When life beats you up, fall into fiction!
I’m going to dive a bit deeper into the Itokolian Duelists. After watching the first two episodes of Obi-Wan, I am in the mindset of trying to create something in the moments I can find inner peace. The something in this particular instance is a costume and a backstory for that costume. I’m thinking about the hair and what that hair should look like. I don’t have a ton of hair to begin with so I’m going to consider shaving vs. adding. Styling through shaving seems to be the look here–something with lines of hair reflective of a clan pattern.
That brings us to clans. In my mind the Itokolians are a clan based culture and each battled–largely as a sport and a way to settle land disputes. While most clans were roving, a few were stationary, and they represented the ‘elders’ the way the Lenape represented the elders of the native tribes of early east coast America.
I want the garb to represent that to an extent–the long cloth on only one side being a mark of defensive posture and or how they ride their beasts of burden. For this I plan to load the light sabers (oh yeah, they definitely used those and were NOT Jedi) on the right side–one logn on the back and one short on the leg.