Blade & Soul - Varsity (Jin Outfit) Mod

Right after I posted the Yun After Midnight outfit, a viewer requested for the Varsity outfit while another requested for the Jin and Gon version of After Midnight. Not wanting to have two consecutive posts about the same outfit, I chose to proceed with the Varsity mod first. Also, because the outfit was just recently on sale in the online Hongmoon store.

Similar to Strange Allure outfit, the Varsity is another modern day outfit. Well, given the name, it should not be too surprising anyway. 😄  Since varsity is a team representing an institute of higher learning, such as university or high school, the outfit in itself looks very much like an uniform worn by team members.

The outfit is mostly pink in color, sporting a pink jacket over a white T-shirt and blue jeans shorts, completed with a pair of white boots. A pair of hearts symbol takes the place of where the typical school logo would be, on the T-shirt, jacket and belt.   

See whether you agree that it looks like an outfit worn by varsity team members after you check out the original outfit below.

Front View - Original Outfit

Is it a sports team or a cheerleading team? 😄

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

Somehow, the color theme of the jacket is a dead give away. Check out the heart logo on the T-shirt.

Rear View - Original Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit

We can see the similar pair of hearts on the jacket, although the design is slightly different. The character that was seen on the buckle of the belt is placed on the bottom of the logo.

Side View - Original Outfit

The heart logo also appears on the sleeves of the jacket.

Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

Don't mind those over-turned birds in the background though, they are just drunk. You will get to see more creatures in their drunken stupor in the video.  😆

I normally find outfits such as the Varsity hard to mod because the mesh structure is normally so tight that nothing can be trimmed. The most possible mod is just a change in color or logo. 

Fortunately for me, the Jin Varsity has a little more room to play around with. The crotch region of the body remains intact, which means that I can trimmed the jeans shorts without fear of revealing holes. The jeans shorts can also be totally stripped off and replaced with a skin-tight bottom, such as a pair of yoga pants. The tummy region also allows a little trimming, of the T-shirt, to reveal the belly button.

Ok. Let's see what I did for the mod below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

At first glance, there seems to be no difference.

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

But wait... Is that the belly button? And the shorts is now shorter? The shorts is also given torn edges similar to a stressed jeans.

Rear View - Modified Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

The shorts is trimmed more on the butt area.

Side View - Modified Outfit

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

The jacket is also slightly trimmed but  it isn't obvious. It used to cover the belt but now hovers just a little over it. I had intended to shortened the jacket more but that would reveal holes or rather disconnection between the tummy and chest region. Take a look at the image below and you may be able to understand better.

Intended Re-design

As seen above, the left side of the image shows the intended mod which looks slightly better than the final mod. Although it looks fine when viewed from the front, rear and side, the disconnection shows up when viewed from under or during gliding, as shown in the right side of the image.   😧

With this, I will wrap up this post. Catch the video for better view of the outfit and the beautiful scenery (minus the creatures in their drunken stupor 😅 ) from Taigong Hideaway (check out the side note if you are interested in Taigong) in the Fortune Falls event dungeon, which opens for a short duration for the Harvest festival event. 

Download Link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WDHHXAo8gQCfzuoaX-f4s8e-74jIi6g1

Side Note:

Taigong is actually a real person in Chinese history and interestingly a tiny bit related to the Longgui topic from the post before this. But how are they related and how did Taigong ended up as a fisherman in the game?

It goes that Taigong (actual name Jiang Ziya or Jiang Shang) was a minister to the corrupted Shang Dynasty (商朝), in the 11th century B.C, who eventually loose faith in his master - King Zhou (纣王) after witnessing his tyranny and oppression. He faked madness to escape the tyrant's court and chose to hide away to fish at the Wei River. The interesting part is that he uses a fishing pole which has no hook, often telling his fishing mates that the 'fish' will come to him when it is ready (This later become a famous Chinese idiom). Now you know why he ends up being a fisherman in the game and his place being called Taigong Hideaway. 😃

Words of his strange act eventually reach the then-Duke Jichang 姬昌 (later honored by his son Jifa 姬发, as King Wen and founder of Zhou 周 Dynasty), who is constantly in search of talents. Jichang personally visited Taigong and recruited him to be his advisor and prime minister. Jichang is the 'fish' that Taigong (then 73 years old) has been waiting for this whole time. With Taigong's aid, Jifa (who took over his father's reign after his death) fought and defeated the corrupted Shang Dynasty to establish the Zhou Dynasty, which flourished for eight hundred years.

This is where the connection with Longgui comes in. Jichang happens to be one of those who studied the Eight Trigram (invented by 伏羲 after he saw the Longgui) and further extended it into a divinity sutra (周易). As recorded, Jichang was rumored to be an expert in the field of divinity and his readings are incredibly accurate. The sutra, which captures the essence of natural changes (states, motions, transitions) and thereby predicting the outcome of an event, is still very much studied by researchers of modern days.