Halloween Costumes!

[Ophelia Dippet]

So if you have characters going to the Dippet Halloween bash, they have to come in costume and there are, in fact, some prizes to be handed out. Whether Armando actually hands them out or not remains to be seen. BUT in order for him to possibly hand them out, we need to know what everyone is wearing, so this is a thread for that!

Attendance requirements are UCAB, Rep 4+, and notable upper-MCAB. Anyone who has been featured recently in either the DP or WW in a negative light is not invited (except the Crouch family); anyone who has been featured in a positive light is (this means @'Ismene Swift' and the whole Fisk/Meadowes/Ross family are on the list despite being MC). Previously established friends of Ophelia are also invited. If you're not sure whether someone would be invited, please ask!

I'm hoping there will be a WW article on this so this is also a place to show off costumes even if they're not really angling for a prize. ^^

  

[Ophelia Dippet]

Brannon Fisk is confused about why he was invited to a Halloween party, but will be going to avoid seeming antisocial during Ross' campaign / keep a disapproving eye on his children. He'll be going as a skeleton with a suit enchanted to look like bones.

Otavio Caldiera is going to apply some period-appropriate racism and go as a native American chief with a huge stereotypical headdress. BRAZILIANS YOU'D ALL BETTER BE THERE TRYING TO GET EFFY MARRIED.

Severina Restell would totally get @'Eva Sleptova' to help with her costume so SOPH HIT ME UP SOMETIME. I sort of want an excuse to have someone wear this spider dress though so that's my go to if Soph has no ideas. xD

Thom Pettigrew is going as a lion and wearing an actual lion skin over a yellow/orange suit because why effing not. Also because this way he can wear the same thing to the jungle party earlier this month. I can't find a decent picture of what I'm imagining but the top jaw of the lion (complete with teeth) would be over his forehead and the the rest of it would go over his head/down into a cloak type deal. It's festive as hell.

Ophelia herself is TBD based on her fiancee (eeeeee) but she's not going to be winning any of the prizes ;D

  

[Annabelle Scrimgeour]

Cornelius Sherington III is going as a medieval king because why the fuck not?

George Livesey is going as an Egyptian Pharaoh.

Stephen Flint is going as a fucking pirate.

Violetta Lestrange is going as a mermaid.

Willoughby Follywolle is going as a viking warrior.

ONLY IMAGINE THESE CONSTUMES MORE VE-APPROPRIATE, OKAY?

  

[Clarissa Cosgrove]

@'Roberto Devine' will be going as a prince.
@'Love Darby' will be going as a fairy princess.
@'Attica Paxton' will be going as The Snow Queen.
@'Kentigern Macfusty' will be coming as a dragon because why not.
@'Gaston Darby' will be coming as the muggle, sexy ideal of what a vampire looks like.

the others are tbd because those are the only ones I already had ideas for and whom I plan to actually post there.

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[Demelza McGonagall]

Free to a good home XD
Bat -
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/89/06/15/89061...loween.jpg

Egyptian-
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2a/dc/c5/2adcc...an-era.jpg

Fairy-
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/86/e6/3a/86e63...photos.jpg

Mine are tba

  

[Ellory Pendergast]

@'Marcus Lytton' is coming as a renaissance ghost. He covered his entire body with some kind of potion that will make him appear shiny and translucent for a few hours (it'll likely wear off by the end of the ball). He didn't want to risk propriety by doing it on his clothes, so he's wearing a costume of a similar shiny gray-ish colour as his body.

@'Eva Sleptova' is coming as Judith (the one that beheaded Holofernes). She'll wear a dress loosely inspired by The Caravaggio one which will be covered by fake blood in some places. She'll hold a big bloody (fake blood, don't worry) knife and she'll hold a severed head she procured from some kind of props shop. She'll give the head away to some servant about an hour in to the ball, though - once she's made a statement. xD

@'Javert de Montfault' is coming as "Arabian prince" because yay period appropriate racism. :P Think something like this with a healthy dose of guyliner.

  

[Cassius Lestrange]

Cassius Lestrange is going as part of operation beard as a VE explorer; think guy in white. 
Lucinda Cavanaugh as a fortune teller
Justin Ross is matching his wife KAYTE LET'S TALK
Thiago Caldiera doesn't Get this and will be asking Ellory what he should wear >.>
Zelda Fisk is going as a cranky teenager raven with enchanted wings.

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[Ellory Pendergast]

Ellory will dance around the fact that she's in mourning by dressing as the Daily Prophet. She'll charm herself or cover herself in some potion or something to turn herself black and white as if she's a photograph. She'll wear a simple black ballgown and in the skirt she'll have letters ~dancing~ around it in a grayish colour, as well as moving photographs. On her head, she'll wear a tiara that says The Daily Prophet - think something like this but without the feathers.

  

[Annette Fontaine]

As per soph's suggestion, Anne is going as Witch Weekly. She'll be re purposing her dress from her presentation to the Queen, so a relatively simple white gown with a low back and a much shorter train that's made out of pleated pages from Witch Weekly /think leslie knope's wedding dress.
She'll have a tiara like Ellory's and a fan made out of pleated pages too

  

[Elsie Beauregard]

@'Nora Abercrombie' is going as the sun haha ;)

  

[Porphyria Dempsey]

Porphyria is going to go as a suitably morbid cemetery statue. Think this or this or this, but something vaguely ~creepy. If weeping angels existed, one of those. She doesn't skimp on costume efforts so she's made herself taller than usual, the flowy robes are charmed in place to act more like stone and she's got her skin painted greyish with a lot of attention to detail like dappled patches and eroded areas. Definitely has wings. Will probably spend much of the evening standing still in awkward places.

Calliope's coming as 'autumn', so has just gone for a dress similar to this but with a more autumnal print, some extra autumn leaf decoration and some kind of autumnal flower wreath thing.

Prunella is going as some kind of shepherdess.

Lorcan Byrne is going as an Elizabethan style courtier with a cool hat.

Ari Fisk might make his excuses but if he comes he'll basically wear a plague doctor mask with otherwise normal robes.

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[Ophelia Dippet]

Okay, I had to really think about this because Ophelia's muse wanted very badly to match Roberto, but was also disappointed that she'd have to go as a boring old princess to do it. SO I PRESENT TO YOU:

Ophelia, the Swan Princess.

Most of the night she'll be wearing something like this; all white with a feathery skirt and "wings" made of white feathers draping down from her arms. Her hair is staying its normal color but she's wearing a silver and pearl tiara with it. There'll be a smattering of make-up on her cheeks that's white and sparkly and sort of laid out like freckles but... you know, swan-like.

When she's dancing with (or otherwise touching) Roberto, the feathers will gradually fade away and the white dress will turn slowly to a dusty pink. There's pearl beading on the bodice and skirt to make it look a little fancier/more like a princess and to match her tiara, but they won't really be visible until the dress finishes changing colors.

AND THUS DID THE SWAN BECOME A PRINCESS. Ophelia is very proud of herself. too bad she can't win the costume contest.

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[Xena Fisk]

Xena will be going as her patronus! not that she can conjure one, she just used a WW quiz or something
She'll be wearing a floaty dress of white and silvery blue tulle, a white tulle band across her eyes and some tulle rabbit ears nestled in her hair that will be piled high and powdered with some silvery shimmery stuff. She'll be wearing a fair bit of bluey silver highlighter type stuff and her dress will also trail silvery sparkles behind her.

Ysabella will be tagging along with her UC hosts dressed as a ballerina because socially acceptable flashing of ankles

  

[Ophelia Dippet]

PSA: Olive is going to decide who gets prizes for these categories tonight! If you haven't told us what you're wearing yet, you have the rest of the day to let us know or else you won't be winning any prizes.

  

[Terpsichore Van Helsing]

Cora will be going as some kinda headless ghost thing. 
She has this nightgown/dress which she has covered the neckline and chest in fake blood and has had help in transfiguring something into a mimic of her head and has spelled her actual head to be invisible, though because her magic abilities are limited, her voice will still come from her actual unseeable head.

As for Gabrielle, she will be going as some kinda woodland fairy.
This will be the base dress - but more era-appropriate. Over it, she'll be wearing this armor chest guard thing she spelled out of branches with a lot of help. Her hair will be down loose and very messy and she'll be wearing this crown thing.

  

[Aldous Crouch]

"Evelyn" will be present as a rose - the bodice of the dress will be green with embroidered moving vines, and the skirts will be tiered to resemble an upside-down red rose. Evelyn herself will not be present because #ConvenientAnxiety, but her lady's maid will be appearing in her stead.

Ros will not be dressing up unless @'Justin Ross' wants to do some cutesy matching thing.

Ismene has been freaking out about this since she was invited. She will be wearing a gold dress with tiny white wings on the back THREE GUESSES WHAT SHE IS #broombunny