

Cosplay is his passion, like it's something he is most confident about.

I just feel alone."Ī seventeen-year-old stress ball, anxious, single minded in his pursuit of his goal, self-deprecating at times but stuffed with a good dose determination and pure talent. "Maybe free is what I am, but I don’t feel free right now. "And the only way to understand how we fell apart is to understand what made us 'us' in the first place." In the past timeline we see how Luca and Raffy met and what happened afterwards. I embroider in the dead of night, for the attention of strangers."īe Dazzled is adorable, soul warming, plain old fun, relatable, down to earth, a fun peak into a different world with right amount of geekiness.īe dazzled alternates between two timeline, present where Raffy (a cosplay artist) and her friend May(a webcomic artist) are participating in a Cosplay contest, where he meet his ex boyfriend Luca who is also a participant with their common friend Inaya. Now, Raffy is after the perfect comeback, one that Luca can't ruin.īut when Raffy is forced to partner with Luca on his most ambitious build yet, he'll have to juggle unresolved feelings for the boy who broke his heart, and his own intense self-doubt, to get everything he's ever wanted: choosing his art, his way. But Luca's insecurities and Raffy's insistence on crafting perfection caused their relationship to crash and burn. They almost made the perfect team last year after serendipitously meeting in the rhinestone aisle at the local craft store-or at least Raffy thought they did.


Raffy's ex-boyfriend, Luca, is his main competition. If he can wow there, it could lead to sponsorship, then art school, and finally earning real respect for his work. He's always chosen his art over everything-and everyone-else and is determined to make his mark at this year's biggest cosplay competition. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making-for creation.
