Amnesiac Bracket

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QUATERFINALS ARE DONE!

I'll be honest apart from Kinger VS Ingo not a single match went the way that I thought it would I'm astounded.

Semi-finals will be up, immediately!

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SEMIFINAL, MATCH 1

Yami Yugi/Atem (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Shouichi Tsugami (Kamen Rider Agito)

Voting ended onMay 16

YAMI

Reason for amnesia: Sealed himself and an evil god away in an ancient item, using his own name as a passcode and erasing his memories/erasing the name from history / Being trapped in the Millenium Puzzle for 5000 years

Do they get their memory back?: Not sure, he learned his true name and regained most of his memory by reliving it / Yes

“Fun” facts: His favourite food is Egyptian falafel / He's the King of Games

SHOUICHI

Reason for amnesia: Accident that led him to washing up on a shore. The details of said accident are a major spoiler.

Do they get their memory back?: Yes, towards the end of the series.

“Fun” facts: Shouichi has complicated feelings around knowing who he once was, and tries to be positive but he is scared of knowing. He likes to cook, garden, do magic tricks, ride his motorbike, clean, and generally does a lot of housework. Not very good at math, but he's very strong and tries to be there for the people he cares about.

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SEMIFINAL, MATCH 2

Ingo (Pokémon Legends: Arceus)

All of the ToQgers (Ressha Sentai ToQger)

Voting ended onMay 16

INGO

Reason for amnesia: got transported to the past / God threw him into a space time vortex and he forgot Everything

Do they get their memory back?: it is hinted at but not sure / Not by the end of the game

“Fun” facts: He has a brother and they work in the subway / Silly train muppet!!!

TOQGERS

Reason for amnesia: A Demon castle took over thier city and a magic train saved them, turning them into adults to fight back but erasing memory

Do they get their memory back?: Yes

“Fun” facts: They're all childhood friends! a big part of the series is them slowly piecing together where they came from and trying to get back to thier home town, the reason they have no memory is because they were all just kids not long ago, but they did indeed get the process of being made into adults wiped as well as home town info

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QUATERFINALS ARE UP!

This round is up for a week! Plenty of time to convince people to vote for your brain damaged blorbo!

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QUATERFINAL, MATCH 4

Siffrin (In Stars and Time)

Shouichi Tsugami (Kamen Rider Agito)

Voting ended onMay 7

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SHOUICHI

Reason for amnesia: Accident that led him to washing up on a shore. The details of said accident are a major spoiler.

Do they get their memory back?: Yes, towards the end of the series.

“Fun” facts: Shouichi has complicated feelings around knowing who he once was, and tries to be positive but he is scared of knowing. He likes to cook, garden, do magic tricks, ride his motorbike, clean, and generally does a lot of housework. Not very good at math, but he's very strong and tries to be there for the people he cares about.

SIFFRIN

Reason for amnesia: magical memory erasure / their home island was erased from the whole world's memory when they were on a boat just outside the affected area. his family, history, culture, language, everything is gone and is still actively being redacted/erased years later / All memory of their country and anything associated with it was wiped from everyone's memory. For most the cast, it's just a conversational tidbit. "How weird that no one can remember what that country was called." For Siffrin, who had borrowed his parents' boat in a running-away-from-home prank at the time the incident happened, lost everything. / Their home island (and any memory of it) dissappeared due to wish craft

Do they get their memory back?: No / Nope / No. They occasionally remember tidbits, but if voiced outloud the universe will right itself and he won't even remember he was talking. / No

“Fun” facts: stuck in a time loop / time loop torment nexus sufferer. the magical amnesia (and trauma) gave them also more regular memory issues - they forget words and things easily, lose track of stuff, at one point he has difficulty with remembering the names of people he has been travelling with for months / They like woodcarving and walking into strangers' homes. / They are the time looping protagonist of the game! Their favourite food is palmiers (though I've also been told since last round it's actually Malanga Fritters so who knows) and they are allergic to pineapples! Uses He/They pronouns!

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QUATERFINAL, MATCH 3

Hajime Hinata/Izuru Kamukura (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair)

Yami Yugi/Atem (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Voting ended onMay 7

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HAJIME

Reason for amnesia: Double amnesia actually. Hajime Hinata joined Hope's Peak as a Reserve Student. Unsatisfied with lacking talent, he joined the Izuru Kamukura project. This succeeded, but his entire identity + memory was erased As Izuru Kamukura he spent years bored, watching the world burn as a Remnant of Despair. But then he was supposed to be rehabilitated via a artificial reality which erased his memory and Izuru Kamukura, leaving only Hajime Hinata behind

Do they get their memory back?: Got his story narrated to him in the game. He at least remembers most of it during the anime, but it is unclear if he remembers everything he did as with the other Remnants of Despair

“Fun” facts: Basically every character is an amnesiac except for the mastermind of 1 and V3, but Hajime and Rantaro, who have forgotten more than most others, are voiced by the same voice actor. Also, Octagon (Sorry I had to)

YAMI

Reason for amnesia: Sealed himself and an evil god away in an ancient item, using his own name as a passcode and erasing his memories/erasing the name from history / Being trapped in the Millenium Puzzle for 5000 years

Do they get their memory back?: Not sure, he learned his true name and regained most of his memory by reliving it / Yes

“Fun” facts: His favourite food is Egyptian falafel / He's the King of Games

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QUATERFINAL, MATCH 2

Mollymauk Tealeaf/Lucien Tavelle/ Kingsly Tealeaf (Critical Role: Mighty Nein)

All of the ToQgers (Ressha Sentai ToQger)

Voting ended onMay 7

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MOLLYMAUK

Reason for amnesia: Died. And then died again. And then died one more time.

Do they get their memory back?: No

“Fun” facts: Genderfluid and bisexual!

TOQGERS

Reason for amnesia: A Demon castle took over thier city and a magic train saved them, turning them into adults to fight back but erasing memory

Do they get their memory back?: Yes

“Fun” facts: They're all childhood friends! a big part of the series is them slowly piecing together where they came from and trying to get back to thier home town, the reason they have no memory is because they were all just kids not long ago, but they did indeed get the process of being made into adults wiped as well as home town info

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QUATERFINAL, MATCH 1

Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus)

Ingo (Pokémon Legends: Arceus)

Voting ended onMay 7

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KINGER

Reason for amnesia: Trapped in a digital world and had his brain messed with by and AI.

Do they get their memory back?: No

“Fun” facts: He gets some of his memory back when its dark.

INGO

Reason for amnesia: got transported to the past / God threw him into a space time vortex and he forgot Everything

Do they get their memory back?: it is hinted at but not sure / Not by the end of the game

“Fun” facts: He has a brother and they work in the subway / Silly train muppet!!!

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ROUND 4 IS DONE

Round 5 will be up within the next day or 2. The real upset of this round was both of the toku reps winning against Harry and fuckin Shadow?! insane.

The pairings for round 5 are

Ingo (Pokémon Legends: Arceus) VS Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus)

2. Mollymauk Tealeaf/Lucien Tavelle/ Kingsly Tealeaf (Critical Role: Mighty Nein) VS All of the ToQgers (Ressha Sentai ToQger)

3. Hajime Hinata/Izuru Kamukura (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair) VS Yami Yugi/Atem (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

4. Shouichi Tsugami (Kamen Rider Agito) VS

Siffrin (In Stars and Time)

As we move into the semi final, how long should voting last?

3 Days

1 Week

Voting ended onApr 29

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ROUND 4 IS UP!

The field is really thinning out now, your vote counts more than ever!

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ROUND 4, MATCH 8

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Shouichi Tsugami (Kamen Rider Agito)

Voting ended onApr 22

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SHADOW

Reason for amnesia: Medically altered by his creator

Do they get their memory back?: Yes

“Fun” facts: Do I really have to say anything? its shadow the fuckin hedgehog

SHOUICHI

Reason for amnesia: Accident that led him to washing up on a shore. The details of said accident are a major spoiler.

Do they get their memory back?: Yes, towards the end of the series.

“Fun” facts: Shouichi has complicated feelings around knowing who he once was, and tries to be positive but he is scared of knowing. He likes to cook, garden, do magic tricks, ride his motorbike, clean, and generally does a lot of housework. Not very good at math, but he's very strong and tries to be there for the people he cares about.

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ROUND 4, MATCH 7

Mollymauk Tealeaf/Lucien Tavelle/ Kingsly Tealeaf (Critical Role: Mighty Nein)

Henry Oak (Dungeons and Daddies)

Voting ended onApr 22

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MOLLYMAUK

Reason for amnesia: Died. And then died again. And then died one more time.

Do they get their memory back?: No

“Fun” facts: Genderfluid and bisexual!

HENRY

Reason for amnesia: Comes from his own world to ours in an accident and woke up naked in the woods with no memory except his name

Do they get their memory back?: Unclear but seems to have got a decent chunk back

“Fun” facts: Massive wife guy, vegan, dislikes horses due to someone from his childhood named Horsey (but doesn’t remember why til some of his memories return)

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ROUND 4, MATCH 6

Agent 8 (Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion)

Ingo (Pokémon Legends: Arceus)

Voting ended onApr 22

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AGENT 8

Reason for amnesia: Being kidnapped after a battle and also being put into a simulation / Their memories were extracted from them in partial sanitization. The memories were compressed to mem cakes and awarded as reward for missions in the Deep Sea Metro.

Do they get their memory back?: No / Unclear. Collecting the mem cakes doesn't seem to have restored the memories fully, but Marina has been working on a virtual reality to return the mem cakes to the souls of victims of the sanitization which would return their memories too. Eight did test it out but it wasn't working properly then and nothing is said if they did get their memories back.

“Fun” facts: They like the sea breeze although they hate the sand and cannot go into the water. / Agent 8's appearance and gender is chosen by the player, but official artwork often depicts her as a girl. Agent 8 is also known as Number 10,008 or Eight.

INGO

Reason for amnesia: got transported to the past / God threw him into a space time vortex and he forgot Everything

Do they get their memory back?: it is hinted at but not sure / Not by the end of the game

“Fun” facts: He has a brother and they work in the subway / Silly train muppet!!!

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ROUND 4, MATCH 5

Siffrin (In Stars and Time)

 Tippi/Timpani (Super Paper Mario)

Voting ended onApr 22

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SIFFRIN

Reason for amnesia: magical memory erasure / their home island was erased from the whole world's memory when they were on a boat just outside the affected area. his family, history, culture, language, everything is gone and is still actively being redacted/erased years later / All memory of their country and anything associated with it was wiped from everyone's memory. For most the cast, it's just a conversational tidbit. "How weird that no one can remember what that country was called." For Siffrin, who had borrowed his parents' boat in a running-away-from-home prank at the time the incident happened, lost everything. / Their home island (and any memory of it) dissappeared due to wish craft

Do they get their memory back?: No / Nope / No. They occasionally remember tidbits, but if voiced outloud the universe will right itself and he won't even remember he was talking. / No

“Fun” facts: stuck in a time loop / time loop torment nexus sufferer. the magical amnesia (and trauma) gave them also more regular memory issues - they forget words and things easily, lose track of stuff, at one point he has difficulty with remembering the names of people he has been travelling with for months / They like woodcarving and walking into strangers' homes. / They are the time looping protagonist of the game! Their favourite food is palmiers (though I've also been told since last round it's actually Malanga Fritters so who knows) and they are allergic to pineapples! Uses He/They pronouns!

TIPPI

Reason for amnesia: It either happened when she got visciously attacked and/or cursed by her forbidden love's father (a member of the "Tribe of Darkness", so certainly some horrible messed up magic was involved) or when the wizard Merlon subsequently found her half-dead and had to transfer her soul into a Pixl (that little butterfly thing she is now - she used to be human!) to save her life. The lore is conflicting about specifically when and why she lost her memories, but suffice it to say she went through a lot so it's not really surprising.

Do they get their memory back?: Yep, she slowly regains her memories throughout the game and by the end has remembered everything. Which kind of sucks for her because then she realises that the villain they've been fighting the whole game is her boyfriend... They eventually sort it out and get a happy reunion, get married and live happily ever after (although possibly in some sort of afterlife depending on interpretation.They might be dead. This game is DARK)

“Fun” facts: Think I covered everything when yapping in the previous boxes. Super Paper Mario's plot is cool. I got excited when I suddenly realised she was eligible for this.

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ROUND 4, MATCH 4

Harry Dubois / Dick Mullen / Kraz Markov / Ice Breaker (Disco Elysium)

All of the ToQgers (Ressha Sentai ToQger)

Voting ended onApr 22

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HARRY

Reason for amnesia: Did all of the drugs and alcohol in the world lmao / He goes on a bender, yells "i dont wanna be this kind of animal anymore" and loses all memories / Bender gone right

Do they get their memory back?: Nah

“Fun” facts: Has guys in his head, can say "I'm so fucking normal right now", still isn't over his ex from 6 years ago / He used to be a gym teacher, he has a talking tie and he loves disco!! / One point two million voice lines

TOQGERS

Reason for amnesia: A Demon castle took over thier city and a magic train saved them, turning them into adults to fight back but erasing memory

Do they get their memory back?: Yes

“Fun” facts: They're all childhood friends! a big part of the series is them slowly piecing together where they came from and trying to get back to thier home town, the reason they have no memory is because they were all just kids not long ago, but they did indeed get the process of being made into adults wiped as well as home town info

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ROUND 4, MATCH 3

 Hajime Hinata/Izuru Kamukura (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair)

K/Kyle Klim (Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward)

Voting ended onApr 22

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HAJIME

Reason for amnesia: Double amnesia actually. Hajime Hinata joined Hope's Peak as a Reserve Student. Unsatisfied with lacking talent, he joined the Izuru Kamukura project. This succeeded, but his entire identity + memory was erased As Izuru Kamukura he spent years bored, watching the world burn as a Remnant of Despair. But then he was supposed to be rehabilitated via a artificial reality which erased his memory and Izuru Kamukura, leaving only Hajime Hinata behind

Do they get their memory back?: Got his story narrated to him in the game. He at least remembers most of it during the anime, but it is unclear if he remembers everything he did as with the other Remnants of Despair

“Fun” facts: Basically every character is an amnesiac except for the mastermind of 1 and V3, but Hajime and Rantaro, who have forgotten more than most others, are voiced by the same voice actor. Also, Octagon (Sorry I had to)

KYLE

Reason for amnesia: Injected with a high dose of an Anaesthetic

Do they get their memory back?: Technically, Yes

“Fun” facts: One of three characters in the Zero Escape series, K is the only one who unambiguously has amnesia. At least, some of the time. They're trapped in a suit that obscures their face, which they grew up in since they were young. Favourite food: Mooncake. There's a CG where they ride on a kiddy-ride shaped like a rabbit and get their picture taken! Hooray!

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ROUND 4, MATCH 2

Yami Yugi/Atem (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

The Player/The long Quiet (Slay the Princess)

Voting ended onApr 22

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YAMI

Reason for amnesia: Sealed himself and an evil god away in an ancient item, using his own name as a passcode and erasing his memories/erasing the name from history / Being trapped in the Millenium Puzzle for 5000 years

Do they get their memory back?: Not sure, he learned his true name and regained most of his memory by reliving it / Yes

“Fun” facts: His favourite food is Egyptian falafel / He's the King of Games

PLAYER

Reason for amnesia: The Echo removed it so he could convince him to kill his other half.

Do they get their memory back?: Yes.

“Fun” facts: He is one half of the concept of death.