Dragon Rider Inspirations
For those of you amazing enough to have wanted to see my chaotic mind at work, I've tried to gather all of the outfit inspirations I've picked out for Book One: How to Train Your Dragon Rider! This was way too much fun, even if I STRUGGLED to find the perfect look for what's in my head. Not for the first time, I wish I could draw, lol!!! Most of these are from pinterest. Bear with me if the formatting isn't great. I'm not well practiced in posting on tumblr 😅
Anyway, let us begin the fashion show!!! Going to go in order of story appearance!
Yugi's northern style clothing! - First, I am totally aware this is for a women, but the outfit was the closest to what I wanted. A hint of asian style meshed with fantasy. Lots of layering because of how cold it is. And VERY different from the southern styles that are more traditionally fantasy styling
Now we can talk uniforms!!! (Because there are so many!) To start off, we have the most important one. FLIGHT GEAR, which both Seto and Atem are wearing when they first meet Yugi and the other northerners. Unfortunately I could not find one with the coloring I imagined. So picture this fella here with black leather, and the gold/ivory accents that all Guard Uniforms have! And yes, they also have masks in place like this guy too. And all uniforms would carry the golden mark of the Eye of Timaeus on the shoulder patches
Our next uniform would be the training/lessons uniform! For this I pictured them learning martial arts/weaponry/meditation to strengthen their bond, so I went with more martial arts style look. Again, this would be mostly black with ivory and gold adornments!
The next uniform would be their formal dress that they wore for the Burning and would also wear for special occasions like inspections by the king. Also, don't ask me why everything I find is green. I've been asking myself that for weeks.
On to more casual looks! We'll start with Atem (who has the bigger wardrobe by far) and what style he would have been wearing for the night Yugi came to bring him to the Solstice party
And Yugi's "alluring" look he managed to accidentally seduce Atem in. He really doesn't have much except what the Guard has given him, so he pieces together what he can. He has to wear this again for date night.
Atem's date night outfit. Leather pants. Deep V. Enuf said.
Now for specific items!!! Right now Yugi only has basic training swords, so I won't pick out anything now. But for Atem I tried to find a rapier sword worthy of a prince. When I do a inspo post for Book Two I'll include everyone else's weapons then!
Okay, I'll be straight up here. I did NOT find what I wanted in terms of the flight mask. What I wanted was something to match their black leather flight gear, but let me tell you...searching for black leather masks online is frightening, lol. Like we all know Yugi may be into some shit given the collar he wears but like, DAMN, not in this AU! Anyway, the flight gear uniform posted above is a decent take. I wanted something more fitted and less flowy cause wind might make that annoying. So if the neck cowl thing isn't enough, then I found something a bit more heavy duty than what I imagined, but I'm sure some of you will think it's badass!
And lastly, HAIR. I love their styles in the anime/manga, and I would never take their oh so special coloring away. But I did want them to look a little more fantasy-like in my head. So longer hair in general for both. And when I mention braids, they are with their hair texture in mind.
Atem the best I could find was actually from the dragon prince series. King Harrow actually came very close to what I imagined. Atem's would just be fuller and more colorful. And when it's not braided it would look a lot more like his anime style, just long enough that it doesn't stick straight up!
Yugi...bless his heart and wild hair. I know we say it is wild and only Ryou can tame it. His hair would look like his normal anime look, EXCEPT for when they tie it back for him. So date night Ryou managed something like this (also, no idea if this guy is from some show or whatever, but damn that jawline is something...)
But as I mentioned after date night Yugi will stop cutting his hair and he had to tie it back for his first flight. So that barely tamed disaster will become his signature flight look. Just maybe not THIS long, lol
So that's all I have for now! Thanks for tuning in! 🥰🥰🥰 If you guys liked this I can do it again for Book Two, after everyone get's their DSOS glow up and weapons. I also maaaaay have already picked out what the boys would wear IF they got to go to a certain royal event at the castle....😉