Let me explain once again for people who did not quite understand what I said: My issue is not with the participant taking "inspiration" from stuff. Of course, the Alice in Wonderland theme is very unnoriginal, there's no denying it. BnS itself even already has an outfit with that theme (which was a contest winner from last year in another server if I'm not mistaken), Buy Blade and Soul Gold but that's not my point.
My point is strictly directed at the blatant copy of Lucina's Marth identity mask from Fire Emblem: Awakening. And don't tell me it was "inspired", if you even take the time to look at the overlayed pic I posted of Lucina's face with the art on the contest entry, it gets very clear that it was blatant copy/tracing.
There's a very clear difference between inspiration Blade and Soul Gold and plagiarism. I'll even pick and example from the runner ups to talk about it: Horchatai's design. It was inspired by the Bonemask Tribe from BnS itself, and the design was very well crafted. It looks good, and I have absolutely nothing against it, even though the outfit has a theme that I personally don't like. But it was well done nevertheless.
The mask on the winner's design, however, was not "inspired". Even the colors and their placement look the same for god's sake. Just because they changed the middle section and took away the thin strips on the mask doesn't make it a completely different design. Now, I'd absolutely love something that was inspired by FE:A in BnS because I'm a huge fan of the game but not like this.
I'm poiting this one out because it's infringement of the contest rules, even if BnS just opts for "Nah we're not even gonna use that mask so it's 'k".
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