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Shutting One Door, Keeping others Open

UPDATED ON 8/20/21: Facebook, Patreon and Blog IG pages have been shutdown/discontinued As the COVID pandemic rages on and cons are even shutting down into 2021, it got me thinking on a drive home one night about how I'd feel with even coming back to blogging. When cons eventually do come back at some point. Truth be told, many of the posts and content I shared here could be transferred over to more discussions via my podcast CosplayBytes. I've been blogging my love for games, cons and cosplay for 7 years now and maybe it's time to say goodbye for now? My podcast has gotten me some incredible opportunities as a member of Press for conventions, and the rapid love I've had for streaming is also taking up a lot of time now. On top of multiple personal things on my end, I don't think I have the energy to keep this up even post COVID you know? The very first cosplay centered post I wrote was on Jessica Nigri's Deadpool, and since then it's spawned over 800 posts

Cosplay Feature: Leyonhart Cosplay's Rinoa!

Photo by Solita DelaCruz Photography

Leyonhart Cosplay, with her clever spin on Squall's name, instantly caught my eye due to her enormous love for Final Fantasy. Given her affiliation with FF8, I thought it would be appropriate to share her Rinoa outfit from the same game! Rinoa's look primarily has black and a light blue overcoat on top. Leyonhart has a beautiful black wig that is super long and flows through nicely down her backside. A black top starts everything off before the blue kicks in around her torso. It's also where it's tied up so it stays in place. Matching this coat are two sleeves that go to right about her elbow. The coat itself however doesn't stop at the bottom. More-so, it travels super far down!

Photo by Solita DelaCruz Photography
It's here that the light blue coat has some tailcoat like features. A full opening on her bottom half of the body gives view to a jean colored-piece that kinda reminds me of how corsets are like. Gold buttons are visible at the connecting parts. After that, black shorts are visible with some small white lines sewed into them. There aren't any shots I have that give off views of the footwear but oh man are they gorgeous in general. It looks like Rinoa was shot in an open field full of tall flowers, some of them are very reminiscent to the opening to FF8.

This has to be what Leyonhart was going for when this was taken for a photoshoot. Her facial expressions are incredibly soft and beautiful. Not to mention the lighting is phenomenal. Some of these pics are desktop background worthy <3. A small necklace can be seen around her neck too! If you wanna talk about comfort level, then I'm just getting all snuggly just by looking at it! I can only hope the weather was a decent temperature since I imagine this would be so cold to wear in the winter! Check out these other shots ^_^

Photo by Alex Krvekoski Photography

Photo by Solita DelaCruz Photography

Photo by Alex Krvekoski Photography

Leyonhart is an absolute sweetheart and I'm already immensely enjoying getting to know her on Twitter and other socials! Be sure to follow her IG for more Final Fantasy cosplays <3
https://www.instagram.com/leyonhart_cosplay/
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