#the sadboy tourney

[sadboytournament]

CONGRATULATIONS HARRY

YOU ARE NOW THE WORLD'S SADDEST BOY!!!!!!!

#tumblr polls #the sadboy tourney #harrier du bois #disco elysium

[robotlyra]

I finally figured out what my issue is with Trigun Stampede, and it basically boils down to "Stampede is a Trigun executed for modern anime audience sensibilities, and for better or for worse, that means working towards fandom interests, particularly in terms of shipping".

That the characters are kind of broad stroke, tropey versions of their previous selves (Vash: a soft sadboy, Wolfwood: a bratty edgy tsundere, Knives: a yandere obsessed with Vash, Meryl: a dedicated young moe with no characteristics) isn't just because it's a 12 episode work that has to move fast, it's because it's all that really needs to be established to get the wheels of the fanworks going. It's why Vash is saying things like "If God won't save you, I will!" out loud, cuz the themes have to be broadcast fast and unmistakably. It's why Wolfwood is his own hype man to the point where he sounds like Shadow the Hedgehog. It's why I've seen about a dozen fanarts of Wolfwood's "I'll strip the flesh from your bones" line as a re-enactment of the "I'll Kill You!" "You're beautiful" scene from Princess Mononoke.

Now, to be fair, it's not necessarily BAD that this is The Trigun for Fandom Shipping. Some of my favorite anime have also been unashamedly about shipping. Vision of Escaflowne was an isekai romance where the protagonist had to decide which potential boyfriend she liked more. Yuri on Ice was basically an olympic sporting courtship. Any titles that have the cahones to come out and say "we're gonna give the fangirls what they want" is worth a little encouragement in my book. But these kinds of things weren't what I got into Trigun for when it first came out in the late 90s. I still have a strong personal attachment to the work as a weird-western drama driven by the strength of its characters and the way their personal morals intersect and collide, and how the story establishes them through eps that technically count as "non-manga filler" but brings you a closer look at who they are. The ep where Vash and Wolfwood enter a quick draw tourney to help struggling cafe owner. Their different approaches to how to free youngsters from a trafficking ring. The way the differences between Vash and Wolfwood's approaches to life are broadcast through either desperate buffoonery, or savvy, sly pragmatism.

Anyways, at the end of the day, I'm just disappointed because I was expecting something a little closer to the spirit of the original. I wouldn't fault anyone for having a good time watching this version, but it's really not doing much for me, and after all that hype, it is something of a letdown.

#trigun

[tentacletournament]

Hello tentacle tourney audience, Himboff host here with my true not-so-secret identity to explain why YOU should vote nightmare!

reason 1: he sucks and I hate him (semi-affectionate)

reason 2: he is an edgy sadboy (very pog)

reason 3: I want to fxck his brother

reason 4: he would totally kill us all for this and I think pissing him off is hilarious

OH MY GOD HIMBOFF HOST JUST WENT ON MY BLOG AND SENT ME PROPAGANDA OF ONE OF MY BLORBOS. first of all thank you himboff i was lp's biggest fan second of all VOTE NIGHTMARE !!!!

#tentacle tournament propaganda #not a poll #mars talks #nightmare sans underverse propaganda #oh my god you were the first ever poll i cared about #im so excited for ur next one #i love how so many reasons for nightmare voters is “he would hate this” #eat the apple you guys vote nightmare

[shreejalp123]

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#edits #tiktok #instago #instadaily #instalike #trending #viral #silouette #video #tumblr #aesthetic #samsung #phonephotography #busride #trip #holiday #christmas #sadboy #brisbane #travel #soccer #tourney #sky #sun #summer #photography #bright

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[sadboytournament]

FINAL ROUND

Propaganda

Jean Discole: (Via @mistresshasty; tw kidnapping)

Saw his parents kidnapped. Violently. Then he was left alone with his kid brother to report this to the police when he's all of 8yo. This man's name isn't even Jean Descole. Descole is an alter ego for his other alter ego, Desmond Sycamore. Why? Because he GAVE HIS NAME AWAY to his younger brother so said younger brother could be adopted in his place after their parents were kidnapped. Like legit, people came and said they could only adopt one kid and Descole straight up said, yup, my kid brother, this is Hershel, not me, nope (shut up Theo, you're Hershel now.)

Then fast forward to adulthood where he's finally healing some of the Trauma, only for his wife and daughter to die mysteriously (though its heavily implied it was by the same people who kidnapped his parents.) Then, as he's getting his revenge on that organization, guess what? The leader is his long lost father who went crazy after his wife (Descole's mom) died in captivity. Descole has 0 chill because he has had 0 breaks in life.

Oh, and one last kick in the face. The titular character of the series, and Descole's arch nemesis, Professor Layton, yeah, that's the kid brother Descole gave up his future for. He deserves to be a dramatic bitch. He's earned it.

Lockwood:

#tumblr tournament #the sadboy tourney #jean descole #professor layton #anthony lockwood #lockwood and co

[sadboytournament]

ROUND ONE

Propaganda

Simon Petrikov: How many universes can one man almost get wiped out by being sad?

Ballister Blackheart: Just look at him. He looks SO sad all the time. He was just a guy hiding in a shack after he was wrongfully accused of assassinating the Queen until Nimona came along. No friends whatsoever until Nimona came along. He misses his boyfriend because he's a knight and he's worried he believes he actually committed the crime. He deserves better

#tumble tournaments #the sadboy tourney #simon petrikov #adventure time #ballister blackheart #nimona

[sadboytournament]

SEMI FINALS

Propaganda

Kaladin:

Bonus because it needed the above context:

Harry: He is a 40 something alcoholic police officer who drank until he forgot everything. He is still missing his ex girlfriend who left him 6 years ago. You can get an achievement called “World’s sorriest cop” if you have him apologize 10 times. He has the moral backbone of a graham cracker. He doesn’t remember what money is. Please, he lost Tumblr’s most pathetic creature’s poll to Vriska. He’s never won anything before, he needs this.

Bonus:

#kaladin stormblessed #stormlight archive #harry dubois #disco elysium #the sadboy tourney

[sadboytournament]

SEMI FINALS

Propaganda

Nico: His father is hades, king of the underworld. He was born before WW2, and spent 50ish years in a cursed hotel with his sister until his dad finally remembered their existence and got them out and into the modern world, where his sister was killed and he spent a year crawling around with McDonald’s, summoning ghosts to try to bring her back. A lot more happened also

Zuko: listen. he is the saddest boy. he got abused by his father, his grandfather ordered his death and his father agreed, his mother disappeared, then his father burnt half his face off and banished him. he is an emo king, he literally says once “I’m never happy.” he is so sad that it makes him mad which makes him sad. he literally spends like 70% of the show in terrible circumstances (banished, then refugee, then back with his abusive father) being miserable about it.

#nico di angelo #percy jackson series #zuko #atla #the sadboy tourney #tumblr polls

[sadboytournament]

SEMIFINALS

Propaganda

Shadow the Hedgehog: he's such a broody guy... with such a tragic past... and so many identity issues..... maria............

Lockwood: (via @its-your-mind)

#undescribed #tumblr tournaments #the sadboy tourney #shadow the hedgehog #sonic franchise #anthony lockwood #lockwood and co

[sadboytournament]

ROUND ONE

Propaganda

Sam Winchester: If we can only submit one of the Supernatural boys, then I think Sam deserves it most

Anthony Lockwood: He runs an agency of ghost hunters and is terrified of getting close to people because a lot of people be cares about died and he doesnt want to lose people

#tumble tournaments #the sadboy tourney #sam winchester #supernatural #anthony lockwood #lockwood and co

[sadboytournament]

ROUND THREE

Propaganda

Astarion Ancunin: (tw mentions of enslavement, sexual coercion, and description of torture) Spent 200 years enslaved by a vampire lord as his spawn eho horrifically tortured him the whole time, including carving a ritual circle into his back. Forced to seduce and sleep with prople to bring the vampire lord new victims, and was only able to escape because he was kidnapped by mindflayers. Is left incredibly traumatized and is in the beginning stages of recovery by the end of the game

Jean Discole: (Via @mistresshasty; tw kidnapping)

Saw his parents kidnapped. Violently. Then he was left alone with his kid brother to report this to the police when he's all of 8yo. This man's name isn't even Jean Descole. Descole is an alter ego for his other alter ego, Desmond Sycamore. Why? Because he GAVE HIS NAME AWAY to his younger brother so said younger brother could be adopted in his place after their parents were kidnapped. Like legit, people came and said they could only adopt one kid and Descole straight up said, yup, my kid brother, this is Hershel, not me, nope (shut up Theo, you're Hershel now.)

Then fast forward to adulthood where he's finally healing some of the Trauma, only for his wife and daughter to die mysteriously (though its heavily implied it was by the same people who kidnapped his parents.) Then, as he's getting his revenge on that organization, guess what? The leader is his long lost father who went crazy after his wife (Descole's mom) died in captivity. Descole has 0 chill because he has had 0 breaks in life.

Oh, and one last kick in the face. The titular character of the series, and Descole's arch nemesis, Professor Layton, yeah, that's the kid brother Descole gave up his future for. He deserves to be a dramatic bitch. He's earned it.

#tumblr tournaments #the sadboy tourney #astarion ancunin #baldur's gate 3 #jean descole #professor layton

[sadboytournament]

ROUND TWO

Propaganda

Martin: Became the avatar of a fear known as "The Lonely" because of how sad he is

Jean: Jean Descole: Overdramatic bitch. Trauma dumps on everyone. "I am Jean Descole, a broken husk of a man. Let the world burn for all I care!" shut up omg /affectionate

#tumble tournaments #the sadboy tourney #martin blackwood #the magnus archives #jean descole #professor layton

[sadboytournament]

ROUND THREE

Propaganda

Lockwood:

John Gaius: John Gaius is God the Emperor in his guise as depressed English major, and there are maybe five people in the world who actually know his name. He spends his days in a remote space station surrounded by skeletons and mementos of his dead culture, mourning the death of his homeworld with the grief and fury of a thousand suns. His hobbies include making jokes no one left alive can understand, quoting goth poetry, gaslighting his protégé, and futility trying to make his dwindling friends get along like a not-so-big happy family. So he may not be the best guy who ever lived, but this isn't the flawless heroes tournament. This is the sad boy tournament. And he has been so incredibly fucking sad for ten thousand years. He's completely alone in the universe, and it's all his own fucking fault.

#tumblr tournaments #the sadboy tourney #anthony lockwood #lockwood and co #john gaius #the locked tomb

[sadboytournament]

ROUND TWO

Propaganda

Orpheus: Everyone else in that game is a smoking hot babe and here's Orpheus, banished because he was too sad to play music and then when you bring him back he still sits in the corner being sad until you fix his marriage. Even after he gets his happy ending he just has sad vibes

Kit the Fennec: He is literally a sopping wet beast. Some guy who was taken by a scientist and experimented on until he lost all of his memories and now exists to serve another. He has water powers. His nickname is Drippy. Basically, if Tails from Sonic was sad and more pathetic

#tumblr tournaments #the sadboy tourney #orpheus #hades game #kit the fennec #sonic idw

[sadboytournament]

ROUND TWO

Propaganda

Read more added due to the length

Anthony Lockwood: (via @its-your-mind)

Simon Petrikov: (via @transgendersimonpetrikov) "...

Simon. Simon is not initially introduced as Simon, rather is introduced as Ice King, an insane and Really out of it "villain". Throughout almost all of the first 3 seasons, you ONLY see him being weird and getting beat up a lot but under all of it is incredibly sad for reasons he can't distinguish aside from crushing loneliness. Until the Christmas special, they pull a COMPLETE 180 on ice kings character and reveal his backstory - and just to shine some light on this, up until this point in the show, Finn is the only CONFIRMED human in the show. All others are assumed to be extinct. Simon's/Ice King's backstory reveals a few things to the main characters and the audience that makes the characters see him in a new, sympathetic light - he was a human antiquarian with a fiancee (named betty) who just so happened to put a cursed crown on his head as a joke to amuse betty. And then boom! He's cursed. Unlike some other, admittedly limited amount of characters, however, after putting on the crown, he does not immediately go insane. It happens over the course of a few years (which in itself implies he has insane amounts of willpower, even still coming through with Ice King given that the crown tells its users to freeze the whole world with themself inside) .

So, he's cursed, and betty supposedly left him, as that's to what he's known. He assumed he scared her and she ran away and doesn't love him anymore, and spends years grieving over that. But in the few years after putting on the crown and before fully losing his mind, he has to take care of a girl after a goddamn war (where the climax is a detonated mutagenic bomb that makes radioactive zombies and shit) that he found crying in the middle of the street. So, if his mental state was already declining BEFORE, it sure as hell is now because he has to wear the cursed crown more and more to protect himself and this girl and the effects of it clearly show every time he puts it on in flashbacks with himself in Clear distress over the effects of it . So after a while he is scared for himself, and, to quote him, "I fear my thoughts are no longer my own". So then he begrudgingly leaves the girl he cared for over the course of several years before he goes fully mad and loses himself. So then aside from some mentioned stuff that happens before his insanity fully sets in (like being hypnotized which surely did not help his already deteriorating mind) and then for a thousand years he's just pretty much Gone.

In season 4 episode 25, "I remember you", he goes to marceline (the girl he cared for, though he doesn't remember that) and asks her to help him write a song to draw in the ladies. I won't go through the whole episode, but the song they end up making is not anything like that - he took over notes and pages from a scrapbook and Marceline found some he wrote before he fully went mad while desperately trying to get him to remember who he was, and they turned the notes into a song. There is a lot of crying from marceline, meanwhile Ice King has zero fucking clue what's going on there and just thinks they're having fun. The entire episode is up on YouTube, and I would recommend watching just to get the idea.

Near the end of season 5, he gets a brief moment of lucidity and return to his former self, and he makes a time portal to say sorry and goodbye to betty, and she jumps through only to discover that without the crown Simon is dying. He says later in the episode that he'd rather Die than go back to being Ice king. She wants to find a way to help him so she gets him turned back into ice king so she can find a way to cure him, with her going insane by gaining magic in the process (by proxy of mms, which is a whole thing itself).

Series finale rolls around, he's finally back, but in a chaos deitys "stomach", which reverted him and betty back to their sane, non magic selves. Their moment is short lived by the "stomach" closing in on them, about to crush them to death. They've seemingly accepted their fates, and embrace before their impending deaths, but they're given a way out, betty staying behind despite his pleas and using the original wish state of the crown to wish Simon safe and thereby fusing with the chaos deity and leaving. The next scene is Simon breaking down and crying where she previously was.

So, 12 years pass between the finale and the spin off, and he's just absolutely tired with everything. Hes a 20th century man frozen in time and thrown into into new world after living 1000 years insane and sad without the love of his life with him and he has to deal with that. He is constantly barraged with people talking about a story he wrote when he was insane, saying that it was great, wishing he'd write more, etc etc. Even saying he was cooler when he was insane. Still grieving betty, he tries to Actually Perform A Ritual That Could Destroy The World just to see her again. It goes wrong and the 2 main characters from the story he wrote while insane pop out of his head. After a bit, he finds out that they're not fiction and instead a universe planted in his head . Their magic was stripped from their world when he was reverted back to himself and since he's wallowing in so much misery he decides to find a way to go Back to being insane and commit the equivalent of suicide and perform ego death once again for people he just met because he felt his life was worth so little that serving any purpose even if detrimental to himself would give himself a meaning to live. Just as he's about to finish this, he finally gets to talk to now-chaos-deity betty, and she gets it in his head that his life is worth living and then sends him off to live his life after an emotional scene of them finally ready to let go of their losses..."

#tumble tournaments #the sadboy tourney #anthony lockwood #lockwood and co #simon petrikov #Adventure Time

[sadboytournament]

Welcome one and all to this blog’s first ever

SAD GIRL TOURNAMENT

We here at the sadboytournement are not just “absolute wet cat of a man” appreciators, but “absolute wet cat of a woman” appreciators. And in that spirit, I will be having them compete who is the saddest of them all.

The rules are as follows

1) NO REAL ASS PEOPLE! You can do fictionalized versions of real people but not actual real people. So SPECIFY in your submission. And don’t be cute by submitting a biopic (1997’s Selena is not ok but Netflix’s Queen Charlotte is if you want a point of reference)

2) No anti-propaganda/character hate. I know how many female characters get absolutely vitriolic hate for basically no reason and I won’t allow it on this blog. If you send anti-propaganda it won’t get posted

3) No casts of characters!!!!!!!! I don’t want you putting “every woman in Supernatural”. You’re allowed to make multiple submissions just do that

4) On that note, and this is more an honor system thing than something I can enforce but please DO NOT spam the form with the same character over and over

5) DO NOT send me anon hate about propaganda or a lack thereof. You know who you are

6) And Finally! SEND IN PROPAGANDA! Have fun with it! Tell me why she’s so sad! Polls thrive on it. I also encourage reblogs on the posts proper

Now SHOW ME WHO IS THE SADDEST GIRL OF THEM ALL

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbR7KEnT_EfbAku4cUT4oCQtKQKQFUNttizX_ndLKeyAcKwQ/viewform

I will be at a con this weekend so the submission phase of this tournament will last until at least Monday (February 5)

@tournament-announcer @victimsofyaoipoll @character-of-all-time

@misogynisticmediatournament @every-character-ever-poll @canonmisogynyvictimstournament

#the sadboy tourney #the sadgirl tourney #tumblr polls #character polls #poll bracket #tumblr tournaments