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cosplayinamerica · 4 years

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Feo Ul from Final Fantasy XIV // Cosplayer : lissandela // Photo : Joseph Lane Photo

Hi, I’m Alexandria Means, I’m 32, a single mom of a special needs child and I like to cosplay. I got into cosplaying about 5 years ago. My first costume was a Sylveon style dress made by Darling Army and I went and bought the ears and the tail. I didn’t think it was much, but when I went to my first con and people were so supportive, I couldn’t believe it. Here was this place where people could dress up to be anything they wanted and people were excited and supportive about it. The feeling was magical.

I did go by myself to my first con because I didn’t know anyone that cosplayed at the time. I was pretty socially awkward (I still am). I don’t remember exactly what someone said but it was something like “cute Sylveon” and it just made my day. I didn’t think my bought costume was anything special and I was definitely self-conscious about my body. I weighed a lot more back then. But with every positive comment, I felt more and more like I belonged.

I’ve always been a sort of creative person as it was my outlet. I have bipolar type 2 and I trend more toward the depressed side, so cosplay gave me this creative outlet to express myself. About two years before I wore that dress, one of my friends talked me into making a costume. I thought it was impossible. I was obsessed with Overwatch at the time and I remember seeing Stella Chuu’s Mercy Imp cosplay. I mentioned it to a friend of mine, and he said: “Do it, I have some friends that help you with the logistics if you get stuck.”. I thought “well, let’s do something different for the year,” so I took the first steps. I would say they are the first steps into madness, haha. I made Devil Mercy and put it on for Momocon and people loved it. More importantly, I found that I loved the process and it helped me through some very rough times.

Last year, I had an extremely rough breakup. The relationship itself was very unhealthy and I went into a very dark place. I was working on a cosplay at the time but I eventually settled on Feo Ul from Final Fantasy XIV, which was ultimately a really complicated project. I became obsessed with completing it because I told myself that when I finished, it would be the beginning of something new. And it was.

Feo Ul is my fifth made costume and it took me four-ish months to make. The wings took about three months and the overall total of hours that went into it clocks in well over 300.

The main part of the costume that almost everyone sees before me is made out of four different thicknesses of foam (10, 8, 6 and 4 mm, respectively). I did the pattern making for the wings myself with a little bit of trial and error and help from FFXIV cosplay discord that I frequent. The details were burned in and the paint was airbrushed on. I had a lot of trouble mounting it to a harness (much tears and rage were had) but I finally managed to get the end result after an entire days worth of work.

The whole setup is actually pretty light, it just makes getting through doorways and crowds quite difficult sometimes. The wig is actually an Arda Wig chibi that I had re-purposed from my Pink Mercy cosplay and dyed a light orange. The styling was honestly the hardest part aside from the wings but managed to create something passable. The wings are honestly still my favorite part about the costume and the thing I’m the proudest about in my cosplay career.

Over the course of four months I had created this crazy set of wings and had started healing in the process. And what’s crazy is that people loved it! That was so crazy for me. When I finished her, I was watching the feedback, and it was like people were seeing me for the first time. For me, each cosplay is a new beginning, a new way that I challenge and change myself, and a way for people to see the real me and the creative stuff that lives in my head. Cosplay honestly helped save me in a way.

https://linktr.ee/Lissandela

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viyageddi · 7 years

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PAX East

Shit I played:

Observer

Graveyard Keeper

Complicated Board Game the Card Game

Isles of Arthanos

Pathologic

Tooth and Tail

Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind

Archeage

Elsinore

Three Cheers for Master!

It was pretty boss, now I’m sick. Read below for the full account of all my antics...

Friday: My friend and I took our time cause we wanted to get food for the house we were renting. I actually may look into doing that again. We got in about 1:30 and was just wandering around and checking stuff out. Missed out on some panels, but got to play some games like Observer, and Graveyard Keeper. Both are pretty awesome games. Observer is a First Person Psychological Thriller/Horror game that had some interesting mechanics to interact with the world. Graveyard Keeper is a game that is preeeeetty much Stardew Valley, but you’re a graveyard keeper. And I didn’t get terribly far, but it was pretty fun. We went to the 404ing panel last, which was a lot of fun. Saturday: This was the day I went all by myself and chilled by myself. I went early for their “How to be a good youtuber” panel, ‘cause I figured why not, I want to get into that stuff. It ended up being a shitty ad for youtube and HOW YOU CAN DO ALL THIS NEAT STUFF THAT YOU SURELY HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO DO ON TWITCH FOR A WHILE NOW. I understand though that because YT has such a niche in the internet, it might be beneficial for streaming there. And you can have all the videos and streams in one place. I left 15 minutes in, and the friend I met up with and I jumped back into the line for the next panel which was the FFXIV panel. That was a lot of fun. I ended up getting a neat summoner pin and I got to see Yoshi-P live. He was very much a rock star, and eating up the excitement. That was a fun panel, with a lot of the same answers. Afterwards I went exploring, met up with another friend, played “Complicated Board Game the Card Game” which I’d met the developers who are really cool folks when I used to work at my old job. I really enjoyed it. I think I technically won? But ahhh. It was fun. After the party was split and I went to play “Isles of Arthanos” which was a FUCKING DOPE-ASS GAME! Very much in alpha, but it was like 3d rpgmaker, but D&D like. You can design a whole campaign and share it with up to 5 friends which you can play together online. They guesstimated 1.5 years until it’s released but they’re looking to get it on steam, so that it’d be easier for people to workshop it and add their own assets to the game. I am excited for that. I played “Pathologic” which is a survival/horror/psychological game which the narrative follows this doctor, and the demo was very trippy but awesome. After, I bought dice, then signed up for the Bethesda “Prey” raffle thing, with the customized PS4/XBONE, and got an art book. I’m kinda curious as to how that game will be because to me it looked like a 3d puzzle game, like portal, but with a more eldritch twist to it. I probably wont get it at launch but I’d love to see other lets plays of that. After getting my art book, I went to the Playstation Booth where I played “Tooth and Tail” which was a neat RTS game, very simple and easy to get into, and very redwall-ish with the anthropomorphic animals. I probably would play it again, and I’m hoping they will get a one player campaign/story mode, but we’ll see. After this I was getting tired, and I managed to meet up with my friends, have food, and that’s where I called it a night. Sunday:

This was an unexpected day. We’d initially only got the Friday, Saturday Passes, but our friends managed to snag us some passes from a scalper for cheap. This was swag day. Our group of friends arrived, and went to the Bethesda area again, we split up and some of us went to quake, but some of us went to the ESO Morrowind game. It was a long wait, but I entered for the same contest as yesterday for the PS4/XBONE thing, got a t-shirt, and then went to battle. I got to experience the game, and that actually convinced me to get a hold of it probably when the Steam Spring Sales start happening. The next couple hours were us going around acquiring free shirts, and other shit. I even got underwear, which is a little to small for anyone in this house. (only one solution, really.) But yeah, we got free shit. Then I separated from the group with the end goal being 5pm meet up to get coats and stuff. I went to Trion and played around with Archeage again for a bit. I’d played when they first launched it in the west, and it’s been kinda ehhh. But the Community Manager was awesome and she kinda was like “There are some new servers with all these unprotected farms” and gave me a code to redeem a mount. Maybe I can make a war-forged (demon) toon and be overall chaotic. >:) Afterwards, it was rather a blur. I got to look at Earthlock: Festival of Magic which was pretty neat. It was very JRPG-y. Even the dev mentioned how they had gotten inspiration from FF7 and it showed. Very crisp looking. They’ve been developing it for 5 years and it looks hella cool. I’ll probably check it out some day. I then got to play part of the demo of Elsinore, a point and click adventure where you play Ophelia. One of the devs, she explained to me that it was “Groundhog Day meets Majora’s Mask meets Hamlet” and it looks like a neat game to play. I ran around a little more and got buttons for the mobile game Force of Guardians which I wanted to see the cute-ass pixel art. There was War Dragons which was a mobile AR game that replaced airplanes with DRAGONS and it looked so fucking cute and silly and had a whole tamagochi feel from it. I went through the tabletop which was dangerous. I found the people who made Gloom, and they were demoing Three Cheers for Master which the goal was to get the most points, and you wanted to build a tower of minions but they can kill each other and it was funny and cute, with hilarious flavor text. The same group also was making Unseen Arms which is a horror d10 game. The guys at the table themselves didn’t know tooooo much about it, but unlike Call of Cthulhu, this system’s sanity score meant that high sanity was bad as well as low sanity. After that, I wandered back, played some 3ds. My friends decided to go back for some last pickings from the expo hall, which meant I got two more shirts and a drawstring bags. I decided to wait ‘cause I realized I picked up the Pax Pox. So now I’m home, procrastinating on getting my groceries before the storm. And I had a lot of fun. Everyone was so nice and I hope that I’m able to go back next year, and hopefully drag my husband with me. My sentiments about Boston are the same. Not my kind of city. ;P

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