Ordre de Ciel Grand Opening Part 2: Once More, With Feeling!

I am truly, truly sorry this took so long. It was supposed to have come up on Sunday, Monday tops, but there are currently some events which require my attention and foul my mood, so it’s already Wednesday and only now am I posting this. I really have no idea how I will get up to date, since the photos from that night will also yield a “Part 3” AND there’s the Underworld photos to go through… *sigh*. There’s an old saying about the best laid plans of mice and men, which I have often repeated but currently, I am thinking more about the “Bard’s Tongue”, a tendency to speak the truth without even knowing it or before it’s even happened and then cursing yourself for jinxing everything up. *SIGH*

I am ranting again, aren’t I? Well, no need to boggle you. Just go on ahead and enjoy the pictures…

Kuchiki Byakuya: the clothes, the make-up, the look, but something is off with the feel…

Hmm… Can’t place it. Maybe we’ll find out later.

Louiza and Milk-chan: decoreur girls going crazy…

…until confronted with the more stoic of the bunch. Kid: “You are so, sooo… NOT-symmetrical! Gaaaah!” Tseng: Temper, temper…”

“Let’s dance instead!”

“Yeah! Let’s indeed…!”

“Lolli POWER!”

“This SO lacks sofistication, however… arousing it may be…!”

“Oh, my! Did I say that out loud?!” (Um, yah, kinda…).

Yue Katou on the decks with Sephiroth.

Sephy, I get but what is the other guy so happy about? The song is called “ONE-Winged Angel”.

Right, OK, shutting up so you can listen to your song, Sephy. Stop waving that thing around!

“I rock!”

“No, your head IS a rock; or is that ‘block’?”

Tseng: “Oooh, can I come up too, or is this booth Angel-exclusive?” Sephiroth: “No, by all means, come up here (sword’s still available)…!”

Tseng: “Wha–?! Is THAT your list?! Maybe you should stick to eradicating villages my dear Sephy…”

Sephiroth: “Do you want to start something? Should I take up my sword?! HUH?!!”

Tseng: “Tsk, tsk, Soldier boys and their toys. You DO know a man called Sigmund Freud has made a whole case of people like you…?” Sephiroth: “Hahaha… (I WILL kill you!)”

Sephiroth: “But not in front of my fans. Getting your blood all over them is not proper.” Tseng: “HOW considerate of you…!”

“Still, I DO rock!”

Meanwhile, Medusa tries to attract the lens’s attention again…

…rather succesfully, might I add!

Let’s NOT go into how easily she attracts MY attention…

…(I turn to stone)…

Reita: “Oh, come on, that is enough already! You will kill the poor guy!” (*I die happy*)

“Oh, poo! I am never allowed to have any fun!”

De-petrified, I turn my attention elsewhere and… YES, that’s the missing element, the EMO expression on Byakuya’s face! Now the cosplay is perfect!

Decoreur / Ninja Multiclass.

Yue Katou hitting on the girls in his unique fashion: glaring at some unknown point in space.

“I wanna rip his clothes clean off, RAAARRR! Must.contain.myself.!!!”

Shinichi “Shin” Okazaki, the bass player from Nana, paid no heed and enjoyed the music…

…coincidentally, right in front of my lens! Until…

…he got wind of me. “Hey Speedy!” (I seriously love this cosplay – it’s very elegant in its simplicity).

“Koi no Megalover”: Same effect, every time.

“Yoooshi!”

“Biiiiiru! Utaaaau!”

“Dansuuuu…”

“Aaargh, I am so bored! I wanna eat someone!” (Right, got it, back to the lollies).

And the beat goes on…

…and on…

…AND ON! (When Nick(mere) met um… Nick(Unknown) the Earth shook).

KrizD on the move! (The lottery’s starting, though you would THINk he’s going towards the lollies).

Hello Art– “Sod off Speedy!”

*Speedy hangs his head down as she completely igonres him* OK, I know she is our resident lottery girl but she COULD spare me a glance without giving me the finger.

Lottery behind us, Lady Raven takes over the decks!

“Now, what did I want to…?

“A-HA! Sugizo baby!”

Countess Bathory as Matsumoto from Bleach (minus the hair but really, who cares?)!

Evil Lolita as Haineko, with her Mistress.

Medusa, Sephiroth and Reita: a recipe for disaster.

Amongst heroes, Soul Eaters, Shinigami and weird singers, Hanamoto Hagumi…

…finds a bew love in the 15-year-old bassist / pleasure boy?! Oh, my!

Keru-chan giving me THE look.

“What do you mean THE look?! I was just asking for a beer!”

Hiwatari Satoshi: “Hmm, Dark feathers… Will there be a reckoning tonight?” (Sorry, no, he must have dropped it at the JMCM).

Here… neko-neko-neko…

Here… Zauk?!! WTF man? You have… stocking laces on your hair…?

“Didn’t you know? It’s all the new rage…”

Aaaand what have we– oops! Never mind!

“No, it’s OK, we’re done.” (Then why is your tongue still out?).

“Should I explain to him…?” (Nope, never mind, TMI!).

Meanwhile, Raven goes all out…

…woofers thrumming…

…and hair flying!

Milk is extatic, exceptional AND extravagant!

“We-he-heeeey! Watch the hands or I’ll turn you into a Wingless Angel!”

(As Pluto comes into the picture…) “OK, now maybe my love handles DO need a bit of massaging…”

“What about us and OUR love handles?” (Sephiroth breaks into sweat…).

“Don’t worry boyo. Uncle KrizD will take gooood care of you…” (Sephiroth briefly turned as white as his hair. Who needs Cloud when you have KrizD?).

“You! Photographer, come over here! I must restore my coolness!”

“Other side now!”

Slipping away from the outraged psychopathic Soldier, I turn to more tender scenes…”

Now presenting our new series: “Nosebleed”. Vol. 1.

Vol. 2.

Vol. 3.

Vol. 4. So much blood… I feel dizzy…

WANTED, Dead or Alive: Nobu, for the crime of being between these two girls instead of me– err, us; I meant, “us”!

Scared, Proud and Satisfied, you find who is which!

“Witch? I am not a… what was the question again…? So sleepy… So many colors… So many torn wings…”

“Speeedyyy…! MEEOOOWWW!” (A million wrong thoughts – keeping my mouth shut).

I DO believe that is the best photo to end this post with, don’t you? (Girls, cover your ears for a second, will you?). One more post to go in order to say the final farewell to KABATZA, though I am not making any promises as to the UNDERWORLD post. There’s just too much to process. I can only promise I WILL put it on eventually.

Be a little patient with me these days…

Speedgrapher