Where I am distracting myself with style
Jun. 8th, 2017 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethLast night I dreamt I had basic temporal micromanipulation powers
so I could more or less freeze the bad guys where they stood, while the hostages legged it
but it was like that time the bed fell over - sooner or later the inevitable is going to happen, and it's going to crunch.
... that time it crunched the furniture not me, but, the basic principle applies.
Power to bit pause would be really really useful, but if you don't know when it's going to unpause, really really stressful too.
Also I don't see how it's useful against most weapons unless you also get a degree of precognition. I mean most people only notice the bullet after it hits them, it's not like you can see it and react.
ANYways, this was a good excuse to spend the afternoon on heromachine, designing my costume.
The basic problem with costumes is, like, why are you wearing them?
I mean, especially if you've got a subtle power like the pause thing, which you don't need much to trigger. In the dream I put my hands up like I was catching and pushing, but that looks a useful lot like 'I surrender'. Wouldn't you want to just look like a civilian, hide in the crowd, and slink away?
Granted that means bad guys shooting the crowd, but if you're not significantly more bulletproof than the average, color me tempted.
Police get a uniform because of the whole power/responsibility bit. Like, there's things police in uniforms are entitled to do, but in return they are obliged to do them on relevant request, and must wear a unique identifier so everyone knows exactly who done it.
Vigilantes profit not from wearing a unique identifier.
I mean if you've got some form of registration and the costume is by way of being a uniform identifying you as affiliates with a licenced group, or one with a certain heritage or credentials, then sure, makes sense.
But if you've just got powers and a tendency to use them, whyever put yourself out there like that?
I wouldn't mess with magic... much... and certainly not in Con-Job's style, but I feel a certain sympathy for the trenchcoat brigade. I mean, the prototype has gone a bit out of fashion, but the basic idea is they look as ordinary as it's possible to look, practical clothes of the common man sort of thing, up until ordinary turns around and bites you.
... maybe might have distracted myself there going looking for 'gold trenchcoat'. Not the sparkly sort, just, I've been thinking on the Time Agency wearing green gold black, like the butterfly in A Sound Of Thunder. That's basic army surplus colors too, as long as you interpret gold loosely in a deserty way, but if it's trenchcoat colors too then there's good wearables for all occasions.
Of course if I'm going to stand around anywhere near fights I'll want armour. It's amazing what you can get in kevlar these days, or motorcycle type stuff. I mean if you've got an inventor on your team you can go super custom, but if not, probably just looking at tough and already available.
... and either my character has less boobs than me or it needs to fit appropriately over K cups. Apparently this has been a problem in army gear before.
... huh, I just found something that looks a *lot* like Captain Cold's parka but claims to be bulletproof. *makes notes*
... dumbass sizing on some of these sites though, I just saw a sizing guide call anything under 5' 9" 'short'. Even an average man is only five eight, what are they even thinking?
Concealable vests can go under anything, though ladies sizing seems to be a custom order job everywhere (eyeroll). Some of the offered leather jackets and parkas are really quite stylish. Serious bulletproofing is not soft and only goes over vitals, so I feel you don't want to advertise it's there. Unless you do like Batman and draw a target on the most heavily armoured bit.
ANYway, armour is achievable, but not cheap. Black is easiest to find by a long chalk but one of them parkas was gold (and red, green, blue). So if you want armoured in a streetclothes look, lo, it can be had.
But if you're teaming up with the Flash you have to wonder how often he'll transport you places, and how often you would end up on fire if you wear something ordinary.
... there are costume changes in the episode with Felicity that make no sense unless you assume her previous costume caught fire on the way over there. But if that's the reason she changed it happened repeatedly. So.
Letting Cisco design your costume is going to be substantially more skintight leather than I, personally, am accustomed to.
Honestly if I was designing a costume I'd start with Ms Marvel, the current one. There is nothing wrong with a little modesty. The world does not need to see my butt in lycra.
But there's a problem there if you intend to conceal your identity. I mean, in a small group like at Star labs, there's only two of them with the build to be speedsters, and guess what, they are. Concealment runs out of useful once range is that close. And I am not a shape that could stand next to superheroes, however I was clothed, and look all matching. I mean, even in a corset, there's quite a lot of me. ... especially in a corset in some respects.
However if you're going to hide in a crowd until you step forwards in some kind of mask and start doing flashy stuff, you need to figure costumes and clothes and how they interact. And there's something to be said for dressing like I usually do as a top layer, but keeping armour and more of a standard fitting superhero costume underneath. I mean there's certainly room, I wear double layers like that all winter, and nobody's seeing me in skin tights for butt comparison purposes unless they're already close enough to be trusted.
... only Dick Grayson has been identified by his butt in canon, but it has happened to him repeatedly.
Temperature control in the summer would be a Problem, but then, it always is.
Maybe Cisco can figure out how to air condition the things. A much smaller application of the tech behind the heat and cold guns, and way more likely to get popular...
I'll interrupt this train of thought to go do Thursday things.
But costumes are fun.
Even if I do tend to have the same thoughts about them every time.
so I could more or less freeze the bad guys where they stood, while the hostages legged it
but it was like that time the bed fell over - sooner or later the inevitable is going to happen, and it's going to crunch.
... that time it crunched the furniture not me, but, the basic principle applies.
Power to bit pause would be really really useful, but if you don't know when it's going to unpause, really really stressful too.
Also I don't see how it's useful against most weapons unless you also get a degree of precognition. I mean most people only notice the bullet after it hits them, it's not like you can see it and react.
ANYways, this was a good excuse to spend the afternoon on heromachine, designing my costume.
The basic problem with costumes is, like, why are you wearing them?
I mean, especially if you've got a subtle power like the pause thing, which you don't need much to trigger. In the dream I put my hands up like I was catching and pushing, but that looks a useful lot like 'I surrender'. Wouldn't you want to just look like a civilian, hide in the crowd, and slink away?
Granted that means bad guys shooting the crowd, but if you're not significantly more bulletproof than the average, color me tempted.
Police get a uniform because of the whole power/responsibility bit. Like, there's things police in uniforms are entitled to do, but in return they are obliged to do them on relevant request, and must wear a unique identifier so everyone knows exactly who done it.
Vigilantes profit not from wearing a unique identifier.
I mean if you've got some form of registration and the costume is by way of being a uniform identifying you as affiliates with a licenced group, or one with a certain heritage or credentials, then sure, makes sense.
But if you've just got powers and a tendency to use them, whyever put yourself out there like that?
I wouldn't mess with magic... much... and certainly not in Con-Job's style, but I feel a certain sympathy for the trenchcoat brigade. I mean, the prototype has gone a bit out of fashion, but the basic idea is they look as ordinary as it's possible to look, practical clothes of the common man sort of thing, up until ordinary turns around and bites you.
... maybe might have distracted myself there going looking for 'gold trenchcoat'. Not the sparkly sort, just, I've been thinking on the Time Agency wearing green gold black, like the butterfly in A Sound Of Thunder. That's basic army surplus colors too, as long as you interpret gold loosely in a deserty way, but if it's trenchcoat colors too then there's good wearables for all occasions.
Of course if I'm going to stand around anywhere near fights I'll want armour. It's amazing what you can get in kevlar these days, or motorcycle type stuff. I mean if you've got an inventor on your team you can go super custom, but if not, probably just looking at tough and already available.
... and either my character has less boobs than me or it needs to fit appropriately over K cups. Apparently this has been a problem in army gear before.
... huh, I just found something that looks a *lot* like Captain Cold's parka but claims to be bulletproof. *makes notes*
... dumbass sizing on some of these sites though, I just saw a sizing guide call anything under 5' 9" 'short'. Even an average man is only five eight, what are they even thinking?
Concealable vests can go under anything, though ladies sizing seems to be a custom order job everywhere (eyeroll). Some of the offered leather jackets and parkas are really quite stylish. Serious bulletproofing is not soft and only goes over vitals, so I feel you don't want to advertise it's there. Unless you do like Batman and draw a target on the most heavily armoured bit.
ANYway, armour is achievable, but not cheap. Black is easiest to find by a long chalk but one of them parkas was gold (and red, green, blue). So if you want armoured in a streetclothes look, lo, it can be had.
But if you're teaming up with the Flash you have to wonder how often he'll transport you places, and how often you would end up on fire if you wear something ordinary.
... there are costume changes in the episode with Felicity that make no sense unless you assume her previous costume caught fire on the way over there. But if that's the reason she changed it happened repeatedly. So.
Letting Cisco design your costume is going to be substantially more skintight leather than I, personally, am accustomed to.
Honestly if I was designing a costume I'd start with Ms Marvel, the current one. There is nothing wrong with a little modesty. The world does not need to see my butt in lycra.
But there's a problem there if you intend to conceal your identity. I mean, in a small group like at Star labs, there's only two of them with the build to be speedsters, and guess what, they are. Concealment runs out of useful once range is that close. And I am not a shape that could stand next to superheroes, however I was clothed, and look all matching. I mean, even in a corset, there's quite a lot of me. ... especially in a corset in some respects.
However if you're going to hide in a crowd until you step forwards in some kind of mask and start doing flashy stuff, you need to figure costumes and clothes and how they interact. And there's something to be said for dressing like I usually do as a top layer, but keeping armour and more of a standard fitting superhero costume underneath. I mean there's certainly room, I wear double layers like that all winter, and nobody's seeing me in skin tights for butt comparison purposes unless they're already close enough to be trusted.
... only Dick Grayson has been identified by his butt in canon, but it has happened to him repeatedly.
Temperature control in the summer would be a Problem, but then, it always is.
Maybe Cisco can figure out how to air condition the things. A much smaller application of the tech behind the heat and cold guns, and way more likely to get popular...
I'll interrupt this train of thought to go do Thursday things.
But costumes are fun.
Even if I do tend to have the same thoughts about them every time.