(no subject)

[ang]

Was looking at Lunatic costume design. Noticed flares. Suddenly desired fanart re-imagining Tiger & Bunny characters in 1978-era American superhero comics. Fire Emblem and Blue Rose would both absolutely wear some sort of Mike-Grell-on-Legion-of-Super-Heroes* monstrosities. It is like the opposite of all those fics where Barnaby isn't a hero and is Edna Mode instead, where everyone wears costumes that are even less practical than what they're already wearing.

Am so rusty in re: writing that not even write-or-die on kamikaze mode is getting me past the "Why is my word document blank? :(" phase. Drastic measures may need to be taken. [edit: And the minute I whine about it in LJ I suddenly vomit up 500 words I don't hate and have a rough outline. This is like whining to guild chat about shitty drop rates to make drops happen.]


* For those of you who give fewer fucks about the Legion than I do, that would be the guy who put Cos in a corset and Saturn Girl in a bikini.

Comments

[some_stars]

HOORAY 500 WORDS.

I think the biggest change with the costuming would be seeing everyone's faces and bodies. Huge robot suits are not very seventies.

Barnaby would wear just businesslike spandex without a lot of design elements except probably some awful colorblocking. (Or am I thinking eighties costumes?) And I think he'd find Kotetsu's cape (and cape-love) kind of annoying. On the one hand, he probably considered a cape for himself to improve his dramatic appeal, because capes look cool and people like them. On the other hand, they don't even do anything, they just flutter around >:(

Also I'm seeing Antonio in one of those weird "costumes" made of basically regular clothes that have been turned into crazy. Like, a shirt and pants...but seventies superhero shirt and pants. And a huge ridiculous belt. ...I'm thinking of Luke Cage again, aren't I? I just really want Antonio in that waist-deep v-neck with all his chest hair bursting out, it would be great.

MORE THOUGHTS TO COME, probably. I am already constructing Sky High's new costume in my mind.

[ang]

I am ok with Antonio being Luke Cage. I am also ok with his chest bursting out all over the place because he is RATED M FOR MANLY and that happens sometimes ok.

I am also ok with Barnaby having the Spartanest costume. It's really hard for me to imagine him not being all Edna Mode practical about his outfits even if everyone else is being ridiculous.

Kotetsu loves his cape. TBH I bet his costume is pretty similar to his crappy suit from the first episode except he has an actual superhero logo instead of his sponsor on his chest, and I think his cape might be a little longer? And probably a few other design elements to make it more 70s less 80s.

[some_stars]

I was trying to figure out why his original suit didn't feel as old-school to me as it should, and I thought it was the huge blocks of white--which I still think is kind of weird--but then I found some fanart without the sponsor logo and realized, it's totally the logo. It makes the design too busy. Although also, I'd reduce the white area a bit, and darken the yellow to gold like in this picture and just generally simplify things a little. But yeah, it totally works.

(Also I love that I found this by image-googling "tiger & bunny crapsuit".)

[some_stars]

Also I'm having a lot of trouble imagining Sky High in a mask. A LOT. A huge helmet, sure, but specifically covering his face feels wrong. I think maybe a half-face mask, with clearly visible eyes, and also you can see his hair? Although I have a domino mask kink because DAMMIT COMICS, and they're even more sexy on people who seem like they shouldn't be wearing them. So, yeah.

[ang]

one of those cowl-type things with the hair still showing a la johnny quick, or just a mask with more coverage?

i mean, it's not like you can't give him a helmet; dr. fate has always had one, it's not necessarily un-superheroy. although i really want to somehow keep the epaulets, and that + helmet might be too military?

although i know what you mean... a domino mask on sky high just feels weird.

[some_stars]

Yeah, like a half-cowl with a cutout for the hair. IDEK how those are supposed to stay on but w/e. And somehow in a western comics context a helmet feels really distancing, and that's the main thing that feels weird about the mask and all. Sky High does not distance himself!

(of course now my brain is all META TIME and thinking about how he is distanced, he just doesn't seem all that close to any of them, or anyone else, despite being so friendly and caring, and omg I need fic. That I will probably not get. BUT ANYWAY. Meta break over.)

I need to go look at everyone's costumes again, I have such a terrible memory for this stuff. I can remember their civilian outfits! But that's not very helpful. Actually I think Dragon Kid might just wear her out-of-costume jumpsuit, but more streamlined/less like actual fabric, with a couple accents like maybe a belt or cuffs. And a different collar.

[ang]

Keith basically fell in love with Cleverbot, which I think tells you the quality of human interaction he has on a regular basis. (Tbh, colorswapped Fate's helmet + a coat pretty similar to his current one would, I think, work pretty well. On the other hand, you're right that that sort of costume gives him a bit of a ~mystic distance~ [most of the heroes who wear full helmets tend to be distant in a ... more than social way.] and I think it doesn't fit super well with him being... well. sort of a dim puppy dog inside.)

Dragon Kid's outfit is sorta... hm. I guess it depends how far into the sort of 70s kung fu/martial arts movie aesthetic you want to get/what direction you want to take that, I think.

[some_stars]

That is not an aesthetic I'm familiar with, like...at all? So I have no idea really.

OH KEITH. I am full of love and hugs for you. He shouldn't be lonely, it's too sad :(

[ang]

tbh it's an aethetic i'm only familiar with in the sense of more modern movies evoking it, really, so i'm not on the sturdiest footing either. i do feel like that's sort of how her costume would have been inspired/designed at the time though. hm.

IT'S OK HE HAS JOHN. JOHN IS HIS SOULMATE LC.

[some_stars]

A lot of billowing cloth and sashes and swords? Actually that's how they'd design Ivan if he was an actual Japanese character, oh seventies comics.

THAT MAKES IT EVEN MORE SAD :(((

[ang]

Yeah, that would absolutely be ivan. he would have the most ridiculous costume. [Now I'm like lol ivan is danny rand in spirit, if not in powers/abiities]

actually, basing dragon kids off her current civilian outfit wouldn't be too bad, since that does give that aesthetic, being the bruce lee jumpsuit. hm.

[some_stars]

If he were Japanese they would make him be a ~samurai hero.~ I'm pretty sure there was a Superfriend like that. (So uh, we can just ignore that particular reality for Kotetsu, obviously.) But yeah as it is...oh Ivan. He totally is Danny Rand. Does this mean Antonio/Ivan bromance? Because that's kind of weirding me out, tbh.

I just feel like there were a fair amount of jumpsuited heroes back then? It is an aesthetic I recall encountering. Usually more disco-type jumpsuits but same difference.

[ang]

yeah, a bit less wide of a white area on the chest, and maybe mess with the boots.