Create-A-Servant Secret Santa Contest

[Spammin Spiff]

We're half way there with the reviews! Everyone gave it their A-game, I hope the Monthly Contest in a few days has as much passion as this did.

[Kamera]

Bullseye Award
You were given very specific and narrow prompts. Most would probably despair. Yet you absolutely nailed it. Twice.
Orcus
Daniel Auber


Big Feels Award
Heartwarming, angsty or perhaps both. Your character gives off strong emotion and lasting sentiments.
Hestia
Dionysius
(aka Greek Tragedy Award)


Exquisite Visual (and Taste) Award
Simply beautiful (delicious). You sure knows how to evoke glittering (appetizing) visuals and colorful characters.
Mother of Gold
Marie-Antoine Carême


Well Researched Award
You've put quite a lot effort in properly researching the figure you're writing and it shows.
Hayreddin Barbarossa


Polished to Perfection Award
These are the quintessential ideal sheet. You've made sure that it includes everything and left none wanting.
Pope Alexander VI
Antoine Lavoisier


Ideal Spouse Award
Charismatic and endearing in their own ways. They got the maximum waifu and husbando points.
Louhi
Marcus Junius Brutus
(aka Best Faceclaim Award)


Resourceful Santa Award
Three Wishes. Three Presents. Generous in both quality and quantity. You are undeniably the best Santa one could ask for.
The Roswell Incident
Van Schrodinger
​Carl Gustav Jung


Unpolished Gem Award
Your sheets has potential, but for whatever reason, it still feels rough around the edges.
Rostam
Shunzi Emperor
(Also props for getting out of your comfort zone for these ones)

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That said, here are my votes:

3 points - Pope Alexander VI
Aside from the sheer completeness of the sheet, I'm biased to him for being a great addition to my 72 Demon God family list.

2 points - Daniel Auber
It's either this or Lavoisier for this spot, but gotta hand it to you for the reason I've mentioned above.

1 point - Hayreddin Barbarossa
Obligatory vote for nicely fulfilling my prompt, I must say I'm quite satisfied with how he turns out.

[DelRey]

thats a cute way of voting
i will steal that in the future
yoinks

[Kamera]

cringe more like; but yea, feel free.

Also, reminder that the voting period will end tomorrow on 14:00 UTC; so get your votes in, even if you didn't participate.

[Spammin Spiff]

I'm trying to think of who's made a sheet and hasn't voted. The ones that are coming to mind are Team Brazil, as well as Koga.

[pinetree]

1 pt - Marie-Antoine Carême
A great Foreigner with a very interesting choice for the entity.

2 pt - Pope Alexander IV
Very fleshed out and well executed character, as expected. It's great to see more Demon God Pillar hosts too.

3 pt - Marcus Junius Brutus
I am not biased.
It just fulfills the prompt perfectly, managing to oppose Gawain's character in every way while also being an interesting character on its own. I expected some kind of elaborate interaction between the Natural Enemies when I wrote the prompt, but you went the hard way instead, ignoring the Round Table half completely and conveying what their relationship would be like through his appearance, methods, ideals... Just amazing work.

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Y'all did great work btw and I wish I had the time right now to write more reviews. I loved this contest. This forum is great and you guys are great.

[Kamera]

i guess these are pretty busy days, even for me, so i'll extend voting period for another 24 hours

[Kamera]

So, Antoine Lavoisier and Pope Alexander VI is currently tied in the first place at 8 points.
Please help with a tiebreaker and get a few more votes in, thanks.

[Kabalisto Koga]

So, Antoine Lavoisier and Pope Alexander III is currently tied in the first place at 8 points.
Please help with a tiebreaker and get a few more votes in, thanks.

Man that difficult as they are all quite good must i say .

[NINE-lives]

3 points rodrigo Borgia.

2 points Hegel.

1 point hestia.

[BnEl15]

Honorable Mentions:

• Hegel. He's one of the most difficult philosophers there is to translate into a Servant due to the scope of his philosophy, but you managed to do it. Wow.
• Louhi. Nice characterization for what most legends considered as your average evil fairytale witch.
• Marie-Antoine Careme. Cooking is another tough topic that I'm not sure I could do had I gotten your prompt. Careme herself is amazing enough, but the Foreigner reveal afterwards really took things up to eleven, in a good way.
• Hestia. Another nice addition to the Lostbelt Olympians cast.

1pt to Dionysus. Honestly it was a three-way tie between him, Hestia, and Careme. I may be partially biased here, but while the whole Greek mechagods idea aren't usually my thing, you actually managed to integrate most of Dionysus' lore and his identity transitions into the Fateverse setting smoothly. Nice.

2pts to Lavoisier. That classic WF mix of angst and wholesomeness. I think you managed to write the whole Pretender-Class well in this instance, between the sort-of identity crisis and a link tying two seemingly unrelated figures together.

3pts to Auber. An artist Innocent Monster-ed into their most famous creation isn't exactly a new concept here, but this is a particularly amazing application of the idea. I especially love his wholesome relationship with Fanella, and that reveal in the end just further cemented this sheet as my favorite here.

[DelRey]

So, Antoine Lavoisier and Pope Alexander VI is currently tied in the first place at 8 points.
Please help with a tiebreaker and get a few more votes in, thanks.

I implore you to recount because i counted very differently

[Serra]

Same here. For reference, voting started with Spliff's post here and for that post you have to click 1 Point, 2 Points, 3 Points to see the actual votes.

Here's what I'm seeing, personally:

Marie-Antoine Carême: 3 (Spliff) + 2 (Alexcoene) + 3 (me) + 2 (Baron Magnus) + 2 (DelRey) + 1 (pinetree) = 13 points
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI: 1 (me) + 3 (Bugs) + 3 (Kamera) + 2 (pinetree) + 3 (NINE-lives - added after the announcement of the 'tie') = 12 points (9 before the announcement of the 'tie')
Antoine Lavoisier: 3 (Baron Magnus) + 2 (Bugs) + 3 (Frigix) + 2 (BnEl15 - added after the announcement of the 'tie') = 10 points (8 before the annoucement of the 'tie')
Daniel Auber: 3 (Alexcoene) + 1 (Bugs) + 2 (Kamera) + 3 (BnEl15 - added after the announcement of the 'tie') = 8 points (5 before the announcement of the 'tie')
Hegel: 2 (Frigix) + 3 (DelRey) + 2 (NINE-lives - added after the announcement of the 'tie') = 7 points (5 before the announcement of the 'tie')
Louhi: 2 (me) + 1 (DelRey) = 3 points
Marcus Junius Brutus: 3 (pinetree) = 3 points
Mother of Gold: 2 (Spliff) + 1 (Alexcoene) = 3 points
The Roswell Alien: 1 (Spliff) + 1 (Frigix) = 2 points
Dionysus (Lostbelt): 1 (Baron Magnus) + 1 (BnEl15 - added after the announcement of the 'tie') = 2 points (1 before the announcement of the 'tie')
Hayreddin Barbarossa: 1 (Kamera) (btw I'm really glad you were satisfied with how his sheet turned out )
Hestia: 1 (NINE-lives - added after the announcement of the 'tie') = 1 points (0 before the announcement of the 'tie')

[Kamera]

I'm going to give 3 points to Marie-Antoine Carême. It came from what I would've considered a hard prompt, it defined a skewed mindset and set of priorities very well, and it took it from there and just kept escalating it to the extreme in such a satisfying way. It read perfect to me.

I've been considering a lot of candidates, but I'd also give 2 points to Louhi and 1 to Rodrigo Borgia.

ahh... i stand corrected, i completely missed this post (and spammin spiff's apparently), sorry!

[Serra]

It's cool, no problem! I should probably get an avatar so my short posts are more noticeable lol

[DelRey]

well
now that the count is laid bare how will the voting proceed?

[Kamera]

as usual, it's going to be over soon anyways

[Kamera]

Without further ado, let's wrap this up.

With 10 points—

Third Place

Antoine Lavoisier

With 11 points—

Second Place

Pope Alexander VI

[dramatic drum roll]


And with 13 points—

First Place

Marie-Antoine Carême

Congrats to WhiteFrenzy, BnEl15, and (especially) Frigix!
Also, many thanks to all who participated on this little contest, have a good year.

See you again next time (hopefully)!

[DelRey]

Gg to the three kings! All well deserved, but the overall quality was outstanding. So many great sheets.
Also thanks to all who voted and mentioned Auber and made me 4th place

[Spammin Spiff]

I just realized Serra was calling me Spliff instead of Spiff. That had me chuckling for a couple minutes.