Will El-Wire be involved for the glowing bits?
Aaaah Final Fantasy 7, how you manage to make every last one of us cosplayers into certified electricians, contractors and seamstresses/tailors by the end of our teens...
That's why I'm going into costume design in college! Guess what my thesis project will be... Minerva's giant shoulder armor version! D: long nights and lots of resinwork are in my future...
Wow, lol. That will be the most epic project ever witnessed by all of Academia, I'm sure! Good luck with that, when you get to it.
And instead of EL-wire, I am using blue reflective tape. It works much better (I imagine) because it doesn't require any circuitry or wiring, just plain ol' tape which reflects the perfect shade of blue in flashes and bright light. So, I figure it should work pretty niftily.
And yes...the fine people at Square are determined to make every cosplayer a genius in a bizarre field, I think, lol