Viktor (Arcane: League of Legends Season 1) Photo Gallery

Character: Viktor

Media: "Arcane: League of Legends"

Completion Date: April 2025

 

Viktor's late season 1 design has a steampunk technological look to it that I created first by piecing together carefully-dyed fabric in different shades of gray and white, then layering grosgrain with a vintage metal braided trim. I wanted the latter to look like a steampunk-inspired circuit board. All of the Arcane costume designs are just on the other side of the line of "conventional" fashion: a strange fastening here, oddly specific buttons there, a seam that must exist but has been made to appear as though it doesn't. I used some vintage buttons and fastenings from my collection to help give it that classic-yet-futuristic finish, and I also hand-stitched the trim down the shirt sleeve shoulders and to the cuffs so there would be no interruption over the armscye seam. This cosplay was my first time using EVA foam, which layers on tip of PVC piping to form the base of Viktor's crutch-cane. The prop breaks into three pieces for easy travel.

 

All photography and editing is by Amiephotos 

 

Firesong K'Treva Photo Gallery: NYCC 2024 Cosplay Central Crown Championship Version

Character: Firesong K'Treva

Media: "Darian's Tale" and "Kelvren's Saga" from the "Valdemar" novels by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Completion Date: October 2024

Awards: First Place overall, New York Comic Con 2024

 

I started making this cosplay in early 2023 with no solid competition plans, but as I developed the skills and the design and the project came together to be more special than anything I had made previously, I wanted to try my hand at Crown and see how far I could get. At that point, I pivoted to making this the most it could be. Firesong himself is a character that means a lot to me as someone who survived so much personal pain and came through the other side, and also as an openly gay character. The version presented at New York Comic Con lacked a few costume pieces that I did not have time to make, as well as an early simplified version of the mask with braided hair "falls".

 

All photography and editing by Tatiana Dorokhova @TatiTati_Art 

 

Young Firesong K'Treva Photo Gallery

Character: Firesong K'Treva

Media: "Mage Winds" and "Mage Storms" from the "Valdemar" novels by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Completion Date: August 2024

Awards: Best Master at the Bay State Qualifier for Masters of Cosplay/Fanexpo Boston 2025 

The green robe was originally meant to become part of my larger Firesong project which would go on to be my entry at the Cosplay Central Crown Championship in 2024, but after finishing it the garment did not feel that it was working for the overall design. At that point in the project I removed it entirely from the design and shifted the color scheme from navy blue/green/gold to navy blue/red/gold. With over four months of work in the green robe alone, I decided to reclassify it and create a "young" design for Firesong, one that would exist before his facial burns and adoption of masks. Practically, that was because I had not yet started making the lineup of masks that would be part of every competition iteration of this cosplay.

 

Photography and editing is by Brooke Ashlee Photography