#kittywolfy

YOU ARE SO PRETTY

Have you tried to starch the collar? This would be my first recommendation because it is widely practiced to make collars stiff outside of the cosplay world. (1 2)

If this doesn’t work I would suggest opening up the collar and adding interfacing. This is often iron on and really easy to do, but would involve ripping the seams of your jacket. (1) 

Another way that might work, but would also involve deconstructing the collar, would be to add in a thin, flexible wire around the seam to make the collar more flexible. I’m having trouble finding a tutorial for this but here is a post discussing wire in cosplay (1) 

As for open binding, this is potentially really dangerous because you need to use tape to open bind, but luckily for you I’m trans and know my way around this predicament. 

Some warnings before I get into it:

Never bind with duck tape or ace bandages. These can very easily damage your ribs. If anything starts to hurt, stop as quickly as you can. If you end up binding with a traditional binder, only wear it for a maximum of 8 hours. I strongly recommend to not buy cheap ebay binders and invest in a gc2b or underworks binder if you’re buying anything. 

Binding with KT tape or Trans Tape is the only way of safe open binding that I would consider to tell you guys about. (1 2 3 4* 5)

if anyone wants more information on binding (open or closed) feel free to send in an ask!

Is this for anyone in the phandom?

I think that they would all have a basic similar approach - gifts, protection, and attention. The gifts would be stuff that couldn’t be gotten easily in Hueco Mundo (Grimmjow would probably have an advantage here as he could go and bug Urahara for cool food and stuff). Protection is obvious - against stronger opponents. Attention is also pretty obvious - trying to spend time with her, to win her over.

Now, I think that they’d also have some individual approaches. 

Starrk is probably a little <3 once he realizes that s/o will put up with him and isn’t freaked out by him and his crazy power. He brings her food. Also he tries to spend time with her. His type of girl is probably on the quieter side as well, so that’s good.

Grimmjow makes a total nuisance of himself. He’s a bit of an asshole. 

I don’t know if Starrk would be trusted to live with a straight-up human. Too dangerous. 

Even one of the Karakura gang with the sight/powers is really iffy. So this is more of a “what if Starrk has to stay with the Kurosakis/at the Shoten” type of deal

Starrk is lazy as hell, so I don’t think that he’s going to be enormously helpful

but once he figures out how, he does do a lot of basic stuff

like, he has to have an explanation on how the dishwasher works. But once he knows how, he puts all of his dishes in it once he’s cleared his plate, and he’ll run it if it’s full

he does some of the time-consuming chores 

He takes everyone’s laundry down to the machines/does everyone’s laundry. Not terribly exciting, but it takes a long time. It’s warm by the machines and he can doze. 

Lilynette is more energetic, so helps out too! She likes doing food prep, though she has to be supervised. 

She’ll start out small, with stuff like washing the rice, cutting up veggies, etc.   

he doesn’t have a “normal” job, but he does stuff for Urahara and brings stuff home. Sometimes its money, or food, or science things that are helpful

Chad Sado:

is really supportive of his g/f’s insecure areas - whether it’s a specific skill or group of skills, her body, something else, or some group of issues. 

gives honest praise and concrit

also if s/o if really badly off, he’ll support her as she works through therapy or self-help groups so that she feels better

is available for snuggles to feel better

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez:

brags about his g/f’s awesomeness all the time, so makes a point about bragging about the areas she’s insecure about

also tells her that he wouldn’t be with a weak/gross person so obviously she’s awesome

asks Ichigo how to help his g/f on the sly because he doesn’t like it when she’s unhappy