Character Creation Contest

[DarkTrinity]

As some of you may know, Lunia held a Character Creation Contest, winner gets their character implemented into the game, yadda yadda. The reason some of you may know is because I posted my character-her character sheet anyways-in the My Creations section on this forum and she's also on my Deviant Art. Well the staff decided the top 14 winners, players get to vote for the winner(although the developer is ultimately picking the winner.) Anyways, no I didn't get in top 14, and I'm over it now.
But I'm just curious as to what you all think about the top 14 they selected? I pretty much just want to hear unbiased opinions. I know my opinions, Chaos knows my opinions and I have heard his...
I know some of you are unfamiliar with Lunia, so some things to keep in mind are that there's already 16 characters in the game. (mage, healer, ice mage, knight, demon bard, spear-man, thief w/ 2 daggers, dual wielder w/ 2 katanas, "paladin" w/ 2 giant hammers, engineer w/ 1 giant hammer, dark princess, archer, puppeteer, slime, gunner & fighter). This game also takes place in and old kingdom where they travel back in time to "myth" times where the gods/goddesses live before humans(or anything relating humans)were created.

Here's the top 14:
http://forums.ijji.com/showthread.php?t=992764


Anyways, I just wanted to hear other peoples' thoughts on the top 14, and if you have played the game before, which do you think would fit in best?

[EpicPhailure]

None of them look interesting at all. Most have typical anime features, I.E. the hat with the face on it, eyepatch (including the medical eyepatch thing with the angel dude), angel wings, etc.

[Forum]

#3 and #11 i like the scythe.

[T-Rok]

Agreeing with EpicPhailure, none are interesting.

[DarkTrinity]

Well, I will mention people were raging about the top 14 they picked. Mainly because:
There are 4 scythe wielders ( I say 5, because #5's "hooks" look like scythes). People wanted more variety in the top 14.
And also because #5 is incomplete. He never finished his character and stated so in his post.
Sukonbu has 3 entries in the top 14. (Although he was only the artist for #2)
They disqualified anyone having a sword as a weapon.
All 14 entries are from the first 20 pages of the submission thread.
A majority did not believe #9 should have even made it into the top 14.

[Yankyal]

So basically, they let a bunch of generic anime sheit get into the top 14?

[Magebolt]

Tbh out of that whole un interesting bunch the only one i liked was the dark Elf girl with some sort of hand weapon...

[DarkTrinity]

The dark elf is my favorite out of all of them.
But I think the pirate girl will win...

[Jackabomb]

I looked over them and wondered what TV show they were trying to imitate. Then I realized the ideas were supposed to be original. I thought that was very funny. I don't like any of those 14. Far too similar.

In the cases that I could tell the difference:
Males-Super muscles, determined countenance, wicked(literally) looking weapon, etc.

Females-Overexposed...everything(are they warriors or whores? I seldom picture the female warrior image in "seethrough lace"), one of two facial expressions(Sad/depressed) or (flirting/sexy).

Those who say there isn't enough variety are completely right. I doubt they could overemphasize the "dark warrior" theme. What that game needs is a couple of blobs to brighten the place up. I've always pictured them as being relatively happy, cheery fellows, albeit, somewhat territorial. My thoughts.