Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-27603392-20130813013759/@comment-8182065-20130925060338

70.70.58.112 wrote: I feel that Sapphire should be disqualified. The creator literally stole the character design from an artist on Pixiv named Gia without given permission or even mentioning the artist at all. It's the same thing as if I were to post Ruby Rose as an OC but change the name and information. If you looked at Sapphire's page the creator did say they found the image on a website called Konachan. Maybe they didn't know who the original artist was, but it was clearly stated that it wasn't theirs. In any case, the contest is based on how well the page is written, not how the character looks in design (if that were the case, any OC with official art/art that wasn't credited to their creator would have most likely not been accepted at all).

Most of the OCs here have a character with an image that they didn't create at all. It's mainly used for reference purposes.