jayson didn't want jay to join the navy. he knew she was capable -- she was a ferin, of course she was capable -- but still he directed her against it. his mother told him to let the girl make her own decisions, but this was important.
he knew ava was determined to join. determined to join and rise the ranks and make a difference. some part of him admired her for that. some part of him was proud. but still, he couldn't let jay join.
she had the same drive as her sister. if she joined, she'd give it her all and become exactly like him: focused entirely on her career. jayson couldn't let that happen. he'd already turned into his father, he couldn't let the same happen to jay. jay who was always so excited and full of joy. who tinkered away with her little gadgets that he didn't quite understand, but he knew she loved it. he couldn't let that part of her die
and he couldn't let the navy steal another family member from may. he was a shitty husband, a worse father, but he refused to let his mistakes ruin her life. he'd make sure she still had jay. she couldn't lose someone else
so jay couldn't join the navy. she couldn't
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PROTAGONIST POLLING
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Why should you vote for the Albatrio? (1)
"Jay, Chip, and Gillion are so cool. They’re pirates in a fantasy world, but they kind of suck at being pirates and they keep SAVING ISLANDS.
Chip is an orphan who found family in the famous Black Rose Pirates, before their ship, the Midnight Rose, got caught in a horrible whirlpool. He ended up separated from everything he knew at only 9 years old. He found a gang, of sorts, led by a boy named Reuben Price. After refusing to kill a traitor and running away with a stolen boat, he tried to live up to the legacy of his caretaker on the Midnight Rose, Arlin James, and become a great pirate so that he could find him again and make him proud.
Jay Ferin is the daughter of Jayson Ferin, a well respected general in the NAVY, and Malenia “May” Ferin, the owner of a bar. Her uncle, Drey Ferin, left to go and join the Black Rose Pirates instead of be in the NAVY. Jay also trained to be a high ranking NAVY official, and her sister, Ava Ferin, was also a NAVY official before she was killed.
Chip came to the town where Jay and her mother lived and worked at their tavern, and told people stories. They ended up working together to save someone, and Chip won a bet against Jay. Since Jay lost, she agreed to join Chip’s pirate crew, and be the second member. Later, sailing the sea, they would find a fish man floating about, and he would join them too.
That brings us to Gillion Tidestrider, the third member of the up and coming pirate crew that would one day be known as the Riptide Pirates.
Gillion happened to be born on a specific day at a specific time while specific things were happening, and so was the Chosen One of the prophecy. He was so special that his parents gave him away to the elders! He endured harsh training, as he was destined to defeat evil, and also flood the world, but that’s not important yet. The elders told him that if he managed to do well, he would be accepted and loved. He never managed to do it, and despite being surrounded by people, he felt like he was alone. Except for when his sister, Edyn, visited, he was under a lot of stress. Eventually, Edyn was forced to stop visiting, but she gave him a pet frogtopus named Pretzel to keep him company. One day, the elders had a meeting with a human. Of course, Gillion had been taught that all humans were evil and that he should hate them, so he attacked the human. However, instead of being rewarded for following the teachings, he was banished from the Undersea. He was found by Chip and Jay, who let him in their pirate crew.
They had many adventures! They blew up a building, Gillion made a deal with a sketchy guy to save a town, they started a band and saved another town, they won a competition, they saved their friend and Drey Ferin from jail, they saw old friends again and Chip defeated an evil guy, and much more! And by much more, I mean the Riptide campaign is 97 episodes long not counting the Origins video and all episodes are over one hour and usually two hours. Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff."
Why should you vote for the Knight? (1)
"little guy (gender non specific)"
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Disability Showdown Full Bracket
Alright! No more mystery, we've got our list for the tournament!
For people new to this tournament, how this works is this: We narrowed our character list down from about 600 to 131 (it was gonna be 128 but we had three ties, so those have been reworked into three-character polls). The top 64 have been seeded into the bracket by number of nominations. The bottom 67 however, all got roughly the same amount of nominations, so those have been assigned places via random number generator, to remove any bias that I the poll runner may have about which characters I want to succeed
(I am so sorry if your obscure blorbo ends up against a super popular kid in round one, that's unfortunately the luck of the draw here, but I am keeping a record of characters that lose but whose fans fight the hardest for them, and we may do something with those kids later, so it's still worth campaigning for your faves!)
I will make an image for the bracket once we get past the first round or two, but right now I have no idea how to make a visual bracket containing 131 characters, upload it to tumblr, and still have it be at all useful
So for the first round, I'll just give the matchups by name, in a list under the cut. We'll be working through this list 8 polls at a time (my pinned post will stay updated with the current 8 once the tournament starts), and good luck everyone!
Eda Clawthorne (Owl House) vs Cassandra Cain (DC)
Hiccup and Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) vs Peppermint (Hi-Fi Rush)
Barbara Gordon (DC) vs Demoman (Team Fortress 2)
Toph Beifong (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs Finn Tidestrider (Just Roll With It)
Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Red (Pokemon)
Ashton Greymoore (Critical Role) vs Walter White Jr (Breaking Bad)
Finn Mertens (Adventure Time) vs Wade Wilson (Marvel)
Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) vs Jean Havoc (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Matt Murdock (Marvel) vs Ellen (The Witch's House)
Clint Barton (Marvel) vs Maedhros (The Silmarillion)
Nicholas Benedict (The Mysterious Benedict Society) vs Jancy True (Drawtectives)
Donatello (TMNT: Rise, IDW) vs Black Raisin Cookie (Cookie Run)
Octavio Silva (Apex Legends) vs Dr Carmilla (The Mechanisms)
Crutchie (Newsies) vs Nemo (Finding Nemo)
Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) vs Renarin Kholin (Stormlight Archives)
Amaya (The Dragon Prince) vs Long John Silver (Treasure Planet)
Charles Xavier (Marvel) vs Dagen Underthorn (Critical Role)
Viktor (Arcane) vs Cecil Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale)
Taimi (Guild Wars 2) vs Eli Vance (Half Life)
Johnny Joestar (JJBA) vs Floofty Fizzlebean (Bugsnax)
Vash the Stampede (Trigun Stampede) vs Sunny (OMORI)
Drey Ferin (Just Roll With It) vs Kizuna Chieda (AI: The Somnium Files)
Geordi LaForge (Star Trek) vs Phosphophyllite (Houseki No Kuni)
Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs Zuko (Avatar: the Last Airbender)
Melanie King (The Magnus Archives) vs Eugenides (Queen's Thief)
Snake (Zero Escape) vs Malenia (Elden Ring)
Future Leo (ROTTMNT) vs Edgar Jomfru (Metalocalypse)
Janice Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)
Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) vs Wylan Van Eck (Six of Crows) vs Linh Cinder (Lunar Chronicles)
Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Peter Sqloint (Just Roll With It)
Bucky Barnes (Marvel) vs All Might (Boku No Hero Academia)
Della Duck (Ducktales) vs Maya Lopez (Marvel)
Jayfeather (Warrior Cats) vs Isabella Paretti (ValorPUNK)
Shouko Nishimiya (A Silent Voice) vs Gary Goodspeed (Final Space)
Violet Evergarden (Violet Evergarden) vs Brightheart (Warrior Cats)
Briarlight (Warrior Cats) vs Jinx (Arcane)
Ticket Jerry (Dialtown) vs Darth Maul (Star Wars)
Yang Xiao Long (RWBY) vs Dulcinea Septimus (Locked Tomb)
Ricky Potts (Ride the Cyclone) vs Helena Adams (Identity V) vs Antonio (Identity V)
Jimmy Valmer (South Park) vs Vanellope (Wreck-It Ralph)
Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck) vs Sam Vimes (Discworld)
Bruno Madrigal (Encanto) vs Custas (Witch Hat Atelier)
Gregory House (House MD) vs Gunthrie Miggles-Rashbax (Dimension 20)
Moon Knight (Marvel) vs Splinter (TMNT)
Shanks (One Piece) vs Goro Majima (Yakuza)
Chai (Hi-Fi Rush) vs Maria Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Kazuhira Miller (Metal Gear Solid) vs Sir Marc (Penumbra Podcast)
Izaya Orihara (Durarara) vs Hermann Gottlieb (Pacific Rim)
Finnegan Wake (Monster High) vs Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)
Frankie Stein (Monster High) vs Charlotte Webber (Marvel)
Sage Beldaruit (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Susie (Flight Rising)
Urakawa Mamoru (Mega Man) vs Undyne (Undertale)
Teo (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs Gazelle (Kingsman)
Tavros Nitram (Homestuck) vs Dunban (Xenoblade Chronicles)
Hearthstone (Magnus Chase) vs Gabriella (Little Mermaid)
Tony Stark (Marvel) vs Mera Salamin (Epithet Erased)
Rani (Pixie Hollow) vs Haruka Sakurai (MILGRAM)
Wilt (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) vs Handy (Happy Tree Friends)
Izumi Curtis (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Nog (Star Trek: DS9) vs Spock (Star Trek: Discovery)
Juno Steel (Penumbra Podcast) vs Merle Highchurch (The Adventure Zone)
Furiosa (Mad Max) vs Massimo (Luca)
Bentley (Sly Cooper) vs Symmetra (Overwatch)
Quasimodo (Hunchback of Notre Dame) vs Cyborg (Teen Titans)
Nagito Komaeda (Dangan Ronpa) vs Link (Legend of Zelda)
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Jay is her mother's daughter. She might have Jayson's name, his hair, his last name, but she was always her mother's daughter.
She looks at the way her mother works day and night at the tavern- she does the same, watching how her mother overworks until she passes out. Jay does the same.
Jay watches her mother hold herself to impossibly high expectations, maybe to prove she's worthy of her Ferin title, so Jay does the same.
Jay follows her mother- the way she holds herself, the way she acts, the way she hurts. Jay is like her mother in every way to the point Malenia often gets angry at Jay for the way she lacks any self care. Malenia sees herself too much in her daughter.
When Jay looks in the mirror, she only sees Jayson, but when Jay talks, she hears her mother.
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