This was very tough. My initial thought was to go with Signomi, I love the icon so much, however, I feel that it was a little over brightened and that the bottom left corner contrasts a little too much with the icon. That's the stock's fault but I don't much like the dark blue at all. Then it came down to my next two which were TwilightBlade and Kaori. Twilight's had some very nice contrasting and nicely layed out, however, the colours are too dull. I think the red could have been popped better and well, the quality looks a smidgen too low. This is due to a little too much gray. Kaori GMV. She's improved greatly, I love the effect on the left, the colours are awesome, the brightness is perfect and to boot, it looks high quality. I love the eyes. Kaori has outdone herself on this icon and it's by far one of the best I've seen from her. She deserves it a tad more in my eyes, but it was a real hard choice.
Aura's was very saturated, and the colours were a little overcooked, there wasn't a great deal of need to do so much to the icon, simplicity was avoided when it shouldn't have been imo.
Chibi Robo's, well what bothered me was that it was an imitated style. It's a tap into CME's iconage. Colours were alright, though not enough of them. Very empty depth wise. Lighting would be a good suggestion here.
/Double post omg