Real-life Ciem suit designs of 2019

Main article: Real-life Ciem suit designs of 2019 To celebrate her past cooperation in bringing Candi to life, a T-shirt was proposed for Lee Loo La as a 2019 birthday present back in December of 2018 that would tie in to development of the novel. However, the Proto design wasn't chosen. Instead, the Lithobara series Ciem top was chosen as a designer T-shirt option for the child size shirt. This is in spite the fact that Lithobara isn't used by Candi in canon until latter seasons of Sodality, after she's worn out most of her Variega series suits. Lithobara, however, is the simplest non-Proto Ciem top and bears most of the essential elements for the character's appearance. As a challenge, the Forfica Mk I. from Ash Cloud was chosen as Lee's suit adaptation.

The child-size Lithobara shirt was made first, and the test run shirt was given to a young girl living in St. Louis as a Christmas present. Lee's Forfica Mk. I suit went into production in December of 2018, and was completed a few days before her birthday on April 25th of 2019.

Several differences in technique were employed between the two versions: