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Cosplay Feature: Holly Bean Cosplay's Sypha from Castlevania!

Photo by David Ngo By the time you're reading this, I will have just gotten back from my first convention of the year, PAX East! You can hear all about it in a brand new episode of CosplayBytes! For now, let's go back a little bit further to MAGFest from January for even more gaming related cosplays. Holly Bean Cosplay here brought along her cosplay of the devoted mage Sypha from the Castlevania anime adaptation aired on Netflix. By the time of this posting, the original has aired two seasons plus a spin off called Nocturne starring another Belmont Descendant. You'll notice that even if the cosplay is relatively simple in its design, I love both the pose work that Holly has done in addition to the edited photos that came out of this. Starting from the top, Holly is rocking a short orange wig with a variety of curls and wefts seen on her sides and from the back. Then you have the main top piece all in a light shade of blue and layered.

Cosplay Feature: Ravy Nevermore's Jenova!

Photo by David Ngo

Hi! For today's post I wanted to wind the clock back to my time at PAX East earlier this year. The event itself for 2025 was taken place during Mother's Day. So you can imagine the laugh I let out when in passing, I saw a cosplayer dressed up as Jenova--the sentient alien monster--from Final Fantasy VII. As being the self proclaimed "mother" of everyone's favorite One-Winged Angel, the timing of wearing this on the holiday itself was just perfect. So I'd like you to meet Ravy Nevermore as I dive further into this cosplay. At first glance on the pictures, the cosplay looks extremely comfortable and simple but much like others of this nature, it's the added attention to details that really make this cosplay so amazing. The main focus has this overly gray piece seemingly have separate elements as well as being overlayed on areas mostly for the legs and footwear.

Photo by Flightless.photos
The sleeves on this cosplay are overly long and full blown stained with red to mimic blood if I had to guess. One of the stand out pieces to this cosplay has to be the tube sticking out of Ravy in the stomach area. That includes a silver piece with cloth sticking out of her like a detached tube. The fabric is dyed red but given a gradient like effect. It also was worked with to give off that folded organic look to it. Then you have the head piece which is laid on top of a ghostly white wig. The head piece is silver in color with several knobs on the top and circles laid out in front. You also get a view of several black tubes coming out the top.

There's also a glimpse at what looks to be a brain of sorts at the very top. Talk about eerie & creepy right? You also have a plain white sign with the words "Call Your Mother" that Ravy wore around her next during PAX East on Mother's Day itself. Again, just top tier planning in my eyes. Most of the shots you'll see show Ravy sporting Jenova's signature pose with both arms stretched outward on each side. Almost giving a limp-like feel to them.

Oh! I forgot to mention that the head piece also includes Jenova's name plate in the dead center as seen in every iteration of Final Fantasy VII when the party first finds her in the game. 

Photo by Peak Cosplay Photography



If you guys want to see more of Ravy's work, be sure to visit this master link down below! I apologize for the absence all summer. Had a little bit of a scare that I hope is a one off due to some new preventative measures I took to fight it. Thanks for reading :)

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