#and also this is a really funny matchup

[neversetyoufree]

C'mon y'all help me out with this one. As a certified Scum Villain and VnC enjoyer, I can promise you that Vanitas is fundamentally a lot more doomed than Binghe is.

Scum Villain is the story of a man that falls madly in love with Luo Binghe and rewrites his entire narrative/reality and saves him from a life of abject misery just by being kind and loving him. The whole plot is the story of a guy un-dooming his narrative.

The guy that falls madly in love with Vanitas is, uh, not going to do that.

The entire point of The Case Study of Vanitas is that Vanitas is doomed. He's maybe the most doomed by the narrative that a character has ever been.

The first chapter ends with the announcement that he's going to die. He's named after a famous quote and art movement that are meant to show the fact that death is inescapable and living pleasures are meaningless in its face. He constantly wears an hourglass whose sand has already run out. The entire story is a memoir written by the other main character in the future as he mourns his death.

Like I said, the whole thing about Scum Villain is that Luo Binghe is a character in a story who is doomed to a life of violence and hollow misery. Then somebody loves him so much that he rewrites the entire plot and un-dooms him. The whole point of Scum Villain is that Luo Binghe wasn't doomed to commit atrocities and be miserable after all; he just needed someone to love him.

The whole point of The Case Study of Vanitas is that this is impossible. There is no re-writing here. The story only exists in the first place because Vanitas dies. The other main character desperately wants to save him, but he can't (or at least cannot save him from death).

Noé shows Vanitas love and kindness. Noé becomes the first person in years that Vanitas can really open up to and rely on. Noé changes Vanitas for the better like Sqq changes Binghe, and the fundamental tragedy of VnC is that we know it doesn't matter. The first chapter promises us that no matter how close they get and how much Vanitas grows, he's going to die anyway. There is no escape.

He's doomed because the narrative opens with the announcement of his death. He's doomed because, in-universe, the narrative only exists because he dies. You can't get more doomed than being the titular dead man in a series called "A Case Study of How Death is Inescapable and Renders All Else Meaningless."

Binghe goes thru it like no one else, but this isn't about who's suffered most. It's about who's most doomed. (And honestly, I think Vanitas is maybe the only character that could give Luo "four tragic backstories at once" Binghe a run for his money in terms of suffering lmao).

You simply cannot let The Doomed By The Narrative Manga be eliminated in round 1.

Doomed by the Narrative: Side B - Round 1

[sysig]

Go play pretend on your own (Patreon)

[astergore]

not to talk about smthng very personal on here but i like talking abt my dearest alika. calling her that because i think its funny also i very care deeply about her. She is like. the king to my hector if that makes sense.

[floorpancakes]

ik its the done thing to imagine your otp in a sanrio collab with mymelody and kuromi but i feel like chococat watanuki and corocorokuririn doumeki would be really cute. sweets themed kitty and sweets themed wifeguy hamster...

[frostfall-matches]

[ matchmaking... ]

@shadykazama : [ match report ready ]

✧ Toyomitsu Taishiro (Fat Gum)

-> [ Friendly, carefree, self-assured, and relaxed. A natural leader as a hero. ] He’s very positive and has a good sense of humor but is mature enough to know when to get serious. All in all, he checks off a lot of your boxes for what you look for in others. A relationship with him should be very comfortable overall - he is good at communication and tends to be very level-headed, so heated arguments aren’t likely. Talking to him and getting to know him is relatively easy, even for you, who struggles with social interactions with people you’re unfamiliar with.

-> [ Needless to say, he loves when you spoil him with food. ] You’re sweet and mindful, keeping track of all of his favorite snacks and sugary beverages. It becomes routine for you to pick up a few extra snacks for him when you go on personal snack runs, and you’re happy to surprise him by dropping off a little care package at his agency. Your tendency to to get or make extra food just to share with others works very well for him. All that being said, Taishiro is down for any date that involves food at some point or another - the guy is almost always hungry.

-> [ Given his love for food, he’s going to pay close attention to your own food preferences. ] Very quick to pick up on your love for most fruits, strawberries in particular. Definitely makes it a point to keep fresh fruit at his place for you, or bring you some when he’s off patrol and heading to your place to spend time with you. He also keeps an eye out for any mint or mint chocolate treats and desserts. If you’re trying out a new dish at a restaurant and it’s a bit too meat-heavy for your tastes, he’s happy to switch or to at least eat any meat that you pick out so it’s not just left on your plate.

-> [ Happy to spend his evenings with you playing video games or putting together puzzles. ] Honestly, it doesn’t really matter what you two do as long as it’s relaxing and he’s able to spend some time in your presence. But puzzles and video games can be both entertaining and relaxing, and it’s a good way for you two to bond. When it comes to puzzles, he really likes trying to figure out one half of the puzzle while you start on the other half, hoping to eventually meet in the middle. As for video games, he finds co-op puzzle games (such as Portal) to be a bit more engaging than fighting games, but he’ll still get a bit competitive with the latter if you’re into them.

-> [ The sweetest, most supportive partner you could have. ] It doesn’t matter if you have struggles in your personal life or professional life - Taishiro is here to listen and lift you up in whatever way you need. His compliments are thoughtful and genuine, and he’s good at noticing positive things about yourself or your work that you might miss by being too self-critical. He very much encourages you to try out new things and is quick to reassure you if you don’t do as well as you initially hoped. If you’re worried about looking stupid trying something out on your own, he will absolutely try it out with you.

-> [ A very capable support hero duo. ] Fat Gum can definitely go on the offensive when he needs to - he’s been trained and is able to utilize his quirk in a way that does quite a bit of damage - but primarily plays a support role in situations where other people can manage the bulk of the fighting. Your quirk resonates very well with his, and he’s all the more confident when you two happen to be on a case together, knowing that you both work well together and can cover each other’s weaknesses with ease.

-> [ Extremely patient when you’re upset and angry. ] Regardless if your ire is directed at him, at someone else, or at a particular situation you’ve found yourself in. Taishiro prides himself on his communication, but emotions get the best of everyone at some point or another. You’re self-aware enough to recognize that expressing and communicating your anger is not your strong suit - and that’s plenty good enough, in his eyes! If you feel you can’t verbally express what’s bothering you, he’ll be there for you while you process things. He’s pretty good at figuring out if you need space or if you’d be alright with some quiet company, but appreciates when you’re able to let him know what you need from him.

-> [ He seems the type to really like animals. ] Being a pro hero limits his time to care for a pet, especially when living solo, so he just hasn’t really bothered getting one. But if you two ever move in together and you’re interested in keeping a pet (or if you already have one which would of course be part of the household as you two merge your living spaces), he’s all for it. Doesn’t matter what type of animal it is, he’s happy to do the research and listen to what you already know. Whatever the animal is, though, he’s definitely the type to spoil it with treats and attention.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[arundolyn]

hot(?) guilty gear take:

danger time is fun and not nearly as bad a mechanic as some people like to claim. they're just salty when they lose to it

[loving-family-poll]

Welcome to the 2nd annual Ultimate Incest Tournament!

Heeeeeeere are our matchups for this year! (Some disclaimers: I swear to GOD that spn v homestuck in round 1 is just what the generator put and I left it like that because I thought it was funny as fuck. I also swear that samjohn was the most popular spn ship submitted which surprised me too ok don't go accusing me of leaving deanjohn out on purpose. Anyway.) These 32 lucky ships will get to chance to fight for the prize!

Accepting propaganda for any of these ships, drop your argument for your favs in my inbox within the next few days and it can make it onto the poll! Polls open sometime soon idk I'm busy. I guess tomorrow hopefully I want to get this thing going before Christmas because that would be funny. I also guess I should start with Jesus' branch lmao

I'm so sorry if your ship didn't make it, I really appreciate all the submissions. Happy shipping!

[dredgesnails]

i very badly want a double life 2: electric boogaloo but crucially no one is allowed to be paired up with their soulmate from the first one (except ranchers) and also lizzie and gem and mumbo and skizz are there too. anyway here are some pairings i think would be funny or interesting or would please me personally:

mumbo + scar: complete the mumscarian circuit

mumbo + lizzie: statistically the worst players right after jimmy. lizzie died before him once and she can do it again (and take mumbo with her)

grian + jimmy: nightmare scenario for the both of them

pearl + gem: an unfair matchup as they would win no problem but i love them together and i think we deserve them together after the events of secret life

scar + tango: wildly unpredictable. scar takes damage constantly but (almost) always escapes by the skin of his teeth. tango on the other hand has blown himself up before

pair them up best + worst in order (pearl + jimmy, gem + mumbo, scott + lizzie etc) and see if they manage to balance each other out. this takes out some of the randomness but there are still some fun duos i think would come out of it (etho + bdubs, skizz + martyn, impulse + bigb) and i also think pearl could keep jimmy alive long enough to not die first

and for lore reasons:

grian + bigb: lets see how the secret soulmates can handle being real soulmates

scott + jimmy: ok i know the last time they were together jimmy doomed them both with his curse but this time it’ll be different scott’s lucky now

cleo + etho: the progression of divorced with kids > roomies > soulmates tickles me

ren + martyn: i miss renchanting

+ bonus because i have been thinking about who i would want joining the life series a lot. this is who i want to join

doc + anyone really but mostly grian: okay seriously i imagined doc in the life series once and now ive been consumed by the desire to see it. especially with his health linked to grian. think about it. would be fun with ren also for entirely opposite reasons

[skrunksthatwunk]

let it be known that this started as what if i became a doll collector and the answer is still that im unemployed

what if i became a figure collector (<- unemployed)

[hotvintagepoll]

hotvintagepoll Hot Men Tournament rundown thoughts

I promised a final recap post and here it is! I'll try to cover the questions I saw the most as we closed out the bracket, reveal my ✨secret faves✨, and talk about the biggest surprises and turnarounds I saw in the brackets.

Yes, this will get silly.

ROUND 1

As I've mentioned before, I worked off submissions for who to include in the bracket, so if your fave was missing—that's why. I used submitted pics when I could, but many submissions didn't have one, so I tried to find decent ones in the couple of days I had to prep the first round (I didn't always succeed). By decent, I mean pics where 1) I could see the hot man's face, so not too much moody lighting, and 2) hopefully conveyed something about his vibe, even if it was a funny thing (yes, I showed Howard Keel in full Shakespeare get-up—I'm not beyond putting up a pic because I think it's funny). I didn't know all of these hotties going in, so some I had to guess with, but when I could I tried to pick shots that had a touch of the humor, class, or genre of the hot man.

For Round 1 and Round 2, I grouped the hotties by each decade, so only '60s actors ran against '60s actors, '50s against '50s, etc. Male beauty standards shifted pretty dramatically over the sixty years this tournament covers, and I didn't think it was fair to pit dramatically different styles of beauty against each other immediately.

I pitted hot men against each other based on opposing energies—hot vs cold, elegant vs rough, comedy vs drama, etc.. I wanted the polls to be interesting and I've never liked brackets where everyone is clearly in different "lanes" until the finals! I also wanted to make polls where I couldn't tell which way they would swing, so by setting matchups that felt opposite but equal, I got to be surprised by the bracket results too.

The only reason we had any three-way matchups is because the amount of men submitted didn't round to a nice bracket number. I don't like them generally and find them really hard to balance.

Secret faves from Round 1—I am a James Coburn girlie and knew he would die immediately, so that was not a shock but a bummer. I similarly knew Robert Preston is only magical to people who have seen him do His Little Dance Routines in That One Iowa Musical, but it would have been nice for him to last longer.

Surprises—Jeremy Brett was a last-minute add and I didn't think he really had a shot, so I put him in as a third wheel on the Sean Connery/Dean Martin matchup. Little did I count on the Granada girlies. (Always count on the Granada girlies.) The Elvis/Peter Falk poll was the first one to gain any momentum—Elvis was winning for the first 24 hours but then, my god, did Peter fight back. I didn't expect the Tab/Toshiro poll to make that bad a mincemeat out of Tab—people have different tastes, and I thought the people who like blonde sunny All American white boys might turn out for The Blonde Sunny All American White Boy. Sorry, Tab. I hope you've peeled yourself off the sidewalk by now. And, of course, I was SHOCKED and APPALLED that James Cagney would be obliterated by, of all people, Mr. Bing Crosby.

SHADOW BRACKET

The fervor of the Harold Lloyd and Fredric March people inspired the shadow bracket, and I couldn't be happier at the way it's gone. You were right, the original photos I had for them did suck. Cunty Harold Lloyd in his little life guard uniform was a revelation.

ROUND 2

For Round 2 I'd gotten a better sense of who was doing well and who was not, so a little of that came into play, but I mostly paired on vibes again. (I genuinely think this is a good way to make a fun, challenging bracket.)

Secret faves—Noooo not hot dilf Dick Van Dyke don't take my hot inventor dilf away uwu!!! (He was up against Marlon Brando. I would have been shocked if he'd won but for a minute there, a glorious second, it was possible.) I am also a big old softie for David Niven's particular brand of repression to the point of volcanic rupture, but he is one of many hotties who does not look good without moving and speaking so I figured he would be going.

So much beef—hey! hey you. I ran a poll asking if we are horny for dancers. Yes, was the resounding poll response. Where, then, did all the fucking dancers go? This round we lost Donald O'Connor, Fred Astaire, Harold Nicholas; Sammy Davis Jr., Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby all sneak into this category as well, by token of having been in the kind of big MGM bang-a-pan-and-put-on-a-show beloved bedlams we all watch at Christmastime. Round 2 voters HATED musical matchups. Except for one.

The one—SOUND OF MUSIC, the voters said, WE LOVE SOUND OF MUSIC. we will KILL the man responsible for salad dressing because of the SOUND OF MUSIC. every other dance man can die but THIS man dances a FOLK DANCE with JULIE ANDREWS in a GARDEN. I did not go into this poll with strong opinions about Christopher Plummer or Paul Newman but my god did I leave having heard all of them.

Surprises—James Edwards/Anthony Perkins matchup was a nail biter! Conrad vs Oscar kept me up at nights. Surprised to see Basil Rathbone survive against Sabu Dastagir—both very fetching, but Sabu had some top-tier propaganda. Cesar Romero put up a surprisingly stiff fight against Cary Grant (an omen for things to come).

Oh horrors—horror heroes surprisingly fell all over the place. I was sure either Bela Lugosi or Turhan Bey would sweep their three-way matchup, but Michael Redgrave of all people carried through; Boris Karloff went down against Johnny Weismuller (while holding hands with fellow fallen hottie Fred Astaire), but at least we got his guacamole recipe before he went. Delighted to see that the Venn diagram of the coalitions who support horror hero Vincent Price and funny lil guy Donald O'Connor is a circle.

Secret faves pt 2—oh yeah, I fucking love Danny Kaye and Donald O'Connor. RIP funny lil kings.

ROUND 3

For some reason this was the hardest one to make matchups for. Oh no, all the men are hot.

Secret faves—Michael Redgrave i love you SO much you're SUCH an idiot, how did you make it as far as round 3. I want you to sweep the whole thing but you should NOT be surviving this. I love you, here's a kiss, go home.

Surprises—Marlon Brando is gone! Errol Flynn is gone! Christopher Plummer exhausted himself beating the organic oreos man to death and goes out with a whimper. Beginning to actually see the roots of #mifunesweep as Tyrone Power, a hot man very different from Burt Lancaster, who was in turn very different from Tab Hunter, also gets swept under the wheels of the unbeatable toshirobus. Conrad Veidt finds that no amount of purring svelte eccentricity compares to the people who will fuck a young Lt. Columbo.

SHADOW BRACKET 2

Cannot believe it but Veidt loses this one too. Perkins sweeps and becomes Prince of the Shadow Realm!

ROUND 4

At this point I've set a formal bracket that I'm following.

Secret faves—this isn't secret anymore, but losing Jimmy Stewart hurt.

Surprises—The Gene Kelly/Jeremy Brett matchup was the diciest one all round, moving back and forth between the two by sometimes .01%. Far more surprising, however, was Cary Grant getting eliminated before the quarterfinals. Grant has never been my type, but he is famous for being THE type, so while the writing had been on the wall the whole tournament—how on earth did Michael Redgrave even get 36% in his matchup?!—seeing Grant go down was a SHOCKER. Other fallen hotties included Gregory Peck, James Dean, Harry Belafonte, and Sessue Hayakawa. Peter Falk finally met his match in Omar Sharif.

QUARTERFINALS

Secret faves—I don't know if it counts as a secret fave, tbh, as my horses in the race really went out with Stewart, but I do have a soft spot here worth mentioning. Here's my childhood dog, Keaton.

The resemblance is truly striking, and yes, he was short, fast, and not prone to smiling.

Surprises—I couldn't predict how any of these matchups would go down, but I was most interested in Keaton vs Sharif, as they are both SO hot in SUCH different ways.

SEMIFINALS:

This was such a good batch of semifinalist contestants. By this point I think we could all tell Mifune was unstoppable (though I thought Sharif might give him a run for his money), but I really didn't know which way Robeson vs Poitier would flip.

FINALS:

I wanted Sidney Poitier to pull a last-minute sweep out of nowhere, but alas, Toshiro is just THAT GOOD (maybe. I will admit that I find Toshiro's domination a little hard to believe, given the variety and hotness of all his competitors; the man is hot but all these men are hot). I'm still happy with how the tournament went.

FINAL MEDITATIONS:

Biggest shock of a dropout: the loss of Paul Newman

Biggest "you people have no taste": the loss of James Cagney

Biggest victory: Paul Robeson making it to the semifinals over often-assumed champion Gregory Peck

Biggest coalition who deserve justice: dancing men

Biggest ask character: vents anon (currently eating Laurence Olivier)

Biggest, uhh, anything: how many of you are here! I genuinely thought it would be me and 10 other people voting for the whole tournament. I'm thrilled it took off like this!

I think that's everything, but I'm happy to answer addl asks. And THANK YOU to everyone for your tags, rants, impassioned propaganda, beautiful pics, and love for the hot men! See you for the ladies!

[kingarmorking]

How do you feel about suo character? Do you feel his arc will start after kiryuu?!

Suo! my little shit! my favorite instigator!

jokes aside i love Suo! he's an incredibly interesting character and not just because we know jack and shit about him

he's a good foil to both Sakura and Nirei and i would love to study him under a microscope and all three of them play off each other So Well

Suo was really the one to break the ice when Sakura first arrived at Furin, which considering how Furin is probably wasn't really something that Sakura would've needed in the long run but it made things easier especially for Nirei's nerves

he does a lot of small things in the beginning (showing off how he can get people to accept his requests like he says himself side note love how both of these examples involve Sugi)

it's kind of funny in the way that Nirei's usually the first one to reach for Sakura (i talk about it more in my ramble here), Suo acts as the kind of bridge to allow Sakura to reach others or vice versa (others reaching to Sakura i mean)

during the grade captain vote, no one was speaking up to volunteer themselves or others and only when Suo volunteered Sakura did the others speak up to agree but also spoke highly about Sakura in the same vein or again going back to him breaking the ice with Sakura meeting the rest of 1-1

i love his relationship with both Sakura and Nirei (do not fucking separate this trio /hj) and how they both affect him

Suo's true emotions, hell possibly even his "real" self under all the masks he puts up, are brought out because of Sakura (his proclamation of taking the top spot and his clear, honest passion) and Nirei (running away from where Suo was protecting him so he could properly focus on the fight)

(anther side note i think this panel is one of the few times we've seen him lose his composure)

which actually kinda brings me to another point and it's a very small one but interesting nonetheless to me but it's the panel of Suo and Kaji training together

the matchup always intrigued me and im dying to know what the thought process was here (there's a fic that explores it here please im begging yall to check it out) esp going the route of both of them having smth that they want to hide (Kaji's berserker beast v Suo's merciless brutality) because they hate that particular version of themselves (though in Suo's case i dont think it's... hate but more like a general distain of it, not how one should properly act kind of thing) granted this is all hc'd territory so take it with a grain of salt

im certain that he envies / admires how Sakura and Nirei can be so open about who they are so authentically (and even push past their perceived limits) which im sure is what drew him to them to begin with (this goes into that beautifully) because whatever he went through has made it so he feels as though he cant be his authentic self

as for whether or not i think well get his arc after kiryuu... honestly i feel like his past might involve the Next Big Arc in a way? i know ive seen people speculate hes got connections with the yakuza and i could see that tbh

through my VERY CURSORY LOOK into leaving the yakuza, it doesnt... seem to be as a big a deal as i was expecting? if youve got a good relationship with the person you work under then its pretty easy for you to leave, though reintegrating with society is the hard part from there. i read that it is possible to just... kinda vanish too, though that wouldnt stop another member from tracking you down (and no fingers are being cut off)

if not a full blown yakuza, i could see Suo being part of a different gang and for one reason or another he left it so his former gang members track him down to either a. drag him back or b. punish him for leaving. not sure if his master would be part of said yakuza / generic gang or if his master is the one who got him out of there (which. hilarious if thats the case boy just went and joined another gang instead)

i dont know if his arc will start immediately after Kiryuu (i could see Nii-sensei throwing in a mini arc that leads into Suo's (like with Ito into Gravel)

whether or not it will though i love this silly lil guy! my craptastic gentleman son

[project-sekai-facts]

A love live collab would be AMAZING!! If we got one, what would you want to see? Like, totally self-indulgent, wildest dreams, what would you want to happen?

REMEMBER WHEN I DID THE SONIC COLLAB PLAN WANNA SEE ME DO IT AGAIN. Also LL collab is way more likely since we KNOW the devs like the franchise (they also like enst! look how that turned out) and take inspiration from it (MMJ). Also it's incredibly popular in Japan still and was their #12 earning media franchise this year (enst is #22 and prsk didn't rank top 30) (sorry sonic ur still not popular in Japan)

Okay I have put. Extensive amounts of thought into what characters I would pair. Obviously in reality if we got a LL collab it would probably be with Hasu or maybe Liella or Niji (ie stick to one project a la every previous LL collab) but in a perfect world they do a Sanrio and give everyone cards. So I did that because doing reps only is boring (idk who i'd even pair if i did reps LOL).

Similarly to the enstars collab I tried to match similar characters, except I really really overthought it and tried to match character arc over personality/vibes. So, here's my pitch to clpl: under the cut it's long lmfao

i cba to do vsingers. lol. if i did colors it'd look something like this:

but this is being like. as close to perfect so there's a lot of leeway with overlapping colours. also most these matchups suck.

if we did vibes it'd be insanely funny if we got ruby/airi (same VA also same design). uh some other ones would be like. shiho/mia, maybe saki/natsumi because of the hair, sayaka/toya, maki/akito... a lot i'd keep the same as my ppt tbh

just now realised emu would match fairly well story/personality wise with mari FUCK i'm not editing the powerpoint just dude trust me.

[pokemonbattletournament]

We have Pokémon at Home!

Round 1 matchup 12

Propaganda for Macho Legs Cat:

"I mean. Just look at him."

"a quintessential and accessible anti-alien damage dealer and useful generalist. also looks really cool when you use it with Beefcake Cat."

Propaganda for Komasan:

"the Eevee to Jibanyan's Pikachu, the other little guy from the best monster tamer game"

"funny lion dog eat a ice cream"

More info under the cut

More information about Macho Legs Cat:

More information about Komasan:

[livyslabyrinth]

imagining yttd characters with a partner pokemon and the image in my head is too cutee.

shin with an espeon because he canonically likes cats. he probably wanted an umbreon to match the cat plush in sou’s room but eevee followed him to work on a day shift and evolved, but he loves his partner anyways :)

sara with umbreon because she wanted a black cat in the manga. the type matchups make sense to me with shin having the weaker matchup.

gin with a growlithe and q-taro with an arcanine would be so cuteee. they’re father and son to me idc 😭

joe with a rockruff omlll. his uniform would always be a little roughed up because he can never resist playing with his partner!!

a zorua would go so well with reko’s color scheme aaaaa. maybe having it use rain dance during live venues to preform with her!!

nao with an altaria because the artbook said she likes fluffy thingss. i could totally see her napping with an altaria. little bit angsty here, but maybe a mishima’s smergle she raises after his death

alice with a zebstrika or furret because he likes striped things. i like to imagine his pokemon would occasionally bicker with reko’s zorua, but get their ass beat every time 😭

kai would have a ghost time to freak the yabusames out like he did in ytts. maybe a sableye or a yamask, but i feel like he would look so cunty with a froslass!!

i have no reason for this one but keiji with a gible makes sense in my head. idk… i can just see him doing his best to calm down a rambunctious gible that’s chasing the other participants around.

anzu with a blacephalon because its clownlike and not as off-putting as mr mime. i don’t like mr. mime, and i also feel like it’d be an uncreative cop-out to give her.

kuramada with a primape or hitmonlee that he spars with from time to time. they have specially tailored boxing gloves :”)

mai with a fidough. no explanation needed. your honor, they have matching bread hats!! she lets her partner help in the kitchen and just prays the fda doesn’t swing by.

i imagine kanna with a sweets themed pokemon bc of her pudding bucket in ytts. maybe a milcery or alcremie. i imagine shin’s espeon has a timid nature and she has to let it slowly warm up to her and her partner pokemon.

i feel like hinako would have a giant terrifying ass pokemon, slightly due to the fact that she’s intimidating and mysterious herself. mostly due to the fact that i think it would be really funny for the shortest character to have a giant scary pokemon lurking behind them.

ranmaru is kinda gloomy, so i feel like he would empathize well with a mimikyu and they would bond in no time. his partner is terrified of sara’s umbreon and every time he tries to approach her, mimikyu panics and he gives up. poor guy :(

hayasaka with a really mischievous rotom that he cannot control is a really cute image in my head, so i’m giving him that

[tf2occontest]

Armani & Marcel, The Decoys VS María José Fernández González (The Cook)

(Full matchup list here)

Alright team, here's a recap: This is a contest to determine who amongst you will take the top of the leaderboards and be hired at TFI! Simply put, whoever gets the most votes gets to move on, and whoever doesn't... Well. They'll be put down swiftly and cleanly. :}

So, mann your stations, because here are your next contestants! Vote for your favorite mercenary who you want to win the TF2 OC Contest! - P

OC INFO UNDER THE CUT!

We highly encourage you to take a peek to make your decision!

Armani & Marcel, The Decoys

@friendlyengie

Image credit: @/friendlyengie

When your job description is to be as obnoxious as possible, obviously you’re going to send in a clown! Armani is a Decoy, which means his purpose is to get on the field and draw as much attention to himself as possible. Sure, it probably means he gets killed frequently, but isn’t that half the fun?

Personally, Armani is rough and over the (big)top. He’s Italian, too. If that helps. If it doesn’t ignore that part. He’s got the flowery language exaggerated expressions of a performer and absolutely none of the social tact. He’s loud and in your face and simply does not care! Take him or leave him, baby! (Please take him.)

Marcel is just a guy. A little man. His mime-specific approach to the decoy class means he’s a lot less loud shouting and japes, and a lot more inconvenient tricks and hiding where you just can’t see him. He saves his breath unless he has the chance to be really funny. As a person, Marcel is eccentric and expressive. Cartoonishly so. A man of few words, since said words can only be spoken when he pulls the string on his back, he normally conveys his thoughts through actions instead. He’s annoying, and he wants you to know that specifically. He’s charming enough that he can make people forget how obnoxious he is just long enough for whatever stunt he pulls next to come out of nowhere. Ain’t he just so charming?

María José Fernández González (The Cook)

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Mª Jose grew up in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War (1930); she left Spain around her teens as the dictatorship was starting and winded up in Mann. Co as she was basically the Spanish version of Jane Doe (name wise); due to that upbringing, she learned to work with little. The Cook makes regular meals for both teams (BLU and RED) but could also make chemical recipes for Mann. Co. Regarding the teams, she basically housekeeps their bases alternating between both (and different bases/maps) making her almost like the “mom” or “grandma” of the teams (even thought she would be around 40 as of the time of the games (circa 1970)).