#emiko tries to cosplay

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I was doing a friend poll for which sunglasses to wear as Taako on Friday but it's all tied up Any votes?

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Arrow season 6 pitch

“The Outsiders”

I’ve been a fan of Arrow from the beginning, I remained a fan through its lackluster middle, and now I’m all in again with this new revitalized season. However, I think that the show needs to go further and offer the audience a new experience, something else ;) I believe that the show can do that by introducing Jeff Lemire’s The Outsiders.

The whole “bad guy wants to destroy the city” plot has run its course. I’ll acknowledge that Prometheus is doing something different by targeting Oliver directly, yet I still dislike the idea that one individual is strong enough to take out the whole team. Admittedly, the Arrow team has never had the experience or skill set to deal with big threats like Oliver can, but I think it's starting to change. Diggle is more than competent, Wild Dog is a former Navy officer, Ragman has powers, the new Black Canary has police training at the very least, and Mr. Terrific, well he has to improve his tech at some point. I think it’s time the Arrow team goes to battle with an enemy team. 

Alterations to past events will have to be made in order to align the show with the story told in Lemire’s run of Green Arrow. The first and foremost alteration will be to revise the identity of Komodo in the Arrowverse. Along with Richard Dragon in the first season, Komodo was the victim of the producers using characters from the comics as one episode villains. The show failed to see their full potential as antagonists and instead used them as name drops. The easiest way to deal with this is to explain that the Komodo from season three was an impostor and the real one is introduced in season six. Furthermore, while I enjoyed the addition of Emiko and her storyline, I don’t think that it’s viable within the Arrowverse, so it would have to be put aside. Simply introduce Komodo as Simon Lacroix, a friend of Oliver’s dad who, after discovering the arrow totem together, fought against him to become the leader of the arrow clan and ultimately engineered the events that led to the demise of Oliver’s dad and Oliver being stranded on the island.

Plot twist and spoilers! Hopefully whoever is reading this has read Lemire’s Green Arrow run and knows that Oliver’s dad didn’t die on the boat or afterward on the island. Instead he faked his death in order to protect the arrow totem and push Oliver into becoming the person he needed to be in order to fulfill his destiny as the leader of the arrow clan. Now, all of that doesn’t need to happen, or not right away at least. Still, what if the show reveals that Oliver’s dad didn’t die, that it was all a ruse in order to stop Komodo from hurting the Queen family. What if Oliver’s dad planned his “death” with Magus, the mysterious member of the mask clan who has been shown in the comics to have the ability to “die” and impersonate others. In this pitch, Magus is the captain that gets shot in the raft after the shipwreck, or he could have been impersonating Oliver’s dad and the captain is actually Oliver’s dad since he gets shot from a distance. Either way, the “death” is orchestrated to, somewhat like in the comics, keep Komodo away. 

Now, everything that happened to Oliver after he gets on the island, well that wasn’t part of the plan. Otherwise if the show reveals that Oliver’s dad intended for everything to happen like it did then it does two things; one, it makes it unbelievable that it was planned that far in advance and two, it makes him a bad father because Oliver went through a lot of hell in those five years. So instead let’s say that Oliver’s dad messed up. His plan was to have Oliver rescued right away and then trained by the Outsiders, or maybe, in order to keep Oliver’s complete knowledge of Lian Yu intact, Oliver landed on a different island and thus the rescue never arrived. Moving on to the list and making sense of it. What if the names written were not allies of Oliver’s dad, but instead people allied with Komodo? It would be easier from Oliver’s dad’s perspective to tell Oliver to right his wrongs and not to instead go after the associates of a man he’s never even heard of. The Outsiders, the good clans at least, would have then trained Oliver to take down Komodo and his partners.

From that point the show can follow a version of Lemire’s story arc, minus the Emiko and Shado elements. Oliver’s dad can reveal himself to be alive and to have been watching over Oliver’s progression to becoming a hero. There can also be tension between them since Oliver’s dad didn’t attempt to save Oliver’s mom, or maybe we learn he tried. The clans who follow Komodo can fight against Oliver and the Arrow team and the show can bring back Katana and introduce other potential teammates like John Butcher and Magus. The first half of the season can be introduction while the second half can be a condensed version of the Outsiders War. Would Komodo be the main antagonist? Yes, but he wouldn’t be the only one facing the Arrow team, he would have competent and maybe even superior allies like Golgotha, Kodiak, and Onyx. We’ve seen how much fun it is to have a group of villains work together against our heroes in the Flash and now Legends of Tomorrow, why not bring that fun and excitement to Arrow? 

I really believe that this choice of storyline would bring back old fans as well as new fans to the show that started the CW superhero universe. Add a talented and diverse cast as the Outsider clan leaders and you’re sure to have new favorite characters for fans to admire and find inspiration in (new cosplays anyone!?). Hire a fight choreography team that is incredibly talented with weapons and the action would be elevated to something that’s never been shown on network television before. Oliver could progress as a character by realizing that he doesn’t know everything (am I the only one tired of his Slumdog Millionaire flashbacks?). I honestly don’t see how this story arc could fail or not be different and exciting. 

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Well I did my Magnus test and other than the fact I did rip off part of my eyebrow it was a good first test!!!

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Guys so I took a leap of faith and made my Magnus pauldron out of foam and put plaster cloth over it (since I don't have a stiffener like Worbla) and it actually works??? It can't bend at all because then it'll crack, it's a little heavy and the only way to attach things to it is either super glue or drilling holes into it but it's good!!!!! Ive sealed it with wood glue and I'm gonna do the paint job tomorrow and maybe put up pics of the finished thing but I'm really happy with it so far

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Got my Bureau of Balance bracer for Magnus finished! It only took me a couple hours too lol

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I did makeup tests (almost full costests tbh) of MC and Yuuri today (*´∇｀*) They turned out better than planned lmao (He/him)

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I'm excited for tonight

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Took a moment to de-heat but I'll be back on the floor as Henry in a little bit!

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I'm so PUMPED

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Meet me at JAFAX

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Brotherhood progress 😁😁😁😁😁 (He/him)

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Getting new pants, by December my hair will be re-shaved and dyed, going to fix this tee and get the sword and gun fixed up.

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Alright so I’ve decided; Improve Hawke, then after I’m satisfied decide between Tallis, Fenris or Mage!Lavellan armor.

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Hey guys ~~~~ Guess who only needs to pack up for the con??

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So I may be almost done with Hawke

Did a makeup test and ended up throwing on the armor I have finished

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-tries mimicking mage Hawke's battle moves -ends up with bruised shoulder and twisted ankle