CUSTOMFEST '17: Public Voting Round

[Your Little Phony]

. CUSTOMFEST 2017 PUBLIC VOTING ROUND! .

Thank you all for your customfest entries! We've scored all quests across several categories and ended up with your top 10 quests!

To make things as fair as possible, we have divorced them of owners and pretty reference images!
(Quest owners, congrats on making the cut but don't identify your quest! wink )
We have also temporarily locked down the quest forum and removed the entry list, gasp!

Reduced to our signature Phony Activity sheets, further key details are below each image.
Now is the time for PHONY DEMOCRACY!

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE - JUST ONE! - PHONY QUEST!

Don't worry - your vote with be confidential, so just vote for the quest you like best!

ENTER YOUR VOTE IN THIS HANDY FORM HERE!

Voting ends 17 October 2017 (Tuesday), 11.59pm PST, so get in your votes soon!

 

[Your Little Phony]

NORMATIVE
Name: Bumps-a-Lot
Sex: Male
Type: Unicorn
Hair Style: Straight with a well rounded fringe.
Cutie Mark 8D: His cutie mark is a three point, gold edged shield with an angled, cartoony bandaid simply slapped onto it.
Brief Character Description: Bumpy is an honorable and helpful young colt that would love to one day be a brave Knight, he has four problems though. All of them being his hooves. His center of gravity seems to not know its left from its right and this often ends with poor Bumps-a-Lot ending up tripping over himself a lot. This however doesn't dampen his spirits and whatever trouble he causes, he's always eager to make it right. Even if it was accidental!


NON-NORMATIVE: Twinkle Eye, Twice-as-Fancy, female fetlocks
Name: Xylobone
Sex: Female
Type: Earth
Body & Build Fetlocks with bone white hooves, shorter than average.
Eyes: Red twinkle eyes with black sclera.
Hair Style: A short and fun style or a smooth mane.
Cutie Mark 8D: Twice-as-fancy - ribs and a skull, approximately where those actually go. The ribs are being hit by a mallet.
Brief Character Description: She is basically a children's Halloween party personified; makes really lame monster jokes, loves the not-so-spooky stuff like plastic fangs and cotton spiderwebs, always has tons of candy hidden pretty much everywhere. She can play any instrument you swing a stick or a mallet at. She's the sole proprietor of a slightly spooky instrument shop.


NON-NORMATIVE: Twinkle Eye
Name: Snapdragon
Sex: Female
Type: peg
Body & Build: Slim and tall ish, like the plant
Eyes: Golden twinkle-eye like treasure.
Hair Style: Pixie / stylish short style.
Cutie Mark 8D: camera and snapdragon flowers, dragon with camera, or Polaroids with flowers on them.
Brief Character Description: Photographer. Snap is tomboyish, brazen, and hates anything she deems to be overly extravagant (like princess dresses); she much prefers practical items and clothing(if any), simple and natural patterns. She likes to be out, active and getting her hooves into everything, down to the dirty and nitty gritty. Her favorite characters aren't damsels in distress, but always independent gung-ho characters like Lois Lane. Sometimes they need a little saving, but for the most part they can manage on their own and that's the kind of lady Snap aspires to be. A curious type, Snap can’t help but snoop about and learning people’s secrets and what their hidden treasures are. Her major hobby is taking photographs of nature and phonies alike, in particular nabbing candid photos that reveal a phony/nature’s hidden beauty or traits, capturing genuine and interesting moments.


NON-NORMATIVE: draft
Name: Hot Cakes
Sex: Male
Type: Unicorn
Body & Build: draft
Cutie Mark 8D: baking stuff, like a measuring cup and whisk or something like that
Brief Character Description: He's like a super hot baker dude.


NORMATIVE
Name: Prickly Pear
Sex: Female
Type: Earth
Hair Style: Long and curly
Cutie Mark 8D: A green barrel cactus with a prickly pear fruit on top. Two small cactus flowers to the side.
Brief Character Description: Prickly Pear is an upbeat pony, seemingly without a care in the world. She's never without laughter and a keen understanding and insightfulness! She gives a lot of love to the world and especially those close to her. She never hesitates to go out her way to give someone some kind words to brighten their day. By herself she can often be seen strolling about enjoying herself just enjoying nature and what the world has to offer or napping in the sun. Her possible job would center around her cutie mark and her most favorite thing in the whole world- prickly pears! She has a unparalleled fondness for the fruit and finds much enjoyment in tending to the plants on which they grow. Taking this passion for cacti and their fruits she runs a small stand where she makes delicious and refreshing drinks and other sweets for others to enjoy!


NON-NORMATIVE: draft, facial hair, Phonywear, Twice-As-Fancy freckles
Name: Labor of Love
Sex: M
Type: Earth, Feathered Fetlocks
Body & Build: Draft: Thick, rounder/fatter/CHUBBS but sturdy looking
Hair Style: Shaggy pizza boy look w/trucker hat; short beard around jaw
Cutie Mark 8D: Crossed tools or a toolbelt over a heart
Brief Character Description: Also known as Lalo (LAY-lo) for short, this Phony loves to work and is particularly strong because of his labor-intensive lifestyle. Anything from small deliveries to constructing a new home gives him joy, because helping people makes him feel useful. And Useful is Good (tm). Laylo is exceptionally patient and can handle most of even the most high-maintenance Phony -- after all, maintenance is part of his life's calling! He loves foals and is always happy to be goofy, but like any true workhorse he can't ever sit still for too long. Unless it's for food. Dear Celestia, he'll drop anything to eat.


NORMATIVE
Name: Ceylon
Sex: Female
Type: Unicorn
Body & Build Slim and graceful.
Hair Style: Her mane is pulled up in a fancy hairstyle; her tail is worn curled and elegant.
Cutie Mark 8D: A Wedgwood teacup.
Brief Character Description: Ceylon is a high-class society lady by day... and a ruthless business woman by night. Her personality is that of your bog-standard business tycoon; she's very logical and calculating. She knows how pretty she is, and she uses this to her advantage, especially around other pretty mares who might be competition. But sometimes the prettiest people are kind of ugly on the inside... Ultimately, it's important to remember that while she's occasionally a nice phony, she's not necessarily good. Her interests are her company, herself, and then her birds, which are really more of a living accessory that live in her parlor than companions.

It's her goal in life to get her brand of tea in every sweetshop, coffee shop, bakery, grocery store, and restaurant in Phonyville. And in all the souvenir shops, too!


NON-NORMATIVE: Twice-As-Fancy
Name: Please Hold
Sex: female
Type: Unicorn
Eyes: Tired with glasses
Hair Style: Tied up in a messy, frazzled bun
Cutie Mark 8D: A ringing flip phone
Brief Character Description: She's stressed, depressed, but extremely well dressed, a neurotic personal assistant who only works for the toughest of clients. Sleep, rest, and vacations are for the weak, all her pens are chewed to oblivion, and if she loses her phone she'll finally have that nervous breakdown she's been putting off. A pony who really needs to learn how to take things slow and enjoy herself, provided she can climb out from under a mountain of work in the first place.


NON-NORMATIVE: draft, two different eye colours
Name: Lost in the Shuffle
Sex: Male
Type: Earth
Build: Draft
Eyes: one red, one black
Hair Style: Black with red streaks
Cutie Mark 8D: the four card suits in a circle with a starburst behind them
Brief Character Description: Shuffle is obsessed with playing cards. He loves to play card games and he tries to learn magic tricks with them but...he kind of sucks at it. He's clumsy and it makes him flustered, especially when it happens around other phonies. (Even MORE when it happens around cute phonies.) He tries not to let it get him down, though and continues to practice. He's pretty good at card games, it's just the magic that gives him trouble.


NON-NORMATIVE: black sclera eyes, body modification
Name: Agony Aunt
Sex: Female
Type: Pegasus
Body & Build: Dull blue grey with one sewed on orange foreleg
Eyes: Black sclera and powder blue eyes
Cutie Mark 8D: A very sharp-looking calligraphy pen with a splatter from the tip
Brief Character Description: OHMYGOD WHAT IS THAT TERRIFYING CREATU--oh, it's just Agony Aunt. While Agony Aunt may look rather frightening the first time you lay eyes on her, don't be fooled--she's actually just Phonyland Times' advice columnist, here to tell you a thing or two about judging books by their covers (also, about what to do when you discover your husband is cheating on you, or when you really don't want to invite your ex to your wedding even though he's dating your sister, or...) Her look belies a sharp wit, an eye for cleanliness and manners, and her solid advice (and sometimes rather solid written butt-whuppings) make for a devoted readership to her column.