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Caterina & Seth, onstage at the Anime North masquerade. Photo Courtesy of Grayden Laing for Canadian Animation.

Seth Nightroad & Trinity Blood Manga © Kiyo Kujo & creator Sunao Yoshida

Title: Seth Nightblood (Trinity Blood), with alternate hat; 2013-2014
Worn to: CostumeCon 32 Toronto, Anime North 2014
Awards: Anime North Masquerade 2014 in Artisan Division, Awarded Best In Show
Notes: My partner-in-cosplay Cat has been working on an absolutely gorgeous version of Caterina from Trinity Blood with hand beading and gold leaf. Seth and her butterfly dress was what caught my attention to match.

Once again I pick a costume that is so dang finicky! The proportions and layout on their own took months, and then the logistics of how to put it all together without sewing myself into a corner was just overwhelming.

I got to play around a little bit with the colour scheme because there is no single true reference. The biggest option was whether to have the lining be green or red/orange. I could not find a tone of red that looked right with my greens and with Caterina's red, but found a lovely vaguely metallic mid-green that worked wonderfully with all of them. Decision made! I also messed around with the colour positioning on the hat so that it better matched this costumes colour scheme.

The goal was to have them complete for April with CostumeCon 32 in Toronto, as well as Anime North in May. We had them wearable for CosCon, but certainly not finished. That took another overwhelmingly busy month to have them complete and shiny for the Anime North Masquerade. It was ridiculous, but they came out beautifully.

Photo courtesy of z-is-eternal of the Lockport Expeditionary Force.

Video Gallery

Oh there's bad blood here... [ Direct link:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB7vnEZKVyQ ]

Bad Blood » Anime North 2014 Masquerade, Best in Show

Much thanks to tboake2000 on Youtube for posting all the amazing videos of the AN masquerade!

Anime North 2014 Best in Show, Trinity Blood Entry: ″Bad Blood″

You can also see me attempting to speak with my fangs in a few clips of this interview segment:

AN2014 Cosplayer Interviews »

Courtesy of Dan TheVideoNinja on Youtube • [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdI29CmMgUA ]

Or trying not to die walking backwards in this compilation, don't let the footage fool you, it's all reversed:

AN2014 Cosplay Video »

Video Courtesy: Cosplay Vision on Youtube • [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-2hBb5Pfw]

Trinity Blood Cosplay Photo Gallery: Seth Nightroad & Caterina Sforza

@ Anime North (May 2014) and CostumeCon32 (April 2014)

Seth » Anime North, May 2014; Photo courtesy of Santiago Ortega

A stunning shot of my Seth costume! And my fangs even.
Trinity Blood » Anime North, May 2014; Photo courtesy of Santiago Ortega

I'm so thrilled with some of the photos from this random shoot outside at Anime North. They show off our costumes gorgeously!
Best in Show, Anime North » May 2014; Photo courtesy of Meaghan Mueller

Giddy stunned disbelief pretty much sums up our response to winning Best in Show. This picture captures it perfectly! Trophies, certificates & idiotic grins. :3
Anime North, Sunday » May 2014; Photo courtesy of Daniel Sham on Facebook

You can tell its the Sunday after the masque because I haven't taken half an hour to tape my leg ribbons in place today.
Seth Nightroad, Anime North » May 2014; Photo courtesy Mike Kowalek of EleventhPhotograph.com

The vampiric queen.
Seth Nightroad, Anime North » May 2014; Photo courtesy Anime North

Our official masquerade green room photograph.
Trinity Blood, Anime North » May 2014; Photo courtesy of henrickson

Caterina & Seth posing with a beautiful Queen Esther as cosplayed by Ryan (last name unknown)
Seth & Caterina Portrait, Anime North » May 2014; z-is-eternal of the Lockport Expeditionary Force

Even though its only a bust portrait I really love this photo of our costumes.
Seth Nightroad, Anime North » May 2014;

We took a couple gorgeous photos of Cat (as Caterina Sforza) reflected in a mirror while at CostumeCon. So when we found this gold mirror in the hall at the convention we were taking photos with it!
Seth Nightroad, Anime North 2014 » May 2014; Photographer unknown, taken with my camera

It's interesting to see these from when they were wearable at CostumeCon, and then to recognize how much more work still went in to have them truly finished for Anime North. There were some pretty massive changes.

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