Entirely unrelated to Pokemon, and to my progress as an amateur artist...
Some of my online friends and I have been doing this thing lately where we come up with detailed superpowers for each other based on a complicated consensus/randomisation process, based on the worldbuilding in the web serial
Worm. We haven't got to the final stages of it yet, and we're not allowed to have any input on our own powers while they're in development... and my friends have saddled me with a possible doozy of a power:
"Control over diseases, bacteria and viruses. Optimizes their functionality, growing and strengthening them through compulsive breeding. Also creates a constant field of diseases around them, infecting those around easily. 60/40 Shaker/Master mix. Downsides: Unable to turn off the field, only reduce it in size to about a meter-radius sphere. No direct attacking methods besides infecting others."
Bollocks! If I'm not shot on sight, I figured I'd have to immediately "give myself up" to the local heroes; and on the basis that I can *somehow* limit damage done, I figured I could at least get a neat costume out of it. Silver lining and all that.
So I googled a few inspiration things and put together a rough draft of the kind of outfit I'd commission if I had access to a small government budget. It was fun! I don't think I've designed an outfit since... I was 15, maybe?? And it was basically a hoodie with straps. I'm not really very fashion conscious tbh.
[[e: spoilered old version]]
But I
am practical, which is why this was fun to design. So many practicalities to consider! Plenty of pockets, flexible lightweight armor covering key areas, thematically appropriate spikes and yellow warning markings to emphasise a "stay away" impression to both enemies and civilians, (although the spikes on the shoulders would be rubber tipped to prevent catching, they're purely aesthetic), no warning markings on any vital areas, wasp/dart frog/hazmat themed outfit. But not so sinister that I'd be an obvious bad guy. Early draft of course, though I doubt I'll be coming back to it :V
Depending on how the guys decide to roll the details of the power, I might get absolutely
fucked on the "downsides" half, meaning I probably wouldn't be able to fight with the good guys with this particular superpower :( So that would mean a villainous outfit. But idk, I think that would be too easy? Just go all out on the toxic motif. There's plenty of other powers in the mix ATM too, maybe I'll get the opportunity to do a couple of those this week - my other possible option involves me "spraying concrete from [my] skin", so that's gonna require a very different kind of costume :I
E: added second costume
e2: last one + minor aesthetic changes
E3: my best friend said middle guy had a pretty huge crotch. My thoughts on this were as follows: "wait, what??" "If it were me I'd wear a cup anyway" and "awww Sean you have my sympathies :'( "