Come here my little rose

~ Akio, Revolutionary Girl Utena

@ Akio Ohtori

Photography by Dan
Editing by me



To the lovely TRA-LA-LA children - Kenny/Saionji, Brian/Touga, Suri/Anthy-darling, and Aly/Utena-chan - you all deserve my chest...and a manly chest it is..all for you guys!!! >< hope u like them i'll put up one of our pics from chrisite just cos i love them so much!!! <3 <3 <3

Brief about the costumes - the costume was made from scratch by myself. OMG THE BINDING HURTTTTTT.when taking it off...(what u see there (or don't see there) was how it was on the day...no editing! <3 <3 <3
I love my little "jelly-fish" epaulettes - they actually flew accross the room like frizzbies!!! it was brilliant! I made the pattern for the jacket myself from looking at the designs of military jackets ^_^
I had help to do some tasks i couldn't cos of full-time work - lily who originally helped handsew fastners; which i had to re-do, and kellie ( *BellBell-AU ) who made my belt.
My Akio Wig was custom designed and thinned out by me. Will darling helped us multi-task and did the shaping spray of the bangs of our wigs, (which I had to partially destroy when I was cutting the wig, but re-did anew!).

I also constructed the dualist swords - the "sword of Utena" (pink chrystal) and the "Sword of Akio" (blue crystal) these are my
precious little babys- they are wood-carved mdf/resign swords with engravings and sandings to get the shape. They are balanced for fighting as well (my fencing friend was very impressed with them!)

Smex-kitten Aly and I are breaking out of the Shell, and escaping towards our brighter future!