RE: The Grand OC! [CONTEST ONE: FLIGHT!]
01-21-2014, 02:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-21-2014, 02:23 AM by Dragon Fogel.)
Okay, I've made my decisions and here they are.
I See What You Did Award--This one goes to Lamp, because putting your username as a different user and filling a profile out in their style sure as heck seems like aiming for Above the Fold to me. Congratulations, Agent.
The Above the Fold Award--And I'm handing this one out to Bigro for Veg-E-Lite, the yeast by-product with a gender of Extra Salty.
Iron Chef Special Ingredient Award--This one goes to Carlos Bracero, for the use of "light" in the sense of "weight" along with the more traditional usage.
The Backdoor Worldbuilding Award--Kaohna has a backstory implying an interesting set of gods. Bickering, lazy, and above all human. Plus, if Kaohna's gone we have the interesting question of what happens with the sun now!
The Diligent Gentleman Award--The Nyxic Mass is going to start off relatively helpless and end up becoming very dangerous. Exactly the sort of character that a lot can happen to in between! Will it become sentient? Will another character try to manipulate it? Or will it just be the great threat everyone unites against? No matter how you look at it, it's going to be great as a contestant.
The Leveraging Your Synergy Award--We've got a guy with a star chained to him, a monster that can't survive without light but doesn't want too much of it, and a guy who fears the night even though he comes from it. All of these have interesting potential for interacting with Daniel Weiss and the Hive Lord, and specifically the latter's plans to cause eternal night, so let's give him a hand!
The 20Q Award for Confusing Me--This one goes to the Runner, mostly for that delightfully uninformative-yet-informative biography.
The Best In Show Award--Fiona "Yona" Saulson, for being an all-around interesting character that doesn't quite hit one of the other categories, at least in my mind. Good work, LP!
This was not easy to judge, and I mean no offense to the two profiles that didn't quite make it. The main reason they didn't cross the finish line was that the connection to the theme felt a bit weaker than with most of the profiles, and I didn't feel there was enough of a hook to either of them to overcome that.
Anyways, I'm passing this along now, and thanks to everyone for participating!
I See What You Did Award--This one goes to Lamp, because putting your username as a different user and filling a profile out in their style sure as heck seems like aiming for Above the Fold to me. Congratulations, Agent.
The Above the Fold Award--And I'm handing this one out to Bigro for Veg-E-Lite, the yeast by-product with a gender of Extra Salty.
Iron Chef Special Ingredient Award--This one goes to Carlos Bracero, for the use of "light" in the sense of "weight" along with the more traditional usage.
The Backdoor Worldbuilding Award--Kaohna has a backstory implying an interesting set of gods. Bickering, lazy, and above all human. Plus, if Kaohna's gone we have the interesting question of what happens with the sun now!
The Diligent Gentleman Award--The Nyxic Mass is going to start off relatively helpless and end up becoming very dangerous. Exactly the sort of character that a lot can happen to in between! Will it become sentient? Will another character try to manipulate it? Or will it just be the great threat everyone unites against? No matter how you look at it, it's going to be great as a contestant.
The Leveraging Your Synergy Award--We've got a guy with a star chained to him, a monster that can't survive without light but doesn't want too much of it, and a guy who fears the night even though he comes from it. All of these have interesting potential for interacting with Daniel Weiss and the Hive Lord, and specifically the latter's plans to cause eternal night, so let's give him a hand!
The 20Q Award for Confusing Me--This one goes to the Runner, mostly for that delightfully uninformative-yet-informative biography.
The Best In Show Award--Fiona "Yona" Saulson, for being an all-around interesting character that doesn't quite hit one of the other categories, at least in my mind. Good work, LP!
This was not easy to judge, and I mean no offense to the two profiles that didn't quite make it. The main reason they didn't cross the finish line was that the connection to the theme felt a bit weaker than with most of the profiles, and I didn't feel there was enough of a hook to either of them to overcome that.
Anyways, I'm passing this along now, and thanks to everyone for participating!
There's no reason for this | Or this | Death is inevitable | You can't challenge fate | The smallest change | I'm overwhelmed
I'm serious | It makes perfect sense | Easy as ABC! | I can't even explain it | Cleaning up someone else's mess
I suck | I rule | I've got it made | Really, I'm serious | This bugs me | It's all lies | I want to believe | Beauty is a curse
I'm serious | It makes perfect sense | Easy as ABC! | I can't even explain it | Cleaning up someone else's mess
I suck | I rule | I've got it made | Really, I'm serious | This bugs me | It's all lies | I want to believe | Beauty is a curse