Gay wrongs tournament, semifinals of the losers bracket

Propaganda:

For Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu:

you've got the founder of the fantasy ancient Chinese CIA and the leader of what is essentially the mafia and then they're soulmates and in love. they're both willing to kill anyone who dares hurt the other while also just wanting a soft domestic life together

Zhou Zishu is an assassin and spymaster who put the current Emperor on the throne, and then quit his job by faking his death (kinda, hes still dying but not as fast as he was supposed to). Had done A Lot on his old job, including murdering children (more than one, and at least one of them in a way I can't even describe without several trigger warnings), exterminating whole families, war crimes (and i dont mean this in a buzzword way, i mean "organized a public execution of foreign diplomats during war time")… btw he doesn't feel particularly bad about any of this, because he believes it was necessary. Like he wouldn't do it for fun, but he thinks the ends (putting a good Emperor on the throne) justified the means (all of the atrocities). As a retiree, he definitely cut down on the amount of morally reprehensible murder, but not murder in general. He still routinely kills ppl, he just doesn't go out of his way to kill more. Wen Kexing, meanwhile, is the Ghost Valley Master - Ghost Valley being a place where the worst of criminals are exiled. Even in such a place, he has reputation as a complete lunatic, owed partially to the fact that he either skinned a man or fed him his own flesh or both at one point, and partially to him having a rule where he would kill anyone who came closer than 3 meters to him. But in truth, everything he'd done was to survive the Ghost Valley and eventually take revenge for his parents, who were brutally murdered when he was only nine. By the start of the novel's timeline, he put his plan in motion - the plan that would drown jianghu in blood, but also deliver poetic justice to all responsible for his parents' deaths, as well as all who'd commit the same crime given the chance. And these two men, these two murderers and schemers, meet - and unexpectedly, find in each other the person who /understands/. The person who is just as ruthless and whose hands are just as bloody, but also the person who knows standing at the top of the world is not worth it, who seeks the same freedom of leaving it all behind, and who is still, underneath it all, a human, with human heart seeking connection. So you have this couple who understand each other with barely a word, and who want the same things - who are so hungry for domesticity and for people they can just goof around with when all their lives they had to measure every step and word - but ALSO where one half a couple is like "i gotta go murder hundreds in revenge" and the other half is like "ok pick you up at 6". (This btw is why I'm submitting novel's iteration of the couple in particular. Show wenzhou with their ridiculous breakups over morality could Never.) Also they were both hiding who they are when they first met, and later flirted about having figured each other out. Finally, I'll leave you my favorite quote that just. perfectly sums up their relationship: "And just like that, they fell asleep in each other's arms, steeped in the smell of blood."

You’ve probably already had submissions for them but I’ll add on. One of them founded an assassin’s guild and killed a staggering number of people. His malewife is the leader of a sect of insane murderous outcasts, and he attained his position by proving to be the most crazy and murder happy of them all. Most of the plot involves him wandering around watching his schemes get more people killed. Together they adopt a kid that was only orphaned due to said scheming (oops). They’re terrible and I love them.

For Legolas and Gimli:

They literally have a running competition between the two over who has more kills. And non-canon my ass, Legolas took Gimli to valinor

They kill alot of orcs together. They make it into a competition. Better minds than i have spoken about the couple ness

Losers bracket semifinal #2

There are only six characters remaining, and this poll will eliminate one of them!

The contestants are character 272 and character 246.

Character 272's description is:

A tomboy with frost themed powers, but her personal backstory isn't very tragic. She's an aromantic asexual tomboy with ADHD (first told by the author later when fans were happy she didn't have a forced love interest that was kind of a must when the books first came out, the latter stated in canon). She's naïve and can jump head-first into danger to save strangers. She also has a twin brother, who while also has ADHD is near the polar opposite of her, making them a great team.

Character 246's description is:

Ate glass, got hit by a car, fell from a 40 foot cliff, got hit with a 600,000 volt stun gun, and endured much more and they're perfectly fine

WHO DESERVES TO ESCAPE THE UNDERWORLD?

Aroace-spec Character Tournament Losers' Bracket

[Please vote for who you believe has the most canon evidence to be aroace-spec, not the most popular. It will never be acceptable to post "anti-propaganda" in this tournament or invalidate a suggested identity because "they're not aroace enough." You will be blocked unless it's clearly a genuine mistake / misphrasing.]

Propaganda underneath the cut

Jiang Cheng from the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Submission 1: romantic and sex indifferent aroace

I love that guy, he’s the most aroace guy I’ve ever met. and his outfit is literally the ace flag plus he’s like wearing a ring that looks a lot like wearing a ring that looks a lot like the ace ring. and the fact that he has no canon love interest and is never shown to want a romantic or sexual relationship. he gives me very “romance is something other people do, I just don’t care for it, I got other things to do” you get me??

Submission 2: Aroace

Despite people trying to convince him to get married/get an heir, in 13 years he never finds someone. His list of bride qualities is absurd to the point of "no one like this exists so I'll never have to get married". Is grossed out by displays of sexual attraction. Purple

Submission 3: Both

No spouse. Wears ace colors. Case closed.

Propaganda Link 1

Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint

Submission 1: demiromantic graysexual, romance/sex indifferent

bc yoohankim is the most qpr qpr to ever qpr

Submission 2: demiromantic graysexual

yoohankim is soo queerplatonic it makes my chest hurt. and ysa and kdj are THE qpr ever. also i read the submissions list and my jaw deadass dropped when i saw that someone else had the exact same kdj hcs as me like asjdnghfdhdbn!ksnk#**#*@*

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Impa from Skyward Sword vs Detective Rama from Guild Wars 2

Loser's semifinals

Bob Belcher vs. Donald Duck

LOSER'S BRACKET, SEMIFINALS! MATCH 2 OUT OF 2!

Loser's Bracket Propaganda Under the Cut:

Ye Xian:

She is thought to be one of the oldest and I remember being read her story first funny enough. Even before Disney's. She was very brave.

I just remember really liking this version when I read it as a kid.

Linh Cinder:

Her ship with Kai is the cutest thing oh my lands

THE RESULTS ARE IN!

Somewhat unsurprisingly, our Semifinal winners are:

Red (86.9%)

Cleo(61.4%)

Additionally, our Loser Bracket Semifinal winners are:

Apollo (73.1%)

Domes (63.4%)

Poor Blue, put up a good fight but couldn't quite make it in the end.

Will Cleo sweep, or will Red get an 11th hour super-power and win the Tourney Arc? Will Cyan continue to be the breaker of blades and secure 3rd place, or will Blue get the best of her and join his bestie on the winners podium? And can Apollo secure a victory, or will he drop the ball when facing the power of Domes?

Find out soon!

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Scratch and Grounder vs. Motobug vs. Metal Sonic

Gemerl vs. E-102 Gamma

Who will be going on to the finals? And who will be left behind as scrap? You decide, Mar. 20th at 12 pm PST! In the meantime, of course, participate in today's (12 pm PST) Loser's Deathmatch to decide who of the three losers from round 3 make it on to the loser's bracket....

Loser's Deathmatch

Belle the Tinkerer vs. Omochao vs. Neo Metal Sonic

MAY THE BEST BOT WIN!

Loser's Bracket Semifinals

Rexy (Night at the Museum) vs Spooky Scary Skeletons

Skeletor (He-Man) vs Just Walk Out!

Polls will be up for 6pm EST

SEMIFINALS: LOSERS BRACKET

Gay wrongs tournament, semifinals of the losers bracket

Propaganda:

For Kid and Killer:

there’s some somewhat recent anime episodes where there’s a lot of “I would do anything for you” “I would put my life on the line for you” and it’s just. There’s no way they’re not dating. Also they’re big scary pirates that pillage and fuck stuff up and we love that for them

They have been together committing crimes and killing people ever since childhood and they’re not about to stop any time soon

They are badass pirates who both have a huge bounty on their head. Killer's epithet is 'Massacre Soldier/Murder Mashine' (depending on the translation), so he probably got quite some blood on his hands. Kid is his captain, and has a reputation of not caring about civilian casualties and destroying more than necessary to defeat his opponent. Also, the whole crew crusified some other crew. But besides being murderous, these two care so fucking much about each other! They've been friends (lovers?) since childhood and would literally do anything for each other, including dying. Kid will destroy anyone who laughs at his partner (how he canonically calls Killer), lets himself be recaptured just after he escaped prison to save his partner, and Killer eats a faulty SMILE fruit that stops him from portraying any other emotion than laughing, makes him unable to swim, and doesn't gain him any powers, just to get a CHANCE to save his captain. When Kid saw him laugh while he obviously didn't want to, it broke his heart in many pieces (and ours with it). It's true love, your honor. True, murderous love.

For the Doctor and the Master:

Immortal genderfluid war criminals <333

So we all know the Master has killed plenty of people, but, despite their reputation, the Doctor has killed a more than average number too. Sure they undid the whole destroying their own planet thing, but that's still something the Doctor did. Also there's apparently a novelization out there where, when they were children, the Doctor killed one of their childhood bullies but then made a deal with Death so that the Master had the memory of it and became Death's champion, which is pretty messed up and murder husbandish. There are plenty more war crimes on the Doctor's hands, and the Master has killed countless people in a variety of creative ways. Also, I'm having trouble finding the quote, but I swear the Master once said something to the lines of "trying to kill the Doctor is just my flirting" or something similar. But I do know Missy (also the Master but female at the time) described their relationship as "older than your civilization and infinitely more complex". They love each other, they're constantly trying to destroy each other, they are the only friends they each have who can even begin to understand everything they've been through; they've known each other since childhood and they've watched (and helped) civilizations rise and fall together. They may not be who you first think of for murder spouses but they really are a beautiful example.

Losers semifinal round

We are down to the Final Four!

This is the semifinal round of the losers side of the bracket. The winner of this poll will move on to the final round of the losers side, and the loser will take 4th place overall.

The first contestant is:

Character 67

Whose propaganda is:

Is part horse. Can cause others excruciating pain with their own anger. Joins an illegal rebellion at age 13. 3 elves are all in love with her. One of them is her cousin. A grumpy short man tried to get her exiled from society because she has brown eyes.

And the second contestant is:

Character 246

Whose propaganda is:

Ate glass, got hit by a car, fell from a 40 foot cliff, got hit with a 600,000 volt stun gun, and endured much more and they're perfectly fine

WHO DESERVES TO ESCAPE THE UNDERWORLD?

Aroace-spec Character Tournament Losers' Bracket Semi-finals

The Semifinals of the Aroace-spec Losers' bracket will start Friday, October 13th, 2023, at noon CST and will remain open until October 20th.

Jiang Cheng vs. Kim Dokja

The victor will compete with Cale Henituse to win the losers' bracket & then the winner of the entire losers' bracket will compete with Liu Qingge, the victor of the winners' bracket to win the entire tournament.

Tag: #aroace spec losers semifinals

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Captain Hook from Peter Pan vs Ranni from Elden Ring

Loser's semifinals