The House in Fata Morgana - 2024 Fanpoll results

Favorite character poll

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1^st place

With a sweeping 32%, Michel wins the poll for favorite character!

Most of the comments expressing their favoritism towards our dearest NEET Jesus were intense, stating that they would join the Church of Michel, that he’s the love of their lives, the only man ever, and the best boy. To be honest, Michel also lives rent free inside our brains.

Michel’s unwavering love for Giselle was mentioned several times. Voters elaborated on his a massive wife guy (despite his outwardly gloomy demeanor) as one of the main reasons they had him as one of their favorite characters.

Several commenters also mentioned how important his journey was to their own lives, and his importance as an intersex trans character rising to be the story’s hero who "represents putting an end to cycles of violence” (Anonymous Commenter 63 - Michel 2^nd favorite). Participant 52 even said he helped them realize their own gender identity. He’s that powerful.

Michel obtained 194 out of 597 points. That doesn't mean he had 194 votes, because the voting system was designed in a way that each person could give their favorite character up to 3 points. Each person could vote for their 3 favorite characters, with each rank with different point values. Respondents were only required to select their top favorite character and could choose to not select a second or third favorite. The points were distributed as follows:

1st Favorite	3 points
2nd Favorite	2 points
3rd Favorite	1 point

We believe that giving characters scores like this works well in a story with not too many characters, but just enough secondary characters that you might want to give a chance because they're lovable. With that out of the way, let's go to the general results!

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2^nd place

Side-by-side with her husband on our podium, we have Giselle as our 2^nd favorite character, with 22% of the points! Giselle received a lot of love and praise from all commenters who voted for her for being the woman of all time, a wonderful and complex character, as well as the realest. We wouldn’t disagree, she deserves all the love in the world. Shout out to women!

As well as Michel, Giselle also had several comments on her long-lasting love as something that compelled them in her writing, especially considering she "loses her sense of self as she waits an inordinate amount of time for someone who does not remember her" (Anonymous Commenter 20 – Giselle 1^st favorite). Participant 41 who voted for Giselle as their 1^st pointed out that something they see as a rare moment of bad writing is how she's sidelined after Door 8.

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3^rd place

Onto 3^rd place! We have Morgana, with 16% of the points! Her fans claim that she’s their daughter, a funny hamster, literally me, just a baby and that she deserves the world. The sentence "Morgana did nothing wrong" was written exactly five times, by five different people. We love our edgy daughter, but we are not sure about that one. Maybe she deserves a little bit of enabling… Maybe.

Her role as a villain was brought up the most by the commenters, who sometimes added some caveats to their Morgana-did-nothing-wrong-s, like "the thing with giselle" (Anonymous Commenter 54 – Morgana 1^st favorite) and "the cursing […] doesn’t count" (Anonymous Commenter 36 – Morgana 3^rd favorite).

But voters also found her redemption pretty compelling, expressing that "she deserves a lifetime with no betrayal and zero religious trauma” (Anonymous Commenter 34 – Morgana 3^rd favorite).

Look, Morgana. Everyone wishes you well. Viscerally.

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Honorable Mention

And, lastly, even though he’s gotten kicked out of the podium, he deserves an honorable mention: Jacopo, who got 9% of the points. Even though he was in 4^th place, almost no Jacopo voter left no comments. We can’t paste all of them here without spending a long time talking about the same guy, but his honorable mention still works as an extra for everyone’s dedication to him. I’ll let our dearest Jacopo voters speak in our stead:

Not all comments were completely, utterly derogatory, though. Some comments on Jacopo also pitied him, and others praised him:

Most attractive character poll

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1^st place

For most attractive character, our winner is Giselle, with a total of 62 votes (23%)! This was probably the most predictable result of the poll, considering she is the poster girl of the game and deserves all the love in the world.

Giselle got plenty of comments complimenting her elegance and her heart, but… Some of you were down horrendous about the obese rats. Commenters mostly praised her Maid self and outfit, for all the game tried to convince us that her overgrown hair and creepy smile were not as attractive as her cheery self and healthy demeanor. Giselle from 1099 was also mentioned as a good combo of cute, clumsy and awkward.

For this ballot, each person could vote for up to 3 characters, but it was an optional question, with no weighted votes system like the favorite character poll. Since we’re just talking about looks here, every character with a sprite, theoretically, would have a fair chance to be represented.

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2^nd place

In second place, side-by-side with his wife on our podium, we have Michel! Don’t blush, king. You deserve it. He got 48 votes, which amounts to 18%. Most comments about Michel included Giselle as well, and complimented their beauty as a couple, together – something he would probably have liked. Unfortunately for him, though, apparently he’s not beating the angel allegations.

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3^rd place

In third place comes Maria, with 33 votes (12%)! She is also the one that has the most intense comments from people who voted on her, including heart emojis for aggressive women, “the prime reason for my lesbianism” (Anonymous Commenter 52 – Voted for Maria only), screaming onomatopoeia and drooling onomatopoeia.

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Honorable Mention

Our honorable mention goes to Imeon, who got 15 votes (6%)! Can you imagine being from a short story, not having any sprites in which your face is visible, and getting 7^th place in a beauty contest, with plenty of comments addressing your obscure, side-content face reveal? Yeah, me neither.

Who would you like to beat the shit out of? poll

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1^st place

For those you want to beat the shit out of the most, we would like to announce we have a two-time champion! Jacopo, who also won the “character you want to beat the shit out of the most” four years ago, in the fanmade poll of 2020. Congratulations on the re-election, sweeping the poll with 40% of the votes!

Of the 38 votes of those who wanted to beat up Jacopo, 23 votes came with commentary that promoted enacting violence against Jacopo, which exceeded the 15 votes that didn’t elaborate on their choice. We are glad to have provided an outlet for everyone to fantasize about beating him up.

Jacopo also had 25.9% of his fans (people who either voted for him as one of their favorites or mentioned liking him in their comments) voting for him to be beaten up mercilessly, as an act of tough love.

For this poll, we didn’t want to dilute the catharsis of picking more-than-one person to beat up. So this time, each voter had only one optional vote (or target) and had to think better. The people wanted blood, though. I hear you.

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2^nd place

In second place, comes Aimee, with 25 votes (27%)! With only 3 comments, those who wanted to beat Aimee were not as passionate as Jacopo’s fan-haters and haters: one person said they chose Aimee because strength was an issue, and they would’ve otherwise chosen to beat up Antonin Bollinger. But worry not, we had a lot of poll-fueled violence to distribute in our podium!

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3^rd place

In third place, we have Antonin Bollinger, with 13 votes (14%)! For someone who doesn’t really have a sprite, he has a pretty punchable face. His role in the story literally speedran rape and discrimination in less than a paragraph, and his actions spurred commenters to adopt a serious tone.

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Honorable Mention

This time, our honorable mention is Yukimasa, who got 5^th with 4 (4%) of the votes and was the only candidate who had a commenter bring up the idea of consensual beating. Props to whatever the fuck this is.

Most irredeemable character poll

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1^st place

For those underwhelmed with not having enough room to throw hands, we gave everyone more space to express themselves in another qualitatively different hatred poll: The Most Irredeemable Characters. Aimee, our dearest darling, had her chance to shine getting first place with 54 votes (28%)!

This time, Aimee got quite a lot of comments. Most people brought up her list of crimes, such as torture, sexual assault, psychological abuse, false imprisonment and child endangerment. The hatred towards her was so intense, we even had someone who spent at least four years marinating on it:

Some commenters added their caveats about her condition, recognizing her victimhood as a child bride having an affair with a much older man, at the same time they see her as someone with zero redeeming qualities in the entirety of her screen time:

The poll itself worked similarly to the Most Attractive poll: each person could vote for up to 3 characters, but it was an optional question, with no weighted votes system like the favorite character poll. As Anonymous Commenter 65 puts it, "top three in an incredible brawl for worst person to ever exist", irrespective of screen time. For that reason, we had quite a lot of nasty secondary characters hitting the podium here.

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2^nd place

For our second place, we have Antonin Bollinger, with 44 votes (23%)! Due to his scarce screentime, not much was said besides the fact that he is a rapist, and Giselle’s worst tormentor.

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3^rd place

In third place, we have Lord Barnier, who shows up for the first time on the podium with 43 votes (23%), almost as much as Antonin! Barnier is described in the comments as less irredeemable than Aimee or Antonin for being at least an extra, fun villain, but his villainswiki-style list of crimes is quite… something. Abuse of power, cannibalism, child labour, conspiracy, slavery, torture, kidnapping, human trafficking for ritual sacrifices, sexual trafficking, homicide, genocide, and probably some more we could not think of. Though Jacopo was not let off the hook by some commenters for basically also becoming a merciless tyrant, he won by a landslide against his fellow Lordcopo for being a true trendsetter.

Best platonic roommate poll

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1^st place

In our platonic roommate poll, we have yet another golden medal for our dear Giselle! She had 23 points with a total of 23% of the votes. Most people’s reasoning was that, having worked as a Maid for so long, Giselle would be a flawless roommate who knows how to cook and clean. She’s also a very kind and agreeable person overall. We do get it… But please split chores evenly… #feminism

This time, our voters could not pick more than one option, and that was for no particular reason, honestly. Voting for anyone at all was optional, as well as the beating-up poll.

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2^nd place

In second place, we have Michel, who’s apparently always going to show up side by side with Giselle in every single podium they show up on. Love is real. Amongst his 13 voters (13%), most people who voted for Michel mentioned liking to be in a silent environment with a cryptid, either because they are also silent cryptids or because they already had real-life roommates who were just like Michel.

Some people who picked him realized Michel showed up as a dusty, sickly, swagless recluse on Door 5 but accepted him regardless. He didn’t exactly live in the most ideal conditions back then, after all.

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3^rd place

In third place, we have both The White-Haired Girl and Maria tied, with 12 votes (12%)! The roommate poll was a close one, and the votes were pretty well distributed amongst the most voted options.

For the White-Haired Girl, every single comment she got followed the reasoning that they wanted her to have a chance at a better life. Cute.

For Maria, every single comment she got mentioned trusting her. We believe women in this house. We wouldn’t know anything about Maria being untrustworthy.

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Honorable Mention

With almost as many votes as Maria and The White-Haired Girl, our honorable mentions go to Morgana, who got 6th place, with 10 (10%) votes! With enough data torture, we could consider Morgana’s full soul to be the real second place here, with a total sum of 22 votes. But I think that still losing to Giselle even in that scenario might be a little bit too humiliating for our favorite hater girl. And about Morgana (hater) as a choice of platonic roommate, I will let our commenters decide on whatever that means.

Who would win in a fight? poll

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1^st place

And, lastly, the obvious choice for first place is Yukimasa, who got 43% of the votes for character who would win in a fight! With enough twisted logic, we expected some creative, insane answers to pop up. They really did, but the safest (or rather unsafest) choice, Yukimasa, won by a landslide. Nothing beats the good old bestie with unbridled bloodlust and a sword.

For the purposes of being like a winning bracket, each voter could pick only one character. Voting was optional.

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2^nd place

In second place, we have Didier and Maria, tied with 11 votes (11%) each!

For Didier, most commenters who went for him settled on this choice because even though Yukimasa has a sword (and murderous desires), Didier has a sword (and muscle mass). A lot of people who voted for either of them wanted to see them fighting to death shounen-style.

For Maria, commenters consider that her aim was nerfed against Jacopo due to Morgana’s curse, and that by having a gun and being a little crazy, she’d win against anyone.

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3^rd place

In third place, we have Gratien, with 10 (10%) votes! No one who voted for Gratien said anything, which kind of makes me sad for him. So we’re going to quote the beefy guy boasting directly.

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Honorable Mention

In our honorable mention, we have (hear me out!) Imeon, who got only 2 votes (2%), but had creative answers from our truest powerscaling connossieurs around here.