[Cosmi]

Username;
Cosmi

Name;
Dahlia

Gender;
Female

Prompt;

Location: Marsuses Cave, the Family Den.
Time of Day: Dawn

"So tell me, sis, what is it you really want?"

Dahlia could feel the radiance of her sister shine down on her as the Kalon waited for an answer. The confidence flowed in her sister's veins. Her eyes glowed with triumph.
Azalea has grown to be so strong...

Proudly, Azalea answered her sister, "You of all people should know what I want, Dahlia."

Dahlia did know what her sister wanted. She always knew.
She wanted freedom
Dahlia herself once wanted freedom, but she stayed, for the sake of her family. Now was her sister's chance to leave the nest. To start a new life. To be happy without the strain of her families' wishes hanging over her shoulder.

Dahlia and Azalea sat in silence. Azalea's eyes remained locked onto her sister as if they themselves were begging for an answer. Azalea heard her sister let out a long sigh.

Dahlia decided to finally break the silence. She knew what she needed to tell her sister. Dahlia spoke, "You are free to leave. You always have been, sis. Go. Take flight. You of all Kalons should know that I want you to spread your wings."

On that note, the minty Kalon watched her sister head to the entrance of the cave. She made eye contact with her sister, nodding and smiling at her sibling's choice to leave. As the mouth of the cave swallowed her sister, she decided to scream out the last "I love you" she would ever be able to tell her sister. Dahlia's pure white fangs bore a saddened smirk. Water began to pour down from the Kalon's eyes.

Location: Marsuses Cave, the Family Den.
Time of Day: Mid-day
Days after Azelea left: 1

Dahlia's parents pounded her with answers as to why her sister left. All she could let out were little sobs, for the pain of her now estranged sister grabbed onto her heart and squeezed tight.

Lonelyness.
All Dahlia could feel was the evergrowing hole in her heart. It had always been there, but Azalea's presence would ever so gently sitch it up. This time, there was no one to help stop the gaping hole from spreading. The only thought Dahlia could think was on how much of a fool she was for letting her sister leave. Deep down, she longed to be free like her sister. Dahlia's grief soon nursed her into a deep, dark sleep.

Location: Marsuses Cave, the Family Den.
Time of Day: Late Night
Days after Azalea left: 2

Dahlia knew what she needed to do. After spending two days bawling her eyes out, she had a plan.
I'll be free, just like my sister Dahlia thought.
On that note, she sprinted towards to mouth of the cave. Freedom was in her sight.
"I'll find my sister..." were the last few words she said before jumping out of the cave.
She knew she must go to the plains her sister always talked about. Azalea must be there.

Location: The Forest.
Time of Day: Shortly before Dusk
Days after Azalea left: 3

Dahlia was so close to the plains. Had she not taken such a long nap, she most likely would have found her sister by now. Although, she needed her rest. After leaving so late and not getting any sleep, she had deserved to put her mind to rest.

A scent had been picked up in the wind and carried to Dahlia's nose. While the scent was faded, what Dahlia smelled was clearly the citrus smell that always lingered from her sister's coat.
Dahlia sighed, so close, yet so far... I'll be with you, soon, sis.

Location: The Plains.
Time of Day: Early Morning
Days after Azalea left: 4

*skuffle skuffle*
Dahlia's sister was right there, in the flesh, in front of her. But, before Dahlia could even say a word to her sister, she needed to wake her up first. The very moment Dahlia kept trying to wake her sister is when she noticed Azalea had been crying. Then, Azalea tried swatting Dahlia away.

"Hey sis, it's me" spoke Dahlia.

Then Azalea stared Dahlia in the eyes and jumped up to hug her. Dahlia was hugged so tight she thought she might pop!

"Wh-What are you doing here?!" Azalea stammered out.

Dahlia replied with a huge smile, "I'm here to be free, with my sister."

At that moment, the hole in Dahlia's heart had been mended.






Click to be taken to Azalea's POV

[lumilys]

cred.

" I would like to paint the way a bird sings."

[Kyar]

This is now closed for judging!

Thank you all for entering, there are quite a few forms so please be patient while I'm judging - I expect it to be at least a week, probably longer, before I'm able to decide on winners. Thank you!

[FANTASIIIA]

Good luck everyone ! :>

[katsue]

Please judge this competition soon-- thank you! c:

[Kyar]

First I'd like to apologize for the lack of updates - I was kind of hoping I wouldn't end up posting here until I had the results because I hate to get peoples' hopes up that I have them ready when they aren't. In the end I probably just should've posted an update sooner, and for that I apologize.

The school year starting up again has unfortunately really backlogged much of the work I'd expected to have ready by now, including this judging process. I'm teaching a grade level very different from previous years and it's been a lot of work getting myself prepared - I had to give priority to teaching first, and now as I've finished the first week of teaching, I'm coming back to fill in the blanks here on CS.

I had already begun the process of judging. Some elimination has been completed, though I do not currently have a winner. Thank you so much for all your hard work and patience with me, I want to give all your lovely forms the deep consideration and attention your hard work deserves. I fully intend to have winners for both competitions decided before Friday this week. Thank you all again for your participation and your patience, I'm really grateful for all of it.

[Kyar]

I know I've said this before, but thank you all SO much for your patience while I completed the judging for this contest.

If I'm going to be honest, it was actually torturous for me to have to narrow down these forms at all. So many of you had incredible ideas, characters, and the worldbuilding in so many of these forms absolutely blew me away. It was immensely difficult for me to choose the winners, and rereading the forms a few times turned out to be a very time consuming, and almost more painful outcome. I sincerely hope that for those of you who didn't win, you won't let these INCREDIBLE characters go. I would absolutely love to see them paired with another character or kalon someday, because my gosh they're just wonderful. I feel like I got to know so many of your characters, and I don't want to lose them!

Please know that of the contests I've had to judge, I always say this, but truly, this has been by far the most difficult. The talent in this community is breathtaking and I want each and every one of you to know that forms short and long, decorated and simple, all of them were absolutely incredible. You should all be IMMENSELY proud of what you've created. I know it hurts not to be chosen as the winner but please know that I'd duplicate these kits a dozen times over if I had the ability - you all deserve the best, but sadly I can only send them home with one person.

I could talk for hours about what I loved about each form. After like four rounds of eliminations (my "short list" wasn't very short at first, lol), I wanted to acknowledge these forms as ones who really stood out and I felt like did a particularly good job of leaving me with a memorable, well-deveolped character:

Individual: NotaBear, hydrangeate, zakuro., ThatPinkThing
Partnered: Cheeb & lonk, 76heart & lavender towns, sentimental_android & bite sized kuiper (formerly Nekoma's Lion)

And now, the winning form for Blooming Elegance is...
OrangeSocks!

Despite being confined to her coding, Myristica's character really stood out to me in the way she chose to interact with her world, her "relationships" with the other NPCs, her inner dialogue, and her subtle little actions made her such a strong and memorable presence. The detail you put into bringing her and her world together was fascinating, and I loved the progression of her story. I felt compelled to hear more about where her Continuance will take her!


Thank you all SO much for entering, and for sharing your incredible ideas, artwork, writing, and coding/aesthetic-creating skills! It was so wonderful to get to experience all your characters, and I hope you are all very proud of what you've created!

If you'd like to hear my thoughts on your form specifically, please feel free to shoot me a PM or message me over on Discord! I really mean it when I say that I had an emotional connection with so many of your characters, but I can give more specifics on what you did well and where I might've felt like I was missing something, if you'd like!

Thank you all once again!

[FANTASIIIA]

Congratulations, OrangeSocks

[lumilys]

big congrats to orangesocks for winning! thank you so much for mentioning my form, and congrats to the others who got mentioned!

[moondust405]

congrats!