Though I have been detained from posting my self critique I would like to congratulate the winner and wish everyone the best in following rounds. I am learning a lot from this competition especially character profiles since that is something that I am very new to. My entry was Micah so thanks to those who offered their insight.

TechnoGoth:

You seem to have a tendency to over-evaluate. There are contradictions in the way you evaluate the entries. Here is a list of pointers about E7.Arrie:

style:
- Presentation Flaw: The list of questions (extremely horrible style, turned it into a study-guide)
- Presentation Flaw: Mood and tone mismatch
- Presentation Flaw: Weak voice for external audience
- Presentation Flaw: Lack of transitions between passages makes it distracting

Creativity:
(I don't evaluate on creativity)

Applicability:
- Presentation Flaw: No formating
- Theme mismatch: Character name
- Theme mismatch: Presentation style (too happy and colorful)
- Theme mismatch: Substantial meta-theme contents (Daheen)
- Character design flaw: (as you and others have pointed out)
- Contest requirement flaw: The significant of Tattoo too trivial:

Quote:

The symbol of the Life Orchid is proudly woven onto her robe, long and flowing; running down her body, though leaving her shoulders, tattooed with some intricately complex family lineage, exposed.

If this description is acceptable for the main theme of a contest, you might as well require no theme.

For the sake of simplicity, this is just the list of faults without the explanations. You used some of these faults to penalize other entries but not E7. That creates some seeming contradictions.

These are the two biggest flaws: The mismatch of the theme to E5 in Round1, and the lack of detail about the tattoo. E7 is very disconnected to E5 and to the contest even though it tried to draw a relation to Shai and included a snapped-on tattoo. Other contestants designed the characters based on E5 and based on a significant tattoo. Your rules appear too trivial. It is almost betrayingly trivial.

Tattoo is the contest theme. Technically, we are competing on how well the use of tattoo relates to the theme, the character, and the gameplay when you declare 'secret meaning of tattoo' as a contest theme for character profile. You might not know that there is such implication. I am just letting you know that. The way you treated the theme of a contest made no sense.