Blade & Soul - Black Ice (Gon Outfit) Mod

Following a one week lapse, I manage to find time for a mod and so, I decided to finish up on the request for Gon Black Ice outfit. This is one of the oldest outfit in game, and a same model is worn by Soha while she was visiting her brother Leerok in the Talus Dominion capitol - Zaiwei, when it was still under the influence of Dark Emissary Jinsoyun. The white-blue version in which Soha had worn is the sister outfit called White Night, while Black Ice is the black-orange version.

The outfit can be obtained by defeating the final boss - Asura in Sogun's Lament dungeon. Asura is the transformation of Prince Sogun, who was misled by the demoness Yura to preform the Heaven Mandate ritual.

Convinced by Yura that he should have been the Emperor, Sogun conducted the Heaven Mandate ritual which ended the Highland Metropolis in ruins and caused the death of his dear sister Princess Solan. Driven by guilt, the possessed Sogun took refuge in his secret palace which came to be known as Sogun's lament. Asura is the effect of internal battling between his possessed self and guilt stricken conscious, taking the form of fire element on one half of his body and ice element on the other half. 

If you want to see what Sogun's madness did to Highland Metropolis, you can see it in the first part of this video. And if you like to know what a humanoid with his body half on fire and half on ice looks like, you can see him in the last part of this video after he has been defeated.

Sogun's Lament used to be a very challenging dungeon in the early days of the game, featuring three mech heavy bosses which required players' coordination to defeat. Nowadays, a moderately geared level sixty player can solo the dungeon. However, whether or not a player can get their hands on the outfit is still pretty much up to our beloved RNG goddess. 😆

As you can imagine, the very contradicting names of both Black Ice and White Night might have come from the very contradicting characteristic of Asura, whose body is half on fire and half on ice, and inner torment of guilt and tyranny.

As for appearance, Black Ice is one of the outfits that has different appearance for the three races as you can see in the image below.

Gon                                    Jin                                   Yun

The main differences lie on the chest and leg portions. While the Jin and Yun race wear a bikini top, Gon wear a zipped shirt. For the legs, Gon sports a pair of fishnet leggings, while Yun gets a translucent pair and Jin has none.

The rest of the outfit is quite similar, including a thick winter coat with furry white collar, a pair of long boots and a mini skirt with belt accessories.

Let's take a quick look at the original Gon Black Ice below.

Front View - Original Outfit

In the real world, a thick winter coat just does not go well with half of the body exposed, for obvious reason. However, in a martial arts world, where skilled characters are not afraid of cold at all, the coat is probably just for fashion sake. 😅

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

The zipped shirt and fishnet legging can be seen in the image above.

Rear View - Original Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit

The thick furry collar almost block the entire head when seen from the back.

Side View - Original Outfit

Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

Seeing how a Gon is physically more sturdy than a Jin or Yun, I figure they do not need  a shirt to actually protect them from the cold. After all, the Jin and Yun wear only a bikini top. 😅

As such, I tried to trim the shirt down to size. Unfortunately, the mesh structures of the breasts beneath the shirt and the sides of the abdomen are missing. In the end, I can only trim or open up the vertical center portion of the shirt, to give it a look similar to the Gon Infinite Challenge outfit. 😥

Next, I trimmed the coat to just end at the skirt level since the mesh structure for the back is missing, and finally took off the pair of fishnet leggings. Nothing can be done for the thick furry collar because the portion where the arms and shoulder connects is missing.

Let's check the final mod below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

As seen above, the pair of fishnet leggings has been removed.

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

The center portion of the shirt has been trimmed. Does it reminds you of the Infinite Challenge outfit? 😅

Rear View - Modified Outfit

The coat has been shortened to the skirt level.

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

I did not trim the skirt because the belt accessory that is paired with it will be left dangling and looking weird.

Side View - Modified Outfit

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

I am reluctant to cut the coat any shorter because it will give a top heavy and bottom light feel due to the thickness of the coat and collar, like the Jin version below. However, a more important reason is that the Gon's back is missing from the top of the skirt up. 😰

We have come to the end of this post. Watch the video if you want to take a closer look at the mod.

Hope to post another mod soon!

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