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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: Blood Empress' Tifa Lockhart!

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Duhhh of course I'd be talking about Blood Empress' gorgeous Tifa Lockhart cosplay when she started posting pictures in it. Tifa being my all time favorite game girl crush, I'm a sucker for anyone who cosplays her. Also pretty sure I've stated this reasoning time and time again as I featured Tifa cosplayers in the past. Here, Christy chose to go with the character's default outfit, the black skirt along with the white top and suspenders. Some of the shots give a really solid vide of the Docker boots she's wearing. The black belt is loosely wrapped around the skirt up near her waist and suspenders travel down to be attached to it. Christy opted in going with a full covered white shirt instead of the traditional white tank that Tifa is known for wearing.

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Oddly enough, the most detailing/parts go to her arms. Christy has long black sleeves covering just about up to her forearm. The red gloves are more so done with fabric instead of actual gloves that I've seen with past cosplays of Tifa. One arm is shown with the gray armor piece attached to some red fabric and the other has a white band wrapped near the end. I find this route makes her Tifa more than ready to get down and dirty in terms of fighting, much more movement when the hands aren't held back/covered up heavily.

The close up shot on the left gives a great view of the wig Christy has for this cosplay. Gray dots decorate the gloves up near her knuckles. Overall she nails the posing of warm up shots as she's getting ready to beat down Shinra soldiers. Her figure fits the character well also and this just gives me another reason as to why I want to meet her so bad <3. Enjoy the shots guys!


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I'm always gonna suggest that you check out Blood Empress' page on FB. If not, then you're missing out on a really awesome person <3.

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