A different kind of Costume Contest

OK, here's the deal - Erin Brand, my Broadsword/Willpower scrapper is one of my oldest characters and was my first 50. I love this character and I love playing her, but I've never been thrilled about her original costume. As pictured below, her costume has remained largely unchanged since I created her about a month into the game. I will keep this costume for sentimental reasons, but I want an updated look for her, so I am turning to you, the supercreative costumers of the Screenshots and Fan creations forum.

The prize for the costume I like best will be the winner's choice of either 15-million infamy or 10-million influence. Unfortunately my toons are not super rich and are not spread server to server, so I can only offer the infamy prize to toons on Virtue and the influence prize to toons on Virtue or Guardian. To sweeten the pot even further - if two posters come up with really great costumes, each will get 10/15-million influence/infamy (but only one can get a 10-million influence prize on Virtue).

So what do you say? A little background on the character - her real name is Brigid Mackin, and sh is of Irish descent. Her family are the mystical protectors of Ireland and she inherited her powers, her sword (The Emerald Blade) and her longevity from her grandfather. Don't worry about getting her face (I think I used #12) or hair color just right, but her costume should contain at least some green to honor her Irish heritage. She is of magic origin and has access to all the Vanguard and Roman pieces, all the booster packs, and the rocket and winged boots craftable costume pieces.

I will leave the contest open for one week with judging on the evening of September 25, and the prize(s) awarded as soon as possible afterward.

I may give this a try even though I don't have access to all of the game's pieces.

Please do.

And another note, I will pop in from time to time, but I'm going to refrain from making comments on submittals until next Friday so as not to give later submitters an advantage in knowing what I do and don't like.

For people who don't have access to all the parts are they available in the MA? If so you could do your screenshots from there and not at the tailor.

How do you feel about power fx colors being changed as well? I know that doesn't turn up well in screenshots, but I'd like to experiment with those as well.

screenshots from MA are fine, and changes to power effects colors are too. I don't think Broadsword has any effects you can change other than the sword, and I plan to stick with the color tintable longsword for this costume. But yeah, if you want to monkey around with the colors of the Willpower effects, knock yourselves out.

Other stuff: I am a soon-to-be 21 month vet, so you can use any of the vet reward costume pieces upto and including the shoulder capes if you want.

You can also use auras if you want, but if you do, please post a screenshot with and without the aura.

Here's my take.

Ok, next time I'm stumped on a costume I'm calling on Clobber...

My only (personal) nit on his attempt is I'm not huge on the upper legs just being tights... I would probably try for something with a bit of padded armor looking texture to it.

Yarrr I be takin' a stab at this soon as I'm next in ta port!

P.S.Yes indeed me matey's today be International Talk like a Pirate day!
jus' so ye not be thinkin' I iz doin this jus to shiver me timbers.
Now go forth ye' scurvy landlubbers and spread the word
or yul walk me plank!

An tell 'em Cap'n OrangeBeard sent ye'!

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I will settle this. ORANGE FTW! - Ex Libris

I found the original concept intriguing, so here is my attempt:

Click for high-resolution verson.

I did play with the Willpower colours and found that using full-intensity orange as the primary and full-intensity green as the secondary produced very pleasing results. ^_^

Here's my take:



Yeah, I went with the arcane hood and the Valkyrie boots too >.< I didn't see that Alasdair did that until it sent me down to the QR box. heh.

Good stuff so far, gang. I like the variety I'm seeing so far and can't wait to see what others come up with.

Also, I don't think it would be unfair to let people submit more than one design if they want - is everyone else OK with that?

Here's what I came up with - I left off the sword as coloring that would require me to "cheat" on my BS scrapper (who didn't have all of the costume pieces I needed for this unlocked yet)




If you need the larger version of this, let me know - I didn't post that as it's a fairly large image.

A little over three days left to get your entries in. And thanks again to those who've participated so far!

I went with more of a streamlined, modern day sword maiden look. No flowing capes or bulky armor, just a warrior woman and her emerald blade. The arcane hood hints at her mystical roots and I liked the way that the angelic top is reminiscent of a Celtic cross. I switched out her mask for more of a war paint look across the eyes.


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I will be making my decision and naming the winner(s) tonight around 9:30 PM ET. So, anyone who wants to contribute a costume suggestion still has about 12 hours to sneak one in.

Thanks to all the participants so far - your contributions are all great, and greatly appreciated!

I'm a little late but I wanted to take a stab at this.

At first I was not going to have a cape. I wanted to add more white, but not too much to detract from the rest of the costume. I decided to go with the translucent cape. It has an etheral feel to me which kinda accentuates the magical concept of the character. It also has sweeping lines that tie in nicely with the armored pants.

It's hard to see but I went with a light sparles aura for the hands and head in white. Again, it hints at the magic concept as well as refelctivity off the armored gloves and head piece. It's subtle so as to not overpower the overall read of the character image as well.

I went with orange hair because it's more of a natural red head look, it ties in with the Irish flag and as the only orange on the character it stands out nicely.

I went with black because it makes all the other costume components and colors pop!

Anyway - hope you like!

So many good entries. I don't envy having to make this decision.

Wow, you aren't kidding, Nazghul - this is not an enviable task.

First off let me once again thank everyone for participating. I have to say, each of your entries have elements that I really like - whether it is Starwind's mask/headpiece combo, McBoo's use of the Angelic plus top with the mystic hood, Johnstone's color palette and use of the celtic chest symbol, or Clobbertime's skirted look (and I really like the metallic leg armor with that outfit). But there are two costumes that really stood out for me, and for completely different reasons.

Alasdair's design has a regal, and vaguely religious look to it, and it's how I would picture Brigid dressing if she'd been born in the Middle Ages. I am stongly considering making this one of her alternate costumes, and as such, Alasdair has earned one of the two prizes I am awarding for this contest.

However, Alasdair will have to wait until after StormVyxen has decided which price she would prefer (in case she wants the Influence prize on Virtue, of which I can only award one). StormVyxen's entry certainly isn't the flashiest, and I may color it a little differently, but she has somehow captured almost exactly the sleek, modernistic, armored look I originally envisioned, but was unable to put together, for The Erin Brand. Well, done, SV! Please let me know whether you would prefer 10-million Influence on Guardian or Virtue, or 15-million Infamy on Virtue.

Once StormVyxen has decided, you can let me know which you would prefer, Alasdair.

And for the other participants, if you have villains on Virtue, or heroes on Guardian, I would like to give you each 2-million Infamy or 1-million Influence for making the effort to put together entries for me (and so I won't feel too bad if I adopt parts of your designs into other costumes ), so let me know.

Congratulations StormVyxen and Alasdair!! Well done both of you!! Great job!!

Everyone had great concepts!!

Congrats StormVyxen and Alasdair... Great job.

mousedroid - I wholeheartedly agree with your picks and thoughts. I think both costumes were great and I think the only way to decide between the two was if you wanted a "classical" feel or a more "modern" one.

And now, allow me to present the new, streamlined Erin Brand:

Well done, StormVyxen. A well-deserved success. ^_^
Thank you to mousedroid and also Starwind and Caemgen for the kind words.

I honestly didn't think I'd do this well, more than once I looked at this thread and muttered under my breath 'ooh....I should have done something like that!'

Congratulations to the winners!

I like the new look mousedroid, especially the in game pic with the gray knot work...


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