Korina

Korina - pencil, coloured pencil, and ink

Korina was my charachter in the second larp of the U-series. In the first one I played Joanna Reecks, the leader of a group of scientists. In that game I played a proper human being but in this game, however, I got a part of a mutant. In a way the charachter and its description were not very deep but desining the outfit for the charachter and the actual playing was marvellous. For instance, the gray vest like thing Korina wears has a little letter U in it. No-one will ever know but she may have once been a U-soldier, a human from space.

As I said in the previous post, this was one of the most fysical I have ever played. Not just because of the pose in the picture that was actually meant to be a confusing chasing tactic, but also because of the voice I used. Because Korina in English means something like wheezing I spoke only with a sound that resembled the sound which the woman in the movie Grudge makes. I had already lost my voice the week before the game, so I really didn't need to alter my voice very much. I also had this little habit in the game to go and stalk the ones playing humans and when in a dark enough shadow, I sang Don't Worry, Be Happy. The look on their faces when they were searching the source of the song was priceless. Nevertheless, I wanted to do the voice and so I did. My voice was gone for the next week but it was totally worth it. I also moved in a crouched positions which was fysically quite hard.

Also the make-up for this game was one of the most radical ones I have ever done. I used coloured contact lenses, I covered my eye brows for the game (mind you, it was bloody difficult to cover them because I've got pretty dark eye brows), I used liquid latex to create boils on my face, etc. The other mutant players said I looked pretty creepy. You should have seen the faces of the ones playing humans when they first saw me watching them through a window. I'm pretty sure they got pretty jumpy after that.

I used ink, pencil, and coloured pencils in this picture. It is a shame that one can't play these kinds of charachters very often. I would love to sing once more the song of finger tip soup with the other mutants. Oh, and by the way, before the game we had a small mutant rave: We got out of the car with which we had driven to the place the game was held, turned the volume of the car radio up, started to listen to the soundtrack of Tron Legacy and started dancing around the car. I'm not much of a dancer when thinking of modern music but at that moment it was awesome. And yeah, it was winter during the game, hence the warm clothes.