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Neen The Kitchen Magician's Paintress!

The Paintress' overall design in Expedition 33 is both fascinating and yet haunting. As the sole force behind vanishing off people every year, she's become one of few antagonists in the game. Course, through the game's lifespan in cosplay, people mostly tackle the main members of the core Expedition. Whether it's in the traditional uniforms, other alternate costumes or the iconic Baguette outfits. So it's been a real treat to see Neen The Kitchen Magician do a phenomenal job in bringing The Paintress to life. The full outfit is black from head to toe. You have a gown like piece at the bottom with it flowing mostly in the back. It does look like both the bottom and top pieces are segmented into like a long sleeve shirt and long pants. But being full pitch black does give some shots a sense that it's all connected. That even includes the face area which one pic does show that yep, Neen is able to see out of it.

Cosplay Feature: Vanity Fox's Nina!

Today I want to finally feature one of my very good friends and fellow New England area cosplayer Casey Anne. The cosplay shown here is actually her latest one which she wore at NYCC on Friday. The character being Nina from Breath of Fire 2! It's actually pretty funny how before the convention I had asked if she had anything planned, she wanted to keep it a secret and honestly told me that it's an obscure character that very few people will know.

Talk about obscure because I have never heard of this character, nor the game she's from! Apparently Breath of Fire 2 is one of Casey's favorite RPG's and the design of this character is freaking beautiful. Shiny fabric clothing adorned with various jewels and bracelets, gorgeous blonde hair all topped off by 2 really big wings growing our of her back!

Nina from Breath of Fire 2!

So how did Casey go about creating this cosplay? Well from the looks of the photos I have to share she nailed it perfectly. The wings are by far my favorite part all made from feathers which she had purchased online. The wig chosen also fits the character and the fabric chosen definitely match the style which Nina is shown wearing. Casey even managed to have jewelry/stones on the fabric alongside intricate ornate patterns in certain areas of the cosplay such as the neck, chest, bracers and boots! Seriously I'm in love with the colors of the full outfit and it's arguably one of my favorites Casey has done so far. She was working very hard on it from what I could see online in terms of progress and all the hard work paid off BIG TIME :D.

Overall Casey looks incredibly beautiful in the outfit and I was extremely impressed by it (as I am with all of her outfits :)). Below I have some pictures of the outfit as well as a previous photo from NYCC this year!


Casey Anne and I at NYCC 2013

Photo by Lawrence Brenner

Photo by OhHeyItsSK

Also be sure to keep an eye out around PAX East next year for a video interview with Casey Anne instead of a written one which was done originally but scrapped due to outdated information!

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