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For the past year or so, I've been working on a webcomic called the Godspawn Chronicles. I uploaded the first pages onto Deviantart on September 10th, 2008. Now, after moving to ComicGenesis and a few college-related hiatuses (I've since graduated), Godspawn's one year anniversary has arrived and passed. In celebration of successfully making it through the first of what will hopefully be many years, I've decided to hold an art contest for the five main characters. For I am a hopeless art whore. ;D

-Follow Gaia's TOS.
-Submit only your own work made especially for this contest. No copying, no stealing, no submitting something you've already done for me or anyone else.
-Use the entry form and post it here in the thread.
-Treat others with tolerance and respect.
-You can submit as many entries as you want.
-Do not advertise outside of your signature or affiliating.
-Do not constantly whine about how horrible you are or brag about how you're God's gift to art. It's one thing to be humble or proud of your work, it's entirely another to go to the extremes and make a nuisance out of yourself.
-Based on past experiences, I've decided that the prize for a particular category can only be handed out if that category has at least two submissions. Otherwise, there's nothing to judge! If there are any "orphan entries," so to speak, they will be integrated into a new category.
-I will never claim your art as my own, but I reserve the right to display it on my comic's website--with credit, of course--and that I may edit the images to create thumbnails, banners, custom profiles, and/or even the occasional avatar image (I rarely use art of my characters as avatars, but it does happen now and then).
-Keep in mind that I have the right to extend this contest or cancel it with compensation to the entrants for any reason.
-I have the right to disqualify you due to the violation of any of these rules and I may alter them at any time.


Q: Do I have to read/follow the comic?
A: No, it's not necessary to read the comic. Albeit, I will say this: it's a fairly quick read, being only a year old, and it may help you get a better grasp of the characters. It's also the only place where you can find other characters for the Misc Characters category as I will not be including any information on them here.

Q: Can I alter their clothing designs?
A: Yes, by all means! The references I provide are merely to give you an idea of what each character's style is so, as long as you keep that in mind, go nuts.

Q: Your art sucks, why the hell are you making a webcomic?
A: Because my art sucks. A webcomic is the only thing that can get me to practice constantly and so I've put this story in comic form so I can improve. Also because I was educated in the art of writing prose. Dialogue is often said to be one of the most difficult areas in writing, so you can imagine how writing a story purely in dialogue could help a writer with such problems. I've never actually been told that I really need to work on my dialogue, but it never hurts to work on getting better anyway. After all, no one's told me that my dialogue is fantastic either. ;]

But seriously, if you ever tell me or anyone else their art sucks I will feed you to my dog. And she's small, so feeding you to her would most likely involve grinding of some sort.

Q: What's with all the Voltaire lyrics/songs in the profiles?
A: Voltaire's music served as an integral part of my inspiration when I was initially piecing GS and its characters together. This is especially true for Vex, who was the character that launched the entire story into creation, and Vice, who seriously lacked a personality until I went to Italy for a week and listened to almost nothing but Voltaire on the bus rides around the countryside. In essence, I created these characters and this story to the sound of Voltaire's music.

Also, I'm a dork. ;D

Q: Vicious, Vice, Vainglory, Vex, Voltaire, and Veire? Seriously?
A: I like V's. mrgreen

Name: Vicious
Age: We're to assume she's somewhere in the four to five thousand range. On the younger side for a divinity, but not by much.
Race: Chaos Goddess
Height: Varies depending on who's in the room. She's always shorter than most male Gods, but she's always taller than any non-divine being. It's unclear whether or not her feet are ever actually touching the ground beneath her dress.
Personality: Temperamental, flighty, intuitive, more judicious than most people are inclined to believe, mischievous, alluring, femme fatale—quite literally a man eater. (and you all thought Farouk was exaggerating)
Bio: One of the many children of Chaos and mother of Vice, Vain, and Vex. Vicious is a Goddess with a lot of enemies and...peculiar ways of dealing with them. Or anything for that matter. She is a Goddess of death, misfortune, cruel irony, untimely death, and plague--some of these aspects she flaunts more vividly than others. For the past three centuries or so, her five city states and the lands associated with them have been plagued by vicious creatures, beset upon her people by an unknown enemy. It is also worth noting that she seems to have had a son with a mortal at some point in the past, though little has been revealed about either father or child.
Eyes: Red
Hair: Dark purple, curly/wavy, and in a constant state of...how to put this...flotation? It DOES manage to retain its overall shape, though. She'd make a poor Goddess if she couldn't manage something as simple as that.
Build: Being a Goddess, Vicious' body is hard to describe. She can manipulate her form at will, shaping herself any way she pleases. For the most part, though, she has an overall pear shape due in part to her magnificent child-bearing hips.
Abilities: As a Goddess, she has a long list of abilities but her most significant ones are her ability to open up windows to other locations by essentially slicing out a hole in the air with her claw-like fingernails, "poofing" (which Farouk can attest to is VERY annoying), manipulating her body at will (size, shape, tangibility...this is how she can manage not to be any specific height), using her hair as tendrils/extra limbs, and inflicting disease with a touch. Her " window " ability is perhaps her most important since, while she can see the window hanging in the air from her end and hear and see everything through it, it can not be detected in any fashion from the location to where it is opened. This means she can spy on people quite easily and speak to them seemingly out of nowhere when she so chooses.
Weapon: Vicious is one of the few Gods who doesn't have a signature weapon. Even back in the times when Gods were allowed to battle one another, she never found herself in need of one.
Role: Mother
Favorite Pages: [First Appearance] [In which Vicious takes an interest in Farouk and awesome sound effects are used] [In which I killed my right hand drawing that damn garden] [In which even awesomer sound effects are used and the answer is: yes, Farouk, yes]
Voltaire Theme: Ravens Land
References: [Ref Sheet]

Name: Vainglory Vicious Tertia, a.k.a. Vain
Age: 21
Race: Godspawn
Height: 5'7"
Personality: Doting, prudent, attentive, upholds a misleadingly calm demeanor most of the time, manipulative, fierce, can be a bit pushy at times, and quite the force to be reckoned with when she gets well and truly pissed off.
Bio: Vain is her mother's daughter, if perhaps slightly less...eccentric. She's the "little mother" of the family, taking up where Vicious leaves off when she heads out to take care of Godly business, and she seems to have a fixation with feeding people. She has a misleadingly calm, caring nature through which numerous violent tendencies tend to shine in a lovely little blend of mother henish hell. Throwing butcher knives at her siblings is treated with as much normalcy as pouring them a glass of milk.
Eyes: Bright blue
Hair: Dark blue, curly/wavy, and when not in use generally reaches her mid- to low-back. See Abilities for more info.
Build: In short, Vain is voluptuous. She's a bigger girl in general, some would even go so far as to say fat--not the ones that want to keep their various extremities attached, but some nonetheless. Yes, she's very busty. Yes, her hips and a** are fairly large. And finally, yes, she has a pooch hidden under that cloak-thing of hers. This is not to say that she doesn't try to keep herself in shape--for that matter, any and all use of her abilities burns calories--she just has a penchant for baking sweets. And then, as tends to follow, eating them.
Abilities: Out of her entire family, Vain seems to have drawn the short straw when it comes to abilities. Her lesser abilities consist of flight, of course, acid resilience (developed for obvious reasons), and "night" vision. This ability extends to allow her to see even in pitch black, where not even animals would be able to see the whiskers on their faces. Her more prominent abilities are the two she relies on the most and, given that they both developed around puberty, are by far the most powerful. Vain can summon up shadow portals anywhere so long as there are other, adequate shadows around for them to feed off of. These portals can either instantly transport her anywhere up to 15 miles away, or they can merely take her, quite literally, into the shadows. As much as she hates calling it such, this sort of "shadow realm" is a safe haven for her and anyone she pulls into it. It is entirely pitch black inside--no doubt the reason her "night" vision developed a few years later--and as such only Vain is capable of actually seeing this particular layer of the world. Her other ability consists of hair manipulation. Undoubtedly inherited from her mother, Vain can extend her hair to great lengths, using her locks as tendrils to attack her enemies. These tendrils are quick and are often used as shields, battering rams, and extra limbs of extreme strength. With them, Vain can smash her enemies or even impale them and then shred them an instant later. No matter how many times her locks are cut, she can always grow them back tenfold. She hardly, if ever, sees hand-to-hand combat, though she does keep a scythe tucked away in the shadows (literally) for those rare occasions.
Weapon: Scythe.
Role: Middle sister/Unofficial second-in-command. Or puppeteer, as the case may be. Let me put it this way--and if you've ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you'll appreciate this--if Vice is the head of their little group, then Vain is the neck. And the neck can turn the head any way she wants. >3
Favorite Pages: [First Appearance] [In which Vain wins >D] [In which Vain does not win =P] [In which Vain meets her foe] [In which Vain adamantly disagrees]
Voltaire Theme: Blue Eyed Matador
References: [Ref Sheet] (wherein I fail to depict her tummy properly; should've chosen a pose that didn't make her midsection twist like that >_o)