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I check bags at the place where I work and I stg every day thereâs always some douche bag with a huge family whoâs just like âI went to a much bigger faire and they didnât even check our bagsâ âweâre a family weâre not gonna have any weaponsâ âwhy do you have to check that itâs so smallâ âwhat do you mean âcan I smell itââ like bitch stfu it legit takes me five seconds and itâs the rules
Graham tripped over an upraised stone in the floor as he approached the Fey cell, so he didnât see Wente scramble to light something off of the coals in the little oven. By the time heâd straightened himself out, Wente was beaming, holding something in his hand with a scrap of a candle pressed in it.
âHappy birthday, Your Majesty,â Wente said, offering a single sweetycake with a light lacing of sugar frosting. âI had just enough supplies in here to make you something special. Itâs not quite asâŠwell, anything as Iâd like, but we make do with what we have, and we wanted to celebrate as we can.â
Graham froze. âY-youâŠIâŠâ
Bramble smiled. âYou get used to counting the days when youâve got a baby on the way,â she said. âBelieve us. We know what day it is, even in here. Many happy returns, Majesty.â
~*~*~
The art director and character/concept designer Evan Cagle said this (he deleted his tumblr, so thereâs no link back to the original ask, sorry):
With that, and keeping in mind the fact that this concept art just copy-pasted the teens/20s face so we can make the outrageously silly assumption that theyâre close in age,
as well as knowing the tags on the actual in-game models reveal that heâs tagged as Teens, 20s, 30s, 50s, and 90s,
Grahamâs ages might conceivably be estimated as thus:
Ch1: 18
(guess +3 years as a royal knight to establish himself in Edwardâs court as a favorite)
Prologue: 21 (crowned immediately after the prologue ends, as per KQ1)
Ch2: 22
(canon +8 years for Taylor Fey to grow up)
Ch3: 30
(guess +2 years to court Valanice)
Ch4 Prologue: 32
(canon +18 for Alexander to grow up)
Ch4: 50
Ch5: 77 (exact canon, Graham tells his age to Olfie in game)
Present Day: 97 (guess to account for both the model tag and because 20 years seems an appropriate curse length)
Heâd have to have a birthday quickly after being crowned at 21 to account for Taylor Fey, which @captmickeyâ instantly made deliciously sad by suggesting he might have had it while captured by goblins. And @maxwelljacksâ sweetened it up again by saying Wente would remember and make a point of gifting him a special sweetycake to celebrate no matter what.
(And if his birthday is in July, since Google says KQ1 released in July 1983 and KQ9 came out July 28, 2015, then my theory about ch2 happening in summer would be right, and thatâs extra frosting on this headcanon sweetycake.)
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By request, hereâs how I, at least, put together my King Graham outfit.
Part 1: Cloak and Cowl
Disclaimer: Iâm totally novice at cosplay and only do it for like one event per year if that, so take what you will or throw it all away.
Also I made this like three years ago, so the details get sorta hazy.
Step one: Research. The best part. Take lots of screencaps of Graham from every angle. Hoard the pictures in your phone like a dragon. Stare at them. Theyâre lovely. Heâs lovely.Â
Ready to commit to this? Itâs mildly expensive and Mostly Time Consuming. But that outfit looks so neat...and I love him...okay. Still good?
Letâs do this.
Letâs start with the cloak and the cowl. The bit that everyone notices first, the dramatic part that snaps behind you when you walk and makes 2015 Graham stand apart from his 1980s days (...other than also not wearing pink anymore).
The best part other than the hat, really.
By the gameâs own proof, the cowl and cloak are separate pieces. Which makes your life easier.
I chose a springy red fabric from Joannâs called bengaline. It stretches one way, not both, and itâs delightfully weighted so it snaps and catches the wind in pleasing ways--the effect when walking is almost as bouncy as the video game version. Should you choose the same, know that bengaline is primarily plastic and cannot be ironed (seriously, donât)--steam it or get it wet and let it air dry to remove wrinkles. Check it out here: https://www.joann.com/sew-classics-bengaline-suiting/xprd757777.html
Bengaline does not feel heavy when you pick it up in the store. It becomes heavy as you wear it. Your shoulders might revolt. Feel free to pick something lighter, cheaper, or whatever is available in the shade of red you love most, but remember that the lighter the fabric weight, the happier youâll be. Please do not pick velvet. A day at con reveals all truths. Be aware of what youâre putting your shoulders through.
For your reference, according to the receipt I found I apparently bought 6 yards of it (with a half off coupon). This is overkill. You probably donât need 6 yards. I think I have a ton of it left over and smooshed into deep storage. But then again, itâs red and red is always useful in cosplay, so it doesnât hurt to have leftovers.
Why reinvent the wheel? I used this tutorial here for the base cloak: https://dangerous-ladies.tumblr.com/post/41564161303/so-you-wanna-wear-a-cape-god-this-new
yes you want a circle cape, not a square cape. circle capes catch the wind better. youâll be able to tell the difference, i promise.
Side note: you might think you want your cloak to touch your ankles. It looks like Grahamâs does. You do not want this. When it scrapes the ground at comic con or renfest, it will get filthy, it will shred, and people (especially you) will step on the back of it. It might even get eaten by an escalator at con. Go up an inch or two--a little goes a long way. Itâll still look great, and you wonât choke.
plus depending on how you stand no one can tell anyway.
Now, for my numbers:
I am 5âČ6âł. I chose 56.5âł (that includes my hem allowance) so that the cloak itself actually âswingsâ at 55.5âł. I copied the tutorialâs neck hole exactly (6âł âswingâ).
Follow the tutorialâs instructions for the rolled hem. Pin everything. You will hate pins. You may bleed. Doesnât matter. The cosplay gods are cruel. Keep pinning. If you picked bengaline like I did do not iron it just suffer in silence. Go slowly and carefully, and fight the curve to be as flat as you can.
Time to sew! Put on Game Grumpâs Kingâs Quest 5 LP because itâs the best, and go slowly around your circle at the default sewing machine stitch.
I donât recommend hand stitching. There is too much fabric and you want to have some sort of life at the end of this. Check with your local public library or that weird relative you forgot about if you donât have a machine yourself.
Cool, thatâs a cloak! Admire it, itâs lovely. I mean, you donât have a way to wear it yet, but youâre maybe 68% done here so, thatâs great!
Cowl time!
I donât have reference images for what I did three years ago, and there are probably better ways to do this. Feel free to experiment, but hereâs how I (probably?) did it:
Measure around your arms and upper chest approximately where the cowl will lay, and make sure you give yourself extra inches so you can still move comfortably. For me, thatâs around 48-50âł around. I donât remember what motivated my number selection for the neck part--it must be wide enough to go around your head, plus room to play with it to make it lie in fun ways like Grahamâs. Apparently I picked 28âł.
Play with scrap fabric, or if you have lots of extra red feel free to make extra sizes. My cowl looks like this:
Thatâs 14âł along the neck, 24âł along the body, and a length of 18âł--but with a secret 6.5âł tucked inside the cowl itself, so the fabric really is 24.5âł long.
Why would I do that?
To tuck the cowl into the jerkin/undershirt collar and make it look seamless, like a video game character.
Ainât no sight of tunic around that neck.
Also, the extra fabric gives it more stability and strength, allowing you to play with the collar and get that high edge he has rather than flat fabric. Iâd even considered stringing a wire through it in early days, but if you use bengaline the fabric is sturdy enough on its own. Your fabric selection may act differently.
So, Iâve âhiddenâ 6.5âł worth of fabric in the collar. What would that look like as a pattern? I donât remember for certain since I didnât write it down but it probably looked like this:
okay maybe like half an inch seam allowance. an inch is probably overkill. donât be me.
Since I didnât want the thickness of a real hem, I did, like, a herringbone stitch (looks like zigzaging triangles) along the part that gets tucked in to the shirt to prevent any fraying, and then I folded it at the dotted line and sewed it in place to get a permanent line.
Unfolded, it looks like this:
In practice, it looks like this:
From the back, it ends up looking a little something like-a this:
Cool, cloak and cowl! You still donât have a way to wear it, but the pieces are nice. Maybe unfinished and kinda boring, though, since Grahamâs King Cloak is Such Luxury.
I mean, itâs fine that way. But it feels unfinished if youâre doing Prologue or Ch2 Graham.
Trimming time~.
I bought one 1âł wide red satin trim roll, and two 2 ÂŒâ red satin trim rolls. Pin the wider trim all along the INNER bottom hem of your cloak (the side with the rolled hem on it), sew slowly. Get your second fresh roll so you donât run out midway, and do the same on the EXTERIOR. This way, any wonky uneven lines are hidden on the inside and less noticeable.
Nice rule of thumb for cosplay Iâve learned: if you canât see a mistake from 5 feet away, no one can. Donât panic.
Do not sew both sides at the same time. Itâs tempting, but hard enough to sew around a curve already without trying to keep both sides remotely even. To finish, I folded the long ends over, matched the hem with the cloak, and went for it.
And do the same to the bottom of the cowl with your thinner trim--you only have to do the exterior since no one can see the interior of that piece, so itâs much easier.
Cool! Youâre done! Youâve got a cloak and cowl, trimmed and gorgeous.
âBut Gerbil,â I hear you complain, âI still canât wear it! It doesnât have any attachment to me, even though I have lots of attachment to it since I just dumped like a hundred hours and at least $50 into it.â
Fair enough.
If you used bengaline like me, youâll discover very quickly that itâs heavy heavy heavy. Itâs gorgeous and thick and looks great, but the weight. Sure, it didnât feel heavy when you bought it, when you sewed with it, when you first put it on. But itâs hour six of wearing it, and your shoulders hate you. If it hangs off your neck like you would assume a cloak should, you will choke. It hurts. The weight must sit on your shoulders.
Luckily, this costume has two separate pieces, and the cowl is going to hide where it hooks to you.
Youâre going to buy two snap clips. The big ones. Like, at least an inch. Youâre going to pick out an anchor t-shirt from Goodwill. It literally doesnât matter what it looks like, but itâs going to be one size too small and will go up to your neck. You need it to be totally comfortable to wear (the more breathable the better--this is a hot cosplay), but tight enough that it will not shift under the weight of your cloak movement, thus the smaller size. Sew the snaps to the inside of the cloak and just above your collar bone on the shirt.
(apparently Superman wears it like this too, go figure)
(you might want to wait to sew the snaps on until your jerkin/tunic is finished before you sew the snaps to your anchor shirt, so you can be sure the collars match up--you need to have room for the snaps to sit on the anchor shirt, but still sit under your tunic)
(if you think of a better solution, have at, but please, do not tie it around your neck regardless of the type of material you bought. If anyone steps on the back, yourself included, and itâs attached by your neck, youâre out for the day. Do not.)
(also, one more pitch for the snaps--say your cloak does get caught on something. a wandering dragon, a passing knightâs sword, or ye olde con escalator. if itâs attached by snaps, not ties, itâll pop right off with enough force, leaving you unharmed, but the snaps are heavy duty enough to stay put all weekend or multiple years without trouble)
And youâre done. Thatâs a cloak and cowl fine enough for a king, friend. Or at least fine enough for comic con.
A note on the out and about: youâre probably going to feel worn out after a few hours at con. Take frequent sitting breaks. After a few times wearing it youâll get used to it and can fly around in it all weekend without trouble, but the first few times add unexpected strain to your neck and shoulders so take it a little easier.
Also, high key recommend handwashing the cloak (yes, the whole thing, it smooshes down well in water, I promise, itâs doable, just difficult) in your (clean!) bathroom sink with handwashing detergent, and laying it out to dry on towels. I wouldnât trust the satin trim to hold up to a machine, but it withstands sink washing just fine.
(Was that useful? Was that atrocious? Do you want more pieces how-toâd? Do you want a full How-To-Graham Tutorial? Let me know, happy to ramble more!)