Acquiesce

> "i mean, the crown's part of your skull and everything holy shit"
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> ~ Acquiesce, displaying a cursory knowledge of anatomy
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**Acquiesce** is a Generation 1 tagger on TF2Tags who joined the site in September 2012, making him the oldest tagger on the site other than Frapple and Dr. Dos himself. He hails from the barren plains of Greater Western Sydney in the mythical continent of Aussieland. When he joined, he was an unknown, wee young scrub. Today, he is still an unknown, wee young scrub, except several years older and with a shit ton of crits.

## History

Despite his early start in 2012 (earlier than even esteemed veterans such as Relk\_Cehi) and an illustrious tagging track record, Acquiesce was a relative non-entity on the site for a few years. His habit of entering sudden, long hiatuses meant he missed a lot of what are considered major events in the site's history. Thus, his career can be neatly sorted into four parts of drastically different sizes!

### Part 1: September 14, 2012 to October 23rd, 2012.

Acquiesce discovered the site on September 14th, 2012, posting a strange SMG named "Better Than The Razorback" alongside a couple other tags. Between then and October 23rd, he would make about fifty tags, tagging regularly within the span of a little over a month. During this period, he made several tags that scored over thirty crits, including one with 118 and one with a whopping 505 (33rd best item on the original site, mate! Directly under You're Eternal Reward!). However, on October 23rd, a string of low-scoring submissions tarnished the naive little 14-year-old's enthusiasm, and so he entered his first hiatus.

### Part 2: February 9th, 2013 to May 23rd, 2013

Going on a confidence-building journey in the desert wasteland of the Outback, Acquiesce returned slightly more confident four months later. During this time, he would make 97 tags over the course of over three months. Two highlights include a tag reaching 225 crits, along with his best tag. And when we say best tag, we mean magnum opus. The Taunt: The High Five! tag known as "You are not the father" scored an astounding 816 crits, placing it as one of the Top Tags of the original site, coming in as the ninth top-scoring tag of all time. Only one named profile has created a tag with more crits.

Come late May, Acquiesce would experience a fabled seizure-stroke-bonk-on-the-head, putting him into a 7 month long coma where he once again was absent from the site.

### Part 3: January 6th, 2014 to April 2nd, 2014

Acquiesce would awaken from his coma in January of 2014, where he would return to grace the Taglands with his Aussie wisdom once more. He would tag regularly during January before storing his power during February, where he tagged minimally. His activity would pick up during March. On April 2nd, however, he looked upon his 44 latest tags and decided that his power had been drastically drained due to the coma, and he needed to train more before coming back to the realm of Tags. Thus, he entered an intense training regiment to boost his power back to his Part 2 levels. He would make a few appearances once a month in September, November, and December to test his progress, but having determined he still had much to learn, he disappeared almost entirely for nearly a year.

### Part 4: November 7th, 2015 to May 15th, 2016

When Acquiesce finally returned from his journey of self-tagscovery, the Taglands had drastically changed. A community had formed in his absence, with its own new set of laws and politics. Having missed the foundational events such as the attack of the Racist Anon, the creation of weapons of miss destruction, the civil wars of Team Legownz and Idiot Bans, and the paradigm shift following the outlaws of Haircuts and dick choppers, Acquiesce found himself in an unfamiliar, seemingly hostile world. However, instead of fleeing like many from his Lost Generation may have, Acquiesce was intrigued. Though by all accounts a newcomer to this community, the people lauded him as a veteran for grand previous achievements and high point count. The news reported on his return to the physical realm of tags, and from here Acquiesce would decide to remain on TF2Tags for the foreseeable future.

Mere days after returning he made his first community interaction in three years, making a joke about a Rage-Inducing Player 1 + Player 2, which seems about right. Of course, he didn't know P1P2 at all, but merely used his perception skills to surmise the rest of the people's thoughts regarding him. Mere days after returning, he nearly sparked another Weeaboo War with TGRobert, who would unknowingly become a great ally of his in the future.

That same day, Acquiesce bore witness to his first shitstorm: The Taggenings, where the submission limits he had grown accustomed to over the years stopped functioning. Confused as everyone else was, he decided to make light of the situation, creating a set about it parodying Terminator, which he titled "The Tag-inator 3: Tag-ment Day". Following the conclusion of the secret Overdrive technique unlocked by Smash Z, Acquiesce was the first to tell everyone that it was safe, and that he had run out of posts and succumbed to the Second Taggening.

Following the Taggenings, Acquiesce continued his daily taggings into December. When the TF2Tags Hunger Games Simulator happened, he did not participate, preferring the real man's preferred form of death combat: arena mode. When the Tough Break Update hit TF2, he predicted the fallout Taggers would have over the considerable number of changes made to various weapons in the game.

In January, Acquiesce would discover this very wiki, and after having successfully proved his tagging powers to the rest of the community in the two months he had been back, he decided to dedicate his time to the more intellectual tagging affairs, adding some pages regarding site mechanics and memes, and requesting others to help him in these areas, which were answered.

In February, Acquiesce nearly gave Bonkspenser and TheOnlyGuyEver a heart attack by insinuating that L'Etranger had returned to the site by using his representative item. They thought it was Tranger, but it was him, Acquiesce! Later, he would comment on some recent ongoing Ulysses vs. Relk drama, which had been a continual feud since before he returned in November, calling TF2Tags the second worst Soap Opera, behind *Neighbours*. A few days later, he found that Dr. Dos had finally deleted a tag he had made 2 years prior, named "Fucking Faggot" (in the literal, bundle-of-sticks sense of the term). He was surprised it lasted even that long. He would later go on to support the Bonk and Marmot ship. Later, during the Attack of the Clones, Acquiesce, being a man of Oz, awoke just after the conclusion of the assault on the site, and rather than getting caught up in it all decided to back away slowly after being informed.

In wiki news, Acquiesce, now a wiki administrator, found himself having to moderate some controversies regarding Relk's page. When his fellow wiki admin TGRobert went about refurbishing the wiki, he created infoboxes for all the Taggers (the things at the top of pages detailing things like total crits, submissions, and rep item), he naturally put one on Relk's page. Relk, being a baby, cried about it because it was forced and, more reasonably, contained personal info he didn't want on the site, including his full name (which he publicly had on his Steam profile at the time). This resulted in an edit war between the two, which TGR eventually ended by protecting the page. Relk then stomped off and posted the old version of the page on the original, dead wiki which he preferred... for some reason (The wiki, that is. Not the page.). Acquiesce later removed the protection and proposed TGR simply let Relk keep his page the way it is. TGR refused because that was bullshit, which resulted in another edit war that resulted in TGR this time banning Relk from the wiki for a week. Acquiesce decided to just let it be. He later had to deal with a user who added hundreds upon hundreds of blank lines to Relk's page, eventually ending in the anonymous user being blocked. Being a sysop is fun, he swears. He would later suggest the creation of a wiki talk page to discuss the latest shitstorms, but the idea never caught on. Of course, this would occur just before the first major drama of the post-Clone TF2Tags.

With the advent of the Colorless Times, Acquiesce reported that botkiller weapons still had the ability to be made the strange quality, though these were the only class of items able to do be so, which TheOnlyGuyEver verified. Later, during the "Edge Incident" where newer tagger Meta Breakers transformed from your standard autist into the legendary raging autist. When Ulysses delivered his "Calm down Meta" exposé, Meta revealed himself to be a liar, and as such any sympathy Acquiesce might have had disintegrated. He would later go on to counter the sympathies of Blast and Bonkspenser, stating that having an hard life does not excuse bad behavior. At the very least, Ulysses was honest with himself and everyone else. However, after the Raging Autist became the Humbled Autist through Ulysses's transformation into Ultra Edgelord, he apologized for his behavior, which saw most everyone relent in their attacks against him, except for TheOnlyGuyEver, who continued his aggression. Acquiesce, a forgiving individual, stepped in and told him to cut it out. Eventually, he did, though this probably had nothing to do with Acquiesce.

On Acquiesce's 18th birthday on March 16th, his long history of high-scoring tags coupled with some birthday critbombs from M3Lucas finally came to a head. The community came together that day to happily wish Acquiesce a happy birthday, a sign of how respected and liked he had become in this community. He became the 7th tagger to reach the rank of Hale's Own as a result of these festivities, and he humbly thanked them for all the well wishes. The people rejoiced and congratulated him for reaching the coveted rank, cementing his place in Tagging history after three and some years of effort.

Acquiesce would continue tagging on into April. Though he missed the Endiome incident, he was surprised when TGR revealed himself as the perpetrator behind the mass missbombing campaign. He did, however, understand his reasons for why he did what he did. The two continued to work on the wiki for some time after the event. However, on May 15th, 2016, after stepping out on the hentai-ad cliffs of the Taglands and viewing the land he had spent so many years in, Acquiesce decided that he had achieved all he had set out to do. He packed up his things and left the site in his final, permanent hiatus, silently bowing out while the younger generations continued on.

He would return once in October, posting a tag that gained only 2 crits. He would reappear one final time for a three-day period during the final April Fools' Week of TF2Tags in 2017, calling it a "drive-by not-return". After this, he would disappear from the site and its community forever, a legend taggers still discuss to this day.

## Style

What is there to say about Acquiesce's tagging style? It is sheer brilliance! A range of jokes of all kinds, from movie references, to puns, to visual gags, Acquiesce is one of the rare folks to follow the generic style and hit it right out of the park, so much so that he has the second-highest crit-to-tag ratio on the original site, behind only Twelve Hour Respawn.

Acquiesce does have a habit, however, of deleting submissions with negative or low scores ~~*because he's a fucking coward*~~ out of embarrassment. In the past, these have included a reference to PewDiePie (a big no-no among the userbase at the time), a Bazinga joke (*tsk tsk*) and some other flat jokes that got on the wrong side of the site's fickle tastes. In fact, the embarrassment was so great at one point it caused his first hiatus.

Acquiesce also has a habit of commenting on his own submissions, either to post disclaimers or just to make stupid footnotes.

### Tagging Highlights.

Here are some archived links to tags Acquiesce is personally proud of, with some comments from the man himself:

* Made a second amendment joke and got *upvoted*.
* Made a set with 89 items in it.
* Got noticed by Dos-senpai. Retroactively an achievement, now that Dos is much less active.
* Made an MLP reference inside of a set and *didn't* get downvoted to oblivion. (April Fools doesn't count.)
* Accidentally copied a previously-posted tag and somehow managed to get more crits than the original. Sorry, Phillip.
* Made an Collector's item with the original, eye-searing maroon colour before it got changed.
* ~~Said 'faggot' without getting banned.~~ HAHAHA, IT GOT DELETED! After like, two years, no less! Rest in peace, you magnificent meme.

## Relationships

> *"well, anyone who knows how to swear in Polish is fine by me"*
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> *~ Acquiesce, commenting about walrusaccent*
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Acquiesce takes a mostly neutral approach towards other users out of caution, mostly due to the volatile site environment and also due to the fact that he doesn't have proper chats with most of the members with which to form a concerted judgment. He is regarded mostly neutrally or positively by other users; a direct consequence of both the aforementioned ambivalence as well as his frequent disappearances. However, during the fourth part of his tagging career he seemed to have gotten relative close with his fellow wiki administrator TGRobert. The two spoke often about wiki-related matters, but after drifting away from the site they stopped talking.

However, he *is* Steam friends with the following users, either by receiving a request or by being given permission to send one:

* Ashton Doovis
* DannyFantom
* EGG-Z
* Expand
* Le Tryhard Hunter
* Marmot
* Meta Breakers
* Player 1 + Player 2
* Relk\_Cehi
* Walumancer

## Trivia

* Acquiesce has the ninth most critted tag on the original site.
* Acquiesce has clocked up ~1900 hours in Team Fortress 2. He plays pretty much all classes without much problem (read: doesn't get stomped quite as often as he used to), but has the most playtime on Sniper, Scout and Spy.
* Acquiesce unironically wears an Anger as Sniper, and wasted Color No. 216-910-216 on it. (He justifies the former with the fact that he got it from a random drop, and the latter because lilac is pretty.)
* Acquiesce's Pyro is complete and utter cancer. A screenshot is forthcoming, but all you really need to know is that he uses the Pyromancer's Mask AND the Reserve Shooter. What a twat.
	+ Note: this was prior to the rework, where the Reserve Shooter was still allowed to minicrit airblasted targets.
* Some of Acquiesce previous usernames on the site included "No Time Toulouse", "Like A Bauxite" and "Schmordy", which were (respectively) a Monty Python reference, a cheap pun, and a weird nickname from his older brother. His current name was a dictionary word that he liked.
* Acquiesce used to be an admin of this wiki, but was since demoted due to leaving the community. Go and give him a poke if you desire to try and bring him back. Who knows, maybe it'll work!
* Acquiesce Wikia username (his name as it appears on this wiki) is Piscine.