It's very convoluted, but basically, 2B was a guest character in Soul Calibur. In that game, she has a palette swap where her colors and skin are inverted, so dark skin, light clothes. She became known as 2P as a play on her name 2B and the palette swap for the 2nd player. 2P became so popular in fan media that she got officially recognized as a separate character in the Nier canon and added to the mobile game.
Edit: The fan artist dishwasher1910 basically drew an Egyptian outfit for 2P and this cosplayer used it as the template for creating the costume in real life.
So I looked into this a bit, knowing nothing about 2B or 2P or whatever, and this is ... really dumb? At what point is this just a random slutty anime character and actually has not one single stylistic similarity to the "original" source?
Yeah, that's what happens when a character becomes very popular. People will draw them in casual clothes, etc. "Lewd" cosplays become wearing a colored wig while otherwise nude.
How is that cosplay in any way supposed to be 2B?
It's very convoluted, but basically, 2B was a guest character in Soul Calibur. In that game, she has a palette swap where her colors and skin are inverted, so dark skin, light clothes. She became known as 2P as a play on her name 2B and the palette swap for the 2nd player. 2P became so popular in fan media that she got officially recognized as a separate character in the Nier canon and added to the mobile game.
Edit: The fan artist dishwasher1910 basically drew an Egyptian outfit for 2P and this cosplayer used it as the template for creating the costume in real life.
So I looked into this a bit, knowing nothing about 2B or 2P or whatever, and this is ... really dumb? At what point is this just a random slutty anime character and actually has not one single stylistic similarity to the "original" source?
Yeah, that's what happens when a character becomes very popular. People will draw them in casual clothes, etc. "Lewd" cosplays become wearing a colored wig while otherwise nude.