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HEAR FROM AND SEE PHOTOS OF COSPLAYERS WHO WOULD MAKE THE RESISTANCE’S NEWEST HERO PROUD.

Any convention I’ve attended or seen pictures from after December has had one thing in common: droves of Rey cosplayers. The star of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has inspired fans by the dozens, if not hundreds. Within the span of 30 minutes at WonderCon in Los Angeles, I counted nine different Rey cosplayers of all ages and with slightly different versions of Rey’s scavenger ensemble. The Reys could form their own costuming legion.

Though I didn’t speak with any of those cosplayers, I did catch up with other fans who have dressed up as Rey to ask what about the character inspired them to get crafty.

Kay Serna started plotting her Rey costume as soon as she saw the first teaser for The Force Awakens in November 2014. “I bought some boots that December and began construction in earnest in January 2015. My costume debuted at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in April 2015. After seeing the costume in person there, it underwent a few revisions as I strove to make it as movie accurate as I could by the opening of The Force Awakens,” she says. She followed up the Jakku look by making Rey’s Resistance base costume, too.

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