Killer Monay: Cosplaying Traxex, the Drow Ranger

Cosplaying Traxex, the Drow Ranger

written by killerbread

It's been quite a while since I last posted here. So, I'll try my best to post something worth the waste of time.

It's November! English Month! We had lot's of fun-filled activities and opportunities to rediscover old habits.

It was also this November when I got a bit insulted by a co-teacher from a different department by telling my advisory class these words: "Pipiliin n'yo ang papaburituhin nyong teacher ah! Kung siya marunong mag-English, marunong din ako mag-English. Eh siya? Marunong ba siyang mag-drawing?" (Choose your favorite teacher well. If she knows how to speak in English, I know how to speak in English, too. But does she know how to draw?"

I may not be as good as he is but I did enjoy drawing. Here are some of the drawings I kept for more than a decade now.

Not so bad, right? Since then I've been thinking of ways to see if I still have that artistry. And then came... the COSPLAY! I'll tell you a little story on something I did about a couple of years ago that I'm still proud of today. I introduced cosplaying in our school. They've been doing the "Parade of Characters" long before I arrived but it is just recently that they adopted the now more appropriate term "cosplay". Every year since then, we let the students have a cosplay. We teachers join them, too.

So back to showing the artistry. I grabbed the opportunity to rediscover my hidden talents (chos!) I decided to cosplay a popular DotA (Defense of the Ancients) Hero--- TRAXEX, the Drow Ranger!

Drow Ranger Fanart (Based on the first DotA)

Okay, let me make this clear. I am a 70+ -kilogram-woman and there is absolutely no way I will wear something that revealing for students to laugh at. So I chose the DotA 2 version of Traxex.

Drow Ranger (DotA 2)

It is less revealing and I can handle that arrow design better.

Miss Valerio, Miss Tordera, her mom and I visited Dubai(soria) * as Sheril always says instead of Divisoria *. We bought things that we needed for our costumes and let the creative juices flow.

I made wristbands, armbands, shoulder plates and the bow and arrow.

The Bow and the Frost Arrow

Last November 23, we had the Grade 7 Cosplay Finals and this is how I looked.

Me, Bulatski (Jasmine) , Ms. Valerio (Crystal Maiden) and Mrs. Nariz (Lady Chang)

It wasn't so good. We were all sweaty from the afternoon heat and my body paint just can't stay the way it should. By the end of the day, I looked as though somebody threw blueberry icings on my face.