X'MAS CUSTOMFEST '18: Public Voting Round

[Your Little Phony]

. X'MAS/NY CUSTOMFEST 2018 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 for each category, normative and non-normative !

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 PHONY QUEST FOR EACH CATEGORY!
That makes one (1) vote for each category, so two (2) altogether.

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 9 February 2018 (Saturday), 11.59pm PST, so get in your votes soon!

 

[Your Little Phony]

. NORMATIVE QUESTS.

Name: Bombette
Gender: Female
Type: Unicorn
Hair Style: Average length styled in a messy updo bun.
Cutie Mark 8D: Fireworks
Brief Character Description: A phony whose special talent was in pyrotechnics. Bombette creates dazzling light displays, doing firework shows in Phonyland for holidays, and selling small fireworks and sparklers on the side (and maybe the odd cherry bomb). Tomboy-ish for a phony with such a girly name, generally very energetic.


Name: Loot Card
Gender: Female
Type: Flutter
Hair Style: Messy and choppy layers in black with gold streaks
Cutie Mark: An open treasure chest but with TCG cards inside instead of gold.
Brief Character Description: Small but feisty. Competitive and nerdy. Loot is more like one of the boys than a girl. She loves any kind of card games, especially TCG's and never stops hunting for a perfect card to add into her collection. Her goal in life is to have the biggest, best and most complete TCG card collection ever in the history of Phonyland. Any duplicates she gets (which is a lot in TCG world) she puts up for sell in her nerd shop full of gaming memorabilia, figures and of course trading cards.


Name: Bubble Suds
Sex: Male
Type: Unicorn
Build: A broad guy with some pudge, purple fetlocked hooves
Cutie Mark 8D: A claw-foot bathtub with colorful bubbles overflowing
Brief Character Description: Bubble Suds is a chill dude. He believes we should just like, hang out and enjoy this party called life. That’s why you’ll find him swimming in fountains, jamming in a pop-up band consisting mostly of puppets, and attempting to make a baked Alaska(so far he’s only succeeded in soup Alaska). If you’re looking for the ultimate way to spend your day then Bubble Suds will certainly provide. You’ll find him at the farmer’s market selling his most prized wares: bath bombs. Just sit back and drift away in water that smells like rose and jasmine. Any type you dream up he can make cause law enforcement has yet to catch him when he’s out harvesting. So don’t fear the phony trundling through your garden late at night! Appreciate the bath bomb that you can only get from a yogi called Bubble Suds.


Name: Moonbottle
Gender: Female
Type: Unicorn
Cutie Mark 8D: A bottle shaped like a crecent moon, the cork popped out and little white stars coming out of it.
Brief Character Description: A star gazer! Enjoys charting the stars and is fascinated by the moon princess. Also dabbles in maps.


Name: Somber Dahlia
Gender: Female
Type: Unicorn
Hair: Very straight and medium length, with blunt bangs.
Cutie Mark 8D: A wilting dark Dahlia and a pen
Brief Character Description: A sad young mare who writes poetry, Somber Dahlia seems like a misplaced mall goth, overly dramatic about her feelings and how much she likes hanging in cemeteries to write about how winter symbolizes death. She can actually be quite fun, when not brooding and emphasizing how tortured she is, and likes jokes quite a bit.


Name: Merrybelle
Gender: Female
Type: Unicorn
Hair Style: Gradiated, broad curls in sheets, in the same vein as Rarity's
Cutie Mark 8D: A gold bell with three musical notes above/around it.
Brief Character Description: A professional caroler. She's reserved and dainty, but has a good sense of humor too, and likes having fun as much as the next phony.


Name: Please Hold
Gender: female
Type: Unicorn
Hair Style: pink and orangy yellow 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.


Name: Royal Flush
Gender: Male
Type: Pegasus
Hair Style: a bit curly
Cutie Mark 8D: The Club, The Spade, The Heart, and The Diamond from playing cards in a square configuration.
Brief Character Description: Flush loves a good game of cards! Go Fish, Poker, Rummy; doesn't matter so long as he's got a hoof full of cards. Not that Flush always plays fair, he has been known to have an ace up his saddle just in case he needs to win. He's a sly one and you can never read his poker face.


Name: Funny Valentine
Gender: Female
Type: Earth
Hair Style: Curly hair of medium length
Cutie Mark: A white heart-shaped doily with a pink heart atop it; like homemade-looking valentine.
Personality: Funny Valentine's job is to make cards. Those Valentines you buy every year that say things like 'I love you SO STINKIN' MUCH' with a painting of a skunk? Or the heart made of puzzle pieces with one missing, that reads 'I'm not complete without you?' Or how about two cute cockroaches nuzzling that reads 'our love can survive anything, including nuclear war?' Yeah, you didn't see that last one--she threw it into the 'no' pile. But all the others, and tons more are all from the hooves of Funny Valentine. Artistic, maybe a little clumsy, Funny Valentine finds it ironic that her job revolves around expressions of love while she herself is still single as a pringle. (Who eats one Pringle? Hey wait, that's a good idea for another card!)


Name: Ceylon
Gender: Female
Type: Unicorn
Build Slim and graceful.
Hair: 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!  

[Your Little Phony]

. NON-NORMATIVE QUESTS.

EDIT(S): female fetlocks, Phonywear accessories
Name: Sheep Dreams
Gender: female
Type: Earth
Hair Style: bushy
Cutie Mark 8D: a sleeping sheep with a thought bubble containing the same
Brief Character Description: Sleep and dream analyst. Have trouble sleeping? Or haunted by strange dreams? Sheep Dreams is here to help. A mix of specialized training for the sleep side and a bit of intuition and mysticism for the dream side, Sheep manages to balance her interests into a specialty all her own.


EDIT(S): batwings, black sclera & light pupils
Name: Poison Pentacle
Gender: Male
Type: Pegasus
Build: Regular, feathered fetlocks
Hair: Long messy hair
Cutie Mark 8D: A pentacle, gray circle with purple star.
Brief Character Description: An occultist at heart, they love black magic (no matter how fake it is) and their talent is collecting occult paraphernalia and knowledge. They're obsessive and possessive with a dark sense of humor, and an air of aloofness to those who don't know them well. They feel above most others, as though they know more and that haughtiness can make them keep a distance emotionally from those they meet. Poison Pentacle runs an occult shop, selling materials to those with a similar interest.


EDIT(S): draft
Name: Courtly Love
Gender: Male
Type: Earth
Build Draft
Cutie Mark 8D: A pink heart with a simple golden crown around or above it, whichever looks nicer in practice.
Brief Character Description: A phony of tender heart and honest disposition, Courtly Love is not to be mistaken for timid or fragile; he is soft and quiet with a keen eye for observation and nuance. Court is enamored by passionate ideals, floral beauty, and admirable gestures. He is a romantic at heart and easily moved, with tears as frequent through joy as from sorrow, though he is never one to openly wax poetic about his feelings. No, Courtly Love is more about action despite his unassuming nature and it would come as no surprise that even in his attempts to bring joy and love to others he stays well out of the spotlight. Courtly Love doesn't need recognition for his good deeds, only the knowledge that they were a boon to someone -- a smile on someone's face from a surprise bouquet or anonymous note of encouragement is all he needs. Often, Court will find himself twitterpated and drawn to numerous objects of affection but he would never require those feelings be returned; Court has a large heart with a never ending supply of love that he is genuinely happy to share even if it goes unrequited. It is far more important to him that those he cares for be smiling, safe and content, than for daydreams of romance to be consummated. Should you find yourself the apple of Courtly Love's eye, you can expect no pressure to reciprocate and in fact he may never divulge the secret to you -- you will simply find yourself with many a gift and a devoted stallion who would never deny you a request.


EDIT(S): Sparkle phony type
Name: Star Chart
Gender: Female
Type: Sparkle Unicorn
Cutie Mark 8D: Ursa Minor or Corona Borealis (or a crown with Corona Borealis marked in dots)
Brief Character Description: Star Chart is the studious type, always with her head in a book. Astronomy, astrology, physics, science. She loves science. (And the occasional sci-fi) It's great when you can be your own reading light! She spends most of her time acting as a night light, paroling Phonyland with her brother Starry Knight or simply sitting up to watch the stars cross the sky. She may be quiet but she isn't meek. Any phony or spooky creature making too much noise around her will get a harsh hush.


EDIT(S): mer with shark fin & tail, Twice-as-Fancy
Name: Sharknado
Gender: Male
Type: Mer Unicorn
Build: ....Muscular?
Body: Grey with a light grey belly, and darker grey markings
Hair Style: Choppy
Cutie Mark 8D: Simplified tornado with tiny sharks


EDIT(S): batwings, Twinkle-Eye
Name: Dragon's Delight
Gender: F
Type: Batwing Pegasus
Build: Lanky, thin
Eyes: Twinkle eye
Hair Style: Mane is a bob where the bangs partially cover their eyes, with longer sidelocks. Tail is slightly reminiscent of a dragon's while 1- still being made of hair and 2- being normal length.
Cutie Mark 8D: Dragon's hoard! (Basically a pile of gold and jewels, with a sword sticking out)
Brief Character Description: Dragon's Delight cares only about one thing: winning at life. Which means having the best stuff. They try to do this via trading up and out-playing others. All with a very shamelessly silver tongue (and admittedly a willingness to steal if nothing else will work). The world is their oyster and they will do anything to get to the pearl.

When they're not trying to get More, they can be found running Knight's Quest arcade. Unsurprisingly, the prizes (behind a desk titled "The Hoard", no less) cost a ridiculous amount of tickets. But, the high-end prizes are consistently pretty impressive (and very high-shelf; no one's getting up there without wings, baby!)
One can spend twenty years working up to the thousands of necessary tickets to get anything decent, or they could maybe bribe their way to getting the good stuff...if they have a properly eye-catching offer, anyway...


EDIT(S): additional little spider limbs, Twice-as-Fancy, non-normative eyes & extra eyes, fangs
Name: Itsy Bitsy
Gender: Female
Type: Earth
Build: Slim and spindly
Eyes: Red and big with no sclera. Has two extra eyes on each side underneath the main eyes.
Hair Style: Medium and wispy, clinging like spiderweb.
Cutie Mark 8D: A Twice-as-Fancy spiderweb that stretches down her leg.
Brief Character Description: You're not scared, are you? Sure she has a few extra limbs and her smile looks a bit dangerous and when she stares at you it's with multiple eyes but she's really very sweet. Itsy Bitsy just loves spiders; she'll love you too if you'll let her coax her friend out of your house before you swat them. She enjoys hugs and weaving nice gifts for everyone and will happily recite silly nursery rhymes to your young children.

'Welcome to my parlour,' she'll say with a giggle when you arrive for afternoon tea. She promises not to bite... this time.


EDIT(S): Twice-as-Fancy
Name: Smarty Pants
Gender: Male
Type: Unicorn
Build: Slim
Hair Style: Piled into a loose bun with strands out.
Cutie Mark 8D: Black rimmed round glasses with smarties candy rolls for the temples.
Brief Character Description: Smarty Pants is a braniac. He's an app developer--that's application, not appetizers, he sniffs at the hungry denizens of Phonyland. That amazing Phonyland app on your phone that lets you order food, see what rides have what wait times, and let you register for FastPass QuickJump in line? You can thank Smarty Pants. He's forever tweaking it, trying to make user experience better, trying to prove to people he's not a candy phony, REALLY! You'll see him wandering around the park, squinting at a tablet in hand. If you happen to catch him sneaking bites of his favorite candy, please... turn a blind eye.


EDIT(S): draft, Phonywear accessories
Name: Net Profit
Gender:Male
Type:Earth
Build:Draft
Hair Style: Mane and tail is cropped short
Cutie Mark 8D: A business graph with an upward pointing arrow.
Brief Character Description: One of the most querulous, quarrelsome and grumpy phony you have met. Unless you are presenting him with a new and promising business opportunity of course. Then it’s all “Gucci” and you have yourself Net Profit’s rather unnerving and undivided attention; a once in a lifetime experience really (because (it is said), no one wants to experience it more than once). Financially driven and obsessively motivated by the power of money, Net Profit is a veteran of navigating the financial waters of Phonyland and accruing wealth through shrewd business ventures. Oh, he also has a big booming voice and a firm hoofshake as well because everyone respects a loud voice and a firm hoof, right?


EDIT(S): draft, facial hair, non-normative freckles, Phonywear accessory
Name: Labor of Love
Gender: M
Type: Earth, Feathered Fetlocks
Build: Draft: Thick, rounder/fatter/CHUBBS but sturdy looking
Body: Tri-freckle cheeks + additional freckles across nose/between eyes
Hair Style: Shaggy pizza boy look w/trucker hat; short beard around jaw
Cutie Mark 8D: crossed tools over a heart, or a tool belt around 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.