Toss a Coin to your Stitcher
Michael MacWolff
Happy 2020 everyone! The new con season started off great this year, with a fun whirlwind of an Ohayocon. I debuted two new cosplays, made a new friend, got to see lots of awesome people and great cosplays! So, enough chitchat, let’s get to some photos!
The first new cosplay I did for Ohayo was a casual one, Alexander from FGO in his outfit from “The Pharoh’s Great Winter Thanksgiving Festival.” It was a simple and comfy outfit, but considering we haven’t even gotten this CE on the global server yet, and he’s a relatively minor character, only one person recognized who I was (granted she also is a friend of mine who saw me working on it so she already knew anyway shrug).
I think my favorite thing here is Bucephalus (his horse) lol. I do hope to eventually do his official outfit and make his sword, I feel like I might be more recognizable with it but who knows. My friends and I are also assembling a crew with the youger and older versions of both Alex/Iskandar and Waver/El Melloi II which should be a fun group to hang out with.
The second new cosplay was much more involved (considering I ordered most of Alex so all I had to do was style his wig and cut a pair of pants into shorts), and it’s one who I’ve been wanting to cosplay since I played the game he appears in. I’m talking about Teb from Horizon Zero Dawn!
I immediately fell in love with this precious cinnamon bun, I mean who wouldn’t? Construction on this cosplay was really interesting given a lot of the details involved. The pouch and several sections of his belt are all woven, which I actually hand-wove myself with cotton webbing and strips of real leather for the front section of the belt.
The second fun/weird bit was all of the tubing involved in the costume. There’s red tubing around the openings in his vest, he has bits of tubing around his neck, and there are a bunch of different types of tubes on his belt. I ended up getting a few different types online, and ended up using all of them in different places. The ref tubes on his vest are actually rubber, so they flex more easily (which is helpful for getting the vest on & off), and the more plastic-y tubes, along with some other rubber pieces were used on his belt to give it some nice variety. All in all I like how it came out. I was worried about the machine parts strapped to his shins but even those were relatively easy when I figured out how to do them. They’re just sections of EVA foam with plasti-dip on it that I then painted. I did have to be careful though, cause they clicked then I walked if I didn’t have a wide enough gait. It felt kinda like I was walking like a cowboy but at least I didn’t destroy them!
Once again, I wasn’t much recognized, and sadly I never found an Aloy while I was in him (but of course I found one immediately after I changed out of him), but I still loved wearing him, he’s actually pretty comfortable (besides the weird walking), and he makes me happy, even if almost no one knew who I was. I also got a couple of nice photos thanks to my wonderful friend Andrew.
Aside from that, the con was a lot of fun, and like I mentioned before, I made an awesome new friend who was cosplaying Oliver from Ni No Kuni on Sunday! I recognized them and their partner as the Bastion cosplayers I ran into at Matsuri last year and we slowly spiraled down the rabbit hole as we discovered how many overlapping fandoms we have.
Here’s Jynx’s awesome Oliver cosplay! We’ve also been discussing a Pyre group together for next year and I’m super stoked about it!!
There were lots of other great cosplay I saw so here’s a selection from the weekend!
I hope all of your years are starting off well! I have a few commissions I’ll be working on over the next couple of weeks so you can follow my instagram for regular updates. See you next time!