The eleventh Halloween costume: Lucia off duty, straight from our newest Fan Vault film

My thesis, up front: I gave you ten Halloween costumes this afternoon, and then the Fan Vault handed me an eleventh that beats most of them. It is Lucia, off duty, at a VIP resort pool, holding a drink the colour of blood. It is Halloween in Leonida. It is still eighty degrees. This is the costume.

I'm Ruby. Same rules as always: what is in the film is labelled as the film, what Rockstar has shown is labelled as Rockstar, and the verdict is mine.

What is in the film

Seen in the film. Lucia at the edge of a resort pool, forearms on the warm stone, high-rise towers and cabanas behind her. Gold aviators. Hair pulled up into a high top-knot. Gold hoop earrings, a thin gold chain with a small pendant, white wireless earbuds. An orange swimsuit. She laughs at something off camera for most of it, then lifts a stemmed glass of something red with a strawberry and a sprig of mint on the rim, and drinks it in one long, unbothered pull. Fifteen seconds.

This is fan work from our Fan Vault, not Rockstar footage, and we label it that way.

Why it is a real Lucia look

Confirmed. Rockstar has already shown Lucia at a pool in gold-framed aviators with brown lenses, her hair in a top-knot and hoops in her ears. It is one of the official screenshots, catalogued in our Oracle. The film did not invent this outfit. It picked the most off-duty Lucia that Rockstar has shown us and let her finish the drink.

My read. Every other Lucia costume is about the job: prison orange, a tactical vest, a sequin dress for a club she is probably robbing. This one is about the thing she is doing all of it for. Eve wrote that Lucia wants the good life. This is what the good life looks like. Which is exactly why it works on Halloween: it is the one Lucia nobody will expect.

Build it in ten minutes

Build it.

• Gold aviators. The bigger and shinier, the better.
• Hair scraped up into a high top-knot.
• Gold hoops and the thinnest gold chain you own.
• Something orange: a swimsuit if you are somewhere warm, an orange top if you are not.
• White earbuds in, all night.
• A stemmed glass with a red drink, a strawberry on the rim and a sprig of mint. Make it a mocktail if you like. Nobody needs to know.

The Halloween twist

My read. The drink is the costume. In daylight it is a resort cocktail. At a Halloween party, under a red bulb, it is a glass of something you should not ask about, held by a woman who got out of Leonida Penitentiary and is smiling about it. That is the whole of GTA 6 in one prop: the sunny version and the dark version, at the same time, in the same hand.

Ruby's verdict

Ruby's verdict. Ten minutes, and the best value on the list. It beats prison orange because people will think you look good instead of arrested, and it beats the Real Dimez because it needs one friend fewer. Laugh at nothing, sip slowly, and never take the aviators off.

Watch the film in the Fan Vault, then go back to the other ten costumes if you need a partner for the night. Happy Halloween. Nineteen days to go.