Legownz

> "Item sets exist for a reason."
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> ~ Legownz' catchphrase, referring to people who post similiar items in a row
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**Legownz** is a veteran Generation 1 Tagger, and one of the more well-known and well-liked taggers on TF2Tags. Through most of 2015 and 2016, he was an active presence on the site, participating in many crucial events in TF2Tags history.

## History

### Taking Off

Legownz joined TF2Tags in early February of 2015 after getting introduced to it by his IRL friend CP. He tended to spam submissions at first, then deleting 9 out of the 10 he submitted because of the downvotes. Because of this early practice, Legownz's first tag, along with most of his earliest tags, have been lost to history. He would eventually halt this practice over time, and later he would grow to dislike seeing newer users perpetuate this same practice, which led to him writing off a lot of potential new faces during the latter point of his career.

Legownz would spend the early months of his career tagging as best as he could, and he proved to have a natural talent in the art of tagging. Most of his earlier submissions have upwards of 20 crits, many having over 30. He kept his head down during the first few months, having minimal interactions with site veterans such as Sensible Haircut, Relk\_Cehi, and Ulysses. His first major interaction with the community began during the Racist Anon incident, where Timberwoof was wrongfully banned after a poorly-worded statement made him appear to be the culprit behind all the racist anonymous posts being made. Legownz was one of the many who spoke out against Dr. Dos's erroneous decision, ultimately getting the minor tagger unbanned within the week. He would speak out, however, that he was really getting annoyed with the antics of the racist anon, and suggested that anonymous posting be removed entirely, an idea Dos eventually implemented.

Following the Racist Anon incident, Legownz would start what would eventually become a regular practice of his over time, that being a general mentor for newer taggers. With the removal of anonymous posting, many taggers were forced into the light, with their mediocre submissions and styles. Legownz would commonly give these newer taggers advice, such as deleting their negative-scored tags to raise their total number of points or making sure to search their tag ideas before hand to make sure someone hadn't already made the joke. He would even go on the make the original TF2Tags wiki on June 8th, 2015, after some users discussed the idea as a means of making a book of TF2Tags lore. The original wiki has since been abandoned in favor of this wiki.

### Turbulence

In July of 2015, Legownz would become a target in two major controversies. The first involves the infamous Tagger Teaquin, the creator of the missbomb. He would make a call out tag on July 1st, calling Teaquin a disgrace, a sentiment most taggers agreed with due to Teaquin's awful, awful tags. Teaquin would then proceed to missbomb Legownz and other Taggers who insulted him, reportedly bombing Legownz three times. Teaquin would soon leave the site following this, and the missbombed points were returned to his victims, including Legownz.

It was around this time that Legownz would start to feel more and more accepted by the TF2Tags community, admitting on July 6th that he was rather lonely and often not well-received in other groups he attempted to join. He thanked the TF2Tags community, including his rival Player 1 + Player 2, for being so good to him. P1P2, however, could care less about this, and just a few days later an argument between the two of the would spill over into something far greater.

On July 12th, Legownz came under fire for his later-admitted harsh comments regarding the death of Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, which was announced to the site by Ulysses. Legownz would defend his apathy alongside Sensible Haircut. This later caused a heated argument with Player 1 + Player 2. Although P1P2 had hated Legownz for quite a long time beforehand, Legownz's harshly apathetic reaction to Iwata's death was the tipping point. This argument grew into a feud that lasted for around ten days, though much of the evidence has since been deleted (though there is evidence of the argument still going on July 18th). On July 22nd, P1P2 took things further, changing his username to "Legownz is a faggot", a move which was seen as too petty by many taggers, even those critical of Legownz's position in the argument. This sparked a short movement where taggers would change their usernames to hybrids of their own and Legownz to show support. This movement was later called Team Legownz. It would end later that day when P1P2 revealed the reason he hated Legownz in the first place (insulting him for not having 1000 crits), to which Legownz apologized for.

### More Turbulence

Legownz would encounter more trouble on the 17th of August 2015, when he logged in to the site to find the Miss Button removed and him having reached over 5000 total points on his profile overnight. After learning of the previous night's Mobile-Friendly Update, Legownz would go on to start the first Bring Back Misses movement alongside Ulysses and Sensible Haircut. The ensuring arguments, petitions to Dr. Dos, and shitposting chaos would ultimately convince Dr. Dos to restore the Miss button two days later.

The day after the Miss Button was restored, Legownz would be missbombed by an unknown user. Though this did not deter him from his beliefs regarding the Miss Button, it would begin his practice of screenshotting vote logs and reporting missbombers to the site, as well as advising the community against certain practices that he saw as wrong, such as spamming. He would also serve as an early advocate for site moderators.

Legownz was the only one to defend fellow tagger and real life friend CP when the latter reported to Dr. Dos about A Fucking Idiot, a tagger who was posting tags explicitly to reach the rank of Negative Hale's Own. CP either did not know about AFI's shtick or simply found it unfunny, and he reported him to Dos, causing him to get banned for the first (but not the last) time. Though Legownz disapproved of his friend's actions like everyone else, he criticized the other taggers for missbombing CP in retaliation for him getting AFI banned. CP would eventually apologize for his actions and things would continue on as normal after AFI got unbanned.

When Sensible Haircut was infamously permanently banned on September 8th, 2015 (along with Ulysses who was temporarily banned), Legownz nearly hit a breaking point. He had felt that the site was largely going downhill and had been for long time, and that these bannings had pushed him over the edge. He pulled a Leave and Never Come Back and returned in just 14 hours.

### The Need for a Co-Pilot

The rest of 2015 would be more or less smooth-sailing for Legownz. Though he would participate in both the Ulyssesstorm and the Taggening, he more or less took both less seriously than the drama from earlier in the year. Instead, the rest of the year would see Legownz gaining several memes about himself from the rest of the community, with three in particular standing out.

First would be his journey to obtain his dream unusual, an Aces High Co-Pilot (often mistaken for his representative item, which is a unique Co-Pilot). The man would go to any lengths possible to obtain this precious hat, and he would often report his progress on getting it on TF2Tags, sometimes asking for key donations in exchange for SFM posters he would make in exchange. This journey for the Unusual Co-Pilot would quickly become a joke about Legownz, likening it to a drug he just needed to have, no matter the cost. Though he would never obtain this hat, he would obtain a Strange Co-Pilot, which has surpassed the rank of Hale's Own.

The second would be his catchphrase, "Item sets exist for a reason." This came as a response to seeing several taggers make similar jokes in quick succession, rather than just putting them all into an item set. This would eventually become his catchphrase, and a means to poke fun at Legownz from time to time. When Smash Z entered into Maximum Overdrive for the first time, Legownz nearly had a heart attack.

The third and least known would be his distaste for people not reading the keywords of his submissions. He would often place the explanations of his jokes into the keywords of a tag for those who don't get it, so they could understand the joke instead of missing the submission. Unfortunately, Legownz put too much faith in people, because almost nobody ever used keywords and didn't bother to check them. This would often provoke many a tag where he would angrily and sarcastically say that he was "so glad' people "always" checked the keywords.

Legownz would report on October 15th, 2015 that he had attained more points than Sensible Haircut (~6200), which he felt rather guilty for, due to the fact that he didn't believe he was worthy of being worth more than the man he considered a comedic genius.

### Smooth Sailing

During the New Tagger Riots of January 7th-11th, Legownz expressed mixed feelings on the situation, but was largely a non-participant. 2016 would largely begin for Legownz with him coming to CP's defense once again after he advertised his own tags on Reddit in a cheap attempt at getting tons of quick crits (though he claims that it was to advertise TF2Tags), which gave him 200 points within hours and brought a legion of shitposters onto the site. Legownz explained that CP was on vacation and that what he was doing had good will behind it, and if the taggers couldn't handle teaching new faces they should fuck off from the site.

After this second wave of drama concerning CP, the first quarter of 2016 would actually go quite well for Legownz. On February 13th, he along with many others would join the Wahfia after the Krazy Weegee incident, having already become decent friends with Walumancer. He would hop on the NTF2Tags bandwagon and even write a little story surrounding the alternate dimension. On the 20th, during the infamous Attack of the Clones, Legownz was mostly uncaring, and thought that everyone making such a big fuss about it was acting childish. After Dr. Dos stepped in and made his infamous rant against the TF2Tags community, Legownz would turn around and criticize the Doctor, stating that shutting the community out won't solve anything, and that he had to be willing to work *with* the taggers rather than abandoning them like he had for so long.

In March, during the Edge Incident, Legownz did not participate directly in Meta Breakers's tantrum, though when Meta aired his supposed life's story worth of baggage in an attempt at sympathy, Legownz made a comment claiming to be more mature than him despite being the same age. Legownz would celebrate the end of the Colorless Times with the rest of the site. On March 13th, 2016, Legownz would become the sixth tagger in recorded TF2Tags history to reach the rank of Hale's Own, following the likes of Anatolebahorel, Togekiss, Relk, Sqwid, and Ulysses (as well as AFI, who had achieved Negative Hale's Own), and soon followed by Acquiesce, Bonkspenser, and Marmot. The taggers congratulated Legownz on a rank well-achieved (bar Ulysses because he's Ulysses). He would personally thank Bonkspenser and TGRobert for supplying him with critbombs that pushed him over the edge.

By April, Legownz would achive over 9000 points, which was swiftly taken away after Ulysses missbombed him (because he's Ulysses), and swiftly given back to him by TGR and Mr. Copycat. He would then get missbombed *again* a week later, to the point where he was knocked out of Hale's Own, but Makin' Bacon would then critbomb him to 8415 points, the remaining 85 points being returned soon later.

### Landing

Following his achieving of Hale's Own, Legownz would continue tagging well in May of 2016. By June, however, he started tagging less and less. After June 23rd, he would not post again until July 21st. He would then sparsely make tags every few days or so until August 6th, 2016, where he revealed that the Aces High effect was not his dream unusual effect for the Co-Pilot, but after his other preferred effects didn't exist for that hat he settled on this effect. He would not be seen again until December 10th, where he stopped by to see how things were going.

His return was met with great applause and fanfare, especially from the new Generation 3 Taggers that had looked up to him and his tags after joining, but their happiness was quickly shot when Legownz directed them to the keywords of this tag, which revealed that he was not coming back to stay. He never visited the site anymore, he stopped playing TF2, and rarely ever plays video games anymore. He apologized and said it had been a great run, but he was pretty much retiring.

From then on, Legownz would only return to the site every now and then to post the odd tag or two throughout 2017. In July, however, Legownz would have one final run on TF2Tags, immediately making an impact by critbombing Crimson Blitz to Hale's Own. He would then admit that his hunt for the Aces High Co-Pilot was all but dead due to how absurd the prices had gotten, and held a little contest to name his Scattergun. Following this, he would remain a regular presence on the site for the next three months, when he left again for the final time. He would not return to the site after the announcement of the Tagpocalypse, nor would he return in the final month in January of 2019. It would appear that this legendary and beloved tagger had left the place behind.

## Style

Other than the memes associated with him (which he embraced), Legownz's style of tagging was often in relation to TF2 itself. He would often make jokes about noob interpretations of weapons, make fake stats for weapons and cosmetics, and poke fun at TF2 design choices. These tags were more prevalent during the earlier half of his career. In the latter half he would mostly just post memes and references like most people.

## Relationships

> "Actually, I take that back. A huge "Fuck You!" to Teaquin."
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> ~ *Legownz, in his "Thank You" speech on July 6th*
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### CP

CP is perhaps Legownz's closest friend on TF2Tags, mostly because the two of them know each other in real life. Both men live in the same town in Illinois, and the two of them had been tagging together since the beginning, with CP being the one who introduced Legownz to the site in the first place. Legownz was the only one that came to CP's defense both times he was at the center of drama (when he caused AFI to get banned and advertising his tags on Reddit). CP is known to constantly ask Legownz for credit on his earliest tags, as most of them were (allegedly) CP's ideas. At the same time, however, Legownz would often ask CP to give credit to whichever Redditor from r/jokes he took his tags from, so it was an overall friendly back and forth.

### Sensible Haircut

Sensible Haircut can be considered Legownz's idol on TF2Tags. A veteran who had been in TF2Tags longer than most, Sensible had a knack for making good jokes that attained tons of crits, which Legownz heavily respected. He has on numerous occasions called Sensible a genius, and the two of them even banned together with Ulysses to create the first Bring Back Misses movement.

### Crimson Blitz

Legownz and Crimson Blitz met in their earlier days of tagging, and over time grew to be good friends. The two mostly found themselves in common roles when it came to site drama, trying to maintain order as much as possible and beating their heads against the walls when nobody would listen to them. Though Crimson was critical of Legownz early on due to his tendency to try to hard in solving site issues, by the time Legownz left the community, Crimson referred to him as his old friend, and a man he heavily respected. One of Legownz's final acts in the community was to critbomb this old friend to the rank of Hale's Own.

### Ulysses

Legownz and Ulysses have had a turbulent relationship to say the least. Initially, Legownz looked up to Ulysses for his reputation and having a unique sense of humor. The two even banded together with Sensible to create the Bring Back Misses movement. However, after Legownz achieved Hale's Own himself, Ulysses would randomly missbomb him out of nowhere, and it is reasonable to assume he was the culprit who did it again after the other taggers helped Legownz out. Legownz would also often criticize Ulysses for starting drama.

### Player 1 + Player 2

Player 1 + Player 2 was Legownz's greatest enemy for a very long time, and through the entirety of it he had no idea why. P1P2 would always insult his tags, make fun of him, and put him down at every opportunity, and the men often argued over trivial stuff in their early days. At the end of Team Legownz, P1P2 revealed the reason that he hated Legownz so much was because one time he told P1P2 "You're not good because you don't have 1,000 crits" on a TF2 server, which made him bitter ever since. Following Team Legownz, however, the two mellowed out and became neutral with each other. They eventually friended each other on Steam.

### Teaquin

Legownz holds a special hatred for Teaquin due to being one of the main victims of his missbombings. Teaquin missbombed Legownz three times, and ever since never let it go, constantly referring to Teaquin as someone that he despised, even though after the bombings he disappeared and never returned.

### Others

Legownz was friendly with most other taggers from the first two generations. He and Relk initially had a rocky relationship because Legownz would always put his name in the tags he made that related to him, but they quickly got over the problem and eventually became friends, with Legownz often harping on about how great and amazing Relk's tags are. It was Legownz who came up with the "Get Relk'd" catchphrase. He was cordial with the likes of A Fucking Idiot, Yahiamice, and Danjin. He believed that Qror was an underrated tagger that deserved more love, and has even called him his favorite tagger. He grew to dislike Dr. Dos more and more as time went on due to his mishandling of the community and abandoning TF2Tags. He became friends with Walumancer after joining the Wahfia, and is often featured as a member and pilot of the Wahfia in sets and series relating to the organization. He was friends with Makin' Bacon, Bonkspenser, and TGRobert as well. He is also friends with Ashton Doovis, TheOnlyGuyEver, Fred Fuchs, Blast, Floro Sapiens, Egg-Z, Le Tryhard Hunter, and DannyFantom on Steam.

## Trivia

* It bothers Legownz when his name is spelt or mispronounced.
* Ironically, in July 2015, the Unusual Co-Pilot was the #1 most expensive unusual hat on the Steam Community Market at a price of $118.39 USD, with the unusual effect "Kill-a-Watt".
* Legownz makes SFM posters.
* On one occasion, Legownz randomly joined the same TF2 server that TheOnlyGuyEver was playing on. The two recognized each other from the site and had a good laugh about it. They even made tags about it at the exact same time!
* He has a deep love for Legos (as if the name didn't give it away) and cars.
* He dreams of either being an engineer or an artist.