You might be right, and if so I am sorry. It's an odd case though in that to my knowledge I had thought that walnut100 had set up the tournament and handled it previously avoiding merge scenarios. Introducing the gimmick now might be an unfair advantage. walnut100 never withdrew his character and he has been online recently. Heck, if I wouldn't have voted for Sarah Palin in the last match, this wouldn't have happened.
But tell you what, since this match has only been going for a few hours and I haven't made a site news item yet, the characters could possibly be merged. Although mergers didn't happen earlier in this contest when they could have, this is an extraordinary case where one character was unattended for a while and the other to some degree didn't get some votes due to a forfeit.
It would seem a little odd without artwork though.
4Sword was stern, then caved - like a grizzly bear in winter.