#ceo x arowana

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ROUND 4 / POLL 1

CEO x Arowana ( @owo-whats-bliss ) vs Matejka x Darling Nikki ( @outpost-31 & @rhaaclaws )

who makes up your ship?:

CEO (human) and Arowana (the weird fish thing)

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

They do extremely unethical experiments on people together under the guise of saving them, but Arowana is just using them to eat the people while telling CEO that that was a last resort. CEO is hopelessly devoted to them, both romantically and religiously, and uses everything he has financially and emotionally to support whatever they do (even to him). Arowana is initially only using him, but falls in love and becomes unhealthily obsessed, threatening to harm those who look at him. CEO is a human, Arowana is a god, keeping him alive no matter what happens to him. (Also, Arowana does have a human form, they're just not in it 80% of the time.)

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

None of those, but I think about them to the songs "Hakidasu" by Mao Sasagawa and "god, please () me, a monster"

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who makes up your ship?:

Matejka (he/him) [by @outpost-31] and Darling Nikki (she/they) [by @rhaaclaws]

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

Darling Nikki and Matejka met in 1524, after Nikki's mother's death, and got into a duel- proposed by Matejka- at the price of Nikki's soul. She ended up winning the fight, and was turned into a vampire. They stayed together afterwards due to both being immortal, and have known each other closely since then. The reason why we think they deserve to win is their extreme codependence: Matejka is extremely attached to Nikki, because she looks like his dead wife Esmé, whom he's still in love with. Nikki takes advantage of him and roleplays as Esmé during sex. This unhealthy attachment to Nikki began consuming his life, so they got into a fight and split up for nearly 100 years. This caused the both of them to become incredibly suicidal, as they'd known each other for 4 centuries at this point, and they barely knew how to live without each other. Even missing each other so dearly, their relationship has the tendency to be very unhealthy. Once, Nikki insulted Matejka's dead wife as a joke, and he almost dragged them out to the sun in an attempt to kill them. Another time, she tried to eat Matejka (due to being a cannibal), but thought his black blood was disgusting. They know each other like no one else does, but still have layer of distrust. Nikki doesn't even know Esmé's name. Altogether, their bond is an incredibly complex one due to the nature of their immortality, but their unhealthy overreliance on each other has nearly ruined both their lives.

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

Ship name: Red Flags And Long Nights Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4GJDQdhpDITspMvp9c99m9?si=29599a8e944946a3

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Just wanted to say I was looking in the reblogs of one of my AITA posts and laughed at your tags then recognized you immediately upon seeing your name from the toxic ship tournament 😭 small world

NO WAY.... YOU'RE THE CEO X AROWANA PERSON...... hiiiiiii I was rooting for those two, they were one of my favorite contenders! Congrats on second place btw!! (even if I'm a little late lol) ^^

Glad to hear my tags made you laugh hehe 8D But you're telling me those other banger OCs were also yours? Kudos to you, then. They sound super interesting ^^

Anyways this is how I feel right now lol. Like two ships passing by in the night...

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*leans into mic* y'all like women covered in blood right

(Vote murder lesbians jo and lucille Most Toxic Ship here) @toxic-ship-tournament

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ROUND 5 / FINALISTS

CEO x Arowana (@owo-whats-bliss) vs Lucille x Jo (@radioactive-dragonlover)

who makes up your ship?:

CEO (human) and Arowana (the weird fish thing)

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

They do extremely unethical experiments on people together under the guise of saving them, but Arowana is just using them to eat the people while telling CEO that that was a last resort. CEO is hopelessly devoted to them, both romantically and religiously, and uses everything he has financially and emotionally to support whatever they do (even to him). Arowana is initially only using him, but falls in love and becomes unhealthily obsessed, threatening to harm those who look at him. CEO is a human, Arowana is a god, keeping him alive no matter what happens to him. (Also, Arowana does have a human form, they're just not in it 80% of the time.)

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

None of those, but I think about them to the song "Hakidasu" by Mao Sasagawa

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who makes up your ship?:

Lucille and Jo

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

Lucille is a rich woman who has nothing to do in her life, she's eternally bored and wishes for something new— something fresh to happen. Jo is a quiet woman with some repressed violent tendencies and who works minimum wage bug is struggling to make ends meets. One night, Jo decides to rob Lucille's mansion and kills her without meaning to in the process, escaping the scene anxiously thinking she's going to go to jail once the body is found. However, Lucille wakes up the next day, with the events of the murder burnt into her mind but her body spared of any wounds. Turns out getting killed is EXACTLY the spice in life she was waiting for! So she decided to track down and knock on her murder's door— not to rat her out, but to ask her to do it again. Jo wasn't really for murdering again, especially with how anxious she ended up getting in the aftermath, but begrudgingly accepts. And it seems that Lucille IS actually very fun to kill for her, too. Cue to Jo murdering Lucille on a Weekly basis, getting very Gay about it each time. Lucille get the thrill of death she wanted, and Jo gets an outlet for her violence. A relationship starting as purely transactional at first slowly turns into a murder romance. They're both kinda fucked up in isolation to one another but complete eachother awfully well. Like "you two are perfect for eachother but never pull anyone else into your bullshit" kinda deal. They keep eachother contained. You feel me.

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

Ship tag on my art blog ( nihonium-art ) : Undying love ( although fair warning for gore ) Playlist : https://spotify.link/TPbt2y12Syb

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ROUND 3 / POLL 1

CEO x Arowana (@owo-whats-bliss) vs Ariel Herrera x Edward Nashton (@baldurrs)

who makes up your ship?:

CEO (human) and Arowana (the weird fish thing)

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

They do extremely unethical experiments on people together under the guise of saving them, but Arowana is just using them to eat the people while telling CEO that that was a last resort. CEO is hopelessly devoted to them, both romantically and religiously, and uses everything he has financially and emotionally to support whatever they do (even to him). Arowana is initially only using him, but falls in love and becomes unhealthily obsessed, threatening to harm those who look at him. CEO is a human, Arowana is a god, keeping him alive no matter what happens to him. (Also, Arowana does have a human form, they're just not in it 80% of the time.)

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

None of those, but I think about them to the song "Hakidasu" by Mao Sasagawa

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who makes up your ship?:

Edward Nashton x Ariel Herrera

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

Domestic terrorists that work together, stay together. Orphans to friends to lovers. Both way to codependent on each other since childhood, that now Ariel always defends Edward even if she’s knows he’s in the wrong, and Edward makes excuse for her behavior too. Knowing his plans to hurt people, Ariel enables and supported him. Even taking his place when he’s locked away. They do have possessiveness over each other, and it’s definitely seen when they’re together. Ariel likes knowing how much of a hold she has in Edward, and Edward loves her faithfulness. That being said they’ll have times they both are guiltily of being emotionally unavailable and using each other for comfort and a power dynamic, but calling it undying devotion.

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

Tumblr tags: #x: scales of justice #ariel x edward

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ROUND 1 / SIDE B / POLL 5

13. Theodore Antonov x Cito Putnum ( @pixelpancake246 / @pixelsdoodles ) vs CEO x Arowana ( @owo-whats-bliss )

who makes up your ship?:

Theodore Antonov and Cito Putnum (OCs from my original story Coastal City Dudes)

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

Theo and Cito have been best friends for YEARS. Met when they were around 10/11, and have been by eachother's side since. Theo was raised in a cult, and the rest of his life wasn't much better. They certainly have. A Dynamic. So, they're best friends, as previously mentioned. Completely inseparable, both being in love with the other, leading to very unfortunate circumstances. Cito is very self-sacrificial in his love for Theo, often disregarding his own happiness and well-being to make sure Theo's happy. Theo on the other hand, is so deprived of love and affection that he clings onto and takes advantage of Cito's undying devotion to him. Both are aware of this on some level, but refuse to see it. Denying that there's anything wrong in the first place. There's a lot of little things with them. Cito is a recovering addict, having struggled with abusing alcohol and various other substances since high school. Despite this, Theo regularly does drugs around him and when he was still taking his medications, he wouldn't secure them, leading to Cito overdosing one afternoon. When drunk or high on drugs, Cito has a hard time controlling himself, which tends to manifest in reckless behavior and a hard time keeping his anger in check. Anger issues are something he's dealt with for forever but have repressed well for Theo's sake, rarely letting himself feel or show anything besides positive emotions around anyone. When he's not sober, Cito can get violent, usually towards Theo because of his deeply bottled up frustrations and pain with him. In high school, they were on complete ends of the social hierarchy. Cito was the star of their schools football team, he was insanely popular and liked by all, whereas Theo was a quiet, depressed, loser with no real friends besides Cito. He was constantly bullied, Severely. Often, Cito would stand in the way of this, standing up for Thei since they're best friends and people listen to him. But, he's worried and scared that if he lets up too much, he'll be next, so sometimes, occasionally enough, he lets them beat Theo up, sometimes right in front of him. In their 20's, Theo was dating and eventually engaged to a woman named Rita Barreau, which you can imagine broke Cito's heart because he's been madly in love with Theo for forever. A few months before their planned wedding date, Theo and Rita got into a brutal car accident where Rita died on impact and Theo barely survived, clinging on to what little of a life he had. Ironic really, that this guy who has been incredibly suicidal his whole life gets to live when his girlfriend who tended to act out of self-interest and preservation, dies. The accident didn't just end Rita's life, but changed Cito and Theo's irreparably. Theo became paranoid, secluded and lost in grief, while Cito did what he does best and bottled up his own grief. This is most explicitly shown through thow visibly and undeniably Theo's grief and depression (both extrapolated by the incident but also from before) has affected him, being decorated head to toe in gruesome scars of both an accidental and self-mutilating nature. The accident gave both of them PTSD, but it took almost two decades for Cito to be diagnosed because he had denied it over and over thinking he shouldn't have been that effected by it and that Theo had it much worse. I could go on and on, but I feel like this is already WAY long enough. I hope this gave a good idea on why I think they're perfect for this tournament!

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

I don't actually tag anything with their ship on Tumblr I believe, just both their names in whatever I post of them in the tags, but I do have a yt playlist! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjVZH50W2oJUVy-P6jXJobjPidG3MM0uW (PS unsure how to send multiple files through Google docs?? but I assure there's way more theocito art than the one piece I submitted)

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Art by @eggldritchfish

who makes up your ship?:

CEO (human) and Arowana (the weird fish thing)

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

They do extremely unethical experiments on people together under the guise of saving them, but Arowana is just using them to eat the people while telling CEO that that was a last resort. CEO is hopelessly devoted to them, both romantically and religiously, and uses everything he has financially and emotionally to support whatever they do (even to him). Arowana is initially only using him, but falls in love and becomes unhealthily obsessed, threatening to harm those who look at him. CEO is a human, Arowana is a god, keeping him alive no matter what happens to him. (Also, Arowana does have a human form, they're just not in it 80% of the time.)

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

None of those, but I think about them to the songs "Hakidasu" by Mao Sasagawa and "god, please () me, a monster"

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ROUND 2 / SIDE A / POLL 1

Deputy Dean Sinclaire x Jacob Seed (@derelictheretic) vs CEO x Arowana (@owo-whats-bliss)

who makes up your ship?:

Deputy Dean Sinclaire x Jacob Seed

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

It all starts with Jacob kidnapping Dean, or having his chosen kidnap him for him technically. You know, how most loving relationships start. Then it goes into Jacob starving Dean for weeks, mentally conditioning him, psychologically torturing him and chipping away at his mental resolve until he breaks and becomes the perfect murder machine; which is when Jacob tricks him into killing one of his closest allies. (Not to mention his initial goal was to make someone deserving of killing him, romance in self destruction via outward force and so on and so forth). After all of this you'd think they hate each other and honestly a part of Dean does hate him but another part of him craves his praise and attention and he knows he's too far gone at this point and the only person who could love a monster is another monster. He's everything he ever feared he'd become and Jacob is the now steady force holding all his broken peices together. Congrats to Jacob for literally making him worse! And congrats to Dean for making Jacob unhealthily obsessed with him and making him feel something for the first time in years! Even if it was possessiveness and a twisted version of love! They beat the shit out of each other on multiple occasions, sometimes before or during sex. They threaten to kill the other's families and almost go through with it a few times. By the end Dean is willing to kill anyone who tries to hurt Jacob and Jacob is willing to do the same, they're tragic, they're toxic, they're the worst, they make everyone uncomfortable and they'll probably die covered in each other's blood. But at least they'll be holding hands <3

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

Tag: #ship: Only Us Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4GDAKjOCyUKxWqw7acgzgi Pinterest: https://pin.it/2WOuuEp

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who makes up your ship?:

CEO (human) and Arowana (the weird fish thing)

why does your ship deserve to be considered the most toxic?:

They do extremely unethical experiments on people together under the guise of saving them, but Arowana is just using them to eat the people while telling CEO that that was a last resort. CEO is hopelessly devoted to them, both romantically and religiously, and uses everything he has financially and emotionally to support whatever they do (even to him). Arowana is initially only using him, but falls in love and becomes unhealthily obsessed, threatening to harm those who look at him. CEO is a human, Arowana is a god, keeping him alive no matter what happens to him. (Also, Arowana does have a human form, they're just not in it 80% of the time.)

ship tags/playlists/pinterest boards?:

None of those, but I think about them to the song "Hakidasu" by Mao Sasagawa and "god, please () me, a monster"

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FINAL CONTENDERS / THIRD PLACE CONTENDERS

FINALISTS:

CEO x Arowana (@owo-whats-bliss) vs Lucille x Jo (@radioactive-dragonlover)

THIRD PLACE CONTENDERS:

Matejka x Darling Nikki (@outpost-31 & @rhaaclaws) vs Artekai x Fross (@artekai)

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Got more propaganda since my boys (gender neutral) are getting ratioed. A vote for CEO and Arowana is a vote for monsterfuckers everywhere

Also, more toxic and/or unsettling facts about them!

(Relevant text from left to right, since it's a little hard to read)

Arowana: incredibly possessive

CEO: doesn't mind unless it gets in the way of work (it usually does.) (Arowana doesn't care.)

Arowana can control what CEO dreams. It makes for some bizarre dreams! ("No peeking! Shhh")

[In small text] "He's a monsterf-" "Don't call me that."

Arowana does things because they want to, but CEO's "reverence" satisfies them. ("Thank you, Arowana...")

Arowana actually appears skeletal sometimes because when yajukami (what they are) become skeletal, that means they die permanently. Skeletal is sought out for the achievement of permakilling and the power increase. Basically, a disguise. (To fool others into thinking they're vulnerable)

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I can't think of anything to say for propaganda

Here is a doodle of human ceo and arowana 👍 go team go

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I have zero clue how ceo and arowana managed to go from losing to ratioing the other couple but here's these doodles of them reacting to how the poll had been progressing. also yeah sure this is propaganda and not just me going "LOOK AT THEM"

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I think I've said all there is to say abt ceo and arowana so here's more art. Look at the gays that eat each other go

👍

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Propaganda ummm. Look at them. Vote ceo and arowana bc I didn’t think they would get this far

Look at them some more don't they look so vote-able. Did you know ceo loses his right eye and anyone who makes fun of it/mentions it being odd at all disappears under mysterious circumstances

g. go team go

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TUMBLR KEEPS CRASHING I AM JUSR TRYING TO SEND CEO AROWANA PROPAGANDA

There are multiple timelines, and, in all of them, they find each other. Even if they probably shouldn't (they become unhealthily obsessed with each other every time). Arowana's actions directly get CEO killed at least once. In one of these timelines, CEO turns into a monster, and Arowana starts killing people to feed him. Eat people with your partner <3

CEO is a vegetarian (can't eat meat without vomiting because it reminds him of the viscera he's seen in the experiments) but Arowana sometimes makes him eat meat because they think it's funny.

CEO is extremely physically weak and prone to sickness constantly. He also gets cold often on account of how thin he is. Arowana often does not let him use a blanket because "they're better than a measly human invention."

CEO is not allowed to age past 30 years old.

One of their subjects beat CEO to near death, and was eaten by Arowana. Arowana healed his wounds and scolded him for being so foolish. CEO found this romantic.

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Fun fact to add as CEO/Arowana propaganda:

At one point CEO has a full-on breakdown, crying because of the isolation he feels as a result of Arowana threatening or otherwise dealing with anyone who dares to get close to him. He cries, because he's lonely, because he wants friends and Arowana won't let him have any.

To his amazement, Arowana backs off. This implicitly tells him that he can get them to break even their hardest rules if he cries, shifting the power balance. Arowana is so deeply in love with him that, despite their protests, they will cave to his demands.

So now it can be toxic in the other direction!

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Bonus CEO/Arowana propaganda: the aftermath of their submission image

Arowana bites him sometimes because they're hungry, sometimes to annoy him, and sometimes just because they're both into it. Usually the last one.

(Reads: "Can you let go now?" "No." "Alright.")

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