I'm still amazed that I made it to the finals (and semifinals) for the very first time in my whole entire life ever. Although my MOC itself was apparently well-built enough to get me to the finals, it didn't get many votes as I might have liked, which I think was in large part due to the title and backstory I cooked up.

That being said, I think maybe I should explain my views on the whole pacifism thing I had going. I felt that since people would not take the idea of such a cute turtle serving in one of the Barraki's armies seriously, I should make it a a pacifist and explain that the rest of its species actually were rather aggressive due to their having been captured and mutated into Pit war Tortoises. Evidently, that didn't work, as the main two complaints of the people who liked it but didn't vote for it were A, "it's too pacifistic/doesn't fit the theme" and B, "it's too cute and should have been entered in BBC 42", and variations thereof.

Clearly, I should have borrowed a Klingon battle cruiser and slingshotted around the sun and traveled back in time to 1986 last month and entered it in the last contest as the Extremely Vicious Snapping Sea Turtle That Will Bite Your Toes Off.

Just my $0.04, feel free to completely disregard it or whatever.

Arpy