A Gentleman of Unassailable Principles
Jun. 25th, 2023 06:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ghoulmouseI'm getting...close to done on this costume, which is the first one I've made since I got embarassingly obsessed with a fighting game joke character in 2014. I was really worried about it for various reasons -- the character is a willowy teenage boy and I'm kinda...not; the character is someone I've written r18 fanfiction about which I'm sure a lot of people would find objectionable; my craftsmanship is not professional tier and I feel like I hardly ever see photos of cosplays actually at conventions anymore, it's all photoshoots and the kind of stuff you can put on for an hour spent posing is quite different from the kind of stuff you can wear all day at a convention. I already got some shitty comments on my previous costume because I wasn't sporting a five foot tall prop, which I'd left off because I'd 1) run out of time and 2) could not figure out how to comfortably attach it to my back and still be able to like, navigate a dealer's room. In the game, because it's a video game, it just kinda floats there. Sadly I can't do that in real life.
My worry about the craftsmanship is sort of a general sense that the bar for sharing your creative work has gotten insanely high, but I also saw a post on Twitter that was like "I love the 'just guys being dudes' vibe of original Trigun cosplay!" accompanied by a photo of some guys at a con in 2002 dressed as Vash and Wolfwood, clearly just kinda made using whatever materials they could get ahold of and some minimal sewing skills. And I was like...that's because it IS just some guys! They just made those costumes because making things is fun and hanging out with your friends dressed as anime characters is fun! Is this a foreign concept to people now?? What the hell!
But I guess the more I work on this jacket, the more I just kind of stopped caring. I like making it. My seams aren't very straight, it's not perfectly sized, and it's largely made out of curtains I found at Goodwill, most everything EXCEPT the jacket is a little half-assed because sorry I'm not going to MAKE thigh high riding boots (why does everyone in Ishgard dress as though they might be called upon to do dressage at any second?), but. It's just satisfying to shrug yourself into a piece of wearable clothing you made.
It IS really dangerous to make a costume with so many white details when you stab yourself with pins hard enough to bleed approximately every half hour while working, though.
Honoroit is not a major character by any means so I doubt anyone else has ever cosplayed him, or ever will. But, I mean. Long-suffering valet of a relentlessly insecure and sheltered fop. Adorable teenage boy who inexplicably talks and behaves like a grown adult with a PhD. Spends a significant amount of his screentime verbally destroying his master but still super devoted because he's seen a side of him nobody else has. In one quest he promises your character that he will under NO circumstances allow his employer to get laid, making him perhaps Eorzea's greatest unsung hero. Of COURSE I'm obsessed.
I used to roleplay him which was delightful fun but also a bit stressful, as in order to be properly in character practically every sentence out of his mouth had to be an absolute banger.
My worry about the craftsmanship is sort of a general sense that the bar for sharing your creative work has gotten insanely high, but I also saw a post on Twitter that was like "I love the 'just guys being dudes' vibe of original Trigun cosplay!" accompanied by a photo of some guys at a con in 2002 dressed as Vash and Wolfwood, clearly just kinda made using whatever materials they could get ahold of and some minimal sewing skills. And I was like...that's because it IS just some guys! They just made those costumes because making things is fun and hanging out with your friends dressed as anime characters is fun! Is this a foreign concept to people now?? What the hell!
But I guess the more I work on this jacket, the more I just kind of stopped caring. I like making it. My seams aren't very straight, it's not perfectly sized, and it's largely made out of curtains I found at Goodwill, most everything EXCEPT the jacket is a little half-assed because sorry I'm not going to MAKE thigh high riding boots (why does everyone in Ishgard dress as though they might be called upon to do dressage at any second?), but. It's just satisfying to shrug yourself into a piece of wearable clothing you made.
It IS really dangerous to make a costume with so many white details when you stab yourself with pins hard enough to bleed approximately every half hour while working, though.
Honoroit is not a major character by any means so I doubt anyone else has ever cosplayed him, or ever will. But, I mean. Long-suffering valet of a relentlessly insecure and sheltered fop. Adorable teenage boy who inexplicably talks and behaves like a grown adult with a PhD. Spends a significant amount of his screentime verbally destroying his master but still super devoted because he's seen a side of him nobody else has. In one quest he promises your character that he will under NO circumstances allow his employer to get laid, making him perhaps Eorzea's greatest unsung hero. Of COURSE I'm obsessed.
I used to roleplay him which was delightful fun but also a bit stressful, as in order to be properly in character practically every sentence out of his mouth had to be an absolute banger.
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Date: 2023-06-25 11:23 pm (UTC)Saltiness aside, good luck with getting your costume finished - it sounds awesome, and I'm glad you're having fun! :D
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Date: 2023-06-28 11:43 am (UTC)Thank you! I'm doing pretty well, I think, though I still have to make the wig which is kinda daunting. I can sew all right but hair is so hard for me (unless it's at doll scale where yarn fiber seems to be able to defy gravity)