Character Profile: Tifa Lockhart

30 Thursday Sep 2010

Posted by Mei Hoshi in Character Profiles

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advent children, animenext, cosplay, final fantasy 7, tifa lockhart, tutorial

_{Name: Tifa Lockhart / ティファ・ロックハート

Appearance: Final Fantasy VII

Variation: Advent Children

Age: 22

Height: 5’4″

Blood Type: B

Description: Tifa Lockhart is a female protagonist in Final Fantasy VII. She is Cloud’s childhood friend from Nibelheim and a member of AVALANCHE. Her personality is much more laid back and selfless in comparison, with a motherly streak concerning all her friends and her attitude to others. Tifa is quick to hide her true feelings her being shyness a key aspect of her character, and she is caring and loving to a fault.}

_{Bright and optimistic, Tifa always cheers up the others when they’re down. But don’t let her looks fool you, she can decimate almost any enemy with her fists…}

_{Worn at: AnimeNEXT 2010, New York Comic Con/Anime Festival 2010.}

_{Why I chose this costume:

Ironically, she wasn’t my first choice. I wanted a third costume for AnimeNEXT and I was originally going to cosplay as Yuffie Kisaragi in her Advent Children outfit. I think I was partially discouraged from being Tifa. Then I decided I didn’t want to cosplay as Yuffie, and wanted to cosplay as Rikku from Final Fantasy X-2. First her thief outfit, got shot down from that, then her songstress outfit, which was likewise shot down. Somehow I wound up back to Tifa and decided to just cosplay her.}

_{Mechanics of the outfit:

I cannot even begin to describe what a pain in the butt it was to make this costume.. It wasn’t the design that was the issue. It was the fabric. I didn’t buy pleather, I want to say it’s vinyl pleather, but I’m not totally sure. It was basically a knit (stretchy) fabric with a film of the shiny stuff on it. I had to experience this first hand when the film on the back of the pants started to melt(?) off. I think it was because it was hot and I was sitting outside during the convention. But the cape in the back covers it so it’s not too big of a deal.}

_{The only parts I made are the pants. The rest my mom made because I ran short on time (and I don’t know how to sew a vest yet..). I cut up the shirt and the shoes, gloves, and ribbon I already had.}

_{Personal Feelings:

I have to admit, prior to cosplaying her, I never played the game. In fact, I still have yet to finish it! But I watched “Advent Children” and just been reading online, and the more I read the more I fell in love with her character and her personality. Her personality is somewhat similar to mine, and I love that she isn’t like the generic female character, she’s strong, a heroine even. For more images, check out my deviantArt!}

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AnimeNEXT 2010 Report!

27 Sunday Jun 2010

Posted by Mei Hoshi in Convention Reports

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advent children, animenext, convention, cosplay, crossplay, final fantasy vii, gijinka, kurama, pichu, tifa lockhart, yu yu hakusho

Ah should’ve updated this last week xD I’m just going to copy and paste what I wrote from my dA on here.

Note: All the links lead to dA accounts xD

Friday

I wore my Kurama cosplay this day! I was up all night working on finishing my cosplays, and due to my poor time management, I didn’t really get to work on the wig as much as I would have liked. I wanted to cut the bangs more, so I’m probably gonna end up doing that some time next month (since I still have summer classes..) and upload pictures! Or if I can find a photographer that’d be even better.. kekeke xDSo I ended up getting 2 hours of sleep. Woke up.. Didn’t start packing until like 9 AM.. >___> Went to the convention, got there around 1ish. My parents drove me and when we started getting near the Garden State Expo Center… Oh my gosh. I saw so many cosplayers walking around outside.. I got soo excited.
There’s not much to say about in the convention.. Haha yeah okay! xD A bunch of people asked for my picture. Met a few fan girls.. LOL Met a Yoko Kurama and a Hiei! My friend was supposed to cosplay as Hiei, but he said he didn’t get his costume in time. But I didn’t really mind, I was happy that I got to cosplay as Kurama xD Saw all my friends from college :] And my roomiee Uhmm.. yeah. Bought cat ears.. kekeke. xD And an AnimeNEXT t-shirt!Can’t remember what I did at night.. I went somewhere.. Oh! My friend wanted to go to the ‘How to Draw Yuri’ Panel xD I ended up leaving because I had to go get a needle to fix mah cosplays with.. >< Well.. just the ears for Pichu! There’s a bunch of inbetween stories but.. I don’t wanna make this epic entry more epic xD But to finish, I freaked out because I couldn’t get the Pichu ears on the headband without flopping! So I went to sleep.

Saturday

Woke up at 7, to do a photoshoot with ! Well the shoot was at 9AM xD Finally got my ears to semi-work, by pinning them to my head xD At one point they were perfect, then they slowly started drooping towards the end of the shoot. We shot with the Pikachu family! My two friends as Raichu and Pikachu, me as Pichu, as Minun, and as Plusle!Did the photoshoot, then roamed. Roaming.. roaming.. My mom brought me mah Tifa outfit! Thennnn.. yeah.

Sunday

I’m so tired I don’t feel like typing anymore xD So I woke up at 7AM again and got ready. Did a photoshoot with and as Yuffie! Had a ton of fun ^^ Then I was supposed to go to another FF photoshoot at 12:30 and I waited.. and  and we waited a good 30-40 minutes.And then as I was leaving I met as Princess Garnet from FFIX as ViVi from FFIX and Cloud from Advent Children, and a few others who’s dA I don’t know >< They wanted to do a shoot as well! So we ended up congregating outside xD So we had a Tifa, Vivi, Princess Garnet, Cloud, Yuffie, Yuna, Reno. I think that’s it? The most random assortment of FF people xD There ended up being a Lebreau later (from FFXIII). And another Yuffie, and some others xD
I saw  again! And he was half an hour early for a shoot, and we were talking. I told him about how there was supposed to be a FF shoot but no one showed up >< So he offered to take some pictures for us! So we had an epic Final Fantasy shoot with random crossovers xD It was a lot of fun! I hope everyone enjoyed it ^^

So yeah, that pretty much summed up my day. Went to the dealer’s room, bought a sword.. kekeke.. xD That I ended up giving to my dad for Father’s Day. OH MY GOSH. The last epic thing. I went to the artist alley because I saw this Lightning poster that I was absolutely in love with since the first day of the con. Before that I went to a stand next to my friend’s  because our friend wanted to talk to him about something.

So I was just looking at his friend’s posters I was just looking through her portfolio. Her artwork was really beautiful and it definitely caught my eye, but in my mind I really wanted that Lightning poster so I wasn’t really planning on buy anything. Until I saw this.

Okay, if you’ve never played RebirthRO, you probably won’t have any idea what I’m talking about. But oh my gosh.. the moment I saw that poster.. I died.. And went to fangirl mode.. xD That picture was used in the MMORPG Rebirth Ragnarok in the menu, when you first open the game. I recognized it almost immediately and ahh.. I just had to have it xD When I used to play RO that picture always caught my eye. I thought it was beautiful and I wanted to find the actual picture, but that never really happened. xD

So ahh.. I bought it :] I asked her to sign it too! I feel really stupid asking her to sign it in the back though. No one’s gonna see it! >< Ahh well. I got the poster and met the girl who made it so that was good enough.

I went to go buy the Lightning poster, and it was 20$ but I was short and only had 14$ D: The artist alley was closing soon and the girl was so kind and let me buy the poster size for 14$  She doesn’t have a deviantArt though, because she said she doesn’t post her pictures online. So I’m rather reluctant to take a picture and show it.. ><

I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE PICTURES!!

But yeah! That’s all about my adventures! Or most of it at least ^^ Oh.. one last thing..

FRUNDURDAY!