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regallibellbright · 2 years ago

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Okay you know what if we manage to get Utena/Anthy and Joshneku as the finals somehow I will expand that bullet fic into a full-length thing and write a meaningful interaction between BOTH parallel sets, not just the Double Composer Doublespeak Power Hour. And I’ll expand that one, too.

I’ll also do a Joshneku take on the Cantarella scene probably I DESPERATELY want to do a Joshneku take on the Cantarella scene actually. I’ll do it as propaganda regardless I think.

Thia is in fact my pitch to everyone who’s only following me for one or the other: I genuinely think there are some parallels with the two enough I wrote a bullet fic with them and would be willing to make that parallel more explicit for anyone who cares to ask and doesn’t mind spoilers. I don’t even care who wins by that point (well I do care, Utena and Anthy have won several big polls, TWEWY sweep as underdogs, Neku deserves to win something for as many times as he got shot for this,) I just want a situation where I can flail about that and feel validated.

Alright folks. Here's the first-round matchups. It was difficult to pick between all the nominations, but I am proud of all of us and hope I got a pretty diverse pool here.

The list of nominations can be found here. There might have been a few from asks that I failed to copy over. But I should have gotten most of them.

The matchups are only half-random. I've rearranged them by genres/what I think would be amusing. I've grouped the "same picture" ships and overlapping fandoms together in round 1 to minimize "I don't know the other person". It's more fun/fair when we all get to make informed decisions. Plus our cast is very stacked and it would be a shame if we never get to see komahina vs. akeshu or doctor/master vs. cherik etc etc.

*MXTX fandom, I'm tentatively putting beefleaf as our representative in this bracket, as they're currently ahead in the qualifier poll. If this situation changes by the end of the week, then I'll edit this post.

Round 1: Ide of March (Mar 15)

Anakin/Obi-Wan vs. Macaque/Sun Wukong (Lego Monkie Kid)

Shouichi/Byakuran vs. Sasuke/Naruto

Griffith/Guts vs. Soowon/Hak

Anthy/Utena vs. Andrey/Goncharov

Komaeda/Hinata vs. Akechi/Joker

John Silver/James Flint vs. Curt/Owen (Spies are Forever)

Sasha/Anne (Amphibia) vs. Bill Cipher/Ford Pines

Homura/Madoka (PMMM: Rebellion) vs. Ryo/Akira (Devilman)

Judas/Jesus vs. GLaDOS/Chell

Nagi/Reo (Blue Lock) vs. Geto/Gojo

Lelouche/Suzaku vs. Seishiro/Subaru

Erik/Charles (X-Men) vs. The Master/The Doctor

Brutus/Caesar vs. Ennis/Jack (Brokeback Mountain)

Josh/Neku vs. He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan

Hannibal/Will vs. Louis/Lestat

Adora/Catra vs. Terezi/Vriska

#‘You know I’m poisoning you.’ ‘Yes. I know. That’s why I poisoned you too.’#there’s a pause and the record skips and you KNOW they’ve parsed the double meaning there.#and then they keep eating. compliment each other for making it.#saying it all without anger without resignation without any change of tone at all. ‘I’ll keep hurting you.’ ‘I know.’#’And I’ll keep hurting you too in all the ways humans hurt each other without meaning to.’#‘But in ten years’ time I hope we’ll still be in a place where we can be together just like this. Drinking tea and eating cookies.’#’That would be nice.’ the first speaker admits.#peak romance. I don’t know what to tell you.#and yeah that’s my metric here. with no shade to the other couples I recognize?#even if I’d write the Joshneku version as postcanon they are the only two I can really buy that SPECIFIC exchange from.#because in a lot of ways they already had conversations covering all that same ground and both times even with that acknowledgement #you’re still SHOCKED when the actual betrayal comes and absolutely gutted #the PINNACLE of homoerotic betrayal. no others can compare.

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