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overjoylogs2012-10-08 07:52 pm
enjoyers) wrote in overjoylogs2012-10-08 07:52 pm
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Event: This is the Way We Carve a Pumpkin
Characters: Everyone in the pumpkin carving contest!
Date: October 12, all day until 8PM
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Summary: It's time to carve some pumpkins! Or steal some pumpkins. Or destroy some pumpkins.
Everything is even more orange than usual in the arena today--between pumpkins, orange and black streamers, orange and black decorations, and even orange leaves scattered on the ground, it certainly looks like a Halloween-themed contest. There are a multitude of tables set out and covered with plastic tablecloths with witches and ghosts smiling out at everyone.
But wait, are there really enough tools to go around? No, it looks like there aren't: there are only three sets of carving tools, three candles, one box of matches, and five pumpkins. You'd better hope you can keep track of your pumpkin and be the one to hand it in--in one piece--at the end of the day.
Music filters through speakers in the arena. Better get started!
Carve pumpkins!
Turn in your pumpkins!
Date: October 12, all day until 8PM
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Summary: It's time to carve some pumpkins! Or steal some pumpkins. Or destroy some pumpkins.
Everything is even more orange than usual in the arena today--between pumpkins, orange and black streamers, orange and black decorations, and even orange leaves scattered on the ground, it certainly looks like a Halloween-themed contest. There are a multitude of tables set out and covered with plastic tablecloths with witches and ghosts smiling out at everyone.
But wait, are there really enough tools to go around? No, it looks like there aren't: there are only three sets of carving tools, three candles, one box of matches, and five pumpkins. You'd better hope you can keep track of your pumpkin and be the one to hand it in--in one piece--at the end of the day.
Music filters through speakers in the arena. Better get started!
Carve pumpkins!
Turn in your pumpkins!
Turn in Pumpkins
Re: Turn in Pumpkins
Pumpkin: A very intricately carved screaming face, with the eyes hollowed out to let the light of the candle out! Apparently Bel has some artistic talent, since it's quite detailed and realistic. It's carved out of the pumpkin rather than cutting all the way through- something like this.
....It looks oddly like Rin. Perhaps it's the knife stuck in the upper part of the "head" with pumpkin guts, that more than a little resemble blood, spilling out of it. In fact, the part seems to be held together by the knife, as if someone took a fist or a bat to that part and Bel had to make some last minute adjustments to keep the thing from falling apart.
It also has a crown! A broken one made of spare pieces. One that is not included on top of said pumpkin because peasants, even pumpkins, do not get them. It's to the side.
Re: Turn in Pumpkins
Pumpkin: Well, it took her a while to get here and even longer to figure out what she was supposed to do, think of a scary enough image, and do it, but... she has finished carving a pumpkin, and here it is.
Aliens are too scary to think about, let alone craft a design of; Izaya getting brutally run over by her motorbike and coughing up his guts is too complex. So the design on surface of this pumpkin, one made on her own and with lots of concentration, is something that appears like a woman's head.
The carpentry and skill put into its depiction is a mix of both amateur and strangely precise, although the image itself looks adequately eye-catching and might almost seem to have a certain power the longer you watch it. The woman's lips curl into an absolutely sinister grin; her eyebrows arch upward mischevously, over half-lidded eyes and haunting pupils. It's hard to tell exactly what she's "thinking", but it must be something devious-- or maybe it's just delight at the fact the flesh on one side of her face is apparently decaying away, carved lines and holes imitating mottled, rotting skin. The lines of hair that dip over the rest of her features house spiders, insects, a bone or two, knives... several gruesome sights sticking out as part of it, and carved here and there all the way to the back. A burning candle sits in the center (it might or might not be smaller than usual, if she's shared half of it with someone else!), lighting the entire picture up.
Re: Turn in Pumpkins
Pumpkin: Rin's got little to no artistic talent, so his is a pretty clumsily carved pumpkin. Nevertheless, the cuts are all very carefully made, forming not a face, but an image of the night sky, lit up by a candle. Somewhat like this, just... clumsy and with more stars.
The moon looks like more of an afterthought, like he realized there was some extra space left at the last moment, with extra attention paid to carving the stars around it. One star might stand out as somewhat resembling a crown... and looking as if he'd attempted to cross it out.
The pumpkin itself isn't exactly in the best shape, but hey, it's not falling apart!
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Pumpkin: It's a somewhat decent effort for someone who's never carved a pumpkin before. Then you realise it wasn't done by a ten year old and the attempt is just laughable.
There's nothing particularly special about the design. It's you're standard jack-o'-lantern face, triangle shaped eyes and nose with that same toothy grin. The cuts could use some work though, some of them overstep the gaps they produced and there's the occasional slit where he suddenly decided that that was the wrong place for the features. The insides has been mostly hollowed out but it wasn't a very clean job. There are a few scraps of seeds and pumpkin flesh around the lid, which doesn't quite sit right. While space was made for a candle, it isn't included.