Wolves on the Prowl

So I got photos back from our little shoot with Volug and Nailah from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn! There are a bunch of photos so I wanted to share some of my favorites here.

Volug: Me
Nailah: Lady Aerith Fair
Sanaki: VanguardWingal
Photographer: Philosophically Undefined Photography / Denzel Thomas

I still can't believe there was randomly a Sanaki. And that I  actually knew them from waaaay back.

And that's all for now. I've been hard at work getting Vaida together for Matsuricon so if you want to see periodic progress photos (that are way more consistent then my posting here oops), you can follow me on Instagram @mikeydoescospay
But don't worry, I will put together a post of all my Vaida work on here soon.

Black Wolf of the Sands

More throwback thursday stuff, yay!

It'll be a short entry this week because I've only worn him a couple of times, but I wanted to show off my sexy shirtless wolf boy, Volug from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.

I think we all know by this point how I judge my FE characters based on attractiveness so when this man walked out of the desert I immediately wanted to cosplay him. Sadly he turns out to be somewhat lackluster of a battle unit but frankly I don't care.

Another motivating factor for making this character is that I hadn't seen anyone do it, and I knew there would be a Nailah (the other wolf character from Radiant Dawn) and a Micaiah at one of the cons I was going to, so I jumped at the chance.

We did these at Colossalcon, which meant we had a wonderful backdrop for the characters, and the best part was we did an actual photoshoot with Larry Hullum Jr. who got some beautiful shots of us. I'd never done a private shoot with a legit photographer before so I was super excited to have really nice photos of my cosplay.

My favorite shot from the set actually didn't show off my cosplay at all, but I think you'll all agree that it's super cool.

This one's not watermarked, but it was also taken by Larry.

At some point I'd love to wear him again, but there are so many cosplays I have and enjoy wearing, and there are't many RD folks around to cosplay with (and I can only wear him in the summer, for obvious reasons), and having someone paint on my tattoos is a big pain in the butt, so he's going to be hard to get back into circulation. Nevertheless, I do love this cosplay and will definitely bust it out again some time in the future.