Hero King

Cosplay of Louise from Fire Emblem 7.

Debuted Louise at Momocon this past weekend and absolutely love how she turned out!! I love being Fire Emblem Barbie.

Boot covers sewn directly to a pair of skin tone dance tights.

One finished pair of silly long johns later.... and Countess Reglay is finished!

Pauldron and breastplate armor have been attached to the body by sewing nylon webbing around metal D-rings.

Rigging the armor with D-Rings, nylon webbing, and a parachute buckle in the back. Miss Louise is almost real!!

White pleather boot cover work in progress

I also have boot covers sort of started, but I'm scrapping this one and starting over with a new fabric that has 4 way stretch. Don't use 2 way stretch for boot covers unless you hate yourself. It can be done, but it makes the entire process so much more miserable than it has to be.

Cling wrap and tape layered over the breastplate with decorative swirls drawn on.

Decorative swirls cut out of tape and layered over worbla armor.

Worbla breastplate

Louise's armor fully painted pearl white with gold details.

I think I cooked with the freehand armor decorations?? Very excited to try the breastplate and pauldron on once I make their harness. Everything here is foam sandwiched in worbla.

Did you know you can hide seam crimes by slapping a super thin layer of EVA foam over your armor? If you didn't, run don't walk to read Beverly Downen's incredible foam for cosplay book

Finished pink cape with gold trim and finished bodice for Louise cosplay.

Back view of pink cape with gold trim.

Cape pattern laid out over pink fabric

Sewing gold trim to the pink cape fabric

Cape was a pain in the ass to cut since it is basically a circle skirt, but the suffering was worth it. The piece that looks like a hood is actually just an infinity scarf attached with snaps. Shout out to Lutavia Cosplay for hooking me up with the gold trim!

Bottom of the quiver cover. It is embellished with scallop edges, pearls, and white/gold floral trim.

Purple quiver cover on quiver holding arrows

Leonie cosplay made by me. Leonie's quiver has a removable leather piece so it can be easily swapped into Louise's quiver cover.

Quiver cover. I'm reusing Leonie's quiver as a base, but I wanted to be able to easily switch it back for both cosplays. The cover slides right off, nothing is glued down. 😊

Bodice draped on mannequin with gold trim added to the edges.

Bodice next to matching hand made bias tape and thread.

Sewing bias tape to the bodice sleeve. Bonus helper cat in the background

Trim time!! I bought this trim from Pacific Trimming in NYC. The colors couldn't have been a more perfect match for Louise! Also made some bias tape to finish off the raw sleeve edges.

Working on bodice fit. Zipper and collar have not been installed yet. Also wearing the fashion fabric mini skirt and glove.

Bodice with collar and invisible zipper added

Helper cat watching the bodice collar get sewn on

Modesty shorts in matching fashion fabric. They blend in perfectly under the miniskirt.

Cutting into expensive fabric scary, but I LOVE how the bodice turned out. Need to tweak the skirt to make it a smidge more fitted, but overall pretty happy with how she's looking! Bonus helper cat and modesty shorts because my dumpy is too powerful.

Mockup pattern pieces flatlined, serged, and ready to sew together

Mockup fit test of Louise's bodice and mini skirt

Mockups for mini skirt and bodice. I used the Ella's Basic Mini Skirt with Splits pattern by AtTheSeamsPatterns and Indigo Jinjo's modular princess seam block. The skirt pattern is designed for non stretch fabrics, but my fashion fabric is stretch, so I practiced by flatlining my mockup too.

Blonde lacefront wig with curls

She's giving ✨️Fabio✨️

Baby's first lacefront from WigIsFashion

Long maroon fingerless glove made from stretch fabric

White faux leather glove purchased from Amazon. Not super well fitted, so probably going to make my own instead.

Glove! The white one was purchased premade, but tbh it gives drum major instead of ara ara sexy lady, so I have learning to sew gusseted gloves in my future

From top to bottom: gold stretch Yaya Han pleather, white 2 way stretch pleather from KikiTextiles, lavender micro suede from SY Fabrics, 2 types of pink satin fabrics from Joann (RIP), rosebloom pink heavy scuba knit suede from Mood, 4 way stretch maroon fabric from a store in the NYC garment district (sorry don't remember the name!), and beaujolais dupioni from Silk Baron

Pretty fabrics fit for a noble lady! I ended up not using the white and gold fabrics pictured, but all of the others made the cut. Sources in alt text.

Brooch part deux

Layers of felt tacked down to organza. Beads are slowly being added to the design.

Lots of purple beads, gold beads, and goldwork were used to recreate Louise's cape brooch.

After cutting the brooch out of the organza, I used a lighter to carefully melt the remaining organza edges. This gives a very clean finish. Don't forget to have water nearby just in case!

After freeing the brooch from organza, I added sequins to cover up the raw edges.

Started with the cape brooch because my heart wanted to play with beads. Freehanded a pattern from felt stitched to organza. Embellishments are beads, goldwork, and sequins. Scariest part was setting the edge on fire to melt the organza away.

Official artwork of Louise from FE7/Fire Emblem Blazing Blade

It's my favorite game's 22nd anniversary, so I'm celebrating with a Louise build thread!

#fireemblem #cosplay #cosplaybuildlog

Want to know some secret lore? There are no full body pics from this shoot because I dropped falchion at a con the previous year. I was holding a broken sword at 2am trying to get a shitpost ready in time for the FE1 anniversary edition release back in 2020. 🤡

tysm!! I still have some upgrades left to finish for her that will hopefully happen this year 🤞 then I can finally book the fancy photoshoot she deserves

Cosplay of Marth from Fire Emblem

Happy 35th Fire Emblem!

#fireemblem #cosplay

Marth from Fire Emblem cosplay Photography by Alexandra Lee Studios

Paimon from Genshin Impact cosplay Photography by adoylible

Cereza from Bayonetta Origins cosplay Photography by my husband and editing by Sweet Sensation Photography

Leonie from Fire Emblem Three Houses cosplay. Photography by Cal.Compositions

Hello! My name is Hero King Cosplay, and I've been cosplaying since 2009. My favorite fandoms are Fire Emblem, Bayonetta, Resident Evil, and Zelda. I'll be documenting my future project builds here. ✨️