I found some colored pencils and tried to fill in the outfit designs that I had for these two... The twins are just so difficult! Why is it so hard to find a good fit for them??

Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions? I can't quite figure out what works best for these two. Brenda, being an extrovert, should have bright colors, but she also looks nice in a more modern outfit... And Brennan, I don't know why he suddenly turned from a mini-Spencer Reid to a colorfully-dressed punk...

I think it's really obvious I need help with these two and their designs... Help??

So I finally made the decision.

I WILL be going to Anime NebrasKon 2012. I've gone through with the pre-registration, and now I just have to decide on costumes...

Thankfully, it's here in Omaha, and at the place I WORK, nonetheless. I could get a discount, but I live here, so there's no point in any of that. But I could dress up in a fancy costume and show off to my coworkers. ;)

The majority of them were there for NebrasKon 2011, and all I ever hear is "so many PEOPLE" and "none of them take showers" and "what a bunch of weirdos" and I just stand there, trying to defend my fellow Otaku, but there's not much I can do about it. Anime conventions tend to attract LOTS of people, and many of those people worry about taking forever to get into their costume and trying not to spill anything on it while eating, and not a lot of time is spent taking showers after walking around in a bucket of sweat all day. And we ARE weirdos, so there wasn't much to say to redeem anyone...

Anyway, back to costumes. Well, I've been working on my Red cosplay for a while, just out of boredom, but now that there's something to do with it, I'll put in a little more effort in finishing it up.

And it's a 3-day convention, right? So I'll wear 2 costumes while I'm there, which means I need to pick another character.

I think I've narrowed down the options. Since Red is from the comic Ever After by Endling, I want to do something similar, so I want to be a character from one of Bleedman's comics.

My fiance voted for Mini-Mandy, one of her various forms in the Grim Tales from Down Below comic series.

Personally, I think the second pic would be easiest for me to pull off. I'd have to buy a blonde wig, but I've done that before... And the dress would be easy to make, and I like the idea of having a fake tentacle kind of wrapped around one leg, coming from under the dress. It adds enough detail to the costume to make it seem like I put more effort into it than if I just did a basic formal dress.

The other idea for a costume was one I've wanted to do before, but never got the time: Ginger, from Sugar Bits. She also has an alternate, evil version of herself, which I could tolerate better than the color pink...

Again, I’d have to get a blonde wig and style it into pigtails (and depending on which version of her I’d do,) or those curled pigtails. A big PVC pipe, painted and decorated with ribbon and topped with either cardboard, Styrofoam, or something large and plastic… I don’t know what I’d make the sucker part out of, but I bet I could find something. Overall, it wouldn’t be that difficult to make the dress, in either pink or black. I know how to do all that I’d need for them.

Those are the two I’ve narrowed it down to for cosplays. If I had more time and even more money, I’d probably do both, and just have three costumes—one for each day. But I don’t, so I have to choose. Help me decide?