Don't you wish you paid more attention to the environment?
Toxic OCT
is an Original Character Tournament currently on its final round, a surprisingly three way race for the gold, hosted on DeviantART. The setting is basically a Garden of Evil.
The storyline is quite simple: A wide variety of characters are asked by one of four Guardians to help them to save their world from a creature named Toxen who has taken away their king. The name is a pun of the word "toxin", so his (its?) powers are quite obvious.
Guardians:
Fin - Guardian of Fire, and a former king
- Fisher King: well, honestly this isn't exactly the case but after his death things start to fall apart.
- Playing with Fire: As the Guardian of Fire, this is a given.
- Dark-Skinned Blond: Literally.
Mother - Guardian of Plants and Life
- Mother Nature: ...Duh.
- Eyes Always Shut: It makes you wonder if Mother ever bumps into any walls...
- Or what will happen if she opens them...
- Friend to All Living Things: After all, she IS the Guardian of Plants and Life.
- Fertile Feet: Kinda obvious.
- Green Thumb: In a "punny" way, and a literal way.
Grivor - Guardian of Earth
- Camp Straight
- The Dandy
- Dishing Out Dirt: It is implied he can control earth and stone.
Aiga - Guardian of Water
Maeve - Guardian of Air
- Bratty Half-Pint: Maeve. Shortest of the Guardians and the most immature.
- Blow You Away: The clouds and sky bow down to this girl.
- Little Miss Snarker: She apparently has a bit of an attitude.
This OCT contains examples of the following tropes:
- Another Dimension: Enough said.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: For the Guardians.
- The Beautiful Elite: All the Guardians are handsome/gorgeous or very aesthetically pleasing.
- Death Mountain: Setting of Round 3, where the remaining contestants must scale the massive volcano.
- Elemental Powers: The Guardians themselves.
- Five-Man Band:
- The Hero- Fin
- The Lancer- Aiga
- The Smart Guy- Maeve
- The Big Guy- Grivor
- The Chick- Mother
- Garden of Evil: And how!
- Grimy Water: Setting of Round 1, where the contestants must cross in boats.
- The Lost Woods: Setting of Round 2, albeit most of the flora should be dead and the fauna, dangerous.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Fin's Blue to Aiga's Red.
- There Can Be Only One: A surprising three way battle for the finalists, and not the usual two, but there is only one first place winner, the subsequent two shall be placed in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: One of the contestants, Gabija, is deathly afraid of water. Guess where Round 1 is going to be!
- What, did you forget Pogo!?
The Official Contestants
Ethel
- Creator: Artic-Moon Intro: [1]
- Adorkable: Face it. He's just a big, old teddy bear.
- Gender-Blender Name: Ethel is a 44 year old superhuman disguised as a normal business man. But Ethel is still a girl's name.
- Although it is a codename, his original name is Jay Garfield.
- In his defense, Ethel means "strong man" in Turkish.
- Super Strength: His main ability.
Filbert
- Creator: Blyu-dono Intro: [2]
- Our Demons Are Different: How many demonic kids with the power of both Creation and Destruction do you know?
- Also he thinks that Mother is his mom. No Pun Intended.
- Our Demons Are Different: How many demonic kids with the power of both Creation and Destruction do you know?
Dot G. Kacher and Miles Lawrence
- Creators: CirrusDark and TheEverlastingnight Intro [3]
- Anti-Hero: Miles seems to be a Type V.
- Batter Up!: For whatever reason, Dot has a baseball bat as a weapon.
- Deal with the Devil: Miles has one arranged with the Devil, and is meant to serve him for eternity.
- Gender-Blender Name: *snicker* Dot is still a girl's name.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Dot. With practically everyone. Except one person.
Gabija Weston
- Creator: 666gothchick666 Intro [4]
- Break the Cutie: Take fair caution against this cute pyro.
- Playing with Fire
- Tagalong Kid: Ivanevitch, the undead soldier, as a tagalong is now canon for Gabija.
Mycolo
- Creator: Kat-a-line Intro [5]
- Berserk Button: Mistake Mycolo for a woman and you'll be dealing with one pissy mushroom.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mycolo is definitely a jerk, but he does seem to care about others to a certain degree.
- He saves Gabija from drowning (This is canon in Kat-A-Line's entries) and hands her off to Sa-Rang for medical treatment in exchange for a piece of mushroom from his head. Unfortunately he didn't even bother telling Sa-Rang that he was EXTREMELY poisonous and using a piece of himself for one of her potions would more than likely end up killing someone. Whoops!
- Magic Mushroom: Mycolo's a person who's species originate from mushrooms.
Eballi
- Creator: Chiricho Intro [6]
- Action Girl
- The Chosen One: In Chiricho's Round 2, Aure reveals that Eballi is the sole person to save Paradise, and by extension the future of all worlds.
- The Symbiote: Eballi's arm.
Draco-Vampiress and Chase
- Creator: Draco-vampress Intro [7]
- Our Dragons Are Different: Okay, half-dragons.
- Shapeshifting: Chase has the ability to change his form to that of a different animal.
Kadami
Viola Frisk
- Creator: Lovenu Intro [9]
- Heel–Face Turn: Viola is a humanoid virus who wants to be friends with humans.
White Liquid
- Creator: Chocohaulic Intro: [10]
- Amazing case of Bizarre Alien Biology.
Shill
- Creator: Dragonmanx Intro: [11]
- Cute Monster Girl: She is one.
Nevermind and Myren jr.
- Creator: Britbau Intro [12]
- Ambiguous Gender: Nevermind's entire species, though Nevermind thinks of itself as a male.
Argent and Solune
- Creator: Timidemerald Intro [13]
- Head-Turning Beauty: Especially with those thighs.
- Robot Girl: Solune pretty much.
Lucca
- Creator: Riku-x-gaara Intro [14]
Caroline
- Creator: Taplaos Intro [15]
- Dead All Along: Caroline died before he got into Toxic.
- Gender-Blender Name: He doesn't remember his original name, so he picked up the name "Caroline" because it's the last thing he can remember.
- Guardian Angel: Can earn his wings once he finds something to protect.
- Holy Halo
- Winged Humanoid
Nightly and Mr. Giggles
- Creator: Jugum Intro [16]
- Mind Rape: Nightly uses a hallucination technique on Miles in R2 to immobilize him into shock.
- Nightmare Fetishist
- White Mask of Doom: Giggles has one.
- Your Soul Is Mine: Nightly is a connoisseur of souls, and can instantly tell the quality of one's inner soul. She actively pursues the ones she likes.
Gaby and Picte
- Creator: Huoryu Intro [17]
- Cyborg: Gaby
- Innocent Aliens: Picte
Ralphonzo Lensworth
- Creator: Clock-workable Intro [18]
- Asexuality: Clock has stated outside the OCT that Ralph is Asexual.
- Handicapped Badass: He has only one arm, one eye and a broken leg, But is still a capable fighter.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ralph may be a jerk, and sarcastic, pragmatic when it comes to helping strangers. But it's implied that deep down, he's very loyal to the people he cares about.
- Knight In Sour Armor
Ro
- Creator: Bowgallery Intro [19]
- Dream People: He's one of them
Necro and Cadi
- Creators: Artistincompre and TheSugarEater Intro [20]
- Amazing Technicolor Population: It is implied that all Positive Duality Aliens are like Cadi.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Cadi. She has been to known to switch to random subjects in conversation at any moment.
- The Dark Side: Quite literally. Necro used to live one the dark Side of the world, where he and Cadi came from.
- The Ingenue: Cadi.
Pogo Solvent
- Creators: Dark-velox and Kokoniko Intro [21]
Locke
- Creator: Dudumsomnium Intro [22]
- Butt-Monkey: Locke is pretty much the epitome of bad luck. He's a big klutz and always manages to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, and is often the butt of jokes. Because of this, he has just about zero self-confidence and goes into ridiculous depressive mood swings.
Gast
- Creator: Tenkyougan Intro [23]
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Humanoid Alien Gast is part of a species that all do this. Despite his extensive capacity for shapeshifting, he is an Albino and considered defective compared to his kin.
Shink and Bossle
- Creator: Curlypocky Intro [24]
- Circus Brat: Both were part of a traveling circus.
Sa-rang and Pyong Hwa
- Creators: Andidote and xXBirdFireXx Intro [25]
- Asian Speekee Engrish: Because most competitors are not fluent in writing Hangul, most people tend to portray Sa-Rang as this because she IS capable of speaking English, albeit very limited.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: Props for trying to use Korean.
Sparky and Clair
- Creators: Fruitnloops and InsomniacDinosaur Intro [26]
Click
- Creator: Technicolor-yawn Intro [27]
Edgar
- Creator: Nightshadered Intro [28]
- Don Quixote: Edgar thinks that he's a knight, city where he lives is a kindgom, citizens are peasant and Grivor is a king.
Roland
Alva
- Creator: Charanty Intro [30]
- Ambiguous Gender: Alva's species reproduces through a form of telepathy, so in its case it is both male and female.
- Dead All Along: And also Dead to Begin With: Alva's afterlife was far from quiet rest.
- Ghost Amnesia
- Unicorn: Well, Alva doesn't exactly look like one, but indirectly its creator points out that it might be a unicorn.
Elna
- Creator: Lizs Intro [31]
- The Quiet One: Hurts to talk and is a paranoid wall flower.
Monte and Twosets
- Creator: Lycanthreauxp Intro [32]
- Hellhound: Even two of them.
- Immortality: Type III. Technically they have a Respawn Point in Hell.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Monte
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Each has a human form that can be accessed whenever they choose, the only downside being that the human form has no eyes.
