#round 17

Round 17: Steel

The winner will go on to compete in the Hoenn and Steel finals!

You can find the graph we're filling out here!

She doesn't plan on winning anymore. But she also doesn't want to die: and she won't. She knows it. It's all clear in her head.

The scum of the Universe that I call "Owner" must've realized I was planning something. A few days ago, while I was practicing, she came in, she was angry. Actually, angry is an understatement. She seemed like she wanted to kill me right then and there. I assumed she's seen the layout of my plan I had drawn. Only thing holding her back from ending it all for me, was my upcoming round. It didn't stop her from hitting my head against the table.

I don't remember anything from the next day. The day after that was awfully blurry. The third day, I finally managed to capture what was around me, and heard my owner talking about how she won't cover the bruise, that it's fitting for the performance. Fourth day, I was expected to be right back to practicing.

My head still occasionally hurts. But I see it all very clearly. It's like my eyes were finally opened. I don't have to be stuck. I was stupid to be for so long.

Soon..

ROUND 17

Favorite Pictures of Purple River.

Ex Lunatone

Normal Shiny

Tournament PSA: Normal Lunatone was eleminated in a past round.

Time for Round 17 of Dean Gen Challenge! This time the theme is ICONIC

How it works

On the first day of each month, we’ll provide a theme that you’ll explore in your works in relation to Dean

You can sign up at any point throughout the month, simply by reblogging this post and tagging it with #entered

You have until the last day of the month to publish your work. Tag it with #deangenchallenge and mention @deangenchallenge to make sure we find it

We’ll be reblogging all works to this blog; if you don’t see your work reblogged after five days, send us an ask with a link to it

There is no penalty for dropping out. This is a no pressure challenge; if you can’t finish the work, you can post it in the following month or try with the new theme

You can also create works for our past themes! You will find all of them in our deangenchallenge tag

You might combine this challenge with other events and bingos, as long as their rules allow it

The last day to publish your work for this round is November 30

When posting your work to ao3, add it to our collection deangenchallenge

Feel free to reblog to signal boost even if you’re not entering! :)

Work requirements below the cut

The time has come to pit our characters against each other and milk all the angst and commentary we can out of the randomly generated events! Yes...the one and only  Writeblr Hunger Games (note that I have absolutely no evidence that nobody else has done anything like this)!

Reminder of the Basics: writers submit their characters as potential candidates and then I put them in the Brant Steele Hunger Games Simulator and share the results. It VERY randomly (and often humorously) picks ways they survive, kill, forge alliances, and die until only one remains. In the meantime, the writers can write and share stories about their characters being in the Games! Beforehand, I’ll post some prompts to get the creative juices flowing, and afterwards, you can have your character participate in an optional collaborative heist to escape their fate!

Note: characters’ canonical powers, strengths, abilities, disabilities, and weaknesses will not be taken into account by the simulator. Every outcome is random and everyone has an equal chance for victory or disaster.

How we’ll do things this time: each writer who wants to participate can submit up to three original characters they would like to see fight in the Arena. Please reblog this post only or else send me an ask/message with your characters’ information. Arenas can hold 24, 36, or 48 characters, so I might need to throw in some stock characters or not include every submitted character. If you have any priorities on whose soul you definitely want to crush, let me know!

In your submissions, please include your characters’:

Name 

Pronouns (the simulator only recognizes “M/F”--apologies in advance)

This is totally optional, but if you want, also let me know:

If you’d like them in any particular District

Any other interesting facts about them you’d like me to know about

Like I mentioned in the inquiry post, there’ll be nothing fancy about this round--send in any character you want, be they well-established or a newcomer you want to figure out by force.

Rough timeline:

Today, Feb 21: submissions begin! Send me info about your characters via ask, reblog, pigeon, whatever works

Friday, Feb 25: submissions close and I’ll post the Initial Reaping

Saturday, Feb 26: I’ll post some prompts

Sunday, Feb 27: Official Reaping, so no more edits or last-minute additions

Monday, Feb 28: let the Games begin! Unless we’d rather wait a week to give people time to write and plan. Let me know!

As always, may the odds be ever in your favor!

WHG Tag List: @concealeddarkness13 @maple-writes @ratracechronicler @childrenoflight-darkness-nothing @knmartinshouldbewriting

In their mind, Reapings happened on overcast days, and people wore all black. Maybe it was cold as well. Instead, there was something very wrong in the day being perfectly clear and sunny as they walked behind Amber and shuffled into the crowd. A crowd of well dressed people by District Two’s standards, in all sorts of colors. Like it was something to respect and be excited for. And not the predecessor to a funeral.