My first real cosplay !

This project took several months to complete, numerous pots of coffee, chocolate bars (you know... the big ones, i'm sure you've eatten one of those in one sitting, cause i know i had to), and sporadic 'wake-me-up-now' dance sessions.

general:
I had to remake every aspect of this costume atleast once, save the boots. But it was worth it. The coat I remade around 3-4times haha death X_X
During the con, I swear I lost 5 pounds from sweating. I was literally soaked and during the AMV contest viewing I was getting wicked awful cold/hot flashes. yuck!

The wig:
Was the most fun! This was the first time I ever wore, styled and dyed a wig. I would love to do it again. So this wig was hand dyed from a strange red-orange clown color and thoroughly styled over many months.

The Coat:
The first more finalized coat was based off the character art and screen caps first released for KH2 and CoM. The front tubing style did not touch up with the arm seam. Then the Final Mix art come out and well... it did. So the final coat is Final Mix Style. It's heavy furniture vinyl (and it was thick and very heavy) but not too shiney or matte. Then lined. I'm very proud of the hood though. It's not that typical witch hood cut out everyone does. When up, it realllly looks like the art. bonus +1. The only querk i have with the actual fabric part of the coat is the bottom front inner hem. I had to round it out so I didn't kill myself when walking in my 6" platforms. The beads are a whole other story. I built them via Rhino3D and printed them in Z-corp plaster. The middle necklace was then molded into wax and casted in aluminum. The outer dangling ones were fabricated onto a chain and left as infiltrated plaster. I wanted to keep all these items light and strong, so this worked out perfect.

Boots etc:
Demonia brand 6" platform matte heels. Nice stuff. I can run in them woo! I modified the tops to match the art as well. Gloves are Wilsons leather biker style gloves.

Chakrum:
Okay this was the killer.
Fashioned in pink insulation foam! I used a turkey carver to shape them and painsakingly pieced the ~43ish parts together with toothpicks and "GreatStuff". Then 2.5 movies later I finished sanding them and covered them in resin, aka lost half my braincells. After several back-to-back all nighters the week/days before the con, i finished the resin coatings and painted them with various spray paints. I never thought it would be so labor intensive! This was the most challenging part I'd say.
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So stay alert I'll be posting more photos up in dA of our mini photo shoot my Roxas and Twilight town group took at our debut at Anime Boston 2007. I'll be fixing up the loose ends of this costume for Otakon2007!
GO NOW SEE MY ROXAS!
She also made Kairi's outfit,

update: this costume is retired!