Kal’mera Broun

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Character
Name: Kal'mera Broun / Kalvin Brnine
Occupation: engineer, mercenary, revolutionary, ship captain
Relationships: Valence (best friend)
Gucci Garantine (commander, potential love interest)
Fandom: Friends at the Table: PARTIZAN and PALISADE
Other: they/them pronouns; played by Ali Acampora
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Kal'mera Broun, later known as Kalvin Brnine, is a popular player character from Friends at the Table's PARTIZAN and PALISADE seasons. An engineer and arms manufacturer who was laid off shortly before the beginning of canon, Broun progresses from a mercenary to a reluctant revolutionary over the course of PARTIZAN and then, having changed their name, appears in PALISADE as a ship captain and wholly committed member of the revolution.

Popularity

In the 2023 round of Secret Samol, Friends at the Table fandom's annual gift exchange, they were the most-requested character with a record-breaking 66 requests. The most-requested ship of the year was also a tie between two pairings featuring them: Balence and Brnine/Gucci.[1]

Common Ships

  • Balence - By far the most popular Broun ship in the fandom; also popular with the show's cast.[2] Broun and Valence begin as coworkers and over time become very close and "intimate" friends who have a profound impact on one another's lives. Much is also made in fandom of their two-way telepathic link.
  • Gurbalence - An OT3 of Broun, Valence, and Gur Sevraq, a self-styled religious figure and reported miracle worker with whom Valence has a close relationship.
  • Brnine/Gucci - While this ship had little to no presence while PARTIZAN was airing, developments in the characters' dynamic in PALISADE led to an explosion of Brnine/Gucci Garantine fanworks.

Fanon

Owing to Brnine's complete lack of social skills, a popular piece of fanon in PALISADE fandom is that they are the hottest character in the podcast... until they open their mouth.[3] In 2023, a meme about them having a toxic polycule developed in the fandom.

Common Tropes in Fanworks

  • Xeno - Because Broun is an Apostolosian—i.e., a humanoid alien with some fish-like features—more explicit works will often feature xeno kink. Some works, such as imperialhare's popular Balence PWP see you in the morning,[4] depict them as having claspers like a shark.

Example Fanworks

Fanfic

Fanart

Archives and Communities

Links and Resources

References

  1. ^ Post by secret-samol (Nov 13, 2023). Tumblr. Retrieved November 27, 2023. (archive link)
  2. ^ Ali Acampora, in PARTIZAN's post-mortem episode: "Um, the biggest Valence/Broun shipper on the podcast was Austin Walker? [...] Whenever they were together on screen, [Austin] would be like, 'Yeah, I’m into this, because I ship them.' And me and Dre would be like, 'Yeah. We get it. It’s sexy and it’s good.'"
  3. ^ e.g., Brnine propaganda submitted to Tumblr's sexiest podcast character poll bracket: "As long as they're not talking, they're the hottest character in the game" (Sep 12, 2023) (archive link)
  4. ^ a b see you in the morning by imperialhare (May 11, 2020). Fanfiction posted to Archive of Our Own. Retrieved November 27, 2023. (archive link)
  5. ^ an ocean of noise by volefriend (Jul 31, 2020). Fanfiction posted to Archive of Our Own. Retrieved November 27, 2023. (archive link)