#i love all the artists but wolfythewitch will always be in my heart

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YOUR TECHNO COSPLAY I AM SCREAMING. SO VERY FERAL. ITS SO GOOD!!!! -🐈‍⬛

HELLO FRIEND IT IS MY PRIDE AND ABSOLUTE FUCKING JOY!!!! IM FINALLY SO PLEASED WITH HOW IT TURNED OUT!!! IM SO SORRY ABOUT HOW VAIN IM ABOUT TO BE BUT IVE BEEN WANTING TO TALK ABOUT THE DETAILS FOR AGES

now i was going to put this further down but i really want to explain what im pretty sure is my biggest unique design choice and why i am FERAL about it, and it's the crown, the literal Bejewelled, Gilded, Crown of Thorns

Description pulled straight from wikipedia: 'The image of the crown of thorns is often used symbolically to contrast with earthly monarchical crowns.' and in explaining how it was used against Jesus 'to cause him pain and to mock his claim of authority'

So obviously techno's minecraft skin has a crown and that's the basis for it; my cosplay had to have a crown, but in the SMP he's a chaotic anarchist, it's his core ideal!

so it's a REMINDER, to himself and to all those who see it; no kings, no government, no one person should reasonably claim authority over a land. no matter how pretty it looks its always a crown of thorns.

IM FERAL AND I WILL NOT ACCEPT CRITICISM ON THIS DESIGN CHOICE

ANYWAYS NOW I HAVE TO FINALLY PROPERLY THANK THE ARTISTS WHO ARE THE REASON THIS COSPLAY LOOKS AS GOOD AS IT DOES

TOP OF THE LIST BAYBEEE @wolfythewitch 's Techno design which was the one that I initially saw and felt the need to cosplay, and their redesign too!!

Things from their design I want to point out in my cosplay that are SPECIFIC homages:

THE BOOTS THE BOOTS THE BOOTS I LITERALLY WOVE MY GOLD EMBROIDERY THREAD INTO SUITABLE LACES THIS YEAR BECAUSE THE OLD ONES WERE TOO YELLOW AND I LOVE THE RICH GOLD MORE

their design is specifically why i use the sclera contacts!!! i feel like its such a striking and unique design detail i knew that my techno cosplay had to have them!! (should also note that it was incredibly difficult to see out of but I still say it's worth it)

the shirt and the red jewelled bolo tie!! love it!!

and the other piece of art that heavily influenced my cosplay was @that-sweet-jester 's FLUFFY HAIR POG piece specifically, like you can see in my version from last year how flat my wig was, but this piece had my whole entire heart and I knew i needed to replicate the volume and style, so i spent HOURS steaming and combing and i put the whole wig in rollers and steamed it with the help of a drag tutorial and fluffed it and it took SO MUCH EFFORT but im SO PLEASED with how it turned out!!! Also their techno has a plethora of gold piercings and pointy ears and as someone with a ton of piercings I LOVED that and so when I put on my prosthetic ears, several of the piercings go through several of my own piercing holes to anchor the prosthetic, including my stretched lobe, which i don't think you really see a lot of :)

but ahhhh let me just ramble about the details for a little bit because the devil was SO in the details and I finally got it to look the way I wanted to!!!

the vibe of the outfit was very much backed on SAD-ist's Hog Hunt animation which gives me chills every time I watch it, and i just want to give off the same vibes as Hog Hunt with my cosplay, and a lot of the little details literally allude to my techno being specifically from when he was being hunted by the Butcher Army:

POTIONS; splash potions of strength, invisibility, and regeneration. i screenshotted from techno's butcher army vod to make sure i had the correct ones. i think i'm going to do proper labels for them so they also say the specific effect. but im happy as fuck with them for now!! Notes: they are remote control light up, and have chameleon powder in them that doesn't disolve in water, which means they look good when I'm still and the powder is settled at the bottle and the light shines through the coloured water, and they look good when I'm walking and not lit up because when they're shaken-

TOTEM OF UNDYING; gold leaf added around the eyes and his little hands, he used to light up but his batteries are unfortunately dead and there's literally no way for me to replace them but he looks good anyways. SO MUCH HOT GLUE

CAPE it used to have a hood but I removed it and kept the fur trim, I also removed the tie that kept it on and added some thin, curved, sturdy wood into the collar so it would keep its shape and not fall off. I bought the cape itself on aliexpress and it came with the gold beading which is an homage to the gold OF on his mc skin without adding an OF... tho I might for next year. And I definitely want to make the trim thicker and neater for next time

The gold chain fastners/ornaments on the cloak near the collar are little tridents !!

the other creator I have to pay respect to is @poodwattle (yes the one who creates all the sick as hell DSMP weapons) as his Orphan Obliterator from last year is the reason I used chameleon powder to make my own look enchanted!! the only part of the sword that i am not responsible for is the base of the blade, but the handle is 100% my creation, as is the handle and pommel, as well as the painting and detailing. each of the sigils on the sword is a real sigil that i found on witchblr but have unfortunately lost the originators of, but i wanna explain the sigils and their connections to the enchantments on the sword:

Fire Aspect II (sets target on fire) - SIGIL: I am connected to the element of fire.

Sharpness V (increases attack damage dealt to mobs) - SIGIL: Destruction & Revenge

Sweeping Edge III (increases damage of sweep attack) - SIGIL: Radiate Power

Unbreaking III (increases durability of item, in effect, by decreasing the chance of the tool, weapon, or armor taking durability damage when used) - SIGIL: I am Unbreakable.

time is the only reason i didn't add Mending and Looting III but i think im going to try and add them before my next outing, as well as a few modifications to the handle itself, but overall i'm so fucking pleased. the blood was probably the hardest part about it and im so glad it looks the way it does!!

the blue holds a very special place in my heart as i didn't actually make it, but in fact, my darling friend @vxidpxnk made it and gave it to me as ender's working on a ghostbur cosplay and im sentimental

other detail-y bits i want to mention

thigh bag - i literally had this laying around the house before i even wanted to cosplay techno but i think it works so well

finger armour and rings!! i just love the vibe, so the finger armour on my non-sword hand and rings on the sword hand :)

TEEF!!!! made from thermal plastic i realised it was fucking difficult to use the hot water method to change and mold the shape once i was happy with how it fit on my tooth so once i got a general idea and a good tooth fit i let it cool outside of my mouth and literally carved it to the final desired shape with a heated scalpel and im SO PLEASED!! do you know how hard it is to make protruding bottom tusks when you have an overbite? BECAUSE I DO

i want to make a stylised pickaxe for if i ever take this cosplay out again, but in the meantime im finishing beekeeper tubbo and designing my HUGE FUCK OFF DREAMXD cosplay that is going to be more work than techno was and already im both exhausted and excited.

ANYWAYS thank you if you made it this far, ive just put so much time and effort in and have been wanting to tell people able the details and inspiration for a very long time,,,,,,