#Catherine Parr (Six)

[montygatorguy]

some stupid theatre memes i made in imgflip

enjoy

[uhhhh-em-draws-stuff]

Two queens in a king sized bed by girl in red and history hates lovers by Oublaire unironically fits every six the musical ship and I love it.

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Wesley Carpenter's Universal Costumes!!

Y'all would not believe how excited I am to be talking about this. I've been hoping ever since Bliss 3.0 closed that we'd get a chance to see Wesley back and I think @lightleckrereins can confirm how much I lost my shit when she returned. So, without further ado, here's the costume breakdown:

Boleyn The top certainly seems like it was altered, so it probably wasn't initially made for her. But it's difficult to identify re-use with Boleyns so I can't easily confirm which, although I have a shortlist of what it may be. Possible that the skirt is new. Her wig is a very typical straight wig with space buns.

Seymour Her corset is Jasmine Forsberg's Aragon Tour corset** with new cups (oh foundation stains how you make me laugh). The skirt looks like it's an older pattern, so I'm inclined to think it's an old NCL skirt.* Wesley has a blonde wig with a center part and some hair pulled to each side. The rest is left down and curled. No bouffant.

Howard The top/corset is definitely new, but leotard is up for debate. She has the typical Howard pony.

Parr With this one we don't have the most thorough photos to compare with, but I suspect the top is Gabriela Carrillo’s tour top.** The peplum seems like it used to be Sydney Parra's. The pants could easily be reused or a new make. She has a back ponytail in the same style that's been slowly standardized for most of the North American mainland queens.

Boots Wesley has the interchangeable strap/neutral heel alt boots with a single thick strap. *Note that now that the NCL run is done and all the final queens have their costumes, ownership of the NCL costumes should be reverting back to Six itself rather than NCL. **Both Jasmine (corset) and Gabriela got a new top for Broadway.

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Top right Boleyn photo from @/kelsifulton. Photo of Seymour boots (right in boot collage) from @/gbackal. All others from @/wesleykcarpenter.

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LOOK AT HER

9 Aug 2023, @/laurenmariasoosay

[thesixthrandomuser]

Took forever but I finally finished her!

Cathy Parr! 1/6

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[princesskiii]

Drop some trauma headcanons for our favorite dead tudor queens >:)

 𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 !

Trauma, like bad shit crazy trauma/j, angst, ofc

↳ Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Kathryn Howard, Catherine Parr

Catherine of Aragon

☆ Mentally stable who

☆ Abandonment issues

☆ Completely believes the other queens will ditch her if she's not perfect enough

☆ Also generally fears being alone

☆ And any and all pains in her abdomen

☆ There's a common rule not to let any stomach virus reach her

☆ It got put in place after she got in a complete state of panic, believing she would die again.

☆ Can not be left in the house alone without her mind resorting to when she was imprisoned

☆ It terrifies her

Anne Boleyn

☆ The 'chaos gremlin' thing is a front

☆ She got killed for (among other things) being smart and standing her ground

☆ Continously afraid of doing or saying the wrong thing

☆ Corrected Aragon on something once, terrified to look her in the eyes for weeks

☆ Probably smartest person in the house, absolutely terrified of it

☆ Has spirals where she'll do anything the queens ask, her inobedience was another reason for her dearh

Jane Seymour

☆ Common hc, but terrified of illnesses

☆ Even the slightest headache will send her spiraling

☆ Similarly to Anne, has spirals where she'll do anything the queens ask

☆ But she'll be incredibly quiet and reserved, attempting to stay in their shadow

☆ She's extremely motherly, even if she's among the youngest

☆ She never got a chance

☆ Doesn't share om her opinion much, afraid it start a fight

Anna of Cleves

☆ Incredibly insecure

☆ She knows many people in history compliment her on her looks, but when a king says it

☆ Terrified of people sneaking up on her, even if it's any back hugs

☆ There's an unspoken rule to never even slightly startle her

☆ Incredible fear of storms too, surprisingly the reason the queens are all togheter during thunderstorms

☆ almost opposite to what the show well, shows. She's rather humble and timid. Never having any force to anything she says or does

Kathryn Howard

☆ The obvious

☆ terrified of men, to the point of having to physically stick to one of the other queens

☆ catches herself sexualizing herself

☆ Or sugarcoating her expierences, trying to make them seem fun and pleasureful instead of gruesome rape

☆ Is the youngest, does not enjoy it

☆ Always feels like she has to prove she's a well capable adult, she's 19 for god's sake

☆ The thought of even trying a relationship with anyone terrifies her

☆ Most of her memories are painful blurs to her

Catherine Parr

☆ Very similair to Jane, actually.

☆ Terrified of illnesses as well, will also spiral at the slightest headache

☆ Keeps to themselves a lot, their opinion almost had them lose their head.

☆ Apologizes to Anne almost everyday, even if they had no idea what they were doing at the time

☆ Is technically part of mom club(tm), Never got to actually be a mom to their (bio) daughter. Deals with it differently from Jane, has trouble actually being motherly

☆ Terrified of the others keeping secrets from them, or not saying anything when their being annoying or anything

[that-boleyn-boy]

Some silly art I did for @cavernfullofexistentialdread free for consumption

[mighty-morphin-theatre-nerd]

The new NA Parr ponytail > West End Tour Parr ponytail

I'm just saying.

[romanticstrawberii]

Parr: What do you do when someone offers you drugs? Howard: Take them! Aragon: Punch them in the neck. Seymour: Say thank you! Boleyn: Offer them more drugs to assert dominance. Parr: Parr: No.

[unwrittenemmy]

i have begun

[not-a-healthy-human]

Anne: Why do people always assume I'm up to something?! I'm harmless! Mostly!

Lina: You're gremlin-shaped

Jane: Your smile looks threatening

Anna: Your general energy screams danger

Kat: You're wearing heelys to a formal party

Cathy: Are we serious?! Did none of you notice she's holding a lit-up torch and a trident?!

[montygatorguy]

just saw a six fan getting bullied for saying their favorite song was i don’t need your love 😐

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Yk what I’m shocked that doesn’t exist? A SIX pitch perfect au, considering making it tbh

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Why did Roxanne, Erin and Kelsey all switch from the side pony tail to the braid and back pony tail? Roxanne's old Parr wig was one of the best of any production, and to switch out both Erin and Kelsey's wigs when they're different from what Gabriella wore or what they used to wear just feels bizarre

Wig design is basically about trying to take the typical standardized styles and translate them to the individual actors’ faces, hair/skin tones, and textures. (Here’s a great in-depth post Sofia did that goes into more detail about this and talks about Roxanne Couch’s change too). In this case, the mid-ponytails are more flattering on them than the side.

Some styles just work better than others for different facial shapes - some people look better with a high up do, with a low, half pulled back, all down, bangs, whatever. In Roxanne’s case, the side ponytail was a little too harsh; the new wig softens and flatters her face more subtly. Similar reason for Erin Ramirez/Marilyn Caserta/Kelsee Kimmel as well. The old styles weren’t bad on them, and it was nice on Roxanne particularly! But the new styling is a better fit for all of them.

It’s also pretty heavily based on hair texture. The initial side Parr styling was based on a style sometimes worn by Alicia Keys, and the hairstyle is primarily worn by Black women. As such it's based on a range of hair types and textures that we mostly see in (some) Black women: defined, soft, loose curls with a lot of volume. If you're familiar with hair typing, it's going to work best with hair in the type 3 categories (here's a good introductory article with examples). It's a gorgeous style that can look lovely! It was very flattering on Maiya Quansah-Breed and has continued to work well for queens with similar hair styles. But Six has struggled from the start with adapting it to other hair types and textures. Most of the other Six hairstyles are generic enough that they can be adapted to different textures with minimal change to the overall aesthetic. The original Parr not so much, because it really needs that specific combo of qualities for the hairstyle to work. If you have the looseness but don't have the right curl or the volume it looks too flat and asymmetrical, which we saw with Gabriela Carrillo's initial hairstyle; if you go for the curl but go too short or structured it's just not going to flatter as many of the actors and you've lost that really lovely softness, which we've seen with quite a few of the non-Black actors' styles. Many of the Black actors naturally have the hair texture(s) and type(s) that lend itself well to the hairstyle, so they've generally had a lot of success with those. For the Black actors that don't, they've generally A. adapted the hairstyle to work with their natural hair (usually for queens with enough volume that it still translates well, like Viquichele Cross or Danielle Steers), OR B. given them a wig that may not quite match their natural hair texture, but still looks natural and allows for the right texture/structure. (Generally queens in both camps have a type 4 hair texture and which they go for has depended on budget and hair care for the individual actor.) But for the non-Black actors, that's much more difficult. Very few non-Black actors have hair that's even remotely the right texture for this hairstyle: actors like Gabriela Carrillo and Roxanne Couch have some texture but not enough of the curl and volume needed, while actors like Erin Ramirez and Kelsee Kimmel have natural hair textures that are much closer to working but still don't quite work. They could give these actors a wig with a texture different than their own that would be more conducive to the style, but while doing so generally reads as natural on the Black queens, doing so for non-Black queens would often make the wig read as unnatural or even outright inappropriate. The UK has historically gotten around all that by doing the curly side ponytail. It does work fairly well, but it's still not flattering on everyone and the style they go for is visibly unnaturally curled, which isn't inherently bad but doesn't work as well for Parr as it does for some of the other queens (her whole vibe is very low fuss, or as low as it can be given the spectacle that is Six costumes). It's not a bad choice, and like you said Roxanne's was one of the best! But it's not going to work well for everyone, and for Roxanne specifically the switch to a back ponytail is a slightly better fit, and of course they've continued that trend since.

In the US (and NCL) there's been a whole lot of experimentation. The Aragon Tour alone has gone through multiple different hairstyles. Think Gabriela Carrillo's original Aragon Tour side-swept to her loose low side ponytail, compared to Kelsee Kimmel and Erin Ramirez's loose curly updos piled more directly on top of their heads. Over on the Boleyn Tour we've seen Tay Pearlstein with a smaller and more structured side updo, and then Sydney Parra with a looser and relatively longer side ponytail (which is one of my personal favorites, actually!). For Gabi and Sydney they experimented until they got to styles they ultimately were happy with, and now they're standardized to the current back ponytail iteration, but Erin/Kelsee/Tay never quite had that. TL;DR: Back ponytail is both more flattering on most of them + an easier style adaptation for some of the queens whose hair doesn't lend itself as well to the side ponytails.

Also quick note that there’s also nothing saying the alternates’ hairstyles have to be remotely identical to the principals! Six has never really gone for that anyway, beyond the usual standardization. Like I said, they experimented with Gabi's wig (over a longgg period of time) until they got to something they were happy with, but it seems like they just never got to that point with Erin/Kelsee/Tay/etc!

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12 Jun 2022, @/mallorymaedke

[thesixthrandomuser]

I decided to draw her bc I know yall will destroy her (and us) next chapter

I swear I didn't mean to make her look so tired lmao

(TDBLF is written by both @the-ten-amongst-these-threes and @katwhohasahat)

Her hair was way too hard to figure out, harder than Anna's

(Au owned by both @the-ten-amongst-these-threes and @katwhohasahat!! The first fic is under the cut!)

The fic I'm referring to (Read the one above first tho, it would make more sense)