A bit of costume help

So, I have what I think is a relatively decent character concept, but I just can't get a costume I am happy with for the character's "demon-form."

Let me tell you a bit about the character.

He was doing research funded by Crey to pull energy from an alternate reality that had recently been discovered that was literally brimming with energy output. Little did the scientists know, but the reason for this was that the reality had been used to imprison a primeval destructive force (this would be the "demon" for lack of a better word). So, the experiment gets underway, and a link between the two realities is made, the ancient force is released, and becomes trapped in it's new prison... the body of the research scientist.

The character's main form is going to be a typical scientist looking dude, but I want a ghastly kinda cosmic horror or demon form to use for him as well. I tried to put together a costume, but I was vastly dissapointed with it. I know the frequenters of this thread are quite creative, so I would appreciate your assistance. The less "cliché" the better.

Oh, the character will be named Project Alcatraz and will be a Brute... I am still deciding on powerset, but it will definitely be */Dark Armor. For primary, I am looking at Super Strength, Claws or Dual Blades (leaning toward Claws or SS).

Cosmic horror is very difficult to pull off when limited to a humanoid shape, the most I have ever come up with are themes off of the classic angelic/demonic look.

One Idea comes to mind, don't have time to put it together. Use the veins/vines look, with tentically-appropriate collors for the vines and normal flesh tones for the skin, add bone wings with the same tentacle color on the bone part, throw in a third eye and you'll have a look like an eldrich horror wearing a poorly fitting man-skin.

If I have time tonight I may try to throw an example together.

I really wish claws had actual...claws..for stuff like this.

As for the costume..something using the Bio set.

Here is my take on the concept:



You specified that you didn't want anything cliche so I avoided wings, horns, cloven hooves etc. Instead I went for something otherwordly that looks like it could have one point been a human being, almost as if the host body was stretched and mutated into a walking grotesquery.

It stoops in the darkness watching me with cold, multi-faceted eyes; it's gaunt frame hunched over and it's bony arms hanging down loosely like some subhuman nightmare with pallid white, almost translucent skin that eschews the sun stretched over impossibly long bones. The thin black bony plates on it's head and shoulders rattle out a death knell from the shadows as it twists it's head from side to side and considers it's final victim. Slowly it reaches out to me with spindly blood soaked fingers tipped by razor sharp talons. If only I could run from this horror which we have wrought.


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Okay, so I took inspiration from basically all of you folks and came up with something I like... at least enough to make. I would love any suggestions you folks might have on it though:

Presenting, Project Alcatraz, in Entity form:


I especially liked how the villain claws melded with the black plant matter, so I went with a Claws/Dark Brute.

(It's a bit hard to see, but I went with the face that has the mouth and eyes sewn shut... and added a third eye to his forehead. I may work out some sort of symbolic reasoning for this. I also plan to get the bone wings, and see if they look better.)

The Argus face is pretty good for cosmic horrors, I think, and I never see anyone using it. More eyes is better!

I thought about that... but I have a different character using that face, and I try not to make any of my characters re-use too many parts.

Very cool looking! I took the liberty of adjusting some of the levels in your original image using PSP just to brighten it up a bit and make the details pop.




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Thanks! I would have done that ligtening and such myself, but I was rather pressed for time.