#all those years of watching louise make costumes paid off abkxbk

[magickedhat]

some notes on wren's costume for halloween bc they think it is ✨a look✨:

Impermanent glow-in-the-dark green hair dye. It doesn't glow too much bc their hair is dark, but it does leave some iridescent highlights in their hair that they absolutely show off by letting it loose on their shoulders.

Their hat. It's truly no joke that it can shift to practically anything: all one has to do is imagine it, and the hat will do its best to deliver. Wren instructed it to change into the upper half of an angler fish's head: big, bulging milky eyes, long fins, a wire with a green marble at its end. Wren will light up the marble occasionally using illusion magic.

They glued some paper around crafting wire and onto a black face mask to use as a gaping mouth framed by long, thin teeth. In the dark, the mask creates a nice optical illusion on its own, but with an extra sprinkle of Wren's magic it truly becomes depthless and unnervingly akin to deep-sea horrors. When they pull their hat down their face, the sight is a genuine marvel.

The least remarkable thing about their outfit is the loose black shirt they've thrown over themself, which is far from unintentional. Something so plain will more easily draw people's attention to the more exciting parts of their costume, after all!

Using a bit of transfiguration magic, Wren has managed to cover their arms and exposed neck with a fine coat of glittering, fish-like scales. Simus warned them to take pictures of their bare arms and neck so they'd face less difficulties turning back after the fun was over. Wren was surprised with how seamless the scales felt on their skin.

Finally, they stole borrowed something from the circus: their grandmother's fish-scale leggings. She used to monitor the water train back in the day and had plenty of costumes with oceanic themes. The circus often keeps old costumes in hopes of reusing them, so after a bit of asking around and begging Nadége, they happily got their hands on them. The magic on them has worn out slightly, but they still give off a pretty convincing illusion of actual green-and-gold scales.