@Video_Game_King: lol Thanks for those. Ah, memories! I saw it as one of the first moments she grew a spine. Regardless of them nurturing her back to health, she had the choice to go back to the others and submit to expectations placed on her or help out whoever she felt like. Sure, it's nice that her esper powers came back, but she went back with purpose.
@Hailinel: Thank you!! :D I saw some awesome fanart of her and I plan on adding more to this costume. Sakizo is a huge FF fan and her FF watercolor fanart is worth checking out. Here's one of Terra
She was on my list for years and years, and as soon as Kevin mentioned how much he loved Edgar's character, we dove into making these costumes. It wasn't hard for me to fall in love with Terra's character with as diplomatic as she is. I particularly enjoyed when she stood up for herself and watched over the orphans when she was tired of being pressured into decisions.
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I bent wire and made jewelry, dyed fabrics and leather, and even stamped leather. It was a medley of new skills being put to the test, but anything for my favorite Final Fantasy protagonist. My favorite part of the costume, however, is the wig. Ever since Dissidia came out, almost all Terra cosplayers now use ash blonde wigs to follow suit with that design, but Terra will always have seafoam hair for me like the original sprite. I styled the bangs up in a cartoonish style like the menu icon and blasted it into place with Got2B hairspray glue. FYI, if you ever need to spike your hair and need crazy good hold, that's the stuff to use.
Sometimes I like to replay games while I make costumes, and such was the case for FF6. I started to get ideas for a comedy cosplay skit and jotted down a couple of jokes. I ran them by Kevin and we decided to go for it. Here is the result of our efforts: King Edgar's Final Fantasy "tactics."
Written by myself, myself as Terra, Kevin as Edgar, Sam as Ultros.
Welp! It didn't take long for me to deviate from a strictly-video game cosplay blog. Who cares, though, lol. Gamers can appreciate good TV and movies, so meh.
I refused to cosplay Game of Thrones until I was completely in love with a character. I like Dany and Jon Snow of course, but not enough to put forth the effort to make a costume. Fortunately Margaery Tyrell came along in season 2 and I was SOLD! She is witty and cunning and best of all, her character is played by Natalie Dormer, my current favorite actress. The costume was simple to make and was completed in two days! I would still prefer to go back and add textural details to the vest, but for now I am happy with it.
The rest of the photos are very in-character from the series and contain spoilers, so you might want to refrain from seeing them if you are not caught up on Season 2.
Best part of wearing Margaery: getting my cosplay put on MTV.com. I felt so flattered when I got home and was linked to it by friends! I am not sure which of her other outfits I'll make in the future, but I look forward to the new outfits in Season 3 come March 31st of 2013!
@CL60: Go anyway. I totally feel where you are coming from, because my parents are overprotective "old country" Cubans. You have already tried to be an adult with them and told them where you were going, which you didn't have to do in the first place. It is your life and your business, and you can choose whether or not to share it. They might try to guilt you by saying that you are being disrespectful, but you are not. They are the ones disrespecting you by treating you like a child. Take away your car? Telling you where you can't go? These sound like behaviors a parent would exert on a high school student.
@linus_south: Thanks linus! Katherine was a lot of fun to cosplay, especially eating the cupcake I was stabbing afterwards. SO DELICIOUS! I have yet to find a local shop that looks like the in-game tea place, but as soon as I do... you can bet there will be another photoset.
@Fattony12000: Thank you! :D ack, just my luck, I didn't include a link of what the character is supposed to look like lol. FIX'D! And if you ever have some free time, it's one of the better Wii games out there.
@ck1nd: Thank you very much! It certainly is, and what's best is that there are characters for all ages and body-types. It's not uncommon for gamers to attend a convention and become cosplayers themselves, lol. I think the reason it has become a popular hobby is that you can physically SEE what someone else is into from across the room and easily find others with similar interests.
Brave Story has an excellent manual. It is for the PSP and you don't even need a guide because the developers took the time to explain the game mechanics in detail. :) It's a pretty obscure game but definitely hours and hours of fun and worth checking out.
Thanks for the growing support to my cosplay blog, it's really awesome to see how welcoming of cosplayers the giantbomb community is. I decided to turn this casual blog into a cosplay blog of video game characters I've done and I feel it is something more people on here would be able to relate to. A little bit of background about myself, I have been gaming since a wee grade schooler starting off on classics like Killer Instinct, Sonic, and SuperMarioWorld, then in middle school I was absolutely smitten with Parasite Eve. Ever since then I have been a SquareSoft/Final Fantasy junkie, at least until they merged with Enix and killed everything I loved. These days I find that obscure ATLUS games like Muramasa, Odin Sphere, and Catherine intrigue me. Unfortunately grad school keeps me from gaming as much as I would like to, but I have been known to blow off homework to satisfy my cravings. Nice to meet you all!
Now that that's covered, I recently traveled to Atlanta to attend Dragon*Con and debuted a new costume: Yuzuruha from ATLUS's Muramasa: The Demon Blade. For those of you unfamiliar with what cosplay is, it is the act of making costumes and props in order to create 3-D fanart and show homage to your favorite shows/characters/series.
photo by bentpic5. Dragon*Con 2012
I thoroughly enjoyed Muramasa, from the stunning artwork to the beautifully composed music. Perhaps it is my partiality to older games that makes me not mind the fact that it is a 2-D side-scroller, but I had a hard time putting it down. Fairly certain I collected all of the blades in a week for both Momohime AND Kisuke. After I completed the game, I knew I had to cosplay my favorite character, Yuzuruha. I especially enjoyed her scene in the hot springs with Kisuke, total nosebleeds. I love me some sultry foxes! <3
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In all it took me about a week and a half to complete this costume. I made the shoes by sandwiching wood together and taking it to a belt-sander until the shape was perfect. It was a lot of work and my knuckles are still on the way to recovery after brushing with the belt-sander a couple of times, but a game this well-made deserves to be cosplayed.
If you would like to know more about the construction process of this costume, please check out my progress folder on Facebook.
@RockmanBionics: Actually it's been so long since I last logged in that I forgot, so I really did appreciate it. XD Awww don't be upset over me not being all about ff9, it's not like I'm a Dragoon killer or anything lol. I liked a lot of things about it, but something just didn't lure me in like the others. I liked Freya and Beatrix's stories a lot, though.
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