Contest for a character design! (January/2024)
Added 2024-01-15 19:52:01 +0000 UTCThis month's reward is this strong kobold barbarian with a *BIG* sword!
In order to participate, you must answer the prompt:
What do you imagine she is afraid of? It can be a simple thing, or something with a tidbit of history behind it. For example: moths because she ate one as a hatchling and got seriously sick.
Rules:
β’ Try to keep it within a couple sentences, or under 100 words.
β’ There is no correct answer! Just come up with something you think would fit.
β’ Only one entry per person
β’ My TOS contest prize section applies to this design
Submit your entry in the comments before the end of January!
I'll pick the winner based on how creative/fitting/funny or otherwise interesting I think the entry is!
Comments
I'd say she's afraid of a large ominous beast that she saw one day when she was young, and as a way to combat that fear, she dons and wears the "trophies" of previous creatures/beasts she's slain and is waiting for the day she takes down enough beasts and has enough "trophies" to slay the large beast. First the fangs of small beasts, then crafting weapons from the bones of bigger beasts, each one is a sense of affirmation that if she can take down multiple beasts, the one that frightened her wouldn't be as different than the ones she's taken down before.
A Sentient Cookie
2024-01-30 05:31:57 +0000 UTCI'd imagine she's scared of people thinking she is tiny, so she carries her big sword with her to make her seem even bigger even though it just shows that she is a small-but strong kobold.
squidattacks
2024-01-27 08:45:48 +0000 UTCShe is affraid of ants. As a hatchling she was brave and adventurous, exploring the wilds and plains to find hidden treasure. Tho she founds sticks and nicnacks. She stumbled upon a scene. It was ants carrying away a bone. Just a bone which she didnt know the creature off. But her mind set it to that of her own kind. Scared she ran home and told her parents Ants would eat her in her sleep and bring her bones to theyre home base. Ever since, she has been sleeping in hamocks or otherwise off the ground.
Crystal Razorback
2024-01-25 22:17:54 +0000 UTCI envision her to be terrified of losing her reputation. The kobold barbarian hides her feminine interests and hobbies which is why she is always reticent and stoic towards her peers. Her reputation as a famous monster slayer reinforces her self-worth as a strong warrior. It's difficult to have a personal conversation about herself before parts of her girly personality seeps through the cracks of her cool facade.
RisqueRaptor
2024-01-24 06:29:45 +0000 UTCShe's afraid of being bored. She does all this fighting but things happen, many times a fight to the death, having come out of it not always unscathed. But she'd take another fight to the death then the act of doing nothing.
Natsunomeryu
2024-01-21 12:38:12 +0000 UTCThe sabertooth cats that roam the plains around her tribe's cave system are the worst - she got bit by one so badly it left permanent scars in her younger years. Her signature bone hilted sword isn't just intimidating, nor is it just made from the remains of the sabertooth that bit her, but it's also the perfect toy and treat hiding tool in one for getting her best friend and perfect partner in sabertooth warding crime - Ribcage the direwolf - to come running to her aid. One rattle of that hollow hilt filled with dried treats later and the hunt's on!
Zollo Magi
2024-01-18 07:54:26 +0000 UTCThe kobold was her tribe's strongest warrior. She only wished for fighting and hunting. Kinship didn't interest her. However, this flower tender she had met on a hunt. Graceful, kind, pretty. Opposite of her abrasive self. Yet she had fallen head over heels. How would someone like them ever relate to her? Ever love someone so different from them? More emotions rushed through her head in one instant than she had felt her entire life. Ultimately, she was too scared to approach. Terrified that someone like them would never love someone like her.
NisvuthJusandre
2024-01-16 22:06:31 +0000 UTCShe's afraid of YOU. But she's getting over it. See how shy she looks? It's taken her a lot to get to this point. She really wants to get to know you but she's afraid of how you see her. Prove her wrong! Show her some love.
Orb Juggler
2024-01-16 21:17:22 +0000 UTCA fear of not being able to defend her clan.
Vandell
2024-01-16 05:53:08 +0000 UTCShe's afraid that people will notice the scars she received defending the village, because she fears that they would think less of her.
Nuwa Nightstone
2024-01-16 02:27:16 +0000 UTCDue to her horns looking like a similar bone texture to the bone on her weapon, I think they could be fake. The fabric at the base is to help hold them in place and hide how they are connected. She fears the new group she has joined finding out she doesnt actually have horns
nightstar6
2024-01-15 23:22:18 +0000 UTCShe's afraid of being bitten by anything. Now she always aims for the teeth so she won't be worried for the rest of the fight. Plus teeth make for cool accessories.
CosmoTheSoft
2024-01-15 21:15:31 +0000 UTCNot once, not twice, but many times, her sword gets her out of trouble, she won hundreds of fights with it and it's gift from her parents. She is afraid of losing the most important thing in life, her sword. She has her sword always close, no matter what she does, even when she sleep.
KyuuTea
2024-01-15 21:11:02 +0000 UTCThis Kobold is afraid of anything immune to her favorite probem solving method, brute force. Her weapon may harmlessly pass through spirits or be forced to rely on soft words to get what she needs. In either case, if violence or bullheadedness are ineffective she feels powerless
Zemer
2024-01-15 20:16:09 +0000 UTCShe would be afraid of Jello!! She would be afraid due to its wobbles and would try to find vital points to cut it with her buster sword, only to find out itβs invincible.. (In her mind anyways)
Pookie
2024-01-15 20:07:32 +0000 UTCShe is affraid of Melynx, cause she got in trouble once with the tribe elder cause those darn cats had stolen from her the medicinal herbs she was tasked to bring back.
Kaross Kaross
2024-01-15 20:06:39 +0000 UTCCaring about someone because she lost a friend in battle to her even with all her strength she wasn't strong enough.
FloofySorcha
2024-01-15 20:03:26 +0000 UTCShe's afrad of darkness. But her job as a monster hunter (not the video game series) sometimes requires her to venture into dark caves. That's why she put a self glowing paste on her horns so they function as some sort of flashlight that illuminate her surroundings.
Der Burger
2024-01-15 20:03:16 +0000 UTCShe has a fear of wolves. When she was younger, she wandered into the woods and ran in a pack of wolves. That, while she tried to fight them off and managed to escaped back to her home, the encounter still terrified her. Especially their howls as the wolves followed after her. That, while she is a strong warrior now, one who carries a big sword, she is still afraid of wolves. Especially hearing their howls during the night when she canβt see the wolves.
Vivianne Claire
2024-01-15 20:01:15 +0000 UTCShe's afraid of dragons because of her inherent instinct to serve dragons, and all she wants out of life is to fight big monsters freely.
NukePone
2024-01-15 19:56:20 +0000 UTCShe's afraid of worms, she found a nest of giant ones and tried to fight them but they just kept multiplying when they were cut and covered her and her sword in the slime, making it harder to move. Luckily the worms weren't dangerous but it was so humiliating she can't stand the sight of even normal sized worms
cat hombre
2024-01-15 19:56:12 +0000 UTCWater.
Cipher Isn't Sane
2024-01-15 19:53:08 +0000 UTC
