"Finding light in the bad times is the mark of a true leader."
– Nier, about the King of Facade
I love Sechs (the Prince/King of Facade) so much, especially since I'm Middle Eastern; I gravitate towards those characters a lot of the time! I wanted to cosplay him since I first played NieR Gestalt in 2015🙏 I started the costume in 2021 and finally finished it in the summer of 2022! 💖
Mask is made out of EVA and craft foam.
Costume was made out of simple black cotton fabric, and I covered craft foam with the fabric to make the collar and dress panels more rigid. The "coins" are actually just confetti 🤣 and of course, there's the little bells on the bottoms of the capelet, and dress panels! I jingle so much in this costume just like he does in-game hehe :3
photos by my partner Raph & edited by me on my twitch channel~
and thanks to our friend m0rdack for helping pose my mask high up in the last photo!
Sechs made his first playable appearance in BlazBlue Alternative Dark War as a limited 5⭐ character! His 01 costume depicts his 'casual' outfit seen in XBlaze gag routes, his 02 costume depicts his original design from XBlaze, and his 03 costume is brand new for BBDW- and was his default form upon summoning.
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[Gameplay]
Sechs was an interesting, unique character in a few different ways. One point of difference is can be seen above; the vast majority of BBDW characters have three different costumes in the files. Sechs has three costumes that appear in his card art, but only two of the costumes have talk sprites!
For whatever reason, his second costume appears with his card art...
But not with his talk sprites!
Sechs' second outfit, his 01 sprites, are also missing from the section of the files designated for battle sprites.
There are a number of other characters who are also missing assets like this; we see more and more of them as more characters were released for the game. The original available cast all appear with all assets for all three costumes, regardless of whether or not those costumes were ever made accessible while the game ran.
Over the next few months, as more characters were added, many were also added with all three costumes accounted for, but we start to see more characters who, like Sechs, are missing assets, or don't even have all their costumes in the first place!
[Image Description: A digital drawing of Acht and Sechs from XBlaze, walking by a riverbank at sunset. She is turned to him and smiling, as if saying something. End ID]
Merry Valentines here's Acht taking her Autism Creature boyfriend for a walk
"Like all Persona protags, he hardly canonically speaks. Seems too cool for school but is actually just a cringefail guy who loves his little sis Nanako, likes to fish and make beef stew, and also likes cats. He also solves murders with his friends and forcibly teach people the power of friendship! And to paraphrase one of my mutuals, "I love Yu because he just stands there like •_• and then everyone falls in love with him. Gets accused of dating like every girl he meets, gets teased by every girl on the investigation team, has whatever he has going on with Yosuke. This kid and his autism swag". Oh yeah there was also originally gonna be an option for Yu to romance said Yosuke guy, including the confession dialogue being recorded in both Japanese and English, but it was removed because ALTUS hates gay people </3 But don't worry because there's a mod that adds this option back in because the devil works hard but gay JRPG fans work harder."
Sechs -
"As a teenager his father reveals to him that he's actually not human and then he essentially intellectualizes his own crisis toward that so hard that he talks himself into enacting a doomsday plan to make all life cease to exist so technically nobody will suffer anymore. So he takes two of his fellow wizards both of whom are absolutely infatuated with him (one of which is the closest the BlazBlue series gets to a canon gay man imo), takes a super powerful weapon from his father and in a sort of misunderstanding slash random event ends up killing him, and then the three of them flee the country and start trying to act out his plan. He pretty much just stares at people silently and only talks occasionally, when he does it's usually either a short sentence that is either blunt or vague. His magical attribute is gravity magic idk as someone with vestibular/proprioceptive sensory issues gravity magic is an autistic as hell magic to master in. He also has a funny name. In the joke route he is also written adding a sort of gap moe attribute to his tendency to not talk a lot where he stops talking in any instance where he's thrown off a social script or doesn't know what to say, and in the gatcha spinoff of course because they have to make him at least cooperate with you he tends to read as less overtly evil and more just having low empathy and a strong sense of his form of "justice." There is so much more I could say about him he's one of my favorite characters in the entire BlazBlue extended universe he's just a very cool character both as a villain and a circumstantial ally. Vote for funny guy named sex as a win for autistic emo twinks everywhere."
you know, Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita) might be one of my favorite sci-fi of all time, like, this manga is so amazing that is hard to describe.
it was a reread, and i only read until the end of Last Order, i got a bit tired after i finished both Gunnm and Gunnm Last Order in 4 days. Gally (Alita) is an amazing protagonist and i love her so much. The manga have a cool representation, the cast is diverse.
Sechs is a trans man (canon), Xazi is a black woman, Mbadi seems to be a indian descendant, and a lot more. They become more comon in Last Order (this 3 only appear on Last order).
Now the Story, is amazing. Gally (Alita) journey is beautiful, she tries to find her place in the world and her identity, her story is beautiful.
I recommend the read if you want, the story is really good. There are an anime and a Hollywood movie, none of them are better than the manga in my opinion and none of them is faithful to the manga too, so you can consume all of them and you kinda will have different experiences, i think the manga is better.
rereading gunnm last order and currently at zekka's introduction
which is to say, the glorious insanity that is *the thumb wrestling scene*
it's so over the top, it's funny, it's almost gayer than gay sex and it's so delightfully pitch
centuries-old living weapon of mass-destruction of the "gay because he hates women"-type <3< transmasc battle-android with room-temperature iq (<low int high wis type of deal) who's technically only 2 years old
Celebrating 14 years of NieR today🥰
I first played NIER Gestalt in 2015 & didn't know it was gonna change my life so drastically😭💗
I'll continue to cosplay Emil & the Prince of Facade as long as possible💖
human Emil cos: Caroline Krunchy
No7 Emil robe: MisterCosplayHead
No7 Emil head: Cosplay Tendency
Weiss: Mecchan - Cosplay
Halua: Magical Ani
Bro Nier: ShrubbyPrincess Cosplay; cos: Harv Cosplay
Halua & Emil📸: LXEphoto
all other📸: my partner Raph, edits by me