#larp oc

[soliscital]

Heyhey I'm jumping on the bandwagon! :D I've been tagged by @artekai to do this picrew with my OCs!

Alas, I nominate @erevoid, @odnyrion, @anagniou, @novastellaris to join the trend (because you've all got awesome OCs) (and because you're the only people I remotely know on this site help <3) No pressure to do it though!

From left to right!

• Sorya (Horizon Zero Dawn): A former Eclipse runaway who's on a quest to right her wrongs. Journeying back to Meridian with newfound company, she slowly learns how to live life anew.

• Meril (Horizon Zero Dawn): A Banuk shaman who's trying to get over his traumatizing past. Curious about the world of the Old Ones, he finds comfort in trying to uncover stories of the past. (Meril belongs to @erevoid <3)

• Anash (Horizon Zero Dawn): A high ranking Eclipse who's devastated at the loss of Sorya, his only friend. Upon learning that she's faked her death, he abandons his morals and restraints and goes down a dark path, having sworn revenge on her. (Anash belongs to @erevoid <3)

• Luyten (Oneirophobia - D&D Original): A felifolk barbarian who's banished from her village for treacherous behavior against their religion. She and her unlikely friends adventure their way through the world of Speira and delve into the mysterious realm of dreams.

• Mercury (LARP Original): An orphan from a raided village who grew up to be an assassin for hire. Mercury makes her way into the ranks of a royal faction where she serves as a scout. She struggles with her identity as a person and doesn't let her emotions slip easily, making it hard to approach and befriend.

• Nameless (Minecraft): A biblically accurate amnesiac. Nameless claims to have fallen from the Aether but has forgotten everything else ever since and is desperately trying to find her way back. She spents her time in the Overworld learning how it works with the humans who nursed her back to health.

• Sol (Elite Dangerous): A seasoned pilot who loves explore the unknown. She's rebelled against the will of her parents to support the Federation, which has costed her contact with her younger sibling. She aspires to reconnect with them one day.

• Eden (Twenty One Pilots): A double agent who's an informant for the banditos, while also a trusted member between the bishops. The more she uncovers within the facility the further she's driven away from them. She slowly learns how to live between the rebels.

• Koi (Kingdom Hearts): Teleported from her homeworld under mysterious circumstances to Traverse Town like many others, Koi has to get used to a new form, environment and people, as well as dangers. She meets Tenelux, a fellow keyblade wielder who sticks around so they can find how to get back home together, combating darkness and jumping from world to world.

[tigrensis]

Major Project: Stanpipe

I started creating my next LARP character, Stanpipe, in late 2021. He has had plenty of time to develop and be refined as my current character seems to be immune to death (I've been playing them for almost six years at this point). Stanpipe began as a thought, ‘I want to play a healer’, and has slowly been refined into the horrible little mushroom man he is today.

The costume, like the character, has gone through multiple iterations. I started by making a generic blanket cape, I hadn’t decided on the decay theme yet and instead, I was working on something simple to keep me warm at night. I embroidered dark blue blanket stitches around the edge and some beads on the edge worn around the neck. I also added some lavender embroidery to the front. I wanted to look non-threatening, I'm not a big fan of combat so I went with a softer look initially.

After a while I started to develop the idea of a mushroom-themed character, at events, I saw a lot of people making characters with mushroom aesthetics. These people were often going down the route of cute fey characters with fly agaric themed clothing. I like these costumes but they don’t appeal to me as something I'd wear. I’m not interested in representations of mushrooms that remove them from their context of decay and rot. I’m much more interested in a darker interpretation of a mushroom character. I have also completely flipped on the idea of looking non-threatening, I want to look scary, I want people to be nervous when I come to heal them, and I want to have fun whilst I'm doing it.

I settled on a core concept of a character who had once been a fey but had taken a nap in a forest one day. A few thousand years later he woke up, to find that he had been partially consumed by mushrooms, he had decayed whilst staying alive. There's a lot more I want to say about decay and how it relates to my identity and experiences. I would much rather give those thoughts a separate place to breathe.

The question of whether Stanpipe is the mushrooms, the original fey, or a mixture of both will never be answered. I want to leave this ambiguous for multiple reasons. The main reason is that there's no sense in having an overly written backstory as it does not impact what happens in the game, it can also be difficult to keep track of. Instead, I have a few key facts for my characters that I use to inform their actions and reactions.

My key facts for Stanpipe are:

He was a fey farmer in ancient history

He took a nap one day

He woke up like this

He knows nothing about anything

To match my costume to my character I ended up altering a straw boater and my already made blanket cloak. I used dried lichens that I had gathered after a storm to alter the hat and make it look taken over by nature. I'm still very happy with the hat and I’m looking forward to wearing it in character.

My blanket cloak I am less happy with my, I started by painting lichens onto the blanket using a mix of acrylic paints. I experimented a lot with texture and colour to varying degrees of success. Some of the lichens are too bright and I need to darken them in the future.

I also used real lichens on the shoulders with mushrooms sculpted out of clay. It looks nice in pictures but I quickly found that the lichens, which were living in this case, were difficult to maintain and would be extremely fragile when worn. This fragility would be made even worse by the fact that the LARP I attend is a boffer system meaning that I’d need to be able to move quickly and take hits. For now, I’ve decided to take off the lichens and mushrooms and will re-use them on other, more stable, projects.

To complete this costume there are still a few things left to do, I need to make shirts and trousers. The trousers are almost complete, they just need a waistband (I think I’ll turn the trousers into a separate post because I like them so much). Normally I would use one of the shirts I already own but because Stanpipe is decay-themed I want to be able to break down the shirts and make them look old and rotted. I wouldn’t want to do that to something that wasn’t built for it. It also means that I can make them look however I want, it can be hard sometimes to find a LARP kit that fits me well so I don’t want to buy something that does and then restrict it to being used by just one character.

I’m also starting on making some vests for the character to wear which I am going to go for it with the breakdown. One will be made of scuba suede which is a thick stretchy synthetic fabric with a pile. The other will be knitted from alpaca wool and will have tufts of felting wool knitted into it as I go, the goal is to create a mossy appearance. I’m going to be experimenting with growing plant life on them to see what sort of damage the root system does. I'm expecting some sort of staining at the least however I am currently sceptical about whether any damage will occur to the scuba suede because of how thick it is.

Here are some work-in-progress images from the trousers and the vests.

[ozcarr]

rough Neotropolis/Wasteland weekend persona concepts because I’m insatiable now ig sorry

thoughts and notes under cut

1. When I was discussing concepts originally, I pitched an android doctor, but the more time I spent on Pinterest looking at other peoples costumes the more I was convinced I needed to go-big-or-go-home, and prosthetic panel lines just weren’t going to satisfy me. Had to go full robot about it. Top 10 predictable moments probably. 3 things about me are that I’m committed to the bit, I love hemorrhaging money, and I love wearing uncomfortable clothes

The mask/helmet is from Burgerstrings Designs LLC. He does great work, and I love the idea of buying a blank to customize myself. I haven’t made costumes in a few years and I want to be redeemed, I guess.

This is actually the second time I made up an evil robot doctor character and maybe I’m just an unoriginal fraud but idgaf. Kind of obsessed with the idea of a surgeon who can’t experience -- and consequently doesn’t understand -- physical pain. I think it’s really sinister and compelling and I will not be silenced.

Inspo highlights: A / B / C

2. Not as much to say about this one. Thought hazard signage theming would be fun. I really like old motorcycle/motorcross helmets, I think they hit a lot of the same notes as space helmets (and also you can by them used cheap)

I’m sure a psychologist would love to get into why I covered the face in every concept, but honest to god I just don’t want to think about styling my hair or getting a close shave at a campground. Also I look awful in yellow.

Inspo highlights: A / B / C

3. Just really wanted to do a western look; I think they're underutilized at the event, judging from what I've seen. The original vibe I wanted to go for had a poncho/serape situation but... the heat, man. I had to pair it down, had to look out for my hypothetical future self.

I'm so committed to not dying that I've convinced myself that I can successfully sew two pairs of pants together in lieu of real chaps, but maybe I'm crazy for that idk

Inspo highlights: A / B / C

[whitegoldtower]

Silly little elf cosplay by a silly little man (me)

[the-renaissance-cowboy]

I have so much art to post,

I have a migraine so for now just a quick sketch of my larp character

[mircalla-tepez]

~Asenath Waite: Cult of Dagon~

Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's work we tried to go for a Cthulhu cultist themed session. Based on the only really remarkable (at least seemingly) female character by Lovecraft, Asenath Waite, I wanted to create a glamorous look with only one single detail that would seem rather offputing. To emphasize with the fish people theme, I dropped Asenath's huge, fishlike eyes and rather went for gills - except for the one picture where I tried to make my eyes pop as much as humanly possible... ^^° _ Model+MuA: Mircalla Tepez Foto+Edit: _soulcatcher_photography_ Neronomicon: Naruvien

[liyacreate]

Just got back late last night from my first ren faire/larp and god it was so fun!!! It was also the first ren faire in the Philippines!

I also learned my gay audacity, years of "strategizing" (read as fantasizing), and like the 3 times I tried archery (which all times I was standing still, had all the time in the world, and was shooting at still targets) and all the swinging around sticks I did as a child was not enough to suddenly make me a god at battle

Who would have guessed?

[47crows]

Fear

[rin-claymore]

Drew a friend's larp character, Yue.

[doodling-gods]

you cannot tell me this isnt their dynamic

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[seeingredcedar]

She’s designed all her trauma into tattoos. She’s died upwards of eight times. She’s survived an infinite death castle. She’s been possessed, backstabbed, beheaded and nearly once buried in glue. She’s the boring aunt. She’s a hater of robots. She’s an Inter-planar time criminal with a bounty on her head. I’m so normal about her forever

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A portrait-style illustration of a young woman with silver-grey shoulder length hair and tan skin. She is wearing a wide brim green hat that casts a shadow over her eyes. In her left ear is a dangling earring in the shape of a small door. A ring of pale scar tissue rings her neck, and she wears a green shirt patterned with flowers, loose brown and tan vest, and a necklace with a silver ring on it. She is looking to the right and smiling faintly.

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[procrastination-station-77]

In mourning </333

If he had a nickel for every time someone he viewed as a role model/parent/parental figure died and their soul was attached to an object, he’d have 3 nickels… which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened thrice!

[tigrensis]

It looks way better after adding the shoulder straps. And the pattern is finally photographing correctly!

[rampagemagpie]

OLDER art. Based on my airsoft LARP stalker adventures... My character accidently turned into a sleeping agent of the monolith :') The irl picture is me, being a monolith member for a night in an exso in the monolith base, years back at one of the as stalker LARP events.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Health/protection items for my LARP/D&D OC.

Yeah I'm posting my photography again.

[ashleyrowan]

Commission for a friend of mine. When they said "i want you to do Pieta sculpture but they're both my vampire LARP characters" I was immediately excited.

Not exactly pride art, but it is VERY gay so here you go. Happy Pride Month everybody XD