Characters ♡ The OTP & Pairing Thread ♡ | NEW! Challenge #35 Posted: Language of Flowers! (6/26, p. 94, #2328)

All righty, this is great! We’re now up to four (4) entries in our “How They Met” challenge! This is just a reminder that we’ve reached roughly the halfway point in our challenge: there is now one month remaining in which to submit stories, with everything due in by March 24.

 

And we are now at one (1) week! One week to submit stories for OTP 33 before voting begins! You’ve got this, people!

 

And now we’re at three (3) days! Almost there, people! Anything else coming in?

 

My humble entry:

"Hurry Up Mode"

Featuring the mighty ship "Antrellen": OCs Antares Ragnarsdottar and Karellen Magnuson.

 

And Bonnie and Bonnie is finished. Was much more than I first expected, but Ulrika and Elena are just very dear to my heart.

 

In by the skin of my teeth - Blossoms with Jazz My'ran my Jedi healer and introducing Kelmar Xeo, a Jedi Initiate Master.

 

And indeed, today is the last day to submit stories for OTP Challenge 33: How They Met! We’ve got six—count ’em, six amazing entries so far; any more to come? However many we end up with, voting begins tomorrow—so be ready!

 

Kit made it by the skin of her teeth, Mira_Jade by the skin of the skin of her teeth, and now it's my turn by the skin of the skin of the skin of my teeth

My entry is up: Il pleut toujours en Angleterre. The pairing is OCs Mina Lamb and Alec Burton, and the fandom is The Longest Day with a (fair) bit of Mira's Victoria AU thrown in.

 

Wonderful! @Mira_Jade and @Chyntuck I’ve got your entries indexed, and wow, we’re up to eight now! Incredible! Just ten or so more hours left for any further entries to come in; let’s see what we get!

 

All righty doo, everyone! This officially wraps up OTP Challenge #33: How They Met, and it is time for the voting! This time around we have an incredible total of eight (8) stories in the running, four in Star Wars and four in other fandoms. Here they are:

• The Coming of Spring by WarmNyota_SweetAyesha (NSW: Tolkien, with Éowyn and Faramir)
• “Bonnie and Bonnie”: The Untold Backstory of the Eriaduan Power Couple by Mira Grau (with OCs Ulrika Grau and Elena Kyr)
• Rebel Girl by earlybird-obi-wan (with OCs Jarin Keana and Elsi Bel Innis)
• Love Story by devilinthedetails (NSW: Narnia, with Cor and Aravis)
• “Hurry Up Mode” by Pandora (with OCs Antares Ragnarsdottar and Karellen Magnuson)
• Blossoms by Kit’ (with OCs Jazz My'ran and Kelmar Xeo)
• As the Periwinkles Bloom by Mira_Jade (NSW: Victoria, with OCs Prince Victor and Georgina Wellesley)
• Il pleut toujours en Angleterre by Chyntuck (NSW: The Longest Day x Victoria, with OCs Mina Lamb and Alec Burton)

Once again, there are two weeks to get votes in, with the last day being Monday, April 8, at 11:59 pm (23:59) PST. You all know the rules for honest voting, of course, and please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Thanks to all our awesome writers who took part, and to all our awesome readers who supported them in making this challenge such a success!

 

I see there’s just under a week for voting now! Votes are due next Monday, the 8th. Any more to come?

 

Hope so, I'm definitely planning to catch up on this one and vote.

 

I'm still catching up on reviews, but I'm done reading and my vote is sent

 

Three more days left for voting, everyone! Get ’em in!

 

Finally read all eight stories and voted -- they were all splendid, by the way! I'm hoping I get to commenting sooner than later but if not rest assured that I enjoyed every one of them.

 

And today we’ve reached our last voting day for OTP challenge 33! Results will go up tomorrow. Any more to come?

 

Oh my gosh, how silly of me not to post our results yet, when it’s been more than half a week since the day I said I would! Very sorry about that, everyone! It was a very close vote this time, but a winner did emerge, and that winner was…

Il pleut toujours en Angleterre by @Chyntuck ​

Congratulations to Chyn on her win (and once again for devising this challenge), and gratitude to all our fantastic challenge participants for amazing work—this challenge really generated some great stories, and we had a truly fantastic turnout!

 

Yay! Go Chyn! A much deserved win - although I found it an exceedingly hard choice to make out of a group of altogether amazing fics

 

@Chyntuck -- congratulations! I enjoyed all the entries featuring established and original characters.

 

Congratulations @Chyntuck! And a big round of applause to all the participants! This challenge always inspires some really amazing stories.