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Cosplay Feature: Gray Oranges' Rikku!

Photo by David Ngo I won't ever shy away from writing about cosplays of Rikku's look from Final Fantasy X-2 and Gray Orange did a fantastic job portraying her in both the overall cosplay look PLUS the pose work. Of course I'll get to all that in due time but let's start at the top! It's certainly a cosplay worn for several events and I want to say I first saw this in the overall collection of MAGFest photos back in January of this year. I really love how the multiple braid strands are integrated into the blonde wig for starters. I can't tell if they're either part of the wig itself or the blue headband that's wrapped around. In any case, following this is a red scarf wrapped around Irini's neck before you then get to the yellow bikini top. Here, you can also see orange trim lines as part of the piece. Oh, I forgot to mention that the red scarf actually travels all the way down to her legs. These end points then transition to a yellow/orange gradient!

Cosplay Feature: Aicosu's Sheila and her Cindy!


Pretty much every Final Fantasy since it's second entry has had a slew of recurring characters, concepts and enemies which made their debut there. One such character is Cid. Normally Cid is either a man of political power (12 and 13), an engineer/airship guy (7 and 10), or someone else of importance. The long awaited and anticipated next entry is shaking things up a bit by making Cid a female. Dubbed Cindy (Cidney in the Japanese version), she'll serve as the mechanic who fixes up your sweet looking car that you use for travel. So now that the background is out of the way, let's get to the cosplay! This is actually the first time I've featured the incredibly talented cosplay duo of Aicosu! Based in Arizona, it consists of Sheila and Sylar, for today, I had to show off Sheila's beautiful Cindy!

The cosplay consists of a crop top yellow mechanic jacket with exposure to the chest. Underneath is a bright pink bra. There's also black gloves, a side-aligned belt which is traditional I feel in most of Tetsuya Nomura's designs. He sure loves belts 0-0. The back of Sheila's jacket and red cap is decorated with a logo of what I'm guessing is the station that Cindy works at in the game. The application of it is spot on and super clean. Goggles can be seen hanging down from Sheila's neck as well. Booty shorts and tan high boots with black socks round out the rest of the cosplay.

I love the short curly blonde wig she has on. It makes the character look so incredibly cute. Some of the closeups of Shelia's face show her makeup which she applied to give off that dirty mechanic look. I imagine that'll be something shown in the game. She nails the poses to show off that sassy/somewhat sexy vibe that Cindy gives off. Matching with her was Sylar as one of the supporting party members Noctis has with him throughout the game. The pictures I've got for you guys from Anime Expo are so awesome. Don't worry, I'll give Sylar a feature soon enough I promise :).





All Photos by Eurobeat Kasumi Photoraphy!

Please head on over the Aicosu's cosplay page and give them a like! They've done some adorable couple cosplays together and I really hope I'll get to finally meet them one day :D

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