I requested to work the midnight launch of BioShock 2 since BioShock is one of my all-time fave games, and because my manager is awesome she’s also letting me and a couple of my co-workers cosplay as splicers. Of course I’m going to be a spider splicer!

Tonight I was doing some research for costumes and masks and I stumbled across this interesting fellow: Walter Yeo. Apparently he was a WWI soldier who sustained awful facial injuries, and is thought to be the first patient to ever undergo plastic surgery. Sir Harold Gillies was Yeo’s “surgeon” and developed “tubed pedical”, a type of skin grafting. Even without BioShock’s influence this picture is horrifying enough, but if and when you get to play BioShock and encounter Dr. Steinman for the first time, you’ll see why this gives you the chills even more. In the game Dr. Steinman is a lunatic doctor who despises symmetry and admires Picasso – so he attempts to create his own masterpieces on people. Check out the similarities!

There will probably be video and pictures to come like I did with my Silent Hill nurse’s costume, so stay tuned!

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