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The Austin Animal Center and Emancipet, a provider of veterinary care, are partnering to host the drive-thru clinic from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Del Valle High School, 5201 Ross Road, Del Valle.
To receive vaccinations, pets must already be microchipped or be microchipped at the event. The first 500 pets are guaranteed service but must be on a leash or in a carrier.

I have heard intelligent, mathematically educated people making peace with the idea that they may have to sell their property when fixed rates end, because their rate is going to increase from e.g. 2.0% to 5.5%, based on a misunderstanding of how mortgage repayments are determined.
They do some mental calculation like: "If interest rates increase from 2.0% to 5.5%, then my repayments will increase by an additional 3.5% of my loan balance every year, and that's a lot of money, I can't afford that!"
Or worse: "If interest rates are going up by a factor of 2.75, I guess my repayments must be going up by a factor of 2.75 as well! Oh no, I'll have to sell my house!"
Mortgages do not work that way!
(unless you're paying interest only, then they totally do work that way and you should ignore this post).
If you want to know how much you'll be paying given a hypothetical future interest rate, use an actual mortgage calculator, or look up the formula on wikipedia if you're so inclined.
The actual result you'll see is that if your interest rate increases from 2.0% to 5.5%, your repayments will go up by 54%.
It's a massive increase still, but it is not 175% like it would be if repayments were proportional to the interest rate. And it is lower than the 79% it would be if you were paying a fixed amount of the principal every month over the loan and paying whatever the monthly interest was on top.
Mortgage repayments are calculated in order to be a fixed monthly dollar amount over the loan, which means you're paying less principle per month at the start than at the end - whereas you're paying more interest at the start and less at the end. It's subtle, and you need to use an actual mortgage calculator to estimate how a change in interest rates will affect you.

With dawning horror we realized that this time we weren't the backup muscle for the adepts and tech-priests, they were the backup brains for us. We were the primary investigation team, the Rupert expected us to go and be inquisitive. US, the guardsmen, the mudfeet; a group of under-educated, over-armed gorillas with a penchant for laziness, petty theft, paranoia, and completely reasonable cowardice.

In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war, and that war requires soldiers. All too often, the frontline fighters of that war get sacrificed like meat in a grinder, dying en masse in trenches in the Imperium's great war on all xeno scum. This is the story of a party of guardsmen who survived one of many brutal trench battles across the universe, and survived to go on many further adventures.
Hover over each feat to see which story the feat comes from. The story in its entirety can be read here.
Here’s a gallery of fanart of the All Guardsmen Party, including deceased members.

Greg "Sarge" Sargent

The team’s leader. Makes plans on the fly and commands the Guardsmen with absolute authority.
Strength

• Stopped an overenthusiastic debater with a pistol whip
• Blocks a chainsword with his las gun, then judo throws the attacker over himself
• Throws an enemy at another enemy
• Picks up a guy with one hand and tosses him over a bar counter
• Wrestles with a zoanthrope, an electricity-producing wild animal
• Removes a dead Space Marine’s helmet with a knife
• Throws a piece of a ship’s hull hard enough to wrap around a creature’s head
• [Augmented Prosthetic Hand] Dents a table by pounding his fist on it
• Gets tackled by a bigger man, but manages to wrestle and pull the attacker off of himself
• [Augmented Prosthetic Hand] Grabs a table hard enough to puncture the metal, then swings it around himself hard enough to crumple a man’s chest and knock doors off their hinges when thrown
• [Augmented Prosthetic Hand] Disarms a man with a folding chair, then ragdolls a smaller man into a wall
• When pinned to a table with reinforced restraints around his limbs, Sarge simply flexes his body and breaks the table itself

Endurance

• Sarge gets hit with a flash grenade detonating inches from his face, then gets a heavy door knocked over onto him, then gets clawed by an arbite, then gets shot with bolt rounds, before falling into unconsciousness
• Keeps running after taking buckshot to the side
• Fights on after taking two bullets to his body

Agility

• A man tries to stab Sarge in the back, but he counters and pins the man’s hand to a table with the same knife
• Pulls Nubby to cover to evade a blast of lightning
• While carrying a piece of a ship’s hull as a shield, he sprints across a room and intercepts a lightning bolt thrown by a Zoanthrope, blocking it

Other

• Has a range-finder tool on his rifle that highlights the pilots of mech suits to himself and Aimy
• Sarge uses a large, downed enemy as a makeshift cover
• Hides in a bathroom until a mercenary enters, then KOs him and takes his uniform. He then poses as the man, calling himself Sergeant Kelly, and leads a bar full of mercenaries into a base but away from his allies, who are on the run.
• Sarge drops a satchel carrying several explosives onto a Flyrant’s horn, spreading it across several walls when they explode
• Lets a grenade “cook” for a few seconds before throwing it, causing it to detonate near a flying enemies
• Stops a convoy of armored vehicles with multiple krak missiles
• When a psyker tries to mind-puppet Sarge around, it’s unsuccessful due to the decades of mental damage Sarge has sustained as a soldier

Doc

The field medic. Mostly a non-combat role, he will heal Guardsmen after battles and transport ammunition.
Physicals

• Clubs a possessed priest to unconsciousness with his own bible
• Takes a blast of lightning that burns his chest and throws him into a wall
• A barrage of grenades bends and throws a metal door, sending Doc flying across a room. He lives, but he’s concussed, deafened and bleeding all over.
• Blocks a patient’s stab with his forearm, which pierces into his face
• Tries to fight on after receiving broken ribs from a punch
• After lightning destroys his cover, Doc evades the next lightning bolt. He then dodges a falling, flaming body.

Medical Skill

• Healed a badly injured Sister and Cleric
• With the help of multiple Hospitallers, patches up two guys that had three working limbs between them
• Patches up a chest wound that Cutter sustained fighting a demon with a giant sword
• Reattaches a bitten-off ear
• Doc is tasked with helping cure a Space Marine that had been cut in half at the chest by a Flyrant, a terrible monster that leaves wounds coated in a corrosive toxin. Doc keeps him alive by pumping the top half full of drugs, fluids and de-tox pills, while the bottom half is put in an airlock to deprive the toxin of atmosphere or heat. The Marine survives long enough to get more advanced medical attention.

Other

• Tranquilizes two enemies from behind. Since they weren’t enhanced like Doc thought, this kills them.
• Carries stim shots, injectables to quickly energize guardsmen
• Blows a two-meter tall Kroot in half with his concealed las-gun
• After draining corrosive Tyranid venom from a Space Marine’s kidney, he weaponizes it and sprays the contents of the syringe at three guards, killing them

Twitch

The demolitions expert. Extremely paranoid, willing to set up dozens of traps on a moment’s notice.
Physicals

• Blinds a fellow inmate with a fork
• Evades one gunshot, but gets hit with another in the back. Afterwards, he’s still conscious.
• Pulls Tink to cover to avoid a blast of lightning

Explosives
Traps

• Crafts tripwire traps
• Booby-traps a room when the group sleeps, including taping grenades to a high-tech security door
• Rigs an entire floor with mines when the group sleeps, obliterating an assassination squad
• Rigs trip mines in the surrounding air vents, just in case assassins come to kill him in his sleep
• Booby-traps his own weapons, meaning when an enemy tries using his las gun, it explodes and takes off her hand
• When posing as a deserter, Twitch stealthily installs several explosives around the camp. He detonates them in intervals to give the illusion of an enemy artillery strike, while also destroying watchtowers.
• Builds an IED out of laspistol powerpacks, duct tape and any small piece of metal on Sarge’s Inquisitor uniform

Other

• Carries enough explosives to shake a temple
• On one mission, Twitch carried a small nuclear bomb, used to destroy a Heretek cruiser
• Twitch’s explosive stockpile lasts for several weeks of constant fighting before he begins to run out
• Fires a krak missile into a pile of enemy ammunition, creating a large explosion
• Steals a septic-transport truck and attaches several detpacks to it, then drives it onto enemies behind cover. When he detonates the detpacks, the waste is ignited like a colossal incendiary grenade.
• Fills a bottle with multiple cleaning solutions to make a caustic, splattering projectile
• Equipped with an underbarrel grenade launcher on his rifle

Other

• Carries backup detonators, allowing him to blow up the enemies are they have confiscated his first detonator
• Hacks a halted elevator
• Disarms a pile of enemy explosives
• A ricocheted bullet lodges itself in his helmet
• When Fumbles has a panic attack and psychically projects his fear into the team’s minds, Twitch pulls a bag over his head and calms him down
• When a psyker commands that the group drop their weapons, Twitch drops an armed grenade, but manages to kick it in the direction of the psyker, halting his command

Nubby Nubbs

The quartermaster. An extreme kleptomaniac. Also pretty stupid. After getting his legs severed, he gets augmented prosthetics.
Feats

• Gets both legs severed by a force sword
• Swipes an important ID bracelet off of an Interrogator while being attacked by her
• Nubby’s the fastest runner thanks to his augmented legs
• Incaps a guy with several kicks to the crotch
• Carries an IED that’s used to kill a group of hormagaunts

Heavy

A heavy weapons expert.
Feats

• Literally defends a barricade from lesser demons in his sleep
• [Limit] Killed by a gunshot to the back of the head

Cutter

The melee specialist. Extremely protective of his chainsword.
Strength/Skill

• Kills a group of armed gretchins with his chainsword, then does the same to a group of las gun-equipped orcs, although he needs help with the orcs
• Smashes through stone and wood weaponry
• Over the course of a few seconds, he bisects a huge, extremely muscular enemy
• Parries a blow from an ambushing servitor
• Temporarily contends with a tentacle monster that pulls apart metal doors

Other

• Dodges sidearm fire and ignore a shallow cut from a force sword
• Gets peppered with bolt rounds and has a grenade blow up at his feet, but gets up and walks around shortly afterwards
• [Limit] Cutter is pumped full of two potent combat drugs and engages in a sword fight with a Heretek. Despite shrugging off several injuries and bisecting the mechanical enemy, the Heretek employs a suicide attack, immolating Cutter.

Crisp

A flame trooper. Slightly insane after being enlisted in a death cult on a previous mission.
Feats

• With his flamer, Crisp could put a stream of burning promethium through the firing slits of enemy tanks
• Burns piles of diseased bodies
• [Limit] In a suicide attack, Crisp offers to join the enemy chaos marine, then gets close enough to where Twitch can detonate several explosives attached to Crisp’s flamer, obliterating both himself and the marine

Tink

A technical expert. Extremely knowledgeable about most kinds of technology to a near-obsessive degree.
Physicals

• When a sniper hits his plasma gun and it starts venting superheated gasses, he takes a blast to the face before he throws it at two enemies, burning them both
• Dodges a running kick from a woman who can deflect bullets and plasma blasts

Gear

• Wears goggles with zoom functionality
• Tink makes scan-proof trenchcoats for the group, allowing them to better conceal their weapons in a highly-surveilled city
• He builds a makeshift vehicle with a cargo pallet, grav plates and a motor
• Carries a plasma gun, a firearm that spits globs of superheated plasma through walls and cover
  • Puts a hole in a salamander tank’s engine, disabling it
  • The plasma gun turns a tyranid Warrior into “chunky salsa”
  • Can be set to “cut mode”, allowing him to cut through the floor of a warehouse or weld a set of metal doors shut

DX-9F Exploratory Drone

• Tink carries an expensive drone capable of a stealth mode, which renders it invisible to bio-scans and the naked eye, as well as a tarp that can cover the group and render them invisible as well
• Comes with a recorder function, used to blackmail a general into retreating.
• Equipped with a plasma thrower
• It weighs fifty kilograms, or just over a hundred pounds, so it can be used to ram enemies in a pinch
• Can place EMP grenades
• Tink attaches a long piece of wraithbone, an anti-psyker material, to Spot, then flies it into a daemon-possessed Zoanthrope to stab the creature
• Some kind of device used to mark enemies, highlighting their positions for the group

Fumbles

A psyker, who can use his abilities to warp reality in clumsy but impressive ways.
Mental Abilities

• Has a minor empathic effect on all people around him, causing them to feel whatever emotion or sensation he’s currently feeling. He cannot turn this effect off.
  • By thinking happy thoughts, Fumbles is able to make a Ratling more susceptible to haggling, causing him to behave more generously than he would have
  • Emanates unpleasant feelings near a door to keep enemies away
• Causes a guard to fire on his friends, causing a firefight between the enemy combatants
• Causes both enemies and allies to temporarily forget what they were doing
• Can read minds to understand intentions
• Makes a guard forget what he’s doing, along with a chunk of his childhood
• Can taste the emotions of others
• Can “psychic shout” his thoughts into other people’s mind

Other Abilities

• Shakes the ship that he’s on, knocking over some crates, then covers the floor in a layer of ice
• After attempting to read the thoughts of a group, Fumbles lets out a supernaturally loud scream
• Raises his hands and produces a flashbang-like effect, blinding everyone around himself
• Can see combatants through walls, and renders his ally’s grenades invisible
• Can cloak his allies from enemy’s perceptions
• While being shocked by an electric and psychic creature, Fumbles spontaneously creates indoor snowstorms, gravity fluctuations, minor visions in those around him and summons a minor daemon from out of the Warp. He then creates a flooding downpour of blood indoors and a psychic, concussive explosion.
• Can sense warp corruption

Amelia "Aimy" Delorisista Amanita Trigestrata Zeldana Malifee von Humpeding

A member of a family of royals, Aimy bucks the stereotypes of a calm, collected noblewoman. She initially acts as the medic in Doc’s absence, then operates full-time as a sharpshooter.
Physicals

• Punches Doc across a table
• Grabs a part-Ogryn’s crotch and squeezes until he falls over
• While holding a gun to a man’s head, she accidentally breaks his neck
• Gets her rifle shot down the barrel, causing it to blow up and burn her face and arms
• Punches a Space Marine without breaking her hand
• Ducks under a fired melta beam

Accuracy

• Headshots a charging tyranid Warrior
• Headshots a servitor in a warehouse
• Kills advancing gaunts nearly as fast as a Space Marines ally, even saving him once he runs out grenades
• Snipes the flying Daemonthrope in both of its eyes
• She’s telekinetically lifted into the air by her gun, but the moment she’s released, she aims and fired on the offending psyker while midair

Team

Combat
Against Individuals

• Nubby, Twitch, and Heavy kill a minor daemon by pumping las gun fire into it before it can do anything, then team up and stomp it into liquid
• Ashes a psyker
• The group evades an aircraft’s gunfire, then Doc and Sarge deter it with explosive launchers
• They battle a daemon-possessed cogtain, an enemy with numerous metal tentacles and the ability to throw lightning. The group peppers the enemy with las fire while Cutter knocks it down an elevator shaft and slashes at it on the way down. Nubby saves Cutter from a heroic death by manipulating the ship’s gravity in the right way to bring their ally back up.
• The group fights a metallic spider with scythes for legs and the ability to become incorporeal. Cutter takes charge and forces it to become corporeal to attack him, then the group hits the spider with las-fire until it dies.
• While in a van driven by Nubby, the group battles a battlesuit, a giant suit of mechanical armor. They fire all manner of projectiles out the windshield, then crash into the battlesuit, then turn its cameras to slag with las-fire, rendering it unusable.
• The group battles a Necron-based dreadnought mech. Through use of smoke bombs, targeting software, plasma guns, some hacking from tech priest allies, and a blast of Fumbles’ psychic energy, they topple the dreadnought.
• Nubby thinks hard about a plan so that Fumbles can read his mind, then renders Twitch invisible to the enemies. Twitch then gets close enough to toss an explosive at the ork psyker, saving Fumbles from being held hostage.
• They gang up on an Arbite traffic cop, with Sarge uppercutting him with spiked brass knuckles, Nubby kicking him in the crotch, and Tink shocking him with a wrench-like tool. Doc and Twitch then throw the man in the getaway vehicle, where he’s disarmed, sedated and restrained.
• They obliterate Angelica Dominicus with incendiary grenades and las fire
• The team is faced with assassinating Bane Johns, a man with psyker powers that manifest in supernatural luck for himself, and terrible luck for everyone around him. They employ several different tactics against him.
  • They opt to throw 37 grenades at him, just to make sure one of them detonates correctly
  • Try to lead him away from any vehicles, on the off chance that they start exploding. They only start a firefight once inside a restaurant’s warehouse
  • They use older models of las-guns with higher reliability so that they don’t jam or explode in their hands. When Bane focuses, the guns do misfire, but with multiple shooters they’re able to score hits on Bane.

Against Groups

• Pushes back an army of demons with covering fire
• Eliminates a large group of hitmen, bringing the group down to three enemies
• They pursue and attack g-men who produce an invisible shield. While Heavy lays fire into the shield, the rest flank and fire on the enemies themselves.
• Decimates a group of engineer Servitorks
• The group takes out a pair of assassins moments after a flash grenade goes off near them
• Destroys a mob of las-resistant servitors, focusing on headshots or de-limbing the machines
• Doc drops handfuls of expensive drugs on the ground, distracting a group of guards and allowing Sarge, Nubby, Twitch and Tink to kill five of them
• While sprinting down a hallway, Sarge breaks a man’s neck with a clothesline, while Twitch and Nubby stab two more guards in the foreheads with their knives
• The group plans to kidnap a diplomat alive and kill his group of guards. They first destroy a wall with explosives, then flashbang the room and fire on the guards. When invisible guards appear, Fumbles dispatches them with a shout, while Sarge uses Doc’s tranquilizers to KO the diplomat. The group retreats with the diplomat and their wounded, while Sarge throws a belt of grenades into the building. Nubby is outside with a van ready to exfiltrate.
• While driving a makeshift pallet vehicle, they battles dozens of groups of ghostly tyranids with overwhelming las and plasma fire, Twitch’s wall mines and recon from Spot the drone
• Tink and Doc fire on three grenade-armed servo-skulls, deterring the flying machines
• Sarge charges down a door to take out one guard, which is immediately followed by Tink shocking another and Twitch throwing a knife at one more
• They engage in a prison brawl, battering their fellow inmates with sucker punches and thrown bottles, until the group is shocked by their collars

Other

• They hit the dirt and evade a low flying aircraft’s bombing run
• Doc gives Cutter and a group of chainsaw-wielding troopers double doses of two different, potent combat drugs. This allows the group, along with a separate group firing las-guns and stub rounds, to push two Space Marines off of a cliff.
• The group is able to flee from a firefight and seek cover in an embassy, despite a slew of broken bones, lacerations and gunshot wounds

Equipment
Weapons

• Las Guns
  • Limb shots will char the entire limb “to uselessness”
• Incendiary grenades
• Grenade launchers
• Tasers
• Missile and grenade launchers
  • Use of these launchers “pretty much leveled [a] building”
• Single shot missile launchers, used to obliterate regenerating enemies

Wearables

• They wear carapace armor
  • Enemy guards break their toes when kicking Doc’s armor
  • Their armor takes close-range autogun rounds without being penetrated
  • Blocks a blast of lightning
• They wear puncture-proof voidsuits when venturing in exposed space
• Grav-chutes, harnesses that use anti-gravity technology to drop soldiers into battlefields from airborne ships
• They wear rebreathers when traversing a sewer

Tools

• Commandeered laser cutting tools, as well as flashbangs
• Breaching charges
• Guardsmen carry tactical flashlights on their clothing or on their weapons

Tactics

• Follows a disaster response checklist
• Convinces a group of religious zealots to join a fight, commanding them expertly
• Improvises "holy explosives" to break a chaos barrier
• Manages to stay relaxed but attentive during a two month trip that leaves the rest of their allies wound-up and nervous
• When faced with a group of psykers behind cover, Sarge steals a forklift and the group attaches explosives to it. They then leave a brick on the pedal, driving the explosives into the psykers’ cover.
• While Nubby is posing as a servant of the enemy, they give him a pile of junk to carry, filled with several explosives. He leaves the pile near the enemy’s weapon-creating machine, then exits the building and detonates it.
• The group commandeers a flier with no weaponry, so they crash land it through their destination’s windows
• The group encounters a temple wall marked with Chaos runes summoning tentacled monstrosities. They respond by sticking detpacks on a large pole, attaching them to the other side of the wall, then obliterating the wall itself.
• The group is mostly unaffected by some telepathic slaaneshi cultists
• When faced with a “medium sized army” of servitors and an angry Knarloc, the group tinkers with the door controls, instigating a fight between their enemies rather than fight them head-on
• When faced with a nearly invisible and sometimes incorporeal daemon, Nubby and Twitch take cultist hostages and tape active grenades to their hands. They’re then left as bait for the daemon, and when they’re killed, the grenades explode, signaling the position of the daemon to the Guardsmen.
• Attaches a large melta-bomb to the end of a stick, then punctures a spaceship with it
• They all hide in crates to be smuggled from a shipping bay to a storeroom aboard a spaceship, unbeknownst to the people who moved the crates
• When assigned to a suicide mission, Sarge grabs a superior Eldar ally while Twitch attaches an explosive rigged to a deadman’s switch to the Eldar. This ensures that the getaway ship actually will pick them up and not leave them high and dry on an exploding spacecraft.
• When forced to exit a building’s second floor in a van, Tink has the group activate their grav-chutes and try to lift the van from the inside, resulting in a slower descent
• While imprisoned, they sabotage the laundry crew to get them injured or killed, which allows the Guardsmen to take over laundry duty and steal a guard’s ID card

Miscellaneous

• The spirits of deceased Guardsmen (and some of their allies) end up in a poker room that appears when their spacecraft, the Occurrence Border, travels through the Warp. They take the form of skeletons or decayed bodies and exhibit the wounds that killed them in life. Heavy, Cutter and Crisp all appear in this poker room for the undead, and Heavy warps reality to allow for the living group to access a floor of the ship that previously did not exist.

We have just under 24 hours remaining. I will update the player list in a little while. If you have already expressed interest in playing but have not submitted your participants within the guidelines, please do so on the original post and not here. You may sign up either two or four tributes.
EDIT: We are at 38 48!!
u/Kingfin9391: Kecleon Tesst Walter White Doug Bowser
u/Unite-Us-3403 : Damiano David (Måneskin) B1 Battle Droid Cri-Kee Franklin (GTA 5)
u/SZeenGames123 : LeBron James Robocop Daisy Maggie Pesky
u/Thisaccountishaunted : Daroach Cinderella Mantis Shrimp Bismuth
u/LeoThunderYT : Scrooge McDuck Nightmare Cuphead Kevin McCallister Germany
u/TheLeastExpected23 : Debra Morgan Ken Jennings Lapis Lazuli Sly Cooper
u/thepersonthathate : Firey Underwear Thepersonthathate
u/ravenshometms2 : Levi Nazem Kadri
u/Comfortable-Fix-5726 : Tyler Blevins Lara Croft Table Live Action Sonic
u/torontoagtfan : Sav Bhandari Merrick Hanna
u/NCOSpeedruns : Cody Lily Reggie Fils-Aime NCOSpeedruns
u/RandomWareInc : Dwight Schrute Steve Carell
u/dahcowboy : Gregory "Greg" Heffley Nikolas Knackalus Rex Mason
u/CitrusKey1129 : Large Indian Civet Jimmy McGill Cartman Sam Raimi

We have just under 50 hours remaining. I have 16 20 28!! tributes confirmed and I am looking for 8 4 hoping for 20 more. If you have already expressed interest in playing but I have not submitted your participants within the guidelines, please do so on the original post and not here. You may sign up either two or four tributes.
Edit: If it’s possible to get to *48** instead of 24, I’m entirely willing to expand the game.*
Confirmed
u/___HeyGFY___ One Red Habanero Pepper Kenny McCormick HeyGFY Hazel
u/Kingfin9391: Kecleon Tesst Walter White Doug Bowser
u/Unite-Us-3403 : Damiano David (Måneskin) B1 Battle Droid Cri-Kee Franklin (GTA 5)
u/SZeenGames123 : LeBron James Robocop Daisy Maggie Pesky
u/Thisaccountishaunted : Daroach Cinderella Mantis Shrimp Bismuth
u/LeoThunderYT Scrooge McDuck Nightmare Cuphead Kevin McCallister Germany
u/TheLeastExpected23 Debra Morgan Ken Jennings Lapis Lazuli Sly Cooper

SIGNUPS ARE CLOSED! We are at 48
Well, since I’ve played a few times and I have a vacation next week, I’m going to give this a try.
My first THG FFA will take place on a thirty-acre farm in southern Illinois. There are a dozen buildings for horses, pigs, cattle, chickens, goats, and sheep, along with massive fields of corn, wheat, and soybeans.
You may submit either two or four participants. There will be no limit to the number of players. If they’ve been in someone else’s seasons, they’re more than welcome to participate here.
You have five days to submit your teams. Sign ups will close at 11 AM (eastern US) on Tuesday. I will post a reminder with about 48 hours and about 24 hours left.
Here are the available categories:
Real Life Person Real Life Animal Live Action Movie/TV Character Animated Movie/TV Character Video Game Character Places/Buildings/Landmark Other Inanimate Object slight edit due to formatting issue
Groups and/or duos (Penn and Teller, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The LA Dodgers, etc.) are not permitted. You must choose a single entity only. A Box of Raisins is OK. A Dozen Raisins is not.
Please include a link to an image for each player. You may submit no more than ONE of each of the above categories (e.g. Beavis or Butthead but not both).
If you want to submit yourself (your Snoo), that’s fine. You’re a real life person.
If you submit a place (e.g. Japan), please include a link to an image and not to an actual map.
If you submit an animated character, you may not also submit the person who voiced the character (e.g. Beavis and Mike Judge).
If you submit a video game character, make sure it’s not one whose game has been made into a movie (e.g. Lara Croft).
Please be sure no one has submitted any version of your character. I don’t want a live action Batman and an animated Batman.
If you would like to suggest any events, feel free to do so. Just keep in mind the location. You won’t find many ninjas or subway trains on a farm in southern Illinois.
Please make sure you list them in the pairs you would like to represent each district. I will not shuffle your characters around for any reason.
Finally, the winner will be able to pick the next location and submit their winning character for the next one.
EDIT: We are at 38. Can we get 10 more? EDIT 2: We are at 44 48!! I am dropping out. I will update the list within the hour.
Participants:
u/Kingfin9391: Kecleon Tesst Walter White Doug Bowser
u/Unite-Us-3403 : Damiano David (Måneskin) B1 Battle Droid Cri-Kee Franklin (GTA 5)
u/SZeenGames123 : LeBron James Robocop Daisy Maggie Pesky
u/Thisaccountishaunted : Daroach Cinderella Mantis Shrimp Bismuth
u/LeoThunderYT : Scrooge McDuck Nightmare Cuphead Kevin McCallister Germany
u/TheLeastExpected23 : Debra Morgan Ken Jennings Lapis Lazuli Sly Cooper
u/thepersonthathate : Firey Underwear Thepersonthathate
u/ravenshometms2 : Levi Nazem Kadri
u/Comfortable-Fix-5726 : Tyler Blevins Lara Croft Table Live Action Sonic
u/torontoagtfan : Sav Bhandari Merrick Hanna
u/NCOSpeedruns : Cody Lily Reggie Fils-Aime NCOSpeedruns
u/RandomWareInc : Dwight Schrute Steve Carell
u/dahcowboy : Gregory "Greg" Heffley Nikolas Knackalus Rex Mason
u/CitrusKey1129 : Large Indian Civet Jimmy McGill Cartman Sam Raimi
May the odds ever be in your favor.

(Originally posted here; this version has been updated with information from *Endgame + some general additions and expansions such as the new notes page for "I remember you tossing me into an abyss"*
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As it does not escape my notice that I've created a digital version of this meme, some navigation help for anyone who needs it:

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• For items with the yellow 'Note' label, select the node and then 'Notes on Item' in the side menu to view an additional notes page
• If an item has a globe icon it the top-left corner, click it to open a webpage
• 'Adjust View' in the side menu has controls to zoom in/out, increase/decrease the distance between items, and filter items or relations by category
• Relations (and items) are color-coded by type: solid green lines are for in-universe evidence (light green connects evidence to the theory it supports, while dark green connects pieces of evidence that should be looked at together), purple dotted lines denote parallels, and dark red lines mark cases of "one of these things is not like the other"

And an overview of the theories contained therein:

• First, the central piece of tinfoil around which all other tinfoil is arrayed: remember how, at the end of the first Thor, Loki was pathologically obsessed with gaining his father's approval? And how, when he next showed up after vanishing for an entire year, he'd gotten mixed up with a guy who keeps a menagerie of adopted children? And how, during his argument with Thor on the mountaintop, he said this?
  

  Loki: Did you mourn?
  Thor: We all did. Our father--
  Loki: Your father. He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?
  

   
  

  Loki: I’ve seen worlds you’ve never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile. I have seen the true power of the Tesseract and when I wield it—
  

   
  

  Tom Hiddleston: There’s a bit where Thor says, “We all mourned! Our father…” and Loki interrupts him and says, “YOUR father.” And it’s that sense of 'don’t include me in this anymore. I have no relation or connection to you.' It’s his way of saying 'I’ve let go, I’m gone, I’m on the outside of the fence, I’m happy here, I don’t want to come back in.'
  

  • If I may take a minute to get out some of my extremely complicated feelings on this, while there's a bunch more evidence in favor of Loki having been another of Thanos's children that can be viewed on the mind map, I want to highlight this pair of quotes because it's everything implied by the words "Your father" that makes it into a devastating punch in the stomach which draws on both halves of Loki's Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds characterization: his genuine love for his family is his primary redeeming quality and that he forswore it like this puts the terrible moment when he first knelt before Thanos and pledged himself to the Mad Titan's service firmly into archetypal Faustian sell-your-soul territory, but when you consider the straits he was in at the time and the implication that Thanos initially ensnared him not through promises of power but by preying on him emotionally, it's a very human kind of tragic mistake.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi58pN8W3hY
    
  • The other mitigating factor is that based on everything we've heard from Thanos's other children, it's a safe bet that he did in fact do unspeakably horrible things to Loki too -- indeed, noticing the resemblance between the existing theories about Loki having been tortured/brainwashed and Gamora's "He took me, tortured me, turned me into a weapon" was what prompted the above realization in the first place. (It's reminiscent of Theon's storyline in ASOIAF/GOT: yeah, he betrayed his adoptive family and did some generally awful stuff, but no one deserves what happened to him.) It also bears emphasizing that accountability cuts both ways: one of the key takeaways from the previous bullet point is that the suffering Loki went through doesn't absolve him of responsibility for his villainous actions, but the other side of the coin is that Loki's partial complicity doesn't absolve Thanos of responsibility for the choice he made to take a broken, desperate young man who'd just lost everything and turn him into the rabid animal we saw during The Avengers, and I dearly hope that exploring the rich font of psychological horror that is that time period will erase any remaining doubt that Thanos's claims of acting For The Greater Good are nothing but empty, egotistical, self-righteous posturing and everyone in the audience who insists on taking them at face value is being duped just as Loki was.
    

    Stephen: No. I mean, come on. Look at your face. Dormammu made you a murderer. Just how good can his kingdom be?
    

  • As for where this is all going, I believe there's a good chance that the Loki Disney+ series will be where they finally address this as a. the split timeline Loki the series will be following is still fresh from his time with Thanos and it will therefore have to explain what happened if we're to understand the kind of headspace that he's in at that moment and b. Tom Hiddleston has revealed that the series will also clarify whether or not Loki really is dead in the main timeline, and everything I have so far indicates that understanding the nature of his original pact with Thanos is essential to understanding both Loki's choice to die and Thanos's choice to kill him (see the 'Pledge of fidelity' and 'Limited use' notes pages on the mind map). Character-wise, I think one of the points of emphasis will be that Loki's death in Infinity War doesn't wrap up his story as neatly as it may appear to on the surface; truly completing his redemption arc will require him to confront this part of his past in full, and with it his guilt over everything he's done and his fear that he's wrecked his life and relationship with his family so thoroughly that he can never, ever fix them.
    

    Loki: Can you? Can you wipe out that much red? [...] Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child at prayer... PATHETIC! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code. Something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away!
    

• An additional giant red flag indicating we really should be asking more questions about that time gap is a group of lines in The Avengers which reveal that Thanos taught Loki how to use the Tesseract.
  

  The Other: The Tesseract has awakened. It is on a little world. A human world. They would wield its power, but our ally knows its workings as they never will.
  

   
  

  The Other: You question us? You question HIM? He, who put the Scepter in your hand? Who gave you ancient knowledge and new purpose when you were cast out, defeated?
  

   
  

  Loki: I’ve seen worlds you’ve never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile. I have seen the true power of the Tesseract and when I wield it—
  Thor: Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be king?
  

  Sharing that kind of knowledge and power with someone as volatile as Loki strikes me as an monumentally terrible idea (and as much as I don't want to be the person who throws a tantrum because their fanfic didn't come true, I'm kinda salty that Thanos was defeated without it coming back to bite him in the ass), which leaves me wondering what Thanos hoped to gain that he believed would be worth the risks. My thoughts on that particular sub-puzzle are still somewhat hazy, but my basic sense is that there's something weird going on between Loki and the Tesseract and wanting to exploit that connection is one of the reasons Thanos went to all the trouble of breaking him into submission.
  

  Loki: So I am no more than another stolen relic, locked up here until you might have use of me?
  

• The other reason for Thanos's interest in Loki ties back to all that emotional twistiness I talked about earlier: he planned to leverage Loki's anger and resentment towards his family in a bid to destroy Odin and Asgard from the inside.
  

  Zemo: An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumbles from within? That's dead... forever.
  

  • As a prelude to this, during The Avengers Thanos had additionally tasked Loki with killing Thor as a way to prove his loyalty and destroy the last remaining shreds of his own humanity, a test Loki failed because he still loved his brother too much.
    

    Coulson: You're going to lose. It's in your nature. [...] You lack conviction.
    

    What's more, Thanos anticipated this, and the Scepter's influence over Loki was aimed at forcing him to go through with it if he refused.
    

    Loki: I won't touch Barton, not until I make him kill you! Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear! And then he'll wake, just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams, I'll split his skull!
    

  • Lastly, even with Infinity War having established that Thanos simply gets off on emotional torture, that he would go out of his way to fuck with Odin personally by turning his second son against him leads me to believe there was a special hatred there stemming from some as-yet unrevealed history between the two. I mean, when I picture the alternate universe where Thanos shows up to attack Asgard with a corrupted Loki in tow like "You screwed up so badly that he chose me as a father figure over you" ...that isn't something you say to a complete stranger.
    

    GRRM on writing villain POVs: That's a comic book kind of thing, where the Red Skull gets up in the morning [and asks] "What evil can I do today?" Real people don't think that way. We all think we're heroes, we all think we're good guys. We have our rationalizations when we do bad things. "Well, I had no choice," or "It's the best of several bad alternatives," or "No it was actually good because God told me so," or "I had to do it for my family." We all have rationalizations for why we do shitty things or selfish things or cruel things. So when I'm writing from the viewpoint of one of my characters who has done these things, I try to have that in my head.
    

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