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Patreon backers already saw this one, but here it is for everyone else! It feels really good to get back in cosplay after such a long hiatus.
Character: Viren - The Dragon Prince (Wonderstorm/Netflix) Costumer: Myself Hair, Makeup, & Photography: @kryptidkhaos
It's been so long since I got in Viren cosplay that 3 new seasons of The Dragon Prince have released! Season 6 was equal parts amazing & emotionally devastating, & I'm hyped for season 7! Hoping very much that Netflix greenlights arc 3!
Makeup & video editing by @kryptidkhaos. Costume by myself. Music is "Don't Make Me Choose/Hearts of Cinder," taken from the season 3 soundtrack composed by Frederik Wiedmann.
Video shows a timelapse of kryptidkhaos applying makeup to renthony and helping them dress up in cosplay, set to the aforementioned song.
It's taken me waaaaay longer than I ever meant it to, but tonight I'm FINALLY getting back in cosplay!! Stay tuned for upcoming photos. 👀
Oh my god, a date for season 7 of The Dragon Prince ALREADY?! I'm so hyped.
But I'm so not ready for it to be over!! Netflix, give them more seasons! Please! If the show ends before we manage to finish Husband's Aaravos cosplay to go with my Viren, I'm going to be so sad. 😭😭😭
I've been hard at work making improvements and updates to my cosplay of Lord Viren from The Dragon Prince! Until I can get new costume photos taken and edited, here's a fun little arrangement of props!
To any Netflix decision-makers who might happen to see this, my family re-subscribed to Netflix 100% entirely to watch new seasons of The Dragon Prince. It's my favorite show. Greenlight the next arc and I guarantee you it'll have an audience.
(Fun fact: the bone is a deer bone I scavenged from the woods. I swear I didn't use it for dark magic, though.)
(Drop a 🏳️🌈 in my inbox and I’ll respond with a queer media recommendation!)
Everybody who follows me already knows that The Dragon Prince is my favorite TV show in the whole world. Created for Netflix by Aaron Ehasz (an alumnus of Avatar: the Last Airbender) and Justin Richmond, it's an epic fantasy series that kicks off with a trio of plucky protagonists who are determined to return an egg kidnapped from the dragon queen by a dark mage, because the kidnapping of the dragon prince (hey! the title!) puts the entire world at risk of war.
One of the fundamental themes is exploring the cycle of violence and abuse, and how that cycle can only be broken when people commit to it wholeheartedly. It also shows that, even when someone wants to break the cycle, there are others who are invested in continuing it, and peace takes incredible and painful work.
The worldbuilding is phenomenal, the character and creature design is incredible, the story is gripping, and the writing is...*chef's kiss.* Every season is better than the last, and the increase in animation quality across the years is unreal. Season six was utterly ethereal.
Phase one of the series spanned seasons one to three, and we are currently in the final stretch of arc two ("Mystery of Aaravos"), encompassing seasons four to seven. Season six just dropped, and according to the official Instagram account, it's been #1 on Netflix for the past five days! That's really great news, because they're trying really hard to get greenlit for arc three--so now is a really, really great time to get into the show! You want to do it, you want to do it so bad. Use the hashtags #TheDragonPrince, #ContinueTheSaga, and #GiveUsTheSaga if you do! Please, for the love of fuck! 😭😭😭
Currently there are six seasons of the tv show, several books (including novelizations, original comics, and art book, and in-universe guides), a tabletop roleplaying game, a board game, and a brand-new video game that launched this week. This world is huge, and it's so fun to explore!
Here's the trailer for season one of the show:
Here's a trailer for the most recent season, for those who saw the early seasons but didn't keep up:
And here's the trailer for the mobile game:
As far as why I'm recommending it as a queer show, there are so many queer characters. The show prompted some griping early on because it had a pair of tragically dead lesbian queens, but in the seasons since, they've introduced a gloriously alive lesbian battle couple who get married on-screen, a married pair of gay men, three different trans characters (one of whom joins the main cast in season 4 and remains a major character), and a general lovely air of casual queerness in a high fantasy setting. The tabletop roleplaying game has multiple canon queer characters, too, and the show's cast and crew have made it clear that they have queer people among them, they fully support queer people in the fandom, and they want to include queerness in their world. It's awesome.
(And I'm still sticking with "when one man looks at another man and says 'our baby was so cute,' that's canon enough for me." So there's some fantastic queer villainy that's, like, the perfect icing on the cake for me personally. The Dragon Prince: for all your unholy dark magic mpreg bug baby needs!)
Also, this show has my poorest, saddest, littlest, wettest meow-meow babygirl of all fucking time: Lord Viren, (former) High Mage of Katolis, the most turbo-divorced man in all existence. If you follow me, you've seen that motherfucker. You know who he is. You have seen his sad miserable little face. You know who I am and what I'm here for. This paragraph is not a surprise to you. You know.
Here's a picture of me in Viren cosplay, as both a shameless cosplay self-promo and a reiteration that, no, seriously, this is my favorite TV show ever:
Putting my hands together and absolutely praying for an art book for The Dragon Prince's second arc. The first art book was amazing and I want to see so much more of the behind-the-scenes. 🙏
My Patreon backers already saw this one (plus a few more), but here's a photo from an updated makeup test for my cosplay of Lord Viren from the animated Netflix series The Dragon Prince!
We weren't happy with our first attempt at Dark Form makeup, so we pulled some inspo from Geralt of Rivia in the Netflix Witcher series. It helped translate things to a real person's face a little easier! I'm also working on sewing Viren's grungy white outfit from seasons 4-6, so stay tuned! If you haven't yet, do yourself a favor and go watch The Dragon Prince on Netflix! They're trying so hard to get renewed for more seasons, and they deserve it! My favorite show, hands-down!
