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indigozeal · 7 years

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BATEN KAITOS HAT POLL RESULTS

Today, we come together to celebrate and sanctify the favored symbol of our hallowed yearly festival--

For this poll, BK fans were asked to emulate the citizens of Alfard in their voting habits. Well, they did - they brought the DRAMA, in the form of an UPSET:

1. Mizuti (23 pts.) 2. Baelheit (19 pts.) 3. Mintaka shopkeeper, Origins* (11 pts.) 4. Corellia (7 pts.) 5. Giacomo, EWatLO; Calbren (5 pts.) 6. Geldoblame, EWatLO; Azha shopkeeper, Origins (3 pts.) 7. Anuenue shopkeepers, EWatLO**; Catranne; Parnasse NPC with waffle hat; Almarde, EWatLO; Ayme (2 pts.) 8. Ladekahn, Origins; Krumly; Lolo; Azha shopkeeper, EWatLO; Trill; Parnasse shopkeeper; Donella (1 pt.)

* - Or, as one voter aptly put it, "the one alfard shopheeper in origins with the entire fuckin chandelier on his head". ** - Though for multiple people, this vote was accepted because the shopkeepers have the same hat, just in different colors. They are a true tag team.

Yes - according to the voting populace, it is the Great Mizuti's hat that is the fairest of them all! Many voters felt compelled to expound upon the reasons for their choice, with four major reasons cited: 1) people really like her; 2) her hat looks "like a rainbow," featuring an expansive palette; and her hat 3) has a birdie on top and 4) is weaponized. Perhaps His Excellency should consider incorporating one of these approaches into some alternative headgear. Knowing Alfard, it'll probably be 4).

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Notes on vote procedure: as stated in the OP, voters were asked to list what they thought were the best, second-best, and third-best hats in the Baten Kaitos franchise. First-place choices were given 3 points; second-place choices, 2 points; and third-place choices, 1 point. 16 Baten Kaitos fans voted in all.

However, this ballot was plagued with *voting irregularities*:

- I had to contact a couple folks for vote clarification. Please be assured that a virtual paper trail has been maintained to prove BALLOT INTEGRITY in case the electron administration offices come a-calling. - Votes for a single hat were counted as first-place votes (just with no accompanying second- or third-place votes). - Some posters just reblogged the post without voting via reblog comment, tags, or replies at all. - Though it was mentioned explicitly in the original post that all hat-wearing BK characters were eligible and not just the characters I chose as representative hat-wearers in the decorative images, there seemed to be some folks who might have been uncertain of that. - Voters were not allowed to vote for Baelheit three times. Voters were also not allowed to give a character negative votes, even if that character was Verus.

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When we did the BK character poll, I also compiled an alternative vote count where each mention of a character on a ballot, regardless of 1st, 2rd, or 3rd ranking, counted as one vote. Such a vote count for the hat poll isn't very different, but for posterity:

1. Mizuti (9 votes) 2. Baelheit (7 votes) 3. Mintaka shopkeeper, Origins (5 votes) 4. Corellia (4 votes) 5. Giacomo, EWatLO; Calbren (3 votes) 6. Azha shopkeeper, Origins (2 votes) 7. Anuenue shopkeepers, EWatLO; Ladekahn, Origins; Geldoblame, EWatLO; Catranne; Parnasse NPC with waffle hat; Krumly; Almarde, EWatLO; Lolo; Azha shopkeeper, EWatLO; Trill; Parnasse shopkeeper; Donella; Ayme (1 vote)

Counting first-place votes only, Mizuti got 7 first-place votes; Baelheit, 6; the Origins Mintaka shopkeeper, 2; and EWatLO Geldo, 1.

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A selection of comments:

"The baelhat is OBVIOUSLY top pick here. That one lady in Greater Mintaka who thinks it looks stupid is Fake News."

"Geldoblame’s hat definitely set the entire tone of the game’s fashion sense for me."

"Though the hat itself may be underwhelming, the fact that he went through the trouble of physically belting a silly little hat to the top of his already giant mask out of spite is what gets him my vote."

"Guy wears a green top hat. Simple yet effective statement, great for the ruler of Interdimensional Looney Tunes Wonderland." (Also of note: the comment that deemed this hat "just real snazzy.")

"Am I the only one who thinks that Verus’ hat kinda looks like a Hershey Kiss cookie?" (Resemblance more visible in this pic.)

"It's like a rainbow. Any other designer would make this look like a hot mess, since not only does it have that rainbow color scheme, but her weapon’s on it too, but it works. It’s really visually pleasing."

I'd also like to point out that only in this franchise could someone be wearing A HUGE WAFFLE or A GIANT PIECE OF CAKE ON THEIR HEAD, and they're completely overlooked amongst all the other, more distracting fashion choices until the last couple days of voting.

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Anyhow, congratulations, voters: you've set a reincarnated wizard so powerful she helped seal away a god (twice) against a man with his own militarized continent. The only way things could be worse is if Kalas were somehow involved.

Thank you for voting! Enjoy the incipient apocalypse!

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...Ah, the hell with it.

9. Everyone else (0 pts.) 10, IN DEAD LAST: Verus (-1 pt.)

#baten kaitos #baten kaitos origins #spiriter week #in fairness an apocalypse wrought by mizuti and baelheit would be infinitely preferable to the one we're currently experiencing

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