Spring Festitales Dressup--Aluwa & Maisa
Aluwa came here with two different outfit modes: One, the type of historical costume a Draconid would wear to a Renaissance Faire. And two, something decked out with futuristic flair that would stick out in an old-timey village like a sore thumb, but that's really kind of the point. And her Ren Faire outfit is in the wash today. So!
Here comes the cybernetic glitch queen and her best friend, her royal mount. She's wearing a long dress that resembles a qipao but goes down almost to her feet, brown at the bottom and sewn with patterns resembling the lines in tree bark--but slowly blending with a green top where the tree bark lines transform into cybernetic neon green veins topped with geometrically angular sakura blossoms. The geometric lines in her black prosthetics also glow bright green and end in glowing pink nodules that also represent sakuras. Her long black deerlike horns are woven with vibrant flower garlands, and her head bears a flower crown. The mechanical right half of her face has been taken out and replaced by a painstakingly painted scene of a springtime field with cherry blossom trees under a bright blue cloudless sky, and the mechanical right eye has been taken out and replaced by a white magnolia...But what’s this? Her whole body appears to be glitching with magic, much like you might see as special effects on a computer screen, except it’s in real life. As the glitches occur, you see flashes of the painting change into a bleak wasteland under a burning sky, the flowers on her head and horns look wilted, and the dress turns black with the cybernetic lines dyed an angry reddish yellow....Then they go back to normal. Which may not be the wisest choice given that Aluwa nearly legitimately burned down the place, but she made this costume before she did it, and she’s damn proud of her work.
Maisa is similarly dressed. The gryphon-drake bears a beaded saddle fringed with long brown feathers, with flower garlands woven around her head and wings. The beads on her saddle form flower patterns interwoven with neon blue cybernetic geometric lines that flash bright blue to represent the storms of spring, and then dark blue to represent rivers; her internal electricity creates these lines across her body as well. One half of her face has a mask of its own, which represents the clouds and further carries forth the thunderstorm theme, plasmatic blue cybernetics glowing with the electrical energy that she carries within, all quite striking against her gold and white body. And like her partner she’s glitching—when the glitch comes around the storms have swamped the vibrant life depicted in the rest of her costume, her body darkens and you can see her glowing skeleton.