my ocs + their halloween costumes
self explanatory, not an exhaustive list, hypothetical au where all the secondary world characters live where halloween costumes are typical
- loreleaf: does not like dressing up (too many layers, too many weird heavy bits, too many accessories, generally Too Much in a sensory way), but more than willing to sew everyone else's costumes.
- ashleah: is VERY into halloween and costumes. she goes all out on multiple zelda costumes several years in a row and coaxes loreleaf into wearing very comfortable, casual link costumes to match. zelink shippers do not interact.
- lev: she also helps make everyone's costumes (she's more into the hardcore armor/accessories side of it; while she does sew, she goes crazy for some worbla and heat guns) but she LOVES dressing up. she has a great storm costume but her favorites are her series of niche or one-off star trek characters (t'pring is her best). she makes her own phasers and tricorders with light and sound and everything.
- chance: was known for his slutty costumes until he had his mental breakdown and realized he hated putting himself on display. after the Lestat Costume Incident of '23 he has sworn off costumes for good and spends halloweens watching early-season supernatural and drinking spiked hot chocolate.
- sixes & sevens: have never done a twin costume in their lives. they occasionally do generic costumes (alien, vampire, astronaut, etc) but they are never coordinating. sixes often begs off halloween anyway and is usually the one spiking chance's hot chocolate. sevens is more into halloween parties that aren't about costumes.
- adder: they've been legolas for ten years running and are not planning on changing that anytime soon. if the costume fits, the costume fits.
- sepheri: always dresses up as his latest video game fixation. a couple years ago it was patroclus from hades, this year it's astarion from baldur's gate 3, a while back it was elliott from stardew valley. he wants to ask adder if they would be cool with him going as aragorn one year, to match their legolas, and it makes him so nervous that most people assume he's stressing about a marriage proposal.
- (little does he know that adder would foam at the mouth if they saw him dressed specifically like filthy exhausted door-opening aragorn. they would foam at the mouth and then die of Horny just at the sight of him.)
- doli lin: has been "too old" for halloween costumes since he was nine. then he watches hadestown at loreleaf's insistence and decides an orpheus costume wouldn't be too embarrassing. turns out he looks Really Hot in that costume and he gets more attention than he was expecting. it's weird but also incredibly satisfying. maybe he's the slutty costume guy now. who can say.
- jatatyla: always dresses as someone with wings. she gets lev to help her build the kind of wings that can move so they look really realistic. one year she's castiel, one she's angel, one she's maleficent, one year she's maximum ride (no one gets it), one year she's Sexy Mothman (everyone gets it and wishes they didn't).
- judah: she just puts together some of her old 1700/1800s clothes and goes as a generic gothic heroine, sometimes with a candelabra prop. she's pretty and thin and blond so everyone goes wild even though she puts no effort into it, which kind of pisses her off, so she stops after a few years.
- dara: you better BELIEVE she milks the hell out of being a frankenstein girl. she's already got the patchwork body parts and everything! she commits halloween costume contest crimes by entering as literally just herself in a slightly different fashion style ("hipster frankenstein" is her favorite so far) and draws sharpie stitch lines over her actual stitch scars to make them pop. she wins 4 times out of 5.
- one year, just for variety's sake, she goes as sally from the nightmare before christmas instead, and convinces judah to get a jack skellington suit. they don't win any awards but it's judah's "oh my god, i like wearing pants" awakening. dara takes it as a win anyway.