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AvannaK — Dressed to the Nines and hating it

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Description Whenever the clan heads got together for a Thing, the heirs were expected to attend as well, dressed to the nines. It’s not always a comfortable experience for them.

Things that I love:
Teenage sassery
Alivia's outfit (*ch4rms designed her gala outfit for me and I had to try it out myself.)
Middle-aged Camicazi, of which there needs to be more of.

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Camicazi © Cressida Cowell
Alivia © me
Alivia's outfit ©
Sweat stains © shoulder furs at the Thing

*Also, I've made it to the Elite Eight, which is the farthest I've ever made it in March Madness and I can bow out happily should things work out like that. I'm currently running against a fantastic artist and wonderful person, and you should all go check out her stuff and vote to your hearts' content .
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Comments: 42

Azulon24 [2013-06-30 15:18:26 +0000 UTC]

Very cool! For me, less so for her. XD Yeah, you gotta love teenager Bog girl sass. Like looking into a mirror, right Camicazi?

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AvannaK In reply to Azulon24 [2013-07-03 02:29:20 +0000 UTC]

Oh yes, Alivia is so much like her mother sometimes… but she kind of got her father's "I'm gonna call out when I'm not happy with something" gene.

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Azulon24 In reply to AvannaK [2013-07-03 02:50:50 +0000 UTC]

Not a bad quality for a ruler. Just saying.

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BenRG [2013-04-23 08:26:38 +0000 UTC]

"For Loki's sake, Alivia, have you ever bothered to inhale at any Mead Hall ceremony? Everyone smells like that!"

"Well I don't want to!"

"Sweet suffering Freya! I was never like this!"

"Actually, Camicazi dear..."

"NOT HELPING MOTHER!"

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AvannaK In reply to BenRG [2013-04-23 22:03:34 +0000 UTC]

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PepperJDarcy [2013-04-04 01:53:10 +0000 UTC]

omgosh. Omgosh. OMGOSH!! this is just... omgosh! All of Alivia's sass!! and holy cow! I lvoe her eyes!! so beautiful!! SO... AMAZING! THey're so delicately framed with eyelashes! lovely! Lovely, Avanna! I love that crazy awesome darn outfit Ch4rms designed! ANd the fact that you TRIED it out! LOVe love LOVe it!

*giggle* I hope we get more of sassy Alivia in this dress! And btw? Her *HAIR* style for this is incredible!

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AvannaK In reply to PepperJDarcy [2013-04-04 18:04:21 +0000 UTC]

…. you know, something told you YOU in particular would love this. This was great for me because Alivia was basically a five minute sketch… she just came out wonderfully without me even trying to hard or redrawing anything, so that's why I was super excited about this. Also, ch4rms is kind of the go-to girl for both 'business speaking letters' and fashion, so of course I would have to steal any fashion idea she creates!!!

She also did the hair-do… the whole original drawing is here: [link]

But I think Alivia kind of looks like a potential disney princess here with that hair-do. I just love it all to bits and I'm so happy you do too!

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PepperJDarcy In reply to AvannaK [2013-04-19 00:16:38 +0000 UTC]

haha! You know me well!! ;D

Alivia is just amazing in this! I still drool over the artistic spark this has! Just incredible! I'm so dumped with work/secret projects right now, but I seriously WANT to draw Alivia in her 'Dressed to the Nines' Dress!!

I think I saw that drawing! I loved it!!

haha! She does have that disney potential!!

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crouchbk [2013-03-31 07:02:23 +0000 UTC]

Cami the diplomat? Never thought I'd see the day.

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AvannaK In reply to crouchbk [2013-03-31 14:34:13 +0000 UTC]

Neither did she.

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Rilawa [2013-03-30 16:06:13 +0000 UTC]

i'm guessing Alivia is from a fanfic? Who's her father?

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AvannaK In reply to Rilawa [2013-03-30 16:14:02 +0000 UTC]

Her father is Hiccup! She actually exists in two fanfics. Hitchups , where Hiccup leaves when he was planning to, and Crossing the Line which follows cannon.

Alivia will exist no matter what.

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partner555 [2013-03-30 03:54:36 +0000 UTC]

Don't worry Alivia, your half-brother Garik will be there too, being as miserable as you are. Or at least, I made several assumptions to allow that sceario, the most important being this is the CTL-verse.

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crouchbk In reply to partner555 [2013-04-01 16:48:03 +0000 UTC]

So Roan gets to duck out?

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AvannaK In reply to partner555 [2013-03-30 16:09:33 +0000 UTC]

You know, I was thinking Garik would be around (assuming this is CTL univere... since it's possible Alivia would find herself in a similar situation in Hitchups!uni as well). But Garik would probably be more composed and making his rounds and being charasmatic and charming as usual. And Alivia would be slouching and eating and rolling her eyes waiting for the hell of formalities to end. XD

And Roan would be popping his head in and making faces at her and running out again.

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FjordMustang [2013-03-30 02:59:05 +0000 UTC]

I like how you took and ran with it in your own design. You two really work well as a creative team. The expressions on Alivia and Camicazi are very good. Interesting also to see the middle age Cami-- you give a good intrepretation of it. I wonder if Cami is thinking about her daughter's reactions and wondering if her own mom also had the same situation in having Cami wonder if she put her mom, Bertha, through the same thing.

And we all need more middle aged Cami!

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AvannaK In reply to FjordMustang [2013-03-30 16:12:18 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, we are kind of a team when it comes to creativity… especially when the Bog Burglars are involved. I'm sure Camicazi put her mother through something similiar, and a part of her even recognizes Alivia's sentiments, but Camicazi has to have the mentality of an adult now, not a teenager, so even though she understands Alivia's annoyance with her outfit and situation, she's more concerned with getting her daughter to represent the Bog Burglars appropriately.

I concur… more middle-aged Camicazi FTW!

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MidoriReika [2013-03-29 16:44:13 +0000 UTC]

Can tell Hiccups the "donor"

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AvannaK In reply to MidoriReika [2013-03-29 19:36:32 +0000 UTC]

I can't tell you how much I love that you can tell that!

What gave it away? The freckles? The hair? The teeth? Or the snark?

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MidoriReika In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 21:00:18 +0000 UTC]

All of the above really. She is her fathers child all the way. She kinda looks similar to the Hiccup spawn I thought up.

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AvannaK In reply to MidoriReika [2013-03-29 21:35:24 +0000 UTC]

Haha, oh excellent! So you some Hiccup-spawns too?

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MidoriReika In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 22:05:27 +0000 UTC]

A little girl named Val. I'd draw her but I'm a photographer, not a drawer

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AvannaK In reply to MidoriReika [2013-03-29 22:11:05 +0000 UTC]

Nah, that's cool. Val like his mother, right?

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MidoriReika In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 22:13:49 +0000 UTC]

Yep

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ch4rms [2013-03-29 16:20:00 +0000 UTC]

BTW this is what BRyan had to say about it :

"she got them boots with the fur
the whole...longhouse? was lookin at her."

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AvannaK In reply to ch4rms [2013-03-29 19:41:12 +0000 UTC]

OH MY GOD BRYAN!

Dress instead of pants
And bracers with the straps [with the straps]
She turned around and gave that Meathead a smack

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ch4rms In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 20:11:03 +0000 UTC]

That is my DA equivalent of a FB like. Because that deserves a like.

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ch4rms [2013-03-29 16:00:54 +0000 UTC]

BAM! and the fur thing comes off because lets face it, gathered in a Mead Hall full of fire, cooking, sweaty man-bodies is gonna be too hot for that thing. But it looks sooo good. I imagine it was a black wolf that died to make her look fabulous. But they ate it too. Like the Native Americans, they don't waste parts.

I don't know what I am saying. Only this looks grrreeeat <3

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AvannaK In reply to ch4rms [2013-03-29 19:42:04 +0000 UTC]

Which one of the stark kids had a black wolf? Shaggy-dog, was it? Because I think that's what Alivia showed up in.

And half of the great-lookingness credit goes to you for making the outfiiiiit.

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ch4rms In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 20:10:34 +0000 UTC]

haha yeah I think it was Shaggy dog!

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fUnKyToEs [2013-03-29 13:49:03 +0000 UTC]

Ooh I love this! I love the way you drew Alivia's eyes

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AvannaK In reply to fUnKyToEs [2013-03-29 14:07:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! And, you know, for some reason Alivia's face was super easy to draw. It was one of those rare occasions where I didn't have to re-draw it seven times over just to end up with a mediocre result.

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spadiekitchenqueen [2013-03-29 13:09:33 +0000 UTC]

This outfit is amazing!

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AvannaK In reply to spadiekitchenqueen [2013-03-29 13:45:32 +0000 UTC]

All the credit goes to ! She is the fashionista of the viking world.

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spadiekitchenqueen In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 14:50:15 +0000 UTC]

this drawing is yours, dear

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AvannaK In reply to spadiekitchenqueen [2013-03-29 14:58:35 +0000 UTC]

Okay, that much is true.

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spadiekitchenqueen In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 17:53:02 +0000 UTC]

:8):

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Kaywenn [2013-03-29 12:44:22 +0000 UTC]

That outfit really looks awesome!
(I love Alivia so much )

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AvannaK In reply to Kaywenn [2013-03-29 13:46:08 +0000 UTC]

!!!!! Ch4rms did the outfit of course (I have zero sense of style) but I LOVE that you love Alivia, which I'm sure I've said before but it doesn't make it any less true.

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Kaywenn In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 16:43:29 +0000 UTC]

Nor have I
I just see something and I like it, but I couldn't design anything myself

I really like strong female characters and Alivia is strong like that. She knows who she is and what she wants and I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be okay with people who sort girls into the "household and kids" pile.

And I really like the mother-daughter relationship in this scene
(I don't remember seeing them together like this before. I mean, I knew how they were related, but this makes it a lot clearer in my head
So YES! Definately more middle-aged Camicazi! Plus teenage Alivia being awesome )

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AvannaK In reply to Kaywenn [2013-03-29 19:44:47 +0000 UTC]

Wooohooo! I'm real happy you see Alivia as a strong female character, since that's exactly what she's intended to be. She doesn't really mind dressing up or anything, she likes to look good, but she hates formalities. Their such a drag.

You know, I don't draw Camicazi and Alivia together enough. That could be the problem. It's mostly been me focusing on Hiccup's side of things. More middle-aged Camicazi should be a priority for me.

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Kaywenn In reply to AvannaK [2013-03-29 23:03:42 +0000 UTC]

I'm looking foreward to it!

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