shou Yuing

Chantho vs Eustacius Jericho WINNER: Chantho

Irving Braxiatel vs Madame Vastra WINNER: Iriving Braxiatel

Nikola Tesla vs Luke Smith WINNER: Luke Smith

Toshiko Sato vs Jenny WINNER: Jenny

ROUND 3

Rita vs Jabe WINNER: Rita

Missy vs Mags WINNER: Missy

Cameca vs Saibra WINNER: Cameca

Narvin vs Alan Turing WINNER: Narvin

Petronella Osgood vs Simm!Master WINNER: Petronella Osgood

Sally Sparrow vs Leonardo da Vinci WINNER: Sally Sparrow

Me vs Rosita Farisi WINNER: Rosita Farisi

Professor Yana vs Li Shou Yuing WINNER: Li Shou Yuing

Chantho vs Canton Everette Delaware III WINNER: Chantho

Brian Williams vs Eustacius Jericho WINNER: Eustacius Jericho

Irving Braxiatel vs Rigsy WINNER: Irving Braxiatel

Ada Gillyflower vs Madame Vastra WINNER: Madame Vastra

Nasreen Chaudhry vs Nikola Tesla WINNER: Nikola Tesla

Isobel Watkins vs Luke Smith WINNER: Luke Smith

Ping Cho vs Toshiko Sato WINNER: Toshiko Sato

Perkins vs Jenny WINNER: Jenny

ROUND 2

Day 1:

Rita vs Abslom Daak WINNER: Rita

Jabe vs Rodan WINNER: Jabe

Missy vs Astrid Peth WINNER: Missy

Mags vs Inston-Vee Vinder WINNER: Mags

Strax vs Cameca WINNER: Cameca

Koschei vs Saibra WINNER: Saibra

Narvin vs D84 WINNER: Narvin

Bounce vs Alan Turing WINNER: Alan Turing

Petronella Osgood vs Adelaide Brooke WINNER: Petronella Osgood

Heather vs Simm!Master WINNER: Simm!Master

Duggan vs Sally Sparrow WINNER: Sally Sparrow

Danny Pink vs Leonardo da Vinci WINNER: Leonardo da Vinci

Me vs Cousin Justine WINNER: Me

Rosita vs Jethro Cane WINNER: Rosita Farisi

Agatha Christie vs Yana WINNER: Professor Yana

Scarlette vs Li Shou Yuing WINNER: Li Shou Yuing

Day 2

Chantho vs Sabalom Glitz WINNER: Chantho

Canton Everette Deleware III vs Dee Dee Blasco WINNER: Canton Everette Delaware III

Brian Williams vs The DJ WINNER: Brian Williams

Eustacius Jericho vs Cass WINNER: Eustacius Jericho

Irving Braxiatel vs Todd WINNER: Irving Braxiatel

Lorna Bucket vs Rigsy WINNER: Rigsy

Ada Gillyflower vs Ray WINNER: Ada Gillyflower

Madame Vastra vs Ada Lovelace WINNER: Madame Vastra

Fariah Neguib vs Nasreen Chaudhry WINNER: Nasreen Chaudhry

Nikola Tesla vs Richard Mace WINNER: Nikola Tesla

Ianto Jones vs Isobel Watkins WINNER: Isobel Watkins

Hath Peck vs Luke Smith WINNER: Luke Smith

Ping Cho vs Lynda Moss WINNER: Ping Cho

Peter Summerfield vs Toshiko Sato WINNER: Toshiko Sato

Anne Chaplet vs Perkins WINNER: Perkins

Norna vs Jenny WINNER: Jenny

ROUND 1: (Group Stage)

Group 1:

Ping Cho (Marco Polo)

Cameca (The Aztecs)

Jenny Chaplin (The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

Bret Vyon (The Daleks' Master Plan)

Anne Chaplet (The Massacre)

Group 2:

Sam Briggs (The Faceless Ones)

Isobel Watkins (The Invasion)

Astrid Ferrier (The Enemy of the World)

Fariah Neguib (The Enemy of the World)

Group 3:

Olive Hawthorne (The Daemons)

Bellal (Death to the Daleks)

Lish Toos (The Robots of Death)

D84 (The Robots of Death)

Rodan (The Invasion of Time)

Duggan (City of Death)

Group 4:

Todd (Kinda)

Richard Mace (The Visitation)

Will Chandler (The Awakening)

Chela (Snakedance)

Norna (Frontios)

Janet (Terror of the Vervoids)

The DJ (Revelation of the Daleks)

Group 5:

Ray (Delta and the Bannermen)

Mags (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)

Li Shou Yuing (Battlefield)

Sabalom Glitz (various)

Rachel Jensen (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Allison Williams (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Gustave Lytton (various)

Group 6:

Ruby Duvall

Cousin Justine

The Duke of Wellington

Irving Braxiatel

Koschie

Millennia and Rallon

Group 7:

Narvin

Alan Turing

Hal Bishop

Abslom Daak

Carolyn McConnell

Alex Campbell

Bounce

Group 8:

Karl Sadeghi

Scarlette

Leonardo da Vinci

Jason Kane

Jack McSpringheel

Peter Summerfield

Group 9:

Jabe (The End of the World)

Harriet Jones (various)

Lynda Moss (Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways)

Angels Price (Mrs Moore) (Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)

Jake Simmonds (various)

Sally Sparrow (Blink)

Group 10:

Timothy Latimer (Human Nature/The Family of Blood)

Joan Redfern (Human Nature/The Family of Blood)

Professor Yana (Utopia)

Chantho (Utopia)

Tom Milligan (The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords)

Astrid Peth (Voyage of the Damned)

Group 11:

Ross Jenkins (The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky)

Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)

Hath Peck (The Doctor's Daughter)

Alonso Frame (Voyage of the Damned)

Rosita Farisi (The Next Doctor)

Lady Christina de Souza (Planet of the Dead)

Adelaide Brooke (Waters of Mars)

Group 12:

Elton Pope (Love and Monsters)

Simm!Master (various)

Agatha Christie (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Jethro Cane (Midnight)

Jacobi!Master (Utopia)

Dee Dee Blasco (Midnight)

Tommy Connolly (The Idiot's Lantern)

Group 13:

Nasreen Chaudhry (The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood)

Craig Owens (various)

Kazran Sardick (A Christmas Carol)

Abigail Pettigrew (A Christmas Carol)

Canton Everette Deleware III (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon)

Rita (The God Complex)

Lorna Bucket (A Good Man Goes to War)

Group 14:

Madge Arwell (The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe)

Brian Williams (various)

John Riddell (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

Nefertiti (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

Strax (various)

Ada Gillyflower (The Crimson Horror)

Group 15:

Psi (Time Heist)

Saibra (Time Heist)

Perkins (Mummy on the Orient Express)

Maebh Arden (In the Forest of the Night)

Shona McCullough (Last Christmas)

Cass (Under the Lake/Before the Flood)

Group 16:

Me (various)

Heather (various)

Erica (The Pyramid at the End of the World)

Courtney Woods (various)

Journey Blue (Into the Dalek)

Rigsy (various)

Group 17:

Jenny Flint (various)

Kate Stewart (various)

Petronella Osgood (various)

Madame Vastra (various)

Missy (various)

Danny Pink (various)

Group 18:

Bel (Flux)

Inston-Vee Vinder (various)

Claire Brown (Flux)

Eustacius Jericho (Flux)

Ada Lovelace (Spyfall)

Ronan (The Tsuranga Conundrum)

Nikola Tesla (Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror)

Group 19:

Luke Smith (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Rani Chandra (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Clyde Langer (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)

Ianto Jones (Torchwood)

Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)

links to previous tournaments

[sunderwight]

Bingqiu AU where Luo Binghe's the chosen village sacrifice to the evil deity who lives up the mountain.

Normally the village sends maidens, but they've more or less run out of expendable girls of the right age and, ahem, "virtues". So of course Luo Binghe's early life bad luck kicks in. In the wake of his mother's death there's no one to really care about what happens to him, he's fairly pretty, and the village leaders decide that if they dress him up like a girl the teenaged homeless kid should pass well enough. And hey, y'know, he's probably got a hard life ahead for him anyway -- dying in a brothel of some venereal disease or on the streets of exposure or starvation. At least as a sacrifice, everyone else gets to benefit from his loss! And the kid will get added to a shrine and be remembered as a hero! If anything, he should be happy about this!

Binghe is not happy about this.

But he's also a skinny underfed nobody who is easily overpowered, dressed up like a bride, and tied to a post. So. Not much he can do but wait for the evil deity to come and do whatever horrible thing he's gonna do to him.

Meanwhile, Shen Yuan is pretty sure he's been isekai'd into the over-powered hero of some kind of supernatural adventure story? He's not totally sure because he doesn't recognize the setting, but the signs are there. He's got a shrine-like base of operations (though it seems to have become corrupted/ruined, probably he has to restore it somehow), he has a very resilient and handsome new body with spiritual energy of some kind flowing through him, and a very clearly magical sword. Plus lots of neat starter powers! Though it feels like he has other abilities that have been blocked somehow? Probably he has to level up in order to access them.

When he treks out of his "base" and finds what seems to be a distressed maiden, he takes it for his beginner hero mission. The girl claims that she's been doomed to be sacrificed to an evil god. That sounds a little above Shen Yuan's pay grade for dealing with, so he unties her and decides that they had better just get out of the whole region altogether. He already packed up anything useful from his base, anticipating he might get caught up in an adventure once he left, so they follow the river away from the settlement until they reach another one.

While they travel, Luo Binghe tells Shen Yuan about the cursed deity, Shen Qingqiu, who was cast out of the heavens for slaughtering one of his brethren and has apparently being do-who-knows what to maidens from the local village in exchange for his "protection" ever since. Sounds like a real asshole! And also mid-level boss type bad guy at least. Shen Yuan hopes he doesn't have to fight him, but he probably will.

Thank goodness he found Binghe, though! Clearly the helpful little sister type! He's definitely going to require her assistance if he's going to figure out how to navigate this world and level up his skills enough to take on a god.

[stompandhollar]

reminding everyone that the in-universe problem with The Doctor and The Master isn’t “ooo horrible nasty enemies who hate each other and don’t get along and fight all the time but are also in love”

the problem is that they get along. the problem is that they can’t stop themselves from falling naturally into a rhythm of riffing off one another and enjoying the other’s company. THAT is the problem. the problem is that it works and that’s the thing that caused all their issues. they like one another. they just click.

[fiannans]

No, Bioware, you don't get to try to be cute and make jokes in-game about Rook eavesdropping on the companions' conversations when you're the ones who made the (debatable) creative decision not to let us actually have a proper conversation with our companions and get to know them by asking them questions like we were able to in every previous game.

"Hahaha, Taash just called you out on eavesdropping. Look how witty and meta we are." Okay, but how else are we supposed to learn anything about our companions?

[mohntilyet]

rook being such a nobody and surrounded by more influential companions right after the obviously well known inquisitor could be really cool actually. that conversation w solas 'what will they call you after this is done' <- NO FUCKING CLUE LOL!! the idea that this millennia long, world-ending story of gods and a herald being controlled for a moment by a nobody is incredible. they start as an irritant and end having saved the world. nobody thanks them. they go back home. maybe they're literally wiped off the face of the world when they're trapped in the fade with the dread wolf! and most of all, their name is not remembered. literally, because they become a 'rook' to the inquisitor's king.

like i’m actually really liking the idea that the inquisitor and rook get conflated into the same person by the public and by history, and what little agency they had is taken away. you were never in control of this story. your narrative will be written by other people, just like every figurehead that came before you. you are not the chosen one. the choice to have faded out and see the irrelevancy as a boon, or struggle to make your name known (not rook, not the nickname, not the title) would have been so. interesting.

veilguard is a heroic story (and the game doesn’t even let you be rude most of the time) that has to end heroically (the evanuris are defeated in some way, the last archdemon dies, and most rooks climb down from minrathous to literal cheers and applause) but the hero themself is forgettable. narratively that could have been so funnnn. but it wasn’t on purpose so it just feels hollow.

[sourtomatola]

Thank you @writing-prompt-s for the prompt idea

Teddy bear and Monster from under the bed team up to go find their missing child.

Next

[glorfindel-of-imladris]

Erestor & Glorfindel | To Middle-earth, by Telerin ships vs The Grinding Ice

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.

[aduckwithears]

That's what Satan has planned? A mighty wind from the wilderness to smite the mansion and bring it down upon them? ... Ooooooo, aren’t you brilliant.

(They invented flirting)

Bonus:

[bluuscreen]

new normal

[blossoms-phan]

thinking about this photo

[zombiecakes]

I thought because of the chem thing, Zirk and Hancock would get along. I forgot about little details like Hancock is actually a really good person…

Like yes, Zirk collects stray dogs and set up Mama Murphy's TV for her, but like, he also literally shoots people because they have smelly farts (true story... psa: don't eat sus meat, people...).

I should've anticipated this outcome 😩

[lunarharp]

played dragon age 2...just simple scribbles

[deimcs]

You don't unsettle me, you know that. (x,x)

[apprentice-s]

and somewhere else lance is screaming, begging this stubborn, horrible fighter pilot to stay.

[secretsimpleness]

I figured this out somewhere along the second-to-last act. Octavia, the Baroness / Pathfinder Kingmaker (c) Owlcat Games