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The FINAL

Stellar is @emthimofnight 's

Juice is @sonlc 's

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wondering if i could do a test run with characters for only one media .. could i pull enough splatoon fans together or smth..

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SPLATOON OC TOURNEY ROUND 2 BATTLE 26

Guava by @cambriancutie vs Ally by @frippp

OC PROPAGANDA/BACKSTORY

GUAVA

agent 3/captain of squidbeak splatoon my propaganda: hes a funny little fella and everyone loves him

ALLY

Ally is the clarinet player for a band called the silurian sirens! (The Silurian is a eon in wich ammonites thrived all though the ammonite shes based off isnt from the silurian….) shes based of a particularly crazy ammonite called a nipponites and all her band mates (yet to be designed) are based of other ancient sea creatures such as opabinia.

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Feel free to talk about them in the tags or replies!

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i wonder if skipping the interest check part and just opening forms/a server would gain more traction

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The OC Tournament Arcade

The Arcade might open soon! This post is partially an interest check, as I'm explaining the vision I have for it. ☆

In the OCT Arcade, I'm hoping to host tournaments between original characters, but with a little twist! The characters interact and fight it out. Think of it like multiversal "hunger games" entry, where each character is dropped into a Nexus and they fight it out.

(Long explanation of how I imagine it going and what you can do in the tournaments under the cut! There's a TLDR at the bottom!)

From where I see it now (plans may change) It'll go like this: Creators will submit a Google Form that'll hopefully include a backstory, notes on their personality, and what they look like. Some tournaments may include a motivation for characters to be there, or they could have just been plucked from their universe and dropped into the nexus. You can be as detailed as you'd like.

Matchups are posted shortly before the actual polls so that people can get time to know the characters and show support. Then, when the polls are done and the result is out, creators will come up with a piece of media, as simple or complex as you'd like within a certain amount of time (what I have in mind is a couple weeks before the next round happens). It can be anything that tells the result of the battle; maybe a simple drawing or two of the victor and loser after the fight, some writing about the fight, a short comic, or maybe even animation if you're up for it.

Have your own interpretation and vision for the setting! A setting will likely be given, like a forest or abandoned city, and descriptions (and possibly maps) will come with it for any structures and important points in the area, but you can bend it to your will! Add places, or let bits of your character's universe crash into the nexus!

Collaboration is encouraged! In the battle art, work together to make your depictions of ocs accurate! Make characters form friendships with each other! They don't even have to kill each other, they can lose the fight through things like forfeit or maybe other characters join in on a fight that isn't theirs and defend the winner. Any way you can get to the point where the winner of the initial poll wins, and the loser... loses.

Most characters work! Drag in your fan OCs and have fun with the properties of their source world! Maybe eventually there will be a "banned fandoms" list, but I don't imagine it'll be long, since i dont hate a lot of media (i do believe in death of the author though. if the creators suck but you acknowledge that and the media's flaws, go ham!)

TL;DR: itll take a long time because the ocs will hopefully interact between polls, and tournaments will hopefully form a story as they progress! think of it a little like the "traditional" oc tournaments on deviantart and such. hes i am heavily inspired by animations and comics people make (shoutout unknownperson)