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So I've recently been informed that my schools party-thing is going to require everyone to dress up, and the theme is Story/Fairy tale. I would like to be atleast a little bit original, since everyone has gotten the bright idea to dress up as Gandalf or Jesus, but still maintain a reasonable budget.

My biggest problem is the fact that if I come as anything remotely original, hardly anyone will get it, since the majority of my class seems to be culturally inept 9gag-and Facebook-is-the-whole-internet-ers. Gaming-costumes are probably too far-fetched too...

So does anyone have an idea what to dress up as, walking the fine line between unoriginal and urecogniseable?

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Hardly practical, and not from any tale. As I said (wrote?), gaming costumes will probably not work, the perfect costume would be something everyone would recognize, but would be atleast a little bit clever/original.

The main reason this is hard is because most people in my school are uncivilized barbarians (non-gamers) :/

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Any of the narrators from a Lovecraft work.

Put on some normal researcher/archeologist/etc stuff and you're set.

While that's a good idea, I don't think anyone would get it...

Maybe I actually should go as väinämöinen...

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Go as a pretentious asshole.

Just namedrop vainamoinen a ton and call your friends "uncivilised barbarians" and "culturally inept" some more. You'll be the belle of the ball.

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It's Finland, everyone knows about Väinämöinen here.

uncivilized barbarians (non-gamers) :/

Please take that with a grain of salt. It was meant as a joke.

And I can't go as a pretentious asshole, I actually need to pretend to be something I'm not.

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Words... Story/Fairy tale... Words.

Once upon a time, there was a red engineer named Kocken. He went to a party dressed up as himself, which is valid because he's in this story. And the recursion broke the universe and it was so awesome that everybody died. THE END.

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All of the fairy tales I know of are older ones. Pretty much you have knights, princes, kings, commoners, and sometimes elves or trolls (rarely). I vaguely remember reading a story about some tiny little person, but pretty sure it was just a small human.

I have to say, for all the fairy tales I've read, I'm at quite a loss here.

Unless you want to grab something from Disney.

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