This Monstrous ‘Resident Evil’ Cosplay is All Eyeball

If our eyes are the windows to our soul, then Birkin has lots of soul. You can tell by looking at the grotesque eyeball that appeared on his right shoulder when he injected himself with the G-Virus in Resident Evil 2, eventually turning the brilliant scientist into a creeping mound of flesh and teeth that sort of looked like a spilled plate of day-old lasagna.

The Resident Evil cosplay I have for you today is based on the second of five mutations, which followed the variant we’ve seen numerous times before in Operation Raccoon City and the on-rails Chronicles spin-off series. I doubt we’ll ever see a cosplayer tackle the more monstrous forms that followed the first and most widely known version of our beloved Birkinstein — they only get more complex later on — but if we do, it’ll probably come from Gai.

I’ve featured the works of several talented Resident Evil cosplayers here over the years, but Gai’s Birkin is easily the most technically impressive of the bunch. It’s also exceedingly clever, with Gai’s face taking the place of Birkin’s and a shoulder eye that actually moves.

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