#champagne bracket round 1

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 1

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu

He’s a bitch and a hate (love) him. I will now quote him below: "Sigh... I don't do the whole sweating thing, Neku." "Very impressive, Neku. Show those fifth graders who's boss." "Who needs other people's values? It's easier to just live by your own rules." "Oh! I can't say I'm particularly interested, but... I'll go ahead and ask, for the sake of convenience. Do you have a name?"

Smug asshole. Always playing mind games with the player character. Has many secrets but never shares them. Also did a bunch of spoilery shit.

Yoshiki Kishinuma

(from ask) I don't remember if I submitted Yoshiki but I can vouch for him. He's a tsundere type. He won't admit he has a crush on the class rep who stood up for him. He's an ex shithead who is trying to be better but still comes across as a bit of a dick. He's probably the most no-nonsense of the entire group. In one ending he can choose to abandon his entire group of friends including his crush to save himself.

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Taylor Swift Bracket

Round 1, Poll 31

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DiC Dub. vs Sub, Episode 21/25 - “Jupiter Comes Thundering In”/”Jupiter, the Brawny Girl in Love” Pt 2

After so long, here is part two!!

Because of the massive break in between the two, I’ve had to switch gears a little with my explanations, but hopefully they’ll still appear coherent! Without further ado, the remainder of this episode of Dub vs. Sub!

Previously, I covered the manners in which the episode begins to establish the foundation for both diverging character arcs. Propped with knowledge from both Beryl and Kunzite, Zoisite takes his charge with perfect grace and professionalism. Meanwhile, DiC's Zoycite is introduced as being far keener, promisingly relentless, and a more dangerous adversary. If Zoisite was concealing his fangs, as it were...then we were introduced to Zoycite flashing hers.

If it sounds like I'm bashing a dead horse with this difference a lot,  perhaps it's also because the DiC dub seems to do so with as much vigor. Certainly, I can't assume writers' intentions when they re-wrote the character for DiC. However, DiC seemed to find as many opportunities as they can to showcase Zoycite's contrary presentation of Zoisite's original character as often as they can, even when they didn't necessarily have to...

This bit of exposition was given right at the very beginning of the DiC version when no such introduction was made in the original. Possibly, DiC made this change to ramp up the story's dramaticism. However, DiC's reputation for obvious exposition leads me to believe otherwise, especially when it starts cropping up in later episodes more frequently, and for no other reason. 

(For example, yes, I understand that the following screenshots are referring to Lita / Makoto. However, if you look at Zoycite’s arc as a whole, it is also an excellent setup to the infamous “Disguise” episode...and I feel it is also a great representation of why DiC so desperately wanted to sow these character changes into Zoycite. For if they hadn’t, and Zoycite remained exactly as Zoisite in all manners except gender... how different would “she” be, a beautiful female soldier fighting for love, than another titular character we know?)

Anyways, I digress, and will return to the above bracketed point once we reach that particular episode. In the meantime, please enjoy the following comparisons remaining from the episode below...

1. Zoycite’s keenness, and further proof that DiC can’t stand empty sound space, even if it’s to imply a character’s softly - and ominous - coming).

2. I wish there was a way I could put audio clips in these tumblr posts, because I do love how both these characters are still portrayed with a sense of play...Zoycite’s acrid, saccharine poison, and Zoisite’s breathy, cotton-candy kiss of death.

3. If I could put in audio clips, this is where we would hear Zoycite’s syrup literally curdle - her voice rips into an edge of monstrous roughness, similar to other other monster-of-the-day characters that were also portrayed by the same actress. Meanwhile, Zoisite’s actor speaks with a softness of a snake beginning to gently suffocate you..

4. Goddamnit Zoi, you are so fucking cute, I will never get over how you call out your own name like you’re a fucking pokemon <3.

(Side Note: Zoisite’s use of his own name may seem vain, but I tend to read it less as a form of vanity, and more of a form of cute-speak. It’s yet another way he downplays the perception of his potential: to evoke the sense of adorableness, of femininity, a way to startle the opponent into a sense of lowered security. Honestly, I’m sure this isn’t so much of an actual farce he puts on and is genuinely how he expresses himself, both on the job and at home, but it works! Note that in the future, whenever Zoycite uses the same tactic, she never says it in the same, diminutive cute way. Her spell-cast is always aggressive, shouted in determination and confidence).

(Extra Side-Note: Another +1 for how many times Zoycite will say she is excited to please Queen Beryl. I’m keeping count for an explicit reason. Infer that what you will, and please imagine it with the same kind of “ding” that’s heard in CinemaSins.)

5. I mean, apart from the usual (Zoycite’s kneejerk reaction is to be antagonistic, while Zoisite is actually only politely informing Makoto that she does not have to engage, etc, ...he literally does not coax, mock or challenge. We will see later that Zoisite treats physical bloodshed and confrontation as unnecessary and only as a last resort, while Zoycite is spurred by challenges) - I also love how Zoycite’s dialogue also reflects this difference. I’ve talked at length at how Zoisite is always unfailingly and elegantly polite before, and now look at Zoycite’s speaking mannerisms: uncouth, aggressive, and filled to the brim with attitude when the opportunity arises. ‘SCUSE ME, indeed!

6.Further point regarding Zoycite and Zoisite’s divergent opinions of physical or violent confrontation: one disparages it, considering it barbaric, and that he is above it (often literally). The other laughs in the face of it, and has no qualms dishing it out as a threat...or is more than ready to follow it through.

(Also: buzz off omfg)

In fact, we see their opinions play out beautifully below:

7. After being punched, compare these reactions: one promising brutal threat, and the other fucking gobsmacked it even happened. Also, their differences in priorities.

While that may sound like I’m making a dig at Zoisite, I am legitimately not. I know this scene tends to be one of the ones that famously evoke the idea of Zoisite’s vanity, but I tend to read it another way. Yes, Zoisite’s face is precious to him, and yes, it could also be read as a stereotypical portrayal of a feminine gay character. 

However, this scene is not meant to illicit laughter. Nor it is not meant for us to startle with incredulity of how silly it is that he is upset his face his hurt. In this scene, Zoisite is truly shocked - his words are less an angry tantrum and more a statement of startled fact. He hadn’t anticipated Makoto could get that close to him, could actually touch him, much could actually strike him. And, in a place that is fiercely protective of, not because of his vanity...but because it is a precious commodity in the main force that drives his arc. (Yes, it’s Kunzite.) It’s no surprise that Zoisite’s beauty and ���beautiful face” gets mentioned so often at key moments in his character development. His arc starts with a punch in the face, rises with gentle caresses, and - after a similar injury - crashes.

All of these subtleties, however, are swapped entirely in Zoycite’s case. Her face is not a fragile commodity by which she holds dear...in fact, it is of little importance to her. Her immediate concern is vengeance - more so than the injury on her face, it is her ego is bruised, and damn anyone who dares to make that mark.

Anyways, before I digress further, let’s round back up to the remainder of the episode. These last few scenes only continue to consistently show the differences in Zoycite’s and Zoisite’s professional approach. There isn’t as deep to note, with one exception at the very end...

8. If you haven’t already caught on, Zoycite really wants this fucking crystal.

9. Up above, DiC makes as much of an effort to showcase how much joy Zoycite derives from her job. Being a Negaverse warrior is an excellent honour - your true self - and boy, is she enjoying exerting her power over those below her. Zoycite’s ambition is demonstrated not as an ideal professional characteristic, but the potential in her to throw a coup if she wanted to. She is power hungry, and that grows recklessly to dangerous heights as her arc progresses. Notice that Zoisite says none of these things...because it isn’t power he seeks. He approaches his subject with almost professional indifference: he seeks no more than the objective of his task. And don’t worry, “it will only take a moment”.

10. This has always been one of my favourite scenes. I just love how Zoisite politely “nopes” out, while Zoycite - and I fully believe it - has a fucking victory celebration. (Don’t think for a moment Zoycite is just jesting, she probably told Malachite to set out the champagne before she left on the mission!)

And again, note the increased victorious laughter, where there was none before...

And FINALLY, the one ODD thing that happens a LOT throughout DiC’s version of this character arc. Remember how I mentioned in a previous instalment that DiC seemed to like to inject extra dialogue and laughs that could exposit Zoycite as a fundamentally meaner character than Zoisite?

Hey look, it happened again:

Like, this may not seem like much of a deal, but think about it. We had a scene earlier where Zoisite’s words basically remained the same in conversion (the “order” scene). We’ve had many instances where the original dialogue/script did not need to be changed, and yet was tweaked in just certain places. This seems like a wholly unnecessary change, so why do it?

The answer is: in changing Zoisite’s gender, DiC encountered a whole other problem. And that problem was: a female solider character, who’s primary motivation was love, a love that could be read as more complex, established, and equally both inspirational and problematic ...could end up becoming an unintentional role model for DiC’s demographic. Figuratively speaking, the tragedy by which we all love Kunzite and Zoisite’s humanity for carried a message that DiC feared might be misconstrued as another example of a miracle romance - because at that point, superficially, the character would no longer be any different than Sailor Moon. iIf Zoycite also fought for love, then her motivations would blow a hole right in the Power of Love message that DiC’s Sailor Moon stood for. And, if she was as dedicated to Malachite as Zoisite was to Kunzite - questionably so - it would also rip a massive hole in DiC’s message of Girl Power. 

I’ll talk more about this in greater detail as those essential scenes crop up throughout the arc. For the time being, let’s simply observe that for all the animosity Zoycite gets in the DiC version (even by other characters in the same universe), that Zoisite was never perceived in the same way, even by his enemies. And there’s a reason for that.

[junker-town]

The 5 saddest NBA title defenses of the last 20 years

Dwyane Wade and Shaq had a lifeless title defense for the Miami Heat.

These are the NBA title defenses that never got off the ground floor.

At the onset of Mike Prada’s incredible and emotionally wrought plan to crown the best team in NBA history that never won a championship, several clubs that fell short of raising a banner were disqualified based on the exercise’s criteria. Specifically, teams coming off their own title run, only to have their defense cut short by inexplicable disappointment, bouts of bad luck, or some combination of both.

So while you peruse Prada’s list of 64 teams over the next two weeks, here’s a look at the five saddest title defenses of the last 20 years. For some teams, sadness emanates from fans who look back wondering what could have been, either thanks to a heartbreaking injury, the rapid and unexpected effect of age on a key player, or even an organization-wide arrogance that seizes everyone who just took a champagne bath.

Insecurities revolve around money and minutes. Pecking orders and hierarchical scoring options are called into question. Sometimes, for reasons that remain a mystery to this day, the team’s championship heart just stops beating, or a rival competitor simply “wants it more.” Who knows.

For the purpose of keeping this as concise as possible, no organization appears twice on this list, and anyone eliminated in the Finals or conference finals didn’t make the cut because losing that far along is less sad than never advancing there in the first place.

5) 2011 Los Angeles Lakers

Regular season record: 57-25

Key losses: Jordan Farmar

Key additions: Matt Barnes, Steve Blake

Everyone remembers how this team went out. Near the end of a blowout, Andrew Bynum was ejected for trying to murder a defenseless, airborne J.J. Barea. Anytime violence occurs on a basketball court it’s shocking; this particular incident felt more like the foreseeable release of a sharp frustration that had been bubbling for weeks.

When they dropped their very first game of the playoffs against Chris Paul’s New Orleans Hornets, Kobe Bryant didn’t mince words: “He’s not naturally aggressive,” Bryant said about Pau Gasol, who made two baskets in the whole game. “Even if I’m tired, I’m naturally aggressive.”

Then, earlier in that series against Dallas, Bynum all but confirmed LA’s locker room drama. “It’s obvious we have trust issues,” he said. “Unless we come out and discuss it, then nothing is going to really change.”

Winning one championship is hard. Winning two in a row — as these Lakers did — is a Rubik’s Cube. Three-peats are a first-class ticket to immortality. But for this particular team, one full of championship experience and Hall of Fame talent, to fall short without any tangible explanation ... it almost diminishes the impressiveness of that entire era.

I remember the end of Game 1 against Dallas, watching Bryant back rim a three at the buzzer that would’ve put the Lakers up 1-0 and thinking LA would shake off the cobwebs and win in five or maybe six. When the series ended, I kept going back to Bryant’s three that never was, how it couldn’t have missed by more than an inch, and what would’ve happened from that point on if it went in.

Several factors decide whether a talented team will surge or fizzle at various inflection points on any given playoff run. The psychological momentum held in that one fading three was immense. Had it gone in, the Mavs could have overcome its devastating toll and still won it all, but to do so before earning the collective confidence every champion must acquire would’ve been next to impossible. The Lakers were so close yet so far away.

Their collapse then led to the Dwight Howard-Steve Nash apocalypse, while simultaneously cheating us of a possible Lakers-Heat showdown in that year’s Finals. What a shame.

4) 2000 San Antonio Spurs

Regular season record: 53-29

Key losses: None

Key additions: Terry Porter

San Antonio’s first title defense ended before it began when 23-year-old Tim Duncan tore the lateral meniscus in his left knee during Game 78 of his third season. The Spurs limped into the playoffs as a 53-win, No. 4 seed, where they were swiftly handled by a Phoenix Suns team that didn’t have their own best player (Jason Kidd) for the first three games, thanks to a broken ankle.

Looking back, though, all that really matters are the circumstances that surrounded Duncan’s knee. It’s an overlooked what-if moment in NBA history, full of incredible foresight and head-shaking details that make the whole thing seem avoidable if the Spurs knew then what we know now.

On one hand, Duncan averaged 42.5 minutes in the 10 games before he was shut down, including 48 (!!) in his season finale against Sacramento — a six-point overtime win in which Duncan finished 6-for-22 from the field and was not subbed out at all in the first and third quarters. (To put this in context, Giannis Antetokounmpo has crossed the 40-minute mark twice in the last two seasons.)

On the other hand, Gregg Popovich was wise enough to put Duncan on ice. Who knows how his knee/career would’ve been affected had he played, or even if that year’s champion — the first of three straight for Kobe Bryant’s and Shaquille O’Neal’s Lakers — would’ve been too much for them to handle.

San Antonio swept LA from the playoffs the previous year. The Lakers were talented but unproven, nearly falling against Sacramento in the first round after a 67-win regular season. Eventually they needed a Trail Blazers collapse in Game 7 of the conference finals to finally break through; it’s fair to wonder how any of this would’ve gone down had the Spurs let Duncan loose.

”I don’t know if it was right or wrong,” Popovich said over a decade later. “But we did it.”

Looking back on it, the Spurs had 34-year-old David Robinson (who was still an all-star/monster) and Sean Elliot rounding into shape after a kidney transplant forced him to miss the first three quarters of the season. From there, Terry Porter, Mario Elie, and Avery Johnson (who made one three in 2,571 minutes) were on their last legs, long before Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili injected new life into the organization.

The Spurs famously never went back-to-back in the Duncan era. This was low-key their best chance to do so.

3) 2009 Boston Celtics

Regular season record: 62-20

Key losses: James Posey, P.J. Brown

Key additions: None

Kobe Bryant’s first ring without Shaquille O’Neal came on a 65-win, revenge-fueled Lakers squad that spent all season stewing over their miserable Finals experience the previous June. The wheelchair game. The 24-point comeback at Staples Center (in which Ray Allen made the biggest *layup* of his career). That listless 39-point beatdown in Game 6. In 2009 they weren’t the best Lakers team ever, but did have a healthy and mountainous 21-year-old Andrew Bynum back in the starting lineup. No team in the Western Conference stood much of a chance.

But on the other side of the bracket, the Celtics were their own machine, emboldened by a champion’s aplomb, benefit of continuity, and Rajon Rondo’s steady bloom into a stud. The Celtics started the season 27-2, including a 19-game win streak that was ended on Christmas Day by the 23-5 Lakers.

As every member of their fanbase is well aware, in Boston’s first game after the NBA All-Star Game break the 44-11 Celtics were decapitated when Kevin Garnett injured his knee trying to catch a lob against the Utah Jazz. He tested it out a few weeks later but the results were pitiful relative to Garnett’s usual standards: 9 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 16.5 minutes in four games. He wasn’t healthy enough for the playoffs.

Without the reigning Defensive Player of the Year, Boston eventually scraped past Derrick Rose’s hungry Bulls in a classic seven-game series that included five games decided by three or fewer points before they blew a 3-2 lead against the Magic. (When it became clear Garnett would miss the entire postseason, Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck said this about the first-place Cavs: “They earned home court, they earned the best record, they are clearly a championship-quality team, and in my opinion they have the best basketball player on the planet right now: Mo Williams.”)

A series against the Cavs would’ve been a dog fight even if Garnett’s knee was 100 percent, but, as was made clear the following year, the Celtics were just about impossible to beat four times in seven tries when everybody was healthy. (Did you know their starting five never lost a playoff series? It’s true.)

This was before the three-point revolution, when physicality, size, and defense dictated wins and losses. On that end, Garnett and Boston’s defensive coordinator Tom Thibodeau owned the league with a back line overload concept that everybody else tried to copy. LeBron James was already the best player in the world, but Cleveland had yet to give him enough help.

Garnett’s knee robbed the Celtics of an epic Finals rematch. Instead, Courtney Lee missed a layup, Jameer Nelson forgot how to play transition defense, and the Lakers snuffed out Orlando in five.

One year later, Boston and LA met again, but by then the Celtics were on fumes. Garnett wasn’t the same player, and, even for a team that routinely struggled to score points throughout their time as a championship contender, the 2010 Finals were a particularly bumpy rock fight.

The Celtics emerged from the Garnett era with one ring, which is impressive by itself. But his injury in 2009 stole an opportunity everyone in Boston wished they could have back.

2) 2012 Dallas Mavericks

Regular season record: 36-30

Key losses: Peja Stojakovic, JJ Barea, Tyson Chandler, Corey Brewer, DeShawn Stevenson

Key additions: Vince Carter, Lamar Odom, Delonte West, Brandan Wright

Poor Dirk Nowitzki. It’s either recency bias or the deflating way Dallas allowed its only champion to implode overnight, but this team inspired me to write this article more than any other. The only championship team in franchise history was kind of like a sturdy Jenga tower, if that makes any sense. So long as every piece was in the right place, they had a breadth of complementary skill-sets who all belonged — an embodiment of the idea that the sum can be greater than its individual parts.

Unfortunately, six guys were free agents that offseason, and the only one Dallas retained was Brian “The Janitor” Cardinal, whose three-point percentage dropped from 48.3 to 20.4. Not great!

One particular decision still pains Mavs fans to this day. At the time, with the lockout sewing a modest amount of confusion into every team’s long-term strategy, Mark Cuban sided with long-term flexibility over the 29-year-old defensive anchor Tyson Chandler. Instead of keeping a good thing (with a narrow window of contention) going, they fell in love with the idea of pairing another free agent star with Nowitzki. One in the hand is worth two in the bush, etc.

Hindsight is 20/20, but even at the time this felt icky. Since, the Mavericks have advanced past the first round precisely zero times; in 2012 the Mavs were swept in Round 1 by Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden’s Oklahoma City Thunder. It’s fair to look at the talent in Oklahoma City and say Dallas capitalized on its one and only chance, but Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, Shawn Marion, and Jason Terry deserved an opportunity to sustain their magic against LeBron James’ Heat one more time.

Chandler went on to win Defensive Player of the Year during his first season with the Knicks, and eventually came back to Dallas in 2015. By then the landscape had shifted. Golden State was starting a dynasty and Nowitzki was 36. “Obviously it would have been better if we could have kept him, right?” Cuban said at Chandler’s press conference in 2014. “But our hand was dealt with all the changes. All’s well that ends well. I think it turned out just the way we wanted, just the way I planned.”

A year later, Chandler was in Phoenix. The Mavs, having thought DeAndre Jordan was in the bag, were left in the cold once again.

1) 2007 Miami Heat

Regular season record: 44-38

Key losses: None

Key additions: None

For these Heat, “sad,” as it’s described in the introduction of this article, equals “pathetic.” This team was as mediocre as it was forgettable as it was disappointing. For just a moment, try and get past the fact they were the first defending champion in over 50 years to get swept from the first round, and instead focus on how they made zero essential changes to their championship roster during the offseason and then lost their season opener by 42 points!

Getting demolished in the playoffs was embarrassing but could at least be blamed on a regular season that was ravaged by injuries (Dwyane Wade missed 31 games and Shaquille O’Neal sat out 42). But to no-show your own ring ceremony? And only score 66 points!? Needless to say, this was officially the worst loss in league history by a defending champ on opening night.

Now, when you throw in the controversy that still surrounds Miami’s 2006 title — Oprah Winfrey might as well have stood on the baseline shouting “You get a whistle, and you get a whistle!” every time Wade drove into the paint — is there any title from the last 25 years that feels more random if that postseason were simulated 100 times? I’m not trying to disparage a championship run, but the league had no boogeyman in 2007, and the Eastern Conference was wide open once again.

In 2008, O’Neal was traded and Alonzo Mourning retired. They won 15 games and were awarded the second pick in the draft, which meant Michael Beasley instead of Derrick Rose. Eventually LeBron James saved Miami from the wilderness and forever altered how that organization is perceived. But back in 2007 they were, as Pat Riley said in early January — when he announced his own indefinite leave of absence to deal with personal health issues — ”We have a championship team that is sideways right now, so this is going to be a great challenge. Keep your notebooks open. We’ll see how it plays out.”

Narrator: It played out like a complete and total catastrophe. Some might point to the injuries and the age-related decline, but that’s kind of an excuse. This team is remembered as a defending champion that had no interest in wanting to do it all over again. That’s not what you want.

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TRP Flag: Riankel Ebonstone - Twilight’s Blade

Directory Information: Race: Sin’dorei Class: Spellblade Age: Adult Eye Color: Blue-green Height: 6′1″  Body Shape: 168 lbs. (Athletic) Birthplace: Silvermoon City Residence: Silvermoon City

Additional Information: Pronunciation: ��Ree-ahn-kel” Nickname: Rian, Reb Piercings: Two sapphire studs in each ear. Scars: Many. Vitality: Vigorously healthy. Languages: Thalassian, Common, Orcish, Dwarven

Personality Traits: Lawful (7) < Chaotic (13) Chaste (7) < Lustful (13) Altruistic (7) < Selfish (13) Compassionate (10) = Monstrous (10) Truthful (7) < Deceitful (13) Swords (13) > Spells (7) Extroverted (13) > Introverted (7)

Physical Description: Tall, athletically lean, and graced with a sun-kissed tan, Riankel Ebonstone looks...just like any other pretty elf on Azeroth. There's nothing special in being good-looking when the ugliest of your race can generally outshine any human. His scruffy chin tells of a low priority placed on shaving and his loose, sandy blond hair is kept to the bottom of his shoulder blades with practiced carelessness. Smile lines and dimples bracket his boy-next-door grin and his blue-green eyes are ever active and bright. If spotted shirtless he sports an assortment of little scars on his chest and arms: neat round burns, jagged wiggly slices, and even a tiny divot of gouged flesh on the outside of his right forearm.

Rian – as he prefers to be called – employs a certain devil-may-care flair, mostly dressing in styles which manage to be both dapper and cavalier. Hunter green, copper, and warm sandstone hues tend to suit him best. When he speaks, his voice is a vaguely melodic and easy to listen to baritone. He isn't lordly, but he moves with a bit of that casual confidence that seems to come so easily to nobility; not that he'd admit it, but it's an imitated behavior.

History: A regular in gambling dens and houses of mediocre repute, he has a reputation for being smooth, friendly, and not winning too often. He's almost never seen with another on his arm though - male or female.

Rock-climbers, base jumpers, extreme skiers, and other thrill-seekers probably know him. He's firmly in the middle of all that crazy, laughing like a madman as he undertakes ever more dangerous stunts.

Those who trained as spellblades in Dalaran many years before the First War might recognize him as a fairly proficient duelist who disappeared without a word.

A rare few who grew up in Augur's (now Murder) Row might know the Ebonstone family as dirt poor and prone to loud screaming matches from their tiny alley apartment. It's been a decade or two since they were last heard shouting at one another. 

At First Glance:

Smells like... Those who get close catch a whiff of cinnamon and unbrewed tea leaf, clove and sandalwood, dried tobacco leaf and peppercorn. In short, he smells pleasantly like a spice stall at market. 

Casually dapper. Riankel has a way of making the tousled and unshaven look oddly dapper. It's a nonchalant and unassuming style, without the usual affectation of most charming rogues.

Other Information (OOC): Looking for just the right guild... I like big words and I cannot lie. http://rebonstone.tumblr.com

Inventory:

Sapphire Studs Jewelry          Earrings “A pair of simple, faceted blue sapphire stud earrings.”

Simple Dagger Weapon          Dagger “A small, simple dagger of good steel and minimalist design, meant as a back-up or last resort weapon.”

Med-kit Container “A hard-sided case containing all the necessary items for non-magical triage healing: bandages of various types, needle and thread, antiseptics, painkillers, antidotes, gloves, burn cream, tweezers, and a myriad of herbal salves and potions.”

Deck of Cards Game          Cards “A common, standard four-suit deck of playing cards.”

Pair of Dice Game          Dice “A simple pair of true-rolling dice.”

Condensed Mana Powder Consumable “A fine powder made from crushing mana crystals and mixing with powdered mana thistle.” 

“Soothing” Massage Oil Consumable          Cosmetic “A bottle of ‘soothing’ blend massage oil from Red Moon.”

Honeycakes Consumable          Food “Lynesse’s honeycakes.”

Loaf of Brioche Consumable          Food “A loaf of Lynesse’s brioche bread.”

Garnet Studs Jewelry          Earrings “A pair of single-stone garnet studs.”

Box of T&R Chocolates Container          Box “A box of chocolates from T&R Chocolatiers.”       The Madame Cordial      Consumable          Food      “Strawberries in champagne creme in a dark chocolate shell.”      -----      The Wee Green Faery Truffle      Consumable          Food      “Absinthe and creamy white chocolate, with gold flake garnish.”

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Meet South Carolina, the best Cinderella story of the NCAA tournament

NEW YORK – We’ve watched Northwestern storm into the second round in its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance. We’ve cheered as Michigan, despite dealing with the trauma resulting from a harrowing plane crash earlier in the month, marched into the Sweet 16. We’ve been stunned as a Xavier team that lost its best player and three weeks ago was a bubble team made the Elite Eight.

While all of those are great stories, they fall short of being the signature one of this tournament now.

The true team to root for is actually more southern belle than Cinderella, more sweet tea than champagne. It’s South Carolina.

The Gamecocks, who hail from a conference far more famous for football, straw hats and spring scrimmages than anything else, advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time in school history, throttling Baylor 70-50, with a defensive effort that would make the Old Ball Coach – or any great SEC football mind for that matter – proud.

“Defense is our staple and we can’t control if the shot goes in, we can’t control the referee making calls, but what we can control is our hustle, heart and effort and control how hard and intense we are on defense,” senior guard Duane Notice said. “Throughout the year we pride ourselves on our defensive schemes and we want to implement them every chance we get.”

It’s that kind of grit and commitment to the process – one that isn’t as flashy and flamboyant as something you’d see in a North Carolina, Kentucky or UCLA – that makes the Gamecocks the loveable, blue-collar team of this tournament.

“Attitude comes first,” head coach Frank Martin said. “We got to have guys that are going to believe in our mission, that are going to believe in what we want to do. Once they believe, then we can teach them the technique. It all starts with our mindset. We have got guys that are completely bought into what we do.”

And for every great fairy tale we’ve seen thus far in March, the Gamecocks are able to take the madness one step further.

South Carolina guards Duane Notice (left) and Sindarius Thornwell are headed to the Elite Eight. (AP)

While Northwestern stole the show by never making the Big Dance prior to 2017, South Carolina’s previous ineptitude was nothing to be scoffed at.

Prior to its opening-round win against Marquette, the Gamecocks hadn’t won an NCAA tournament game since the Nixon administration – when the tournament field contained just 25 teams.

“It’s a great thing, great win for the program, it’s a good feeling when we continue to make history and I think once we got a taste of it we kind of got addicted and want to continue doing it,” Notice said. “So we’re going to do everything in our power to make sure we do that.”

As the Michigan, Purdue, Wisconsin and the entire Big Ten silenced critics by having a stronger-than-expected showing in the NCAA tournament’s first weekend in what was a “down” year for the conference, the Gamecocks and the SEC managed to fly even further under the radar. South Carolina was one of five teams to make the field of 68, with only the Pac-12 receiving fewer bids as a Power Five conference.

“I want to credit the teams in our league in the SEC for preparing us for the kind of games that you have to play at this time of year,” Martin said. “Those coaches, those players that we fought against every single day, got these guys prepared to harden, to understand how hard and how disciplined you have to play to have a chance to win at this time of year.”

And despite Xavier being a lower-seeded team in the Elite Eight and having taken down Florida State and Arizona, it can be argued that no team has had a more difficult road than Martin’s Gamecocks.

Considering that less than a week ago South Carolina’s season was 20 minutes from ending at the hands of the NCAA’s perennial villain Duke, the effort put forth over the past 60 minutes of basketball has been nothing short of Herculean.

Led by Thornwell, the Gamecocks embarrassed the Blue Devils in the second round, scoring 65 points – the most ever allowed in a single half by a Mike Krzyzewski-coached Duke team – and not only busting brackets, but also capturing hearts across America.

“We try to give everything we got every game, and the way we play the game, we play the game the right way,” senior guard Sindarius Thornwell said. “We have been doing it all season. It’s just now y’all gave us a stage to do it and we’re just showcasing what we have been doing all season.”

With the win, in front of a decidedly pro-Gamecocks crowd, South Carolina has cemented its status as this year’s giant killers. No other team remaining at this point in the tournament has had to beat two teams that were ranked No. 1 in the AP poll during the regular season.

The signature moment this time came in the first half. Martin’s team held Baylor scoreless for a nearly eight-minute stretch, going on an 18-0 run to seize a 31-15 lead that it wouldn’t surrender for the rest of the game.

“I felt like we were in their heads the whole game, but they’re a great team and we knew they were going to go on a run. It was just a matter of whether we were going to sustain that run and keep it going,” said Thornwell, a likely first-round draft pick in June’s NBA draft. “When the lead got extended and that’s when we knew that we took that run and just we just had to finish the game then.”

Who knows when – or if – the clock will strike midnight on South Carolina, but for now Martin and the Gamecocks are welcoming along any and everyone onto the bandwagon.

“Our fans are taking this ride with us and eventually we’re either going to party together or we’re going to cry together,” Martin said. “It’s one or the other. There’s not another alternative there. But that’s the way it needs to be.”

Maybe this run will end in tears, but don’t expect the Gamecocks – America’s new college team – to do that without a fight now that they finally have gotten their chance.

“We’re not done yet,” forward Chris Silva said.

“We don’t want to be just here. … We’re hungry. We want to keep winning.”

More March Madness coverage on Yahoo Sports: • How Chris Chiozza hit the shot of the NCAA tournament and saved Florida’s season • These photos of Florida’s buzzer-beater are almost as incredible as the shot itself • Billion-dollar bust: De’Aaron Fox upstages Lonzo Ball to lead Kentucky past UCLA • Commercials during March Madness mistakenly thank Republicans for repealing Obamacare • The Internet loves LaVar Ball memes after UCLA’s loss to Kentucky

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 6

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Larxene

(from ask) She's mean. "Larxene is unfeeling and loves nothing more than to bring other people down" is her official description. Everything that comes out of her mouth is an insult. This woman wants to stab and electrocute and backstab people. She loves tormenting children.

Kromer

Yes, haha funny Spamton word, but listen to me. She's killed HUNDREDS at the very least. She's tormenting her childhood friend. She does weird Catholicism-ish stuff. [This next bit is spoilers] She turns into a fucked up monster. [Okay that's all.] AND, most of all, she's hot.

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 9

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Kristoph Gavin

tried to kill a 12 year old girl and her father, also killed some other guy because he lost to him at poker

Vace

Teenager grown up in super pro military spaceship en route to hunt down your group. Aggressive and revels in killing alien threats (sci-fi setting. Tbf there are monsters but hes down to kill everything, even friendly xenofauna). Your first conversation with him he insults your family/colony, belittles you, and if you tell him about unisaurs (dinosaur unicorn esque creature) he just gets excited about killing it. He is very possessive and gets into a toxic relationship with one of your friends. If you gift him something he hates he destroys it in front of you (at least he destroyed the flower I gave him). To prove how tough he is, he beat up one of the two decent people on his ship when they were young and encourages others to ostracize them. Vace will make rude comments to you if your friendship is high with aforementioned character. He's the woooooooorst.

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 13

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Nazuna Nito

I'm submitting him because there seems to be a consensus in the fandom that he's a tiny little meek guy. Meek is the LAST word I'd use to describe him this man is full of rage. This guy is by no means evil, but he can be mean, and frankly he should be allowed to be! He has a very sharp tongue, threatening or wishing death upon others. He has some violent tendencies also... In Romantic Comedy, he literally strangles Kaoru. Even when he was in Valkyrie, he wasn't like some sad sopping wet cat. In his Reminiscence: Marionette he remarks on how other units are sloppy and suck in comparison to Valkyrie. I love him dearly. He's extremely sweet, but yes, he is like this also.

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Vil Shoenheit

He's snobby, a drama queen, kinda mean, expects perfection from everyone and yee :3

Where do I even start??? He's literally if the evil queen from snow white was a bitchy influencer. So like if patrick bateman was an influencer. so like one of those beauty influencers that were in drama but the crime this time was murder. He's vain as fuck and kind of the worst. Hates country accents. Has trauma but idk what it is cause I'm not far enough in yet. tried to kill someone probably. amazing at chemistry and making poisons to kill people with.

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 8

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Sharpay Evans

Blonde, HSM antagonist but it was never that deep

Zenos yae Galvus

Main villain for the Stormblood expansion. Kills an entire city full of people. Directed fucked up experiments. Died, but then came back due to the fucked up experiments, and killed his dad.

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 12

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Camus

He's a two faced asshole. And I love him so much

Clownpiece

She is a little shit. She isn't american she just wears that flag because she wants to piss off the residents of the moon. She causes problems on purpose. She's powerful. She is silly

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 4

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Sakyo Furuichi

He's a 30-something-year-old idiot who's trying to round up 25 other people and keep them in line, but all those people are divded in like four troupes which makes it harder. Gives off tired dad energy but when he snaps, he SNAPS.

He's an asshole (affectionate)

Hiyoko Saionji

She is a very mean character, she likes crushing ants for fun and makes mean mocking remarks towards everyone. If people talk back to her she ends up fake crying.

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 14

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Eichi Tenshouin

He is literally the centerpiece of The War in ensemble stars. He more or less rose to student council president position, gutted their entire school and instilled lots of new rules and stuff. He made 5 students public figures, then promptly dragged them through the mud. He gained intel from people close to them and utilized their weaknesses against them to execute them. They all ended up getting severely bullied. He's treated many friendships as transactional relationships. He sabotaged numerous idol units, putting one out of commission for months. All in all, it was brutal. He almost succeeded in shutting down an entire revolution a year later. On another note he is just. a cheeky little guy. Sassy man apocalypse

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Johnny Cage

Dude is like the most stereotypical Hollywood douchebag you've ever seen, his ego is enormous and he is also kind of a misogynist. In some versions of the game he has his name tattooed on his chest

He sucks so much but unfortunately I do care for him

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Champagne Bracket: Round 1, Poll 3

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Haley

Blonde. Mean. Very stereotypical mean girl.

She is mean. She will insult and belittle you. But if you get closer to her you'll realize she has a softer side and she really grows and matures through the game. 

Byakuya Togami

Very elitist, constantly calls others "commoners", talks about how he is gonna kill someone and get out of the killing game, hangs up a corpse and writes a message with their blood on the wall because he already knows the murderer but wants to see who is smart, complains the other students left him out even though he made sure to tell them every time that he wants nothing to do with them, pretty sure he screams in the 4 chapter " How can you know something I don't know?!", the only reason he doesn't qualify as a villain is cus he doesnt kill someone and in the end works with the rest of the survivors. He also constantly wants the protagonist to tell the rest what he knows

he's mean and self-centered and sees himself as above everyone else.

such a cunt 😭 doesnt eat breakfast w everyone and spends all his time in the library. (also he tampered with a crime scene but spoilers)

His title is literally, get this, "ultimate affluent progeny" Fucking look at him /hj Treats everyone as inferior in every way, even when they're trying to solve a murder he goes "how did YOUUU figure this out before MEEE???? >:0" Constantly has an "Me vs. Them" mentality about everything so he feels the need to prove himself to be superior - Messes with crime scenes because it would "make them more interesting" (purposefully incriminating someone else, who he didn't like) Actual quotes by him: "I'm only here to get breakfast. I have neither need nor desire to talk to you. Now withdraw." "You're like a child lost in the woods, you know that? A total waste of space." "You know, I still just can't believe it... That an uneducated, brain-dead, useless piece of garbage like you has survived this long." "You have only yourself to blame—you came to me with your tragic little story. I didn't ask you to. This is the real world, not some romantic fantasy fairytale."

This rich mf… He spends the entire game being a snobby, condescending, uncaring asshole. He becomes relatively nicer by the end but never stops being a dick. He also desecrated a corpse once for funsies. He’s also stupid but he doesn’t know that. I both like and hate him. It’s complicated.

He's an heir to a wealthy family corporation and he sure does act the part. He acts like he's better than everyone else and thinks they're not worth his time. He's just a huge asshole. (SPOILERS) He tampers with a murder scene just for fun and outs another student's secret alter, knowing full well it was irrelevant to the case. He also has a small breakdown about being wrong in another trial. By the end, he becomes a bit more likeable and kinda a tsundere that pretends like he doesn't care about the other survivors (but he totally does). Still very much an asshole though. He's a fucked up lil guy and something about him draws me to him. I would kick his rich bastard shins IRL given the chance, however.

He is emotionally detached from his classmates…