#loser's bracket 1 round 1

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Loser's Bracket 1, Round 1

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Gay wrongs tournament, round one of the losers bracket

Propaganda:

For Kinn and Porsche:

First of all, Mafia prince meets poor boy whom he makes his bodyguard. They are canonically engaged. Some might say they're not that bad, but not only have both killed people without hesitation, they went into scenarios ON PURPOSE knowing what the end result will be. By the end of it all, power couple to the skies but also 2 unrelenting Mafia heads who can and will kill you if you so much as look at their partner wrong.

look the gun tango scene, when they're in the middle of an attempted coup, and they spin around while holding each other and shooting people, is the most iconic thing ever

For Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu:

you've got the founder of the fantasy ancient Chinese CIA and the leader of what is essentially the mafia and then they're soulmates and in love. they're both willing to kill anyone who dares hurt the other while also just wanting a soft domestic life together

Zhou Zishu is an assassin and spymaster who put the current Emperor on the throne, and then quit his job by faking his death (kinda, hes still dying but not as fast as he was supposed to). Had done A Lot on his old job, including murdering children (more than one, and at least one of them in a way I can't even describe without several trigger warnings), exterminating whole families, war crimes (and i dont mean this in a buzzword way, i mean "organized a public execution of foreign diplomats during war time")… btw he doesn't feel particularly bad about any of this, because he believes it was necessary. Like he wouldn't do it for fun, but he thinks the ends (putting a good Emperor on the throne) justified the means (all of the atrocities). As a retiree, he definitely cut down on the amount of morally reprehensible murder, but not murder in general. He still routinely kills ppl, he just doesn't go out of his way to kill more. Wen Kexing, meanwhile, is the Ghost Valley Master - Ghost Valley being a place where the worst of criminals are exiled. Even in such a place, he has reputation as a complete lunatic, owed partially to the fact that he either skinned a man or fed him his own flesh or both at one point, and partially to him having a rule where he would kill anyone who came closer than 3 meters to him. But in truth, everything he'd done was to survive the Ghost Valley and eventually take revenge for his parents, who were brutally murdered when he was only nine. By the start of the novel's timeline, he put his plan in motion - the plan that would drown jianghu in blood, but also deliver poetic justice to all responsible for his parents' deaths, as well as all who'd commit the same crime given the chance. And these two men, these two murderers and schemers, meet - and unexpectedly, find in each other the person who /understands/. The person who is just as ruthless and whose hands are just as bloody, but also the person who knows standing at the top of the world is not worth it, who seeks the same freedom of leaving it all behind, and who is still, underneath it all, a human, with human heart seeking connection. So you have this couple who understand each other with barely a word, and who want the same things - who are so hungry for domesticity and for people they can just goof around with when all their lives they had to measure every step and word - but ALSO where one half a couple is like "i gotta go murder hundreds in revenge" and the other half is like "ok pick you up at 6". (This btw is why I'm submitting novel's iteration of the couple in particular. Show wenzhou with their ridiculous breakups over morality could Never.) Also they were both hiding who they are when they first met, and later flirted about having figured each other out. Finally, I'll leave you my favorite quote that just. perfectly sums up their relationship: "And just like that, they fell asleep in each other's arms, steeped in the smell of blood."

You’ve probably already had submissions for them but I’ll add on. One of them founded an assassin’s guild and killed a staggering number of people. His malewife is the leader of a sect of insane murderous outcasts, and he attained his position by proving to be the most crazy and murder happy of them all. Most of the plot involves him wandering around watching his schemes get more people killed. Together they adopt a kid that was only orphaned due to said scheming (oops). They’re terrible and I love them.

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Giovanni Twins - @enthblaze

Even More Disaster Twins - @3lectricinsomnia / @teaableu

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LOSER'S BRACKET! ROUND 1, MATCH 4 OUT OF 4!

Loser's Bracket Propaganda Under the Cut:

Laura La Mer:

[No Loser's Bracket Propaganda Submitted]

Mija:

Her design is really cute, she gets a really catchy pop song to sing, and I like that the show managed to find a good balance between the original story’s set up and a happy ending (ik disney did it too but Happily Ever After us just such a cute show)

Sayaka Miki:

[No Loser's Bracket Propaganda Submitted]

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Loser Bracket Round 2, Match 7

Clarith Netsuma (The Evillious Chronicles) vs Canoness Selena Agna (Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm)

Clarith is a Heldean nun

Canoness Selena Agna is a Sister of Battle of the Order of the Sacred Rose.

Clarith Netsuma

Became a nun worshipping a nature deity after her girlfriend was killed. And... her girlfriend literally became the nature deity. She eavesdropped on a confession, almost killed a girl on the beach about it, likes animals, and dated god.

(She joins the monastery in scene 4, about 5 minutes into the song)

Canoness Selena Agna

No propaganda submitted.

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DAMON/ELENA BRACKET ROUND 1.5ZZ

1.20 Stefan is in detox, locked in the Salvatore basement, and has been for an unspecified amount of time. Damon asks Elena a question about Uncle John, and she says she's been avoiding him, "That, and I've been here most nights." Damon raises an eyebrow, says, "So you'll be here again tonight?" “Is that a problem?” Elena asks. “Yes,” Damon says, "you’re a complete nuisance.” Later, Damon makes plans with Alaric, and asks Elena “Look, are you gonna be okay here if I have to run out?" And then advises her, “You should – um – you should stay up here, you shouldn’t be down there by yourself.” “I’ll be fine,” Elena says. He says, “You know, you’re very trusting of him given the circumstances.” “So are you,” Elena answers. He looks at her, she says, “Otherwise you wouldn’t be leaving.” He says only, "Won't be long." When he gets back, he says "Ugh, god, you're still here?" She says, "Were you expecting anything else?" "No," he says, and sits down next to her on the couch and puts her feet in his lap. They discuss their respective days, and finally, Damon opens up to her about Stefan's role in his transition to becoming a vampire.

1.11 Damon brings Elena to Bree’s Bar, despite the fact that she's not old enough. Bree pours them all shots; Elena seems unsure about hers and so Damon sneakily drinks it for her, which makes Elena smile.  Bree asks Elena how she got roped in to Damon's heart-breaking ways; she says she’s not roped, but doesn’t get through explaining that she’s dating Stefan. Bree tells Damon that there's no way to get in the tomb to save Katherine, and then he eavesdrops on Elena telling Stefan over the phone she doesn't see why she should believe him.  Damon speeds to her side and asks, “You okay?” She snaps, “Don’t pretend to care. I know you’re gloating inside.”But a minute later they’re inside together, eating french fries at the bar and discussing her heritage and his digestion. Elena is enjoying his charm and his humor, and then asks, “This nice act…is any of it real?” He just looks at her, and doesn’t answer. Bree hands him another beer, Elena pipes up, “I’ll have one too. Time-out, remember? For five minutes. And this five minutes is gonna need a beer.” They do some shots with bar denizens. “Do you need a bib?” Elena teases Damon. “Sorry I can’t unhinge my jaw like a snake to consume alcohol,” he answers. Elena suggests another round, a woman tells her she should be on the ground. "I'm not even drunk, my tolerance is like waaay up here!" She jumps up and down, Damon stares at her, smiling with equal parts bemusement and affection.

old propaganda under the cut:

1.20

1.11

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S10 Loser's Bracket Round 1

Call me page me if you wanna meet me

cw: spoilers

Character A has been haunted for years by an evil that ruined his childhood, leading him to try to learn as much about it as he can. In his research he learns of character B, who spent his life saving people from said evil, and A becomes somewhat parasocially fond of him. Unfortunately for him, B died before they could meet. A refuses to believe it though, and travels around the world to try to find him.

A actually manages to find him, but B’s in a lot of pain and being artificially kept… sort of alive. B doesn’t trust A at first, assuming he’s just going to hurt him like everyone else does, but when A puts himself in harms way for B despite them just meeting, B tells A everything he knows. B dies for real, but before doing so trusts A with something he’s never told anyone- the name he wanted to be called.

Not the sharpest bisexuals in the shed

Red's job is to kill people. He has a very annoying second best friend who seems like a tagalong, but is actually terrifyingly competent. Second Best Friend (2BF) has no other friends, possibly due to his spectacular failure to act normal around anyone, ever, and is some twisted type of lawful neutral with a carveout for whatever Red needs, while Red's only other friend is an animal and his sense of morality is a caricature of jingoism—until now, when he's starting to regret his past. They're very violent, and they're both really, really dumb.

2BF is obsessed with Red, way more than Red is with him. However, 2BF is fiercely loyal to him and only him, making him the most reliable backup Red will ever have, and giving 2BF a reason to be more careful about who he kills. When Red chokes, 2BF has his back. Where others are inclined to use Red's dad as leverage, 2BF is very protective of Red and understands the dad as an abuser, as opposed to Red being his legacy. 2BF is also the one who can get through to Red when Red is making bad choices. In spite of 2BF's inability to process emotions in a typical way, he manages to get Red to talk about his own feelings, albeit through the dumbest conversations possible.

While they build good relationships with other coworkers, no one quite gets them like they do each other. They have fun together. They have threesomes (still gay if it's a three way). They blow up shit for giggles and accidentally injure each other and laugh about it. 2BF would die for Red if he had to—but he'd rather kill for him. Red, for his part, appreciates the deepening of their relationship from surface level antics to serious emotional sharing.

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Seireitei Smashability Showdown: (Loser's) Round 1, Match 65

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Losers Bracket D Round 1 Poll 2

Please listen to both songs before voting!

Propaganda is allowed!

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Loser Bracket Round 1 Match 2: Odalia Blight vs Steve

The winner will progress in the loser bracket. The other is eliminated.

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Magical Boy Tournament: Losers Bracket Round 1

Entrant Propaganda:

Tsubasa Yuunagi

a certified little guy 

bird 

just wants to fly 

totally normal about airplanes.

first male pretty cure to be part of a main team

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Loser's Bracket 1, Round 1

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Gay wrongs tournament, round one of the losers bracket

Propaganda:

For Jonathan and Martin:

Season Five is so funny for this. Jon is like nooooo I can't kill these people I'm enjoying it what does that say about me and Martin is like FUCK EM UP. I think they end up killing like three or four people as part of that. Very swag of them

they go around an apocalyptic london smiting people but only if jon feels like it

One of them is an avatar of an eldricht god of fear, the other one serves a lonely god at some point. They try to be good but they actually did some terrible things. Jon ate some people's fear, re-opening their trauma. Martin is all about murdering the people who hurt them, once the apocalypse rolls around. They're canonically in love.

They literally bring the end of the world about, and Jon is the human embodiment of the fear of being watched. They also both have no concept of private property or privacy in general (they have broken into so many places). They also both share an affection for cows. They were living their best cottagecore life as the entire world was being thrown into a fear filled apocalypse that they caused.

For Edward Nygma and Oswald Cobblepot :

they ARE evil and they DO actually murder people together. and sometimes they try to kill each other. literally bonded over being murders when they first met. have done innumerable crimes since. gotham's worst on/off-couple.

The epitome of "the couple that kills together stays together" except that they are also often trying to kill each other. But that's just how love is sometimes. But yeah, Oswald confesses his love for Ed, except he also murdered Ed's girlfriend a little, then Ed tries to kill him, but then he hallucinates Oswald's ghost singing seductively to him because he's also definitely in love with him. They both do so much murder and they are both so in love with each other in such a messed up but ultimately devoted way; I genuinely think they are the most murderous and husbandly murder husbands out there. Plus they have all the delightful campy themed flair of Batman villains!

Goth x nerd couple except they're campy supervillains who like to spice their gay drama up with murder and they have soooo many issues. The spicing it up with murder includes both killing the other's partner out of jealousy and just trying to kill each other many MANY times. I wish the memory of this show was fresh enough in my mind to give you a breakdown of their relationship but alas. Anyway, these two are like the most iconic thing in this show for me, not only for their relationship but their personalities individually

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Addams Family - @lackablazeical

Behind the Scenes - @catboycamdotcom

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LOSER'S BRACKET, ROUND 1B! MATCH 1 OUT OF 8!

*Includes the original 1950 animated film, the 2002 sequel Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, and the 2007 sequel Cinderella III: A Twist in Time.

Loser's Propaganda Under the Cut:

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella:

SHE SHOULD HAVE WON IT ALL! SHE'S LITERALLY THE BEST CINDERELLA OF ALL TIME! I AM AGOG THAT SHE LOST IN ROUND 1!

Disney's Cinderella Animated:

she is literally The Cinderella of all time and she is referenced in so many Cinderella retelling from the past 50+ years subtly or not. she walked so everyone else could run tbh.

I mean I understand everyone loves a cutie bear but I still can't believe this Cinderella won't be in the final round... like she is still such an underrated Disney princess when she showed how strong she was by staying the nicest girl ever in a terrible environment. Plus Cinderella in Cinderella 2 is still adorable and Cinderella 3 is a masterpiece!

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Loser Bracket Round 1, Match 7

Sister Moira (Misericorde) vs Clarith Netsuma (The Evillious Chronicles)

Sister Moira is a Benedictine nun, and the infirmerer at Linbarrow Abbey

Clarith is a Heldean nun

Sister Moira

No propaganda submitted

Poll Runner's Note: Moira is incredibly nice. She takes care of Hedwig when she's sick, brings her snacks in the library, and thinks up ways to cheer her up when she's sad.

Clarith Netsuma

Became a nun worshipping a nature deity after her girlfriend was killed. And... her girlfriend literally became the nature deity. She eavesdropped on a confession, almost killed a girl on the beach about it, likes animals, and dated god.

(She joins the monastery in scene 4, about 5 minutes into the song)