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Okay...so, this is Reign's Halloween costume for this year. An urban skateboarder, one might say. A bit similar to his "psychic zombie vampire" 'costume' from last year ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2960411/ )...except replace his hoverboard with a normal customized skateboard and the "psychic zombie vampire" motif with something more...well, normal and ordinary. Wanted to make it easy on myself this year and have Reign dressed in clothes similar to what he normally wears, but different. And Reign likes to shred it no matter what, be it skateboard or hoverboard...or even just grindin' the rails using his own two feet. Can't say drawing this was a piece of cake...at all.

So...about his costume. Here's the rundown:

•Reign's usual goggles that sit on top of his head have been replaced with a customized pair of headphones for pumpin' out the tunes in his ears while he skates. They're a bit more old-school instead of the slimmer earphones of today, but they're wireless, so no need for pesky wires gettin' in the way of his ride.

•Reign keeps his usual spiked neck choker around his neck...but loses the spiked wristbands in favor of a green and orange striped bracelet, similar to what Phil DeVille wore in his appearances in All Grown Up on Nickelodeon

•The fingerless gloves he usually wears have been upgraded to include orange grip pads, just in case he needs to keep himself together while performing tricks and to make sure he doesn't end up taking nasty spills to the pavement.

•His black long-sleeved undershirt is customized, based on the Dark Chao design from Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. The shirt features the face of the Dark Chao, while the purple neckband and the hot pink sleeve stripes carry over part of the Dark Chao's color scheme. Figured it'd be interesting to test out a design for a t-shirt, and that worked out the best for his skater costume.

•Reign's rarely ever seen without his trademark open white collared shirt, so this time around he swapped it out for an open blue plaid collared shirt instead. While the general concept of him wearing a plaid shirt to begin with came from me, a close NSider friend of mine ended up illustrating Reign in his costume before I got the chance to flesh out the final product from the original sketch I drew that I showed him...so the plaid shirt design is credited to my friend. Boy was that a pain to replicate myself; it's not perfect but it'll do. Reign, you're never wearing plaid again so as long as I'm the one drawing you.

•His pants are slightly more baggy, with a gold wallet chain attached. Colored dark blue with hot pink lining. Yes, Reign is in fact manly enough to wear pink. It's crazy.

•Around his neck is a shark-toothed necklace. Gotta love the ocean, no matter where you're shreddin' it up.

•He's got an earring piercing in his right ear. Not much of a new attribute, but it's included because skaters look awesome with piercings. Just as long as they don't go overboard with it.

•His sneakers...well, I pretty much carried over the same pair he usually runs around in. Found it a bit difficult to come up with a new design for 'em to match the costume, so instead the only thing different about them this time around are the green and blue rings above the usual glowing design on 'em.

•Reign can't be a skater without a skateboard...so his skateboard has somewhat of a customized look to it. The text says "FLASH•WAVE", and the insignia above it is a combination of my Leo zodiac sign and the psychic symbol from the Pokémon trading card game...since Reign's psychic after all. The rest of the design is just filler. And Reign's skateboard doesn't have any supernatural or superhuman abilities...other than the fact the under part of it can glow. So yeah it's just a normal skateboard.

•Oh and...let's assume the bloodied and dirtied band-aids on his quills aren't exactly part of his costume, and more or less because he actually did take a slight spill while showing off. Moronically, I might add. Let this be a lesson to you, children.

The background was the toughest part for me, aside from the shading and the plaid shirt design. Saved it for last, and last minute I might add. So over the next few days I tried to toy around with a design since my original idea didn't go so well. So, it's urban skater meets Halloween. It's like a wall, with a mixture of skater elements combined with Halloween themes. Gotta full moon (with a skater insignia carved into it) and a spider on the right side, with a leafless tree underneath it. Then on the left side, you've got some lightning strikes and a fitting jack-o'-lantern design on the bottom. The overall red/purple color scheme sort of reflects Halloween and Reign's psychic nature. Thankfully I got some inspiration and ideas after looking at my revamped design of Koopser from last year (which I haven't shown off yet)...so that worked out for me thankfully.

Anyways...yeah, there's two versions of this. This is the darker version, and there's going to be the original lighter version which will be uploaded in a bit.

Er...enjoy I guess. Took me this whole month to work on and finish, and go back again and again and fix things...and it was tougher to finish because of my fibromyalgia, so, eh, hope it was worth it despite the crudtasticness. :b

Happy Halloween!

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