I always plan on cosplaying when I attend Twin Cities Con. On Friday, I cosplayed as Kylo Ren. I put together my Kylo Ren cosplay for Halloween last year and it turned out so well that it’s now become a permanent cosplay in my closet. I use red lip liner, black eye liner, light brown eye shadow, and vaseline to create the scar on my face. On Saturday, I put together a last minute cosplay. I decided to do a gender bent, Percy De Rolo from Vox Machina and The Legend of Vox Machina. I wanted to break down how I put this cosplay together.

I had originally thought about cosplaying as Vexhalia, but then thought against it. There are a lot of components to Vexhalia including her bow and her quiver. I was looking online and there wasn’t a way I could cosplay her on such short notice without spending quite a bit of money. Vexhalia is a character I want to cosplay down the road, but I want more time to be able to do the character justice. I was going through a Reddit post and saw someone else doing a gender bent Percy cosplay and I was immediately inspired to do one myself.

The reference image I used was a photo of Percy from the show where he’s bent over a table looking at a map. He’s wearing a light blue dress shirt with a black vest and black pants. This was the photo I used to put together my cosplay. I stole a blue dress shirt from my husband’s closet. I tucked the shirt into a pair of black jeans I own. I used a black tied corset to help cinch the look together especially because my husband’s dress shirt was a bit big on me. I ordered a pair of steampunk glasses and a silver prop gun. To complete the look, I bought a white, wavy wig. I could have opted for a white short hair look, but I like longer wigs, so that’s a personal preference I have.

This cosplay was something I put together in a week and a half. Is this cosplay accurate? Yes and no. As I walked around the con, no one recognized the look. However, when I was walking to the convention center, I had someone compliment my wig and how she thought I looked good in it. This was so nice of her to say. It definitely gave me a boost of confidence as I walked to Twin Cities Con.

I like the cosplay especially because it was a last minute look to put together. I’d love to get a more accurate prop of Percy’s gun and I’d like to find a blue jacket that I could wear over the look as I think it would be more true to Percy’s look. With that said, I’m happy with how this came together and I would wear this to another convention I attend in the future.