just a sweet little marble shoyru by betti666 on Neopets!

It'll be hard to ever top Maraquan, it's just such a good colour. In a shocking turn of events (to me) Gelert came out on top with 11.1% of the votes--I would've thought one of the more gimmicky pets would've taken it but good design is good design. Second went to Draik with 9.7%, and third place was actually a tie between Shoyru and Nimmo each with 7.9% of the votes!

This one seems easy enough to break some times so add your vote or just check out the results for Maraquan here!

Click here for the Best Species of Each Colour Poll Series - Marble

Marble is one of those colours that benefits from taking a look at all the pets together, it's just such a diverse colour despite not really changing form all that much. Also maybe a touch underrated? There are some really really cool textures here. There's not much to go off beyond "is it pretty?" because as cool as it is for them to reference real-world minerals, if they don't look cool they don't look cool, y'know?

• I'm sure these all have actual minerals or gems they're referencing but I don't know their names like that so I'll just point out what I see. Acara looks like it would fit in perfectly to a 90s themed customization, I think the softer sort of pastel colours also just generally suit the species.
• I don't really know what's going on with Aisha but how fun is that pattern? They've also done a good job of situating the patterns in the pet in such a way that it actually does look like there's a shiny surface to it instead of it just being a stripe slapped on top or something.
• Chia is so fun because apparently it's referencing glass work by artist Dale Chihuly (he does squiggly glass stuff and has a huge piece in the rotunda of the V&A museum), and Chia is kind of a freak like that too.
• Isn't Draik sort of stunning in this colour? I love the gold veining, apparently meant to look like Portoro marble which is fancy fancy. Love the depth in the pattern here, just a really great render too.
• On the opposite side of that we have the white Marble Eyrie, with similar gold veining. Wouldn't it look incredible all dolled up in a sort of Altadorian custom? It already looks so mythical.
• I'm not really sure what stone Gnorbu is supposed to be but I do love this very punchy colour that looks almost as goopy as it does shiny stone. I love the way they've rendered the sheen on the ruff too.
• Grarrl with the fossil stone is sooo cool. I don't love purple and maybe would've liked to see it in another colour but who knows maybe ammonite fossils are most commonly found in some kind of purple stone.
• Jubjub will forever be cemented in my mind thanks to that one incredible custom shared here a while back. The potential with "Be Gones" is just too good here.
• I get that they were kind of going for the same thing with Kiko, or at least tried to make it look like a marble, but the red in it almost makes it look more transparent than marble and it's red irises freak me out a bit.
• Meerca is sort of a combination of some of my least favourite colours but you can't deny they did a great job with it here, such dynamic lines, looks sort of spacey, really well done.

Cool colour! I feel like I don't see these guys dressed up very often so if you've got one please show it off!

Remember previous polls are up for 7 days! You can still vote for Ice, Jelly, Magma, Maractite and Maraquan! The tracking sheet is also up and being regularly updated so check that out here if you want to see the final tallies.

Thank you for all the love on yesterday's post, over 200 votes in the first day and so many of them were spread around! If you take a look at the tracking sheet I've added a new page titled "Leaderboard" so you can see how many placements each pet has. Right now Hissi, Lutari, and Uni are all tied for first with 5 placements each! Upvoting helps up the stakes and gets more folks involved so thank you to those that have been doing so over the past month!