RIRI

✨ Hello and welcome to the Aphidclan design contest! ✨

There’s a character coming up that I just can’t seem to quite get the design down for, so I’d love for you guys to take a crack at it! She’s a trans woman who goes by she/her pronouns, and she wields a dagger as her primary weapon. She has a bold and wise, yet fun and adventurous personality. She’ll tell you what you need to hear when you’re down, but will have fun with chaotic antics and mayhem as well! Feel free to design her as a goth/emo/scene/rocker chick/punk/etc.

There will be a top 3 selected based on personal preference and how much I think your design will fit with the Aphidclan style.

The first place winner will have their design canonized! I will credit you with her first in-comic appearance, on her toyhouse profile, and in her official reference sheet. You also get a fullbody + simply shaded drawing from me.

The second place winner will receive a simply shaded headshot icon drawing from me and my thanks!

The third place winner will receive a headshot drawing from me and my thanks!

Enter the contest by @ing me with your entry or reblogging it to this post! Remember to tag your post with #AphidclanDesignContest !

Contest ends on August 20th!

Guidelines

1. Feel free to go wild! Anything is on the table, accessories, clothes, straying drastically from the sprite’s design, etc. I fully encourage you to go wild with this and make her as unrealistic sparklecat as you can. Just make sure she’s still a cat! So no horns (unless it’s an accessory) or wings or turning her into a wolf, etc etc

2. No offensive/bigoted/nsfw/inappropriate imagery

3. No use of AI at any point in the process.

4. Don’t give her a name! I’d like to name her myself.

5. Traditional art is fine as long as you’re okay with me interpreting/modifying the colors a little bit! No picrews allowed.

6. You can keep/use any design that doesn’t win first place. If your design does win first place, by entering you agree that the character design now belongs to me.

7. I might modify the design a little bit just to make it easier to draw in my art style, like for example I might simplify it a little bit if it’s too complex, but I won’t stray from the original design too far!

I just had to get a design down for this! Colours are a bit rough but hopefully gets the idea across! Sorry if she's too complex lol

Some design notes, since my handwriting is horrific:

She has an afro mohawk!

Her patterns on her body are inspired by laddered/ripped tights

Once I get my clangen working again (My computer really said NUH UH to it after the update and ive been too lazy to try again) i will play Jumalanpelko with it.

I have done it once before. And no i dont mean with the og characters.

If someone wants to try these are the """rules""" of how I played it (feel free to do whatever you want tho):

-No leader/if there is a leader they only have one life (just kill the bitch 8 times)

-no healer/Suncat is the only healer (it is more fun if suncat is warrior tho) we are here living on the edge

-When a suncat is around a year old you kill them and choose a kitten to be the next suncat.

-the new suncat has to still have the kitten sprite to be fit to be a suncat (if you want to you can change this up. Like maybe the apprentices can also become suncats but they wont live to be a year old? Idk up to you)

-it is up to you how you want the Suneve to happen. Like if you want it to be super strict (aka suncat is 1 year and there are no kittens? Cult is dead, game over) you can! If you dont want to, then dont!

-If you want to, you can give rules to how long a suncat can live depending on their sex and fur color (like maybe full sun furred female can live 12 moons, partly sun furred female 11, sun furred male 9... ect. It is up to you)

-Guard is chosen as a kitten and trained by one of the senior guards

-Guard is made suncat's mentor OR you just put them always on the same patrol (you can choose what kinda of rules you want to give for patrols. Can suncats go for patrols? Do you have to proceed? Up to you!)

-You can give cats nicknames! It is not easy without the names (i didnt have names and i was very much going WHO???? the whole game)

-If you want you can make one cat and make them Her. Just make it so that She cant have kittens (or maybe you want She kittens i dont know you) and code Her back to life every time She dies lmao. I didnt do this but it would be funny.

EDIT: you might want to let suncats live 2 years or more, it can become pretty annoying to change the suncat every few moons

Like i said, feel free to do whatever you want!