[Contest] The Toast Triad

Posted 8 months, 16 days ago (Edited 8 months, 16 days ago) by HannahBug

Mermaid_toast.pngHello, friends! I have a bread-based quest for you, if you choose to accept it. You see, for quite some time now, I've wanted a Snakekey subspecies based on the fad of mermaid toast, but I find this particularly difficult to achieve! There are so many pretty, sparkly options and yet... blank mind. So, after years of sitting on it, I'm outsourcing this quest by way of a contest!
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🍞 Rules and Guidelines 🍞

🦄 This contest is for keke subs, but if you want to be a goblin about it, you could also do PCs or betas
🦄 Drawn entries should lean towards being fullbody so that I can see everything! They do not have to be colored and they can even be sketchy - just make sure your lines are clear enough to be legible!
🦄 You may do written entries for this contest, but they should contain a nice level of detail if possible. Eg "a keke with cream cheese on their back" is a little too easy ;p
🦄 Because I love my snakes, I may pick multiple entries to be winners for one category. We'll see how it shakes out!
🦄 Entries may have anywhere between 1 and 4 age phases - do what you think suits them!
🦄 You can enter this contest times and earn entry rewards for it. After this, you may still add more entries, but you won't accumulate more prizes for them (unless you win, of course)
🦄 Entries can go below this journal or in the DTA and Contest Entries folder


🍞 Prompts 🍞
The three breads we're basing subspecies off of

Mermaid toastBread with colored cream cheese on it, often made so that the color is mixed unevenly with thin areas of increased vibrancy. Tends to be ocean-themed in color. It's usually topped with some pretty baubles such as flower petals, sugar pearls, or gold leaf
 Unicorn toastBread with topped colored cream cheese, usually in pastel colors such as pink, blue, and yellow. Commonly covered with sprinkles, but may also feature other things such as flower petals and cut fruit
Rainbow grilled cheeseGrilled cheese wherein the cheese has been dyed multiple colors, usually to make a rainbow. Sometimes topped with sprinkles or other pretty accessories, though the flavor profile of this is questionable


🍞 Entry Rewards 🍞
You can collect a max of of these for simply entering the contest

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🍃 1: > Frosting: Frosting (or goo) forms on the skin and drips off. Commonly seen on the paws, but can pop up in other areas as well. Can form markings, such as stripes or hearts if the corresponding upgrade is applied. Frosting can't cover more than half a keke. Can be any color and can optionally have sprinkles mixed into it
🍃 2: > Crumble coating: Bits of sweet things stuck to a keke such as the topping on a crumble or crushed up cookie crumbs. Must be some type of dessert food. Can be any color and go anywhere
🍃 3: > À la mode: Ice cream clings to a keke. Can be any color/flavor. May be melting or maintain a frozen shape. You may want to beware of hatchlings...

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🍃 1: Bread grooves: Scoring like cut in bread that can go anywhere on a keke in any amount. Can be  decoratively shaped, but keep in mind the medium here is bread! It will come out a little wonky as opposed to perfect. Insides of the grooves can be any color and may have a slightly spongy, bread-like texture
🍃 2: Pie crust: Add some pie crust to a keke ranging from a few patches to complete coverage. Can be cut into decorative shapes if desired and may be any color
🍃 3: Braided: Gives parts of a keke a braided appearance. Does not change color of braided parts

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🍃 > Gold leaf: Apply super delicate gold leaf anywhere on a keke in any amount. Note that this will look wrinkly and flakey if not smoothly brushed onto a surface. Must be a yellow, gold, rose gold, or silver color unless upgraded otherwise
🍃 2 > Sample platter: Add bits of food no larger than a (regular) keke's paw anywhere on a keke in any amount. Food may be cut into pieces to meet the size requirement,  but cannot be shrunk to do so. Food may be any color

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🌟 Winner Rewards 🌟
Those whose entries are chosen as winners can pick one item from this pool

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🧜‍♀️ 1: Five of any upgrade you like, including categories such as ascended and clutch
🧜‍♀️ 2: Two of any MYO item you like, including those for weird stuff such as omegas, pets, etc
🧜‍♀️ 3: 100 paper stars to be divided up between your characters as you please


This contest ends October 7th, 12:00 PM (PST) ⭕
Due to being a contest, note that there will not be exception days!

SorrelDemon

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Mermaid Toast snake,, (click image for bigger res)
Hatchling: Should have a "type" field, which can be Toasty, Cakebread, or Bagel

  • Squared, vaguely bear-like ears (toast shaped) & horizontally lined belly scales
  • Blob(s) of cream cheese on head and back; can be white/very pale with tinge, or any bright/saturated color
  • Cheek pouch, first belly scale & paw-pad are either square (Toasty & Cakebread) or round with a hole in the middle (Bagel)
  • I like to think of the Bagel type being very tough like Spiced are, Toasties being average, and Cakebreads being very spongy and soft folks
  • Base color should be: 
    • Toasty: Any brown with optional darker "scoring" (simple stripes) anywhere outside the cream cheese topping, including on cheek pouches
    • Cakebread: Any light brown or white with optional darker "crust" (line around the cream cheese, pads, cheek pouches, and/or belly scales)
    • Bagel: Any brown with optional lighter or darker "burnishing" (fancy baby tinge (tm)) on the face, ears, arms, and/or tail.
  • Young coloring:
    • Method A: Add 0-1 of any color to make decorative markings anywhere on the body and/or cream cheese topping (similar to the Colorful simple upgrade)
    • Method B: Add 0-3 colors to the cream cheese as gradients, streaks, swirls, and/or speckles.
  • Decorations! Not sure if these should work like the ice cream kekes and be things you add at creation, or be used as youth ups
    • Fruit Salad: Add sliced & shaped fruits to the keke; should be on cream cheese but could go anywhere?? Comes in Stars, Shells, Fishes, or Mermaid Scales. Fruit used can be multiple types and can be real fruits or keken fruits
    • Cookies: Add bits, pieces, and/or crumbles of cookies on the cream cheese. Can be more or less anything as long as it looks cookie-ish.
    • Foiled: Add pieces of shiny, edible metallic foil wrap anywhere on the keke. Foil can come in gold, silver, copper (w/ optional turquoise "rust"), or rosegold.
    • Whipped: Shape the cream cheese into fluffy peaks and swirls as you like! Can increase the coverage area slightly to accomodate.
    • Sprinkles: Like Spiced & Shiverlings! Add sprinkles anywhere to the keke.
  • Morph ideas: Regular defaults + access to the Cece and/or Astral ones, or their own similar variations (but with cream cheese instead of frosting/starry fluff)?
K_Kid31

Very loose concept for the grilled cheese subspecies ✨

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Colors for the main body could be pale warm tones, to earthy browns, to charred black 

And the "cheese" part could have similar rules to aida scales

The baby fin could be the same color as the scales, and an option for young markings could be charring/cloud-looking marks

In youth stage, maybe they could also have an upgrade for sprinkles, like shiverlings/spiced

Or one where they get different types of cheese and get more/less drippy? (Maybe this could also work for morphs)


Edit: got another idea, what if the keke itself is just the cheese and the rest is like its shell? Would that be too weird? Like, one of the adult morphs is just rainbow-cheese-ghost keke 

SorrelDemon

Unicorn_Toast_concept.pngUnicorn Toast snake before I get tired ahah
Base design: Fluffier but smaller ears than a Regular; one smooth continuous belly scale that extends up the throat. Cheek pouch has a J-shaped curl coming from the topline. Mane is thick and fluffy with a little curl to it. Attached teeth are present but tend to be a little more rounded than pointy (think U as opposed to V). Starting at the midback, a line of fluffy magical cream cheese covers the tail; matching dollops on the wrists & a little unicorn horn on the forehead made of it too. Pick a flavor profile that can be Sweet, Savory, or Complex. Lorewise, I like to think that they would be a descendant sub of Ceces and/or Soups- they are NOT tough like toast/hard cookies. 

Decorations: Can have as little or as many of the following on both body + cream cheese (as long as the snake beneath is still legible ahah)

  • Oats/Seeds - Can be any kind, including nuts like almonds, and have any sensible color (ie, both green and pale tan would be acceptable pumpkin seeds, but not purple)
  • Sprinkles - May be simple "dashes"/dots, or have specific simple shapes like stars, spirals, etc. Any colors, including metallics. Includes "sugar pearls"/edible beads.
  • Fruits/Flowers - Any kind of flowers or fruits. Fruit may be whole, slices, or cut into shapes; flowers may be whole or just petals. Can be real-world or keken fruits/flowers.
  • Edible Glitter - Shiny glitter in any color. May be metallic if desired.
  • Honey/Syrup - Drizzles or droplets/globules of any kind of sauce like honey, chocolate, agave nectar, caramel, etc; could even do like. Sriracha for savory. Or... sweet...? It's your unicorn toast, go wild.
Aging Differences: Cream cheese horn will grow a little bit as the keke ages, and be about as tall as the rest of the head in adulthood unless upgraded otherwise. Cream cheese mane & wrist fluffs will get bigger + fluffier over time. Muzzle does not grow much as they age, leaving them with slightly shorter faces than average. 

Colors: 

  • Base: Any single "bread color". Browns, creams, whites, tans, golden browns. If it is a bread that is not technically a cake, then it is a good color for this.
  • Belly/Accent: Goes on the belly scale, paw pads, and cheek pouches. Any white or creamy color.
  • Cheese Whip: 2-4 colors based on their Flavor Type; any flavor type may also make use or white or black if desired. Sweet Unicorns have light, pastel colors. Savory Unicorns have more saturated colors, but shouldn't be too dark! Complex unicorns can use any dark cool tones, with pinks being the warmest allowed color, and any kind of blue, purple, or green being Ok! Greyscale outside of white or black should mostly be avoided.
  • Eyes: Any two colors from your cheese whip selection; one for sclera, one for a simple pupil.
  • Mouth/Blood: Any one color from your cheese whip selection.
Upgrade Ideas: Youth upgrades to extend the cream cheese whip into a full mane/make it bigger overall, and one to make the whipped cream cheese horn bigger/different shapes? And one to make the cream cheese "shrink"/be lessened. Could probably borrow some Cece or even Goober ups for this phase too.
DovahCourts

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VyrusVoyd

This is a rather loose concept of a grilled cheese keke. I like the idea of the middle of the body being the cheese.


I imagine the "cheese" can be any color, but the rest of the keke -which looks like bread- could be any "bread" color. Like brown, white, tigerbread, etc. Or just, black, for burned bread.

The cheeck pouches are bread buns! These can have a "toasted" speckling. Like how you see browning on toasted bread.


They could easely borrow youthgrades from the spiceds and cece

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waspbee

mermaid toast guys... fijis :D

inspired by the fiji mermaid (& sirens, i was gonna call them sirens or smth like that but i forgot there was already a siren mix lol)

troublemakers & great singers, also they can hold their breath underwater for hours. theyre weird little critters

most stuff is written down in the image. hopefully

(my handwriting is. awful, so if i need to make a transcript for this just let me know jhdhgdhfj)

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Chillystar

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(Link- just in case it breaks again: https://sta.sh/02nvnykgj9b )

HannahBug

Chillystar Your image says "forbidden" when I try to click on it : o