{"id":42005,"date":"2024-03-11T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42005"},"modified":"2024-03-10T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T07:27:06","slug":"what-is-your-mcs-style-if-theyre-dressing-up-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/03\/11\/what-is-your-mcs-style-if-theyre-dressing-up-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat Is Your MC\u2019s Style If They\u2019re Dressing Up?\u201d — Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 22 (not so very long ago), I posted on \u201cWhat Is Your MC\u2019s Style If They\u2019re Dressing Up?<\/a>\u201d with a particular focus on Malian. She is, after all, the<\/em> main character…<\/p>\n

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Styling Malian…<\/p><\/div>\n

As noted in the intro, the post title is based on a tweet I spotted in the wild, wild, world of Twitter aka X. Once spotted, it prompted recall of Kim Falconer\u2019s Styling Characters: More Than Meets The Eye<\/a> post on the Supernatural Underground<\/a> last year, which in turn sparked four spinoff posts from yours truly:<\/p>\n

Styling Characters in The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

Styling Characters in The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

Styling Characters in The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em> Revisited<\/a><\/h4>\n

Styling Characters in Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

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I know, Helen-Goes-Mad-on-Styling-Characters, but it was<\/em> — and is — fun. Plus Kalan runs Malian a very close second in the MC stakes, which is why I’m taking a look at his styling today. With a particular focus on the “dress up” theme, of course. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

In a way, Malian and Kalan go in opposite directions when it comes to dressing up. Where Malian started out with some pretty fancy clothes, being the Heir of Night<\/a>, Kalan was a temple novice and on the shabby side, wearing:<\/p>\n

“…the gray-blue robes of a temple novice, robes that were much patched and far too short at wrist and ankle.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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From something v slightly like this, clotheswise… (It’s Philippe Gaston in “Ladyhawke”)<\/p><\/div>\n

When he returns to the Wall of Night six years later, he’s flying under very different colours:<\/p>\n

“Kalan…took care over his armor, paying attention to every buckle and binding…and slid the longsword and scabbard with its hydra device\u00a0 onto his belt…Yet the most disconcerting step was donning the cuirass of Blood, its distinctive deep-red steel particular to the warrior House…With the red steel and the hydra device on his scabbard, few would question that he was anything but a Blood warrior returning home.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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To something between this … (Etienne Navarre, also in “Ladyhawke”)<\/p><\/div>\n

Garb, that for a Derai warrior and knight of Emer (which he also is by that stage) is tantamount to “dressing up.”<\/p>\n

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… and this (Sir Thomas Colville, aka the Black Prince, in “Knight’s Tale”) — only think “burgundy” for the breatsplate, not “black.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 22 (not so very long ago), I posted on \u201cWhat Is Your MC\u2019s Style If They\u2019re Dressing Up?\u201d with a particular focus on Malian. She is, after all, the main character… As noted in the intro, the post title is based on a tweet I spotted in the wild, wild, world of Twitter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42005"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42015,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005\/revisions\/42015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}