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last month has been full of stuffffff one such stuff was mouse contest. I don't really have anything to do with these many mice I've created BUT I don't want to feel like anything was completely pointless so here's a compilation of mouse contest!



Transformice is a very very old flash game you can see a 15 year old video of here

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The game has updated a lot from this point... It's more stable, there's more levels (often fan made ones end up in circulation), there are a lot more tools for building, all kinds of things. One such major update is that the cheese you collect can be spent in the shop in exchange for cosmetic items. There are SO many cosmetic items now that people have made hacks so you can try on any outfits you want without having to buy them. Separate application, you'd still need to buy the outfit to do multiplayer.

Due to this, people have made a new sidegame called "fashion shows" where people will create a theme and whoever does the best gets a lot of cheese as a reward. I like lots of cheese so that's valuable to me.

I used to do some in like uhhhhhh 2022 maybe. Then some rando who had some VERY AMBITIOUS FASHION SHOW ideas showed up asking if I'd join. And I did! Though how it was structured is that the themes were all listed at once, and you just send 12 outfits within the month according to the themes and then whoever has the highest points at the end wins. There's not a lot of feedback in that format so like I didn't really know what the contest runner wanted and as such got a lot of low scores.

SECOND time around though, it was a different format (they happen in rotation) where a theme got posted, everyone had 24 hours to complete it, and anyone who didn't submit or did the worst gets eliminated, tornement style. I think this is good because it helps waste less people's time vs just "make 12 outfits and see what happens later" though there are still some problems. There's also an ongoing story for fun with the contests but I'm not gonna describe it because I think it would bore you all to death lol.

To be clear this contest is FOR FUN, only the top 3 get prizes and only first place gets in game rewards. This is just an unnoficial contest ran by some Brazilian. The looks are not being used for anything. This is not like one of those art contests where they're basically scamming people for free fanart and only paying one person a fraction of what they're owed. There is nothing nefarious here!

This entry includes NO ORIGINAL ART it is just a dress up maker.

The categories you get judged on are CREATIVITY, COLOR PALLET, AND COHERENCE!

Theme 1: People on a wild west train

Concept - Train robber
Color Pallet - Old timey colors, sepia filter
Fur - Squirrel because squirrels are thieves
Head - train robber hat
Ears - Fluffier ears
Face - Mustache
Neck - Snakeeeeee bc there are no guns so instead I gave him a more creative desert themed weapon lol
Tattoo - Scars!!!!! cool
Contacts - eyes wow
Other - Cheese he stole (like 10 themes later I found out that "other" category isn't actually allowed because it's not in every dressmaker, to be fair to everyone)

So this season also had "highlights" where it would show the best looks of the theme. And I was like. I like my mouse! He's not on here! These winning looks are like an effing TIME TRAVELER what are you doing. They also looked super overdesigned and hard to look at. Like, what the hell is the goal here? So I asked about it bc the runner encourages questions. He explained that "train robber" was done by others and that he likes to see illusions.

...Fair enough, I just had to figure out how to do that.

Theme 2: MEMES??

This one was, uhh... well one of the things in the paragraphs explaining the theme was "try to make me laugh" which me and my friends thought was STUPIDDDDD because the contest runner is 1 person who is a stranger and we do not know the sense of humor of. What the hell. Anyways after scouring through a lot of my funny videos I have saved I chose this one

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Concept - Black box meme
Color Pallet - Black box, soda pop
Headdress - excellent for gradiant, has feathers further out to replicate splash or bubbles, and momentum to create a sense of movement
Hair - Belnds with the headdress, darker gradient, matches face
Ear - More bubbles and fizz around the edges
Mouth - The breath, also bubbles leaking everywhere :P
Contacts - The smallest most scared eyes I could fine. The open mouth also helped really sell the shocked expression I want with the eyes
Scarf - The drink part, also super flowy like liquid
Dress - Black Box Meme, on the bottom of course
Tail - More fizzing drink! Explosive everywhere!
Fur - The most red gradient fur that matched the drink. The rest of the outfit is colorpicked around it

I made highlights on this one which made me see I was on the right track. As a not there are only like 4ish highlights a day and at this point the contest still had like 30 people so

Theme 3: Badges

In transformice there are badges and I didn't want something too mouse like or obvious to adapt so picked this one

Color pallet: Fire, white, teal, brown. Only exactly what is on the badge.
Hat - Two candles (colorpicked with the wax colors and brighter orange fire) with the hat that resembles the cork bottlecap, and the ring around it.
Fur - Ghost fur perfect here for the semitransparent glass bottle look!
Eyes - The glasses with the eyes springing out better represents the idea that the eyes are gloating around inside of the bottle, instead of just being part of the mouse.
Necklace - Another eye, floating around!
Tattoo - I used the moon tattoo to create ANOTHER EYE
Hair - A slightly darker version of the fur color to create the straight edge of the bottle. Curly hair would not work.
Ear - The flowers as more fire, lilipads as the circular top of candles, and the lines off the lilipad looking like goo dripping down like candlewax.
Tail - Another candle with the wires also being stringy bits of candlewax. As a bonus it also mostly covers up the tail to continue the illusion of the straight bottle edge.
contacts - I covered up the mouse's normal eyes to be totally invisible for the best effect of the glasses.

Theme 4: You at the hotsprings

I didn't like this theme at all bc I don't share my appearance online and prefer to be a "quiet one" just participating, and this theme said stuff like "I wanna know ur personality and use aspects from your irl appearance for fun" and I was like. I am transgender and anonymous this is not fun! and the project runner was like nawww you'll figure it out I believe in you! Make being shy part of the mouse's appearance :))) and then I struggled a lot and was sad about it

This is not what I submitted but it symbolizes my pain lol

I'm not gonna break this one down super much, I did manage to pass and not get eliminated tho so it is what matters! plushie moments

Theme 5: Sheepherder

This one has bonus category "originality" bc you're making an OC sheepherder here. Let's go

In fables, foxes often represent wisdom and cunning, while sheep represent following the crowd. Utilizing these metaphors I decided to make my sheepherder a fox. Not just a fox, but rather more of a cult leader.

Foxes are carnivores, but they never go after prey bigger than their own size instead preferring chickens and mice. This fox did not become a sheep cult leader to kill them, but rather to harvest their wool and live in their shelters for safety!

Eyes - The fox-like mask is what the design is based around, giving it the proper head. Items are very difficult to use around it because most head and ear items actually show up behind it so it was a bit of a challenge.
Mouth - A ball of dyed yard made from wool it used to make all its clothing!
Head - A hat I recolored to look like a sheep! It's also part hat, one of the clothing that was made.
Ears - I used a specific sweater hat to make it look like the sheep hat had a tail and some extra fluff
Neck - A comfy scarf with a poof at the end like sheep wool
Tail - The foxmost tail of foxing
Hair - The big hair with a bow to be more of the clothing it has made for itself and hide the dragon wings the original fur has
Hand - Holding sheep! Many sheep have horns and this one also has a scarf. 2 sheep wowww
Fur - This was actually the last part I chose, I went through many iterations before landing on a deep red one like many red foxes that has sharp claws also like foxes. And pointy ears

I made highlights on this one wowww

Theme 6: Food and ways it can be prepared

Concept - Soy
Color pallet - White, brown, and green, the main colors of soy.
Fur - The origami mouse gives the blocky texture and color of tofu, as well as the slightly pale texture!
Head - The semitransparent jelly hat reminded me of the miso soup I frequently enjoy making, that has soft silken tofu squares inside that absorb the flavor and float around. It also has a nice earthy feel.
Ears - The windy ear gives off the steam of soup better, and the leaves as well like the green onions or like the beanstalks that soy grows on.
Eyes - I recolored the hearts to look like soybeans!
Mouth - A burger, as an example of one food that soy can be turned into. If you've never had it they can actually taste really similar to a real burger!
Neck - A large leaf stock like the beanstock!
Tail - I recolored the tail to be a rich brown color to match the colors of tofu when it is fried
Hair - Colored like soy sauce with the beads at the end being the colors of the beans
Contacts - Shiny happy eyes instead of the angry ones
Tattoo - A fire, because tofu can be cooked over fire. Made darker brown to match other aspects
Hand - a bottle of soy sauce :P

Highlights but didn't get 5/5 even though my look was the best lol

Theme 7: Required item: Plunger

Concept - Narwal
Color pallet: Dark blue, white, and brown.
Furs - Dark blue and white pattern, like the fish.
Head - OUR BELOVED PLUNGER the rubber part of it I turned dark blue to blend in with the head (the top of the head is always dark). The horn is brown like most of the species' horns.
Contacts - prettiness and ref to how narwhals are drawn in well.. err... some cartoons
Ears - Whitened ice to sell the idea of it crawling out of the ice sheets more.
Hair - I used some duotone spikey hair to create more of the illusion of snow and ice being on top with the darker part on the bottom. I think it blends really well
Eyes - I added more white pattern texture to its face because a lot of narwhals have a lot of spotting
Mouth - Narwhals eat cod in real life so I gave it one! Accurately colored and matches the horn.
Neck - the ice its sticking its head through, cracked around the edges.
Tail - Very important tail! I made it dark to sell the idea of that part of its body being underwater
Tattoo - dresspiece colored dark for the same reason as the tail

I think the breaking head through the ice thing is awesome it's too bad I didn't make highlights. Someone who did COLORS got thru which pissed me off because "colors" is such an easy theme as any color can be recolored so making a gradient isn't very hard. the most creative thing they did was using the plunger as the sun for the sunset. I WAS BETTER, SUNSET IS TOO EASY

Theme 8: Metamorphasis, two looks
The language to describe what to do for this theme was very flowery lol. A change that impacts it emotionally and physically... pff. I fucked around a bit here

Concept - Pool cleaning (Why? I mean, emotionally it changes how you feel about the pool, and physically it has no grime lol)

Color pallet: Yellow green fade to blue green.
Fur - A bluer green color base because I wanted to fade from yellow to blue and the top half is easier to cover than the bottom
Head - Leaves, with the berries being black now to represent floating bugs
Ears - Floating greened water
Eyes - Scuba diving mask because when cleaning these pools it's very important to wear eye protection. The bubbles coming out of it are
Mouth - A mask, because similarly you want protection from the pool.
Neck - Hard to see but there's fluffy fluff that helps with the gradient
Tail - More leaves with dark bugs. It's a similar princible to the leaves on the head, but darker for the gradient
Hair - Curly, good gradient, more black dots, also leaves the seastar floating in the water for more gross bugness.
Contacts - dizzy because pool gross. Represents feelings associated with it
Tattoo - darkened bug.............
Hand - A net, which is important for cleaning!

Color pallet: Shimmering clean water!! With yellow for accents
Fur - There are many blue furs but I chose the one with the rainbow because of how a lot of pools sparkle in the sun
Head - Hearts of joy!!!
Ears - sparkling cleeeaaan water
Eyes - The same mask as before, now with clean bubbles and for fun diving instead of protection
Mouth - A little ball to play with!
Neck - Same fluffy as the last mouth but pretty blue instead
Tail - A little mouse playing in water!
Hair - The same hair as before, cleaner gradient that matches the fur
Tattoo - An extra seastar to match the top
Hand - A beachball with matching colors

I think these are my favorite asthetically lol. The highlights were all much more cohesive with the creators idea of the theme XD I saw someone put in ASRIEL DREEMUR in highlights and I thought that was weird bc that's not something they made up, so I asked the contest runner about it. And the contest runner said that using other characters are fine (unless the theme specifies "original") as long as you adapt them in a creative and interesting way. and also the contest runner doesn't know undertale so just does research and has no bias about it so I use this to my advantage later

Theme 9: Monster for a haunted farm

This one I'll include the full description for

"HELLO here is my SCARY FARM CHICKEN

Chickens are my favorite animal. I will take any opportunity to make a mouse chicken. This specific one was based off of the idea that some farm equipment is extremely dangerous if not treated with proper respect. It could easily kill a person, and even easier a tiny animal friend.

My character was a chicken that got sadly beheaded by a hay bailer, but got revived and is now an EVIL COCKATRICE that has taken over the haybailer to now kill the irresponsible owners of the machine!!! Cockatrice are a type of mythological creature where people die just by looking at them...! Oh the horror 😱 It's half rooster, half snake, and half haybailer!!!"

Hat - A square hat that has been fashioned to look like a hay bailer, the green stripe being the grass it is pulling in.
Earpiece - The tire of the haybailer
Hair - A decending gradient coming out of the haybailer dead grass being turned into neat rolls of hay!
Fur - A very feathery rooster fur, also looks like hay on top!
Mouth - The beak better colorpicked to match the fur
Tail - Has a snake on it because cockatrice are half snake lizard dragon depending on the story
Neck - Wings, like a chicken. OR dragon. And the line on its neck is where it got beheaded.
Contacts - Scary evil eyes
Hand - Bigger scarier eviler eye because it is really important that looking at it kills you

Theme 10 - Mouse based on the 3 characters in the story the LJ stories haven't been reading

I'm not gonna describe this one too much bc it's boring and also I LOST!!!! I was sent to an elimination round!

Elimination round - Create a fourth member of the gang

A darling babymost boy lol. This one has a story attached, feel free to skip

""oy mistah! Do ya need a hand??"

Here is my precious boymouse, so I will be endearingly calling "Little Timmy".

Little Timmy used to work in a factory, no life for a young child... So he ran away from the labor and ended up hearing about the the Rotton Cheese Gang. He looks up to the leader, Willy, because the story about being a poorly treated worker who ended up getting to the top over his boss is truly inspirational to him!

Often gangs do take in marginalized folks who don’t have much in the way of other options. He's a starry-eyed kid and blind to the actual cruelty underneath - fully separated his own fun shenanigans with the gang from the reality of the harm they cause.

He ends up convincing the gang to let him join because if one adventure where he thought that he had caught him, but instead of ratting them out, he asked to join! "I'm an orphan afta all, mi parents won't miss me!" as well as that after working in the factory a long time, he's gained many valuable skills as a handyman! He's good at getting into small corners the adults can't, undoing screws, and keeping inconspicuous. After all, who would suspect the child?"

Timmy is like the son Willy never had! They're like a little family! He and Betty also get along, her wild personality exciting the kid especially when she gives him tasks. The priest hopes in the future he can have a brighter, moral future, but for now... It makes sense he does what he does. They all try to keep him out of any of the main violence though.

Color pallet: Brows, blacks, and torquiose as a boyish old-timey accent.
Furs - Light with dark looking "oil spots" so it looks like he has soot and oil on his face and body from the dirty work!
Head - A scrappy hat, floppy and with a big thread coming off it to show it's old and a little worn
Ears - A mask! For blending in so he can be more helpful, as well as a special gold coin he recieved from Willy and cherishes greatly, taking it everywhere
Eyes - I put more black spots on his face to make him look even more dirty!
Mouth - a cutsey little grin because he's so excited :3
Neck - A little bandana to further excentuate the cute kid feel, as well as the time period
Tail - A basket of gunpowder and whatever other supplies the other members need. He loves to carry stuff for them. The flowers were changed to look like bombs or guns lol
Hair - Cute boyish hair to fit under the hat and not cover his eyes too much
Contacts - Big endearing starry eyes to show cuteness + excitement!
Tattoo - ANOTHER oil spot, this time a heart shape bc he's cute lol
Hands - A wrench for all his handyman work! Possibly his most important item

I survived with flying colors onto the next round

So at this point you may have noticed we've made twelve very high effort mice which would be the end of the normal contest. But it's not the end. There's like, 12 people left. And only 2 people are being sent to elimination at a time. It's a long contest and a lot of ppl are starting to sort of check out not feeling as inspired. It's kind of a lot to ask especially for no reward! Unless you're having a lot of fun... which like I basically was lol I like using dressmakers and it gave me an excuse to brainstorm with friends but ehhhhhhh takes a lot of time.

Anyways you'll never guess the next one.

Theme 11 - Sounds

I can't embed this clip you'll have to click it

its an omori thing lmao

Furs - The sandy beach fur, exactly like the game! It starts with sand and goes up to water, exactly as I need it.
Head - Three spikes for the swirling effect
Ears - I turned the chocolate bar into the brudge with the latter, which is where Something shows up and is closest to
Eyes - I used a different head to make the face all shadow
Mouth - I used a mask to make it more shadow, as the new head left a sliver of the original skin I had to cover for full effect
Neck - grayed necklace for the disappearing swiral and the harsh juxtoposition against the fur
Tail - The bucket and shovel as seen in the game
Hair - The bee hair, for the swiral into water (very important) and the wings get the texture of the blue water. Of the people-looking options I chose the snowman for the most amount of space for the neckpiece to be shown, and it matches their happy faces best of all
Contacts - The one eye
Hands - One of your friends blending in with the beach scene with their big happy smile!

I got highlights this time XD

Ok you won't believe this next theme

Theme 12 - Naruto

Fucking... Naruto???

I've made complaints before as I've explained but this is the first time the servers general chat actually had people complain publicly. It's an extremely unfair theme for anyone who hasn't seen it, so people who have have a massive advantage. And extremely weird given all the other themes are abstract or very flexible stuff. The contest runner's advice as "Read wiki pages :P" very helpful when you want us to create a SUPER IN DEPTH MOUSE THEME goddddd no one was happy.

I got around this by going into the friend facts server, asking if anyone was a fan of naruto, then telling them the mouse theme rules and to infodump relavent information about their fav so I can make a mouse about it.

Remember this following breakdown is copy paste from me pretending to convince the judge I totally know my shit

Character: Rock Lee
Fur - His tealgreen turtleneck, his orange legwarmers, his light skin, and a bit of a natural "leaf" theming since that's the town he hails from.
Hair - Can you BELIEVE there is no bowl cut in this game. Anyways I chose something close that has the flat bangs at least lol
Contacts - His biiiiig simple eyeballs :stuck_out_tongue:
Eyes - Thick eyebrows just like he has, made white to show up against the hair and work as hair shine like in the anime
Tail - Rock Lee uses weights to train and use as weapons. I decided to use the ball weight item on the tail, because if he were a mouse it serves as a very visual and similar functional purpose. It shows he is at a disadvantage and has to train even harder to be as good as everyone else!
Head / Hand / Tattoo - I wanted to make it look like he's engulfed in fire. him on the edge of self harming to  harness this power of the gates............
Neck - Hilariously TFM HAS THE NARUTO HEADBAND and Rock Lee doesn't wear it on his head so I can't use it XD He wears it on his waist instead! I decided to put it on his neck, having green on top of it like it is holding up his turtleneck similar to the function of a belt.
Mouth - Normally Rock Lee uses hand to hand combat but he's also good at weapons too, including the kunai! It matches his weight and also has some wrapping around it which reminds me of the wrapping on his arms
Ears - Matches with the magical fire, makes his ear look like a leaf which is detail about the village he comes from, his biggest attack is "leaf hurricane", and I made the leaves slightly yellow because he also throws some yellowed spelltags also as an attacking item

Wow so ingenious. Let's go back to something I know. Thankfully I didn't end up in an elimination round this time because the elimination round was about like, the name of a specific fucking naruto lore element??? And NEITHER of the people in the elimination round knew anything about it and it was even more complicated to research than just a character??? Guess that the runner didn't learn anything from people's complaints

Theme 13 - Paranoia/Dillusion

Yeah of fucking course I'm doing another Omori here

Fur/Tail - This is the only fur that would work for the illusion I wanted to create for the tail. In tandem with the Tail item, it looks like the main character's Something that he sees in the mirror (behind Basil)
Head - I used one of the ancient hair items from back when TFM was putting hair in the head slot. VERY USEFUL IN THIS INSTANCE. I made his hair the color it is in the screenshot, to create the distinction of the purple representing the Somethings and the blue being Basil
Ears - Basil's flower clip. The middle is lighter, and the lines on it are like the video game's lineart.
Eyes - I used the tiger facemask to make his head blue (again, Basil) and also put rims around his eye so that he looked stress/had eyebags
Mouth - I put a stick in his mouth that would blend in with the purple something to create more of a frown in his face
Neck - Using the triangles at the bottom to create the effect of sharp teeth, and the belts as Somethings eyes
Hair - Basil's Something, the one that spreads out to the edges of the screen and consumes his body. Very flailed out
Contacts - I wanted to get the color of his eyes exactly in this scene because that's the brightest part of him to depict the intensity of his emotion/how strong his stare feels
Tattoo - The dress to create the bottom part of the mouth
Hands - The hands are the sleeves of his shirt and the bottom blends in with the something, because in the drawn version as you can see his hands go inside as well

I even made a drawing to explain it lol. I think it's cute wowowow very complex also holy shit there's a lot of rounds left still. This is like, top 7, so the contest has much higher standards now and also it's getting into territory of being here too long for losing to not be devastating.

I got highlights on this one btw

Theme 16 - Instruments made of unusual materials

Color pallet: Yellow, blue, pink pastels. Darker at the top for the opening and lighter at the bottom. It's predominantly yellow because although I very much so liked my pink version the illusion simply works better this way and there's a lot of yellow candy in the world.
Tail - All the buttons + the mouthpiece
Furs - Light colored, soft, colorful, has non fluffy tail so tail item works better
Head - Ice cream item made to look like more generic hard candy pieces, also match colors
Ears - CANDYYYYY decending values
Eyes - Glasses to match the sillohette and create distinction of light and dark colors. It's shiny and reflective
Hands - Sheild for the silhouette, shiny reflective
Mouth - lolipop candy that does not break sillohette
Neck - The important biiig hole part of the tuba. look was basically designed around it. It is the only item that is tall enough and faces the direction I need. essensial
Hair - like laffy taffy in a little wrapper bow (that's why it's white) and also, sillohette smoothness. the bow also doubles as more of the buttons on sax
Tattoo - canddyyyyy meant to look like a sucker
contacts - yello. bc it look nice

This one I most bullshit on and wasn't very convinced by my final look BUT I managed to squeak out of it! AAA

Theme 17 - Helper robots

Concept: Prosthetic robot suit for cryogenically frozen girl lol

Furs - blue, because her body was frozen
Head - Brain, also blue. This robot body is basically keeping her together.
Ears - A cute headset with some cat ears for style :] It is important to help her with her confidence
Eyes - A visor. This is better than normal eyes because wider scope of vision.
Mouth - Breathing mask
Neck - A fluffy neck pillow, as that was mostly in tact and just needs some extra support. It's a place she can style a little
Tail - To keep her tail together it has pieces all over it. Also ice
Hair - A little sidebraid, so she can still style her hair
Contacts - A little blushie bc she thinks she's cute
Tattoo - It's a robot part. It's a little bit free, but I do like how I colored it and how much of the body it covers
Hands - robot hands

There were only 5 people left, so 3 people got highlights, and 2 people got to elimination round. Which included me and a previous winner! The reason I didn't make it was because runner wasn't super convinced this was a "helper robot" and felt like it was more of a cyborg thing. Too much focus on girl compared to robot, which like fair ? but at this point there's so much needling in the concepts vs actual design, and what was I supposed to do, make the robot have cartoon eyes? Not much I could've done aside from restart.

The elimination theme was "malfunctioning helper robots"

Concept - Leaking dishwasher
Fur - Gray, metalic, shiny. Perfect for the dishwasher texture. Imagine the tummy is many bubbles lol
Head - A flat item that also gets the metalic texture of the dishwasher, square and I turned the card into the buttons as seen in the second reference. The balloons coming off of it are bubbles!
Ears - Thick soapy suds, again colormatched for the white gray not blue gray
Eyes - The goggles create more of a barrier between the top machine and the bottom drying rack
Mouth - The lolipop is a red dish with a crack in it :sob: the dishwasher broke it...
Neck - A blue dish, that's melting!!! It's plastic that shouldn't go in water this hot. The bottom standing part melted first because it was touching the mental ;~; the light blue part is the dishrack.
Tail - Uncleaned dirty dishes awaiting their fate... the irremovable yellow tint on this item really worked to my advantage
Hair - More soap bubbles leaking out!!! And I turned the rainbow into the dishwasher's handle
Contacts - spinning eyes bc its failing and also because the dishwasher spins around fluids when cleaning! It's sorry, it really doesn't know what its doing wrong!
Tattoo - A rainbow so I could use the clouds for more suds :P I turned one of the lines white to match the fur
Hands - The light blue is dishrack (see how its holding whats inside of it) and the yellow is melting plastic


I also included crying version for fun since water dishwasher lol

I was pretty scared about this one because it's like... top 5, you only get rewards at top 3, my opponant is very experienced at this game... I felt like my execution was basically perfect- extremely creative item use- magician hat as metal, card as buttons, balloons as bubbles, honeycomb and lolipop and headphones as dishes, rainbow in the hair as a handle, the tint on the circle items on the tail working to my advantage...

BUT IT WAS ALL FOR NAUGHT.

I got eliminated, again, on concept. Said it would be a highlight if it were closer to theme, but this felt less like "sentient robot" and instead just any old dishwasher.

It's kind of hard not to feel disappointed? Like this was actually very time consuming and you don't actually get anything unless you're top 3. Especially if you're in a lot of elimination rounds a lot (not me, but others) you end up sinking in even more time than others, creating more mice than everyone else, only to fall and get nothing for your efforts! You kind of expect this going in, but like... fifth place? Am I supposed to feel proud of myself? I dunno

The runner was very nice though and answered questions and was consoling about it and whatnot.

"Hey, don't be sad!! You did great, and I was really impressed with your skill and creativity in the competition (it's very impressive and incredible to see how creative you are, and I feel like many could learn a thing or two from you, haha). I think you showed that you really wanted to participate and that you care a lot. I could feel your effort, especially in your second chance looks - Learn how to channel that same incredible energy from your second chance looks into your regular themes, and soon you'll be able to gain more highlights and, with that, more theme wins! You didn't make things easy for your dueling opponents, and I loved that! I like how you didn't let your position affect you and kept fighting until the end while many thought and wanted to give up. You have a winning attitude and will go very far with this strong mentality! You should be very proud and happy with yourself for getting this far and not giving up! I am immensely grateful for all your effort and dedication, and for always delivering your looks on time and finding a way to balance this with your personal life too. It's not easy, and you definitely deserve a good old break! I hope you had fun and that I was able to entertain you a little with the lore and themes, and please keep creating looks! Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart, and never forget that you are and always will be a diamond <33"

Funny enough I was also a fan favorite for the spectators :'D hate to disappoint them. I think I'll probably still participate in the next one because in game rewards are very tempting and it is overall fun even if it had a disappointing end! Sigh. Dishwasher is a winner in MY heart! lol.
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