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Entry tags:
- !contest spectacular,
- !event,
- anna (frozen),
- ashley fox (oc),
- bertolt hoover (attack on titan),
- cecil harvey (final fantasy 4),
- diana ladris (gone),
- fiddleford mcgucket (gravity falls),
- ignis scientia (final fantasy 15),
- jane crocker (homestuck),
- jinx (teen titans),
- kazuki hihara (la corda d'oro),
- lust (fullmetal alchemist),
- mari ohara (love live! sunshine!!),
- maurice hutch (oc),
- noctis caelum (final fantasy 15),
- orion luis (oc),
- penny polendina (rwby),
- queen elsa (frozen),
- rakka (haibane renmei),
- stanford pines (gravity falls),
- thida (splatoon),
- vanitas (kingdom hearts),
- yayoi kise (smile precure),
- yuri plisetsky (yuri on ice)
The Contest Spectacular!
Who: Everyone attending the Contest Spectacular! (For more information about this event, check out the info post here!)
Where: Celadon City
When: January 18-20
Log:
It’s finally here… the Contest Spectacular! The whole city of Celadon has been bustling ever since the preparations for the contest began, but now with the addition of all the contestants, their friends, and the general crowds, the town is downright packed. Hotel rooms booked en masse (good luck getting into that big fancy one near the casino-- thank Arceus there's plenty of others!), the Center stuffed with younger trainers who are short on cash but couldn't pass up the opportunity to see the first ever Pokemon Contest in this region, and generally even more foot traffic than usual.
But nowhere is it moreso than in Celadon Center, where massive, colorful tents have been erected. Pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue! There's no missing what they're for-- enormous banners advertising the Contest Spectacular fly from every corner. The streets surrounding the square are packed as well-- food carts and merch stands line the sidewalks, eager to snag a bit of the glory. Teeny tiny portions of hoity-toity restaurant food usually too expensive to buy are being hawked to passersby right alongside Pokeblocks and Poffins of varying quality, in case your Pokemon need a treat (or a little extra oomph before the show starts!). In addition to the stands selling gobs of Hoenn contest celebrity memorabilia (contest nerds might recognize figures such as Contest Idol Lisia and her Altaria, Ali, featured quite prominently!), Celadon City's many fashion boutiques and clothing lines have gotten first dibs on available space, so any contestants still looking for an outfit for themselves or their Pokemon is in luck, because there’s absolutely everything you could imagine for sale if you find the right stall. Opportunistic photographers (some official, some... not) have also swooped in to set up booths with rentable costumes and fun backgrounds, for anyone who isn't performing but wants some cute souvenir pictures of their Pokemon being a contest star anyway.
But of course, for eager audiences and contestants alike, the real attraction lays within the tents themselves. Audience members will have to wait in line for the shows to officially begin at noon on Friday, but for those who entered the contest themselves, well, that's another story entirely!
Stages of all kinds have been arranged to suit most every type of act that’s been submitted, from the more traditional wooden stages to huge tanks to little fields (the oodles of hardworking staff making all of this possible are making good use of moves like Grassy Terrain!), and the Contest Hosts’ voices can be heard presenting acts and cracking jokes about said acts almost all day long.
After registering but before checking into their lodgings (prepaid rooms at the ritzy Celadon Hotel! Lucky you!), contestants and their Pokemon will be shown behind the scenes and made familiar with all the utilities at their disposal-- small refreshments, makeup stalls, a selection of props to make use of (although, as the harried-looking staff will tell them, bringing your own unique items is really the best way to stand out!), lights, camera, and of course action! Unsurprisingly, the entire back workings of the Contest is a flurry of activity-- it's a lot of people, Pokemon, and equipment to manage; and in true, bombastic Hoenn style, there are bright lights and flashy colors everywhere you look! But contestants will still find that no matter how busy or frantic they are, the staff will still find time to help them out with special requests or technical requirements for the act. It is, after all, their job!
But ultimately, the act is on you and your Pokemon. Don't get stage fright now-- the curtain's going up any minute!
~*~
[IMPORTANT: Please submit your contest entries here! For all other activities, feel free to make your own top-levels!]
Where: Celadon City
When: January 18-20
Log:
It’s finally here… the Contest Spectacular! The whole city of Celadon has been bustling ever since the preparations for the contest began, but now with the addition of all the contestants, their friends, and the general crowds, the town is downright packed. Hotel rooms booked en masse (good luck getting into that big fancy one near the casino-- thank Arceus there's plenty of others!), the Center stuffed with younger trainers who are short on cash but couldn't pass up the opportunity to see the first ever Pokemon Contest in this region, and generally even more foot traffic than usual.
But nowhere is it moreso than in Celadon Center, where massive, colorful tents have been erected. Pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue! There's no missing what they're for-- enormous banners advertising the Contest Spectacular fly from every corner. The streets surrounding the square are packed as well-- food carts and merch stands line the sidewalks, eager to snag a bit of the glory. Teeny tiny portions of hoity-toity restaurant food usually too expensive to buy are being hawked to passersby right alongside Pokeblocks and Poffins of varying quality, in case your Pokemon need a treat (or a little extra oomph before the show starts!). In addition to the stands selling gobs of Hoenn contest celebrity memorabilia (contest nerds might recognize figures such as Contest Idol Lisia and her Altaria, Ali, featured quite prominently!), Celadon City's many fashion boutiques and clothing lines have gotten first dibs on available space, so any contestants still looking for an outfit for themselves or their Pokemon is in luck, because there’s absolutely everything you could imagine for sale if you find the right stall. Opportunistic photographers (some official, some... not) have also swooped in to set up booths with rentable costumes and fun backgrounds, for anyone who isn't performing but wants some cute souvenir pictures of their Pokemon being a contest star anyway.
But of course, for eager audiences and contestants alike, the real attraction lays within the tents themselves. Audience members will have to wait in line for the shows to officially begin at noon on Friday, but for those who entered the contest themselves, well, that's another story entirely!
Stages of all kinds have been arranged to suit most every type of act that’s been submitted, from the more traditional wooden stages to huge tanks to little fields (the oodles of hardworking staff making all of this possible are making good use of moves like Grassy Terrain!), and the Contest Hosts’ voices can be heard presenting acts and cracking jokes about said acts almost all day long.
After registering but before checking into their lodgings (prepaid rooms at the ritzy Celadon Hotel! Lucky you!), contestants and their Pokemon will be shown behind the scenes and made familiar with all the utilities at their disposal-- small refreshments, makeup stalls, a selection of props to make use of (although, as the harried-looking staff will tell them, bringing your own unique items is really the best way to stand out!), lights, camera, and of course action! Unsurprisingly, the entire back workings of the Contest is a flurry of activity-- it's a lot of people, Pokemon, and equipment to manage; and in true, bombastic Hoenn style, there are bright lights and flashy colors everywhere you look! But contestants will still find that no matter how busy or frantic they are, the staff will still find time to help them out with special requests or technical requirements for the act. It is, after all, their job!
But ultimately, the act is on you and your Pokemon. Don't get stage fright now-- the curtain's going up any minute!
[IMPORTANT: Please submit your contest entries here! For all other activities, feel free to make your own top-levels!]
it's about to get real butch up in here
Trainer: Anna of Arendelle
Pokemon: "Sif" (Bunnelby)
Move: Superfang
Costume: Anna's gone full-on woodsy for this display; she's got her hair in braids like always, with a pair of plaid bows topping off each one. The bows match her plaid shirt, which is rolled up to her elbows, and tucked under a pair of denim overall shorts. Completing Anna's outfit are a pair of grey thigh-high socks underneath tall hiking boots.
Sif the Bunnelby is looking equally woodsy; she has a matching plaid bow tied around each ear, and a denim overall skirt around her middle to match Anna's overalls. She's bouncing from foot to foot, looking just as ready to go as Anna is.
Act: Anna and Sif come onstage in their woodsy outfits; Sif does a sweep of the audience along the edge of the stage, flexing and showing off, as Anna brings out a large log with surprisingly little difficulty for a girl her size, and sets it front and center. She grins at the audience and waves, then snaps her fingers to cue the music; a fast-paced banjo-heavy song starts to play, and Sif takes that as her cue; she starts hopping in circles, and then side to side, pumping herself up as she advances toward the log in time with the music. Anna herself does a little side-to-side step in the background, shouting words of encouragement to Sif over the music:
"Yeah! That's the spirit!" She claps her hands in time, and then lifts her hands, beckoning the audience to join in, which only gets Sif that much more pumped up. The Bunnelby has a look of intense concentration on her face now; her gaze is hyperfocused on the enemy right now: that log.
When the music reaches its climax, Anna knows it's time; she grins, and calls out:
"Ready to show that log who's boss, Sif?" The Bunnelby jumps a couple of feet into the air, letting out an excited "Bun! Bun!"
Laughing, Anna does a fist pump. "Alright! Sif, use Superfang!"
With that cue, Sif lunges forward, facefirst, and begins to tear up the log with her long, sharp incisors; wood chips fly out into the audience like confetti as she goes to town on that log. When the dust settles and the last strums of banjo echo forth out of the speak, Sif bounces back, looking triumphant, and shows off her work: where the log once stood onstage, is now a finely carved statue of a Lickitung.