This was my first-ever anime cosplay attempt (apart from a very shitty L from Death Note for a video project back when I was in high school—don't ask) and was not even close to complete when I took this photo. In retrospect, I can't exactly say that it's that good—the makeup looks so bad, especially my attempt to color over my eyebrows with stage makeup highlighter—but, at the time, I was amazed with how well the cosplay turned out. (I had tried repeatedly to do that gluestick trick that a lot of Japanese cosplayers use to hide their eyebrows, but either I did it wrong or I used the wrong type of gluestick.) I made the tie out of red sateen fabric using another necktie that I temporarily dissected as a pattern; if you're going to try making your own, that's how to do it, because the way they're constructed is soooo bizarre (LOL). I like the way the dim lighting in the first photo hides most of the badness of this cosplay, as well as the halo effect it has around Peter's silver-gold hair (very ironic).
Ever since I did my first cosplay of the dastardly but oh-so-gorgeous gatekeeper from The Promised Neverland, I'd been wanting to redo it, but with a white suit and flowers resembling the ones that the demons use for their Gupna ritual before consuming their food (i.e. humans). I've had a white blazer (the same one I used for two of my Rufus cosplays) and some fake red geraniums from JoAnn Fabrics for a while now, but today I finally decided it was time to do the Peter Ratri photoshoot that I wanted.
For this cosplay, I used a lighter foundation color than before (mixed my foundation with the highlighter) to avoid orangeness and painted my lips a color that I hope looks natural. You can't see much of the contouring I did for these photos, which is a pity, because I feel like I finally got cheek contouring right, only for the wig to cover it up. I did Peter's eye makeup more or less the same as the last time I did this cosplay; the eyebrows still look less than ideal, but not quite as bad as before, and I didn't even need to use up half the highlighter on the pan this time. The wig looks wiggier than I remembered, but it's surprisingly hard to find good middle-parted platinum-blond wigs on a budget (or at least it was when I ordered this one two years ago).
I tried hard to capture Peter's faux-affably-evil persona, with charm and friendliness masking the cruelty, sadism, and narcissism underneath. This is a man who tortures children with a friendly smile on his face, and probably doesn't think anything of it. The red flowers represent the human children raised on the farms and sold to the demons as food, a system that Peter is completely complicit in despite being human himself. I think I let a little too much of his evil slip through, but also that I look handsome enough to make up for it. I look too good in this style, at least from the waist up. I like the way his tie matches the red vida flowers, which I suspect was intentional on the part of Kaiu Shirai and/or Posuka Demizu.
I also eventually want to take some photos as a young, very overdressed Peter in a rose garden and his family's library, but that will have to wait until I'm less self-conscious about my strange hobby. In addition to the setting that reminds me of my fantasies of a second childhood in a mansion full of books, there's a sort of uncanniness in the flashbacks to Peter's childhood that I explored in this fic of mine and that I'd like to further explore.