Love is Blind

This contest is for Bachelorettes and Bachelors that already have made their home on The Lab, that are done with their single life and ready to find their significant other. And to make things even more exciting, they sign up for a blind date! How will that work out for them? Who knows, but let's figure it out together <3

## How to Enter

To participate, DM the contest's host two of your FCs, one of each gender, that are not in a romantic relationship via Discord.\* Each one of them must have a page on this wiki, some form of colored art of the character, as well as their sexuality either in the categories or somewhere on the page spelled out.

**You have until Feb. 2nd 2021 to enter.**

After the entering phase is over, the host will present you with a grid containing all the bachelor\*ettes in a DM on Discord. You are asked to pick one. The catch: you are also picking blindly. Should you pick one of your own, the host will simply ask you to pick another. The Order of which entrant picks first will be decided by dice rolls and thus is random. Note that, if one of your characters gets drawn, the other one will get eliminated automatically to ensure every entrant gets a blind date :)

As soon as your pick has been revealed to you, you are ready to go.

\*Discord is required for this contest, as everything is meant to be a secret until the big reveal.So there has to be a way to contact you away from prying eyes :D

## The Objective

The objective is simple. Find the character you've picked a perfect match. This could be one of your other bachelor\*ettes **NOT** entered in this contest, or you could go the extra mile and create a new character just for this purpose (we do encourage you to pick a pre-existing character though, as this contest is not meant to be yet another creation contest but a contest on developing existing FCs via relationships.)

When you've found a match, imagine their first date together. This can be done in writing (Fanfiction), in art (Schene Drawing) or both (drawing a scene, elaborating on it in a fanfiction). Writing and Art will be reviewed separately, even if submitted as one piece. This means that there will be a winner for each category!

## Requirements

### For Art

* both characters must be visible on the piece
* flat colors as a minimum
* must be a scene drawing (e.g. both characters on a picknick, in a restaurant, at the movies, ...) with a background\*
* no more than 3 panels if you choose a comic format
* please send the art to the host via Discord DMs and refrain from uploading it anywhere or sharing it with anyone until the contest is over!

\*the background can be one of the free-to-use backgrounds found on Deviantart, such as THIS ONE. But there will be extra points if you draw something yourself ;)

### For Writing

* minimum of 2,500 words, maximum of 3,500 words\*
* autodiegetic narrator (e.g. narrator and protagonist has to be your character)
* internal focalisation (e.g. your character's pov and knowledge only. Do not draw conclusions for the other character. Whether they liked the date/agree to be in a relationship with your character is still up to them, not you :P)
* please use google docs and share the link with the host via Discord DMs. Do not upload it anywhere else or share before contest is over!

\*If you write more or less, you can still submit, but will lose points on a percentage basis. (e.g. your story is 10% longer than it should be, you will lose 10% of the max. score for the word count section.)

## Submission

**Do not submit your end product in a public space. Send it to the contest host via Discord DMs. Do not make your submission publically available before the contest is concluded!** Otherwise, you will destroy the "blind" part of it ;)

The contest host may upload everything to The Lab for the big reveal and for review for everyone in due time.

### After the Contest

After the contest itself is concluded and the winner is decided, the character your FC went on a blind date with will be asked their opinion about the date and the future of the relationship. They will decide if they want to date your character or just stay friends. Everyone will be asked to update their character's page accordingly for some extra shards.