"Fairytale-themed" costumes?

[Kocken926]

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?

[Munaus]

A cheap creeper?

[Kocken926]

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) :/

[Neowulf]

Go as Navi the fairy.

[Kocken926]

...That would be both game related and offensive...

[Munaus]

Buttercup from Power Puff?

[Kocken926]

blah blah blah the theme is Story/Fairy tale blah blah blah

[Torezu]

Rasputin from the Anastasia cartoon. Complete with detachable head. Yes, I have 2 small girls.

[Kocken926]

While this makes me want to choke myself, I must say it: not mainstream enough.

These are the kind of people that thinks Facebook is a legitimate pasttime -.-

[ErusPrime]

which fairy tales? the real ones or the disney versions where people don't die or get horribly tortured?

[Kocken926]

Both. Something everyone knows about, though.

[Munaus]

Dress up as the mermaid :D

[Kocken926]

The mermaid? Also, no.

Too bad the water is frozen, otherwize I would go catch a fish and make a kantele out of it's cheek, and go as Väinemöinen :P

[Valkon]

Any of the narrators from a Lovecraft work.

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

[Munaus]

Death!

Man his voice gives me the chills...

[Kocken926]

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...

[penguins2946]

You should go as tinkerbell.

I am assuming you are a male, and if I saw one of my guy classmates dressed as tinkerbell, I'd probably piss myself laughing.

[Kocken926]

What's up with girls wanting guys to dress like girls?

Because that was the 2nd most common suggestion in my class, after Potter/Jesus/Gandalf

[Ozzy]

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.

[Kocken926]

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.

[penguins2946]

What's up with girls wanting guys to dress like girls?

Because that was the 2nd most common suggestion in my class, after Potter/Jesus/Gandalf

damn right, it should be.

[freakachu]

be nyancat. right up their alley from the sounds of it.

[Lear85]

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.

[Sacrieur]

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.

[freakachu]

be rumplestiltskin, keep asking people to guess your name. being obscure suddenly becomes the entire point of the costume.