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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: Ultra Girls Cosplay looking Fabulous!


I always love when the Ultra Girls have a duo cosplay that really capture my eye. Whether it's matching outfits or completely different characters, I get excited when they announce some of their upcoming outfits. Such is the case with the cosplays I have for you today. Cissa and Sophii created Morrigan (Darkstalkers) and Cloud (Final Fantasy 7) respectively and had a chance to shoot them both a few months ago if memory serves. I absolutely loved how both of these cosplays turned out and was fangirling on the inside since these characters are some of my all time favorites. Why not start with Cissa? For Morrigan, she went with the classic look for her. A black leotard like top makes up the base of it with purple tights covering her legs. The tights themselves have the signature bat patterns throughout. On the suit, the heart seems to be sewn in and of tan coloring rather than having the suit cut out into the shape like seen on other Morrigan cosplays.

Cissa's arms are also covered in a much lighter purple fabric. Not to mention also the bunches of white fluff/fur that's seen on the outer trim of the main suit. I love how that looks in the pictures as well. Rounding out the rest of the cosplay are the wings that are on her head PLUS the giant ones coming out of her back. The wings on Cissa's head also look super cute here. In terms of posing, she really captures Morrigan's seductive nature and the landscape style shots look amazing!

Moving on to Sophii, she cosplayed everyone's favorite brooding Ex-SOLDIER Cloud! Much like Cissa's Morrigan, I got super excited when I saw pictures of this pop up. Sophii here is cosplaying as the Advent Children version. So it's black on black on black, with leather straps and the signature shoulder pad. The wolf insignia is also done super well, possibly sculpted! Sophii is also wearing a gorgeous wig and she just looks so badass as well.

Zippers can be seen all over the place and there's a slight sex appeal element with this being a gender bend and all that! The black/red background for both cosplays really work well together though it can be a bit hard to make out some of Sophii's cosplay. I'd love to see her tackle the infamous Buster Sword one day, maybe that's a future project for her? Both these cosplays are just incredible and the Ultra Girls NEVER disappoint <3. Enjoy the other pictures guys!



All Photos by Steve Gracy!

The Ultra Girls will always have my support so I definitely recommend checking them out if you haven't already. Sophii's working on Yang from RWBY and they both debuted some gorgeous Espeon/Umbreon gijinkas recently! You won't regret it I promise <3

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