Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20180128214516/@comment-26146765-20180130014609

Phantomlink959 wrote:

1) It's a rule intended to avoid "cheating" by using a character which has already been heavily reviewed and revised. It also makes it so you have to write from the begining specifically for the contest (in most cases at least; some of us have so many characters they've already got one laying around to fit a lot of themes or have one that'd be easy to retrofit into a theme.) That was what I was trying to argue. Since most contest veterans had talked about trying to fit characters into a challenge that were lying around, I misinterpreted that and posted one that I had. The point I was trying to make is that the reviews and revisions happened after the contest started, because the first thing that was given to me was an Allusion suggestion for the contest. She was literally composed while I was waiting for the contest to come out, I can send screenshots of the Google document I wrote her on. Plus, my original post is timestamped as 23 hours ago.