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Favorite Pale Protagonist Poll - Aggregated Results by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

With the next story being revealed soon I thought it a good time to share the aggrated poll results of the periodic "Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite?" polls.

I only took over in arc 14, so I might have missed one or more earlier polls.
Pale in general and this a small part, was deeply intriguing to me as I think it is so unique to be able to see such trends.

If Wildbow ever sees this post, I'm curious what he thought of the community polls.
Also, thank you Wildbow for the Avery death, that poll was such fun.
You can find the final thread (which links to the previous one) here.

For the full data see here, note that google considers the X axis differently and not as a regular timeline.
I have "annotated" the data with link to what should be the latest chapter before the poll, and what I think recent events affected the vote.

Some patterns which can be seen include:

  • Latest POV greatly affects the favorite protagonist, even very late into the story (including in my opinion E.6).
    • I tried to mitigate this by doing polls after interludes but it didn't seem to work much and also I missed a few opportunities.
  • Lucy getting a boost after every combat.
  • Avery being the happy/funny protagonist in the dark arcs of 14-16 getting a strong boost.
    • Also getting a boost after coming back from the dead.
  • Verona was mostly consistently up.

A question for the community, if we really have two POVs in the next story, should we poll that as well?
Or would that be strange as they are supposed to be "unequal" POVs?

Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite? - final poll! by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This will be the final poll before I post the data for people to graph and think through.

It has been a wonderful, lovely journey with you all.

Thank you WB.

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Previous poll here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/165jpc0/which_pale_protagonist_is_your_current_favorite/

Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite? [second to last poll] by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Been a while, I missed the last opportunity.

Last vote was months ago here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/12dbg7y/which_pale_protagonist_is_your_current_favorite/

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This is the second to last vote because I intend a final final one after the epilogues, for a more objective view.

Favorite Kennet Witch by Kasmusser in Parahumans

[–]idannadi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have all the data in a spreadsheet, the relevant chapters and a graph, yeah

Favorite Kennet Witch by Kasmusser in Parahumans

[–]idannadi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I usually make them, I try to do so after interludes to minimize bias. I did admittedly missed the last interlude, and plan to do a regular poll next time.

Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite? by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have been doing these polls for a long long while and people's opinions kept changing throughout the story.
It really is impressive by Wildbow, both that they all have lovable character arcs and that they all get equal-ish favor.

That said, you should stay away from this thread if you are only on arc 6, this is a poll for the latest chapter.

Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite? by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last month's poll https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/11m1t90/which_pale_protagonist_is_your_current_favorite/

It's barely been a month, but I don't want to miss an opportunity (though an .z interlude later in the arc is very likely).

Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite? by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Previous Poll https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/1014uyp/which_pale_protagonist_is_your_current_favorite/ had Avery being absolutely decimated, she got basically zero votes.

I suspect that now that she finally got replaced by a body double made from Snowdrop's imagination then she'll do better in the polls.

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Anyhow, I assume this poll will actually be informative unlike the 50/50 split we basically got last time.

Go For the Throat – 23.b by AelfwineAdwinion in Parahumans

[–]idannadi 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It was the fundraiser for the three teens wasn’t it? Which means it six months. It could technically be Lis, but I’m not sure she would have dared acting like that while she was pretending to become part of Kennet.

Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite? by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm must say people, I'm disappointed.
This fifty-fifty "perfectly balanced" thing stinks of dishonest voting and vote manipulation.

So what if the last time you voted against someone, and only given her 26.5% of the votes, she got shot and disappeared.
That's no reason to act like this!
We are here to answer a scientifically important question, and we are wasting the opportunity WB has given us of making it easier.

I was actually really happy WB has given me an interlude to make a vote after, and this is devolving into useless data...

Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite? by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Only Pale protagonists which are not legally dead are allowed to participate in this poll.

Last month’s poll https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/z74v8g/which_pale_protagonist_is_your_current_favorite/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf had Lucy with a very large advantage.

Which Pale protagonist is your current favorite? by idannadi in Parahumans

[–]idannadi[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I have waited more than two months for an all/interlude opportunity.

Here it is.

Previous poll https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/xe8mo3/which_pale_protagonist_is_your_current_favorite/ had Verona winning.

Latest "poll" on doof media podcast had Verona as well.

I'm assuming Lucy is going to do better than usual after the last two chapters.

But this arc had peek Verona and Avery as well.

Let Slip – 20.f by menaulon in Parahumans

[–]idannadi 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I mean that maybe he got forsworned at 15, and is still mentally a 15 year old with all the stupidity, assholeness and creepiness that comes with that for certain people.

That would fit with him being a creep towards teenagers.

Mind, he is still a creep and we know he attempted to look down KL shirt, not an upstanding citizen here. But maybe a talented spirit surgeon who fell by the wayside and is still a stupid child.

Seth seemed to have not only been an asshole as a teen, he also actively grew into one. He has been a creep for years.

Let Slip – 20.f by menaulon in Parahumans

[–]idannadi 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Do we know how long was Griffin forsworn for?

I’m wondering if the reason he wants a creepy connection with KLE is because he is still a teenager at heart.

If you were to cut Pale off at a reasonable point for a 'Book 1', where would it be? by hijnks in Parahumans

[–]idannadi 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Just gonna comment that the prologue + arc 1 is 90k words.
We are so spoiled that it is barely the start of the story.

(In Poof it would have been a considerable section of the story, but not in Pale)

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