Picture This! Second Cappucino Maker Edition!

Whoa you scared the crap out of me, I thought I was going to have to revise the costume...

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Okay! I finally got my computer back so I could load up CoH again! (Two hard drive deaths in less than two weeks, I swear it's gremlins...) I am *so* sorry it's taken so long to get to this, so I decided to try two concepts.

I was paired up with Power Stream who selected his cool-looking character Propellant. I was really inspired by the second costume there, though they are both very nifty. Power Stream did a great job on the Shrike, and I hope this is at least interesting. We had no theme so I just went on my own whims.

Chrysopoeia aka Lady Michelle Jette, was a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I. Athletic and outgoing, she was known as an enthusiastic huntress and falconer, and was much admired by other members of the court. It was to Dr. John Dee that she gave her own attention, however. She became fascinated by his studies in alchemy and Hermetic philosophy, and before long, had become his student. She had a natural talent for understanding the esoteric disciplines, and it seemed that she might surpass her mentor in the search for the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life.

In fact, she had been so deeply engrossed in her experiments that the Queen chided her for her bookishness and her unhealthy complexion, strongly suggesting that Lady Michelle would do well to get some fresh air. A ride into the country nearly proved disastrous when Michelle was caught in a freak blizzard. Luckily her entourage recovered her and transported her back to court, where she was nursed back to health. All marveled at her swift recovery...and they marveled more still when her new abilities manifested, nearly scorching the hair off Dr. Dee himself. He concluded that her alchemical mixtures must have transmuted her body into something more pure and perfect.

When Lady Michelle awoke, she was confronted by a most insistent Lord Walsingham. At the Queen's behest, he persuaded Michelle to become England's secret weapon against her enemies. Secretly schooled in the art of swordplay, and with her new fiery gift at her fingertips, Michelle was immersed in a life of peril and adventure at the Queen's command.

Yet as all around her aged and died, Michelle had to admit to herself that her experiments must have indeed yielded the Elixir of Life, for she herself never aged. So began years of subterfuge as she created new identities and new lives over the years, moving around the world to conceal her nature. Now, in Paragon city, she fights evil and injustice while searching for the key to her immortality.

And, just because I had to:

PropellAnt was known as Nigella, warrior in the service of Queen Molesta of Nest Invicta, greatest nest of all Tribe Solenopsidini, the feared Fire Ant civilization far beneath the Earth's surface. None of their enemies could stand against them--that is, until Pseudacton, the Decapitator, came among them. Nest Invicta was wiped out, but Nigella somehow survived. After pushing her way out from beneath a mound of the dead, she found her Queen, who lay dying. Before she expired, Molesta issued one last order: Nigella must track down Pseudacton and destroy him.

Armed with her natural fire powers, Nigella hunted the Decapitator to a nest of humans called Paragon City. Though their ways are strange, she has at least found a place among their society as a 'hero' as she continues to pursue her prey.

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Wow I love this story SO much I think I'm going to change to this permanently! I love the idea of each costume being a different time period to coincide with her not aging. Thank you so much!

Now I think YOU are psychic. I made a toon a long time ago named Rad E. Ant that looked almost identical to PropellAnt except it was male. That is so awesome! Well worth the wait!

I suck. I finished this and didn't post the costume to my photobucket. DURR.

Foo, you n00b!

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Sorry for holding you up Foo, I didn't realize I was in the contest but cool . Here is mine for you to do your take on.

Shimoyaka, my ice/ice tanker...the Japanes Frankenstein. I like his main (and only costume) but could never get anything else I liked so this will help alot.

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/b...oyakaFront.jpg

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/b...oyakasface.jpg

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So here's what I came up with. Basically, he's a Japanese Frankenstein's monster from the 17th century, held together with equal parts science and magic, created from the parts of dead samurai and Yakuza, stitched together in an unholy blasphemy.

He's not such a bad guy, though!

Very nice, you captured it well. He is one I've been having trouble with extra costumes. I'll add this one to his line up.

Sorry it took me so long to actually post the fella.

First off, Apologies. I took two different approaches. Of the two, I prefer the second, but am including the first as a look at a failed experiment.

The original:

Popular and cocky, Jack Bryson was an All-American college linebacker with a promising career in professional football until the day he was involved in a terrible automobile accident. His knee was ruined and the doctors told him that we would never be able to play football again. Unwilling to give up his dream, Jack looked to other ways to fix his knee including accupunture, holistic medicine, and even psychic healers. One day a scientist offered an untried and experimental new procedure to regenerate damaged tissues and make him resistant to injury. The experiment fixed his knee, but instead of merely being resistant to injury he was nearly invulnerable and his body was imbued with an unexplained energy. Realizing the NFL would never let him play, Jack moved to Paragon City to use his powers to fight crime...not out of a strong sense of justice or civic duty; He just loves the fame and the fans. Recently he released his autobiography "You Don't Know Jack: The Jack of Spades Story" which is available at Amazon.com.

It's Jack!



Jack of Spades 1

I was trying to evoke a little of the playing card Jack. I'm not sure it worked all that well and I didn't hate it, but I wouldn't want to be playing him, so I tried again:

Jack of Spades 2

This time I was just going for that Bad-a$$y tanker look. Sort of an amped up version of the original (or Ultimate version).

Sorry it took so long.

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Jack of Spades 2

This time I was just going for that Bad-a$$y tanker look. Sort of an amped up version of the original (or Ultimate version).

Sorry it took so long.

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I really dig this one.

Thanks. Again, sorry it took so long.