Your DnD Alignment based on your Brandon Sanderson starting point

Lawful Good – Tress of the Emerald Sea, You took Brandon at his word when he said that the Kickstarter books would be good starting point for the Cosmere.

Lawful Neutral – Wheel of Time, you found Brandon when he finished Wheel of Time and decided to give his own books a shot.

Lawful Evil – Rithmatist, this is your villain origin story tbh

Neutral Good – Elantris, you’ve been a fan for a long time,

True Neutral – Mistborn, you started where everyone recommends

Neutral Evil – Warbreaker, get it?

Chaotic Good – Alcatraz/Skyward, wild children of the fandom

Chaotic Neutral – The Way of Kings, despite everyone and their mother telling you to not start here, you do it anyways

Chaotic Evil – Alloy of Law, despite this being in Mistborn ERA 2 and the FOURTH Mistborn book, you still start here.

Reckoners, you like superheroes? Idk

Round 1

She awoke to a boxcar full of corpses, which was damn lucky, because it meant she now had a one-way train ticket to exactly where she wanted to go.

-Amber Skies, @cryptotheism

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

-Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

-Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

ROUND 1 MATCH 3: EMMA/PAUL VS. ALCATRAZ/BASTILLE

Paulkins Propaganda: "THEYRE SO SWEET AND FUCKING STRAIGHT I LOVE THEM SM PLEASE"

Alcatraz/Bastille Propaganda: none

Prelims round 1, poll 18

Propaganda

The Archives, The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss

I swear I've wanted to get here as much as Kvothe

There's a huge door in there and we have no idea what's behind them. Also one dude just lives in there

Death's library, The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Death’s library contains the life stories of every person, living or dead. They write themselves.

The Royal Academy Library, Ascendance of a Bookworm series by Miya Kazuki and You Shiina

It has cute magical rabbit library assistants that help the librarians/patrons with finding books, working circ desk, reshelving, securing the library, etc. On the surface, it's a school library focusing on materials for Royal Academy students and archives of research/curriculum material from its professors. Some other neat magical aspects of this library include automatic humidity management (to prevent moisture damage to documents), time-stopping shelves (to prevent old documents from rotting away), sunlight protection magic (keep natural lighting from large windows while protecting documents from light damage), magical lighting (will start showering down multi-colored lights to let students realise the time if they're too engrossed in reading), sound-dampening carpets, and instant floor cleaning. The protagonist is also helping invent new magic tools for the library including a function where books automatically teleport to their spot on the shelves. Explaining fully how amazing and critically important this library is to their world would be spoilers. There's a lot going on in certain hidden/forgotten about parts of this library. Let's just say when the symbol of a true king is possessing a certain divine magical book that acts as the keys to the country, knowledge is power. The author and protagonist are both extreme bookworms, so a lot of love went into the design and description of this magical library.

They have magic bunny robots that get books for you. Also it’s a low fantasy story about a librarian who dies and decides to reinvent the printing press in the medical world she lives in. There’s also political intrigue I guess.

It’s a series all about books and libraries, and told from the pov of a librarian who died and decided to reinvent free public libraries and printing presses and books in a fantasy world

Highbrary aka Library of Congress, Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

It’s just the library of congress like from real life except secretly it’s the central stronghold of the network of evil librarians that rules the world as we measly humans know it to be. It’s funny. The book is good. That is all thank you and goodnight

The library of congress is the home base for the librarians in the book series. It not only is the normal library of congress building, but there is also a tunnel system underneath that houses the more magical items that normal people are not allowed to use.

Yes, I want to see Bastille’s perspective on certain things throughout the series. but i also want alcatraz’s perspective on the kiss scene in book 6

like i want to know what he was thinking😭

Brandon Sanderson Character Showdown!

ties will be handled by them both entering the next round

propaganda is encouraged!

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UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE A

Simon Snow Propaganda:

"BAZ ISN'T HERE, IT MEANS HE IS PLOTTING AGAINST ME, THIS GUY HATES MY GUTS AND WANTS ME DEAD, HE IS PLOTTING!!!!!" Meanwhile Baz has been kidnapped and the only thing keeping him sane is thinking about Simon Snow (because he's in love with him)

Dude spent 8 years sharing a dorm with his hot gay vampire roommate and was like “ah yea he’s so hot n sexy but NOT IN A GAY WAY HAHAHAHAAH i love women and i HATE this guy” cut to the vampires pov and he’s like “i fukcing love simon this stupid ass mouth breather i need to kill him my gay is becoming a problem” cut to them being enemies homoerotically as simon further deludes himself into thinking he hates his vamp roommate. Also when said roommate was missing from boarding school for 2 months Simon dedicated majority of his time trynna look for him and he was like “oOOoooOO HE’S PLOTTING I JEED TO FIND HIM” bitch ur gay accept it (he does clap for him)

Alcatraz Smedry Propaganda:

I think I'll start this propaganda section with a quote from the series's wiki about him: "It is difficult to get an accurate sense of Alcatraz's personality, as he intentionally alters how he portrays himself as a way to get the reader to hate him." Alcatraz is the narrator of his series chronicling his adventures against the evil librarians. In-universe, these books are presented as an autobiography. During the time he is writing them, he's viewed by the people he saved as a hero, and he wants these books to show how he isn't worthy of that title, and to show all the times he's failed and let people down. Throughout the course of the series, he will go off on completely irrelevant tangents, lie to the reader about important events, rewrite his and other character's dialogue to make himself sound lamer (or cooler, depending on how he's feeling), obfuscate the text in order to frustrate the reader, stop important scenes with his own commentary about the most random of subjects, and end on cliffhangers whenever he can. However, despite his best efforts, his books do indeed prove him to be witty, insightful, and caring. Sure he makes some mistakes, but his successes far outweigh his failures, and his unique writing style makes the story entertaining the whole way through. His books are a riot to read, and are pretty much guaranteed to put a smile on your face. And then you get to the end of book 5, the only time he is completely honest with the reader, and you experience the most depressing, gut-wrenching ending of any book I've ever read and finally see that every horrible thing he ever said about himself was true.

They are, in fact, not a fish.

Alcatraz should be able to snap a man's neck at ten paces. And then have a HUGE existential crisis about it.

This scene made me so 😭 (she's talking about him, he's the friend he's talking badly about)

So Angola is about ten years older than her sister Bastille, making her in her early-to-midtwenties, yet her and Mallo's daughter is in her late teens. How is that possible?

Superpower Prompt:

Choose one normal trait (strength, endurance, sight, hearing, singing, math, just anything a standard human can DO).

You are now connected with everyone in the USA who shares your first name.

Your power in the trait you chose becomes a small point stronger for each person with that name.

I now have over 1,500,000 points of endurance. I can run around the whole dang world and swim the ocean!!! Take that, unique baby names!!! 8D

(I even found a handy site that can calculate this number for you! Also, DO NOT SHARE YOUR NAME FOR THIS GAME! Just the closest rounded number! Internet safety is important!!!)

I needed to put it sideways cuz otherwise it won't fit 🥲

Anyway my Alcatraz design reveal (small tw: scars)

And some Prison break as snakes