Colonel Mustang is dead sexy...In a mini skirt! Cosplay logistics ed
So I just finished watching the full series of Fullmetal Alchemist-just in time too 'cause the new series is coming out and I found out that Funimation's gonna air it on their site 2 days after the Japanese airing (<-thanks sanjo_chan for that info!) XD I seem to keep doing that timing thing-same with Death Note...of sorts. But I digress! I'm borrowing Conqueror of Shamballa from my cuzo 'cause I'm too impatient to wait until I buy it to see it. Gah, such a fiend!
So 2, I was showing my sisters some vids of Vic & Caitlin from MegaCon last year (so sad I missed it this year) and I showed them the one of them saying it then Vic explains. Then I got to thinking-Mustang is one of my favorite characters from that show, I am going to Anime Festival Orlando this year and I haven't figured out exactly what I wanna cosplay as (I swear I need somewhere I can put a cosplay list for myself online so I don't have to worry about finding my notebook everytime I wanna add something. Yar.). In my head I've played around with Rose from FMA, Winry in her black skirt & jacket, Merle from Escaflowne, and Cooking Mama-'cause I fucking love that game to ridiculousness!! (so great seeing her added to Super Smash Bros. 3000 Murder Mystery-Toad died, they threw him in the dumpster, then she comes in with some food that had mushroom in it! I wish I could've gone to Anime Supercon 'cause I think that's where they performed it. Youtube it yo. All 7 parts!) Seeing as I don't sew but am dying to learn, these all seemed to range from easy to fairly easy if I actually had to do some sewing for any reason whatsoever. But now my mind has released itself upon me and this Colonel Mustang mini skirt edition is running obssessively and rampantly in reality!! (though not that I mind ;-P) I've convinced myself that I have to do this cosplay because its just too awesomely fun to pass up and I do have an opportunity to wear it, SOON, and I hate wasted ideas that are so great but have no room or chance for fruition. Carpe Cosplay! Carpe Convention! lol
So 3, now I'm trying to figure everything out for it. I'm torn and put in a position where I have to choose the lesser or two or three evils (that's how many I've come up with so far and they have inadvertantly spawned subsets of evils. How terribly evil of the lot!). Biggest and easiest way out would be to buy the Riza costume from mooncostumes. However I have problems with this. First, I hate the color. The shade of blue is too too light in my opinion and it just looks craptastic and it makes me sad. I'm a perfectionist of sorts and I like to get as true as possible to the look. I am/can also be terribly stubborn and anything less won't suffice-even if I do give in. This leaves me with the 2 other evils-get it commissioned, or make it myself. As I mentioned before I don't sew and this jacket seems intimidating for a noob! I do have a habit of jumping noobtastically head first into things that are beyond me, but not to the point where I disregard the basics. I might just run through 'em and revisit or try to figure them as I go! lol I'd like to make it myself though 'cause it'd be fun and I like creating and making stuff and it'd be rewarding to know that I actually did it. I almost wanna comish it though 'cause I don't wanna fuck it up. Those can be expensive and I'd kinda rather find someone who's closer to me instead of sending them a list of measurements and letting them have at it-maybe unless they're really good. Which leads me back to getting the mooncostumes one. I think maybe the best thing about that one is that I could always just pin the skirt to the shortness I want it for the mini skirt and then let it back down to do Sciezka.
Now, let's revisit the idea of it being made. I'm trying to figure whether I wanna keep the general pencil skirty look just shorter or to make a wrap skirt or maybe a pleated skirt. I do love pleated skirts! But still. Decisions decisions.
Then there's the hair. Do I wanna stick with Mustang's regular hair or make a girl version of sorts and get a medium/long wig for it? It'd be kinda cool to have like a bob-ish type something 'cause its Mustangy in my opinion. But I still wanna maintain the character. But do I wanna look like a man in a mini skirt?! (think of it as if you were seeing a visual of Ed's-I imagine it would be overly exaggerated and antagonizingly emasculating so that it'd annoy Mustang more. Maybe I just think too much, but still!) Prolly not lol! I was thinking I could time a perm right for the convention and just wrap my hair-its not long but its not short but its not medium either if that makes sense?! It just...is. I don't think about it much. I do have naturally dark brown to where it looks black hair but I like dying it red and I just did about a month or 2 ago and I'm letting the color grow out (*le gasp* oh noz! Except not, I don't care about it matching and convincing people that its natural. I just like red hair xD). I think a good amount of it will be grown out by July/August, and I don't go out in the sun a lot for the sun to turn it so that may be a cheaper option than a wig. I'll just dye it blackest black-which I sadly still have problems with 'cause all black dyes are not created equal! How horrible would it be to have purplish or greenish black hair?! Maybe I'll practice with it now?! I'd definitely have to time a perm right though 'cause thanks to my mama's mixed heritage I got some thick ass hair that's more black than puerto rican so as it grows it tends to thicken and swell of sorts. If I tried to just wrap it then it'd look like a sad memory of a wrap!
Hmmmm. Anyway, those are the biggest things bothering me right now. Its okay though, I like the challenge! I'll sift through patterns and modifications and color swatches of the right color and gloves and boots and et ceteras! This has to be as kick ass as possible! Maybe I'll enter the cosplay contest?-if I end up making it myself.
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