Red Dead Redemption 2 presents a thoughtful and challenging world brimming with interesting characters. Sadie Adler is one of Red Dead Redemption 2's standout cast members, and cosplayer torieaesth brings the character to life like never before.
Released in 2018, Red Dead Redemption 2 is the third entry in the Red Dead franchise, and is set before the events of Red Dead Redemption. Players control an outlaw on the run, Arthur Morgan of the Van der Linde gang, trying to survive after a failed robbery. Morgan encounters Adler early on in the game, and as the story transpires, watches her transform from a devastated housewife to a vindictive yet loyal companion and killer. Sadie also appears in Red Dead Online, the game's multiplayer mode set before the events of the single-player story.
In a recent Reddit post, user toriaesth posted images of her outstanding Sadie cosplay to the Red Dead Redemption subreddit. Toriaesth's representation of Adler is one of her most iconic appearances, with her brown hat, yellow button down shirt, and brown trousers with suspenders. The look is featured for a couple of chapters during Red Dead Redemption 2, and one that is instantly recognizable by fans. While it is always exciting to see players demonstrate their creativity by making Red Dead Online characters based off other properties, it does not compare to people taking characters and embodying them so perfectly as toriaesth does here.
Currently sitting at 5.7k upvotes and already receiving many Reddit awards, toriaesth's cosplay has quickly resonated with Red Dead fans. Many users commented about their confusion, toriaesth's cosplay being so authentic people thinking that they were actually just looking at screenshots of Adler. Other users point out how toriaesth's interpretation of Adler is respectful to the character, not embellishing or overly sexualizing the character as is common with many cosplays. Unlike other characters from other franchises whose cosplay requires extensive prosthetics and custom-made items, like Peebee from Mass Effect, toriaesth's Adler cosplay is a reminder that cosplaying does not have to be overly complicated to be effective.
In the comments of the post, torieaesth reveals some information about the photoshoot of these pictures. The pictures were taken last year and remarkably, was torieaesth's first ever cosplay, making the interpretation all the more impressive. On her Instagram account of the same, she has since also done cosplays of The Witcher's Triss and Yennefer, Elizabeth Swan from Pirates of the Caribbean, Eleven from Stranger Things and many other characters. Now if only torieaesth can join up with some other Red Dead Redemption cosplayers, then it will really be difficult to tell the difference between the game and real life.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is available on Google Stadia, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Source: Reddit