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Round one of the Hubristic Character Bracket has officially started!!
(Please take note that we are doing Side A first before doing Side B so if you don't see a character from the right side on here yet, don't fret!)
Here is the entire bracket for reference:
Each poll will last a week so make sure to get your votes in before then!
Submit swordspeople for the upcoming sword gays showdown!
A tournament for all sword gays/queer characters out there! Please remember the character must canonically use a sword or sword-like weapon
To qualify for this poll, your character must canonically fight with a sword or sword-adjacent weapon (sabers, long daggers, rapiers/epees and all that).
"Sword gays showdown" is just a name, please do submit characters who are bi/pan, ace, trans and other LGBT+ identities. This tournament is all about vibes so characters you headcanon as LGBT+ are fine too!
Please include full name of the character and media they're from!
I reserve the right to disqualify a submission if I'm uncomfortable with the source material (for example if the author of [media your characters are from] is racist/transphobic/etc).
Have fun! Submissions will be open at least until October 24th, maybe a few days longer.
Tagging some other polls for reach under the cut, feel free to ignore!
oh also fyi there's probably gonna be a buffer of a few days before side B starts up because of some irl stuff, so get your propaganda in for the B side characters now!
im so sad i didnt make it to the submissions because I have soooo many characters in mind 😔😔 and the ones in here are so good too 😔😔😔😔 polls that appeal to my autism in crazy ways
you're so real for this anon, i swear i think of a new character that would be good for this poll every day.
feel free to tell us about them in our inbox tho, we love hearing about them :]
Hubris Bracket Side A Poll 9: Javert (Les Miserables) vs Lucilius (Granblue Fantasy)
Which character has more hubris?
Javert (Les Miserables)
Lucilius (Granblue Fantasy)
Voting ended onSep 18, 2023
Propaganda below (may contain spoilers):
Javert
(this image is from the movie, but there was no version specified, so it could be the book/stage musical versions as well)
My man was born in the French prison system and his exposure to that system and the people inside it led him to believe that the law is a moral imperative. He becomes a police officer with an incredibly ruthless sense of justice. He doggedly trails Jean Valjean (whose only crimes were stealing bread -breaking a window to do so- in order to feed his sister's starving children as they were all destitute, and trying to escape prison, which extended his sentence from 5 years to 19. He does this because he firmly believes that redemption doesn't exist. At the end of the story he has Jean Valjean cornered in the sewer and is convinced to let him go in order to allow the life of a young man (Marius) to be saved. Jean Valjean even goes so far as to give Javert his home address to that the police officer can come and arrest him in the morning. However Javert is thrown into a crisis of both faith and identity and that drives him to dispare, he takes his own life that night by leaping from a bridge after coming to the conclusion that he was in the wrong, after all those decades of chasing and locking up 'scum' 'from the gutter'.
Lucilius
Literally tried to destroy the world to piss off god
Lucilius is the clone to a Speaker of the God of Rebirth and Destruction, Bahamut. He's been plagued by dreams of a life he didn't live because of that, and interpreted it as "God is making fun of me in particular. well if he's so funny, i'm going to be hilarious" and he basically came up with various world ending plans in order to climb the Tower of God, and dethrone him, and destroy the whole world into the void. To do so he creates creatures he ends up neglecting and torturing in a way i think, ironically, makes him very similar to the God he hates so much. He even makes himself a clone that is the "perfect version" of himself, whom he calls Lucifer. Lucilius gets beheaded by said clone, but gets brought back to life by Belial, another one of his creation who loves him despite the fact Lucilius hates him. To bring him back, Belial beheaded Lucifer, and sewed Lucilius's head over the corpse of his original killer. With this amount of power, he takes down the Speaker he's the clone of and almost manages to reach his goal before one of his creation, Sandalphon, whom he wrote off as being completely useless and that he had almost discarded if not for the fact Lucifer cared for him, manages to take him down, thanks to powers Lucifer had passed down to him before dying, and Lucifer watching over him. Lucilius is currently locked into an interdimensional prison with Belial, thanks to the Speaker's last attempt at using his powers for good (the Speaker, Lucio, is okay now). His Hubris was to take down God for making his life a joke but in so, he mistreated his creations. He was taken down twice, by his most loved creation, and by the one he found the most useless. A wannabe God, resentful of God, meeting his end because his own creations resented him enough to end him the same way he wanted to end God. What's not Hubris about it. His boss battle, Zero, is the ultimate propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr08k6Y4wbo the vocals start at 3:15 and it says it all. "Give praise, for he has no equal. Worship him. A God has been born unto the world."
Hubris Bracket Side A Poll 15: Tendou Souju/Kamen Rider Kabuto (Kamen Rider Kabuto 2006) vs Wei Wuxian (Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)
Wei Wuxian (Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)
Voting ended onSep 18, 2023
Propaganda below (may contain spoilers)
Tendou Souji/Kamen Rider Kabuto
Ok, so Tendou’s name literally translates to “Man who walks heaven’s path”. He believes himself to be the Greatest Man Alive, often quoting some insane shit his Grandmother told him. “Believe yourself to be the center of the universe. It’s more fun that way.” “He who walks the path of heaven shall rule over all.” “My evolution is faster than the speed of light. Nothing can keep up with it.” (YES, his grandmother said this shit. It’s unreal.) Tendou is rather aloof and rarely ever says what he means. While he doesn’t straight up say “I am a god among men.” He will frequently compare himself to the sun, something humanity cant exist without. Something so powerful it can never be reached, and can never be defeated. Did I mention he’s REALLY into cooking? In his debut appearance, he DOESNT dodge a robber’s knife because, “If I had dodged, I would have broken my tofu. And besides, that puny knife couldn’t have hurt me. I’m the master of my own fate.”
(long propaganda not in bullet format for clarity)
His name can be translated as "Path of Heaven, Ruler of All" and he uses this in his catchphrase: "Walking the path of heaven, the man who will rule over everything." His first scene involves him walking through a mugging, completely ignoring someone swiping a knife at him because "No knife can harm me, and if I dodged carelessly it would ruin my tofu".
Other choice quotes: "Grandmother said this: Make the world revolve around you. It's more fun that way." "In the past, present, future, all ages there is always a single person more perfect than others. A man like me. Do you think I can befriend a commoner like you?" "Greater than all the world's population of six billion people. I'm number one."
Bonus quotes from non-canon promotional materials: "If the Precious are a worldwide treasure, then I'm the universe's treasure." "(Sees a guy called Stronger) If he's Stronger I'm the Strongest."
But there's three things that make him specifically peak among hubristic characters.
1) As arrogant as he is he's constantly talking up other people when appropriate. He can't go a full episode without quoting his grandmother. He's declared before that the only reason humanity exists is to service the whims of his little sister. When someone changes their cooking style to be more like Tendou's, even though the food comes out better, Tendou chides them for abandoning their individuality. There's one specific old man he hypes up with the quote "If I am the world's treasure, this man is the treasure of humanity".
2) His response to a restaurant he wanted to go to being closed is "Has heaven abandoned me?". One time someone responds to an "Inspirational" speech with him over the phone by hanging up on him and he's too confused to do anything about it. One time a child said they don't like his food and he looks like he's about to cry.
3) The show buys into Tendou's hype. One time he disappeared for half an episode and returned in a leadership position of a paramilitary task force. He has also inexplicably turned up as a doctor and a priest officiating a wedding. One time it looked like he got hospitalized in a fight but when people rush to check on him he's so ok he's giving his doctor a check-up. One time when his allies were planning on drugging some food to knock out people guarding a kidnapped girl he chided them for messing with food and just made food so good the kidnappers were too distracted to guard their hostage.
One time he got in a contest with another character over who could pick up more girls in one hour and then does nothing for the full hour and when he meets up with the other party in the contest every single girl the other party picked up immediately runs to Tendou because "The girls know of me, just as there is no one who does not know the light of the sun." And then every girl present does his catchphrase.
He apparently dies in the lead-up to the finale but then turns up again with no explanation except "I am the world. As long as the world exists, so will I."
Wei Wuxian
Donated his golden core (like... a heart but for spiritual energy, which is like a source for magic powers) to his brother, without telling his brother. Invented necromancy to cover for the loss of normal magic powers. Was very rude about it (to prevent people from realizing he lost the normal magic powers). Then saved some people who were Really hated by the rest of the world. As a result: semi-accidentally killed his brother-in-law. Indirectly caused his sister's death. Got torn apart by his own fierce corpses. Died, his name living on in infamy. (Then came back to solve crimes and get gay married but thats unrelated to the theme now is that)
i don’t think you understand i totally thought we were gonna die locked up in this castle but this fucking genius was like “im going to invent a way for humans to fly”. shout out to my dad he’s a real one fr
LMAOOO this dude told me to be careful as he affixed the wings to my back…..dad no offense but you just invented flying and we have to go high enough to avoid the king’s archers. soo
i don’t understand why but he’s coming closer. he is not supposed to stray from his path, lest the sun fall from the sky. why does he look so anguished to see me?
i pray to him just in case. i am grateful he tried. my palms are red and cracked from where they touched divinity. the ground does not look any closer than it was
i have not seen my father since we took flight…i hope he escaped. i hope he will not witness this. i wish i could tell him how joyful these wings made me before the wax melted
please please please i have no coin for the ferryman if i am to die now i will never reach the realm of hades please turn me into a bird any bird or a bug or something anything please please pleasepleaseplease
I just realized I completely forgot that I could've submitted Wrathia from Ava's Demon to this.
She was a giant space empress who even had a baby on the way (in an egg), got threatened by an even bigger space emperor and what's her first plan? Brow a potion that will make you get reborn in the next CREATURE who gets born in this universe (or reanimated) and feed it to all her generals and herself, then immediately kill herself. She thought she could get reborn as a more powerful being that way, but all she got was a small human girl who hates her.
Girlboss but also Girlidiot. (Don't expect her to be entered in the tournament, just remembered her and had to share)
WOW that is a wild plan lol
We love to see Girlbosses and Girldiots in this house <333
Hubris Bracket Side A Poll 15: Tendou Souju/Kamen Rider Kabuto (Kamen Rider Kabuto 2006) vs Wei Wuxian (Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)
Wei Wuxian (Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)
Voting ended onSep 18, 2023
Propaganda below (may contain spoilers)
Tendou Souji/Kamen Rider Kabuto
Ok, so Tendou’s name literally translates to “Man who walks heaven’s path”. He believes himself to be the Greatest Man Alive, often quoting some insane shit his Grandmother told him. “Believe yourself to be the center of the universe. It’s more fun that way.” “He who walks the path of heaven shall rule over all.” “My evolution is faster than the speed of light. Nothing can keep up with it.” (YES, his grandmother said this shit. It’s unreal.) Tendou is rather aloof and rarely ever says what he means. While he doesn’t straight up say “I am a god among men.” He will frequently compare himself to the sun, something humanity cant exist without. Something so powerful it can never be reached, and can never be defeated. Did I mention he’s REALLY into cooking? In his debut appearance, he DOESNT dodge a robber’s knife because, “If I had dodged, I would have broken my tofu. And besides, that puny knife couldn’t have hurt me. I’m the master of my own fate.”
(long propaganda not in bullet format for clarity)
His name can be translated as "Path of Heaven, Ruler of All" and he uses this in his catchphrase: "Walking the path of heaven, the man who will rule over everything." His first scene involves him walking through a mugging, completely ignoring someone swiping a knife at him because "No knife can harm me, and if I dodged carelessly it would ruin my tofu".
Other choice quotes: "Grandmother said this: Make the world revolve around you. It's more fun that way." "In the past, present, future, all ages there is always a single person more perfect than others. A man like me. Do you think I can befriend a commoner like you?" "Greater than all the world's population of six billion people. I'm number one."
Bonus quotes from non-canon promotional materials: "If the Precious are a worldwide treasure, then I'm the universe's treasure." "(Sees a guy called Stronger) If he's Stronger I'm the Strongest."
But there's three things that make him specifically peak among hubristic characters.
1) As arrogant as he is he's constantly talking up other people when appropriate. He can't go a full episode without quoting his grandmother. He's declared before that the only reason humanity exists is to service the whims of his little sister. When someone changes their cooking style to be more like Tendou's, even though the food comes out better, Tendou chides them for abandoning their individuality. There's one specific old man he hypes up with the quote "If I am the world's treasure, this man is the treasure of humanity".
2) His response to a restaurant he wanted to go to being closed is "Has heaven abandoned me?". One time someone responds to an "Inspirational" speech with him over the phone by hanging up on him and he's too confused to do anything about it. One time a child said they don't like his food and he looks like he's about to cry.
3) The show buys into Tendou's hype. One time he disappeared for half an episode and returned in a leadership position of a paramilitary task force. He has also inexplicably turned up as a doctor and a priest officiating a wedding. One time it looked like he got hospitalized in a fight but when people rush to check on him he's so ok he's giving his doctor a check-up. One time when his allies were planning on drugging some food to knock out people guarding a kidnapped girl he chided them for messing with food and just made food so good the kidnappers were too distracted to guard their hostage.
One time he got in a contest with another character over who could pick up more girls in one hour and then does nothing for the full hour and when he meets up with the other party in the contest every single girl the other party picked up immediately runs to Tendou because "The girls know of me, just as there is no one who does not know the light of the sun." And then every girl present does his catchphrase.
He apparently dies in the lead-up to the finale but then turns up again with no explanation except "I am the world. As long as the world exists, so will I."
Wei Wuxian
Donated his golden core (like... a heart but for spiritual energy, which is like a source for magic powers) to his brother, without telling his brother. Invented necromancy to cover for the loss of normal magic powers. Was very rude about it (to prevent people from realizing he lost the normal magic powers). Then saved some people who were Really hated by the rest of the world. As a result: semi-accidentally killed his brother-in-law. Indirectly caused his sister's death. Got torn apart by his own fierce corpses. Died, his name living on in infamy. (Then came back to solve crimes and get gay married but thats unrelated to the theme now is that)
Do you also have the problem that you only come across fun tournaments once they've reached the semi-finals or worse? Or that you have the perfect candidate to submit but the submission period closed 3 months ago? I made this blog to try and fix that problem.
The idea is that tournament runners only have to tag this blog, so that I can reblog their announcement post, to gain traction and that tournament enjoyers only have to follow this blog to see all the new tournament announcements.
Tagging some currently running tournaments I know about to get the word out:
Five Pebbles is so behind T-T. My poor wet pathetic cat of a robot T-T. He's so fucked T-T.
Okay so propaganda. My mans literally says:
"Know that this does not make you special - every living thing shares that same frustration. From the microbes in the processing strata to me, who am, if you excuse me, godlike in comparison."
And "Even with my divine influence, there is nothing that can be done."
And (to someone who's basically his boyfriend) "You could never understand what I feel right now, being pitied and lectured like this!" He's such an angsty teen the poor baby.
And the crumbling of his ego as he realizes that no, he can't fix the mistakes he made and that he achieved nothing other than destroying his sister and speeding up his own collapse. It's just chef's kiss so good.
Anyway...yeah. His hubris led to his and those he cares about's downfalls.
oh my god those are SUCH good quotes. i'm obsessed. i especially love the first one the sheer HUBRIS.
also, i feel like i owe it to y’all to explain my thought process on making the matchups for the bracket, so it’s under the cut. despite being the resident stem major there wasn’t actually a lot of math behind it lmao
due to me kind of panicking and closing the submissions early, we only had 49 chars who qualified (more than 1 submission) so 15 (out of 64) chars with only 1 submission made it in (decided using a random number generator). which in retrospect was not the brightest idea, i should have waited to close the submissions, & if i ever run another tournament i will for sure do it differently. but on the other hand a lot of pretty cool obscure characters got into the tournament, so that’s nice!
i handpicked side A and side B manually, i tried to make it so each side had a roughly equal amount of characters with # of submissions (idk how to explain it, but both sides have ~8 characters with 1 submission, ~15 with 2, and ~10 with 3+ each). characters with the same fandom went on opposite sides of the bracket, and i also tried to give an even distribution of the ‘type’ of fandom (ie, jd and javert are both musical characters, so they go on opposite sides of the bracket). when there was like ~15 characters left i stopped recognizing them so i just did it randomly (i’m just one person so similar characters may still be on the same side, nobody’s perfect, etc etc)
however, the round 1 matchups were done randomly (with a random number generator, without replacement) within each side (A or B) (with the exception that i rerolled if classic lit or myth characters got paired against each other since i thought that would be kind of lame for the first round). hence why we have some truly buckwild matchups that could easily be the final round, i didn’t weight the probabilities by # of submissions so some heavy hitters are going against each other.
& the matchups’ position in the bracket on their side was done manually by me, mostly to make sure that characters from the same fandom were far enough away from each other so they wouldn’t face each other until the semifinals, in theory (i think the only characters that had this were the greeks??? i also did this for chars with similar fandoms too) otherwise i kind of did it based on what future theoretical matchups i thought world be funny, lmao.
& there u have it. fellow pollrunners, don’t do what i did lmao.
More light yagami propaganda cus I hate him (affectionate) <3
In the manga at least(love the manga sm) he basically accidentally (but not) killled two people, had a freak out about being a murderer and decided that he must be god and murdered a few thousand others to make up for it. The best of decisions obviously.
i see no faults in his logic whatsoever. the perfect plan. the perfect crime.
