Carbon Costume

Sylas Briarwood is a character from Critical Role, a DnD campaign on Youtube. He is also a character in Legend of Vox Machina, the animated adaptation on Amazon Prime. He is a vampire who rules Whitestone alongside his wife, Delilah. Cruel and sinister, he will do anything to stay in power and serve Vecna. Despite his supernatural charm, Sylas has little empathy for others aside from his wife. As an NPC, this character is played by the dungeon master Matthew Mercer.

Levi Ackerman (voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya and Matthew Mercer) is a main character in the anime and manga series Attack on Titan.  Often referred to as Captain Levi, he is widely considered humanity’s strongest soldier, an especial feat given he is of such small stature.  Levi rarely shows emotion (unless it’s his proclivity for cleaning), which means he’s not close to many of his fellow Survey Corps members like Mikasa and Eren.

Kiritsugu Emiya (voiced by Rikiya Koyama and Matthew Mercer) is the master of Saber during the Fourth Holy Grail War.  He is also the husband of Irisviel von Einzbern and father to their daughter Illyasviel.  Known by many as the Magnus Killer, Kiritsugu is the main protagonist of the anime series Fate/Zero.  Kiritsugu wears a black suit with a dark trench coat is looks almost perpetually disheveled.  His command seal is a red cross on his right hand.

Star Platinum (voiced by Matthew Mercer in the English animated versions) is one of the first stands introduced in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures. Largely silent and easily moved to violence, it is incredibly powerful.

Star Platinum doesn’t wear much but creating a cosplay for it takes more DIY than you might expect. You can achieve its purple skin either through the use of body paint of the use of a purple body suit with paint only on your face and neck. If you use body paint on your whole body, be sure and grab a pair of purple shorts to wear under its white loincloth.

It also wears elbow protectors, knee protectors, and shoulder pads. You will have to spray paint standard knee and elbow pads with purple spray paint. The shoulder pads need to be painted gold, however. And you can add the purple curling stripe on his shoulders with foam or cardboard painted purple and glued in place with a glue gun.

After that it’s just a matter of cutting the fingers off white gloves, putting a gold scarf around your neck, adding a gold belt, slipping into some white ankle boots, and putting on a black wig!

Midas (voiced in-game by Matthew Mercer) is a Spy Boss for The Agency.  Midas’ look is crisp; a vest and tie with dress shirt and pants to match.  He is heavily tattooed, with a stylish pompadour haircut.  To really recreate this look, you’ll want to go over-the-top with gold accessories and weaponry where you can find it.  Some gold body paint and gloves can help achieve the transitional appearance seen here, without requiring you to paint your entire body in metallic gold.  Scar wax can be used to create the scar over Midas’ right eye.