Ryuu Lavitz is a well-known internet celebrity who has been writing online works for the last 11 years. Over the years, it has gained nearly 1 million fans. Her Facebook is her main outlet, with 853k+ followers, continuing to expand to this day. Her Instagram is currently sitting on (101k followers), TikTok (75k+ followers), Twitter (17k+ followers), Twitch (7.5k followers).

She is actually making and photographing a lot of cosplays, but she finds herself to be more a filmmaker and a model than a cosplayer. She captures much of her own material and completed more than 100 photoshoots during the year in 2018. She’s very active online, releasing at least 2 collections of pictures every month to her Patreon. All of her older works can be bought from her personal website “LavitzNation” (LavitzNation.com).

Several times during the year, she flies to various conventions, both domestically and abroad, to greet her followers. Her most emblematic cosplays include Raven, Harley Quinn, Rikku, Asuka, Nightwing & Jessie (from Team Rocket). Its favorite cosplays are Nightwing and Raven. Her most complicated cosplay was Infested Kerrigan from Starcraft, and it was that particular cosplay that made her know that she had little experience in creating armor, since it was incredibly painful to wear. She prides herself on producing items from affordable products, and her most famous convention panel is “Cosplay on a Budget.” She likes to meet new people, and it’s very easy to chat to if you do get a chance to meet her at a convention.

10 fascinating facts about Ryuu Lavitz

1. Ryuu Lavitz has been running her own company for over six years and has been doing so full time over the past four years. Before she began to concentrate on her company full time, she worked as an interior designer.

2. She is the exclusive owner of her LLC, Ryuu Lavitz LLC, and holds all her physical copyrights.

3. When she’s not photographing her own work in her studio, she’s reported to be collaborating with CJ Fuchs Photography.

4. The list of conventions that she goes to every year includes Pax East, Katsucon, Colossal Con, Dragon Con, & New York Comic-Con. She has also performed at Boston Comic Con, Colossal Con East, MagFest, Another Anime Convention, Granite State Comic Con, Akon, Central Canada Comic-Con, and several others. She has a convention calendar that she changes when she prepares to attend.

5. Over the last decade, Ryuu has had several challenges to delete bogus accounts (better known as “Catfish Accounts”). This is where people claim to be her by using her pictures and her identity for their own economical or sexual gain. She claims that only the accounts found under her Linktree are her accounts, and all the other accounts are false. It doesn’t add fans to Steam, Xbox Live, or PSN. She doesn’t subscribe to any dating site, and she never did. It does not use utilities such as WhatsApp or Kik. She encourages fans to report any accounts that look questionable and never send any credit card details via private messages.

6. When employed for a convention, she not only sells merchandise at her table, but also runs after-parties, charity banquets, meetings & greetings, photoshoots, and panels. The most commonly asked panels include “Cosplay on a Budget,” “Model & Photographer Etiquette” and “Ask a Cosplayer.”

7. When she runs a stall at a convention, she sells items such as signed prints, posters, flags, pins, personalized hats, cross-stitches, and plushes. She’s even taking free selfies with her fans.

8. What took her to cosplay was her ability to make exciting images when she got bored with alternative and fashion modeling. She calls herself a photographer and a model rather than a cosplayer. She’s more focused on making fun art than on making accurate costumes on the screen.

9. Her out-of-cosplay interests include: Vehicle Maintenance/Modification, Tropical Fishkeeping, Entertaining, Gardening & Collecting Trophies at Arcades.

10. Any of the games she plays most frequently include Terraria (504+ hours), Dead by Daytime (297+hrs), Stardew Valley (194+hrs), The Forest (159+hrs), and Rogue Legacy (100+hrs). She doesn’t like MOBA type games or FPS games. You’re never going to catch her playing games like League of Legends or Overwatch. She enjoys action, survival, racing, and RPG type games.

Facts of Ryuu Lavitz