#normal wars

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is your favorite character.....a bit fucked up?

is your favorite character.....incapable of being even a little bit normal?

do you think they should hold the official title of "least normal"? well without further ado, i present to you

the unofficial official tournament to decide once and for all which character is the least normal.

least normal nominations!

nominate your fucked up little guy!!! infodumping encouraged!!

nominations will be open until the 25th, may vary depending on the amount of nominations.

rules:

no real people. unless it's REALLY fucking funny.

please be civil. the block button is my best friend.

for the love of god no hp characters. that's my only guideline on characters.

be as not-normal as possible. embody the spirit of the normal wars. propaganda will be welcome once the bracket is completed!

inspired by @bestfictionaldivorce, @it-its-swag, @white-boy-bracket, @topdisease, @thecompetitionshowdowntournament, @physicallydisabledswagtournament and many, many others!!

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Have you gotten anyone who's real but funny enough that it gets around the rule yet?

this is complicated. because i definitely have gotten some submissions funny enough to get around the rule (cough cough. several dead authors. cough cough.) Unfortunately, most of those people haven't gotten more than one submission and probably wont make the cut.

we have gotten at least three submissions for Jerma, and i'm on the fence about including him. I just.....don't get it. I do not understand why people talk about him so much. I do not understand any of the jerma jokes. i'm so genuinely confused about this guy that it might actually circle around to being funny enough to include him. It's likely i'll do a bonus poll before the bracket is released to determine if he gets in or not.

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any odd taxi submissions?

Oh yeah, i've gotten a lot of weird submissions. Here's a list of the most memorable.

Sebastián Piñera (former president of Chile),

Ron DeSantis (facist & governbr of Florida)

jerma

god

the letter Ř from the czech language,

David Karp (founder of tumblr)

the collective tumblr boyfriend

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I'm sorry idiots aren't respectful of the rules you've set from the start and I hope they didn't upset you too much

If people want to exclude harmful material from their poll, I don't understand how others allow themselves to ignore their wishes and are bitchy about it

I mean I would support you excluding characters you don't like for no reason because it's YOUR poll so characters from a franchise supporting transphobia and including antisemitism in its material...

Take care of yourself. For every TERF out there, there's someone -someones, I believe- willing to slap them in the face with/for you

tis the nature of the internet, some people will never be able to comprehend the idea that you aren't directly insulting them when you say something they don't like concerning their favorite characters.

thank you for the support! we are running off into the sunset together, to a future where TERFs are nothing but a distant memory.

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that other ask intrigued me, who's the second most submitted? along with thst, what's the media with the most submissions?

Harry Du Bois is the second most submitted character, a position i grow more convinced he deserves with each new submission he recieves. The media with the most submissions is Dungeons and Daddies, which is pretty unsurprising.

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Out of curiosity, how much has normal oak actually been submitted. I am deeply committed to the comedy of him winning and wonder what the numbers really look like

thirteen times and counting!! That's about....twice as many (???) as our second most nominated contestant! Normalsweep is a very real possibility.

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What characters had people autistic ranting the most?

this is such a hard one. There's been a LOT of autistic ranting. I would probably say Normal Oaks by default of being the most submitted? have read many a de facto essay about this weird little guy.

honorable mentions include the lovely in-depth submission for luigi i got earlier, every single dndads submission for a character other than normal and every single tf2 submission.

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Which submissions have been your favourites and why?

ooo i already answered this but i will NEVER pass up the opportunity to elaborate.

Arthur Lester: I'm currently listening to Malevolent and oh my god. there is something deeply wrong with him. I cannot stop thinking about this guy. Why is he like this.

Normal Oak: I've never listened to dndads but the information i've gathered from the nominations has lead me to believe he's the epitome of weird kid. His autism and immense love for the school mascot have enraptured me. I also think it's incredibly funny that he has a crush on a theatre kid who acts like the joker.

Odin (tbi): Sometimes i lay awake at night and think about the yggdrasil system. I think about what Odin did, how she doomed her world. The tragedy that is the ratatosk express. Essentially i'm just incredibly not normal about the bifrost incident and will lose my mind at the smallest mention of it.

Michael Distortion: I just think its a fun little guy. It's the throat of delusion incarnate, you can't get any less normal than that.