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Useless RPG Characters Competition Results

A few weeks ago, the GIA gave readers the choice to select the single most useless RPG character of all time. (The original candidates and nomination speeches are available here.) Despite Qlon's allegation of voting fraud, the results were split fairly even amongst the wide cast of unreliable, uncontrollable, weak, or just plain incompetent characters.

Pokey demonstrates his mighty powers

Edward "Spoony bard" von Muir and Cait Sith took the early lead thanks to name recognition, but the sheer incompetence of Rafa and Malak, Final Fantasy Tactics' vision-impaired magic users, quickly earned them the upper hand. The final winner, however, was Pokey; late-game stumping from EarthBound.Net pushed the chubby Onettian into the top slot by a sizeable lead.

Although Suikoden's androgynous Qlon is staggeringly useless (he/she is only able to announce the name of the Liberation Army's castle), he/she garnered just 6% of the vote, prompting him/her to launch an investigation into possible fraud in the ballot counting. No such misconduct was found, though the investigation delayed the release of the results by several weeks.

The GIA had the chance to speak with Qlon him/herself regarding his/her allegations:

GIA: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us, Qlon.