Welcome to the great Character Fanfic Contest, sponsored by the Fan Works Revival Comitee! This contest is now open for public submission, and will close once a suitable number of submissions has accrued.
The basis is this: The fanfic will start with each participant submitting an in-depth charcter, complete with vivid personality details and backstory. This character may or may not be a previously used RP or fanfic character (If an RP character, choose to either include the RP in backstory or use as though the RP did not take place). The most story-conducive character will be chosen by the judges.
This character will be released to the participants. The participants will then write a fanfic (minimum characters TBD) which has the released character as the protagonist. This fanfic may or may not be a completion of the provided backstory.
The top 3 fanfics wil then recieve the prizes as follows:
#1: First and second choices
#2: Third choice
#3: Fourth choice
PrizesMystery picture- MatthiasMan
Character portrait (and ref sheet) of choice- Edraithel
Free choice drawing- The Skarzs
Poem/One-shot- Gonff the Mousethief
To enter, PM me, Wylder Treejumper, your completed character.
Minimum Character Sheet
Name:
Species:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Backstory:
Other:
Advanced (Recommended) Character Sheet
Name: (Their full name)
Name:
Nickname:
Titles:
Gender:
Age:
Species:
Good, Evil or Neutral:
Role: (Are they the abbey warrior, a wandering traveler, or a salamandastron hair of the long patrol.)
Weapon(s):
Appearance: (An overall summary of what they look like. What is their first impression? How do the walk?)
Fur:
Eyes:
Clothes: (favorite/usual)
Distinguishing marks: (Tattoos, scars, strange fur coloration)
Personality: (How do they act when they are around people or when they are alone)
Extrovert/introvert:
Voice: (How do they talk? Do they have an accent? Are they loud or quiet?)
Likes:
Dislikes:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Favorite food:
Season: (The season they were born in)
Origin: (Where they where born)
Where: (Where they live now)
Home: (What their home is like)
Room:
Family:
Friends:
History:
What is something they never go without:
what they keep in their...
Traveling pack:
Chest:
Pockets:
Under Their Bed/Pillow:
Other:
Questions for clarification: We fill out the sheet first and then write about them? And I feel this needs a bit of expanding upon:
QuoteThe top 3 or 5 story-friendly characters, depending on the amount of submissions, will be chosen and put into a lot. The winning character will then be selected at random.
Let's say that only three people decide to join, where one person spent hours on their character, another might not have taken a while, but they still did a good job on it, and the third person just slapped a bunch of words onto the sheet. They're picked at random? Hardly seems the best of choices if the last person has as much of a chance as the first.
I do think we need to change that. People WOULD put more effort into it if they did that. I'll talk to Wylder about it.
I'll probably join if this gains traction
This case would be at the judges discretion. Your judges DO have common sense, you know. No characters will be accepted which are not story ready.
Regardless, the character selection has been changed. The most story-conducive character will be chosen by the judges.
I will submit to this. Judges will not grade their own submissions- that is why we have three. I am going to reuse an old RP character which I rather liked.
EDIT: Whoops. Forgot I had to PM, not post.
PM comin' you way, Wylder!
Thank you, Sage.
EVERYONE, PLEASE HELP BY SUBMITTING! WE NEED SUBMISSIONS!
So far we only have two entries- and I know it is not because of a lack of great authors. Please dev a character!
I'll definitely be doing this. Sounds like fun! :)
I'll get to work on one Wylder ;)
Hm... I think I'm game to give this one a shot!
If I get my fanfic going faster, I'd submit one.
So.... how many people actuallly sent in character sheets?
Right now, only you and me...
Get me PM's, people!
I'll try and get one done - No promises, though. We all know how bad I am at procrastinating.
Quote from: Wylder Treejumper on June 11, 2015, 05:38:35 PM
Right now, only you and me...
Get me PM's, people!
I'll get it to you this Saturday!
*sigh*
As I am leaving, please PM all entries to Gonff. He will be the new head judge.
Should we re-PM entries if we've already sent ours to you?
Yeah, go ahead and do that just so I can see who all is in so far.
bad stuff. I never saved my PM....
Hm, what's the status on this topic? Can we do a reboot of this if it's been abandoned?
Oh, right. This thing. I forgot about it? Umm, yeah, we can get it up and running again, now that I'm back. I'll go through my PM's and retrieve all the entries and re-send them to people (in case they misplaced them).
So, the Character Fanfic Contest is on!
I would do this, I have a few old Fanfic characters that might be winners.
Right, we have three entries so far- Me, Sagetip, and Captain Tammo. More entries are welcome (and demanded)!
Feel free to reuse RP characters (or even characters from the Original Character Contest), or to make a new one as you choose.
Have you considered instead of doing a bio character sheet having everyone turn in a short scene from their characters life. Say a minimum word count and a max so as to see their writing skills as well as having them describe the character. Just a suggestion.