Does this make my butt look big? [MINGLE POST]

[legionnpcs]

Who| EVERYONE who wants in
What| Costume mingle post! Characters can try on their costumes for the first time and react to them with each other.
Where| The Anthramite Clothers' Workshop
When| A few days after everyone gets to adjust
Warnings/Notes| None!

"This is going to be great!" Ferro enthused. He got so excited he clapped his hands together a little bit, which made a dull, metallic ringing sound.

There were quite a few dressing rooms in the large workshop where the Anthramite clothiers worked and Ferro was waiting in the large area outside them all, eagerly waiting to see how everyone reacted to their new costumes. The Anthramites had done most of the designs, with input from their respective Legionnaires, but they'd started to let him help sometimes after he'd shown them some samples of his sewing, so he'd gotten to suggest some alterations this time, too.

He sat on a stool and kicked his legs slightly, idly looking over at one of the many mirrors around the workshop, but then he quickly looked away.

It wasn't that he disliked his reflection the way he used to. Back then, whenever he did, all he could think about was the ugliness that his mask was covering, but he'd finally made peace with that. No, he hated looking in mirrors because in their shining surfaces he saw his body shining back and it just made him think about how he might be stuck as living metal forever, never able to turn human again. He might never be able to taste food or feel people's hugs or --

Ferro decided to stop thinking about it and instead looked at some of the sewing patterns the Anthramites left out. They'd left the room for now, mostly because some of them was getting cranky at them trying to re-measure their inseams fifty times, so now he was getting to poke around in their stuff in a way he usually didn't.

"You don't really feel like a superhero until you put your costume on for the first time." He paused. "Well, actually, that's not true, you don't really feel like a superhero until you put your costume on for the first time and save somebody, but the costume part makes it feel more like you're a superhero than just the saving someone, because if you save someone in normal clothes you're kind of just a hero, so you need the costume for the super part."

[ooc: If you guys would like to make some visuals, there are a few superhero generators you can check out. 1 (f only), 2 (m/f, somewhat complicated to use but the 2.5 version is simpler so you can also try that), 3 (m/f, somewhat limited), 4 (m/f, not in English but easy to figure out, good options), and 5 (m/f, limited options, but simple to use).]

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[wherenoonegoes]

Hiccup had mostly escaped the horror of the Athramites and their measuring tape of doom. Apparently, they'd sensed a kindred spirit in him, and instead of designing an all new costume for him, gave him a synthetic copy of the suit he himself had designed. He'd stuck around, though, just to see what everyone else had ended up with.

Toothless was mostly here to laugh at everyone.

"C'mon guys, get out here. It can't be that bad."

[nomoresparkle]

Sparkle Bright had been inspecting herself in one of the mirrors, running her hands down the front of her costume with a very self-critical frown on her face.

Hiccup's comment made her frown deepen as she turned away from the mirror. "Spandex is never good. I had so hoped I could eat a slice of bread here or something."

[wherenoonegoes]

"I'm not exactly sure why you couldn't, really." Hiccup said. The concept of carb-free diets hadn't exactly been around in Viking times.

[nomoresparkle]

She raised an eyebrow at him, and then gave a derisive snort. "Spandex isn't exactly forgiving of anything less that a perfect figure." She sighed. "And looking good is one of the most important things for a superheroine.

[wherenoonegoes]

"I may just be a simple Viking," Hiccup said wryly, "but it seems like it should be like the last thing on the list of important things for a superheroine, if it needs to be on the list at all."

Berk tended to measure worth by fighting ability. Get good enough at it, and it didn't honestly matter what you looked like, people would flock to you anyways.

[nomoresparkle]

"A heroine must look attractive at all times," Sparkle Bright said, in a tone that made it clear she was reciting something. "We must always be something for the girls of the world to aspire to." And the cause of a ton of eating disorders, she thought privately, but that was not something anyone ever said out loud.

[wherenoonegoes]

"And your opinion on that?" Hiccup asked, easily picking up on the scripted response.

"Because reciting things from memory isn't going to convince me of anything. Especially considering my girlfriend Astrid would have some fairly choice comments about the person who said it. And also end up hammer tossing them." He added, a little bit of fondness entering his tone at the mention of Astrid.

"And my friend Ruffnut would probably bite anybody who said anything like it."

[nomoresparkle]

She shrugs in response to his first question. "It keeps my sales numbers up and Marketing off my back. At home."

She laughs though at his comments about girls at home. "It sounds like things are quite different where you're from."

[wherenoonegoes]

"Again, Viking. So you're probably going to need to explain what those things are."

Though, from what little she'd already said, for once he was glad he didn't know what someone was talking about. If they had existed in his time, he'd probably wouldn't have liked dealing with them.

"We usually measure people by how well they fight, how well they can ride a dragon, and how they contribute to the tribe. Which has its own drawbacks, but at least it makes some sort of sense. I mean, how does being pretty help if someone really wants to hit you with an axe?"