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All Things Devoured (Worm/DeadSpace)

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pucflek said:
I think people chose it less for the way it looks kind of brighter and more for the possibility of unlimited flesh works.
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The description of Costume #3 said it was intended for more or less unlimited Flesh works. And it fits the name best of them: deadpan means wry, sarcastic, dry humor. It means delivery in a manner that could be taken for utter seriousness. Costume 3, minus the mask, looks like it could just be...y'know, someone's clothes. And that's part of the joke wherein she pretends to just be a perfectly normal zombie superhero.

TL;DR: Costume 2 isn't Deadpan. It's Farce.
 
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Thief of Words said:
The description of Costume #3 said it was intended for more or less unlimited Flesh works. And it fits the name best of them: deadpan means wry, sarcastic, dry humor. It means delivery in a manner that could be taken for utter seriousness. Costume 3, minus the mask, looks like it could just be...y'know, someone's clothes. And that's part of the joke wherein she pretends to just be a perfectly normal zombie superhero.

TL;DR: Costume 2 isn't Deadpan. It's Farce.
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In your opinion. I for one think that the mix between happy Halloween costume and headless horseman horror leaves plenty of room for deadpan.
 
Yeah, that's the problem with full body costume, as it goes against Taylor's initial mindset and Glenn thoughts on her reasoning.
"You want to make people look at you, so they would have to admit your existence."
and with costume #2
"So we will dress you in obscuring rag robes and big pumpkin helmet to hide you from everyone."

I understand reasoning behind Halloween costume, but it feels kinda wrong for Taylor to choose it. It makes sense for readers and from tactical point of view, but I think it is kind of demeaning choice for Taylor herself. It is like telling Taylor "You are no good for hero image, take this rags to cover your ugly face from public and play along as Halloween clown."
 
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Sivantic said:
Well you're laaaaaaaaaaaame. >3>
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:cry:

:V
ErlKoeng said:
Yeah, that's the problem with full body costume, as it goes against Taylor's initial mindset and Glenn thoughts on her reasoning.
"You want to make people look at you, so they would have to admit your existence."
and with costume #3
"So we will dress you in obscuring rag robes and big Halloween themed helmet to hide you from everyone."

I understand reasoning behind Halloween costume, but it feels kinda wrong for Taylor to choose it. It makes sense for readers and from tactical point of view, but I think it is kind of demeaning choice for Taylor herself. It is like telling Taylor "You are no good for hero image, take this rags to cover your ugly face from public and play along as Halloween clown."
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The Hlloween mask is Costume #2, not Costume #3.
 
ErlKoeng said:
Yeah, that's the problem with full body costume, as it goes against Taylor's initial mindset and Glenn thoughts on her reasoning.
"You want to make people look at you, so they would have to admit your existence."
and with costume #2
"So we will dress you in obscuring rag robes and big pumpkin helmet to hide you from everyone."

I understand reasoning behind Halloween costume, but it feels kinda wrong for Taylor to choose it. It makes sense for readers and from tactical point of view, but I think it is kind of demeaning choice for Taylor herself. It is like telling Taylor "You are no good for hero image, take this rags to cover your ugly face from public and play along as Halloween clown."
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The thing is they would all play along as Halloween clown. That is the basic rule he had outlined for Taylor.

And no, it isn't hiding her anymore than any other costume hides the other capes. Everyone wears masks. To say otherwise is trying to reduce the gap between her cape life and civilian life even more, which is the opposite of what she is trying to do.
 
Sivantic said:
And no, it isn't hiding her anymore than any other costume hides the other capes. Everyone wears masks. To say otherwise is trying to reduce the gap between her cape life and civilian life even more, which is the opposite of what she is trying to do.
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Is it? Taylor was pretty open about showing everyone that she's a cape now, that she's broken because they stood by and did nothing. I think it's more in character to keep the separation low, because when your identity is public anyway why even care about the pretense of being normal?

She's not able to, and doesn't really want, to hide by being a civilian, imo. So a costume that's basically a dressed up version of normal clothes fits that mindset, where we're paying lip service to the idea of a cape identity but really it's just us.
 
NemoMarx said:
Is it? Taylor was pretty open about showing everyone that she's a cape now, that she's broken because they stood by and did nothing. I think it's more in character to keep the separation low, because when your identity is public anyway why even care about the pretense of being normal?

She's not able to, and doesn't really want, to hide by being a civilian, imo. So a costume that's basically a dressed up version of normal clothes fits that mindset, where we're paying lip service to the idea of a cape identity but really it's just us.
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I think it's less of the pretense of being normal in so much that she is doing this to keep her house, to help her dad with bills, as an outlet of the anger of being ignored in her trigger event. That's why I say I think it is to separate the two.
 
I'm voting for 3, but I wouldn't be upset if 2 won. 2 has the advantage of allowing us to inflict more psychological horror from the juxtaposition of cutesy and horrific, and I love some of the ideas people have had involving the pumpkin head and creative neck contortions.
On the other hand, 3 is more 'in character' for this Taylor and we can flesh-shape without having to worry as much about tearing up our costume, but I wouldn't be surprised if we get asked to keep things humanoid while we're using the third design. It'd be a lot easier to use inhuman forms and shapes and get away with it if we had a full covering like with #2, but the tradeoff is that we can play up the zombie angle with #3.
 
Evaunit02mark1 said:
Flesh tendrils+Handles under the helmet+Segmented parts = Deadpan Pumpkin face.
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or we can have the mask just be rubber or latex and the head makes the shape and the mask puts on color and we can use our head under it to manipulate the expresion and we have the eyes hiden under our rags and we can lure them that we are not looking and the mask will be easy to make it just like a ballon with a painted on face
 
Personally, I know this is a horror story. I'm looking forward to when it gets even darker.
But I'm a sucker for a good zombie story that starts without lurching into full frontal doom right out of the gate. After all, the best kind of horror is the kind that lingers around the place, lurking in shadowed corners until it's waaaay too late to get out.
Amusingly enough, most horror movies use this on the victims, rather than the audience. (Talk about putting the cart before the horse, eh?)

... Also, on second thought, insane zombie Vista wouldn't be bad, I guess? Kind of cute, really, now I think about it.

Evaunit02mark1 said:
True, unfortunately we can't be as proactive in our crime fighting efforts.
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No enthusiastic walks for us, I'm afraid.
 
Thief of Words said:
TL;DR: Costume 2 isn't Deadpan. It's Farce.
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Really? I'm pretty sure US said that Costume #3 was second in amount of flesh shaping, while Costume #2 was first. Also, I get the feeling that costume #3 would lead to general zombie campiness, while costume #2 lets us be a bit more creepy.

To be honest, I'm voting for costume #2 because costume #3 feels kinda generic to me, and costume #1 is a little too chuuni for me. Glenn has a point in that Taylor's focus is on not being ignored again, and the generic outfit is what it says on the tin: generic. Costume #3 has a bit more pizzaz, and draws more attention.

In the end, everyone has their preferences. I'm going to be sticking with this quest regardless of which costume is chosen.
 
To play up that "Deadpan" angle in costume #2 we could make liberal use of being "headless". It wouldn't be hard, considering our body, and we could just walk around with our pumpkin "head" in our hands. We could deliver that deadpan humor, but instead of merely with a flat expression, literally no expression.

And we could make the pumpkin itself out of re-tooled biomass, allowing us to control it and even use it as a real head.

It probably wouldn't be the easiest thing, but it might be worth it to have an expressive pumpkin face.
 
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