Tis the Christmas season (or Advent to be theologically accurate), and in the spirit of the season, the lovely blogger over at Later Levels has decided to celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas a few days earlier with 12 gaming related questions for all of us good, little gaming elves out there. These are my responses.
👗 30 December 2017: You’ve been invited to a swanky New Year’s Eve party but have nothing suitable to wear! Which video game character do you call to ask if you can borrow an outfit?
Luckily for me, I’ve already talked about this in my Fashionistas and Fancy Fellows post! Of course they’re all from Final Fantasy, though I’ve noticed my favorite series either dresses its characters in the best get-ups…
Runway model quality
Picture Source: Sephiroth from FFVII by AHague
…and the worst…
Seriously…what the fuck is this?
So I’d either raid Sephiroth’s closet (you know he has to have a ton of those black leather coats with the silver buckles. I mean that’s standard Goth wear), borrow Lulu’s awesome belt dress,
Picture Source: Lulu by SoraNamae
beg a boon of the garish gambler,
Fancy AF
and for non-Final Fantasy, pretty much anyone from Mass Effect. Shepherd’s little black dress is perfect for a NYE party,
and Liara’s regular every day where is stylin’
Just in case I have to kill a man.
If I wanted more colorful, I’d go for characters from FFVI, since they’re quite a motley crew (even without Kefka), and it almost looks like their outfits were cobbled together piecemeal from any scraps, sashes, and scarves they could find in sort of a fashion forward Bohemian, buuut since I claimed the title of Christmas Goth, you know I’m going to lean more towards VII with a possible splash of red.
Vincent is a perfect example
Picture and Cosplay Source: Exploration – Vincent Valentine cosplay by Grenier-Illiane
Super picture heavy post huh? What video game character would you borrow an outfit from to craft your prefect New Year’s Eve outfit? Would it be just one character or would you borrow from a few? In the same game? Franchise? Or total crossover? Now that I’m thinking about it, I could see myself doing a Sephiroth/Lulu outfit crossover with the top being a corset like Lulu, an overcoat and crossing straps like Seph’s, and leather pants. Holy shit…I may have to make this happen o.O
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Liara is the best Mass Effect character ever! I would definitely borrow the Midnight Mauve outfit from my shero in Lightning Returns. Most of the outfits in that game are HORRIBLE, but that’s the one dress I’d willingly wear, haha.
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OMG. I googled that and holy balls it’s amazing! There’s this cosplay of it, too. https://shiro-cosplay.deviantart.com/art/Lightning-Midnight-Mauve-dress-FF13-3-600112758
If you ever do a Lightning cosplay (which I humble believe you totally should) that might be a consideration 😀
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It’s so pretty!!
Nice! If I ever get over my fear of cosplaying, I just might try it 😀
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It’s harrowing isn’t it? I’m afraid of Judgy McJudgersons and, er, racists, because yeah, they exist ugh. One good thing is it’s pretty easy to control what you allow on your sites online so I *may* one day (after a few drinks) post some of the makeup tests I did of the Great General. I even made a video! It was…interesting to do. Those stupid contacts kept turning in my eyes, gah! I’m trying to NOT take it too seriously, but still be a perfectionist. I…don’t know how that’s going to work out XD
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Yup… Everyone has to be judgey if you don’t look EXACTLY like the character… can’t we all just have fun?? I’ll need more than a few drinks before I dress up as Lightning, but I’ll let you know if it happens 😛
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it’s so ridiculous. What I do love is some of the best cosplayers out there don’t stand for that nonsense. There’s this guy, Harley’s Joker, who looks EXACTLY like the Joker. Well one day someone posted a “subpar” Joker on his page thinking he’d join along with making fun. He was righteously pissed off and made this whole post about why doing that was not acceptable. Cosplay is supposed to be about fun, and while I’m okay with having contests, if someone is doing it because they love it and love the character, let them do it! “Let people enjoy things.” If you dress up as Lightning, I’ll post my makeup tests of Sephiroth 🙂
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Everyone has a freaking opinion on everything… sigh. Sounds like a deal 🙂
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And usually the loudest people are the wrongest. Ugh.
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Yup 😦
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