Crystal Island OCT
is a Original Character Tournament on deviantArt.
A wealthy treasure hunter and highly decorated adventurer, Derek Saline, is offering the chance to join his expedition to retrieve a sample of a legendary crystal that is said to grant anything your heart desires.
The only catch? Derek gives an all-knowing smirk when he asserts that there's only enough of this rare specimen for one person to fulfill their dreams. Thus, you will have to compete against other individual agents, who all wish to lay their hands on this crystal.
What are you willing to endure, so that you may have the power to fulfill your heart's desire?
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Audition Tropes
- Get on the Boat: Boarding the boat that is meant to take the expedition crew to Crystal Island is one of the prompt requirements for auditions.
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Otto's audition ends with, 'What’s the worst thing that could happen on a simple expedition?'
Round One Tropes
- Gem Tissue: Some of the creatures in the round feature crystals in their body, or are made of crystal entirely.
- Magnetism Manipulation: The round's main obstacles are crystals that can polarize anything that touches them.
Round Two Tropes
- Hostile Weather: The main challenge of round two is the hostile weather that can ranges from thunderstorms to unbearable heat.
- MacGuffin Melee: Several competitors find their assigned crystal at the same time as their opponent, usually resulting in a fight for the crystal.
Round Three Tropes
- Rising Water, Rising Tension: The cave system that the competitors are in begins to flood, causing the next round to start early.
- Creepy Cave: At the very least, the cave has a deadly eel gargoyle in it.
- Our Gargoyles Rock: The previously mentioned eel gargoyle.
Round Four Tropes
- Creepy Cave: Halucinations and shifting passages certainly don't make the cave nicer.
- Can't Move While Being Watched: The cave contains crystals that shift when no one is looking to open and close passages.
- Hell Is That Noise: Certain crystals invoke this trope with auditory halucinations.
- Your Heart's Desire: Fittingly for how close it is to the main chamber, certain crystals will create illusions of what the viewer most desires.
Character Tropes
- Adaptive Ability: Yaxa.
- Alien Blood: Texis and Xoee. Texis is an alien and their blood is a pale pink color, Xoee is an interdimensional creature whose blood is dark blue.
- Aliens Speaking English: Inverted with Texis who cannot speak English and uses a Universal Translator; though it only goes one way...making them appear as a Speech-Impaired Animal to others.
- Another Dimension: Xoee, who quite literally came from another dimension. And is still dealing with the consequences.
- Animal Lover: As the expedition's resident animal expert, Bee is this in spades.
- Artificial Limbs: Clokk, Graf, and Jack all have at least one artificial limb.
- Badass Bookworm: Bee.
- Brains and Brawn: Applies to many pairs.
- Cat Girl: Claire.
- Combat Pragmatist: Could apply to several competitors.
- Cool Mask: Kin and Yaxa. Sadly for Yaxa, the mask is also its Achilles' Heel.
- Cursed Item: Yaxa's totem is this.
- Famous Ancestor: Bee's Grandfather was a beloved television personality and fellow wildlife expert.
- Forced Transformation: Wormy, who was originally a regular bat, got cursed by Costache's father and he can now transform into a human form.
- Grumpy Old Man: Boomer.
- Hallucinations: Many of the characters experience these, and unfortunately for them, it's not the helpful variety. Yaxa is implied to fall into this.
- Handicapped Badass: Beatrice Bright.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Artturi carries several demons with him.
- Human Pack Mule: Boomer is sworn to carry your burdens. It's his profession.
- The Jeeves: Wormy.
- Mad Scientist: William applies as one with his implied Sanity Slippage.
- Magical Eye: Clokk's right eye belonged to an angel he stole from.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: As Permafrost is a griffin, she is prominently a mixture of two creatures.
- Monster Mouth: Graf's neck has a slit starting from the base of his mouth. Guess what it can do.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Ace.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: Texis and Zee identify as non-binary and go by he/they pronouns.
- Bane and Yaxa are both referred to with it/its pronouns. Coupled with their Poisonous Person and Super-Persistent Predator tendencies, respectively, this also is an example of It Is Dehumanising.
- Parental Neglect: William. His neglect and carelessness led to the death of his daughter.
- Ship Tease: Aguinei being Aguinei has a "few pairings" with other characters.
- Shock and Awe: Clokk.
- Smug Smiler: Derek. Just...look at his face.
- Talking Animal: Justified. Both Conifer and Permafrost are this.
- Technobabble : Xoee falls into this when she's examining.
- The Charmer: Aguinei.
- The Stoic: Artturi, Bee, and Yaxa.
- Two Beings, One Body: Tox and Bane.
- Universal Translator: Both Aguinei and Texis have one.
- Unstoppable Rage: Many of the characters have a berserk mode. All of which come with varying side effects.
- War Is Hell: Dave and Jack's backstory.
- Weakened by the Light: Costache, who is a vampire, is very sensitive to the sunlight. Additionally, some of the other characters have a light sensitivity weakness. This includes Ambor, Artturi, Kin, and Tox.
- White and Red and Eerie All Over: Yaxa. Even one of its titles is "The Pale Man".
- Workaholic : Junko.
NPC's
Competitors
Roster
- Ace
- Aguinei Xia Hui
- Ambor and Graf
- Artturi
- Beatrice Bright
- Captain Sweettooth
- Cara "Cagan" Logan
- Clokk
- Conifer and Permafrost
- Kin
- Leon Fecker
- Otto
- Reinhart
- Remmy
- Ryder Omagen
- Tesel and Frasse
- Texis Dal'oko
- Tox and Bane
- TS3/Robin
- William Bennett
- Xoee and Yaxa
- Zee and Storm
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