The list I got of possible costumes for Zintiel this round was:
*Nintendo's Luigi
*A magic user from any video game
*A gijinka/costume of a fruit or vegetable
I'm not big on fan stuff to begin with, and Zintiel (this version) being from not-Earth -and- from the future limits what she would be familiar with. That leaves fruits and vegetables. I still hate that word, "gijinka"... why not just say anthropomorphic like normal people?
But anyway! At first I considered... what fruit/vegetable is purple, so Zintiel's hair wouldn't be out of place? The answer, eggplant. Which led me to think of... Eggplant Wizard, a magic-user from Nintendo's Kid Icarus video game... ... 2.5 out of the 3 costume prompts! That tickled my fancy, but because of the reasons above, I wasn't sure I wanted to go with that.
Eventually, I thought of dragon fruit. That is one badass, spiky fruit. And the result is what you see here.
Any reference to a video game in this final picture is purely coincidental.
*Nintendo's Luigi
*A magic user from any video game
*A gijinka/costume of a fruit or vegetable
I'm not big on fan stuff to begin with, and Zintiel (this version) being from not-Earth -and- from the future limits what she would be familiar with. That leaves fruits and vegetables. I still hate that word, "gijinka"... why not just say anthropomorphic like normal people?
But anyway! At first I considered... what fruit/vegetable is purple, so Zintiel's hair wouldn't be out of place? The answer, eggplant. Which led me to think of... Eggplant Wizard, a magic-user from Nintendo's Kid Icarus video game... ... 2.5 out of the 3 costume prompts! That tickled my fancy, but because of the reasons above, I wasn't sure I wanted to go with that.
Eventually, I thought of dragon fruit. That is one badass, spiky fruit. And the result is what you see here.
Any reference to a video game in this final picture is purely coincidental.
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can you say
dragonfruit arms
DAWN OF DOOM!!!!
Fruit Warrior?
Good luck!
(Sorry.)
I've never had one either! I thought I should, since I was doing this... but they didn't have any at the grocery store this week XD
And thank you!
And... it's a dragon tail! (the hair) Well, sort of XD
Though at least they aren't incredibly specific.... but I can see how someone might not be inspired by those!
(the truth is that at the time I thought Zintiel as Power Girl and Sage as Velma would be awesome... oh myyyy)
I hate the word gijinka as well. I get that it stems from the popularity of anime and the need to say "kawaii" instead of "cute" but it doesn't make it any less stupid.
(I am also annoyed by french characters in movies speaking perfect (accented) english but using a random french word here and there... NOBODY does that in real life)