Ryuko Matoi Cosplay — Neon Classroom Set, Photo 6

One gray high-top rests on the bottom step of a black wooden step platform while the other touches the floor with its toe, and Ryuko Matoi has one hand on its top. The vertical frame takes in nearly her full height from a camera at waist level. She turns three-quarters and looks off past the lens to one side.

Warm orange light runs through the room and picks out the weave of the fabric, the board of equations, the stacked textbooks and a tall cactus. Her free hand hangs down in its red fingerless glove, which stands out against the navy pleated skirt, and the crimson streak in her hair adds the other note of red.

The Scissor Blade has been left on a far desk, so the frame belongs to the costume and the room rather than the weapon.