Noel Vermillion - BlazBlue

I'm a weaksauce gamer, and not really into fighting games at all. But dammit, why do they have to have such nice characters and art?

Why?

• A girl (always a good start, right?)
• But kinda boyish
  • This is workable
• Guns
  • Are badass

• Gun-Kata

  • Cool poses are included free!
• Badass (can't have too much of this)
• Zettai Ryouiki (hnnnnngg!)

• An impractical/implausible uniform makes things better

• Not a rorikko character for once - Carpe-fucking-diem!

Skin coverage is surprisingly high for what is a very nice uniform, I could be quite comfortable with that. Probably bandaid-cover the injury on my left shoulder.

That's a mighty short skirt. Not that it matters though, I have very little shame.

I'd want to corset the waist pretty heavily, made somewhat difficult by the low cutout in the back. Smells like a challenge.

There don't seem to be a lot of these, that's fine with me

• http://e3studios.deviantart.com/art/Eye-of-the-Azure-189560116

• http://mangalphantom.deviantart.com/art/Endless-Blaze-189759692

Other people have made boots, pleather seems to be the material of choice. I can learn that...

• http://www.cosplaybuy.com/blazblue-noel-vermillion-cosplay-boots-p-752.html

Thinking about pieces

This feels slightly daunting because it's more removed from reality than the stuff I've done before. So far no props, footwear, clothing with greebles, etc. This has a lot of fiddly details.

• Guns
  • Mod a Nerf gun?
  • Scratchbuild? More likely, can afford to look a bit ghetto
  • The frame is very narrow, and it's not a pistol grip
• Beret
  • Should be easy enough to sew a simple one
  • Metal greeble on left-side
• Wig
  • Technically she has long (about waist-length) hair, which is stuffed under the beret
  • But you almost never see it
  • So screw that, a short wig (with... Bangs, hehe) is the way to go
  • Custard-yellow, I think is a fair description of the colour
• Eyes
  • Contacts, obviously
  • They're a very strong green colour, which may be a problem on my dark eyes
  • Probably look into something theatrical if I run with this. Green is nice, neon-green is not.
    • Fuck that, seems noone makes good green contacts

    • Freshlook Colorblends and Expressions Colors are reputed to do good things for dark eyes. Expressions may have a more striking effect.

• Sleeves
  • Detached!
  • How will I hold them in place?
• Sleeve ribbons
  • Big chunky metal thing
  • Could be used to hold the sleeves up
  • Foam or wood seems like the way to go
  • Will be stressed a fair bit due to movement, needs to be strong
  • Ribbons should be easy, they're just ribbon
  • End-pieces can be wood or plastic of some sort
• Gloves
  • Look fairly plain, may have a design on the back though
• Dress
  • Fun times, the black dividers look rubbery
  • Zipper or zippers under the black vertical lines
  • Shirt collar at the top, may allow for the damn thing to be taken off easily when undone

    • Official art suggests it unbuttons at the front, how does that work? Remove the tie, slip collar over head, take dress down? That means the waistline needs to fit over the hips.

      • Well, the alternative is the waistline fitting over the shoulders (at least as bad), though elastic solves that problem. Or a zipper in the back. Just a short one, would be cute.

• Thighhighs
  • Easy.
  • Though there appears to be a thicker band at the top. Could either ignore it, or stuff a ring of soft foam under there at the top.
• Boots
  • No idea how to handle yet. May procure, or may hack something up in the way of boot-covers. Some generic high-rise boots (eg. BS-san's converse-alikes) would do nicely.

References

• Video to get an idea of how things move and flow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pig7bwAwG4Q

• BlazBlue Material Collection: http://www.amazon.co.jp/ブレイブルー-設定資料集-エンタテインメント書籍編集部/dp/4797354836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304860874&sr=8-1

• BlazBlue Continuum Shift Material Collection: http://www.amazon.co.jp/ブレイブルー-コンティニュアムシフト-設定資料集-エンタテインメント書籍編集部/dp/4797360747/ref=pd_sim_b_1

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