A Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Make a Valentine for a Spiral Knights Monster! [Winners Announced!]

Valentine's Day is headed our way again, and it's important for even the most fiendish of characters to feel some love. So this year we intend to show the monsters and villains of Cradle just how much we care.

Gather your artistic skills, knights! It is time to express your affection and dedication to the monsters of Cradle who make the clockworks such a "wonderful" place. Perhaps a particular monster has caught your eye, you want to give your favorite monster a chuckle, or you want to express your appreciation to that special monster who makes you want to stab it a few extra times.

Deadline: February 12, 2014, 11:59 PM Game Time (Pacific timezone)

Prizes: Three (3) winners from each of the two entry categories will be able to pick between a forever love puppy mask, a love aura, or specify which monster pocket you want (chroma whelp, love puppy, or mewkat). The winner(s) in Category 2 will also receive an additional mystery Valentine's prize. Other prizes may be added depending on participation.

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Category 1: Paper and Crayon

1 - Obtain a sheet of white paper and some crayons.
2 - With the crayons, create your Valentine to a Spiral Knights monster on the sheet of paper.
3 - Make sure your entry displays the name of your knight and the date, February 14, 2014 somewhere on your Valentine.
4 - Scan or photograph, and upload the image(s) of your Valentine on a website that allows you to link to it. For example: deviantArt, Tumblr, or Imgur
5 - Submit your entry in this thread: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/96936

Your entry must have the following format:

Knight Name:
Link to entry image:
Prize preference: Forever love puppy mask, a love aura, or specify which monster pocket you want (chroma whelp, love puppy, or mewkat).

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Category 2: Knock Yourself Out

In this category, it's a free-for-all! You may submit poetry, macaroni art, drawings, video confessionals, prose, interpretive dance, animated gifs of your own making, whatever. Pour forth your feels and create a masterwork.* Once you have done so:

1 - For art and video, upload your entry to a website which allows you to link to it, such as YouTube, deviantArt, Tumblr, or Imgur. For written entries, you may paste the text into the body of your entry post.
2 - Make sure your entry displays the name of your knight and the date, February 14, 2014. This can be done using an index card or small sign if it can't be added to the Valentine itself.
3 - Submit your entry in this thread: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/96937

Your entry must have the following format:

Knight Name:
Link to entry image, or if your entry is written, put the text here:
Prize preference: Forever love puppy mask, a love aura, or specify which monster pocket you want (chroma whelp, love puppy, or mewkat).

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Judging Criteria:
Judging will be based on creativity, execution, and the earnestness of your feels.

*But please keep it clean--no Rule 34 or anything else that would violate the Forum Rules.

PLEASE NOTE:
- You may enter more than once, but only one entry per knight will be awarded a prize. You may enter each category, but you may only win in one category.

- Your entry must have your knight name and the date, February 14, 2014, appear somewhere to verify this is original work for this event.

- The subject of your entry must be a monster from Spiral Knights. This includes any boss or other NPC foe.

- There are 2 entry threads. Please be sure you put your entry into the correct thread!

- You can see last year's event here: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/73758

- Winners will be posted here on February 14th!

español = http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/96954
française = http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/96991
deutsch = http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/96996