Uuuuuuugh

Ok. I'd like to preface this post by saying that aside from sewing I am not a crafty person. I'm just not. And yet. And yet I decided it was a good idea to make armour. I'm not really looking for help per se, more like a kick in the ass to get my motivation back up. Anyways, this is the character I picked. Leo from Fire Emblem Fates.

Leo

Ok great. I even found this nice ref sheet that I was workig with:

Ref

So I started making a pattern to work with out of poster board and though it needs a few tweeks I thought it was going pretty well thus far:

Pattern

Obviously it still needs a lot of work and shaping, but this is pretty crafty for me.

And then. Oh and then. I started to play the game again and remembered I could go into the accessory shop and see all of the character models from head to toe in decent detail and I discovered this:

fml

I've been doing the back wrong the whole time, and while I still have time to fix it and it doesn't seem that difficult....uuuuuugh.

I'm sure it'll all have been worth it when I'm finished but I'm very tempted to burn this cosplay to ash and pick a character with a more sensible outfit. HELP MEEEEEEE.