Local cosplayer Shattered Stitch displays her Daenerys Targaryen costume modeled off the character on the popular HBO series “Game of Thrones.”Some people read about characters in comic books, watch them in TV shows or play them in video games.
Other people bring them to life through cosplay. Short for “costume play,” it’s a special genre of performance art where players create their own costumes to represent a specific character and interact as that persona while dressed up.
One Chattanooga cosplayer, who goes by the name Shattered Stitch and asked to keep her identity anonymous, has been gaining notoriety across the Southeast for her work. After winning the Ms. BioGamer pageant at the 2013 Con Nooga, she’s been asked to speak on panels, exhibited her work at Knoxville Fashion Week and created custom commissioned pieces.
From widely known characters like Daenerys Targaryen on the popular HBO series “Game of Thrones” to more obscure characters like a living version of World of Warcraft’s Ranger General Sylvanas Windrunner, Shattered Stitch said what she loves the most about cosplay is the opportunity to create.
“I like the fact that you’re taking a two-dimensional thing that defies physics in some and making it a three-dimensional thing,” she said. “I like taking something and forcing it to work in a physical realm.”