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Character : Dark Brotherhood Assassin
Series : The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Photo : Euphoria Cosplay Studios
Hours of Construction: 75+
WHY: I spent upwards of 200 Hours on Skyrim and around 150 playing Oblivion, I am in love with the Elder Scrolls Series! I specifically liked the Dark Brotherhood questlines because it was one of the few opportunities the game gives you to be the bad guy~ When my friends said they wanted to do a Skyrim group for YamaCon (A Winter con in the Smoky Mountains) I was so ready for it! I chose to make the Dark Brotherhood armor seeing as it was my favorite part of the game.
HOW: At first glance this looks like a bodysuit, which is the idea! But it's totally a fake. It consists of a shirt, overshirt, gloves, pants and bootslips. Then there are a couple accessories thrown on top such as the bracers, belts and cowl.
Series : The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Photo : Euphoria Cosplay Studios
Hours of Construction: 75+
WHY: I spent upwards of 200 Hours on Skyrim and around 150 playing Oblivion, I am in love with the Elder Scrolls Series! I specifically liked the Dark Brotherhood questlines because it was one of the few opportunities the game gives you to be the bad guy~ When my friends said they wanted to do a Skyrim group for YamaCon (A Winter con in the Smoky Mountains) I was so ready for it! I chose to make the Dark Brotherhood armor seeing as it was my favorite part of the game.
HOW: At first glance this looks like a bodysuit, which is the idea! But it's totally a fake. It consists of a shirt, overshirt, gloves, pants and bootslips. Then there are a couple accessories thrown on top such as the bracers, belts and cowl.
The cowl is the only part of the costume I took creative liberty on. In the original costume the cowl is just a simple hood with a face scarf. Mine is a complete shawl that flows around the shoulders so my costume would look cool when the wind hit it. It's really just a hood with a cape-like shawl stitched to it if you look close enough! I added a black and red fringe as well to make it look like it belonged.
I used a lot of red vinyl that a fabric shop was trying to get rid of ($24.00 for 5 yards!) In some places I layered it with red broadcloth just to have contrasting colors in certain areas.
When I first set out to do this costume I just thought, "It's so easy! I'll just hot glue some vinyl to some black clothes and call it a costume!" WRONG. TOTALLY WRONG. NEVER HAVE I BEEN WRONGER. Vinyl doesn't like hot glue and thus, rejects it within minutes, as I would later find out. So what was suppose to take about 30 hours to make quickly became 70+ hours as I pushed Vinyl through my (at the time) awful sewing machine. I actually broke my sewing machine making this costume and had to borrow a friends just to finish it! Ughhh... it was all so awful :
Oh and the bracers, all handsewn through double layers of vinyl, no thimble. Cosplayers I'm sure you know my pain.
Oh and the bracers, all handsewn through double layers of vinyl, no thimble. Cosplayers I'm sure you know my pain.
I also made a Blade of Woe for this costume, you can see full notes on that here! (legalrehab.deviantart.com/art/…
Lastly, the night before the con I aged the entire costume with cheap tempera paint and EXPO markers. I was at the end of my budget at this point-!
Thoughts : As psychically painful and frustrating as this costume was, it turned out much better than I thought. What was weird is that when my friends and I took pictures in our costumes, some dudes didn't recognize my costume but immediately noticed our male and female Dovahkiins. However any female that took pictures with us knew immediately who I was and would even ask me what the color of night was! Fake Gamer Dudes... they exist ;D
(Seriously how could you play Skyrim and not run into at least one Assassin!)
Jokes aside, it's super comfortable to wear and would love to wear it to another con! I can't wait to make another TES costume when the Online game comes out :]
Thoughts : As psychically painful and frustrating as this costume was, it turned out much better than I thought. What was weird is that when my friends and I took pictures in our costumes, some dudes didn't recognize my costume but immediately noticed our male and female Dovahkiins. However any female that took pictures with us knew immediately who I was and would even ask me what the color of night was! Fake Gamer Dudes... they exist ;D
(Seriously how could you play Skyrim and not run into at least one Assassin!)
Jokes aside, it's super comfortable to wear and would love to wear it to another con! I can't wait to make another TES costume when the Online game comes out :]
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Just Wanna Say that is well done and you pulled it off well! What about poor, poor Cicero!