Leading Ladies is the part of our cosplay column given over to female leads: the character a game hands the player, or the one it puts on the box. Each entry covers who the character is in the story, and what her costume is made of — described only where it is documented, and illustrated by us.
Lumine Genshin Impact
Who she is
Lumine is the female option for the Traveler, the game's player character. Players choose between Aether, the brother, and Lumine, the sister, at the start of the game; the Traveler is an interstellar adventurer separated from their twin sibling after the two land in Teyvat, and journeys across its nations with the guide Paimon in search of the lost sibling.
What she wears
Lumine's default outfit is not described in the first-party character material we could find, so this entry carries her role and story position only.
Rover Wuthering Waves
Who she is
Rover is the game's protagonist. The player takes the role of the Rover, choosing either the male or the female iteration. In the story the Rover is an amnesiac wanderer who has awakened from a deep slumber and sets out to explore a new world, accompanied by a small levitating cat-like companion named Abby.
What she wears
Rover has two documented Resonator Outfits: Wandering Traveler, the original outfit unlocked on obtaining the Resonator, and Perpetual Spark, a signature outfit obtained through the Startorch for You promotion. The same list records six outfit accessories spanning face, hat, arm, waist and leg slots, and dates the whole outfit system to Version 2.0.
Sunaookami Shiroko Blue Archive
Who she is
Shiroko is a student of Abydos High School and a member of the Abydos Foreclosure Task Force. Abydos High School is in deep debt, and its five remaining students formed the Task Force to deal with the gangs attacking the school; the group later becomes officially recognised as Abydos' student council.
What she wears
Shiroko wears the standard Abydos High School uniform: a tucked white dress shirt with the school's logo and name faintly embroidered on the left breast pocket, a cyan scarf with dark stripes, a cyan necktie carrying a navy blue cross mark at its blade, and a navy blue blazer with silver buttons and white accents. A lime-green and cyan Abydos badge hangs off the left side of the blazer, over a pleated skirt in a dark grey and black plaid with white accents.
Her accessories are the most distinctive part of the design: a single lime-green fingerless cycling glove on her left hand, and a black Japanese-style shoulder bag with cyan and silver accents carrying three keychains — a lime green winking cat, a silver cross or ankh, and a pink heart. Her knee-high socks repeat the bag's triangular logo near the cuff, and her running shoes are black with white and lime-green accents, cyan laces and lime-green soles.
Her hair is a grey shoulder-length long bob worn with a pair of wolf ears, with prominent white fluff showing inside. Below the left wolf ear sits a cyan inverted-cross hairpin, and she has a single cyan stud piercing on her right humanoid ear. Her pupils are mismatched slits, with the left one white.
Her halo is a cyan ring with four lines marked at the cardinal directions and a blue circle inside, described in the character record as resembling a simple gun crosshair.
Rapi Goddess of Victory: NIKKE
Who she is
Rapi is a playable Nikke and the game's deuteragonist, serial number RR-15436, manufactured by Elysion and assigned to the Counters squad. The official site introduces her as one of the main party members with considerable combat acumen, and notes that a long history of insubordination has earned her a reputation for being difficult, resulting in her being shuffled between commanders. She is the character featured on the game's app icon.
What she wears
Three costume sets are documented for Rapi: Default Clothes, unlocked by default; White Promise, a closed beta gift; and Summer Business, obtained through the Summer of Memories login event. Her character record credits the illustrator Kim Hyung Tae and lists a height of roughly 165 cm, or 170 cm with her hat, measured at the second NIKKE art exhibition.
Update Rule
An entry is added when the character's costume is documented well enough to describe honestly. Where a publisher has not described an outfit, the entry says so — as the Lumine entry does — rather than filling the gap from another site's summary.