The Contest Spectacular!

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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!

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[IMPORTANT: Please submit your contest entries here! For all other activities, feel free to make your own top-levels!]

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Dancing Darling

[freckledfocus]

Contest Category: Cute
Trainer: Prompto Argentum
Pokemon: "Pryna" (Eevee)
Move: Charm

Costume: Prompto is dressed in some of the nicest clothes he's worn in a while. From head to toe, it's a whole new look for the blond. He wears a worn, brown cabby hat over his blond hair. On his neck is a white bow-tie with brown spots, artfully tied in the collar of his cornflower-blue button down. Brown suspenders hold up navy slacks, causing white socks to peek out between the cuff of the slacks and the tops of his brown leather shoes. The shades of brown and white match those of Pryna's fur almost perfectly, which is no coincidence.

Pryna herself is beautifully brushed out, fur gleaming in the light. Around her head is a woven crown of blue bellflowers, the same blue as her trainer's shirt in fact. Her little paws all have chains of alternating daisies and blue harvestbells and her fluffy white tail is dotted with a myriad of petals ranging in hue from the purest white to the deepest violet and every shade in between. Where her bandanna usually is now rests a carefully crafted necklace of baby blue eyes flowers, the closest thing Prompto could find to sylleblossoms. Her eyes shine and shimmer with excitement and she gives a trill of happiness as they prepare to start.

Act: Their set is fairly simple, a wooden catwalk painstakingly painted a soft off-white and a boom-box made to look like an old record player. Before their act starts, and in full view of the gathered crowd, Pryna weaves between Prompto's legs and chirps until he gently lifts her. He tries to hold her without damaging her adornments, and without dropping his camera, and he smiles brighter than the sun when she daintily tugs a flower out from one of her paw chains to drop into his hand.

Laughing, he gives her a quick kiss to her forehead before placing her on the far end of the catwalk. He casually strides over to the end nearest the crowd and tucks his gifted flower into one ear before crouching down to press play and quickly squats into position as photographer.

Once the music begins, Pryna uses Charm and her eyes are sweeter than ever as she dances around while walking the catwalk, striking super cute poses every now and then. She's bopping along with the beat and at certain points in the music she does a special moveset.

~"Wave those paws in the air"~ has her standing on her back legs and throwing one of her many paw flowers into the air.

~"Spin around like Fred Astaire"~ sees the adorable Eevee pirouetting while the flower falls, twilling joyously as she tries to catch it on her nose.

~"Lift those puppies off the ground"~ has Pryna leaping into the air and then doing a little flip.

~"Swing those hips, shake 'em down"~ is when she uses Tail Whip to toss flower petals out of her tail so that they rain around her while she dances and shakes her head to the beat (it's also where she tries to right the flower crown that likes to slide a little during her flip).

As the song continues she gets closer and closer to the end of the catwalk, where she strikes her final pose before leaping onto Prompto's shoulder and using Tail Whip mid-air so that flower petals fall around them both as she gives him a gentle head-boop.

The music cuts out and Prompto cradles Pryna gently, smiling and laughing and scratching her ears as he plops her back onto the catwalk so she can take her bow. While she bows, Prompto secures his camera to his person via the handy camera strap he totally didn't forget about so that the Eevee can jump into his arms again. He gives a little wave and shouts a nervous, but sincere, "Thank you!" to the crowd before the two of them walk out of the arena, leaving a trail of petals in their wake.