I'm in an interesting and confusing position. I'm a vampire. Sometimes I'll go so far as to brag that I'm THE vampire. And yet...  we don't really celebrate Halloween in Australia. Thank god for the global community of Second Life, eh? Because that gives me a chance to waltz around the graveyards with an Undead beauty on my arm and celebrate all that is witchy, wicked and wild. I had three Halloween costumes for this year - one for Role Magazine, one to make Achariya wet herself laughing on her personal blog and finally the one that I actually ended up wearing for the day. Yes, I crossed to the even darker side for the Samhain and became a World of Warcraft elf for a day.

This was a decision made mostly on the fact that The Plastik released these brilliant Vaelian male skins just a couple of days ago. I'll be featuring them in more detail on my own blog very shortly, but this is a quick look at the Angel tone which came with the ears included. Wasabi Pills released this Kyler hair just as I was rummaging through my folders looking for the right one - don't you LOVE fashion serendipity? - and as per usual Bare Rose came to the rescue with the Ruby Armour in purple that was the Relay for Life special this year.

More bare chestedness abounds - sorry - with the costume that I came up with after Express Zenovka of Role Magazine plurked that he wanted male bloggers to show off their creativity. Show off and I were made to go together, and being the pretentious twat that I am I couldn't just throw on a sheet and go as a ghost. I've been re-reading H.P Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos books a lot recently, and so I decided to go as the Elder God himself.

So of course this called for tentacles and tentacles and yet more tentacles. Grim Bros is always one of my first ports of call for the fantastic, and I yoinked the Hydra outfit off the wall and tinted the bugger even greener and somehow made it fit a male body. A fun shopping trip to Sinfull Needs with Dove Swanson produced the Demonic Tentacle Mass and Demon Tongue that is brilliantly interactive. The best skin for this look was Nomine's Sylvan Oro in Green and as per usual The Stringer Mausoleum had the hair that made it perfect. 

There's a dark side to Halloween, of course. It's not just children and candy, it's also the time when the most evil of abominations rises and makes their way to the surface of the world. They horrify everyone that has the misfortune to see them, causing nightmares and legends to be passed down as a warning to the generations to come. And there is no creature more foul, more fiendish than the dreaded Sparklepyre.

My hatred of these ersatz vampires is well known, and I will try not to go into full rant mode here. Nope, I won't say anything about them not having fangs, or being vegitarians.. or agghh...  sunlight... sparkles....  SPARKLES....  But for shits and giggles Achariya and I devolved me for her Halloween series.

Truth be told I already had this assembled, as my friend Summer Deadlight and I took a series of photos re-enacting Twilight scenes a few months ago. They'll see the light one day, I'm sure. I recreated Edward Cullen's look from the school scenes with the winter coat from Alphamale, hair by Unclewebb, Twilight eyes by Exodi and jeans and a shirt by Armidi. Finished off with SoReal sneakers, and the palest skin possible from Soul.

So that's how it went. Three different looks for Halloween 2009 and my fangs are hidden in every one of them. Doesn't seem right, does it?