Six questions, five foxes, no data collected — this runs entirely in your browser and I never see a single answer. It is about how you build rather than what you build, so answer with what you actually do and not what you keep meaning to do.
the questions
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1. Nine weeks until the convention. What happens first?
- A reference board, a materials list and a week-by-week plan
- Nothing. Nine weeks is ages. Ask me in seven
- Order foam immediately and start cutting the big shapes
- Fabric shopping, obviously. Everything else follows the cloth
- Sketch where the lights go before anything else exists
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2. Pick the tool you would rescue from a fire.
- The notebook. Every measurement I have ever taken is in it
- Gaffer tape. It has never once let me down
- The heat gun. It is less a tool than a limb
- My good scissors, and no you cannot borrow them
- The soldering iron and the box of tiny components
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3. Hour nine on the convention floor. Something snaps.
- Open the repair kit I packed for exactly this
- Hide the broken side from every camera and carry on
- Superglue, pressure, thirty seconds, back out there
- Needle and thread from my bag. I sew it back on standing up
- Reroute the wire, tape the pack down, worry later
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4. A shape in the reference art could not exist on a human body.
- Research how the real version worked and build that instead
- Build the impossible one. Physics is a suggestion
- Rebuild it in foam until it does exist, however long that takes
- Redraft the seams so it reads right from three metres away
- Hide the join with a glow. Nobody looks into a light
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5. Pick a sound from the workshop.
- A pencil on paper and absolutely nothing else
- Something falling over in the next room at 2am
- A rotary tool and the extractor fan fighting each other
- The machine running long and even, all the way down a seam
- The little click of a switch, and then the room going green
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6. It is finished. What is the very first thing you do?
- Photograph every piece and write down what to change next time
- Put it on at midnight and walk around the flat in it
- Test whether it survives being shaken, sat in and shoved
- Press every seam properly. It is not done until it is pressed
- Turn the lights on, turn the room lights off, and just look
the results
⛩ Shrine Fox
The messenger with the job. You research before you cut, you label the boxes, and you have a notebook that would let someone else rebuild your entire back catalogue. It is not that you lack chaos — it is that you scheduled it for Thursday.
✕ Trickster Fox
Field fox, unaffiliated, up to something. You start late, you finish impossibly, and the thing works despite a construction method you would not describe out loud. Everyone else's builds are planned. Yours are dared into existence.
✜ Forge Fox
Heat gun, respirator, foam dust in everything you own. You think in volume rather than in outline, you would rather rebuild a shape four times than fake it once, and you have strong feelings about bevel angles that nobody asked for.
✿ Thread Fox
The one who knows that the costume is decided in calico long before anyone sees it. You find the seams the drawing forgot, you press everything twice, and you have quietly rescued three other people's builds this year without mentioning it.
✧ Ember Fox
You carry the cold flame. Everything you build has something glowing in it, you have opinions about diffusion distance, and you have at least once designed a whole costume around where the battery pack would sit. Worth it. It looks incredible in the dark.