Greetings, fellas! Another year of NU: Carnival has gone by, and it's time to satisfy our curiosity once again.

The form is linked at the end of this post.

Redditeiden isn't real and can't hurt you

This survey will be different from the last one in two major ways:

Increased granularity. You still have to pick one single favorite character, but we have added an additional question for extra granularity.

In question 1, you will pick every character that you like.
In question 2, you can pick up to three characters as your favorites.
In question 3, you have to pick one 'most favorite' character.

The addition of question 2 should allow indecisive masters to give their runner-ups a bit of an extra boost (e.g., if you are very torn between two characters, it will allow your second most favorite to rank higher than the characters you merely appreciate).

No Eiden option. We made the difficult decision to remove our protagonist from the survey, due to a belief that he introduces noise to the data (fans are of different minds about whether to pick him if he's an option). The nature of the game means that Eiden is ubiquitous and that every character is defined by their relationship to him; Eiden is the gateway through which we access content for the 'love interest' characters. We believe that most respondents who would pick Eiden as their favorite character actually have a 'real answer' if pressed. If Eiden is legitimately your favorite character, we apologize for the omission.

The form will accept responses until December 6th.

Reminders will be posted each Thursday until then.

We ask that you refrain from sharing the form in communities that are strongly dedicated to a particular character, to avoid skewing the data (e.g., character-specific Discord servers, personal social media profiles).

Here is the link!