And now to answer the age-old question. Who is @link-is-a-dork cosplaying for the 2022 Renaissance Festival?
*insert Master Sword pull tune here*
It's...
MOZA!
An NPC who's a really bad cook. You can find her at the Ishto Sho shrine (in BotW), on the edge of the Wasteland and Lake Tower regions. The area she's found in is shaped like a frying pan and there's garbage EVERYWHERE, symbolizing Moza's "trash cooking".
@link-is-a-dork chose this character because she wanted to dress up as an NPC, so we looked around for potentials, going by hairstyle and hair color, and we landed on Moza, who she was considering even before the search. The reason?
She wanted the novelty of carrying a bigass spoon.
And yes. A lot of people did think she was Link, but it was fun to talk about Moza when clearing it up!
Here's my Zelda, first being shy, then making sure she's in the right place (actually, the photo with the cloak was taken when we got there and I took it off later; the second photo was taken as we were leaving 😅)
Now I'm doing a little "field work". The best thing about this photo is that there was actually a little frog nearby! But we didn't notice until after the photo was taken. And the frog was in the water. And it's probably best that I didn't try to touch it.
Now we have a nice photo of us two sisters, Hyrule's princess and an NPC who insists she can cook. 💛
I felt that I should do at least a LITTLE archery, so we gave that a shot. She had to show me how because I haven't held a bow in years. I managed to get a bullseye!
Not on the target I was aiming for but I got one 🙂
Uh oh, looks like Zelda insulted Moza's cooking. Although if Age of Calamity is anything to go by, Zelda's not a very good cook either 😆
Disclaimer: link-is-a-dork is actually a pretty decent cook.
.....As long as she doesn't get too carried away in her experimenting.
Got to live my childhood dream and frolic in the forest as a silly little elf boy!
Link has been a dream cosplay from the moment I started cosplaying all the way back in 2010, but I only felt comfortable building it last year. The sword and shield was just so scary!
Huge shoutout to Steven at sps.cosplay.photography for going through the bug bites to help me get these wonderful photos. I'll cherish these forever!
I came on tumblr in hopes of finding more 4s fans. My friend and I have been fans for years, and have finally gotten the chance to host our very own Four Swords virtual cosplay panel! We have our hopes on having it in March, but have only gotten 3 applicants so far.
You can find the link in my bio for the google form. The theme is “The Links hold a surprise birthday party for Zelda!” Come join Red and the others in giving Zelda a fun surprise party. Hope to see you there!
If you are interested / would like more information, feel free to add me on discord at the handle ‘pittoo2’
A cosplay compilation ✨️ this isn't everything that I've done over the last two years, just a few highlights! I'm still very much at the beginning of my cosplay journey, but I have big plans for the next year!
Uh hi 👋 I didn't realize y'all would like this so much. Feel free to follow me on IG and Tiktok if you want regular cosplay updates! I'm @fullmetalharmony on both
"I'll post updates this week, I'll post updates this week."
Clearly I don't have the drive that our beloved princess does, but we're going to the festival in 2 days, so here are all the updates I missed because I am a useless blobby Chuchu.
Progress on the boots. I'm technically still working on them, but only the interior. Other than that, they're done. The Triforces were cut from a gray pillowcase and a silver Ipsy bag, which I collect now from thrift stores because they're great for metallic affects if you don't or can't work with metal. The cuffs of the boots themselves were cut from the same pillowcase which...honestly made them pretty easy to shape into cuffs.
Up next is the bottom half of Zelda's...tunic? I don't know, really. I don't know how her outfit works, I've seen pictures in which it works in different ways, I just went with what made sense to me at the time. The "slab", as I call the brown thing, attaches to the blue with hidden snaps. Pretty clever if I do say so myself. The trouble was figuring out how to attach the Sheikah Slate (which is a Switch carrier) to it, but as we're running out of time, it's not glamorous but it'll do. I decided to bypass the pattern on the "slab" because I don't trust myself not to ruin it, and I thought the faux leather I used has enough texture on it to make up for it.
I also did a hairstyle test today. It'll be better put together on Sunday, but I thought I should figure out how to do a hairstyle similar enough beforehand. Instead of starting from the part on top, I made two braids from under my ears, pulled them up and over, and they're just long enough to meet underneath at the base of my head, tied together with a teeny rubber band. I also used a number of bobby pins and a generous amount of hairspray all around the braids.
I'll probably wear my smaller pink glasses too so they don't stand out as much. If I can find them...
And now for the final update of this post, the top half is done! I can't believe I found a white shirt that has embroidery that could pass pretty well for the pattern on Zelda's, and the Triforce emblem buckle will go on with the rest of the outfit.
I'm also likely to make the style choice of wearing this pretty blue choker too, just to add a bit of myself to the outfit (since I'm usually wearing a choker of some sort), but also because the neckline doesn't go up high enough, so I thought it'd be a cute little detail instead.
Plus it reminds me of Navi. 💙
So, yeah. I next update will have the outfit laid out in full, and then...I guess we'll be taking cosplay pictures, so you'll probably see those too.
I'm still working on @link-is-a-dork 's cosplay, so I better get back to that. I'll be posting updates on that one today (and maybe tomorrow), so we're still playing my little game of "guess who". No one's got it yet and unless you're a very observant BotW player, you might not!