Lightning Returns Contest Entries

A few weeks ago deviantART held a contest along with Square Enix to celebrate the launch of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the last title of the FFXIII triology.  We (the participants) had some troubles with the contest rules, since we understood that we had to design outfits for lightning which could be original or based on the FFXIII universe, while some other people understood that we could only do the second thing. Anyway, I ended up making three different entries, come are fully-original and the others are based on the FFXIII universe:

Rising Phoenix

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For me, Lightning resembles, in some way, to a phoenix, since she has fallen and rised so many times, as phoenix do. She started being a soldier, then she was made a L'Cie, Champion of Etro and now she's the Savior, and I think that's like living so many different lifes.

The armour consists on a golden breastplate, a gloden choker, an armguard two leg-guards and a knee protector (this one and the armguard has the shape of a flame).
The other parts of her clothing consits on a leather top (where the back feathers are attached), a pair of leather shorts with a zipper on the sides, a pair of stockings, leather boots (with zippers on the middle and fire ornaments on the tip), leather belts a short glove on her shield hand decorated with feathers and a long fingerless glove decorated with diamonds in the knuckles. She also wears a cape which has the shape of three phoenix tails attached to the back of the leather top. The white thing is based on an ancient rome robe and it's attached using a rounded golden piece with a phoenix drawn on it.

This is a fire elemental armor which can absorb part of the fire-based attacks, enhances the effect of healing items/skills, increases the Attack Speed and he HP a bit.

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Crystal Knight

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I made this armor taking a little refference from her XIII-2 armor and played a bit with the shapes. The metal is specially worked to make it resemble to a crystalised L'Cie, plus this is a reminder to Lightning's L'Cie past.

Under the armor she wears a corset, a pair of little shorts (not seen here), elastic gloves and thighs andleather boots and belts. She also wears some pearls as an ornament and some crystal tears to resemble Serah's one.
The Sword and shield are also made of crystal.

This armor elements are Blizzard and Aero (or Wind, I don't know the name of the english version), and it's specially effective against Cie'th enemies. It's a very heavy armor, but also a very powerful one. It gives a high protection.

The hairpin has the ame shape as the shield.

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Unleashed Chaos

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I based the this outfit on Lightning's one from FFXIII, but I altered the shape of some parts. Also, some of the accesories and patterns are based on monsters and characters from the whole FFXIII saga, they are:

- Snow Villiers (boots)
- Caius Ballad (purple thing on her hips)
- Cid Raines / Yaag Rosch (leather bracelet on her left arm)
- Lumina (thing on her right arm and necklace)
- Zaltys (neck piece of the coat and arrow thing.
- Anubis (the squared things on the tighs and sword)
- Bhunivelze (pattern of the jacket and shield)

The jacket, skirt, bracelet and boots are made of leather, she also has a little top under the jacket, one long glove and claws in one of her hands. The claws, the decorations of the neck of the jacket and that kind of "arrow" at the bottom of the jacket are made of gold, and the blue and green parts are gems.

The main elements of this outfit are darkness and lightning, it has a low defense, but a very high speed.

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We also had problems with the sizeof the file, since it was a bit weird and didn't let us show all the detaills of our designs.
Anyway, I'm happy to have designed some outfits for my fave female Final Fantasy Character, plus Tetsuya Nomura will be the judge!

The contest resutls will be given the on the 7th, 8tn and 99th of March, so wish me luck! (I don't really think I'll win anything xD).