do you believe you can walk on water?

Subject line courtesy of one Captain Jack Sparrow.

I know it might be a little pointless to do so, but I've been looking through bridal catalogs and looking at wedding shows. I used to do this as a kid, because I guess when you are five and a girl, you're planning your dream wedding with Prince Charming and all I AM GOING TO HAVE A BIG WEDDING AND BE DRESSED LIKE CINDERELLA and whilst I am sure my mother thought that was cute, I find it somewhat nauseating. But I do like to browse through wedding catalogs and watch wedding shows because I am a writer and I like that kind of inspiration.

And hey, chapter three of "My Sins" has a wedding, so I want to see some overly complicated, overtly extravagant, big huge designer dresses here. Because royal weddings are extravagant affairs, and Nyna would wear some hugely extravagant dress befitting her status. Possibly with lace. I don't know yet. I have like five different drafts of her dress, and I don't care for any of them. Mostly because I can't draw, so I can't actually SHOW the level of detail I want, and I am not close enough right now to any fashion designers who can sketch me out something.

I wanted to pull at that Greco-Roman influence, but the Greeks and Romans weren't necessarily...ornate with their clothing. They had togas. Or they didn't wear anything. But the women did seem to like (at least in the pictures I've seen) long, flowy gowns. I would go with the, uh, plunging neckline but I am sure Nyna's advisors would be thrilled at the aspect of her showing off some cleavage.

And by 'thrilled' I mean they would tell her, "Absolutely not." She wants Marth to use his imagination, doesn't she?

(Marth, for the record, wouldn't be looking at her cleavage anyway, even if she was showing it off. He is just not that kind of person.)

I was thinking of something, uh, empire waisted. (For those who do not know what that means or you've never watched Project Runway, the waist is right under the bust.) That was in the...first draft I made? That's actually the one I care least about XD I don't really have a specific design in mind yet, except that the skirt of the dress will be somewhat flowy. Maybe. I don't know. I hate designing clothing, and yet your clothing says a lot about your status and your culture (or it did back then). I might just use the gown my sister-in-law made--it was fit for a princess, so to speak--and just modify the bodice (it was a corset styled bodice and uh, back in Nyna's time, corsets were strictly underwear. Unless you worked in a brothel). The bodice will have lace, I know that much.

I think that will work quite well.

Oh and no I am not giving white wedding dresses ajkfdfsl. White as the colour of a bride's dress? That's a relatively modern thing. Back in the olden days, you just wore your most formal dress. Royals, of course, could throw money around and make something that was HOLY SHIT FANCY AS HELL. And fancy back then also meant uncomfortable and stuffy.

I was thinking of purple and silver or ivory, really. It wouldn't be a deep purple--maybe a lilac? They're getting married in the spring, they should be lighter colours, plus the war is over and really, it's a happy time! Also, purple is a colour represented by royal, so. Thoughts and suggestions are, of course, welcome. I'm just throwing things out there.

fjdksfd Nyna's hair. I will not describe what her hair actually looks like. It will be very fancy. There we go. Marth isn't going to give a crap about whether it's a french braid or something. He doesn't know anything about hair. He knows it's very ornate and that's all that matters I think at this point.

Marth is so simple compared to Nyna. He will look sexy. Well, I think he'll look sexy. He will have epaulets and aguilettes and no, I didn't get inspiration for Marth's fancy clothes from Utena, what are you talking about? Also, his tunic will be green. With a white mantle with deep red velvet lining aaaaand white trousers. Why green and white? Hello, Altea's flag. For someone whose country's colours are green and white, there is a lot of blue. So.

No I didn't get colour inspiration from Smash Brothers what kind of person do you take me for?

AS FAR AS WEDDING TRADITIONS GO, I really don't have a lot thought out. Marth won't be wearing a ring, not because he doesn't want to, but because in Archanea that's just how things are run. A king is first married to his kingdom, and then to his wife. I'm sure Marth likes that philosophy, it gels with his whole "I am a prince before I am a son or a brother" speech. So. Um. There will be feasting.

Lots of feasting.

Did I mention lots of food?

Yeah.

Nyna has no father to give her away, which causes issues because she doesn't have brothers either. Or male cousins. And Camus is 'dead'. And naturally Marth isn't going to be giving Nyna away to himself. So I was thinking Hardin because, you know, he and Nyna are pretty friendly, but that would also be a really cruel thing to do to Hardin because, you know, he's in love with Nyna.

But Nyna might not necessarily know that.

Don't worry, Hardin, I'm not gonna be too hard on you. You're not the one being corrupted here.

oh god I just pictured him and Marth as drinking buddies. (You guys have room for Ephraim there at the bar counter?)

Ummm.

This post would've failed a lot less had I not decided to simply 'wing it' and just write it how I envision it and then that's that. So I'll probably make a more comprehensive post after I write the chapter.

Derp.

I don't have any idea what they'll even be serving at the banquet, but I'm sure it'll be awesome. I might not even go into detail because Marth will likely be exhausted and oh btw he has to become emperor now and no I do not have KIRA KIRA in my head.

Speaking of Utena, as spoken in ~The Cult of That Person~:
[10:55:10 PM] Jayden Touga Juri Kiryuu Arisagawa: Dude, I'm gonna have Marth be wisked away like after the wedding
[10:55:46 PM] Jayden Touga Juri Kiryuu Arisagawa: he needs to become King of the World.
[10:55:55 PM] Jayden Touga Juri Kiryuu Arisagawa: oh dear I almost typed 'End of the World'.
[10:55:58 PM] Jayden Touga Juri Kiryuu Arisagawa: Marth, you are not Akio.
[10:56:01 PM] Utenaknollkageraphipuff: XDDDD

oh goddammit I just pictured Marth on the hood of a possessed car with his shirt blowing in the wind, making porno poses as Merric chills in the front seat.

what.

This entry was originally posted at http://sailorvfan10.dreamwidth.org/157326.html. Comment here or on Dreamwidth.