Most Adoptable Grown Man Contest - Round 9 [FINALE]
Which grown man is THE MOST adoptable?
Martin Blackwood - The Magnus Archives
Kim Soleum - GDCG/GSGW
Imma be honest. I did not predict this finale, like, at all. So...let's see how this goes!
This contest has been a wild ride over these past, like, 2 months and I'm so excited to see how the first contest of this blog ends!
Why I am voting for Kim Soleum (as a Ruzader):
Even though he beat Apollo, I still think KSE should win because of the two remaining, he better meets my criteria for "most adoptable": he's been either adopted or in a situation similar to adoption multiple times as a grown man. "Needs a better family situation" shows adoptability, sure, but being adopted or in a similar situation multiple times shows high levels of adoptability, making him more suited to the title of "Most Adoptable Grown Man".
Also this contest got me to actually read the webnovel of GSGW, and though I'm still not that far in yet I've gotten absolutely hooked, and I genuinely love Soleum as a protagonist.
My compunctions against voting for Martin are not his fault, in fact they're largely circumstantial. Yes, I've heard good things about him and his adoptability. However, given what happened in the last 12 hours of the previous round of the poll, voting for Martin feels a little like siding with Lady Luck to me. And as a Ruzader, I would rather not side with Ruze's mortal enemy who devises increasingly creative ways to make him suffer or otherwise make his life difficult, both in-lore and IRL (the sheer number of real-life stories he has about his bad luck is kind of staggering), and who both canonically wants him dead and less-canonically regularly sends him threatening text messages.
And while he may be plenty adoptable, I just genuinely think KSE is more adoptable than him by a matter of degrees.
Also given the size of the TMA fandom on Tumblr (as we saw in the previous round), the GSGW fans are once again the underdog here, and could use some help, even from their former rivals.
And so I support the proposition of a new alliance, between the old alliance and KSE fans.
People should vote for whoever they like, of course, but I personally recommend voting for Kim Soleum for Most Adoptable Grown Man.
