#ml contest

@gale-of-the-nomads Soulmate Survey Finalists are announced! The designs all look amazing, and I am happy to be among so many talented artists. Don’t forget to vote! Contest ends August 1st, for more information click here.

Designs from left to right, @emdoddles, @heizerux, @bevvydraws, @spaghetti-l0rd, and @dhdrawings.

This is the first I am hearing about it, 

I doubt it will end, 2020 isn't that merciful. 

Besides, I still have that Soulmate survey contest, I want to see all of the kick but takes on akuma Lila.

So like can it wait a month at least.

So this is a challenge I want to create because I am unable to come up with a good akumanette design and I think it would be a helpful way to get some creativity rolling (Not that it isn't already lmao) This challenge is going to show up in my fic (Be it an animatic or comic or written, idk yet.) so anyone who wins will get linked and properly credited for the akumanette design. That being said, I'll begin to describe the parameters for the designing. You can make the object, weapon, and look whatever you wish. I only ask that the name I chose remain (Memoire, getting to that in a bit) and the power in general (Ability to force people to relive her worst memories.) And the fact it was caused by an argument between her and Alya over Lila and Marinette 'claiming' she's lying (Yes yes, overused, bite me.) So I chose to use the name Memoire because the memories of Alya hurt her plus I thought it was cheeky and would fit in with other names of akumas. Her power is through her weapon, which in my orginal design for her had been the akumatized object (A picture of her and Alya ripped in half.) and turned into a whip. I wanted her to look like a vengeful spirit, all pale and creepy. Almost like a forgotten memory (Y'know, how you can't remember someone's face and their exact colors right. How things look off and you can only go off of pictures or the feelings you remember of this person.) Her power is because of that forgetten memory bit and why she was akumatized (Her anger and grief. Anger at Alya and grief of the pain of memories together.) However, that was just my initial design and you can feel free to change that (as I said). 

I will be choosing the akumanette for the fic by the end of August, and I will hopefully announce the winner of this competition by first week of September (Depends on the amount of entries, though I doubt I will get that many.) I also want to take the time to go over some scrapped akumanette designs I had now since I have had many ideas for Marinette's akuma form but none of them ever seemed good enough. Perfecta- Caused by anger at Chloe because she gloated that she was all perfect and that since Marinette wasn't perfect Adrien would never get together with her. The akuma is in either the lucky charm that Adrien gave Marinette or it was the umbrella (I could never decide, part of the reason it was scrapped.) She would make people more imperfect than her, and she would finally be perfect enough for Adrien. Her hair is out of the pigtails and into a ponytail (or tight bun), she wore a floor length dress with a high collar (but sleeveless), elbow high gloves, and she wore a masquerade mask that covered her entire face and was "perfect" (Unmarked face, perfect makeup, ect.) The object would fire a pink blast that would make people imperfect. The idea was scrapped mostly because I didn't like it/didn't have a story/couldn't decide the object. The mixture just soured the akuma concept for me. Her name also fits in with the other akumas and y'know "Perfect"... Perfecto? Bam, I had the name. (I had thought Perfectionette at one point too.) Miss Fortune- After getting embarrased in front of Adrien and getting angry at her own luck she decides to take luck into her own hands. The object would be the the lucky charm, which she would measure someone's good and bad "luck" (Basically if she liked them or not), and if it was good she would place a blessing (Basically becoming her servant.) or if it was bad she would place a curse (Something relating to how they might've hurt her in the past or something about them she didn't like. For example, with Lila it would be that she would be forced to tell the truth. Or that the lies about herself that impacted her negatively would come true. So like her tinnitus.) She is probably the one I most visually liked, but I could never find a place for Miss Fortune. She has bi colored hair (One side is the normal black, but the other side is red.) and bicolored eyes (Blue/red), and her outfit is much of the same. She has on her normal jacket, but the inside is red and the outside is black. Her jeans are the same way only reversed. Her flats are also bicolored as red and black too. Her skin is white aside from the half and half drama mask on her face. I wanted to keep her as normal looking as possible mostly because I couldn't come up with a better design in clothes and such. Spyder or Weaver- Based on Alya digging too deep in trying to get LB's identity or get her and Chat together (was undecided and if I were ever to do something with her maybe a mixture of both?) It was technically a LB akuma, but still, akumanette. The object really wasn't decided, but probably her phone (Har, Alya caused it and the object is the phone. Oh the irony.) And she was very spider based, obviously with the name. Her power really wasn't the best, but she could trap people in her web and they would be forced to divulge any information that she wanted to get out of them (Secret identities being the most angsty thing I thought of after reveals of what people truly thought of one another.) For the second name I thought maybe being able to weave something into existence. This akumanette was mostly scrapped because I couldn't think of a design, finalize a name, or even really a power. It was all just rough drafts and I never continued entertaining the idea of her. These three(four?) were really my only other ideas for an akumanette. I've probably had more, but I can't think of any. 

MARICHAAAAAT! You all know I'm always for some lovesquare lovey-dovey!

So this is an Line Art I have colored for a coloring contest. Which coloring contest? MJ's coloring contest! (Go check out her blog: @mariejaneworks ) I am no expert on digital art, but I do enjoy TRYING (keyword here) to do some from time to time. So I don’t really expect to win, but just truly enjoy coloring (and drawing) shit.

If you want to enter the contest it is not to late! Here's the link: https://sta.sh/0xzy6uqu9wo

The link to it on my Deviant page:

https://www.deviantart.com/littlemissmk/art/Marichat-Coloring-Contest-762161632

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