#mostly tagging for sissel and yomiel as usual lol

[the-grey-hunt]

i was encouraged for two seconds and now you all get to look at medieval ghost trick—heavily based on the medieval AU by @theriveroflight!

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im gonna talk about each outfit specifically because again, someone encouraged me for 2 seconds and i love talking

YOMIEL (and SISSEL): Sissel gets a little medieval hood instead of a plain kerchief, because it's adorable.

Yomiel's outfit is based on this gentleman here, but with a longer doublet to mimic his suit jacket. His red clothes are plain and a common color, but the richness of the color (from an early dye batch) indicates that it's probably a bit expensive, and the rich black collar and blindfold (because sunglasses didn't exist) are also some flashy signifiers of wealth.

The white leather of his shoes and belt would also be pretty showy (even if those white shoes are a bad idea in medieval mud...). I couldn't figure out a way to make the hat work, but I kinda wanted to.

CABANELA: As a knight, Cabanela not only has some flashy white leather for his belt, but he's wearing a full-length chainmail shirt (expensive!) AND a deep black skirted tunic—lots of fabric that would take LOTS of expensive dye. This is conspicuous consumption to the max, showing off his status (indicated by his silver chain and pendant) as a royal knight.

His sword doesn't quite seem to match...as it's not his, but Jowd's old sword, still bearing Jowd's family's crest. Cabanela's outfit is taken from these two 12th/13th c. knights.

LYNNE: A younger and less established knight than Cabanela, she's wearing more common colors (red, blue, yellow) from cheaper dyes, and her armor is based on this 9th/10th c. fellow. Older gear and much less flashy—she has plain brown leather accessories—but she bears the green ribbon favor that shows her commitment to Jowd's case.

Plus, her hose (pants) are a pretty deep blue and her armor is polished. She's taking good care of her handmedown gear and has made a few splurges on clothes! Her sword may not have a crest, but there's still a few jewels set in the hilt, befitting a royal knight.

KAMILA (and MISSILE):

Kamila as a young noblewoman is referenced from this statue of a French queen. Her veil and circlet are typical for medieval women—most wore some kind of hair covering—but her circlet is metal, while most ordinary people would use fabric. I'm very proud of how nice all the gilding turned out. The power of shading!

Her little purse is not only expensive, but a royal favor—it's silk dyed Tyrian purple, a color that was often legally banned for anyone not in the royal family. I imagine it's a gift from her friend, Princess Amelie! Her clothes are pretty plain, light colors for a noblewoman, which is probably a matter of taste and/or youth.

The pose she's in, holding her cloak fastening down so it doesn't pull against her throat, is very common in medieval artwork of the period where this type of sash fastening was common.

Missile is Missile. you can't improve on perfection XD. I have given him a green collar, in a style to match Kamila's fancy gilt belt.

JOWD:

Jowd is dressed in his "prison clothes", this rough brown friar's robe and rope belt that I copied the pose from as well. However, being brought back onto the case as a knight, he's recovered his old green "coat", a very nice garment called a gardcorps. It's a simple green, not too expensive, but it's lined in a contrasting white, showing the care put into its make.

I switched the opening on his gardcorps to the front, rather than the side as in the original illustration, so that the rope belt would be visible because I really liked the belt. It's got most of the "penitent" vibes I was trying to give Jowd. Also, like the friar, he is barefoot (prison does not give one a big clothes budget).

The background shows the city, like the original green-monochrome city skyline from the game's promo images. This city, however, has fewer and smaller lights, indicating the palace and the castle wall—and over the sea, the Viking longships of Sith's country are swarming in! (it's explicitly not longships in the fic I reference, but the Vikings are just too suitable a reference)

[crossed--fates]

WEIRD HEADCANON

(copy and pasted from a meme resource. feel free to copy and fill in for your own muse!)

WHAT THEY SMELL LIKE: Coffee, usually.

HOW THEY SLEEP ( sleeping position, schedule, etc ): He is not much of a heavy sleeper, so he’s always switching sides during the night. He wakes up a lot and has a tendency to have nightmares about his past. He suffers from chronic insomnia and sometimes has to take medicine to help him sleep better. It doesn’t help that he’s a caffeine addict and is always drinking coffee to keep himself awake and working late in the night.

WHAT MUSIC THEY ENJOY: He loves classic rock and metal music like Scorpions, Iron Maiden, The Beatles and others but he is mostly an ecletic and enjoys other types of music as well. He also likes pop music and country music and even classic music (like Bethoven and Mozart), but for work he prefers listening to his favorite classic rock songs.

HOW MUCH TIME THEY SPEND EVERY MORNING GETTING READY: He gets A LOT of time to get ready. It takes him almost an hour to stylize his hair and he’s a perfectionist, so it can take him really long to get ready, even worse than Sissel.

FAVOURITE THING TO COLLECT: Coffee mugs, mostly.

LEFT OR RIGHT HANDED: Ambidextrous, but uses right hand the most.

RELIGION (if any): He does belive in the gods of the GT universe, but he’s not really that much religious himself. 

FAVOURITE SPORT(S): Sports? He’s a nerd! But he enjoys watching some baseball and basketball matches on TV sometimes. If he’d ever do a sport himself, I guess golf would suit him, since it doesn’t require a lot of physical effort (he still suffers the consequences of Mino falling on his legs). And if chess can be considered a sport, than this would be his favorite.

FAVOURITE TOURISTY THING TO DO WHEN TRAVELING: He’s that much into it, Sissel is more likely to be the excited tourist on his place.

FAVOURITE KIND OF WEATHER: Cloudy days, not so cold, but not too hot either,  or a rainy day. It relaxes him to hear the sounds of the soft rain as he works.

WEIRD/OBSCURE FEAR THEY HAVE: Meteors, snakes, medium and large dogs, oceans, open spaces and crowded, confined spaces and total isolation.

THE CARNIVAL/ARCADE GAME THEY ALWAYS WIN WITHOUT FAIL: Yomiel prefers games that challenges the mind like chess and sudoku, sometimes a card game like solitaire or blackjack. He always wins at chess (he was a champion in the chess club of his school after all)

tagged by: stolen from @azazelthewatcher​ lol

tagging: anyone who wants to do this, give it a try!