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Valentine’s Day Contest Flashback Post - Day #26

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FRIENDLY REMINDER: 13 DAYS REMAIN UNTIL THE DEADLINE FOR THIS YEAR’S CONTEST, AS OF THIS POST!

And of course, another reminder that you can choose to draw a theme from any of these prior contests if you are submitting a wildcard entry this year.

We’re past the halfway point in looking back at previous contests, and are now up to the 2013 entries. That year’s contest had a talent category that focused on creating a Harlequin-styled romance novel cover, with a requirement of including Jewel Man as the leading man on it. The humor category borrowed from a kinky romance novel title, but the content was much tamer. Entries for the “50 Shades of Ashe and Grey” category just had to draw either Ashe or Grey in a situation that made them blush and turn all sorts of shades of red. No NSFW bondage included.

And here are the remaining “50 Shades of Ashe and Grey” humor entries. Beginning with @borockman ‘producing’ his recurring Sigma dream-themed recurring entry, this time cleverly educating you all on how tomatoes actually ripen. Did you know the oils from your skin quickly deteriorate the quality of an eggplant if you touch it? So no touchy the Siggplant, ladies! Following that, Nat Grim’s Ashe has her own classic Marilyn Monroe incident, as a certain windy Model user interrupts her and Vent’s intimate moment. And then finally, once again, I have to break up a Fenril-Huayra entry into multiple pieces just to fit and be legible on tumblr. Images 3-7 consist of his massive comic telling the romantic secret tale of Grey’s ZX Advent special ending. Since it is so really, really, really hard to achieve in the game, it’s a good thing we are able to archive the ending in this way.

Artist Credit:

1.) Borockman - Ashe x Sigma (Image 1)

2.) Nat Grim - Ashe x Vent (Image 2)

3.) Fenril-Huayra - Grey x Aile (Images 3-7)

Most normal sworn enemies on the planet

Rambling under the cut! Important tl;dr though these guys are adults here, I'm not being creepy I promise

This ship was my darling since I was 13-14 years old! Safe to say, I always thought these characters were much older than me. Kids saving the world was so dumb to me even when I was a kid - can you tell I never played as Grey? (Still love that kiddo though lol). I've always assumed Ashe was at least in her early twenties and Prometheus had some sort of 20-for-200 years Edward Cullen crap going on - hence why jamming them into the Twilight universe for Fluorescence felt like a natural fit to me. I think it's a pretty normal approach many of us take, but I felt the need to clarify in case anyone thinks I've got something creepy going on.

Anyway, I love Prometheus being crazy and intimidating as much as anyone, but it amuses me greatly to think he could also be a little pathetic and embarrassing, as a treat. Ashe's got enough ego to jump at the chance to be someone's knight in shining armor, and maybe Prometheus is secretly juuuuust babygirl enough to let her do it...listen if I can't be silly with them what is even the point okay

If you ever wondered what the vibe of the Devil and Maiden story is like, behold a legit canon scene:

Feat the maiden (Marguerite) who actually hasn't had any art posted yet!

This is the vibe of their friendship before it becomes a relationship, just being absolute goofs without meaning to be. She knows Markus is hiding something and is trying to weasel it out of him - he knows they like each other and delights in making her blush, especially when she tries to keep to the rules of propriety.

To also make it perfectly clear - she didn't actually break into his house. She came to visit while he was on an errand, he left the door unlocked, and she thought it would be really, really funny to ambush him on the couch. Marguerite should've expected his response to be flirting, though!

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

So I put together a playlist for For The Glory, For The Fame on YouTube since Spotify is missing the ZX/A Tunes versions of the songs:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzsurFE3s_RVPEMETrd0bmUx_iopeHl4&si=2lcyRiU6TNqn5cJU

So if you ever wanted the "soundtrack" to the fic, in essence, here it is!

It's in a pretty specific order; I would say the first few songs are the end of ZX and some interim pieces, some songs chosen specifically for characters, and the rest... well. I had boss themes in mind for a reason!

Enjoy the playlist with the fic, and I hope it gives you a taste/hint of what's to come :) especially with some songs I've chosen for certain characters, if you can figure out who I've attributed what to.

(Bits of it may be changed as I go lol)