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| "Oh. That magician wasn't trying to kill me. I guess I should go apologise to his family." |
So I had a pretty good Halloween this year. I tend to get into the Halloween spirit a lot - eating Halloween food, listening to spooky songs, etc. The dressing up is also an aspect I like, and this year was no exception.
I posted this photo on the Death Battle forums along with some context for it, but obviously I want to discuss it in further detail. As explained there, this was in response to a quick comment in "Luke Skywalker vs. Harry Potter" involving Boomstick getting the killing curse from Harry Potter confused with "Abracadra", leading to an unfortunate incident with a magician. The photo is a representation of the aftermath. Whatever Boomstick did with the magician is entirely up to you.
The jacket was customised by a good friend of mine back in 2019. I'd wanted a jacket like that for some time but most of the shops didn't have the checkered style that I wanted. Bless my friend however, she decided to help out and managed to find the fabric needed. She also mentioned that she paid careful attention to the sleeves and the way that they were frayed when she cut them. It's a darker red than normal, but said sleeves and checkerboard style work perfectly. I wanted to pay her back with money for her favour, but she kept on saying that it was fine, so I ultimately just bought her a nice gift in return.
The cap is not an actual trucker cap unfortunately - it was a red cap bought at H&M last year and I added white paper to the front with double-sided tape. There was a slit at the top of it in order to make it fold around the hat better, which fortunately cannot be seen in the photo. I was unable to buy the trucker cap from the Rooster Teeth store (what I really wanted) in time for Halloween, but there's always next time.
I originally wanted to buy a fake moustache, but the party shops in my area have shut down and even beforehand, I couldn't find a moustache in the style that I wanted. As a result, I had to resort to brown eyebrow liner. Honestly, I was quite surprised about how different I looked with that thing on. It may not have been as big as I would have wanted it to be, but I feel it still works.
The fake blood was bought cheaply at Wilko in a small plastic tube. I honestly did not expect it to be as thick as it actually was before applying it, so I had to smear some of it on even further. That said, this was one of the most convincing sources of fake blood I've come across. My brother has made fake blood before from food colouring and chocolate sauce - had I been able to use that one again, I probably would have add "blood" to my face. Then again, maybe I was just being a bit hard on myself and didn't need to use as much.
The top hat was part of some old magic kit my brother had as a kid. It was extremely crumpled when I fished it out, but honestly it worked out for the better. I'd also planned to use a prop of a severe head on a spear that was bought cheaply at Poundland several years ago for the magician's head but ultimately this didn't happen. Firstly because the head didn't actually look right and secondly because it was better to just leave his fate to imagination.
I will make a few criticisms of the outfit. I would have honestly preferred to wear a vest than the t-shirt I ultimately ended up wearing. It's the right colour but the sleeves covered up a bit too much and it would have been better to have implemented something similar to Boomstick's tattoo. Similarly, I wore the same blue jeans that he did, but most of the picture is cropped because I didn't have a way of replicating the gun leg (one of my favourite aspects of his appearance). Everything else seems to be fair game.
So overall, a pretty neat (albeit cheap) costume that paid off. Let me just say that dressing up as Boomstick is a good choice for a Halloween costume - it's casual and doesn't require anything too finicky for the basic clothes, but it also has the extra dress-up details such as the moustache that make it apparent that it's designed for dress-up. Therefore, you can wear the outfit for most of the day and when you need to get dressed up for trick-or-treating or Halloween parties (or whatever their equivalents for this year on Zoom are), you just add the extra details and are good to go. ;)
