Thanks to everyone who entered, it was very hard for us to choose just 5 of the entries.

Here are the winners for the comp:

Look out for your keys later today!

@thewarhammer
@Jeffryxd
@Naegi_
@WhiteMaze
@Rhymei



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Today we have a bit of a treat for ye 'tempers!

En Masse Entertainment has very generously sent over 5 codes to use with their latest MMO: Closers

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In Closers, players become an elite agent of UNION, an organization dedicated to dealing with the threat of interdimensional aliens spilling through a series of mysterious portals that have appeared throughout New Seoul. At launch, players can choose one of five playable members of the Black Lambs team: Seha, a reluctant combat genius; Sylvi, the dedicated leader; Yuri, the skilled martial artist who only recently discovered her powers; Misteltein, a prodigious young boy with amazing support skills; or J, the grizzled veteran with a troubled past. Each character’s unique personality and combat style allows players to chart their own path through a complex, branching narrative, upgrading their skills and weapons along the way, and unlocking amazing new powers in a quest to vanquish a gargantuan interdimensional threat.

These codes will redeem the Ace Closer Bundle Founder’s Pack that has a full value of $570 and is currently on sale for $149.99. It will grant players the pack exclusive Dark Command costume as well as three other costumes, six full months of Elite Status, premium currency, instant closed beta access, and much more.

Closers: Ace Closer Bundle includes:

Dark Command Costume
Ivory Icon Costume
Tan & Ash; Sweater Club Costume
Phase Wings
Founder's Title
10x Mystery Boxes
10,000 En Masse Points
Elite Status for 180 days
Monster Cat Pet



So what do you have to do to be in with a chance of winning one of these packs? Simple, draw us an original anime-inspired character, digitally or photographed/scanned - with a description of their name, backstory and unique abilities or powers. Our staff will choose their top 5 and each one will win a code.


You have until December 28th to submit your entry in this thread.



CLOSERS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
RECOMMENDED:

OS: Windows 7 or later
Processor: Intel Core i3
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 8000
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 5 GB available space

Closers Impressions
Closers Official Site
Closers on Steam

 

[Jeffryxd]

Name: Shiro Sakura

Power: Water, Wind, and Ice Magic

BackStory: She's harsh, stubborn and impolite, but there's more than this to her as she has a gruesome past.She was born and raised in a poor family in a developed city. She lived peacefully until she was about 8 years old, it was at that point that everything changed. She destroyed her parent's lives during her magic awakening ritual and she was now alone, miserable and abandoned. She managed to survive the hard world by relying on her best friend Lily. With her strength and dedication, she managed to keep ahead of the curve and start a new life. This has turned her into the woman she is today.Having finally found some stability, she now works as a royal guard for the king. By doing so, she hopes to find some form of redemption and finally find tranquility she has never had.

Edit: Added Face Shot
Edit2: Fixed some grammar

 

[Deleted User]

Welp, the deadline is tomorrow today, and I'm a chronic procrastinator, so I sketched this guy and took a picture of the drawing with my phone's shitty camera. So here's my entry:

Here's the backstory and stuff. It's pretty lengthy, and was kinda stream-of-consciousness in conception, so pardon any possible plot holes:

Spoiler: Backstory

This is Billy. Billy resides on an alternate Earth, where magic played a role in the development of human beings, albeit not until the 1940s, where the Allies discovered it and used that to end the World War II, as opposed to the atomic bomb. The effects of this decision have been long-reaching, spawning monsters and other magical creatures across the globe.

Since then, magic users have risen in number slowly but steadily. Only users with a high enough innate magical ability can wield magic, otherwise, nothing happens, even if the incantations are chanted correctly and the movements and ritual are proper.

To combat the world's ever-growing monster problem, schools have since developed to evaluate children based on their ability in battle. Those who lack an innate magical ability are trained in the ways of normal human attacks. Guns, while not as effective on magically-enhanced monsters with anti-ammo hexes as they are on other living beings, are still useful in combat. Because of this, weapons like swords, spears, bows, etc. are once again rendered useful for combat.

When one reaches 15 years of age, a test adventure of sorts is set up for parties consisting of up to four people, no more, no less. Said party, when the day comes, must, in a controlled arena known as a QuestZone, embark on a journey to defeat a predetermined strong monster (referred to as a "boss" monster). This system also allows individuals to pick their own party members before embarking on this contained quest (while this law was changed in countries like France, where party members are chosen randomly, our story is set in the US, and the proposal will probably never make it through Congress anytime within the scope of this narrative).

Now, here's where Billy comes in. In addition to having no innate magical ability, Billy has asthma, severely impairing his ability to fight. Because of this, Billy is considered handicapped, much to his and his parents' disappointment, and is rejected by the US's battle-oriented educational system. Also because of this, Billy has no friends, and is widely mocked on his street.

Billy, understandably, is initially very distraught at this. But fortunately for him, he has an interest in electronics, which have developed in parallel with magic over the years, and have recently begun to interact with each other, albeit with ever-developing and ever-changing APIs to interface with magic elements. Said developments are labeled as "techic," short for technological magic.

A month before the Day of the Disembarking (the day in which everyone gets sent on a controlled quest), Billy tries his hand at working certain techic parts together into weapons. Here, Billy begins developing his own fighting style, focused on making as little movements as possible, so as to not set off his asthma. The fighting style involves lots of projectiles and ranged attacks, ranging from throwing electrical cords at the enemy, then firing off a charge, to firing the electricity itself at the enemy.

On the Day of the Disembarking, Billy tries to convince the hosts to participate, citing his increased combat capabilities, but they turn him down regardless. Dejected, Billy makes his way home, only to find it in shambles, with his parents nowhere to be found. His only clue is a note written hastily that was left on the ground, reading "DAY OF DISEMBARKING RIGGED, LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAS TIES TO." Billy, disturbed by this abruptly cut off note, runs back to the Disembarking arena, only to find the hosts dead and the opening to the QuestZone broken apart. Desperate to get to the bottom of this plot, Billy runs off into the QuestZone, hoping to warn all of the parties about the unknown impending danger.

Spoiler: Appearance Specifics

The monocle he wears is essentially an eye piece hooked up to a System-on-Chip (SoC) interfacing with a ScanStone. Using v1.5 of the ScanStone API, Billy can quickly analyze his opponents and their health, then plan his method of attack around that.

The glove he wears (modeled after Wolverine, one of Billy's favorite comic book characters) allows Billy to pierce through enemies, and send varying electric charges at the enemy to stun and injure them.

All of Billy's Techic parts are powered by a 50000 mAh battery. Billy must be careful to watch his battery level, or else he'll be rendered unable to use his devices and, thus, dead meat. The battery, as well as other Techic devices, are mounted on Billy's belt.

He wears the coat like that because he thinks it looks cool. Really.

Spoiler: Personality

In person, Billy is generally a polite and shy person, preferring to keep to himself most of the time. He tends to avoid larger social gatherings, both out of a mild fear of being judged, as well as a general disinterest in just sitting around and talking.

As mentioned before, Billy takes an interest in electronics, and, in his spare time, plays video games and reads comic books and manga. He frequents many different online forums, ranging from gaming to superhero forums, and his very vocal about his opinions there, much to the dismay of a few users.

Billy, thanks in part to his asthma and lack of combat capabilities, has something of an inferiority complex, and has a very strong drive to prove himself in combat, both to his parents and to other kids his age, who often dismiss him. This may lead him to make some reckless decisions.

 

[T-hug]

Today is the last chance to enter!

 

[WhiteMaze]

Today is the last chance to enter!

Man this is worse than that extreme anxiety feeling that you get when Sonic is about to drown the music starts and the bubble doesn't freaking appear.

I shall hurry.

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Name: Yaoru

Backstory: Yaoru was born during a violent hurricane, in the year 1781. Both her parents and her survived, however her father would later perish due to a work accident in the Great Rebuilding of the ravaged country. Since she was a young child, she seemed to suffer from mild autism as she was very closed to herself, and seemed to engage in conversations not only with animals, but with water bodies as well. As she grew into her adulthood, much of her behavior developed. And so did her beauty. By the age 19, she was in full control of her abilities. Now one of the very few dozens in the entire continent with special powers, she used them to help in whatever way she could.

Ability: She has two major abilities. The first one being Water conjuring. Yaoru was born with the ability to not only create beings made from pure water, but also heal most injuries by using water channeling to the victim. Her abilities reflect her pure-warmheartedness and kindness.

 

[Darkan]

Name: Tamashi ha estado practicando artes marciales desde que era un niño. Siempre ha sido considerado un prodigio ya que siempre ha excedido en todo lo que ha intentado. Gracias a sus habilidades naturales superiores, siempre lo ha tenido fácil en materia de combate incluso sin la necesidad de usar su poder especial, y debido a que sus padres lo descuidaban, podía centrarse únicamente en su entrenamiento.
He set his goal in becoming the very best in the world, this has led him to develop a stern and focused personality, plus a lack of empathy to others and really bad temper. However, he can't avoid being formal and proper due to his education.

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Power/Ability

His power is the telekinesis. He can manipulate objects and use this power to control three puppets that serve as combat support.
When taking his power to the limit he can put negative effects on his enemies (paralysis, dizziness, etc.)
He can also boost his companions’ status.

hi :3 it's the first time I participate in hum...... something XD
I have 15 tears and Greetings from Merida Yucatan México!!

 

[T-hug]

-entries now closed-

 

[WhiteMaze]

-entries now closed-

Good luck everyone!

 

[Awesomeaustin316]

Good luck to all! Now it's time to combine everyone's characters into one really funny romcom manga.

 

[Naegi_]

Good luck everyone! When can we expect the winners to be announced?

 

[Deleted User]

Good luck to all! Now it's time to combine everyone's characters into one really funny romcom manga.

I was thinking more a fighting game, but that works too.

 

[acidmango]

Good luck to all! Now it's time to combine everyone's characters into one really funny romcom manga.

Yes please.
Or a clever tongue-in-cheek dating sim.

 

[Minox]

that looks familiar

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed when going over the entries.

 

[Naegi_]

A little off topic but if you have any Questions regarding the Game or need Help on EU servers, you can hit me up with a pm on the forums or ingame under the name Naegi. I've been playing for a while now and should be able to answer most Questions.

 

[Awesomeaustin316]

I was thinking more a fighting game, but that works too.

Yes please.
Or a clever tongue-in-cheek dating sim.

I'm okay with any of these ideas, I'd be down to make a visual novel / Fighting / Dating sim combo lol

 

[Jayro]

Congratulations winners!

 

[Axido]

Congratulations to the two that haven't been entering using accounts created on Dec 26. And congratulations to Naegi_ as well who DID create a new account, but seems pretty legit. The other two yet have to get more than one post on their accounts.

Just something I found very suspicious when I saw some masterpieces popping up within a pretty short timespan...

 

[T-hug]

Just incase anyone wondererd, here is how the votes turned out:

6 Thewarhammer
6 Jeffryxd
5 Whitemaze
4 Naegi_
4 Rhymei
4 Aracea
3 vinstage
2 B_e_p_s_i_m_a_n
2 Awesomeaustin316
2 Armalord
2 x65943

As you can see, it was very close and the 3 members with 4 votes each where thrown into the randomizer to pick 2 of them. Aracea just missed out this time.

I'm not sure if correct, but I think these codes may also give 5x more keys for you to give out to friends. If this is the case, maybe the winners can give some to the other members who entered?
Just a thought.

 

[thewarhammer]

It's been years since I won at something! This is a really nice new-year present indeed!

Congrats to everyone who entered in the contest, it was really fun! Can't wait for the next one!

 

[Rhymei]

Ohh! Thank you for choosing my entry, I'm glad you liked it! +v+
And congratulations to the other winners. <3

 

[Jeffryxd]

Congrats everyone. o3o