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OC Poll Tournament: The Winner!

Thank you so much for participating, everyone! After a week, it is time to announce the winner!

In the finale poll, Nat Finch beat Chess and Crislie Crimsworth!

Congratulations @albatris! Nat Finch is the winner of the tournament! For a prize, please reach out to @somealienquill for the portrait sketch!

I hope everyone enjoyed this! I might try this again sometime, so look forward potentially to that, lol!

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Daily OC Question!

I'm sorry for not having one yesterday. School is sucking the life out of me, lol.

What is the worst thing that has happened to your character?

Tagging: @albatris, @gailynovelry, and @concealeddarkness13

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Last bit of Crislie propaganda!

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OC Poll Tournament Round 3 Finale!

Propaganda below the cut:

Chess (she/her) @concealeddarkness13 (the picture for her is made by the wonderful @drabbleitout, and she is the person on the left with the prosthetics in the picture): Chess is a special character, and I hope to show how special and awesome she is! She’s extremely distrustful, but she’ll trust people who even treat her with an ounce of decency, and she’ll protect the people she cares about with her life. She’s flirty and confident, but underneath, she has an abysmal amount of self esteem and thinks she’s a monster that will never have love or friendships. She is my blorbo who has been rotating in my mind for the past two years, and I hope you can love her as well! Someone described her in one of the AUs I’ve done as oscillating “between being a poor, wet little meow meow and a fierce feral protective lioness being held back by the scruff of her neck because she is still little”. (credits to @ratracechronicler)

She did start out with a loving family, but like all good protagonists, her parents were murdered when she was 10, and she was left alone. Especially because the society she lives in ignores violent crimes and the victims of those crimes, erasing them all from society as if they never existed. So, she technically didn’t exist in society’s eyes, so she couldn’t get a job or own property or anything. The people around her helped her for a few years until she was old enough to take care of herself, and then she learned to steal.

At twenty years old, she was kidnapped and forced into prosthetics experiments that gave her fire magic that hurts her, from her prosthetic right arm and left leg now. She has a magic fire in her lungs that flares up during physical or mental stress and burns her throat and makes her cough up smoke. Aeflin, the person running the experiments, believed her to be very strong (because she snarked at Aeflin so much and didn’t let her see her pain as much as possible), so she decided to make Chess into her weapon.

She changed her name (since Chess’s original name was Ezra) to Chess, and she put her through even worse torture. Finally, Naivi, the other person running the experiments, got Chess her own team and sent her out into the world to do what the experiments were for and to get her away from Aeflin.

Chess tried to escape that, but a random person found her and took away her memories and brought her back into the enclosure, where most humans are trapped. And she realized right away that the humans inside the enclosure found she was from the experiments and hated her and hurt her and called her a monster because God forbid women do anything (just trying to survive). She learned that the only way that she could get a warm place to sleep (not an alley) was to make herself attractive to people and flirt. She liked sleeping with people, but she mostly did it to have a warm and somewhat safer place to sleep. And even then, she’d have to stay alert because her partner could wake up and try to hurt her.

That’s where she is at the start of her story! She will get a found family and someone or someones to love! She’s pansexual and polyamorous and flirty, and she loves physical touch! She just wants people to treat her decently, and if she has to, she’ll fight to protect her boundaries. And she loves punching jerks in the face with her prosthetic! And we love a woman who loves to fight, right? Thanks for reading!

Crislie Crimsworth (she/her) @gailynovelry: The story of Crislie’s life is that she followed a really sad, really pretty girl out of her sleepy little village and got several new scars, a case of lycanthropy, a little bit of god-killing, and lots of trauma out of it. But she did get a girlfriend and a sick ax along the way, so it balances out! Since “sunset orange” is a mourning color in her country, she’s also a casual goth as well as a jock. If you become her friend then she will carry you around like a sack of potatoes and sometimes hand you a little carved wooden animal. I love her dearly.

Nat Finch (he/him) @albatris: I'd like to submit Nat Finch! he/him, 25 years old, brand new baby vampire. he works the night shift at dodgy petrol and convenience store Stop 'N' Go, where he falls asleep on the clock and encourages shoplifting. he's schizotypal like me and he loves cats, cooking, and his friends! he's the protagonist of my campy gory horror trilogy, though he'd rather not be!

he's short and fat with red eyes and lots of freckles. his hair is long and black, often uneven and choppy in length, because he just cuts tangles out instead of untangling them ❤

he's a sweet boy, earnest boy, awkward boy; he doesn't have many friends at the start of the story due to his paranoia, psychosis, and social anxiety, but by the end of it has a whole bunch of good friends AND a kitty he adores named Grub who purrs like a faulty tractor

in this story vampirism is a sentient entity and all connected via a hivemind known as "the Garble".... it lives in the vampires' blood and can manipulate their thoughts as well as give them heightened strength and speed, claws and fangs, and night vision when they need it. it can be useful, but mostly it's a bully and an inconvenience

at the centre of the Garble hivemind lives the very first vampire, an undead rotting corpse and the god of vampires, and a few of their close friends and confidants. all life force collected by regular vampires flows to them at the centre and grants them immortality and power. it's a sweet deal for the folks at the centre, and a terrible deal for ordinary vampires like Nat who rarely reap any real benefits from their condition, but are threatened and manipulated into participating in this system regardless

Nat's story sees him struggling to solve the mystery of how and why he was turned and trying to balance his kind, caring nature with his new violent condition... and eventually leads him to, "hey, I think I'm going to hunt down and eat the rest of vampire god"

good for him!

some other Nat Facts:

huge drama queen (will play up being sad and pathetic to get what he wants)

vampires are hardwired to seek warmth and coziness so Nat is always down to snuggle 24/7

bouncy cheery overexcited lad who will grin for weeks if you say something nice to him

vegetarian, aside from eating people, which he insists does not count

speaking of eating people, primarily preys on rich pricks and abusive bosses

is too awkward to tell his neighbours he bought them a cute knitted blanket he thought they might like for their corgi because what if that's a weird thing to do. this has been going on for three weeks

is too awkward to tell his neighbours his name is Nat, not Matt. this has been going on for three years

has a giant scary monster mode full of eyes and teeth >:3

please consider voting for my boy!

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Round 2 Results and Round 3 Poll Announcement!

Ok! Because the three-way finale won for the poll, I'll announce the winners and say who will be going up against each other in the finale!

Here are the results of round 2!

Poll 1: Chess (@concealeddarkness13) beat Viper (@maple-writes)

Poll 2: Crislie Crimsworth (@gailynovelry) beat Levi (@abalonetea)

Poll 3: Nat Finch (@albatris) beat Conor (@pen-of-roses)

Thank you so much for participating! And now, here is the final poll!

Final Poll:

Chess (she/her) @concealeddarkness13

Crislie Crimsworth (she/her) @gailynovelry

Nat Finch (he/him) @albatris

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Another Poll!

Because I just enjoy making polls so much, I have two options of how the three characters who will move on will be handled, since it's an odd number, so I can't just go on like everything's fine and normal. I know I've already asked, but I'd appreciate a visual for preferences, lol. Tagging the writers who participated: @gailynovelry, @grailfish, @pen-of-roses, @somealienquill, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @lieutenant-amuel, @albatris, @calicohyde, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question!

Here's the next one!

What's the best thing that's ever happened to your character?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13!

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Daily OC Question

Here's the next question!

Who is/are most important to your character?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question

Here's the next question!

Who is/are most important to your character?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question

Here's the next question!

Who is/are most important to your character?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question!

So sorry it's so late. Here it is now!

What's your character's greatest flaw?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question!

So sorry it's so late. Here it is now!

What's your character's greatest flaw?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question!

So sorry it's so late. Here it is now!

What's your character's greatest flaw?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question!

So sorry it's so late. Here it is now!

What's your character's greatest flaw?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question!

Here's the daily question for the day!

What's your character's greatest fear?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question!

Here's the daily question for the day!

What's your character's greatest fear?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13

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Daily OC Question!

Here's the daily question for the day!

What's your character's greatest fear?

Tagging: @gailynovelry, @pen-of-roses, @abalonetea, @maple-writes, @albatris, and @concealeddarkness13