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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRR46pe-Mu2Kzd5ZmgCR9Iw
my understanding of epithet erased characters view of santa claus
molly - lorelai told her santa isn’t real. she cried herself to sleep that night.
giovanni - he knows santa isn’t real but will live in delusion.
sylvie - pretends he doesn’t believe in santa. absolutely does.
mera - she knows he isn’t real
indus - he does NOT know. mera was the first person to tell him.
every banzai - giovanni is trying to gaslight them into thinking santa’s real. ben is the only one who believes it completely.
percy - she knows he’s fake. she’s percy.
ramsey - he knows santa isn’t real. he’s the type of guy to dress as santa on christmas.
zora - she figured it out when her parents died and all the sudden no more presents.
lorelai - martin told her like a whiiiiiile ago. he did it on accident opposie poopsie.
trixie - believes it. getting skeptical. just thinks they’re on the naughty list.
feenie - ONE BAJILLION PERCENT CONVINCED SANTA IS REAL.
rick - “what is a santa?? a fat man breaks in your house and leaves gifts?? what a joyous holiday!! :3” he’s odd.
stink and stonk - santa defenders till the GRAVE.
yoomtah - knows he isn’t real. doesn’t care. still very merry around the holidays.
naven - knows he isn’t real. FORCED to be merry on the holidays.
bonus- charles and moot - charles knows he isn’t real but still absolutely loves christmas and that mistletoe shit. moot knows he isn’t real and doesn’t really care.
If I had a nickel for every time I fell in love with a web series based on a tabletop game that uses limited animation I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened three times
Pst! You know what time it is? New cosplay time! I decided to remake one of if not my favorite cosplays in my collection, Naven Nuknuk from Epithet Erased
This has been by far my most time consuming build (as well as expensive). this cosplay took a total of 279 hours over the span of roughly 8 months to make. That time doesn't include redoing sections or details that didn't make it into the final look.
And now for a detailed look at this whole outfit because dang, I put so many tiny details in.
Starting off with the earring and beads, I used a tequnic called lampwork to make them. The best way I can explain lampworking is like miniature glassblowing
Lampwork uses glass rods heated in a flame to create generally small pieces like beads or buttons. Lampworking can be incredibly detailed. While I'm still fairly beginner at all of this I was able to learn a tequnic called implosion to make the flowers look more 3 dimensional. I also used lampworking to make the buttons on the undershirt!
I did all the 3d modeling for parts like the glasses and the belt buckle. (Stealing pictures from my Instagram because the progress tracker i use corrupted my images)
While I don't usually focus on the 3d modeling in my builds it's a huge passion of mine. After making a model of the belt buckle I put my 3d print into casting clay. After carefully removing it I poured tin in to make the final belt buckle.
I also taught myself basic leather working and tooling to add some apple blossom inspired designs onto the belt and painted it.
Next thing I think I should talk about is the embroidery. I wanted to incorporate more details about naven into his outfit. After asking jello some questions we came to the conclusion that the embroidery should be lillies and carnations. Because of my constant insanity I hand embroidered everything. I also did some embroidery on the pants and used an embroidery floss that changes colors in the sun for fun.
Before I get any questions about materials I'll add in, the white shirt and embroidery are both silk. I struggle to embroider with cotton dye to the sound and feeling it makes, and I felt like being fancy so silk shirt too. The pants are a cotton twill (pretty much jean fabric without the indigo) and the green strips are silk. A perfect Segway into the tatting and knitting!
For those who don't know tatting is a traditional form of lace making found in many different places around the world. There are 2 main forms of tatting, needle tatting and shuttle tatting, I tend to use shuttle tatting due to how nice and portable it is. I thought tatting would be fitting to add to navens outfit due to it's other name, farmers lace.
And now for the big beast of this outfit, the knitting. Like with everything else in this outfit I dyed the yarn myself. It's 80 percent wool to 20 percent silk blend.
Huge thanks to jello for suggesting so many ideas, this outfit wouldn't be nearly as cool as it is otherwise.
Anyways I hope all y'all like the outfit! I had so much fun making this insanity