D&D Kenku cosplay
July 22, 2018 4:25 PM   Subscribe

 
I love that she did the interview in costume and that the beak moves when she talks.

I also love how versatile it is. You could wear that to D&D night, comic con, birdwatching, furry convention, burning man, Edgar Allan Poe's grave and it's always appropriate.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 4:35 PM on July 22, 2018 [14 favorites]


A month? Pull the other one...

Gorgeous work though. Extremely impressive.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 4:53 PM on July 22, 2018


Gorgeous, indeed, but I don't think I could wear it more than an hour as the hunching over would make me mostly immobile very quickly. Although I would get many kudos of the veracity of my dying/dead kenku cosplay...
posted by Samizdata at 5:06 PM on July 22, 2018


For more details about the costume, the creator, Rah Bop, has a FAQ with links to detailed tutorials.

Here's her patreon.
posted by joyceanmachine at 6:11 PM on July 22, 2018 [1 favorite]


Inappropriate places to wear this costume:
  • To your office if you work as a receptionist for a therapist's office that specializes in ornithophobia.
  • Most weddings, even if they are black tie...
  • Rampaging through the garden when the maid is hanging laundry.
  • If you are job interviewing here...

  • posted by Nanukthedog at 6:25 PM on July 22, 2018


    As a current birder, and former D&Der, I have to say that costume would get attention and accolades in either milieu.
    posted by mollweide at 8:14 PM on July 22, 2018


    For more details about the costume, the creator, Rah Bop, has a FAQ with links to detailed tutorials.

    See also: second and third links in the post.
    posted by curious nu at 9:27 PM on July 22, 2018


    This is amazing and beautiful!
    posted by Secretariat at 10:05 PM on July 22, 2018


    In DnD, the kenku were petty villains in service of a great wizard, causing havoc every which way (or so the stories go), until they bretrayed their master and he cursed the entire race and removed their wings, their voices, and their imaginations. Modern kenku as of DnD 5e can only speak by repeating back sounds they heard, or possibly by creative use of a Minor Illusion cantrip if somebody tells them how first. Kenku are obsessed, above all, with regaining the use of their wings, and while many of them gravitate towards thieving in cities (because lacking an imagination makes them very, very susceptible to peer pressure and a questionable magical justice system perpetuates poverty as readily as the real one) those with the grit to adventure gravitate towards monks (who can learn walk on water or up walls as easily as cross a street) and wizards (who can learn flying spells) just as readily as rogues.

    Compare with the aaracokra, another bird race who still has full flight and speech and minds.

    It's probably my favorite DnD story ever, it's a beautiful and appropriately terrifying fairy tale, and I love the kenku so much. Their stats and backstory for 5e are in the Volo's Guide to Monsters.
    posted by fomhar at 11:15 PM on July 22, 2018 [4 favorites]


    When you think about it, don't we all only speak by repeating sounds we've heard.
    posted by Pyry at 12:03 AM on July 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


    No, I made up a new phoneme six months ago. But it hurts like hell so I don't use it much.
    posted by aubilenon at 1:20 AM on July 23, 2018 [5 favorites]


    No, I made up a new phoneme six months ago. But it hurts like hell so I don't use it much.

    Aklo is much easier to speak after casting Alter Self, or committing the correctly blasphemous surgical rites.
    posted by FatherDagon at 8:57 AM on July 23, 2018


    I'm learning so much about feathers!

    We all know it’s super embarrassing when you wear your feathers on backwards so make sure you pay attention to this.

    maaaan lemme tell ya, you show up to one goose-down after party with your outer two primaries backwards and the swans will never let you forget it
    posted by numaner at 2:28 PM on July 23, 2018


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